Version |
Details |
Release date |
2.0.2046 |
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Updated the wallpaper path in the agent-config.yml file
to use the default operating system wallpaper path.
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Added telemetry to monitor the locations where agent errors occurred.
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Updated agent log messaging.
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October 3, 2024 |
2.0.1981 |
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July 6, 2024 |
2.0.1948 |
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July 1, 2024 |
2.0.1924 |
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Updated the EC2Launch Settings UI.
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Updated the wallpaper CLI command.
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Updated the EC2Launch installer.
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June 10, 2024 |
2.0.1914 |
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Add routes with unspecified gateway addresses
(0.0.0.0 for IPv4 or :: for IPv6).
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Always add both IPv4 and IPv6 routes.
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Fixed an issue where the Administrator username was added to
the agent-config.yml file when it wasn't specified.
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Modified EC2Launch v2 permissions.
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June 5, 2024 |
2.0.1881 |
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Added an encrypted password option to setAdminAccount
task.
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Added CLI command to encrypt static password in agent-config.yml.
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Fixed an issue where XML user data doesn't add PowerShell arguments when
it runs with Administrator permissions. For more details, see
How Amazon EC2 handles user data for Windows instances.
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Adjusted PowerShell arguments for the executeScript task and
user data scripts when they run with LocalSystem permissions.
When arguments are empty, the agent uses the following default value:
-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted .
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Prevented printing duplicate driver versions to the console log.
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May 8, 2024 |
2.0.1815 |
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Adjusted error handling to fail on critical setup issues before
sysprep.
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Fixed an issue where wallpaper and hostname tasks could use an incorrect
IP address on instances with multiple IP addresses assigned to the primary
network interface.
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Wallpaper and hostname tasks changed to get private IP from IMDS first,
then fail back to WMI if IMDS is disabled.
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Fixed an issue with the initializeVolume task where
sc1 volumes failed to initialize due to a transient error.
|
March 6, 2024 |
2.0.1739 |
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January 17, 2024 |
2.0.1702 |
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Restricted Telemetry.log permissions to
read-execute only for standard users.
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Configured the EC2Launch Windows service to restart on start-up failure.
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Made add-routes failures actionable by logging
route.exe stderr output.
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Fixed an issue that occurs when route metrics are outside of the range [1, 9999].
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Added wallpaper support to several new instance types.
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Fixed an issue caused by user data scripts that run as the Windows Administrator
user and send output to stderr .
|
January 4, 2024 |
2.0.1643 |
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Updated the ebsnvme-id.exe tool to
version 1.1.0.7.
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Fixed an issue with receive side scaling (RSS) and receive queue depth
settings on metal instance types that begin with 'metal-*', such as
metal-48x1.
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Removed telemetry event that reports on XML userdata commands that
block the agent.
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Updated setDnsSuffix task to limit domain name devolution
based on registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters\DomainNameDevolutionLevel .
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Added a public task and CLI that adds network routes.
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Note – This is the last version
to officially support Windows Server 2012.
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Note – This is the last version
to officially support 32-bit operating systems.
|
October 4, 2023 |
2.0.1580 |
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Changed the way that the launch agent handles errors when you
modify log file permissions.
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Added a timeout for connecting to the serial port. The timeout allows
the launch agent to continue running if the serial port is in use.
|
September 5, 2023 |
2.0.1521 |
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Deprecated the —block flag of the
EC2Launch.exe reset and
sysprep commands.
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Updated EC2Launch.exe to detect and handle
the reset and sysprep commands
that are used in inline executeScript tasks. Those
commands cause the agent to stop running after the
executeScript task runs them.
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Updated XML userdata scripts to run inline by default.
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Enable XML userdata scripts to run detached with the new
detach tag. For more details, see
User data scripts.
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Made the following changes to the agent log.
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Updated agent log messages.
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Removed executeScript content and output from
the agent log.
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Removed executeProgram arguments and output
from the agent log.
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Made the following changes to the console log.
|
July 3, 2023 |
2.0.1303 |
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Added additional error handling and log lines when adding network routes.
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Allowed executeScript and executeProgram tasks in
the PreReady stage.
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Updated executeProgram task to generate output files similar to the
output from the executeScript task. For more information, see
executeProgram.
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Added telemetry to monitor usage of blocking agent commands in XML user data.
|
May 3, 2023 |
2.0.1245 |
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Improved visibility into crashes by logging crash call stacks in clear text.
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Added the EventLog service as a startup dependency to fix a crash when the
Amazon EC2Launch service starts up faster than the EventLog service.
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Made XML user data run before PostReady stage from the agent config file
(like EC2Launch v1 and EC2Config).
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Added YAML user data version 1.1 to make user data run before PostReady stage
from the agent config file (YAML user data version 1.0 runs after PostReady stage
from the agent config file).
|
March 8, 2023 |
2.0.1173 |
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Adds an optional feature to display instance tags on
wallpaper. For more information, see setWallpaper .
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Adds error handling when the security group for Elastic
Graphics is not properly set up.
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Fixes a timeout when the Instance Metadata Service is not
enabled.
|
February 6, 2023 |
2.0.1121 |
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Fixes an issue where a 404 error is printed to the
wallpaper when no public IPv4 address is assigned.
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Fixes an issue where the volume's file system is formatted
as RAW instead of NTFS when its
device's drive letter is set to D .
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Fixes an issue where NVMe SSD volumes are incorrectly
identified as EBS volumes.
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Fixes an error when activating Windows when IMDS is
disabled.
|
January 4, 2023 |
2.0.1082 |
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Fixes an issue where the setWallpaper : privateIpAddress
field is blank when IMDS is disabled.
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Fixes an issue with setting the hostname to the
private IPv4 address when IMDS is disabled.
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Fixes an issue with initializing volumes on Windows
Server 2012.
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Fixes an issue with setting jumbo frames.
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Fixes an error when no SSH key is specified at
instance launch.
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Fixes an error on Windows Server 2012 when Windows
does not have a 'ReleaseId' registry key.
|
December 7, 2022 |
2.0.1011 |
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November 11, 2022 |
2.0.1009 |
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November 8, 2022 |
2.0.982 |
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Adds retry logic to get RDP information.
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Fixes errors during volume initialization on
d2.8xlarge instances.
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Fixes issue where an incorrect network adapter can be
selected after a reboot.
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Removes false alarm error message when ACPI SPCR is unavailable.
|
October 31, 2022 |
2.0.863 |
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Updates IMDS wait logic to make only IMDSv2
requests.
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Adds logic to assign drive letter to volumes that are
already initialized but not mounted.
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Prints a more specific error message when key pair
type is not supported.
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Fixes 3010 reboot code bug.
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Adds check for invalid base64-encoded user
data.
|
July 6, 2022 |
2.0.698 |
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January 30, 2022 |
2.0.674 |
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Telemetry uploads the enabled/disabled privacy
control.
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Fixes index out of bounds bug.
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Removes wallpaper shortcuts during
sysprep .
|
November 15, 2021 |
2.0.651 |
|
October 7, 2021 |
2.0.592 |
|
August 31, 2021 |
2.0.548 |
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Adds leading zeros for hex IP hostname.
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Fixes file permissions for enableOpenSsh
task.
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Fixes sysprep command crash.
|
August 4, 2021 |
2.0.470 |
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Fixes bug in network stage to wait for DHCP to assign
an IP to the instance.
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Fixes bug with setDnsSuffix when
SearchList registry key does not
exist.
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Fixes bug in DNS devolution logic in
setDnsSuffix .
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Adds network routes after intermediate reboots.
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Allows initializeVolume to re-letter
existing volumes.
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Removes extra information from version
subcommand.
|
July 20, 2021 |
2.0.285 |
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Adds option to run user scripts in a detached
process.
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Legacy userdata (XML userdata) now runs in a detached
process, which is similar behavior to the prior launch
agent.
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Adds CLI flag to the sysprep and
reset commands, which allows them to
block until the service stops.
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Restricts the config folder permissions.
|
March 8, 2021 |
2.0.207 |
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Adds optional hostName field to
setHostName task.
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Fixes reboot bug. Reboot tasks
executeScript and
executeProgram will be marked as
running.
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Adds more return codes to the status command.
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Adds bootstrap service to fix startup issue when
running on t2.nano instance type.
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Fixes clean installation mode to remove files not
tracked by installer.
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February 2, 2021 |
2.0.160 |
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Fixes validate command to detect invalid
stage name.
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Adds w32tm resync command in
addroutes task.
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Fixes issue with changing DNS suffix search
order.
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Adds check conditions to better report invalid user
data.
|
December 4, 2020 |
2.0.153 |
Adds Sysprep functionality in UserData. |
November 3, 2020 |
2.0.146 |
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Fixes issue with RootExtend on non-English
AMIs.
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Grants users group write permission to log
files.
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Creates MS Reserved partition for GPT volumes.
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Adds list-volumes command and volume dropdown in
Amazon EC2Launch settings.
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Adds get-agent-config command for printing
agent-config.yml file in yaml or json format.
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Erases static password if no public key
detected.
|
October 6, 2020 |
2.0.124 |
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Adds option to display OS version on wallpaper.
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Initializes encrypted EBS volumes.
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Adds routes for VPCs with no local DNS name.
|
September 10, 2020 |
2.0.104 |
|
August 12, 2020 |
2.0.0 |
Initial release. |
June 30, 2020 |