The 26.1 release:

• spanned about 5 months
• had 34 contributors
• fixed 15 issues

Highlights:

• Add support for s390x platform detection on LXD
• Add support for Tilaa cloud platform detection
• Fix lxd snap installs on plucky and newer
• Scaleway cloud to support exposing regions and availability zones, drop private IP handling
• Add network v1 support for bonds, bridges and VLANs
• Allow network-config to express allow_accept_ra for bonds, bridges and VLANsOpenStack network_data.json support of bond names by @sbraz
• BSD support for meson build
• RaspberryPI support by @paullober. Keymap settings, usb-gadget support, systemd network service template, Disable fallback netcfg and remove apt mirror config
• delete openEuler in cc_rh_subscription by @xiaoge1001
• RockyLinux support for ca_certs by @marvinruder
• Azure fixes for retry logic, pubkey extraction @cadejacobson
• Oracle: handle null metadata field in oracle data source by @prakashsurya
• fix(network_state): add some missed out keys to V2 key filter list by @sshedi
• feat: render vlan, bond, bridge for v1 network state by
• rhel: Do not override changes in disable-sshd-keygen-if-cloud-init-active.conf by @ani-sinha
• Drop support for Python 3.8
• Scaleway: remove private_ip handling, add AZ and region fields by @NoSuchCommand
• reporting: report duration on finish events by @peytonr18
• Cloudstack: fetch vm password using url_helper instead of wget by @weizhouapache
• fix: install lxd snap only when snap list lxd reports absent by @blackboxsw in #6626
• Remove multiple entries in spec file for disable-sshd-keygen-if-cloud-init.conf by @ani-sinha

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• @csemanish12
• @Pneha1234
• @ottok
• @marvinruder
• @kikitux
• @jansdhillon
• @cadejacobson
• @prakashsurya
• @sathieu
• @peytonr18
• @MoeSalah1999
• @svmhdvn
• @AndreiCherniaev
• @goldberl
• @raineszm
• @ayushigithub12
• @drzee99
• @joernheissler
• @favourozogbu
• @Rizwarrior

Cloud-init release 25.3 is now available

The 25.3 release:

• spanned about 6 weeks
• had 19 contributors
• fixed 9 issues

Highlights:

• Switch to meson.build due to PEP632 (#6326) (LP: #1978328)
• eni: support "ip route" if available instead of "route" (#6460) [dermotbradley]
• schema: add support for the not keyword (#6469) [Mostafa Abdelwahab]
• hetzner: enable hotplug support and prepare IPv6 integration (#6445) [Philipp Bender]
• networkd: add support for rendering bridge devices (#6349) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
• systemd: revert auditd.service dependency (#6448)

Highlights:

• Optionally use 'sfdisk' for GPT [Vitaly Kuznetsov] (GH: 5797)
• Support vlan and bond rendering in network renderer (#6324) [Shreenidhi Shedi]
• Implement the clean callback for DataSourceAzure (#6321) [Amy Chen]
• Add Raspberry Pi OS support (#5827) [Paul]
• Add subnet metric support for netplan (#6222) [Artsiom]

25.1.4

• fix: disable cloud-init when non-x86 environments have no DMI-data and
  no strict datasources detected (LP: #2069607) (CVE-2024-6174)

25.1.3 (security updates)

• docs: provide example3 for PAM and ssh_pwauth behavior (6265)
• fix: Make hotplug socket writable only by root (#6265) (CVE-2024-11584)
• fix: Don't attempt to identify non-x86 OpenStack instances (LP: #2069607)
  (CVE-2024-6174)

25.1.2

• fix: ensure MAAS datasource retries on failure (#6167)

25.1.1

• test: pytestify cc_chef tests, add migration test
• chef: migrate files in old config directories for backups and cache
• fix: correct the path for Chef's backups (#5994)
• fix(Azure): don't reraise FileNotFoundError during ephemeral setup (#6113)
• fix(azure): handle unexpected exceptions during obtain_lease() (#6092)
  [Ksenija Stanojevic]
• Allow to set mac_address for VLAN subinterface (#6081)
  [jumpojoy] (GH: 5364)
• fix: Remove erroneous EC2 reference from 503 warning (#6077)
• fix: NM reload and bring up individual network conns (#6073) [Ani Sinha]
• fix: stop warning on dual-stack request failure (#6044)
• fix: install_method: pip cannot find ansible-pull command path (#6021)
  [Hasan Aliyev] (GH: 5720)
• fix: Fix DataSourceAliYun exception_cb signature (#6068) (GH: 6066)
• fix: Update OauthUrlHelper to use readurl exception_cb signature
  (GH: 6065)
• test: add OauthUrlHelper tests
• test: Remove CiTestCase from test_url_helper.py
• test: pytestify test_url_helper.py
• fix: track more removed modules (#6043)

Cloud-init release 25.1 is now available

The 25.1 release:

• spanned about 3 months
• had 23 contributors
• fixed 19 issues

Highlights:

• Move DS VMware to be in front of DS OVF (#5912) [PengpengSun]
• Identify Samsung Cloud Platform as OpenStack (#5924) [us0310306]
• vmware: Convert imc network config to v2 (#5937) [PengpengSun]
• do not remove all existing settings of /etc/sysconfig/network (#5991) [Ani Sinha]
• aliyun datasource support crawl metadata at once (#5942) [jinkangkang]

• fix: Ensure _should_wait_via_user_data() handles all user data types (#5976)
• fix: Don't log error in wait_for_url (#5972)
• feat(url_helper): Retry on 503 error (#5938)
• fix: Don't break modules that use get_meta_doc() (#5953)
• refactor: Pass deprecation log args as tuple (#5953)
• fix: uninstall custom signal handlers before shutdown (#5913)

Highlights:

• feat(oracle): add true single stack ipv6 support (#5785)
• chore: remove --docs option from cloud-init schema (#5857)
• feat(networkd): Support RequiredForOnline option (#5852)
• fix(smartos): Add addrconf IPv6 support (#5831)
• fix: disable grub-dpkg by default (#5840)
• feat: Conditionally remove networkd online dependency on Ubuntu (#5772)
• feat: Ensure random passwords contain multiple character types (#5815)
• fix: Render v2 bridges correctly on network-manager with set-name (#5740)
• fix: Render bridges correctly for v2 on sysconfig with set-name (#5674)
• tests: add OS_IMAGE_TYPE setting to allow for minimal tests (#5682)
• Create datasource for CloudCIX (#1351)