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Release Notes

Upcoming Ignition 2.21.0 (unreleased)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 41 key.

Breaking changes

Features

Changes

Bug fixes

Ignition 2.20.0 (2024-10-22)

Features

• Support partitioning disk with mounted partitions
• Support Proxmox VE
• Support gzipped Akamai user_data

Changes

• The Dracut module now installs partx
• Mark the 3.5.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 3.5.0-experimental
• Create new 3.6.0-experimental config spec from 3.5.0

Bug fixes

• Fix network race when phoning home on Equinix Metal
• Fix Akamai Ignition base64 decoding on padded payloads
• Fix Makefile GOARCH for loongarch64 (#1942)
• Don't log to journal if not available

Ignition 2.19.0 (2024-06-05)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 40 key.

Features

• Support Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)
• Support LUKS encryption using IBM CEX secure keys

Ignition 2.18.0 (2024-03-01)

Breaking changes

• Only include dracut module in initramfs if requested (see distributor notes for details)

Features

• Support Scaleway

Changes

• Require Go 1.20+

Bug fixes

• Fix failure when config only disables units already disabled
• Retry HTTP requests on Azure on status codes 404, 410, and 429

Ignition 2.17.0 (2023-11-20)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 39 key.

Features

• Support the native Apple Hypervisor
• Support Hetzner Cloud
• A GRUB configuration suitable for use with https://github.com/coreos/bootupd can now be installed; use make install-grub-for-bootupd to install it

Changes

• Require Go 1.19+

Bug fixes

• Prevent races with udev after disk editing
• Don't fail to wipe partition table if it's corrupted

Ignition 2.16.2 (2023-07-12)

Bug fixes

• Fix Dracut module installation on arches other than x86 and aarch64

Ignition 2.16.1 (2023-07-10)

Bug fixes

• Fix build on 32-bit systems

Ignition 2.16.0 (2023-06-29)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 38 key.

Features

• Support Hyper-V platform
• Automatically generate spec docs

Changes

• Clarify spec terminology for contents of CA bundles, files, and key files
• Improve rendering of spec docs on docs site

Bug fixes

• Fix failure disabling nonexistent unit with systemd ≥ 252
• Don't relabel a mount point that already exists
• Document that hash fields describe decompressed data
• Clarify documentation of passwordHash fields
• Correctly document Tang advertisement field as optional

Test changes

• Support and require xfsprogs ≥ 5.19 in blackbox tests

Ignition 2.15.0 (2023-02-21)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 37 key.

Features

• Support offline Tang provisioning via pre-shared advertisement (3.4.0)
• Allow enabling discard passthrough on LUKS devices (3.4.0)
• Allow specifying arbitrary LUKS open options (3.4.0)
• Ship aarch64 macOS ignition-validate binary in GitHub release artifacts

Changes

• Mark the 3.4.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 3.4.0-experimental
• Create new 3.5.0-experimental config spec from 3.4.0
• Fail if files/links/dirs conflict with systemd units or dropins
• Warn if template for enabled systemd instance unit has no Install section
• Warn if filesystem overwrites partitioned disk
• Warn if wipeTable overwrites a filesystem that would otherwise be reused
• Warn if user/group specified for hard link
• Install ignition-apply in /usr/libexec
• Allow distros to add Ignition command-line arguments from a unit drop-in
• Convert NEWS to Markdown and move to docs site
• Require Go 1.18+

Bug fixes

• Don't overwrite LUKS1 volume when storage.luks.wipeVolume is false
• Request network when custom Clevis config has needsNetwork set
• Fix creating LUKS volume with custom Clevis config that uses TPM2
• Avoid logging spurious error when a LUKS volume wasn't previously formatted
• Fix version string in ignition-validate release container
• Fix reproducibility of systemd preset file in ignition-apply output
• Document that user/group fields aren't applied to hard links
• Clarify spec docs for files/directories/links group fields

Ignition 2.14.0 (12-May-2022)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 36 key.

Features

• Support KubeVirt platform
• Support AWS arn: URLs for S3 objects and access points (3.4.0-exp)
• Support reading configs from Azure IMDS "user data"
• Support S3 fetch via IPv6
• Add ignition-apply entrypoint to apply an Ignition config in a container

Changes

• Delete userdata after provisioning on VirtualBox and VMware by default (see operator notes for details) (GHSA-hj57-j5cw-2mwp, CVE-2022-1706)
• Support setting setuid/setgid/sticky mode bits (3.4.0-exp)
• Warn if setuid/setgid/sticky mode bits specified (3.0.0 - 3.3.0)
• Support UEFI Secure Boot on VMware
• Add arm64 support to ignition-validate container
• Document S3 fetch semantics in operator notes
• Document considerations for handling secrets in operator notes

Bug fixes

• Fix disabling systemd units with pre-existing enablement symlinks
• Fix reuse of statically keyed LUKS volumes (2.12.0 regression)
• Fix gs:// fetch in GCE instances configured without a service account
• Fix error reading VirtualBox guest properties that have flags
• Fix infinite loop if -root command-line argument is a relative path

Ignition 2.13.0 (30-Nov-2021)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 35 key.

Features

• Add Nutanix provider
• Switch VirtualBox provider to read from /Ignition/Config guest property

Changes

• Improve QEMU fw_cfg read performance
• Warn when QEMU fw_cfg config is too large for reasonable performance
• Move Ignition report to /etc/.ignition-result.json
• Improve resilience to filesystem unmount failures
• Run mkfs.fat instead of its alias mkfs.vfat
• Refresh supported platform documentation

Bug fixes

• Make ignition.version required in JSON schema (3.4.0-exp)
• Disallow null noProxy array entries in JSON schema (3.4.0-exp)

Ignition 2.12.0 (05-Aug-2021)

Features

• Support Azure generation 2 VMs
• Write info about Ignition’s execution to /var/lib/ignition/result.json

Changes

• Access GCP metadata service by IP address to mitigate DNS poisoning attacks
• Document storage.luks.clevis.threshold default
• Document minimum Ignition release for each spec version

Bug fixes

• Fix permissions of mountpoints inside user home directories
• Apply SELinux labels to newly-created ext4 filesystems

Internal changes

• Drop ignition-setup-user.service and ignition-firstboot-complete.service in favor of distro-provided code
• Persist some state between Ignition stages using a file in /run
• Add command-line flag specifying path to neednet flag file
• Drop -clear-cache command-line flag
• Fix reboot race in example kargs helper
• Drop support for Go 1.13 and 1.14

Ignition 2.11.0 (25-Jun-2021)

Breaking changes

• Convert ClevisCustom.Config, ClevisCustom.Pin, LinkEmbedded1.Target, and Raid.Level Go fields to pointers (3.3.0)

Features

• Accept none in storage.filesystems.format (3.3.0)
• Add ParseCompatibleVersion() Go functions to parse any config up to the selected version
• Add powervs platform

Changes

• Mark the 3.3.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 3.3.0-experimental
• Create new 3.4.0-experimental config spec from 3.3.0
• Report specific reason an existing LUKS device cannot be reused
• Validate that storage.raid.devices is non-empty
• Don't sequence ignition-setup-user.service before multipathd.service

Bug fixes

• Fix misleading error message if spares are requested for a RAID level that doesn't support them

Ignition 2.10.1 (29-Apr-2021)

Bug fixes

• Fix file mode of ignition-kargs-helper script

Ignition 2.10.0 (29-Apr-2021)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 34 key.

Breaking changes

• Rename Custom struct to ClevisCustom (3.3.0-exp)
• Embed Clevis and ClevisCustom structs in parents (3.3.0-exp)
• Always include interior nodes in merge transcript

Features

• Add kernel argument support (3.3.0-exp)

Bug fixes

• Fix fetching userdata on AWS when IMDSv1 is disabled
• Fix creating Tang-based LUKS volumes before network is up
• Document storage.filesystems.wipeFilesystem default

Ignition 2.9.0 (08-Jan-2021)

Changes

• Require storage.filesystems.format if wipeFilesystem or mountOptions is specified
• Refactor code to address golangci-lint warnings

Bug fixes

• Fix fetching configs from S3 resources when running on non-default AWS partitions
• Fix fetching userdata from IMDSv2 on AWS
• Fix crash on partitions with no number or label
• Correctly document storage.filesystems.path as optional
• Clarify documented semantics of systemd.units.name

Ignition 2.8.1 (02-Dec-2020)

Bug fixes

• Correctly merge config fields behind a struct pointer (e.g. clevis)

Ignition 2.8.0 (25-Nov-2020)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 33 key.

Features

• Support unmasking systemd units

Changes

• Switch system base config from single file to .d directory
• Add Go merge API that produces a transcript of merge operations

Ignition 2.7.0 (13-Oct-2020)

Features

• Support resizing existing partitions (3.2.0)
• Support reusing LUKS devices not bound to Clevis (3.2.0)

Changes

• Mark the 3.2.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 3.2.0-experimental
• Create new 3.3.0-experimental config spec from 3.2.0
• Require presence of a config source on CloudStack/OpenStack, and wait indefinitely for it to appear
• When executing in non-default AWS partitions (GovCloud or AWS China), fetch s3:// resources from the same partition

Bug fixes

• Fix bundled library unconditionally blocking for entropy at startup
• Fix config fetching on AzureStack
• Fix partition offset/length calculation on big-endian systems
• Fix premature logging of successful config fetch

Ignition 2.6.0 (07-Aug-2020)

Features

• Add release tag to ignition-validate container for latest release
• Support creating ephemeral LUKS volumes (3.2.0-exp)
• Support deleting users/groups (3.2.0-exp)

Bug fixes

• Request network when needed on CloudStack/OpenStack

Ignition 2.5.0 (23-Jul-2020)

Changes

• Merge ignition-dracut into the Ignition repository

Bug fixes

• Fix udev race determining filesystem type when creating filesystem

Ignition 2.4.1 (16-Jul-2020)

Changes

• Set LUKS key file directory to mode 700

Bug fixes

• Fix nondeterministic config provider precedence causing fetch failures
• Don't relabel symlink to home directory, since it might not be writable
• Fix failure looking up users/groups

Ignition 2.4.0 (13-Jul-2020)

Features

• Support creating LUKS volumes with Clevis or static key file (3.2.0-exp)
• Support Google Cloud Storage (gs://) resource URLs
• Support AWS IMDSv2
• Allow specifying multiple CA certificates in one resource
• Add Azure Stack platform
• Allow OS to avoid starting network if the config doesn't need it

Changes

• When creating a filesystem, run wipefs on target device first
• Warn if filesystem probe finds multiple filesystem signatures
• Don't warn about unset file/directory mode in config
• Fetch AWS metadata version 2019-10-01 instead of 2009-04-04
• Refactor SELinux relabeling

Bug fixes

• Fix compressed CA certificates
• Fix hard links to files deeper than the hard link
• Write empty systemd dropin if requested
• Remember to relabel /etc/systemd/system-preset
• Ensure configs are only fetched during fetch stage
• Clarify docs about interaction between file contents and overwrite

Ignition 2.3.0 (05-May-2020)

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the Fedora 32 key.

Features

• Allow specifying HTTP headers when fetching remote resources (3.1.0)
• Support compression for CA certs and merged/replaced configs (3.1.0)
• Support sha256 verification hashes (3.1.0)
• Support compression for data URIs
• Log structured journal entry when user config is found
• Log structured journal entry when SSH keys are written

Changes

• Unify CaReference, ConfigReference, FileContents structs into Resource (3.1.0)
• Mark the 3.1.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 3.1.0-experimental
• Create new 3.2.0-experimental config spec from 3.1.0

Bug fixes

• Fix ignition-validate for config versions other than 3.0.0
• Fix config fetch and status reporting on Packet

Ignition 2.2.1 (24-Mar-2020)

Bug fixes

• Fix build failure on arches other than amd64, arm64, ppc64le, or s390x

Ignition 2.2.0 (23-Mar-2020)

Features

• Add Exoscale and Vultr providers
• On QEMU/s390x and QEMU/ppc64le, fetch Ignition config from a virtio block device (experimental)

Changes

• Don't relabel /root and /home

Bug fixes

• Fix enabling systemd instantiated services
• Fail if SSH keys cannot be written
• Fix partition creation on s390x

Ignition 2.1.1 (13-Dec-2019)

Bug fixes

• Fix panics when processes Ignition starts fail

Features

• An ignition-validate container is now built and can be used instead of the ignition-validate binaries

Ignition 2.1.0 (12-Dec-2019)

Bug fixes

• Do not panic when filesystem paths are unspecified
• Specify the correct config version HTTP Accept headers when fetching configs
• Write the config cache file atomically
• Relabel symlinks for masking systemd units
• Fix bug where empty GPT labels were treated as errors
• Do not generate warnings if mode is unset for files with only an append section
• Validate HTTP(S) proxy urls in spec 3.1.0-experimental

Features

• Ignition now logs the name of the stage it is running
• Ignition now relabels files directly instead of writing systemd units to do so. Requires Linux 5.4.0+ or a patch. See operator notes for more details
• Add optional fetch stage to cache the rendered config, but not apply any of it
• Add support for aliyun cloud
• Add support for zVM hypervisor
• Add support for specifying mount options for filesystems in spec 3.1.0-experimental

Dependency changes

• Ignition no longer needs the chroot or id binaries in the initramfs

Ignition 2.0.1 (24-Jul-2019)

Bug fixes

• Fix getting AWS region when networking is slow to come up
• Validate file/directory paths correctly

Ignition 2.0.0 (03-Jun-2019)

Bug fixes

• Use /run/ignition/dev_aliases instead of /dev_aliases when creating our own symlinks to devices in /dev

Test changes

• Rename tests to use dots.with.lowercase

Public Go API changes

• Replace config/validate api with github.com/coreos/vcontext
• Validate() functions in config/* now follow the vcontext validation interface

Ignition 2.0.0-beta (26-Apr-2019)

Features

• Add configuration spec 3.1.0-experimental
• Allow specifying HTTP(S) proxies in spec 3.1.0-experimental
• Validate hard links do not link to directories
• Validate paths do not include links specified in the config

Bug fixes

• Include major version in go.mod correctly
• Fix SELinux relabeling of systemd unit files
• Update documentation for spec 3.0.0+

Changes

• Remove all deprecated fields in configuration specs
• Remove ec2 platform id in favor of aws
• Remove pxe platform as it is not a platform
• Fail if files, links, and directories conflict after symlink resolution
• Do not fail when writing directories or links if overwrite is false and a matching directory or link already exists

Ignition 2.0.0-alpha (25-Mar-2019)

NOTE: This is an alpha release. While the spec is marked as stable (i.e no "-experimental" suffix) we still reserve the right to change it until the stable 2.0.0 release. However, we do not anticipate any backwards incompatible changes aside from removing deprecated fields.

NOTE: In order to allow types from both the 2.x.y and 3.0.0 specs to be vendored and imported in the same project, we are skipping version 1.0.0. Go mod (and some other tools) treat v0.x and v1.x as the same when importing packages with semantic import versioning.

Features

• Ignition now understands config specification 3.0.0
• Configs are now merged instead of appended

Changes

• Configs with version < 3.0.0 are now rejected
• Duplicate entries are now disallowed in lists
• Removal of almost all deprecated fields

Ignition 0.30.0 (14-Dec-2018)

Features

• Parallelize filesystem creation

Changes

• Increase default config fetch timeout to 2 minutes

Test changes

• Add -list option to list blackbox tests
• Skip backward compatibility tests with -test.short

Ignition 0.29.1 (06-Dec-2018)

Bug fixes

• When writing files, directories, or links, do not follow symlinks if they are the last path element

Ignition 0.29.0 (30-Nov-2018)

Features

• Add support for ?versionId on s3:// URLs

Changes

• Mark the 2.3.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 2.3.0-experimental
• Create new 2.4.0-experimental config spec from 2.3.0

Bug fixes

• Don't allow HTTPS connections to block on system entropy pool
• Relabel /var/home and /var/roothome when SELinux is enabled
• Fix race where files were relabeled after systemd-sysctl.service
• Do not run udevadm settle after the disks stage if the disks stage did nothing
• Allow writing relative symlinks
• Resolve absolute symlinks relative to specified filesystem instead of the initramfs root
• Report status to Packet as running instead of succeeded

Test changes

• Fix race with umount when running blackbox tests

Ignition 0.28.0 (22-Aug-2018)

Features

• Refactor blackbox tests to allow testing disks with 4k sectors

Bug fixes

• Correctly detect disks with 4k sectors when scanning existing partitions
• Fix race between HTTP backoff tests
• Set the minimum config versions in tests to the actual minimum required
• Relabel /root when SELinux relabeling is enabled

Ignition 0.27.0 (09-Aug-2018)

Features

• Ignition is now built as a Position Independent Executable (PIE)
• Blackbox tests now run against all spec versions (within the same major version) greater than their minimum version
• Ignition now reports its status when running on Packet
• Add a compile-time flag to enable SELinux file relabeling after boot

Bug fixes

• Directories specified in both base and appended configs are always created with the permissions specified in the appended config
• Call chdir() after chroot() to silence static checkers

Ignition 0.26.0 (11-June-2018)

Features

• Support partition matching, specifying that a partition should not exist, and recreating existing partitions
• Fail blackbox tests when Ignition encounters critical-level logs

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue in timeout logic causing http(s) requests to sometimes fail
• Do not log non-critical errors with CRITICAL log level

Ignition 0.25.1 (22-May-2018)

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue in timeout logic causing http(s) requests to sometimes fail

Ignition 0.24.1 (22-May-2018)

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue in timeout logic causing http(s) requests to sometimes fail

Ignition 0.25.0 (17-May-2018)

Features

• Blackbox tests can now be run in parallel

Changes

• Remove Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support

Bug fixes

• No longer leave a stray file when appending to an existing file
• Fix multiple blackbox test validation errors
• Fix v1 config parsing to return ErrUnknownVersion if version is unrecognized

Ignition 0.24.0 (06-Mar-2018)

Features

• Warn when adding and enabling a systemd unit and there is no Install section in the unit contents
• Add highlights to reports generated by Validate functions on config structs

Changes

• Move a helper validation function to the config/validate package
• Move unit validation helpers to config/shared/validations
• Add common error types to config/shared/errors, refactor config/v* to use these errors

Ignition 0.23.0 (12-Mar-2018)

Changes

• Latest experimental package has been moved from config/types to config/v2_3_experimental.
• Each config package's Parse function will now transparently handle any configs of a lesser version than itself (e.g. config/v2_2 will handle a 2.0.0 config).
• Validation in config/v1 reworked to use config/validate.
• Common error types from the config package moved to config/errors.

Ignition 0.22.0 (09-Feb-2018)

Changes

• Mark the 2.2.0 config spec as stable
• No longer accept configs with version 2.2.0-experimental
• Create new 2.3.0-experimental config spec from 2.2.0

Ignition 0.21.0 (26-Jan-2018)

Features

• Add support for networkd drop-ins
• Add new program, ignition-validate, for validating Ignition configs
• Add overwrite field to files, directories, and links sections for deleting preexisting items at the node's path
• Add options field to raid section for specifying arbitrary mdadm options
• Add append field to files section for appending to preexisting files
• Add support for specifying additional certificate authorities to use when fetching objects over HTTPS

Changes

• Validate that partition labels don't contain colons, as sgdisk will silently truncate the label
• Remove -validate flag from Ignition that was introduced in 0.20.0
• Warn when the mode for a file or directory is unset
• Log retries of HTTP fetches at info loglevel so messages appear on console

Bug fixes

• Fix issue where unspecified fields in an appended config could "unset" fields specified in a config earlier in the chain
• Use timeouts specified in a config when fetching other configs referenced by it

Ignition 0.20.1 (12-Jan-2018)

Changes

• Add support for fetching S3 objects from non-default AWS partitions when running in one such partition

Ignition 0.20.0 (13-Dec-2017)

Features

• Add validate flag for validating Ignition configs without running any stages
• Add support for reading user configs from initramfs

Changes

• Move update-ssh-keys from dependency into internal library
• Move constants such as paths for invoked binaries into dedicated package to allow for easy overriding at link time
• Read base and default configs from initramfs instead of hardcoding them
• Use the golang DNS resolver instead of the default glibc DNS resolver

Ignition 0.19.0 (22-Sep-2017)

Features

• Add support for CloudStack network metadata
• Add blackbox tests for TFTP URLs
• Remove dependency on kpartx for blackbox tests

Changes

• Stop adding extra quotes around GECOS field when creating users

Bug fixes

• Fix regression in validation logic causing inaccurate line and column reporting
• Fix regression in validation logic where JSON syntax errors were not reported correctly
• Add warning if a non-existent filesystem is specified when creating links and directories
• Fix udev race causing systemd units depending on the Ignition disks stage and a device unit to fail when no filesystems are created
• Fix udev race where symlinks are deleted before Ignition can create its own copy

Ignition 0.18.0 (08-Sep-2017)

Features

• On VMWare allow guest variables to override values specified in the OVF environment
• Add partial support for CloudStack
• Add blackbox tests
• Add support for Oracle OCI provider

Changes

• Chmod pre-existing directories to match defined permissions in config
• Chown pre-existing links to match defined owner in config
• Add --homehost any arguments to mdadm raid creation to ensure consistent device name under /dev/md
• On GCE, don't bind-mount docker binary into Google Cloud SDK container
• On GCE, remove gcutil alias

Bug fixes

• Properly error out when a user or group set by name in the config cannot be resolved to an id
• Fix typo in gcloud alias preventing connection to the docker daemon in some cases
• Fix partition number validation where multiple partitions on a disk were unable to specify 0 for the next available partition number

Ignition 0.17.2 (28-Jul-2017)

Bug fixes

• Fix failure to create files/directories/links on correct filesystem
• Fix failure to force filesystem creation when legacy force flag was set
• Prevent VFAT filesystem creation from unconditionally overwriting existing filesystem
• Fix deprecation warning on enable field in OEM systemd units
• Fix failure where hard link targets would be on incorrect filesystem, causing creation to fail
• Fix incorrect filesystem UUID check when deciding whether to reuse existing filesystem, causing Ignition to fail

Ignition 0.17.1 (05-Jul-2017)

Bug fixes

• Fix failure when user data was not provided on EC2 and GCE
• Fix failure to fetch user data on packet.net

Ignition 0.17.0 (30-Jun-2017)

Features

• Add support for S3 fetching and IAM role credential use in EC2
• Add enabled flag to services to allow disabling services
• Add new vagrant-virtualbox oem

Changes

• Mark 2.1.0 as stable
• No longer accept 2.1.0-experimental configs
• Create new 2.2.0-experimental spec from 2.1.0

Bug fixes

• Mask user-configdrive.service and user-configvirtfs.service on brightbox and openstack to prevent cloudinit from running a second time
• Use value given in root flag everywhere, instead of hard coding /sysroot

Ignition 0.16.0 (16-Jun-2017)

Experimental (2.1.0-experimental)

• Fix TFTP URL validation
• Fix nil pointer dereference when uid or gid for a file is unspecified
• Add support for VFAT filesystem creation
• Fix raid device validation

Changes

• Validate length of filesystem labels
• Remove all OEM etcd v0 drop-in units
• Remove xendom0 OEM

Features

• Add support for VMware's OVF environment
• Add support for VirtualBox OEM

Ignition 0.15.0 (23-May-2017)

Experimental (2.1.0-experimental)

• Define the Ignition Config schema in a JSON Schema file. Generate golang structs from this file
• Add partition GUID to the filesystem object, create or modify the partition as appropriate
• Add support for swap filesystems
• Add support for links, both symbolic and hard
• Deprecate the user level create object, add relevant fields directly to the user object
• Add support for referencing users and groups by name when creating files, directories, and links
• Deprecate the filesystem level create object, add relevant fields directly to the filesystem object
• Add support for reusing existing filesystems, toggled via the new wipeFilesystem field in the filesystem object
• Add filesystem UUID and label to the filesystem object
• Correctly handle timeouts, instead of ignoring timeout settings in the Ignition config

Bug fixes

• Fix file path validation on Windows
• On Brightbox correctly fetch the config, instead of failing with a noop
• Fix a race with udev events which could cause filesystem creation to fail

Changes

• Modify existing users, instead of attempting to create them

Features

• Support for TFTP URLs

Ignition 0.14.0 (13-Mar-2017)

Changes

• Update the services for the Azure OEM
• Update the services for the BrightBox OEM
• Update the services for the EC2 OEM
• Update the services for the OpenStack OEM
• Update the services for the Packet OEM
• Update the services for the VMware OEM

Ignition 0.13.0 (01-Mar-2017)

Bug fixes

• Read from both the config-drive and metadata service when using the OpenStack provider
• Properly reports errors encountered while creating files
• Fix GCE gcloud alias to properly invoke the container

Features

• Add support for experimental features via a newer config spec
• Allow file provider's config path to be overridden
• Perform basic syntactic validation on the contents of systemd units

Experimental (2.1.0-experimental)

• Add ability to explicitly create directories
• Add configuration for HTTP-related timeouts

Ignition 0.12.1 (14-Dec-2016)

Bug fixes

• Enable coreos-metadata-sshkeys on Packet
• Assert validity of data URLs during config validation

Ignition 0.12.0 (29-Nov-2016)

Features

• Allow kernel command-line parameter to override OEM config

Ignition 0.11.2 (07-Oct-2016)

Bug fixes

• Correctly set the partition typecode

Changes

• Update the services for the GCE OEM

Ignition 0.11.1 (20-Sep-2016)

Bug fixes

• Fix potential deadlock when waiting for multiple disks

Ignition 0.11.0 (07-Sep-2016)

Features

• Add support for DigitalOcean
• Add experimental support for OpenStack

Ignition 0.10.1 (26-Aug-2016)

Bug fixes

• Fix handling of oem:// URLs
• Use stable symlinks when operating on devices
• Retry failed requests when fetching Packet userdata
• Log the raw configurations instead of the parsed result

Ignition 0.10.0 (23-Aug-2016)

Features

• Add support for QEMU Firmware Configuration Device

Ignition 0.9.2 (15-Aug-2016)

Bug fixes

• Do not retry HTTP requests that result in non-5xx status codes

Ignition 0.9.1 (11-Aug-2016)

Bug fixes

• Properly validate data URLs

Ignition 0.9.0 (11-Aug-2016)

Features

• Add detailed configuration validation

Bug fixes

• Add retry to all HTTP requests
• Fix potential panic when parsing certain URLs

Ignition 0.8.0 (26-Jul-2016)

Features

• Add support for Packet

Ignition 0.7.1 (13-Jul-2016)

Bug fixes

• Interpret files without a URL to be empty instead of invalid
• HTTP fetches time out while waiting for response header instead of body
• Stream remote assets to disk instead of loading them into memory

Changes

• Improve configuration validation

Ignition 0.7.0 (15-Jun-2016)

Features

• Allow HTTPS URLs

Bug fixes

• Don't overwrite existing data when formatting ext4 unless force is set
• Ensure service unit in /etc doesn't exist before masking
• Capture and log stdout of subprocesses

Changes

• Drop YAML tags from the config package

Ignition 0.6.0 (18-May-2016)

Features

• All URL schemes (currently http, oem, and data) are now supported everywhere a URL can be provided
• Add base OEM and default user configurations for GCE

Ignition 0.5.0 (04-May-2016)

Features

• Add support for GCE

Bug fixes

• Write files after users and home directories are created

Changes

• Strip support for EC2 SSH keys (these are handled by coreos-metadata now)
• Add OEM-specific base configs and execute even if user config is empty

Ignition 0.4.0 (05-Apr-2016)

Features

• Update the config spec to v2.0.0 (see the migration guide for more info)
  • v1 configs will be automatically translated to v2.0.0
• Add HTTP User-Agent and Accept headers to all requests

Changes

• Use Go's vendor directory for all dependencies
• Split source into a public config package and internal

Ignition 0.3.3 (25-Mar-2016)

Bug fixes

• Fix compilation errors when building for ARM
• Properly fetch configs from EC2

Ignition 0.3.2 (17-Mar-2016)

Bug fixes

• Properly decode VMware guest variables before parsing config

Changes

• Move config structures from config package to config/types

Ignition 0.3.1 (02-Mar-2016)

Bug fixes

• Allow building on non-AMD64 architectures

Changes

• Major refactoring of the internal processing of OEMs and providers

Ignition 0.3.0 (24-Feb-2016)

Features

• Add support for VMware

Ignition 0.2.6 (13-Jan-2016)

Features

• Improve validation of storage.filesystems options

Bug fixes

• Properly zap GPT tables when they are partially valid

Ignition 0.2.5 (06-Jan-2016)

Bug fixes

• Recognize and ignore gzipped cloud-configs

Ignition 0.2.4 (19-Nov-2015)

Bug fixes

• Correctly escape device unit names

Ignition 0.2.3 (17-Nov-2015)

Features

• Provide logging to pinpoint JSON errors in invalid configs

Bug fixes

• Ensure that /mnt/oem exists before mounting
• Remove /sysroot/ prefix from alternate config path

Ignition 0.2.2 (20-Oct-2015)

Bug fixes

• Mount the oem partition for oem:// schemes when needed

Ignition 0.2.1 (15-Oct-2015)

Bug fixes

• Allow empty CustomData on Azure

Ignition 0.2.0 (29-Sep-2015)

Features

• Added support for Azure
• Added support for formatting partitions as xfs

Bug fixes

• Removed online timeout for EC2

Ignition 0.1.6 (09-Sep-2015)

Features

• --fetchtimeout becomes --online-timeout
• --online-timeout of 0 now represents infinity
• Added recognition of interoute OEM

Documentation

• Examples have been removed and supported platforms added
• Various minor cleanups

Bug fixes

• Ensure added SSH keys are newline terminated

Build system changes

• Fix gofmt invocation from test script to fail when appropriate

Ignition 0.1.5 (28-Aug-2015)

Bug fixes

• Disable EC2 provider for now

Ignition 0.1.4 (27-Aug-2015)

Features

• Add support for oem:// scheme config urls

Documentation

• Added guides
• Updated config specification

Bug fixes

• Add DefaultDependencies=false to WaitOnDevices() transient unit
• Updated JSON configuration keys to match style

Build system changes

• Added script for tagging releases

Ignition 0.1.3 (11-Aug-2015)

Features

• Add support for ssh keys on EC2
• Log version at runtime

Bug fixes

• Log ssh keys as they are added
• Various small cleanups

Build system changes

• Derive version from git describe at build time
• Use bash build and test scripts instead of make

Ignition 0.1.2 (22-Jul-2015)

Bug fixes

• Fix validation of drop-in names
• Properly handle a lack of userdata on EC2

Ignition 0.1.1 (22-Jul-2015)

Bug fixes

• Ignore empty configs
• Ignore unsupported CoreOS OEMs
• Panic on incorrect OEM flag configurations

Ignition 0.1.0 (14-Jul-2015)

Features

• Initial release of Ignition!
• Support for disk partitioning, partition formatting, writing files, RAID, systemd units, networkd units, users, and groups.
• Supports reading the config from a remote URL (via config.coreos.url) or from the Amazon EC2 metadata service.