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)

• test: add test coverage for iproute2 commands (#5651)
• fix(netops): fix ip addr flush command (#5651) (GH: 5648)

Highlights:

• Add AOSC linux distribution support (#5310)
• Add OpenEuler support for cc_spacewalk module (#5530)
• Add network-config seed support for nocloud datasource (#5566)
• Support remote URI sources write_files module (#5505)
• Bootspeed improvement: support for socket-based shared python process
  across cloud-init boot stages (#5595)
• Add trace-level logger (#5414)
• Yum support for setting mirrorlist or baseurl (#5522))
• Azure preliminary support of optional AzureProxyAgent (#5601)
• WSL support multi-part MIME config parts as well as landscape tags for
  provisioning (#5460, #5538)
• avoid snap refresh on package_upgrade: true when snap refresh is held
• optimization: eliminate redundant config reads across boot stages (#5536)
• provide option to set empty passwords and fix password unlock when
  lock_passwd: False on Alpine/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD (#5355)

Bug fixes:

• NetworkManager network v1 rendering of config ensure bond- prefix
• collect-logs avoid inclusion of sensitive data updated apport intregration

Breaking Changes:

• Warning issued for systemd environments if cloud-init boot stages are
  called by PIDs other than the root process. It is expected that boot
  stages are only called by systemd units and not post-production scripts
  or tools.
• Introduce a performance optimization by sharing the python environment and setup costs across all four boot stages with a new cloud-init-main.service

Cloud-init release 24.2 is now available

The 24.2 release:

• spanned about 4 months
• had 39 contributors
• fixed 53 issues

Highlights:

• feat: Add support for FTP and FTP over TLS (#4834)
• feature(schema): add networkv2 schema (#4892)
• feat: Add new distro 'azurelinux' for Microsoft Azure Linux. (#4931)
• feat: Use NetworkManager renderer by default in RHEL family
• feat(ca_certs): Add AlmaLinux OS and CloudLinux OS support (#5264)
• feat(sysconfig): Add DNS from interface config to resolv.conf (#5401)
• feat(alpine): add support for Busybox adduser/addgroup (#5176)
• feat(disk_setup): Add support for nvme devices (#5263)

Breaking Changes:

• fix(rhel)!: Fix network boot order in upstream cloud-init (#5089)

Note for downstream image creators:

• Added support in cloudinit.features.DEPRECATION_INFO_BOUNDARY allowing stable downstream images to pin the original MAJOR.MINOR version of cloud-init released on that image. This avoids introduction of new deprecation messages (and potential exit 2 from cloud-init status) across cloud-init version upgrades.

• fix(ec2): Correctly identify netplan renderer (#5361)

• fix(ec2): Ensure metadata exists before configuring PBR (#5287)
• fix: Check renderer for netplan-specific code (#5321)
• test: Fix failing test_ec2.py test (#5324)

Cloud-init bug fix release against 24.1.

• fix(dhcpcd): Make lease parsing more robust (#5129)
• net/dhcp: raise InvalidDHCPLeaseFileError on error parsing dhcpcd lease
  (#5128) [Chris Patterson]
• fix: Fix runtime file locations for cloud-init (#4820)
• net/dhcp: bump dhcpcd timeout to 300s (#5127) [Chris Patterson]
• net: Warn when interface rename fails
• ephemeral(dhcpcd): Set dhcpcd interface down
• test: Remove side effects from tests (#5074)
• refactor: Import log module rather than functions (#5074)

• fix: Always use single datasource if specified (#5098)
• fix: Allow caret at the end of apt package (#5099)

• test: Don't assume ordering of ThreadPoolExecutor submissions (#5052)
• refactor(ec2): simplify convert_ec2_metadata_network_config
• tests: drop CiTestCase and convert to pytest
• bug(tests): mock reads of host's /sys/class/net via get_sys_class_path
• fix: Fix breaking changes in package install (#5069)
• fix: Undeprecate 'network' in schema route definition (#5072)
• fix(ec2): fix ipv6 policy routing
• fix: document and add 'accept-ra' to network schema (#5060)
• bug(maas): register the correct DatasourceMAASLocal in init-local
  (#5068) (LP: #2057763)

• fix: Include DataSourceCloudStack attribute in unpickle test (#5039)
• bug(vmware): initialize new DataSourceVMware attributes at unpickle (#5021)
• fix(apt): Don't warn on apt 822 source format (#5028)
• fix: Add "broadcast" to network v1 schema (#5034)
• pro: honor but warn on custom ubuntu_advantage in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg (#5030)
• net/dhcp: handle timeouts for dhcpcd (#5022)
• fix: Make wait_for_url respect explicit arguments
• bug(wait_for_url): when exceptions occur url is unset, use url_exc
• test: Fix scaleway retry assumptions
• fix: Make DataSourceOracle more resilient to early network issues (#5025)
• tests: Fix wsl test (#5008)