[Marked as a pre-release while it is deployed to production; will be marked as latest when the deployment completes]
[Most of those changes were deployed as 2.15.1.1 to Central US EUAP and East US 2 EUAP on 2025-12-22T15:10Z]
Features in progress
- Extensions signature
- Extensions policy
- Memory quota on WALinuxAgent
- #3398 Enforce extension signature validation with policy
- #3458 Improve error handling in policy engine
- #3483 Update telemetry for root certificate
- #3486 Restrict extension signature validation to CVMs
- #3499 Set soft limit for agents' memory cgroup in v2 machines
Bug Fixes and improvements
- #3457 Remove references to conf that may be uninitialized
- #3436 Enable cgroups on ChainGuard OS
- #3466 Remove reference to conf in supported features
- #3470 Do no fetch entire goal state when initializing telemetry
- #3484 Do not fetch full goal state on Daemon process + Do no send provisioning signals from CloudInitProvisionHandler
- #3490 Do not delete Certificates.pem on certificate download failures
- #3497 Do not change firewall rules in waagent-network-setup.service when firewalld is enabled
- #3498 Fix value of AZURE_GUEST_AGENT_UPDATING_FROM_VERSION on downgrades
- #3504 Use "iptables -L" to verify the results of "iptables -C"
- #3505 Do not pull entire goal state during provisioning by waagent
- #3526 Improve telemetry for firewall setup [Added on 2.15.1.2]
Tests bug fixes and improvements
- #3448 Install tar during test node setup when necessary
- #3449 Retry get instance view when execution state is 'Pending'
- #3461 Enable manual runs of the FIPS test on AzureUSGovernment cloud
- #3462 Disable extension policy and signature tests temporarily
- #3464 Add skipped tests to test results
- #3463 Enable FIPS test on AzureUSGovernment cloud
- #3465 Use ':' instead of ' ' in image URNs
- #3468 Use default resource name for VirtualMachineExtensionClient
- #3469 Fix ExtPolicy e2e test failures
- #3472 Update ExtSignatureValidation tests to run on CVMs
- #3473 Skipping test validation when network not ready on startup
- #3474 E2E test: Do not report exceptions in extensions
- #3475 Collect LISA logs by default
- #3476 Ignore systemd error in e2e tests
- #3485 Fix incorrect import in log_collector e2e test
- #3487 Update e2e test timestamp parsing logic
- #3491 Retry hibernate-resume cycle if incarnation is not 1 after resume
- #3493 Ignore records written by extensions when parsing waagent.log
- #3496 Skip tests that use VmAccess on gov cloud
- #3500, #3513 Disable and enable the agent service in the test agent setup
- #3501, #3512 Fix CSE deletion in ext_update scenario
- #3508 Skip firewall tests when the Proxy Agent manages the WireServer endpoint
- #3509 Remove agent update state files
- #3514 Disable signature validation in common test setup
- #3516 Disable policy tests
- #3520 Check for Proxy Agent on each reboot done by the firewall tests [Added on 2.15.1.2]
- #3521 Update URLs for python environments [Added on 2.15.1.2]
- #3528 Prepare agent for rollback scenario in e2e tests [Added on 2.15.1.2]
- #3529 Fix issue in telemetry reporting if Agent memory usage > limit [Added on 2.15.1.2]
Deployment schedule
| Stage | Regions | Deployment Start |
|---|---|---|
| Canary | Central US EUAP, East US 2 EUAP | 2026-01-07T21:37Z |
| Pilot | West Central US, East Asia | |
| Medium | UK South | |
| Large | North Europe | |
| Batch 1A-i | Australia East, Brazil South, France Central, Germany West Central | |
| Batch 1A-ii | Korea Central, North Central US, Norway East, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, West India | |
| Batch 1A-iii | Australia Central, Canada Central, Japan East, Jio India West | |
| Batch 1A-iv | Central India, South Africa North, UAE North, UK West | |
| Batch 1A-v | Australia Central 2, Brazil Southeast, Canada East, France South, Germany North, Japan West, Southeast Asia, West US 3 | |
| Batch 1B-i | Central US | |
| Batch 1B-ii | West Europe | |
| Batch 1B-iii | East US | |
| Batch 2A-i | Australia Southeast, Jio India Central, Korea South, Norway West, South Africa West, South Central US, South India, Sweden South, Switzerland West, UAE Central | |
| Batch 2A-ii | West US 2 | |
| Batch 2B-i | West US | |
| Batch 2B-ii | East US 2 | |
| All | Rest of the regions |
Deployment schedule - USGov
| Stage | Regions | Deployment Start |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | USDoD Central | |
| Stage 2 | USDoD East | |
| Stage 3 | USGov Texas | |
| Stage 4 | USGov Virginia, USGov Arizona | |
| All | Rest of the USGov regions |
Deployment schedule - China
| Stage | Regions | Deployment Start |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | China North | |
| Stage 2 | China North 2 | |
| Stage 3 | China East | |
| Stage 4 | China East 2 | |
| All | Rest of the China regions |