Ignition 2.25.1 (2025-12-22)

Bug fixes

• Fix OpenStack provider returning empty JSON instead of empty bytes when metadata has no config

Features

• Add support for nocloud config fetching in kubevirt

Bug fixes

• Fix occasional cex.key file removal
• Fix multipath partitioning: ignore DM holders when no partitions are mounted

Features

• Support UpCloud

Changes

• Switch to aws-sdk-go-v2 for S3 fetches and EC2 interactions

Bug fixes

• Fix fetch-offline for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the
Fedora 42 key.

Features

• Support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Changes

• Rename ignition.cfg -> 05_ignition.cfg
• Support setting setuid/setgid/sticky mode bits (3.6.0-exp)
• Warn if setuid/setgid/sticky mode bits specified (3.4.0 - 3.5.0)
• Add initial TMT tests and a new workflow to execute tests on PRs

Bug fixes

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

Features

• Add Azure blob support for fetching ignition configs
• Add a check for ignition config in vendor-data (proxmoxve)

Bug fixes

• Add pkey_cca kernel module to detect CEX domain for LUKS encryption

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)

Features

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

Ignition 2.18.0

Breaking changes

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

Features

• Support Scaleway

Changes

• Require Go 1.20+

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

Bug fixes

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