google-compute-engine-metadata-scripts

• Retry forever if metadata server is unavailable.
• Honor project level metadata scripts.

google-compute-engine-sysprep

• Simplify activation script and unattend.xml

google-compute-engine-windows

• Don't error on lack of config file, only run update on updated metadata
• Make DNS and Network errors more user friendly

google-compute-engine-sysprep

• Use the correct processorArchitecture for Microsoft-Windows-Deployment in unattended.xml
• Set DNS on all adapters to use DHCP in instance_setup.ps1

google-compute-engine-windows

• Use *UnicastIpAddressEntry functions for managing forwarded IPs.

google-compute-engine-auto-updater

• Add google-compute-engine-vss.

google-compute-engine-metadata-scripts

• Add a sleep in case DNS is not started at boot.
• Add additional retry logic to account for slow network startup and transient GCS errors.

google-compute-engine-powershell

• Rename many functions to better match PowerShell style, provide aliases for old names.
• Update Write-Log to include a global var of who is doing the logging.
• Delete a few unused functions.

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.

google-compute-engine-sysprep

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

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.

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.

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Add WinRM setup.
• Cleanup deprecated functions.

Windows VSS Agent

• Add components for VSS PD snapshots.

GCE Windows Agent

• Improvements to the Windows installer.

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Fix precedence for Windows metadata scripts.

Windows Drivers

• Minor bug fixes in netkvm.sys.

Windows Drivers

• New driver signing.
• Added pvpanic driver.

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.

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.

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Added support for all editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2.
• Enabled access to Windows administrator file share.

GCE Windows Agent

• Clarified agent console log messages for forwarded IP's.
• Removed reference to old authentication scheme in console log messages.

Windows Drivers

• Fixed DeviceReset bug in Windows vioscsi driver.

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Fixed hostname change logic to resolve instance name mismatch.

Windows Sysprep Scripts

• Enable Windows automatic updates.
• Added configuration options to the install sysprep script.

GCE Windows Agent

• Version bump - v 3.0.0.3
• Updated metadata request header.

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Version bump - v 3.0.0.3
• Minor changes to log messages.
• Updated metadata request header.

GCE Windows Agent

• Version bump - v 3.0.0.1
• Added retry logic for the password reset feature.

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Version bump - v 3.0.0.1
• Metadata scripts support Google Cloud Storage URLs.
• Removed support for sysprep oobe startup scripts.

GCE Windows Agent

• Initial release using a new secure authentication scheme.

GCE Metadata Scripts

• Initial release.