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The machine configuration agent receives improvements on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about:
- The latest releases
- Known issues
- Bug fixes
For information on release notes for the connected machine agent, see What's new with the connected machine agent.
Note
This article includes the release notes for the Windows extension for Azure machine configuration
(Microsoft.GuestConfiguration.ConfigurationforWindows).
To review the release notes for Linux (Microsoft.GuestConfiguration.ConfigurationforLinux),
see Azure machine configuration Windows agent release notes.
The following sections of this article detail the notes for each release of the agent. The heading for each section includes the specific version for that release and the date for the release.
Version 1.29.108.0 - April 2026
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL library from version
3.6.1to3.6.2. - Updated bundled PowerShell version from
7.4.13to7.4.14. - Improved compliance reporting for security baseline policy assignments.
Fixed
- Improved reliability of unzip during installation.
Version 1.29.106.0 - March 2026
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL library from version
3.6.0to3.6.1.
Version 1.29.104.0 - January 2026
Updated
- Updated bundled PowerShell version from
7.4.7to7.4.13. - Updated Azure Storage API version from
2019-02-02to2025-11-05.
Fixed
- Fixed support for security baseline customization on localized operating systems.
- Enhanced reliability for compliance evaluation for
ApplyAndAutoCorrectMachine Configuration policy assignments.
Version 1.29.101.0 - November 2025
New Features
- Baseline customization.
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL library from version
3.4.1to3.6.0.
Version 1.29.98.0 - July 2025
New Features
- Announcing the general availability of System Assigned Identities for Azure Machine Configuration as well as Arc Machines, enhancing security and simplifying at-scale server management by allowing private access to configuration packages in Azure Storage. For more information, see System-Assigned Identity-based Access for Machine Configuration Packages.
Fixed
- Resolved an issue where the compliance status didn't update correctly until services were restarted.
- Updated local
PATHenvironment variable to resolve service install and delete errors.
Version 1.29.92.0 - April 2025
New features
- Today our extension uses a maximum of 5% CPU. For cases where this needs to be configured, a
configuration file
cpu_config.jsoncan be written under the path,/var/opt/azcmagent/. This file should contain the following configuration:
{
"PolicyAgentCpu": 5
}
In this case the maximum CPU utilization of the service will be 5%. This can be configured per the needs of the required scenario.
Updated
- Migrated to .NET 8
- Upgraded to PowerShell
7.4.7
Version 1.29.91.0 - March 2025
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL from version
3.4.0to3.4.1.
Fixed
- Resolved an issue causing a deadlock during policy execution.
Version 1.29.86.0 - January 2025
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL from version
3.3.2to3.4.0.
Version 1.29.85.0 - October 2024
Updated
- Updated OpenSSL from version
3.3.1to3.3.2.
Fixed
- Added timeouts to address an issue that caused the agent to become unresponsive when trying to read a response from the service. If the agent takes more than 3 minutes to read a response or send a request to the service, it will now time out and continue execution.
Version 1.29.82.0 - September 2024
New Features
- Announcing the general availability of User Assigned Identities for Azure Machine Configuration, enhancing security and simplifying at-scale server management by allowing private access to configuration packages in Azure Storage. For more information, see User-Assigned Identity-based Access for Machine Configuration Packages.