v2.8.0.11

Updates

New Features

• Enabled support for Fast Track (faster processing of extensions) #2475, #2486, #2490, #2477, #2500, #2499, #2508, #2514, #2520, #2523, #2524, #2526, #2525, #2537, #2541, #2542, #2544, #2549, #2558, #2560, #2562 , #2569, #2575, #2576, #2577, #2594, #2615, #2633, #2649

General Improvements

• Add telemetry for VM Size #2462
• Add telemetry for environment variables passed to extensions #2536
• Enforce CPU quota on the Agent on Red Hat and CentOS 7.4+ #2531

Bug Fixes

• Restore all firewall rules needed for communication with the WireServer #2480, #2491, #2509, #2512
• Fix false positives reporting processes in the Agent's cgroup #2522
• Fix false errors when collecting debug logs #2535
• Don't report incorrect CPU usage data #2538
• Fetching a goal state with empty certificates property #2575
• Silence goal state fetch errors after 3 logs #2576
• Change fast track timestamp default from None to datetime.min #2577
• Retry HGAP's extensionsArtifact requests on BAD_REQUEST status #2621

Distro Support

• Support for Rocky Linux #2463
• RHEL 8 #2532
• RHEL 9 #2629 , #2630

Work in Progress

• Preliminary work to enforce CPU quota on extensions #2459, #2464,
• Preliminary work for management of agent self-updates [GA Versioning] #2467, #2479, #2487,

Test Improvements

• Add CentOS 7.9 to end-to-end-tests #2465
• Add Mariner to end-to-end-tests #2517, #2528
• Test fixes #2458, #2471, #2515, #2513, #2518, #2519, #2529, #2539, #2540

Deployment Schedule

Stage	Regions	Deployment Start
Canary	Central US EUAP, East US 2 EUAP	2022-08-16T21:43:42Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-04-14T17:08:02Z (2.8.0.1)
Pilot	West Central US	2022-08-17T22:40:08Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-04-20T19:39:17Z (2.8.0.1)
Medium	North Central US	2022-08-18T23:03:35Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-04-25T19:54:41Z (2.8.0.1)
Large	West US	2022-08-23T03:01:09Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-05-16T18:48:38Z (2.8.0.5)
Batch 1-A	East Asia, Australia East, Australia Central, Canada Central, North Europe, France Central, West India, Japan East, Korea Central, East US 2	2022-08-25T19:15:44Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-06-08T17:07:28Z (2.8.0.6)
Batch 1-B	Brazil South, South Africa North, Switzerland North, UK West, UAE North, East US, Norway East, Central India, West US 2	2022-08-29T20:15:58Z (2.8.0.11) 2022-08-11T20:48:49Z (2.8.0.10)
Batch 2-A	Southeast Asia, Australia Southeast, South Central US, Canada East, Japan West, Korea South, Switzerland West, UAE Central	2022-09-14T20:41:24Z
Batch 2-B	Australia Central 2, France South, South India, West Europe, Central US, Norway West, South Africa West, UK South	2022-09-19T20:04:30Z

NOTES:

• This release will be marked as 'latest' once it has been deployed to all regions.

• Pre-release versions may not be available on all the VMs in the regions where they have been deployed,

v2.7.3.0

Updates

Bug Fixes

• Retry HGAP's extensionsArtifact requests on BAD_REQUEST status #2622
• Use 'ip' instead of 'ifdown/ifup' to restart network interface on RHEL >= 8.6 #2612 #2624

Deployment Schedule

Stage	Regions	Deployment Start
Canary	Central US EUAP, East US 2 EUAP	2022-07-11T15:52:21Z
Pilot	West Central US	2022-07-13T20:24:19Z
Medium	North Central US	2022-07-14T20:50:55Z
Large	West US	2022-07-15T21:57:47Z
Batch 1-A	East Asia, Australia East, Australia Central, Canada Central, North Europe, France Central, West India, Japan East, Korea Central, East US 2	2022-07-18T15:52:14Z
Batch 1-B	Brazil South, South Africa North, Switzerland North, UK West, UAE North, East US, Norway East, Central India, West US 2	2022-07-19T15:59:33Z
Batch 2-A	Southeast Asia, Australia Southeast, South Central US, Canada East, Japan West, Korea South, Switzerland West, UAE Central	2022-07-20T16:42:50Z
Batch 2-B	Australia Central 2, France South, South India, West Europe, Central US, Norway West, South Africa West, UK South	2022-07-21T18:06:26Z
All	All Regions

v2.7.1.0

This release contains a hotfix for OOM errors on the log collector:

• #2533

v2.7.0.6

General improvements

• Increase time of autoupdates after updates are available #2403
• Send telemetry when upgrade available #2421
• Enable collection of debugging information #2436, #2453, #2510
• Add support for Python 2.6 to the debug info collection code #2452
• Enable CPU/memory data collection on RedHat and CentOS #2450

Bug fixes

• Exclude end-to-end tests from Agent setup #2396, #2402
• Fix log message in cgroups management #2427
• Fix parsing of malformed error.json files #2433
• Allow DNS queries over TCP #2429
• Dont exit extension handler process if unable to fetch first goal state #2440

Distro support

• Improvements for Mariner #2407, #2414
• Add uos support #2420
• Add support for VMware PhotonOS #2431

Work in progress

• Preliminary changes to support Fast Track (added support for the Fast Track pipeline, but still using the Fabric pipeline for goal states) #2394, #2398, #2397, #2399, #2404, #2406, #2411, #2413, #2416, #2418, #2419, #2426, #2430, #2432, #2441, #2442, #2443, #2446, #2451, #2454, #2456, #2466, #2470, #2477, #2482, #2492, #2503
• Preliminary changes to support enforcement of CPU quota for VM Extensions (collect data for pilot extensions) #2391
• Preliminary changes for management of the Agent version during deployments #2428, #2437

Test improvements

• New end-to-end test pipeline #2408, #2409, #2417, #2422, #2436
• Unit test improvements #2401, #2415, #2414, #2434

v2.6.0.2

New Features

• added cloudlinux support (#2344)
• Enable extensions cpu monitoring (#2357, #2384, #2391)
• Support Flatcar Container Linux (#2365)
• Retrieve VmSettings from HostGAPlugin (#2378, #2382, #2386, #2394, #2397, #2404)
• Set Agent's CpuQuota to 75% (#2383)

Bug Fixes

• Use handler status if extension status is None when computing the ExtensionsSummary (#2358) (#2361)
• fix bug with dependent extensions with no settings (#2285) (#2362)
• Create events dir for handlers if ETP enabled (#2366)
• Report status even if goal state cannot be processed (#2370)
• Define ExtensionsSummary.eq (#2371) (#2373)
• Implement ExtensionsSummary.ne in terms of eq (#2375)

Improvements

• Code refactoring (#2350, #2369, #2376)
• Unit test improvements (#2351, #2353, #2354, #2367, #2377, #2380)
• integration test improvements (#2381, #2387, #2396 )
• logging improvements (#2385)

v2.5.0.2

New Features and improvements

• Enable Extension Telemetry Pipeline (#2337, #2339)
• Enable Periodic Log Collection in systemd distros (#2295,#2289)
• Implement InitialGoalStatePeriod parameter + improvements in logging goal state processing(#2332)
• Fix operation name in InitializeHostPlugin event(#2338)
• Mock systemctl stop cmd (#2335)
• Report transitioning when status file not found (#2330)
• Dont create default status file for Single-Config extensions (#2318)
• Do not create placeholder status file for AKS extensions (#2298)
• Save waagent_status to history folder and add additional details to the status file (#2325,#2301,#2270)
• Rename Debug.FetchVmSettings to Debug.EnableFastTrack (#2324)
• Update HostGAplugin headers before fetching vmSettings (#2323)
• Handle HTTP GONE in vmSettings request (#2321)
• Added log statements to debug issues in vmSettings API(#2317)
• Remove reference to re.IGNORECASE (#2316)
• Add and remove extension slice (#2315)
• FastTrack changes (#2314, #2313,#2306, #2304,#2294, #2293)
• Helper to handle exception message(#2305)
• Remove trailing spaces from command name (#2296)
• Add debug info for systemd-run false positives (#2292)
• Move Github Actions VMs to Ubuntu 18 (#2291)
• Onboard redhat82, ubuntu20 (#2290, #2279)
• Allow systemd-run in the Agent's cgroup (#2287)
• Use handler status if extension status is None (#2358)
• Bug Fix :Define ExtensionsSummary.ne (#2371)

Test improvements

• Getting the agent version from the version file (#2346)
• Save the original subprocess.Popen before mocking it (#2340)
• Added message to test_run_latest's assertion (#2334)

v2.4.0.2

New Features

• Support for Multi config (#2245, #2261)
• Support sles 15 sp2 distro (#2272)

Bug Fixes

• Cleanup history folder every 30 min (#2258)
• Updated _read_status_file to include a fragment of status file in the exception (#2257)
• Fix telemetry unicode errors (Re-add #1937) (#2278)
• Match IPoIB interface with any alphanumeric characters (#2239)
• Fix bug with dependent extensions with no settings (#2285)
• Do not create placeholder status file for AKS extensions (#2298)
• Refactoring of Agent's main loop (#2275)
• Exception for Linux Patch Extension for creating placeholder status file (#2307)
• Dont create default status file for Single-Config extensions (#2318)

Logging improvements

• Fix bad logging (#2241)
• Fixed logging of PeriodicOperation (#2263)
• Log collector broken pipe fix (#2267)
• Improved logging for Multi config (#2246)

Test improvements

• Update test matrix and support (#2234)
• Fix utf-encoding for reporting firewall-setup logs (#2233)
• str -> ustr to fix pfr setup (#2268)
• Disable consider-using-with in pylint (#2231)
• Use venv for Python 2.6 unit tests (#2242)
• Update test-requirements to pin pylint. (#2288) (#2299)

v2.3.1.1

This release contains the revert for reducing the time window where we restart the network interfaces of the VM -

• #2283

v2.2.54

New Features and Improvements:

• PA changes to check cloud-init (#2061)
• log collector (#2066)
• cgroups CPU percentage py processor count (#2074)
• Parse InVMGoalStateMetaData from Extension Config (#2081)
• iscsi disk support for agent configs (#2073)
• Add support for VMs with multiple IB devices (#2085)
• Python 3.9 support (#2082)
• Add support for CBL-Mariner distro (#2099)
• Enable Provisioning.MonitorHostName for Ubuntu (#1934)
• Added supportedFeatures flag in status reporting (#2089)
• Parse ext runtime settings (#2087)
• GHA merge validation (#2097)
• Cgroups improvements
• renamed the eventsFolder variable for preview and enabled ETP (#2140)
• Agent slice and custom unit files telemetry (#2150)
• Make IPoIB interface online (#2116)
• Add option to disable NetworkConfigurationChanges (#2156)
• Log network configuration on service start (#2157)
• Setup persistent firewall rules on service restart (#2154)

Bug Fixes:

• switched to using run_command (#2060)
• fixes for chained-comparison and dangerous-default-value pylint warnings (#2072)
• fixed depends on errors (#2059)
• WireIp env variable added (#2078)
• Unstick HGAP channel as default (#2046)
• shellutil.run_command fixes (#2086, #2098)
• unit test fixes (#2090, #2091, #2108, #2153)
• fix distro resolution for RedHat (#2083)
• Read KVP value in binary mode (#2084)
• Redact protected settings in goal state debug files (#2130)
• Modify retry logic for empty goal state (#2140)
• GS no config fix (#2141)
• CommandExecution.log logrototate config -> custom log management (#2143)
• binary file for firewall rules (#2147)
• Refresh host ga plugin periodically (#2155)
• Disabled custom service (#2166)
• update test zips (#2167)

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