From oalbrigt at redhat.com  Mon Jan  5 10:46:44 2026
From: oalbrigt at redhat.com (Oyvind Albrigtsen)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:46:44 +0100
Subject: [ClusterLabs Developers] fence-agents v4.17.0
Message-ID: <aVuSw7SprsdBrb8y@redhat.com>

ClusterLabs is happy to announce fence-agents v4.17.0.

The source code is available at:
https://github.com/ClusterLabs/fence-agents/releases/tag/v4.17.0

The most significant enhancements in this release are:
- new fence agents:
  - fence_aws_vpc_net
  - fence_hetzner_cloud
  - fence_shelly_gen2

- bugfixes and enhancements:
  - build: add support for rust coreutils
  - build: remove discards const qualifier warnings
  - spec: dont Require python3-msrestazure on RHEL10+
  - fence_aws: add new skip_os_shutdown parameter (#632)
  - fence_azure_arm: fix managed identity authentication (#605)
  - fence_azure_arm: use azure-identity instead of msrestazure, which has been deprecated (#603)
  - fence_compute/fence_evacuate: dont use deprecated inspect.getargspec()
  - fence_gce: fix node list limit (#640)
  - fence_ibm_powervs: fix plaintext token file support
  - fence_ibm_powervs: update description of api-type parameter to show correct default value
  - fence_ibm_vpc: add apikey file support
  - fence_ibm_vpc: fix missing statuses
  - fence_ibm_vpc: refresh bearer-token in connect() if token data is corrupt, and avoid edge-case
    of writing empty token file
  - fence_kubevirt: add fallback to kubernetes.client.rest to avoid errors with some versions of
    the kubernetes library
  - fence_kubevirt: set grace_period_seconds=0 to immediately power off the node
  - fence_nutanix_ahv: handle API rate limits (#604)
  - fence_nutanix_ahv: fix incorrect agent name in longdesc
  - fence_raritan_px3: fix syntax warnings
  - fence_sbd: add crashdump parameter
  - fence_sbd: get devices from SBD_DEVICE env variable if devices parameter isnt set (#591)
  - fence_virt: fix build with libxml 2.14
  - fence_virt: print error messages to sderr
  - fence_virtd: fix linkage of server modules (#624)

The full list of changes for fence-agents is available at:
https://github.com/ClusterLabs/fence-agents/compare/v4.16.0...v4.17.0

Everyone is encouraged to download and test the new release.
We do many regression tests and simulations, but we can't cover all
possible use cases, so your feedback is important and appreciated.

Many thanks to all the contributors to this release.


Best,
The fence-agents maintainers