Version 20260228.00 of the guest agent is now available for Debian 13, AlmaLinux 10, CentOS Stream 10, Oracle Linux...

Version 20260228.00 of the guest agent is now available for Debian 13, AlmaLinux 10, CentOS Stream 10, Oracle Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, and Rock Linux 10. This version introduces the following features:

• Supports bootstrapping credentials for the HTTPS endpoint for the metadata server by default. For more information about the HTTPS metadata server endpoint, see HTTPS metadata server endpoints. • Includes a cleanup job that runs once a day and each time the guest agent manager service initializes. This cleanup job ensures that leftover plugin files and states are properly cleaned up. • Supports dynamically starting locally installed extensions. This feature is disabled by default, but it can be toggled by setting the enable_local_plugins flag to true in the guest agent configuration file.