Release v3006.18

Author: saltbot-open

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,50 @@ Versions are `MAJOR.PATCH`.
 
 # Changelog
 
+## 3006.18 (2025-12-18)
+
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed ssh_auth.present to respect provided `options` when read keys from source file [#60769](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/60769)
+- Fixed ssh_auth regexp to handle key types with @ or . [#61299](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/61299)
+- Fixed a TypeError exception thrown by ssh_known_hosts.present when the specified user account does not exist [#62049](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/62049)
+- Fix runtime error on OpenBSD by adding support for the osfullname grain [#64189](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64189)
+- Forward minion list events in Syndic cluster mode to enable proper job completion detection [#68319](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68319)
+- Fixed ssh_auth.present and ssh.absent to report changes if some key was added or removed when reading keys from a source file [#68403](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68403)
+- Test loader now prevents .pyc files from being written during test run using
+  sys.dont_write_bytecode = True. This results in 3x faster test execution and
+  reduced IO operations [#68412](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68412)
+- Fixes a issue where variable names were reversed when detecting domain and
+  username from a username. [#68450](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68450)
+- Changed the glob pattern for APT sources from `**/*.list` to `*.list`, in line
+  with APT's default pattern in sources.list.d [#68475](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68475)
+- Remove unwanted error log from aptpkg [#68485](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68485)
+- Use the packaging library instead of the deprecated pkg_resources library for
+  working with version to avoid a deprecation warning when running salt
+  commands [#68487](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68487)
+- Fixes issue with disk.tune passing incorrect args for read-only and read-write
+  to blockdev.
+  Improves argument and error handling in blockdev. [#68490](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68490)
+- Enhance mod_data to Use Global Loader Extensions in salt-ssh [#68496](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68496)
+- Fix race condition in Salt Syndic when multiple Syndic Masters return at the same time and the Master of Masters tries to write to the same file in the job cache. [#68508](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68508)
+- Patch tornado for CVE-2023-28370 [#68529](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68529)
+- Fixed some of the commands in the Contributing guide. [#68538](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68538)
+- Fix check for non-blockdev devices in blockdev.tuned. Check always returned True
+  previously, now actually checks with file.is_blkdev. [#68541](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68541)
+- Added documentation and CLI help text for the --disable-keepalive option for
+  salt-minion and salt-proxy, which disables the automatic restart mechanism
+  when external process managers like systemd handle daemon restarts. [#68544](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68544)
+- Upgrade relenv to 0.22.1 and fix Python 3.13 support
+
+  - Updated relenv from 0.21.2 to 0.22.1
+  - Fixed backports module import for Python 3.13 compatibility
+  - Fixed RUSTFLAGS conflicts when compiling cryptography package
+  - Fixed toolchain cache location for relenv 0.22.1
+  - Added Obsoletes directives to prevent EPEL salt3006 package conflicts on Rocky 9 [#68552](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68552)
+- Fixed minion process name pollution when multiprocessing is disabled [#68553](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68553)
+
+
 ## 3006.17 (2025-11-20)