The release notes have * Remove encoding option from the Packer and Unpacker.
( https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/v1.0.0/ChangeLog.rst ) $ doas salt-minion Process Process-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 267, in _bootstrap self.run() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/scripts.py", line 146, in minion_process minion.start() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/cli/daemons.py", line 348, in start self.minion.tune_in() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/minion.py", line 1026, in tune_in self._bind() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/minion.py", line 940, in _bind self.event = salt.utils.event.get_event('minion', opts=self.opts, io_loop=self.io_loop) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/event.py", line 143, in get_event raise_errors=raise_errors) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/event.py", line 271, in __init__ self.connect_pub() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/event.py", line 383, in connect_pub io_loop=self.io_loop File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/transport/ipc.py", line 257, in __new__ client.__singleton_init__(io_loop=io_loop, socket_path=socket_path) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/transport/ipc.py", line 620, in __singleton_init__ socket_path, io_loop=io_loop) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/transport/ipc.py", line 280, in __singleton_init__ self.unpacker = msgpack.Unpacker(encoding=encoding) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoding' Thanks, Florian -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.