v2.3.0.2

New Features

• Enforce CPUQuota on agent #2222, #2226
• Add support for RequiredFeatures and GoalStateAggregateStatus APIs #2190, #2206, #2209, #2216
• Added fallback locations for extension manifests #2188

Bug fixes

• Add missing call to str.format() when creating exception #2193
• Remove helper network service on deprovision #2191
• Use a helper script to start the network service #2225 #2253
• Initialize published_hostname using /var/lib/cloud/data/set-hostname #2215
• Fix utf logging for persist firewall rules #2237
• Replace firewall-setup unit file if changed #2236

Logging improvements

• Add debug info #2199
• Mark cgroup messages as INFO #2202
• Log a warning when HTTP fetch fails #2205
• Log changes in Extension.Enabled #2208
• Mark messsage as Cgroups Warning #2220

Test improvements

• Set Agent version to 9.9.9.9 for testing #2198
• Fixed get-pip uri #2201
• Use a sample agent zip for update tests #2200
• Add Debug options to disable checks on cgroups #2203
• Add custom trigger for GHA workflows #2214
• Disable pylint warning: "consider using with" #2238

v2.2.53.1

This release is for releasing the Extension Telemetry Pipeline as a private-preview feature.

• #2164

v2.2.53

This release includes all changes from v2.2.52 plus the ones listed below.

Bug fixes:

• Start exthandler with the same python interpreter (#2007)
• Verify that the extension status is an array (#2010)
• Remove enum _UpdateType and retry fetching goal state (#2018)
• use dd for ext4 as well as xfs (#2042)
• Fix path for error.json (#2044)
• Switch to run command changes, + provisioning changes that need to be reverted. (#2050)
• Fix timestamp for goal state archive (#2051)
• Case insensitive parsing or Plugins and PluginSettings (#2054)
• Revert "Fixed delays for HTTP retries rather than exponential delays (#1967)" (#2065)
• Fixed bug causing "MAC verified OK" message (#2069)
• Revert unicode fix manually (#1937) (#2070)

New features and improvements:

• Recreate handler environment file on service startup (#1960)
• Add log collection tool and thread (#1987)
• Thread interface (#1990)
• Verify that the CPU and Memory cgroups for the agent are properly initialized; disabled cgroups if they are not active. (#2015)
• SUSE config: use Btrfs LZO compression for ResourceDisk (#2055)

Telemetry and logging improvements:

• Extension telemetry pipeline (#1918)
• Reformatted the heartbeat event (#2009)
• Add LIS version to OSInfo.message (#2011)
• One thread for telemetry (#2019)
• Limit description character length sent for health report (#2020)
• Remove Serial Console Logging (#2028)
• Echo log to /dev/console during provisioning (#2043)
• Adding telemetry for logrotate (#2045)
• Report placeholder extension status as an array (#2068)

Documentation updates:

• Fix broken link in readme (#2014)
• Add log collector flags to README (#2029)

Testing and code quality improvements:

• Travis CI improvements (#1989, #1992)
• Test improvements (#1969, #1994, #1988, #2026)
• Enabled pylint (#1975, #1976, #1979, #1980, #1981, #1985)
• Code clean-up, fixes for pylint warnings (#1983, #1986, #1991, #1993, #1995, #1999, #2000, #2001, #2002, #2047, #2049, #2053)

v2.2.51 - this release was not completed in all regions

This release is a re-release of v2.2.49.2. There are no new changes in this as compared to the last known good v2.2.49.2

v2.2.52 - this release was not completed in all regions

Major bug fixes -

• Do not retrieve users in each goal state (#1935)
• Fix check for systemd-run failure when invoking extensions (#1943)
• Fix telemetry unicode errors (#1937)
• Uninstall unregistered extensions (#1970)
• Use run_command to execute iptables (#1944)
• Use run_command for ip route (#1958)
• Fix handling of gen2 disks with udev rules (#1954)

New features/improvements -

• Add API for uploading logs via host plugin (#1902)
• Fixed delays for HTTP retries rather than exponential delays (#1967)

Documentation changes -

• python3 must be used in Ubuntu (#1932)

Other fixes -

• Resolve undefined variable (#1950)
• Convert owner uid to string (#1949)
• Fix Travis special checks for distro and remove useless cgroup tests (#1959)
• Use tmp_dir instead of data_dir (#1968)

v2.2.49.2

Improvements in cgroups:

• Do not use --unit with systemd-cgls (#1910)
• Report processes that do not belong to the agent's cgroup (#1908)
• Use controller mount point for extension cgroup path (#1899)
• Improvements in setup of cgroups (#1896)
• Remove ExtensionsMetricsData and per-process Memory data (#1884)
• Fix return value of start_extension_command (#1927)

Testing and dev-infra improvements:

• Remove import * (#1900)
• Fix flaky ExtensionCleanupTest class (#1898)
• Fix codecov badge (#1883)
• Changed codecov to run on py3.8 (#1875)

Documentation improvements:

• Update documentation on /dev/random (#1909)
• Mount options are in mount(8) (#1893)

Logging and telemetry improvements:

• Remove ssh host key thumbprint in report ready (#1913)
• Emit AutoUpdate value at service start only (#1907)
• Add logging for version mismatch (#1895)
• Send telemetry event if libdir changes (#1897)
• Add log collector utility (#1847)
• Move AutoUpdate reporting to HeartBeat event (#1919)

Extension workflow improvements:

• Removing infinite download of extension manifest without a new GS (#1874)
• Fix wrongful dir deletion (#1873)
• Fix the cleanup-outdated-handlers to only delete handlers that are not present in the GS (#1889)

Other:

• Expose periods of environment thread in waagent.conf (#1891)
• Added user @kevinclark19a as Contributor. (#1906)

v2.2.48.1

Refactoring GoalState class out of Protocol, making Protocol thread-safe, removing stale dependencies of Protocol and removing the dependency on the file system to read the Protocol info:

• Fetch goal state when creating HostPluginProtocol (#1799)
• Separate goal state from the protocol class (#1777)
• Make protocol util a singleton per thread (#1743, #1756)
• Fetch goal state before sending telemetry (#1751)
• Remove file dependency (#1754)
• Others (#1758, #1767, #1744, #1749, #1816, #1820)

Adding and improving log messages and adding thread names to each logline:

• New logs for goal state fetch (#1797) and refresh (#1794).
• Thread name added to logs (#1778)
• Populate telemetry events at creation time (#1791)
• Periodic HeartBeat to be logged to the file (#1755)
• Add unit test to verify call stacks on telemetry events (#1828)
• Others (#1841, #1842, #1846)

Improving agent status reporting:

• Handling errors while reading extension status files (Limiting Size and Transient issues)(#1761)

Provisioning Agent changes:

• Enable SWAP on Resource Disk as Application Certification Support suggested (#1762)
• Update 'Provisioning' options in default configs ( #1853)

Other fixes:

• Drop Metadata Server Support (#1806, #1839, #1840 )
• Improve documentation of ResourceDisk.EnableSwapEncryption (#1782)
• Removed is_snappy function (#1774)
• Handle exceptions in monitor thread (#1770)
• Fix timestamp for periodic operations in the monitor thread (#1879)
• Fix permissions on the Ubuntu systemd service file (#1814)
• Update hostname setting for SUSE distros (#1832)
• Python 3.8 improvements + support for Ubuntu 20.04 (#1860, #1865, #1738)
• Testing and dev-infra improvements [#1771, #1768, #1800, #1826, #1827, #1833]
• Others (#1854, #1858)

v2.2.46

[#1741] Do not update goal state when refreshing the host plugin
[#1731] Fix upgrade sequence when update command fails
[#1725] Initialize CPU usage
[#1716, #1737] Added UTC logging and correcting the format
[#1651, #1729] Start sending PerformanceCounter metrics and additional memory information for Cgroups

v2.2.45

[#1654] Add support for Gen2 VM resource disks
[#1677] Use alternate systemd detection
[#1638] Fix /proc/net/route requirement that causes errors on FreeBSD
[#1633] Add cloud-init auto-detect to prevent multiple provisioning mechanisms from relying on configuration for coordination
[#1688] Disable cgroups when daemon is setup incorrectly
[#1686] Remove upgrade extension loop for the same goal state
[#1696] Add container id for extension telemetry events
[#1695] Be more exact when detecting IMDS service health
[#1663] Changing add_event to start sending missing fields

Bug fixes and minor improvements: [#1679, #1680, #1681, #1683, #1685, #1699, #1698, #1701]

v2.2.44

[#1642] Remove outdated extension ZIP packages
[#1623] Improved error handling when starting extensions using systemd
[#1619] Reduce provisioning time of some custom images
[#1617] Improve the handling of extension download errors
[#1634, #1640] New API for extension authors to handle errors during extension update
[#1606] Fix handling of errors in calls to openssl
[#1599] Improve logic to determine current distro
[#1567, #1614] Reduce verbosity of several logging statements

Bug fixes: [#1506 #1563 #1568 #1570 #1572 #1573 #1576 #1580 #1583 #1595 #1600 #1606 #1607 #1616 #1625 #1628 #1630 #1641 #1644 #1655 #1664 #1666]