Features
- Verify extension signature/Policy Enforcement
- Add expiry check for ext signature validation feature #3609
- Ext signature should be validated when required by policy #3622
- Improve extension signature logging/telemetry #3624
- Ext upgrade should fail when old handler is disallowed by policy #3625
- Enable policy #3630
Features in progress
- Agent signature validation (Feature is disabled)
- Collect telemetry on agent signature validation #3599
- Add signingInfo section to agent HandlerManifest.json #3612
- Validate package signingInfo before agent update #3619
Bug Fixes and improvements
- Updating the comment in version.py #3595
- 37393329 Fix IPoIB setup being skipped on ICG M2 VMs #3591
- cloudinitdetect: also check for 'cloudinit' service on non-systemd #3507
- Cleaning up telemetry for Agent errors #3594
- Soft lockup detection in linux through dmesg logs parsing and sending telemetry #3573
- ACL: Fix waagent-network-setup.service failure and update to teardown the specific interface. #3608
- Check whether the Agent is in the expected Control Group #3620
- Implement fallback to WireServer when deploying SSH keys #3603
Tests bug fixes and improvements
- Update diskSizeGB for higher image size distros #3601
- Re-enable extension policy tests in daily runbook #3607
- Ignore warn msg 'usage of legacy autoupdate flag' in e2e tests #3621
- Added RHEL 10.2 CVM image #3623
- Rhel 7.5 and 8.2 is no longer available in Gov cloud #3626
- Disable agent_update_with_signature test suite #3627
- Update lisa commit for disk size issue in deployments #3628
- Undo disk size workaround for rhel images #3629
- Skip CentOS 7.9 and 8.2 on tests that depend on Microsoft.Azure.Monitor.AzureMonitorLinuxAgent #3632
- Re-add CentOS 8.2 to cgroups test #3637 #3638
Deployment schedule
| Stage | Regions | Deployment Start |
|---|---|---|
| Canary | Central US EUAP, East US 2 EUAP | |
| 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 North 3 | |
| Stage 4 | China East | |
| Stage 5 | China East 2 | |
| Stage 6 | China East 3 | |
| All | Rest of the China regions |