Release of cloud-init 21.3

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Cloud-init release 21.3 is now available

The 21.3 release:

  • spanned about 4 months
  • had 28 contributors from 29 domains
  • fixed 8 Launchpad issues

Highlights:

  • Initial hotplug support
  • Datasource for VMware
  • Add support for VMware PhotonOS
  • ssh-util: allow cloudinit to merge all ssh keys into a custom user
    file, defined in AuthorizedKeysFile
  • Use instance-data-sensitive.json in jinja templates

== Changelog ==

  • Azure: During primary nic detection, check interface status continuously
    before rebinding again (#990) [aswinrajamannar]
  • Fix home permissions modified by ssh module (SC-338) (#984)
    (LP: #1940233)
  • Add integration test for sensitive jinja substitution (#986)
  • Ignore hotplug socket when collecting logs (#985) (LP: #1940235)
  • testing: Add missing mocks to test_vmware.py (#982)
  • add Zadara Edge Cloud Platform to the supported clouds list (#963)
    [sarahwzadara]
  • testing: skip upgrade tests on LXD VMs (#980)
  • Only invoke hotplug socket when functionality is enabled (#952)
  • Revert unnecesary lcase in ds-identify (#978) [Andrew Kutz]
  • cc_resolv_conf: fix typos (#969) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
  • Replace broken httpretty tests with mock (SC-324) (#973)
  • Azure: Check if interface is up after sleep when trying to bring it up
    (#972) [aswinrajamannar]
  • Update dscheck_VMware’s rpctool check (#970) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
  • Azure: Logging the detected interfaces (#968) [Moustafa Moustafa]
  • Change netifaces dependency to 0.10.4 (#965) [Andrew Kutz]
  • Azure: Limit polling network metadata on connection errors (#961)
    [aswinrajamannar]
  • Update inconsistent indentation (#962) [Andrew Kutz]
  • cc_puppet: support AIO installations and more (#960) [Gabriel Nagy]
  • Add Puppet contributors to CLA signers (#964) [Noah Fontes]
  • Datasource for VMware (#953) [Andrew Kutz]
  • photon: refactor hostname handling and add networkd activator (#958)
    [sshedi]
  • Stop copying ssh system keys and check folder permissions (#956)
    [Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]
  • testing: port remaining cloud tests to integration testing framework
    (SC-191) (#955)
  • generate contents for ovf-env.xml when provisioning via IMDS (#959)
    [Anh Vo]
  • Add support for EuroLinux 7 && EuroLinux 8 (#957) [Aleksander Baranowski]
  • Implementing device_aliases as described in docs (#945)
    [Mal Graty] (LP: #1867532)
  • testing: fix test_ssh_import_id.py (#954)
  • Add ability to manage fallback network config on PhotonOS (#941) [sshedi]
  • Add VZLinux support (#951) [eb3095]
  • VMware: add network-config support in ovf-env.xml (#947) [PengpengSun]
  • Update pylint to v2.9.3 and fix the new issues it spots (#946)
    [Paride Legovini]
  • Azure: mount default provisioning iso before try device listing (#870)
    [Anh Vo]
  • Document known hotplug limitations (#950)
  • Initial hotplug support (#936)
  • Fix MIME policy failure on python version upgrade (#934)
  • run-container: fixup the centos repos baseurls when using http_proxy
    (#944) [Paride Legovini]
  • tools: add support for building rpms on rocky linux (#940)
  • ssh-util: allow cloudinit to merge all ssh keys into a custom user
    file, defined in AuthorizedKeysFile (#937) [Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]
    (LP: #1911680)
  • VMware: new “allow_raw_data” switch (#939) [xiaofengw-vmware]
  • bump pycloudlib version (#935)
  • add renanrodrigo as a contributor (#938) [Renan Rodrigo]
  • testing: simplify test_upgrade.py (#932)
  • freebsd/net_v1 format: read MTU from root (#930) [Gonéri Le Bouder]
  • Add new network activators to bring up interfaces (#919)
    • Detect a Python version change and clear the cache (#857)
      [Robert Schweikert]
  • cloud_tests: fix the Impish release name (#931) [Paride Legovini]
  • Removed distro specific network code from Photon (#929) [sshedi]
  • Add support for VMware PhotonOS (#909) [sshedi]
  • cloud_tests: add impish release definition (#927) [Paride Legovini]
  • docs: fix stale links rename master branch to main (#926)
  • Fix DNS in NetworkState (SC-133) (#923)
  • tests: Add ‘adhoc’ mark for integration tests (#925)
  • Fix the spelling of “DigitalOcean” (#924) [Mark Mercado]
  • Small Doc Update for ReportEventStack and Test (#920) [Mike Russell]
  • Replace deprecated collections.Iterable with abc replacement (#922)
    (LP: #1932048)
  • testing: OCI availability domain is now required (SC-59) (#910)
  • add DragonFlyBSD support (#904) [Gonéri Le Bouder]
  • Use instance-data-sensitive.json in jinja templates (SC-117) (#917)
    (LP: #1931392)
  • doc: Update NoCloud docs stating required files (#918) (LP: #1931577)
  • build-on-netbsd: don’t pin a specific py3 version (#913)
    [Gonéri Le Bouder]
    • Create the log file with 640 permissions (#858) [Robert Schweikert]
  • Allow braces to appear in dhclient output (#911) [eb3095]
  • Docs: Replace all freenode references with libera (#912)
  • openbsd/net: flush the route table on net restart (#908)
    [Gonéri Le Bouder]
  • Add Rocky Linux support to cloud-init (#906) [Louis Abel]
  • Add “esposem” as contributor (#907) [Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]
  • Add integration test for #868 (#901)
  • Added support for importing keys via primary/security mirror clauses
    (#882) [Paul Goins] (LP: #1925395)
  • [examples] config-user-groups expire in the future (#902)
    [Geert Stappers]
  • BSD: static network, set the mtu (#894) [Gonéri Le Bouder]
  • Add integration test for lp-1920939 (#891)
  • Fix unit tests breaking from new httpretty version (#903)
  • Allow user control over update events (#834)
  • Update test characters in substitution unit test (#893)
  • cc_disk_setup.py: remove UDEVADM_CMD definition as not used (#886)
    [dermotbradley]
  • Add AlmaLinux OS support (#872) [Andrew Lukoshko]