microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent v2.198.1

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Features

• [macOS] Return the correct minor version on 11 and later OS. (#3605)
• Add Event Log dumping (#3653)
• Add passive validation - list local group memberships (#3673)
• Added RepoType telemetry for checkout task (#3677)
• Enabling validation of checksum for online agent update for ADO OnPrem (#3679)
• Add function to read waagent.conf settings and condition to run it only on Linux (#3680)
• Add passive validation - dumping cloud-init logs (#3681)
• Added masking for environment variables containing credentials in diagnostic logs (#3682)
• Download TEE plugin conditionally during checkout (#3684)
• Added information about user groups into environment file (Linux, MacOS) (#3690)
• Add cloud-init logs to diagnostics archive (#3700)

Bugs

• Porting logic of handling negative patterns for DownloadBuildArtifacts task (#3664)
• Added tests for ported logic of handling negative patterns for DownloadBuildArtifacts task (#3665)
• Adding support of negative patterns for DownloadBuildArtifacts task in scenarios with using file share (#3666)
• Fix permissions setting on MacOS while downloading TEE (#3704)

Misc

• Add info about labels Latest and Pre-release (#3695)
• Switched macos pool to 10.15 (#3697)
• Update dumping waagent.conf file logic not to write warning on missed "waagent.conf" (#3706)

Agent Downloads

After Download:

Windows x64

C:\> mkdir myagent && cd myagent
C:\myagent> Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("$HOME\Downloads\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.198.1.zip", "$PWD")

Windows x86

C:\> mkdir myagent && cd myagent
C:\myagent> Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("$HOME\Downloads\vsts-agent-win-x86-2.198.1.zip", "$PWD")

macOS

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-osx-x64-2.198.1.tar.gz

Linux x64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-x64-2.198.1.tar.gz

Linux ARM

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-arm-2.198.1.tar.gz

Linux ARM64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-arm64-2.198.1.tar.gz

RHEL 6 x64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-rhel.6-x64-2.198.1.tar.gz

Alternate Agent Downloads

This following alternate packages do not include Node 6 and are only suitable for users who do not use Node 6 dependent tasks.
See notes on Node version support for more details.