Merge pull request #208312 from rpsqrd/agent-1-21-relnotes

agent-1-21-relnotes

Author: jborsecnik

articles/azure-arc/servers/agent-release-notes-archive.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Archive for What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent
 description: The What's new release notes in the Overview section for Azure Arc-enabled servers agent contains six months of activity. Thereafter, the items are removed from the main article and put into this article.
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 07/06/2022
+ms.date: 08/17/2022
 ms.custom: references_regions
 ---
 
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ The Azure Connected Machine agent receives improvements on an ongoing basis. Thi
 - Known issues
 - Bug fixes
 
+## Version 1.16 - March 2022
+
+### Known issues
+
+- `azcmagent logs` doesn't collect Guest Configuration logs in this release. You can locate the log directories in the [agent installation details](deployment-options.md#agent-installation-details).
+
+### New features
+
+- You can now granularly control which extensions are allowed to be deployed to your server and whether or not Guest Configuration should be enabled. See [local agent controls to enable or disable capabilities](security-overview.md#local-agent-security-controls) for more information.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- The "Arc" proxy bypass keyword no longer includes Azure Active Directory endpoints on Linux. Azure Storage endpoints for extension downloads are now included with the "Arc" keyword.
+
 ## Version 1.15 - February 2022
 
 ### Known issues

articles/azure-arc/servers/agent-release-notes.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent
 description: This article has release notes for Azure Arc-enabled servers agent. For many of the summarized issues, there are links to more details.
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 07/26/2022
+ms.date: 08/17/2022
 ms.custom: references_regions
 ---
 
@@ -16,6 +16,23 @@ The Azure Connected Machine agent receives improvements on an ongoing basis. To
 
 This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly. If you're looking for items older than six months, you can find them in [archive for What's new with Azure Arc-enabled servers agent](agent-release-notes-archive.md).
 
+## Version 1.21 - August 2022
+
+### New features
+
+- `azcmagent connect` usability improvements:
+  - The `--subscription-id (-s)` parameter now accepts friendly names in addition to subscription IDs
+  - Automatic registration of any missing resource providers for first-time users (additional user permissions required to register resource providers)
+  - A progress bar now appears while the resource is being created and connected
+  - The onboarding script now supports both the yum and dnf package managers on RPM-based Linux systems
+- You can now restrict which URLs can be used to download machine configuration (formerly Azure Policy guest configuration) packages by setting the `allowedGuestConfigPkgUrls` tag on the server resource and providing a comma-separated list of URL patterns to allow.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Extension installation failures are now reported to Azure more reliably to prevent extensions from being stuck in the "creating" state
+- Metadata for Google Cloud Platform virtual machines can now be retrieved when the agent is configured to use a proxy server
+- Improved network connection retry logic and error handling
+
 ## Version 1.20 - July 2022
 
 ### Known issues
@@ -82,20 +99,6 @@ This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly. If you're looking for ite
 - `azcmagent logs` collects only the 2 most recent logs for each service to reduce ZIP file size.
 - `azcmagent logs` collects Guest Configuration logs again.
 
-## Version 1.16 - March 2022
-
-### Known issues
-
-- `azcmagent logs` doesn't collect Guest Configuration logs in this release. You can locate the log directories in the [agent installation details](deployment-options.md#agent-installation-details).
-
-### New features
-
-- You can now granularly control which extensions are allowed to be deployed to your server and whether or not Guest Configuration should be enabled. See [local agent controls to enable or disable capabilities](security-overview.md#local-agent-security-controls) for more information.
-
-### Fixed
-
-- The "Arc" proxy bypass keyword no longer includes Azure Active Directory endpoints on Linux. Azure Storage endpoints for extension downloads are now included with the "Arc" keyword.
-
 ## Next steps
 
 - Before evaluating or enabling Azure Arc-enabled servers across multiple hybrid machines, review [Connected Machine agent overview](agent-overview.md) to understand requirements, technical details about the agent, and deployment methods.