24.1

Cloud-init release 24.1 is now available

Summary

The 24.1 release:

• spanned about 5 months
• had 27 contributors
• welcomed commits from 6 new contributors
• fixed 5 Launchpad issues
• fixed 28 Github issues

Highlights

• added support for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• added support for dhcpcd
• added experimental support for Python 3.13
• improved behavior of cloud-init status
• ec2: added support for multi NIC / IP instances
• many improvements for cross-distro compatiblity

Breaking Changes

• made dhcpcd the default dhcp client
• removed Ubuntu's ordering dependency on snapd.seeded
• stopped adding network v2 DNS to global DNS
• dropped support for dsa host keys

See the full changelog for more details.

23.4.4

Highlights:

• fix(nocloud): smbios datasource definition

23.4.3

• fix: Handle systemctl when dbus not ready (#4842) (LP: #2046483)

23.4.2

Highlights:

• fix: Handle invalid user configuration gracefully (#4797) (LP: #2051147)

23.4.1

Highlights:

• fix(status): Handle systemctl commands when dbus not ready

23.4

General:

• Add shellcheck to CI
• util: Remove function abs_join()
• Add support for cloud-init "degraded" state
• status.json: Don't override detail key with error condition
• tools/render-template: Make yaml loading opt-in, fix setup.py
• boothook: allow stdout/stderr to emit to cloud-init-output.log
• cloud-init-generator: Various performance optimizations
• systemd: Standardize cloud-init systemd enablement
• benchmark: benchmark cloud-init-generator independent of ds-identify
• Automatically linkcheck in CI
• cmd: Don't write json status files for non-boot stages
• apport: collect ubuntu-pro logs if ubuntu-advantage.log present
• sources: do not override datasource detection if None is in list
• clean: add a new option to clean generated config files
• pep-594: drop deprecated pipes module import

Distributions:

• Debian: Set Debian's default locale to be c.UTF-8
• Gentoo: upstream gentoo patch
• OpenBSD: Update build-on-openbsd dependencies
• SUSE: Add suse

AliYun: Allow aliyun ds to fetch data in init-local

Azure:

• report failure to eject as error instead of debug
• Check for stale pps data from IMDS
• imds: remove limit for connection errors if route present
• workaround to disable reporting IMDS failures on Azure Stack
• errors: include http code in reason for IMDS failure
• report failure to host if ephemeral DHCP secondary NIC
• imds: ensure new errors are logged immediately when retrying
• check for primary interface when performing DHCP
• imds: retry on 429 errors for reprovisiondata
• add option to enable/disable secondary ip config
• Ignore system volume information folder while scanning
  for files in the ntfs resource disk

MAAS: Add datasource to init-local timeframe

NWCS: Update DataSourceNWCS.py

VMware: Fall back to vmtoolsd if vmware-rpctool errs

ConfigModules:

• cc_apt_configure:
  • add deb822 support for default sources file
  • install software-properties-common when absent but needed
  • Install gnupg if gpg not found
  • kill dirmngr/gpg-agent without gpgconf dependency
• cc_apt_pipelining: Update docs, deprecate options
• cc_resizefs: Add bcachefs resize support
• cc_package_update_upgrade_install:
  • Allow installing snaps via package_update_upgrade_install module
• cc_ubuntu_advantage:
  • do not rely on uaclient.messages module
  • shift CLI command from ua to pro for all interactions
• cc_set_hostname, cc_update_hostname: check for create_hostname_file
  key before writing /etc/hostname

Network:

• ephemeral: Handle link up failure for both ipv4 and ipv6
• warn invalid cfg add /run/cloud-init/network-config
• remove the word "on instance boot" from cloud-init generated config

Schema:

• non-root fallback to default paths on perm errors
• annotation path for invalid top-level keys
• top-level additionalProperties: false
• network-config optional network key. route uses oneOf
• add cloud_init_deepest_matches for best error message
• add network-config support to schema subcommand
• cloud-init schema in early boot or in dev environ
• annotation of nested dicts lists in schema marks

DsIdentify:

• exit 2 on disabled state from marker or cmdline
• Allow disable service and override environment
• match Azure datasource's ds_detect() behavior
• Use grep for faster parsing of cloud config in ds-identify

Logging:

• Standardize logging output to stderr
• Don't configure NullHandler
• Standardize use of cloudinit's logging module
• Log PPID for better debuggin
• Remove logging of PPID path
• style: Make cloudinit.log functions use snake case
• Export warning logs to status.json

Docs:

• man: Document cloud-init error codes
• Add summit digest/trip report to docs
• Clarify boothook docs
• Describe disabling cloud-init using an environment variable
• Tidy up contributing docs
• Add cloud-init overview/introduction
• vmware: Update contents relevant to disable_vmware_customization
• summit-notes: add 2023 notes for reference in mailinglist/discourse

23.3.3

Cloud-init bug fix release 23.3.2:

• Fix pip-managed ansible on pip < 23.0.1 (#4403)

23.3.2

Cloud-init bug fix release 23.3.2:

• Revert "ds-identify/CloudStack: $DS_MAYBE if vm running on vmware/xen (#4281)"
  (#4511) (LP: #2039453)

23.3

• Remove python deprecated crypt dependency in favor of
  passlib.hash.bcrypt where present. crypt was used by by NetBSD and
  Azure datasource. Plan is to eventually deprecate passlib dependency too.
• network: support busybox micro DHCP client (udhcpc) alternative to
  deprecated isc-dhcp-client.
• Clouds:
  • Ensure Akamai(and Linode) datasource included in default discovery
  • Ec2: support decoding double base64 encoded user-data
  • GCE: improve fallback nic selection ens4 over eth0 as primary/default NIC
• Distributions:
  • debian/ubuntu: no longer use localectl to set keymap (LP: #2030788)
  • systemd v253++: cloud-init status --wait won't block on spawned daemons
  • FreeBSD: Ephemeral networking fixes for BSD since /run is preserved
  • FreeBSD introduce ds-identify for early datasource detection
• Modules:
  • users: support doas/opendoas rules as alternative to sudo
  • PEP 668: pip-installed ansible to support break-system-packages installs
• tooling: New file /run/cloud-init/combined-cloud-config.json to read all
  merged user-data/config without invoking python.

23.2.2

Cloud-init bug fix release 23.2.2:

• Fix NoCloud kernel commandline key parsing (#4273) (Fixes: #4271)
  (LP: #2028562)
• Fix reference before assignment (#4292) (Fixes: #4288) (LP: #2028784)

p.s.: Many thanks to rustydb and anguswilliams for reporting the issues and anyone involved!