As announced, cloud-init 20.1 was released Thursday, February 20! From the announcement, some highlights include:
- Python 2 support has been dropped
- A number of FreeBSD improvements landed
- Two (low priority) CVEs were addressed:
- utils: use SystemRandom when generating random password (CVE-2020-8631)
- cc_set_password: increase random pwlength from 9 to 20 (CVE-2020-8632)
And of course numerous bug fixes and other enhancements.
Starting with this release, the project will only support Python 3 going forward. There is a branch of 19.4 available for delivering fixes for systems still using Python 2.7. We did a similar branch for systems stuck on Python 2.6.
Version 20.1 is already available in Ubuntu Focal.
Release History Link to heading
Below is a breakdown and history of recent releases. It also shows the change in version to the year.release format:
| Release | Days | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 20.1 | 63 | 2020-02-20 |
| 19.4 | 42 | 2019-12-18 |
| 19.3 | 110 | 2019-11-05 |
| 19.2 | 67 | 2019-07-17 |
| 19.1 | 147 | 2019-05-10 |
| 18.5 | 70 | 2018-12-13 |
| 18.4 | 104 | 2018-10-03 |
| 18.3 | 83 | 2018-06-20 |
| 18.2 | 34 | 2018-03-28 |
| 18.1 | 68 | 2018-02-22 |
| 17.2 | 83 | 2017-12-14 |
| 17.1 | 271 | 2017-09-21 |
| 0.7.9 | 101 | 2016-12-23 |
| 0.7.8 | 32 | 2016-09-12 |
| 0.7.7 | - | 2016-08-10 |
Interact with cloud-init Link to heading
- Chat with us in #cloud-init on Freenode
- Join and email the cloud-init mailing list
- Checkout the HACKING document to get started on cloud-init development