[El-errata] ELBA-2024-6970 Oracle Linux 8 cloud-init bug fix and enhancement update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2024-6970

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2024-6970.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
cloud-init-23.4-7.0.1.el8_10.8.noarch.rpm

aarch64:
cloud-init-23.4-7.0.1.el8_10.8.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//cloud-init-23.4-7.0.1.el8_10.8.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[23.4-7.0.1.el8_10.8]
- Update IPv6 IMDS endpoint to ULA and drop NIC identifier [Orabug: 35965980]
- Enable IPv6 [Orabug: 36502414]
- Added missing services in rhel/systemd/cloud-init.service [Orabug: 32183938]
- Increase retry value and add timeout for OCI [Orabug: 35329883]
- Fix log file permissions [Orabug: 35302985]
- Update detection logic for OL distros in config template [Orabug: 34845400]
- Added missing services in cloud-init.service.tmpl for sshd [Orabug: 32183938]
- Forward port applicable cloud-init 18.4-2.0.3 changes to cloud-init-18-5 [Orabug: 30435672]
- limit permissions [Orabug: 31352433]
- Changes to ignore all enslaved interfaces [Orabug: 30092148]
- Fix swap file size allocation logic to allocate maxsize [Orabug: 29952349]
- Make Oracle datasource detect dracut based config files [Orabug: 29956753]
- add modified version of enable-ec2_utils-to-stop-retrying-to-get-ec2-metadata.patch:
  1. Enable ec2_utils.py having a way to stop retrying to get ec2 metadata
  2. Apply stop retrying to get ec2 metadata to helper/openstack.py MetadataReader
  Resolves: Oracle-Bug:41660 (Bugzilla)
- added OL to list of known distros

[23.4.0.1]
- Apply OpenELA fixes

[23.4-7.el8_10.8]
- ci-fix-Add-subnet-ipv4-ipv6-to-network-schema-5191.patch [RHEL-54155]
- Resolves: RHEL-54155
  ([RHEL 8.10] cloud-init schema validation fails.)