May 09, 2017

google-compute-engine-windows

Rewrite of GCEAgent in Go.
Agent can be configured in project metadata, instance metadata, or a local config file.
Code added for managing of Windows Server Failover Clustering with GCE load balancer.
Standardized logging datestamp.

google-compute-engine-metadata-scripts

Rewrite of GCEMetadatsScripts in Go.
Standardized logging datestamp.

google-compute-engine-sysprep

Builtin "Administrator" account is no longer disabled during instance setup.
Instance ready message does not wait for activation to finish, activation continues in the background and prints out on completion.
Self signed RDP and WinRM certs are deleted during gcesysprep. Starting an instance with the same name post sysprep will no longer cause RDP issues.
Standardized logging datestamp.

January 17, 2017

google-compute-engine-sysprep

• Remove logic for setting @@SERVERNAME to hostname for SQL Server.
• Run activation in a background job.

November 15, 2016

Packaging

• Use GooGet to package GCE Windows components.
• Create individual packages for each component.
• Updated the README to describe Windows guest packages.

google-compute-engine-sysprep

• Set @@SERVERNAME to hostname if SQL is installed.

3.4.1.0

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Add Windows Server 2016 KMS client keys to instance_setup.
• Handle instance setup running a second time.

GCE Windows Agent

• Add support for multiple network interfaces.

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Support for sysprep-specialized-script-url key.

3.3.0.0

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Add WinRM setup.
• Cleanup deprecated functions.

Windows VSS Agent

• Add components for VSS PD snapshots.

3.2.4.0

GCE Windows Agent

• Improvements to the Windows installer.

3.2.2.0

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Fix precedence for Windows metadata scripts.

Windows Drivers

• Minor bug fixes in netkvm.sys.

3.2.1.1

Windows Drivers

• New driver signing.
• Added pvpanic driver.

3.2.1.0

GCE Windows Agent

• Added an Omaha based installer to automatically update the GCE Windows agent.
• Enabled using metadata keys to disable components in the agent.
  • Set "disable-agent-updates" to "true" in metadata to disable the auto update mechanism.
  • Set "disable-account-manager" to "true" in metadata to disable the account manager.
  • Set "disable-address-manager" to "true" to disable the address manager.
• Style refactor.

Drivers

• Network driver now supports 64 vcpus.
• Enable multiqueue in the vioscsi driver.

3.1.0.0

GCE Windows Agent

• Support disabling independent components of the agent via metadata server attributes.
• Moved shared code into a separate DLL.
• Fix for activation retry logic.
• Minor style improvements.