• Remove python deprecated crypt dependency in favor of
  passlib.hash.bcrypt where present. crypt was used by by NetBSD and
  Azure datasource. Plan is to eventually deprecate passlib dependency too.
• network: support busybox micro DHCP client (udhcpc) alternative to
  deprecated isc-dhcp-client.
• Clouds:
  • Ensure Akamai(and Linode) datasource included in default discovery
  • Ec2: support decoding double base64 encoded user-data
  • GCE: improve fallback nic selection ens4 over eth0 as primary/default NIC
• Distributions:
  • debian/ubuntu: no longer use localectl to set keymap (LP: #2030788)
  • systemd v253++: cloud-init status --wait won't block on spawned daemons
  • FreeBSD: Ephemeral networking fixes for BSD since /run is preserved
  • FreeBSD introduce ds-identify for early datasource detection
• Modules:
  • users: support doas/opendoas rules as alternative to sudo
  • PEP 668: pip-installed ansible to support break-system-packages installs
• tooling: New file /run/cloud-init/combined-cloud-config.json to read all
  merged user-data/config without invoking python.