23.4

General:

• Add shellcheck to CI
• util: Remove function abs_join()
• Add support for cloud-init "degraded" state
• status.json: Don't override detail key with error condition
• tools/render-template: Make yaml loading opt-in, fix setup.py
• boothook: allow stdout/stderr to emit to cloud-init-output.log
• cloud-init-generator: Various performance optimizations
• systemd: Standardize cloud-init systemd enablement
• benchmark: benchmark cloud-init-generator independent of ds-identify
• Automatically linkcheck in CI
• cmd: Don't write json status files for non-boot stages
• apport: collect ubuntu-pro logs if ubuntu-advantage.log present
• sources: do not override datasource detection if None is in list
• clean: add a new option to clean generated config files
• pep-594: drop deprecated pipes module import

Distributions:

• Debian: Set Debian's default locale to be c.UTF-8
• Gentoo: upstream gentoo patch
• OpenBSD: Update build-on-openbsd dependencies
• SUSE: Add suse

AliYun: Allow aliyun ds to fetch data in init-local

Azure:

• report failure to eject as error instead of debug
• Check for stale pps data from IMDS
• imds: remove limit for connection errors if route present
• workaround to disable reporting IMDS failures on Azure Stack
• errors: include http code in reason for IMDS failure
• report failure to host if ephemeral DHCP secondary NIC
• imds: ensure new errors are logged immediately when retrying
• check for primary interface when performing DHCP
• imds: retry on 429 errors for reprovisiondata
• add option to enable/disable secondary ip config
• Ignore system volume information folder while scanning
  for files in the ntfs resource disk

MAAS: Add datasource to init-local timeframe

NWCS: Update DataSourceNWCS.py

VMware: Fall back to vmtoolsd if vmware-rpctool errs

ConfigModules:

• cc_apt_configure:
  • add deb822 support for default sources file
  • install software-properties-common when absent but needed
  • Install gnupg if gpg not found
  • kill dirmngr/gpg-agent without gpgconf dependency
• cc_apt_pipelining: Update docs, deprecate options
• cc_resizefs: Add bcachefs resize support
• cc_package_update_upgrade_install:
  • Allow installing snaps via package_update_upgrade_install module
• cc_ubuntu_advantage:
  • do not rely on uaclient.messages module
  • shift CLI command from ua to pro for all interactions
• cc_set_hostname, cc_update_hostname: check for create_hostname_file
  key before writing /etc/hostname

Network:

• ephemeral: Handle link up failure for both ipv4 and ipv6
• warn invalid cfg add /run/cloud-init/network-config
• remove the word "on instance boot" from cloud-init generated config

Schema:

• non-root fallback to default paths on perm errors
• annotation path for invalid top-level keys
• top-level additionalProperties: false
• network-config optional network key. route uses oneOf
• add cloud_init_deepest_matches for best error message
• add network-config support to schema subcommand
• cloud-init schema in early boot or in dev environ
• annotation of nested dicts lists in schema marks

DsIdentify:

• exit 2 on disabled state from marker or cmdline
• Allow disable service and override environment
• match Azure datasource's ds_detect() behavior
• Use grep for faster parsing of cloud config in ds-identify

Logging:

• Standardize logging output to stderr
• Don't configure NullHandler
• Standardize use of cloudinit's logging module
• Log PPID for better debuggin
• Remove logging of PPID path
• style: Make cloudinit.log functions use snake case
• Export warning logs to status.json

Docs:

• man: Document cloud-init error codes
• Add summit digest/trip report to docs
• Clarify boothook docs
• Describe disabling cloud-init using an environment variable
• Tidy up contributing docs
• Add cloud-init overview/introduction
• vmware: Update contents relevant to disable_vmware_customization
• summit-notes: add 2023 notes for reference in mailinglist/discourse