Please add it to the tree if you got time.
Version 2016.11.6 fixes annoying bug: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/41230
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.0.html Most interesting for packaging is probably the initial Python3 support
Bumped the 2016.11.6, leaving this open for 2017.7.0 commit 8fb20d526c35c3deed096b8f5a6a2e03ae85cac7 Author: Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> Date: Thu Jul 20 16:13:52 2017 +0200 app-admin/salt: Version bump to 2016.11.6 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.3
commit 12b98a9257d9dd65e76edc87a40d4dc6e8ad303d Author: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Jul 31 18:28:09 2017 -0700 app-admin/salt: Version bump to 2017.7.0 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.3