Salt 0.9.5 released

The Salt the remote execution manager has released version 0.9.5. The release notes detail all the changes that have gone into "one of the largest steps forward in the development of Salt". Those changes include moving from Python pickles to Message Pack for better network serialization performance, automatic module loading and reloading without requiring a restart, easier module deployment, node groups, and more. "Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality. Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in. Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management."

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