Release of cloud-init 21.4

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Cloud-init release 21.4 is now available

The 21.4 release:

  • spanned about 2 months
  • had 32 contributors from 36 domains
  • fixed 12 Launchpad issues

Highlights:

  • Add LXD datasource
  • Remove (deprecated) apt-key
  • Add “install hotplug” module
  • Add module ‘write-files-deferred’ executed in stage ‘final’
  • Add CloudLinux OS support

== Changelog ==

  • Azure: fallback nic needs to be reevaluated during reprovisioning
    (#1094) [Anh Vo]
  • azure: pps imds (#1093) [Anh Vo]
  • testing: Remove calls to ‘install_new_cloud_init’ (#1092)
  • Add LXD datasource (#1040)
  • Fix unhandled apt_configure case. (#1065) [Brett Holman]
  • Allow libexec for hotplug (#1088)
  • Add necessary mocks to test_ovf unit tests (#1087)
  • Remove (deprecated) apt-key (#1068) [Brett Holman] (LP: #1836336)
  • distros: Remove a completed “TODO” comment (#1086)
  • cc_ssh.py: Add configuration for controlling ssh-keygen output (#1083)
    [dermotbradley]
  • Add “install hotplug” module (SC-476) (#1069) (LP: #1946003)
  • hosts.alpine.tmpl: rearrange the order of short and long hostnames
    (#1084) [dermotbradley]
  • Add max version to docutils
  • cloudinit/dmi.py: Change warning to debug to prevent console display
    (#1082) [dermotbradley]
  • remove unnecessary EOF string in
    disable-sshd-keygen-if-cloud-init-active.conf (#1075) [Emanuele
    Giuseppe Esposito]
  • Add module ‘write-files-deferred’ executed in stage ‘final’ (#916)
    [Lucendio]
  • Bump pycloudlib to fix CI (#1080)
  • Remove pin in dependencies for jsonschema (#1078)
  • Add “Google” as possible system-product-name (#1077) [vteratipally]
  • Update Debian security suite for bullseye (#1076) [Johann Queuniet]
  • Leave the details of service management to the distro (#1074)
    [Andy Fiddaman]
  • Fix typos in setup.py (#1059) [Christian Clauss]
  • Update Azure _unpickle (SC-500) (#1067) (LP: #1946644)
  • cc_ssh.py: fix private key group owner and permissions (#1070)
    [Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]
  • VMware: read network-config from ISO (#1066) [Thomas Weißschuh]
  • testing: mock sleep in gce unit tests (#1072)
  • CloudStack: fix data-server DNS resolution (#1004)
    [Olivier Lemasle] (LP: #1942232)
  • Fix unit test broken by pyyaml upgrade (#1071)
  • testing: add get_cloud function (SC-461) (#1038)
  • Inhibit sshd-keygen@.service if cloud-init is active (#1028)
    [Ryan Harper]
  • VMWARE: search the deployPkg plugin in multiarch dir (#1061)
    [xiaofengw-vmware] (LP: #1944946)
  • Fix set-name/interface DNS bug (#1058) [Andrew Kutz] (LP: #1946493)
  • Use specified tmp location for growpart (#1046) [jshen28]
  • .gitignore: ignore tags file for ctags users (#1057) [Brett Holman]
  • Allow comments in runcmd and report failed commands correctly (#1049)
    [Brett Holman] (LP: #1853146)
  • tox integration: pass the proxy, GOOGLE, GCP_* env vars (#1050)
    [Paride Legovini]
  • Allow disabling of network activation (SC-307) (#1048) (LP: #1938299)
  • renderer: convert relative imports to absolute (#1052) [Paride Legovini]
  • Support ETHx_IP6_GATEWAY, SET_HOSTNAME on OpenNebula (#1045)
    [Vlastimil Holer]
  • integration-requirements: bump the pycloudlib commit (#1047)
    [Paride Legovini]
  • Allow Vultr to set MTU and use as-is configs (#1037) [eb3095]
  • pin jsonschema in requirements.txt (#1043)
  • testing: remove cloud_tests (#1020)
  • Add andgein as contributor (#1042) [Andrew Gein]
  • Make wording for module frequency consistent (#1039) [Nicolas Bock]
  • Use ascii code for growpart (#1036) [jshen28]
  • Add jshen28 as contributor (#1035) [jshen28]
  • Skip test_cache_purged_on_version_change on Azure (#1033)
  • Remove invalid ssh_import_id from examples (#1031)
  • Cleanup Vultr support (#987) [eb3095]
  • docs: update cc_disk_setup for fs to raw disk (#1017)
  • HACKING.rst: change contact info to James Falcon (#1030)
  • tox: bump the pinned flake8 and pylint version (#1029)
    [Paride Legovini] (LP: #1944414)
  • Add retries to DataSourceGCE.py when connecting to GCE (#1005)
    [vteratipally]
  • Set Azure to apply networking config every BOOT (#1023)
  • Add connectivity_url to Oracle’s EphemeralDHCPv4 (#988) (LP: #1939603)
  • docs: fix typo and include sudo for report bugs commands (#1022)
    [Renan Rodrigo] (LP: #1940236)
  • VMware: Fix typo introduced in #947 and add test (#1019) [PengpengSun]
  • Update IPv6 entries in /etc/hosts (#1021) [Richard Hansen] (LP: #1943798)
  • Integration test upgrades for the 21.3-1 SRU (#1001)
  • Add Jille to tools/.github-cla-signers (#1016) [Jille Timmermans]
  • Improve ug_util.py (#1013) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
  • Support openEuler OS (#1012) [zhuzaifangxuele]
  • ssh_utils.py: ignore when sshd_config options are not key/value pairs
    (#1007) [Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]
  • Set Azure to only update metadata on BOOT_NEW_INSTANCE (#1006)
  • cc_update_etc_hosts: Use the distribution-defined path for the hosts
    file (#983) [Andy Fiddaman]
  • Add CloudLinux OS support (#1003) [Alexandr Kravchenko]
  • puppet config: add the start_agent option (#1002) [Andrew Bogott]
  • Fix make style-check errors (#1000) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
  • Make cloud-id copyright year (#991) [Andrii Podanenko]
  • Add support to accept-ra in networkd renderer (#999) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
  • Update ds-identify to pass shellcheck (#979) [Andrew Kutz]
  • Azure: Retry dhcp on timeouts when polling reprovisiondata (#998)
    [aswinrajamannar]
  • testing: Fix ssh keys integration test (#992)