25.1.3

25.1.3 (security updates)

• docs: provide example3 for PAM and ssh_pwauth behavior (6265)
• fix: Make hotplug socket writable only by root (#6265) (CVE-2024-11584)
• fix: Don't attempt to identify non-x86 OpenStack instances (LP: #2069607)
  (CVE-2024-6174)

25.1.2

25.1.2

• fix: ensure MAAS datasource retries on failure (#6167)

25.1.1

25.1.1

• test: pytestify cc_chef tests, add migration test
• chef: migrate files in old config directories for backups and cache
• fix: correct the path for Chef's backups (#5994)
• fix(Azure): don't reraise FileNotFoundError during ephemeral setup (#6113)
• fix(azure): handle unexpected exceptions during obtain_lease() (#6092)
  [Ksenija Stanojevic]
• Allow to set mac_address for VLAN subinterface (#6081)
  [jumpojoy] (GH: 5364)
• fix: Remove erroneous EC2 reference from 503 warning (#6077)
• fix: NM reload and bring up individual network conns (#6073) [Ani Sinha]
• fix: stop warning on dual-stack request failure (#6044)
• fix: install_method: pip cannot find ansible-pull command path (#6021)
  [Hasan Aliyev] (GH: 5720)
• fix: Fix DataSourceAliYun exception_cb signature (#6068) (GH: 6066)
• fix: Update OauthUrlHelper to use readurl exception_cb signature
  (GH: 6065)
• test: add OauthUrlHelper tests
• test: Remove CiTestCase from test_url_helper.py
• test: pytestify test_url_helper.py
• fix: track more removed modules (#6043)

25.1

Cloud-init release 25.1 is now available

The 25.1 release:

• spanned about 3 months
• had 23 contributors
• fixed 19 issues

Highlights:

• Move DS VMware to be in front of DS OVF (#5912) [PengpengSun]
• Identify Samsung Cloud Platform as OpenStack (#5924) [us0310306]
• vmware: Convert imc network config to v2 (#5937) [PengpengSun]
• do not remove all existing settings of /etc/sysconfig/network (#5991) [Ani Sinha]
• aliyun datasource support crawl metadata at once (#5942) [jinkangkang]

24.4.1

• fix: Ensure _should_wait_via_user_data() handles all user data types (#5976)
• fix: Don't log error in wait_for_url (#5972)
• feat(url_helper): Retry on 503 error (#5938)
• fix: Don't break modules that use get_meta_doc() (#5953)
• refactor: Pass deprecation log args as tuple (#5953)
• fix: uninstall custom signal handlers before shutdown (#5913)

24.4

Highlights:

• feat(oracle): add true single stack ipv6 support (#5785)
• chore: remove --docs option from cloud-init schema (#5857)
• feat(networkd): Support RequiredForOnline option (#5852)
• fix(smartos): Add addrconf IPv6 support (#5831)
• fix: disable grub-dpkg by default (#5840)
• feat: Conditionally remove networkd online dependency on Ubuntu (#5772)
• feat: Ensure random passwords contain multiple character types (#5815)
• fix: Render v2 bridges correctly on network-manager with set-name (#5740)
• fix: Render bridges correctly for v2 on sysconfig with set-name (#5674)
• tests: add OS_IMAGE_TYPE setting to allow for minimal tests (#5682)
• Create datasource for CloudCIX (#1351)

24.3.1

• test: add test coverage for iproute2 commands (#5651)
• fix(netops): fix ip addr flush command (#5651) (GH: 5648)

24.3

Highlights:

• Add AOSC linux distribution support (#5310)
• Add OpenEuler support for cc_spacewalk module (#5530)
• Add network-config seed support for nocloud datasource (#5566)
• Support remote URI sources write_files module (#5505)
• Bootspeed improvement: support for socket-based shared python process
  across cloud-init boot stages (#5595)
• Add trace-level logger (#5414)
• Yum support for setting mirrorlist or baseurl (#5522))
• Azure preliminary support of optional AzureProxyAgent (#5601)
• WSL support multi-part MIME config parts as well as landscape tags for
  provisioning (#5460, #5538)
• avoid snap refresh on package_upgrade: true when snap refresh is held
• optimization: eliminate redundant config reads across boot stages (#5536)
• provide option to set empty passwords and fix password unlock when
  lock_passwd: False on Alpine/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD (#5355)

Bug fixes:

• NetworkManager network v1 rendering of config ensure bond- prefix
• collect-logs avoid inclusion of sensitive data updated apport intregration

Breaking Changes:

• Warning issued for systemd environments if cloud-init boot stages are
  called by PIDs other than the root process. It is expected that boot
  stages are only called by systemd units and not post-production scripts
  or tools.
• Introduce a performance optimization by sharing the python environment and setup costs across all four boot stages with a new cloud-init-main.service

24.2

Cloud-init release 24.2 is now available

The 24.2 release:

• spanned about 4 months
• had 39 contributors
• fixed 53 issues

Highlights:

• feat: Add support for FTP and FTP over TLS (#4834)
• feature(schema): add networkv2 schema (#4892)
• feat: Add new distro 'azurelinux' for Microsoft Azure Linux. (#4931)
• feat: Use NetworkManager renderer by default in RHEL family
• feat(ca_certs): Add AlmaLinux OS and CloudLinux OS support (#5264)
• feat(sysconfig): Add DNS from interface config to resolv.conf (#5401)
• feat(alpine): add support for Busybox adduser/addgroup (#5176)
• feat(disk_setup): Add support for nvme devices (#5263)

Breaking Changes:

• fix(rhel)!: Fix network boot order in upstream cloud-init (#5089)

Note for downstream image creators:

• Added support in cloudinit.features.DEPRECATION_INFO_BOUNDARY allowing stable downstream images to pin the original MAJOR.MINOR version of cloud-init released on that image. This avoids introduction of new deprecation messages (and potential exit 2 from cloud-init status) across cloud-init version upgrades.

24.1.7

• fix(ec2): Correctly identify netplan renderer (#5361)