Cloud-init 19.4 Release

Hello All,

Cloud-init release 19.4 is now available.

The 19.4 release:

  • spanned about 6 weeks
  • had 28 contributors from 29 domains
  • fixed 15 launchpad issues

Highlights:

  • Azure:
  • Azure cloud integration test support to cloud_tests
  • new_instance_id will properly match incorrect byte-swapped UUIDs
  • add support for multiple IP addresses on a single nic
  • FreeBSD:
    • support for ds-identify on systems without /sys filesystem
    • support for password expiry
  • Parsing dhcp lease file format option 121 on RedHat
  • Adding initial Redhat based Amazon linux definition
  • Documentation updates both online docs and man pages
  • Bug fixes for network configuration v1
  • Ec2: Add support for IMDSv2 session based API tokens
  • Salt/minion package version updates for FreeBSD

== Changelog ==

  • Partially revert “fix unlocking method on FreeBSD” (#116)
  • tests: mock uid when running as root (#113)
    [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1856096)
  • cloudinit/netinfo: remove unused getgateway (#111)
  • docs: clear up apt config sections (#107) [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1832823)
  • doc: add kernel command line option to user data (#105)
    [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1846524)
  • config/cloud.cfg.d: update README [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1855006)
  • azure: avoid re-running cloud-init when instance-id is byte-swapped
    (#84) [AOhassan]
  • fix unlocking method on FreeBSD [Igor Galić] (LP: #1854594)
  • debian: add reference to the manpages [Joshua Powers]
  • ds_identify: if /sys is not available use dmidecode (#42)
    [Igor Galić] (LP: #1852442)
  • docs: add cloud-id manpage [Joshua Powers]
  • docs: add cloud-init-per manpage [Joshua Powers]
  • docs: add cloud-init manpage [Joshua Powers]
  • docs: add additional details to per-instance/once [Joshua Powers]
  • Update doc-requirements.txt [Joshua Powers]
  • doc-requirements: add missing dep [Joshua Powers]
  • dhcp: Support RedHat dhcp rfc3442 lease format for option 121 (#76)
    [Eric Lafontaine] (LP: #1850642)
  • network_state: handle empty v1 config (#45) (LP: #1852496)
  • docs: Add document on how to report bugs [Joshua Powers]
  • Add an Amazon distro in the redhat OS family [Frederick Lefebvre]
  • removed a couple of "the"s [gaughen]
  • docs: fix line length and remove highlighting [Joshua Powers]
  • docs: Add security.md to readthedocs [Joshua Powers]
  • Multiple file fix for AuthorizedKeysFile config (#60) [Eduardo Otubo]
  • Revert “travis: only run CI on pull requests”
  • doc: update links on README.md [Joshua Powers]
  • doc: Updates to wording of README.md [Joshua Powers]
  • Add security.md [Joshua Powers]
  • setup.py: Amazon Linux sets libexec to /usr/libexec (#52)
    [Frederick Lefebvre]
  • Fix linting failure in test_url_helper (#83) [Eric Lafontaine]
  • url_helper: read_file_or_url should pass headers param into readurl
    (#66) (LP: #1854084)
  • dmidecode: log result after stripping n [Igor Galić]
  • cloud_tests: add azure platform support to integration tests
    [ahosmanmsft]
  • set_passwords: support for FreeBSD (#46) [Igor Galić]
  • tools: migrate-lp-user-to-github removes repo_dir if created (#35)
  • Correct jumbled documentation for cc_set_hostname module (#64)
    [do3meli] (LP: #1853543)
  • FreeBSD: fix for get_linux_distro() and lru_cache (#59)
    [Igor Galić] (LP: #1815030)
  • ec2: Add support for AWS IMDS v2 (session-oriented) (#55)
  • tests: Fix cloudsigma tests when no dmidecode data is present. (#57)
    [Scott Moser]
  • net: IPv6, accept_ra, slaac, stateless (#51)
    [Harald] (LP: #1806014, #1808647)
  • docs: Update the configdrive datasource links (#44)
    [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1852461)
  • distro: correctly set usr_lib_exec path for FreeBSD distro (#40)
    [Igor Galić] (LP: #1852491)
  • azure: support secondary ipv6 addresses (#33)
  • Fix metadata check when local-hostname is null (#32)
    [Mark Goddard] (LP: #1852100)
  • switch default FreeBSD salt minion pkg from py27 to py36
    [Dominic Schlegel]
  • travis: only run CI on pull requests
  • add data-server dns entry as new metadata server detection [Joshua Hügli]
  • pycodestyle: remove unused local variable
  • reporting: Using a uuid to enforce uniqueness on the KVP keys. [momousta]
  • docs: touchups in rtd intro and README.md
  • doc: update launchpad git refs to github
  • github: drop pull-request template to prepare for migration
  • tools: add migrate-lp-user-to-github script to link LP to github
  • github: new basic project readme