New version 3008.0rc1 of Salt breaks the bootstrapper

[RaphSimard]

Hi,
Since last friday, the bootstrapper used by our systems has been failing with the following error :

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The content at this location is unexpected.
Should be a list of directories where the name is a version of Salt.

Looking into the bootstrap-file.ps1, the lines 181 to 187 are :

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    $response.links | ForEach-Object {
        if ( $_.href.Length -gt 8) {
            Write-Host "The content at this location is unexpected" -ForegroundColor Red
            Write-Host "Should be a list of directories where the name is a version of Salt" -ForegroundColor Red
            exit 1
        }
    }

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Changing the value from "8" to "10" solved this issue for us and everything works again.

Thank you for looking into this !

[max-arnold]

I can confirm the issue, the bootstrap script is broken. The immediate failure is caused by 3008.0rc1/ having an href length greater than 8.

Reproducer:

powershell -Command "& bootstrap_salt.ps1 -Minion windows11 -Master master -Version 3007.13"

[max-arnold]

--- bootstrap-salt.ps1.orig	2026-04-29 11:40:47
+++ bootstrap-salt.ps1	2026-04-29 11:41:36
@@ -175,19 +175,13 @@
             Write-Host "There was an error getting version information" -ForegroundColor Red
             Write-Host "Error: $($response.StatusCode)" -ForegroundColor red
             exit 1
-        }
-
-        $response.links | ForEach-Object {
-            if ( $_.href.Length -gt 8) {
-                Write-Host "The content at this location is unexpected" -ForegroundColor Red
-                Write-Host "Should be a list of directories where the name is a version of Salt" -ForegroundColor Red
-                exit 1
-            }
         }
 
         # Getting available versions from response
         Write-Verbose "Getting available versions from response"
-        $filtered = $response.Links | Where-Object -Property href -NE "../"
+        $filtered = $response.Links | Where-Object {
+            $_.href -ne "../" -and $_.href.Trim("/") -match "^\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?$"
+        }
         $filtered | Select-Object -Property href | ForEach-Object {
             $available_versions.Add($_.href.Trim("/")) | Out-Null
         }

[twangboy]

I think this has been fixed by #2109