EC2Launch v2 version histories

Adjusted error handling to fail on critical setup issues before sysprep.

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.

Wallpaper and hostname tasks changed to get private IP from IMDS first, then fail back to WMI if IMDS is disabled.

Fixed an issue with the initializeVolume task where sc1 volumes failed to initialize due to a transient error.

Fixed an issue that prevented exit codes from being captured by executeScript tasks that were run as the Windows Administrator user.

Restricted Telemetry.log permissions to read-execute only for standard users.

Configured the EC2Launch Windows service to restart on start-up failure.

Made add-routes failures actionable by logging route.exe stderr output.

Fixed an issue that occurs when route metrics are outside of the range [1, 9999].

Added wallpaper support to several new instance types.

Fixed an issue caused by user data scripts that run as the Windows Administrator user and send output to stderr.

Updated the ebsnvme-id.exe tool to version 1.1.0.7.

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.

Removed telemetry event that reports on XML userdata commands that block the agent.

Updated setDnsSuffix task to limit domain name devolution based on registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters\DomainNameDevolutionLevel.

Added a public task and CLI that adds network routes.

Note – This is the last version to officially support Windows Server 2012.

Note – This is the last version to officially support 32-bit operating systems.

Changed the way that the launch agent handles errors when you modify log file permissions.

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.

Deprecated the —block flag of the EC2Launch.exe reset and sysprep commands.

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.

Updated XML userdata scripts to run inline by default.

Enable XML userdata scripts to run detached with the new detach tag. For more details, see User data scripts.

Made the following changes to the agent log.

Made the following changes to the console log.

Added additional error handling and log lines when adding network routes.

Allowed executeScript and executeProgram tasks in the PreReady stage.

Updated executeProgram task to generate output files similar to the output from the executeScript task. For more information, see executeProgram.

Added telemetry to monitor usage of blocking agent commands in XML user data.

Improved visibility into crashes by logging crash call stacks in clear text.

Added the EventLog service as a startup dependency to fix a crash when the Amazon EC2Launch service starts up faster than the EventLog service.

Made XML user data run before PostReady stage from the agent config file (like EC2Launch v1 and EC2Config).

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).

Adds an optional feature to display instance tags on wallpaper. For more information, see setWallpaper .

Adds error handling when the security group for Elastic Graphics is not properly set up.

Fixes a timeout when the Instance Metadata Service is not enabled.

Fixes an issue where a 404 error is printed to the wallpaper when no public IPv4 address is assigned.

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.

Fixes an issue where NVMe SSD volumes are incorrectly identified as EBS volumes.

Fixes an error when activating Windows when IMDS is disabled.

Fixes an issue where the setWallpaper: privateIpAddress field is blank when IMDS is disabled.

Fixes an issue with setting the hostname to the private IPv4 address when IMDS is disabled.

Fixes an issue with initializing volumes on Windows Server 2012.

Fixes an issue with setting jumbo frames.

Fixes an error when no SSH key is specified at instance launch.

Fixes an error on Windows Server 2012 when Windows does not have a 'ReleaseId' registry key.

Fixes logic for finding network adapter when PnPDeviceID is empty.

Uses PCI segment information to select the console port.

Adds retry logic to get RDP information.

Fixes errors during volume initialization on d2.8xlarge instances.

Fixes issue where an incorrect network adapter can be selected after a reboot.

Removes false alarm error message when ACPI SPCR is unavailable.

Updates IMDS wait logic to make only IMDSv2 requests.

Adds logic to assign drive letter to volumes that are already initialized but not mounted.

Prints a more specific error message when key pair type is not supported.

Fixes 3010 reboot code bug.

Adds check for invalid base64-encoded user data.

Fixes typo in log output when executing scripts.

Telemetry uploads the enabled/disabled privacy control.

Fixes index out of bounds bug.

Removes wallpaper shortcuts during sysprep.

Adds logic to uninstall legacy agents during EC2Launch v2 installation.

Fixes list-volume CLI issue when root volume is not listed as volume 0.

Fixes bug to correctly report stage status.

Removes false alarm error messages when log files are closed.

Adds telemetry.

Adds leading zeros for hex IP hostname.

Fixes file permissions for enableOpenSsh task.

Fixes sysprep command crash.

Fixes bug in network stage to wait for DHCP to assign an IP to the instance.

Fixes bug with setDnsSuffix when SearchList registry key does not exist.

Fixes bug in DNS devolution logic in setDnsSuffix.

Adds network routes after intermediate reboots.

Allows initializeVolume to re-letter existing volumes.

Removes extra information from version subcommand.

Adds option to run user scripts in a detached process.

Legacy userdata (XML userdata) now runs in a detached process, which is similar behavior to the prior launch agent.

Adds CLI flag to the sysprep and reset commands, which allows them to block until the service stops.

Restricts the config folder permissions.

Adds optional hostName field to setHostName task.

Fixes reboot bug. Reboot tasks executeScript and executeProgram will be marked as running.

Adds more return codes to the status command.

Adds bootstrap service to fix startup issue when running on t2.nano instance type.

Fixes clean installation mode to remove files not tracked by installer.

Fixes validate command to detect invalid stage name.

Adds w32tm resync command in addroutes task.

Fixes issue with changing DNS suffix search order.

Adds check conditions to better report invalid user data.

Fixes issue with RootExtend on non-English AMIs.

Grants users group write permission to log files.

Creates MS Reserved partition for GPT volumes.

Adds list-volumes command and volume dropdown in Amazon EC2Launch settings.

Adds get-agent-config command for printing agent-config.yml file in yaml or json format.

Erases static password if no public key detected.

Adds option to display OS version on wallpaper.

Initializes encrypted EBS volumes.

Adds routes for VPCs with no local DNS name.

Creates DNS suffix search list if it does not exist.

Skips Hibernation if not requested.

Update migration tool with the latest version of the EC2Launch v2 agent: 2.0.1815.

Update migration tool with the latest version of the EC2Launch v2 agent: 2.0.1739.

Update migration tool with the latest version of the EC2Launch v2 agent: 2.0.1702.

Update migration tool with the latest version of the EC2Launch v2 agent: 2.0.1643

Fix an error that occurs when running .Install.ps1 -DryRun.

Fix an issue where password configuration is incorrectly set to random during migration from EC2Config.

Fix an error that occurs if setWallpaper is set to False during migration from EC2Launch.

Validates Region value retrieved from instance metadata.

Fixes migration failure bug in language packs.

Increments the version number of the EC2Launch v2 agent to 2.0.863.

Moves logic to remove legacy agents to the EC2Launch v2 MSI.

Increments the version number of the EC2Launch v2 agent to 2.0.698.

Installs EC2Launch v2 if no agents are installed.

Increments the version number of the EC2Launch v2 agent to 2.0.104.

Decouples the SSM agent.