February 27, 2017

Google Compute Engine

• Support >32 vCPU cores in set_multiqueue script.
• Improved error handling and support for COS.
• Improved handling retries in the metadata watcher.

January 20, 2017

Google Config

• Fix for hostname configuration on guests with Network Manager controlled networks.

Other

• Support for building Debian Stretch packages.

December 12, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• Improved alias IP support.

November 18, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• Add support for alias IPs in the IP forwarding daemon.
• IP forwarding daemon adds back local routes after network restart.
• Account daemon removes expired key access without metadata change.
• Account daemon ignores SSH keys with non-ascii characters.
• Improved exception handling.

Google Config

• Fix for syslog startup on systemd.
• Add a route to the metadata server to /etc/hosts.

September 30, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• Provide a service to enable network interfaces on boot.
• Create a common library for inspecting network interfaces.
• Allow metadata script output that is not UTF-8.
• Fixed instance config file logic.
• Fixed accounts management Python 3 compatibility.
• Fixed IP forwarding Python 3 compatibility.
• Improved style consistency.

Google Compute Engine Init

• Run a service on boot to enable additional network interfaces.

Google Config

• Update dhclient-script on EL 6 to fix local routing.

August 03, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• Daemons default to running when config file does not exist.
• MAC address determines the ethernet interface for setting IP forwarding routes.
• Improvements to the metadata watcher for gsutil.

July 19, 2016

Google Compute Engine Init

• Fix post_install on upstart systems to prevent repeated startup script execution.
• Fix guest environment migration for EL7 based systemd systems.

July 18, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• Prevent the compute auth script from hanging indefinitely.

Google Compute Engine Init

• Run instance_setup in postinstall scripts.
• Depend on google-config package for supported packages.

July 11, 2016

Google Compute Engine

• The package no longer installs distro specific init configuration.
• Fix default shell for running metadata scripts.
• Fix logger when there are no handlers specified.
• Improved exception handling in the metadata watcher.
• Support a distro specific file location for specifying instance defaults.

Google Compute Engine Init

• A new package that contains init configuration for the Python package.

June 15, 2016

Packaging

Enable PyPI packaging for the Linux guest environment.