Release 20.3

[James Falcon]

Summary: Release 20.3
Further information:
== Release Notes ==

Cloud-init release 20.3 is now available

The 20.3 release:
 * spanned about 4 months
 * had 35 contributors from 36 domains
 * fixed 24 Launchpad issues

Highlights:
 - Support Oracle IMDSv2 API
 - cc_grub_dpkg: Determine idevs in a more robust manner with grub-probe
 - Recognize LABEL_FATBOOT labels
 - Support reading user-data that is base64 encoded
 - cmd: cloud-init query to handle compressed userdata
 - Enable chef_license support for chef infra client

== Changelog ==
 - Azure: Add netplan driver filter when using hv_netvsc driver (#539)
   [James Falcon] (LP: #1830740)
 - query: do not handle non-decodable non-gzipped content (#543)
 - DHCP sandboxing failing on noexec mounted /var/tmp (#521) [Eduardo Otubo]
 - Update the list of valid ssh keys. (#487)
   [Ole-Martin Bratteng] (LP: #1877869)
 - cmd: cloud-init query to handle compressed userdata (#516) (LP: #1889938)
 - Pushing cloud-init log to the KVP (#529) [Moustafa Moustafa]
 - Add Alpine Linux support. (#535) [dermotbradley]
 - Detect kernel version before swap file creation (#428) [Eduardo Otubo]
 - cli: add devel make-mime subcommand (#518)
 - user-data: only verify mime-types for TYPE_NEEDED and x-shellscript
   (#511) (LP: #1888822)
 - DataSourceOracle: retry twice (and document why we retry at all) (#536)
 - Refactor Azure report ready code (#468) [Johnson Shi]
 - tox.ini: pin correct version of httpretty in xenial{,-dev} envs (#531)
 - Support Oracle IMDSv2 API (#528) [James Falcon]
 - .travis.yml: run a doc build during CI (#534)
 - doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ovf.rst: fix doc8 errors (#533)
 - Fix 'Users and Groups' configuration documentation (#530) [sshedi]
 - cloudinit.distros: update docstrings of add_user and create_user (#527)
 - Fix headers for device types in network v2 docs (#532)
   [Caleb Xavier Berger]
 - Add AlexBaranowski as contributor (#508) [Aleksander Baranowski]
 - DataSourceOracle: refactor to use only OPC v1 endpoint (#493)
 - .github/workflows/stale.yml: s/Josh/Rick/ (#526)
 - Fix a typo in apt pipelining module (#525) [Xiao Liang]
 - test_util: parametrize devlist tests (#523) [James Falcon]
 - Recognize LABEL_FATBOOT labels (#513) [James Falcon] (LP: #1841466)
 - Handle additional identifier for SLES For HPC (#520) [Robert Schweikert]
 - Revert "test-requirements.txt: pin pytest to <6 (#512)" (#515)
 - test-requirements.txt: pin pytest to <6 (#512)
 - Add "tsanghan" as contributor (#504) [tsanghan]
 - fix brpm building (LP: #1886107)
 - Adding eandersson as a contributor (#502) [Erik Olof Gunnar Andersson]
 - azure: disable bouncing hostname when setting hostname fails (#494)
   [Anh Vo]
 - VMware: Support parsing DEFAULT-RUN-POST-CUST-SCRIPT (#441)
   [xiaofengw-vmware]
 - DataSourceAzure: Use ValueError when JSONDecodeError is not available
   (#490) [Anh Vo]
 - cc_ca_certs.py: fix blank line problem when removing CAs and adding
   new one (#483) [dermotbradley]
 - freebsd: py37-serial is now py37-pyserial (#492) [Gonéri Le Bouder]
 - ssh exit with non-zero status on disabled user (#472)
   [Eduardo Otubo] (LP: #1170059)
 - cloudinit: remove global disable of pylint W0107 and fix errors (#489)
 - networking: refactor wait_for_physdevs from cloudinit.net (#466)
   (LP: #1884626)
 - HACKING.rst: add pytest.param pytest gotcha (#481)
 - cloudinit: remove global disable of pylint W0105 and fix errors (#480)
 - Fix two minor warnings (#475)
 - test_data: fix faulty patch (#476)
 - cc_mounts: handle missing fstab (#484) (LP: #1886531)
 - LXD cloud_tests: support more lxd image formats (#482) [Paride Legovini]
 - Add update_etc_hosts as default module on *BSD (#479) [Adam Dobrawy]
 - cloudinit: fix tip-pylint failures and bump pinned pylint version (#478)
 - Added BirknerAlex as contributor and sorted the file (#477)
   [Alexander Birkner]
 - Update list of types of modules in cli.rst [saurabhvartak1982]
 - tests: use markers to configure disable_subp_usage (#473)
 - Add mention of vendor-data to no-cloud format documentation (#470)
   [Landon Kirk]
 - Fix broken link to OpenStack metadata service docs (#467)
   [Matt Riedemann]
 - Disable ec2 mirror for non aws instances (#390)
   [lucasmoura] (LP: #1456277)
 - cloud_tests: don't pass --python-version to read-dependencies (#465)
 - networking: refactor is_physical from cloudinit.net (#457) (LP: #1884619)
 - Enable use of the caplog fixture in pytest tests, and add a
   cc_final_message test using it (#461)
 - RbxCloud: Add support for FreeBSD (#464) [Adam Dobrawy]
 - Add schema for cc_chef module (#375) [lucasmoura] (LP: #1858888)
 - test_util: add (partial) testing for util.mount_cb (#463)
 - .travis.yml: revert to installing ubuntu-dev-tools (#460)
 - HACKING.rst: add details of net refactor tracking (#456)
 - .travis.yml: rationalise installation of dependencies in host (#449)
 - Add dermotbradley as contributor. (#458) [dermotbradley]
 - net/networking: remove unused functions/methods (#453)
 - distros.networking: initial implementation of layout (#391)
 - cloud-init.service.tmpl: use "rhel" instead of "redhat" (#452)
 - Change from redhat to rhel in systemd generator tmpl (#450)
   [Eduardo Otubo]
 - Hetzner: support reading user-data that is base64 encoded. (#448)
   [Scott Moser] (LP: #1884071)
 - HACKING.rst: add strpath gotcha to testing gotchas section (#446)
 - cc_final_message: don't create directories when writing boot-finished
   (#445) (LP: #1883903)
 - .travis.yml: only store new schroot if something has changed (#440)
 - util: add ensure_dir_exists parameter to write_file (#443)
 - printing the error stream of the dhclient process before killing it
   (#369) [Moustafa Moustafa]
 - Fix link to the MAAS documentation (#442)
   [Paride Legovini] (LP: #1883666)
 - RPM build: disable the dynamic mirror URLs when using a proxy (#437)
   [Paride Legovini]
 - util: rename write_file's copy_mode parameter to preserve_mode (#439)
 - .travis.yml: use $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR for lxd_image caching (#438)
 - cli.rst: alphabetise devel subcommands and add net-convert to list (#430)
 - Default to UTF-8 in /var/log/cloud-init.log (#427) [James Falcon]
 - travis: cache the chroot we use for package builds (#429)
 - test: fix all flake8 E126 errors (#425) [Joshua Powers]
 - Fixes KeyError for bridge with no "parameters:" setting (#423)
   [Brian Candler] (LP: #1879673)
 - When tools.conf does not exist, running cmd "vmware-toolbox-cmd
   config get deployPkg enable-custom-scripts", the return code will
   be EX_UNAVAILABLE(69), on this condition, it should not take it as
   error. (#413) [chengcheng-chcheng]
 - Document CloudStack data-server well-known hostname (#399) [Gregor Riepl]
 - test: move conftest.py to top-level, to cover tests/ also (#414)
 - Replace cc_chef is_installed with use of subp.is_exe. (#421)
   [Scott Moser]
 - Move runparts to subp. (#420) [Scott Moser]
 - Move subp into its own module. (#416) [Scott Moser]
 - readme: point at travis-ci.com (#417) [Joshua Powers]
 - New feature flag functionality and fix includes failing silently (#367)
   [James Falcon] (LP: #1734939)
 - Enhance poll imds logging (#365) [Moustafa Moustafa]
 - test: fix all flake8 E121 and E123 errors (#404) [Joshua Powers]
 - test: fix all flake8 E241 (#403) [Joshua Powers]
 - test: ignore flake8 E402 errors in main.py (#402) [Joshua Powers]
 - cc_grub_dpkg: determine idevs in more robust manner with grub-probe
   (#358) [Matthew Ruffell] (LP: #1877491)
 - test: fix all flake8 E741 errors (#401) [Joshua Powers]
 - tests: add groovy integration tests for ubuntu (#400)
 - Enable chef_license support for chef infra client (#389) [Bipin Bachhao]
 - testing: use flake8 again (#392) [Joshua Powers]
 - enable Puppet, Chef mcollective in default config (#385)
   [Mina Galić (deprecated: Igor Galić)] (LP: #1880279)
 - HACKING.rst: introduce .net -> Networking refactor section (#384)
 - Travis: do not install python3-contextlib2 (dropped dependency) (#388)
   [Paride Legovini]
 - HACKING: mention that .github-cla-signers is alpha-sorted (#380)
 - Add bipinbachhao as contributor (#379) [Bipin Bachhao]
 - cc_snap: validate that assertions property values are strings (#370)
 - conftest: implement partial disable_subp_usage (#371)
 - test_resolv_conf: refresh stale comment (#374)
 - cc_snap: apply validation to snap.commands properties (#364)
 - make finding libc platform independent (#366)
   [Mina Galić (deprecated: Igor Galić)]
 - doc/rtd/topics/faq: Updates LXD docs links to current site (#368) [TomP]
 - templater: drop Jinja Python 2 compatibility shim (#353)
 - cloudinit: minor pylint fixes (#360)
 - cloudinit: remove unneeded __future__ imports (#362)
 - migrating momousta lp user to Moustafa-Moustafa GitHub user (#361)
   [Moustafa Moustafa]
 - cloud_tests: emit dots on Travis while fetching images (#347)
 - Add schema to apt configure config (#357) [lucasmoura] (LP: #1858884)
 - conftest: add docs and tests regarding CiTestCase's subp functionality
   (#343)
 - analyze/dump: refactor shared string into variable (#350)
 - doc: update boot.rst with correct timing of runcmd (#351)
 - HACKING.rst: change contact info to Rick Harding (#359) [lucasmoura]
 - HACKING.rst: guide people to add themselves to the CLA file (#349)
 - HACKING.rst: more unit testing documentation (#354)
 - .travis.yml: don't run lintian during integration test package builds
   (#352)
 - Add test to ensure docs examples are valid cloud-init configs (#355)
   [James Falcon] (LP: #1876414)
 - make suse and sles support 127.0.1.1 (#336) [chengcheng-chcheng]
 - Create tests to validate schema examples (#348)
   [lucasmoura] (LP: #1876412)
 - analyze/dump: add support for Amazon Linux 2 log lines (#346)
   (LP: #1876323)
 - bsd: upgrade support (#305) [Gonéri Le Bouder]
 - Add lucasmoura as contributor (#345) [lucasmoura]
 - Add "therealfalcon" as contributor (#344) [James Falcon]
 - Adapt the package building scripts to use Python 3 (#231)
   [Paride Legovini]
 - DataSourceEc2: use metadata's NIC ordering to determine route-metrics
   (#342) (LP: #1876312)
 - .travis.yml: introduce caching (#329)
 - cc_locale: introduce schema (#335)
 - doc/rtd/conf.py: bump copyright year to 2020 (#341)
 - yum_add_repo: Add Centos to the supported distro list (#340)

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 20.3. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3774