[3.17.2] - 2026-04-20
Fixed
- SSH hardening failure on cloud-init VPS — deploy failed with
effective sshd setting mismatch: expected 'passwordauthentication no'on Ubuntu instances with cloud-init. Root cause: sshd uses first-match-wins, and Meridian's99-meridian.confloaded after cloud-init's50-cloud-init.conf. Now uses00-meridian.confto load first, and neutralizes conflicting settings in other drop-ins (#31)