Cloud-init release 26.2

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Cloud-init release 26.2 is now available

The 26.2 release:

• spanned about 5 months
• had 36 contributors
• fixed 18 issues

Highlights:

• net: add route-metric support in NetworkManager renderer (net: add route-metric support in NetworkManager renderer #6886)
• feat(amazonlinux): support yum_add_repo and ca_certs. (feat: add amazon linux ca_cert and yum support #6767) [joe-usa]
• feat(azure): add apply_network_config_set_name option to disable
• feat(azure): report failure if missing customdata (feat(azure): report failure if missing customdata #6779) [Cade Jacobson]
• feat(azure): introduce experimental skip_ready_report for Azure (feat(azure): introduce experimental skip_ready_report for Azure #6771)
• feat(bsd): add OpenBSD support to Meson build (feat(bsd): add OpenBSD support to Meson build #6789)
• feat(opennebula): support global SEARCH_DOMAIN for all interfaces
• feat(opennebula): support ETHx_ROUTES static routes in network config
• feat(util): fail early when hostname is not resolvable in is_resolvable
• security: harden Jinja template rendering with sandboxing (Harden Jinja template rendering with sandboxing #6888)
• fix(mounts): escape special characters in fstab mount paths (fix(mounts): escape special characters in fstab mount paths #6911)
• fix(alpine): Use Alpine CDN as default APK mirror (fix(alpine): Use Alpine CDN as default APK mirror #6947) [Natanael Copa]
• fix(azurelinux): support Azure Linux 4.0 (fix(azurelinux): update for Azure Linux 4.0 #6874) [Dan Streetman]
• fix(cloudstack): get vr information from network manager leases (fix(cloudstack): get domain name and vr information from network manager leases #6829)
• fix(debian): update debian backports suite for bullseye ([enhancement]: Integration tests: change the cloud-init source in the actual image (not post-boot deb package installation) #6885)
• fix(debian): Fix locale generation (Fix locale generation on debian base distros #6472) [Paul] (GH: 6471)
• fix(openbsd): specify the correct usr_lib_exec path (fix(openbsd): specify the correct usr_lib_exec path (solves #5992) #6793)
• fix(oracle): detect iSCSI root via iBFT for dracut images (fix(oracle): detect iSCSI root via iBFT for dracut images #6921)
• fix(analyze): return integer exit code from analyze_boot (fix(analyze): return integer exit code from analyze_boot #6863)

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and participating in discussions.