The upstream release is available on Github, Launchpad and has been announced to the mailing list.
Release Summary:
- 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
The full changelog is below:
- fix: Don’t warn on vendor directory (#4986)
- apt: kill spawned keyboxd after gpg cmd interaction
- tests: upgrade tests should only validate current boot log
- net/dhcp: fix maybe_perform_dhcp_discovery check for interface=None
[Chris Patterson] - doc(network-v2): fix section nesting levels
- fix(tests): don’t check for clean log on minimal image (#4965) [Cat Red]
- fix(cc_resize): Don’t warn if zpool command not found (#4969)
(LP: #2055219) - feat(subp): Make invalid command warning more user-friendly (#4972)
- docs: Remove statement about device path matching (#4966)
- test: Fix xfail to check the dhcp client name (#4971)
- tests: avoid console prompts when removing gpg on Noble
- test: fix test_get_status_systemd_failure
- fix(nocloud): smbios datasource definition
- tests: Check that smbios seed works
- fix: Remove hardcoded /var/lib/cloud hotplug path (#4940)
- refactor: Refactor status.py (#4864)
- test: Use correct lxd network-config keys (#4950)
- test: limit temp dhcp6 changes to < NOBLE (#4942)
- test: allow downgrades when install debs (#4941)
- tests: on noble, expect default /etc/apt/sources.list
- tests: lxd_vm early boot status test ordered After=systemd-remount-fs
(#4936) - tests: pro integration tests supply ubuntu_advantage until pro v32
(#4935) - feat(hotplug): add cmd to enable hotplug (#4821)
- test: fix test_combined_cloud_config_json (#4925)
- test: xfail udhcpc on azure (#4924)
- feat: Implement the WSL datasource (#4786) [Carlos Nihelton]
- refactor(openrc): Improve the OpenRC files (#4916) [dermotbradley]
- tests: use apt install instead of dpkg -i to install pkg deps
- tests: inactive module rename ubuntu_advantage to ubuntu_pro
- test: fix tmpdir in test_cc_apk_configure (#4914)
- test: fix jsonschema version checking in pro test (#4915)
- feat(dhcp): Make dhcpcd the default dhcp client (#4912)
- feat(Alpine) cc_growpart.py: fix handling of /dev/mapper devices (#4876)
[dermotbradley] - test: Retry longer in test_status.py integration test (#4910)
- test: fix kernel override test (#4913)
- chore: Rename sysvinit/gentoo directory to sysvinit/openrc (#4906)
[dermotbradley] - doc: update ubuntu_advantage references to pro
- chore: rename cc_ubuntu_advantage to cc_ubuntu_pro (SC-1555)
- feat(ubuntu pro): deprecate ubuntu_pro key in favor of ubuntu_advantage
- feat(schema): support ubuntu_pro key and deprecate ubuntu_advantage
- test: fix verify_clean_log (#4903)
- test: limit test_no_hotplug_triggered_by_docker to stable releases
- tests: generalize warning Open vSwitch warning from netplan apply (#4894)
- fix(hotplug): remove literal quotes in args
- feat(apt): skip known /etc/apt/sources.list content
- feat(apt): use APT deb822 source format by default
- test(ubuntu-pro): change livepatch to esm-infra
- doc(ec2): fix metadata urls (#4880)
- fix: unpin jsonschema and update tests (#4882)
- distro: add eject FreeBSD code path (#4838) [Mina Galić]
- feat(ec2): add hotplug as a default network update event (#4799)
- feat(ec2): support instances with repeated device-number (#4799)
- feat(cc_install_hotplug): trigger hook on known ec2 drivers (#4799)
- feat(ec2): support multi NIC/IP setups (#4799)
- feat(hotplug): hook-hotplug is now POSIX shell add OpenRC init script
[dermotbradley] - test: harden test_dhcp.py::test_noble_and_newer_force_client
- test: fix test_combined_cloud_config_json (#4868)
- feat(apport): Disable hook when disabled (#4874)
- chore: Add pyright ignore comments (#4874)
- bug(apport): Fix invalid typing (#4874)
- refactor: Move general apport hook to main branch (#4874)
- feat(bootspeed)!: cloud-config.service drop After=snapd.seeded
- chore: update CI package build to oldest supported Ubuntu release focal
(#4871) - test: fix test_cli.test_valid_userdata
- feat: handle error when log file is empty (#4859) [Hasan]
- test: fix test_ec2_ipv6
- fix: Address TIOBE abstract interpretation issues (#4866)
- feat(dhcp): Make udhcpc use same client id (#4830)
- feat(dhcp): Support InfiniBand with dhcpcd (#4830)
- feat(azure): Add ProvisionGuestProxyAgent OVF setting (#4860)
[Ksenija Stanojevic] - test: Bring back dhcp6 integration test changes (#4855)
- tests: add status --wait blocking test from early boot
- tests: fix retry decorator to return the func value
- docs: add create_hostname_file to all hostname user-data examples
(#4727) [Cat Red] - fix: Fix typos (#4850) [Viktor Szépe]
- feat(dhcpcd): Read dhcp option 245 for azure wireserver (#4835)
- tests(dhcp): Add udhcpc client to test matrix (#4839)
- fix: Add types to network v1 schema (#4841)
- docs(vmware): fixed indentation on example userdata yaml (#4854)
[Alec Warren] - tests: Remove invalid keyword from method call
- fix: Handle systemctl when dbus not ready (#4842) (LP: #2046483)
- fix(schema cli): avoid netplan validation on net-config version 1
- tests: reduce expected reports due to dropped rightscale module
- tests(net-config): add awareness of netplan on stable Ubuntu
- fix(source): fix argument boundaries when parsing cmdline (#4825)
[Gilbert Gilb’s] - feat: fall back to cdrom_id eject if eject is not available (#4769)
[Cat Red] - fix(packages/bddeb): restrict debhelper-compat to 12 in focal (#4831)
- tests: Add kernel commandline test (#4833)
- fix: Ensure NetworkManager renderer works without gateway (#4829)
- test: Correct log parsing in schema test (#4832)
- refactor: Remove cc_rightscale_userdata (#4813)
- refactor: Replace load_file with load_binary_file to simplify typing
(#4823) - refactor: Add load_text_file function to simplify typing (#4823)
- refactor: Change variable name for consistent typing (#4823)
- feat(dhcp): Add support for dhcpcd (#4746)
- refactor: Remove unused networking code (#4810)
- test: Add more DNS net tests
- BREAKING CHANGE: Stop adding network v2 DNS to global DNS
- doc: update DataSource.default_update_events doc (#4815)
- chore: do not modify instance attribute (#4815)
- test: fix mocking leaks (#4815)
- Revert “ci: Pin pytest<8.0.0. (#4816)” (#4815)
- test: Update tests for passlib (#4818)
- fix(net-schema): no warn when skipping schema check on non-netplan
- feat(SUSE): reboot marker file is written as /run/reboot-needed (#4788)
[Robert Schweikert] - test: Cleanup unwanted logger setup calls (#4817)
- refactor(cloudinit.util): Modernize error handling, add better warnings
(#4812) - ci: Pin pytest<8.0.0. (#4816)
- fix(tests): fixing KeyError on integrations tests (#4811) [Cat Red]
- tests: integration for network schema on netplan systems (#4767)
- feat(schema): use netplan API to validate network-config (#4767)
- chore: define CLOUDINIT_NETPLAN_FILE static var (#4767)
- fix: cli schema config-file option report network-config type (#4767)
- refactor(azure): replace BrokenAzureDataSource with reportable errors
(#4807) [Chris Patterson] - Fix Alpine and Mariner /etc/hosts templates (#4780) [dermotbradley]
- tests: revert #4792 as noble images no longer return 2 (#4809) [Cat Red]
- tests: use client fixture instead of class_client in cleantest (#4806)
- tests: enable ds-idenitfy xfail test LXD-kvm-not-MAAS-1 (#4808)
- fix(tests): failing integration tests due to missing ua token (#4802)
[Cat Red] - Revert “Use grep for faster parsing of cloud config in ds-identify
(#4327)” - tests: Demonstrate ds-identify yaml parsing broken
- tests: add exit 2 on noble from cloud-init status (#4792)
- fix: linkcheck for ci to ignore scaleway anchor URL (#4793)
- feat: Update cacerts to support VMware Photon (#4763)
[Christopher McCann] - fix: netplan rendering integrations tests (#4795) [Cat Red]
- azure: remove cloud-init.log reporting via KVP (#4715) [Chris Patterson]
- feat(Alpine): Modify ds-identify for Alpine support and add OpenRC
init.d script (#4785) [dermotbradley] - doc: Add DatasourceScaleway documentation (#4773) [Louis Bouchard]
- fix: packaged logrotate file lacks suffix on ubuntu (#4790)
- feat(logrotate): config flexibility more backups (#4790)
- fix(clean): stop warning when running clean command (#4761) [d1r3ct0r]
- feat: network schema v1 strict on nic name length 15 (#4774)
- logrotate config (#4721) [Fabian Lichtenegger-Lukas]
- test: Enable coverage in integration tests (#4682)
- test: Move unit test helpers to global test helpers (#4682)
- test: Remove snapshot option from install_new_cloud_init (#4682)
- docs: fix cloud-init single param docs (#4682)
- Alpine: fix location of dhclient leases file (#4782) [dermotbradley]
- test(jsonschema): Pin jsonschema version (#4781)
- refactor(IscDhclient): discover DHCP leases at distro-provided location
(#4683) [Phsm Qwerty] - feat: datasource check for WSL (#4730) [Carlos Nihelton]
- test: Update hostname integration tests (#4744)
- test: Add mantic and noble releases to integration tests (#4744)
- refactor: Ensure internal DNS state same for v1 and v2 (#4756)
- feat: Add v2 route mtu rendering to NetworkManager (#4748)
- tests: stable ubuntu releases will not exit 2 on warnings (#4757)
- doc(ds-identify): Describe ds-identify irrespective of distro (#4742)
- fix: relax NetworkManager renderer rules (#4745)
- fix: fix growpart race (#4618)
- feat: apply global DNS to interfaces in network-manager (#4723)
[Florian Apolloner] - feat(apt): remove /etc/apt/sources.list when deb22 preferred (#4740)
- chore: refactor schema data as enums and namedtuples (#4585)
- feat(schema): improve CLI message on unprocessed data files (#4585)
- fix(config): relocate /run to /var/run on BSD (canonical#4677)
[Mina Galić] - fix(ds-identify): relocate /run on *BSD (#4677) [Mina Galić]
- fix(sysvinit): make code a bit more consistent (#4677) [Mina Galić]
- doc: Document how cloud-init is, not how it was (#4737)
- tests: add expected exit 2 on noble from cloud-init status (#4738)
- test(linkcheck): ignore github md and rst link headers (#4734)
- test: Update webhook test due to removed cc_migrator module (#4726)
- fix(ds-identify): Return code 2 is a valid result, use cached value
- fix(cloudstack): Use parsed lease file for virtual router in cloudstack
- fix(dhcp): Guard against FileNotFoundError and NameError exceptions
- fix(apt_configure): disable sources.list if rendering deb822 (#4699)
(LP: #2045086) - docs: Add link to contributing to docs (#4725) [Cat Red]
- chore: remove commented code (#4722)
- chore: Add log message when create_hostname_file key is false (#4724)
[Cat Red] - fix: Correct v2 NetworkManager route rendering (#4637)
- azure/imds: log http failures as warnings instead of info (#4714)
[Chris Patterson] - fix(setup): Relocate libexec on OpenBSD (#4708) [Mina Galić]
- feat(jinja): better jinja feedback and error catching (#4629)
[Alec Warren] - test: Fix silent swallowing of unexpected subp error (#4702)
- fix: Move cloud-final.service after time-sync.target (#4610)
[Dave Jones] (LP: #1951639) - feat(log): Make logger name more useful for init.py
- chore: Remove cc_migrator module (#4690)
- fix(tests): make cmd/devel/tests work on non-GNU [Mina Galić]
- chore: Remove cmdline from spelling list (#4670)
- doc: Document boot status meaning (#4670)
- doc: Set expectations for new datasources (#4670)
- ci: Show linkcheck broken links in job output (#4670)
- fix: Handle systemctl commands when dbus not ready (#4681)
- dmi: Add support for OpenBSD (#4654) [Mina Galić]
- ds-identify: fake dmidecode support on OpenBSD (#4654) [Mina Galić]
- ds-identify: add OpenBSD support in uname (#4654) [Mina Galić]
- refactor: Ensure ‘_cfg’ in Init class is dict (#4674)
- refactor: Make event scope required in stages.py (#4674)
- refactor: Remove unused argument (#4674)
- chore: Move from lintian to a sphinx spelling plugin (#3639)
- fix(doc): Fix spelling errors found by sphinxcontrib-spelling (#3639)
- ci: Add Python 3.13 (#4567)
- Add AlexSv04047 to CLA signers file (#4671) [AlexSv04047]
- fix(openbsd): services & build tool (#4660) [CodeBleu]
- tests/unittests: add a new unit test for network manager net activator
(#4672) [Ani Sinha] - Implement DataSourceCloudStack.get_hostname() (#4433) [Phsm Qwerty]
- net/nm: check for presence of ifcfg files when nm connection files
are absent (#4645) [Ani Sinha] - doc: Overhaul debugging documentation (#4578)
- doc: Move dangerous commands to dev docs (#4578)
- doc: Relocate file location docs (#4578)
- doc: Remove the debugging page (#4578)
- fix(util): Fix boottime to work on OpenBSD (#4667) [Mina Galić]
- net: allow dhcp6 configuration from generate_fallback_configuration()
[Ani Sinha] - net/network_manager: do not set “may-fail” to False for both ipv4 and
ipv6 dhcp [Ani Sinha] - feat(subp): Measure subprocess command time (#4606)
- fix(python3.13): Fix import error for passlib on Python 3.13 (#4669)
- style(brpm/bddeb): add black and ruff for packages build scripts (#4666)
- copr: remove TODO.rst from spec file
- fix(packages/brpm): correct syntax error and typo
- style(ruff): fix tip target
- config: Module documentation updates (#4599)
- refactor(subp): Remove redundant parameter ‘env’ (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Remove unused parameter ‘target’ (#4555)
- refactor: Remove ‘target’ boilerplate from cc_apt_configure (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Re-add return type to subp() (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Add type information to args (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Use subprocess.DEVNULL (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Remove parameter ‘combine_capture’ (#4555)
- refactor(subp): Remove unused parameter ‘status_cb’ (#4555)
- fix(cli): fix parsing of argparse subcommands (#4559)
[Calvin Mwadime] (LP: #2040325) - chore!: drop support for dsa ssh hostkeys in docs and schema (#4456)
- chore!: do not generate ssh dsa host keys (#4456) [shixuantong]