[Marked as a pre-release while it is deployed to production; will become latest when the deployment completes]

Features:

• #3221 Add support for nftables (+ refactoring of firewall code)
• #3239 Create walinuxagent nftable atomically

Features in progress (Verify extension signature/Policy Enforcement)

• #3200 Parse encodedSignature property from EGS
• #3187 Add Regorus policy engine framework
• #3222 Remove Regorus and platform check for policy enforcement

Bug Fixes:

• #3242 Telemetry (update logcollector telemetry with common properties)
• #3208 Handle non-boolean when parsing extension manifests
• #3211 Fix unicode type check when parsing extension manifests

Improvements:

• #3133 Telemetry: high-priority events
• #3240 Telemetry: report apparent dead code
• #3210 Cleanup: remove AMA extension services cgroups tracking code
• #3197 Accommodate the new behavior in OpenSSL 3.2.2 when given an empty input

Tests:

• #3238 Fix test timing issue + minor code cleanup
• #3237 Skip expected error message in AgentNotProvisioned test
• #3227 Add Azure Linux 3 FIPS image to daily tests
• #3228 Log collector scenario should not pick up runs before service restart
• #3220 Bug fix: retry_if_false takes callable
• #3206 Improve ext_sequencing failed deployment regex
• #3205 Fix SendTelemetryHandler protocol error regex in check agent log
• #3199 Minor fixes in e2e tests ext_cgroups, agent_update and agent_publish

Deployment schedule

NOTE:* This release was deployed only to the Canary regions, and then continued as release 2.13.1.0, with additional changes.