Version 20260329.00 of the guest agent is now available for all supported operating systems.

Version 20260329.00 of the guest agent is now available for all supported operating systems. This version introduces the following features:

• A new local extension, guest telemetry, is introduced, which collects important telemetry data about Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) running on a compute instance. For more information about the telemetry the guest agent collects, see System telemetry collection. • The enable_local_plugins configuration now defaults to true. • A new configuration flag connection_type is introduced to the PluginConfig section of the guest agent configuration file. This option forces a specific connection type when the guest agent connects to the extensions it is managing. Supported connection types are UDS and TCP.