** Description changed:

+ ## FFe
+ 
+ I need to request a Feature Freeze Exception to update `google-guest-
+ agent` in Stonking please
+ 
+ The changes are entirely confined to the Google Compute Engine (GCE) guest 
environment as the pkg is only installed on GCE images. Google are keen to have 
this land ASAP as it's a prerequisite to some key/high visibility product 
releases. Their preferred availability date is 16 September but we (CPC) know 
that timeline is almost definitely not going to happen (but we'll still try our 
best to land it as fast as safely possible).
+ The specific set of upstream changes was only communicated to us on 20 
August, which unfortunately left no buffer before the feature freeze
+ 
+ ## Bug
+ 
  Following on from similar package update requests @ LP: #2113792, LP:
  #2096765, LP: #2084498, LP: #2073163 and LP: #2040945, this bug is a
  request to update the google-guest-agent package to the upstream version
  `20260819.00` @ https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-
  agent/releases/tag/20260819.00 (and
  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-guest-
  agent/releases/tag/20260819.00 now as well)
  
  We are also now vendoring a new upstream plugin manager source
  (confusingly named `google-guest-agent` in github [0]) using a secondary
  orig tar. We build these plugin manager binaries from the vendored tree
  *during* the pkg build so LP doesn't need network access (which would
  fail anyway). Also now set `GOTOOLCHAIN=local` and explicit
  `GOCACHE`/`GOTMPDIR` paths in `d/rules`
  
  This package has an SRU exception @
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#google-guest-agent
  including an ageing exception detailed @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-
  guest-agent-Updates
  
  [Impact]
  
  This package is provided by Google for installation within guests that
  run on Google Compute Engine. It is part of a collection of tools and
  daemons, that ensure that the Ubuntu images published to GCE run
  properly on their platform.
  
  Cloud platforms evolve at a rate that can't be handled in six-month
  increments, and they will often develop features that they would like to
  be available to customers who don't want to upgrade from earlier Ubuntu
  releases. As such, updating this package to more recent upstream
  releases is required within all Ubuntu releases, so they continue to
  function properly in the GCP environment.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  When a new version of this package is uploaded to -proposed, the
  following will happen:
  
   * an image based on -proposed will be built for GCE and published to the 
ubuntu-os-cloud-image-proposed project
   * the CPC team will run internal validations (CTF) and Google's upstream 
test suite `cloud-image-tests` (CIT)
   * the GCE team will be asked to validate that the new package addresses the 
issues it is expected to address, and that the image passes their own internal 
image validation.
  
  If all the testing indicates that the new package is acceptable,
  verification can be considered done.
  
  [Vendored Dependencies]
  
  Below is a diff of the guest-agent repo's go.mod file (20260819.00 vs. 
20250506.01)
  ```
  diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
  index 0de55703..47cda3e3 100644
  --- a/go.mod
  +++ b/go.mod
  @@ -1,57 +1,80 @@
-  module github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent
-  
+  module github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent
+ 
  -go 1.23.0
  +go 1.26
-  
-  replace github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent/metadata => ../metadata
-  
-  require (
+ 
+  replace github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent/metadata =>
+ ../metadata
+ 
+  require (
  -     cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.31.0
  -     github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-logging-go 
v0.0.0-20250327013322-4be06cdc8bd8
  -     github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.6.1
  -     github.com/go-ini/ini v1.66.6
  -     github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20210331224755-41bb18bfe9da
  -     github.com/google/go-cmp v0.6.0
  -     github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.0
  -     github.com/google/go-tpm-tools v0.4.0
  +     cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.63.0
  +     github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-logging-go 
v0.0.0-20260611222439-02d6ddff2dfb
  +     github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.6.2
  +     github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20241129210726-2c02b8208cf8
  +     github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0
  +     github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8
  +     github.com/google/go-tpm-tools v0.4.9
-       github.com/google/tink/go v1.7.0
+   github.com/google/tink/go v1.7.0
  -     github.com/kardianos/service v1.2.2
  +     github.com/kardianos/service v1.2.4
-       github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.1
+   github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.1
  -     github.com/tarm/serial v0.0.0-20180830185346-98f6abe2eb07
  -     golang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0
  -     golang.org/x/sys v0.30.0
  -     google.golang.org/api v0.134.0
  -     google.golang.org/grpc v1.57.1
  -     google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0
  +     go.bug.st/serial v1.8.0
  +     golang.org/x/crypto v0.53.0
  +     golang.org/x/sys v0.46.0
  +     google.golang.org/api v0.286.0
  +     google.golang.org/grpc v1.82.0
  +     google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.11
  +     gopkg.in/ini.v1 v1.67.3
-       gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
+   gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
  -     software.sslmate.com/src/go-pkcs12 v0.2.1
  +     software.sslmate.com/src/go-pkcs12 v0.7.3
-  )
-  
-  require (
+  )
+ 
+  require (
  -     cloud.google.com/go v0.110.6 // indirect
  -     cloud.google.com/go/compute v1.23.0 // indirect
  -     cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.2.3 // indirect
  -     cloud.google.com/go/iam v1.1.1 // indirect
  -     cloud.google.com/go/logging v1.7.0 // indirect
  -     cloud.google.com/go/longrunning v0.5.1 // indirect
  -     github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.3 // indirect
  -     github.com/google/go-sev-guest v0.7.0 // indirect
  -     github.com/google/logger v1.1.1 // indirect
  -     github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.4 // indirect
  -     github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0 // indirect
  -     github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.2.5 // indirect
  -     github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.12.0 // indirect
  -     github.com/pborman/uuid v1.2.1 // indirect
  -     github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
  -     go.opencensus.io v0.24.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/mod v0.17.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/net v0.36.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.10.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/sync v0.11.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/text v0.22.0 // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/tools v0.21.1-0.20240508182429-e35e4ccd0d2d // indirect
  -     golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20220907171357-04be3eba64a2 // indirect
  -     google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.7 // indirect
  -     google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20230726155614-23370e0ffb3e // 
indirect
  -     google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api 
v0.0.0-20230726155614-23370e0ffb3e // indirect
  -     google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc 
v0.0.0-20230726155614-23370e0ffb3e // indirect
  +     cel.dev/expr v0.25.2 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go v0.123.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/auth v0.20.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/auth/oauth2adapt v0.2.8 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.9.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/iam v1.11.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/logging v1.18.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/longrunning v1.1.0 // indirect
  +     cloud.google.com/go/monitoring v1.29.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/confidential-space/server 
v0.0.0-20260617215616-d522e41e9e74 // indirect
  +     
github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp 
v1.33.0 // indirect
  +     
github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/exporter/metric 
v0.57.0 // indirect
  +     
github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/internal/resourcemapping
 v0.57.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/cncf/xds/go v0.0.0-20260202195803-dba9d589def2 // indirect
  +     github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/envoy v1.37.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate v1.3.3 // indirect
  +     github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.1.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4 // indirect
  +     github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.3 // indirect
  +     github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
  +     github.com/google/go-configfs-tsm v0.3.3 // indirect
  +     github.com/google/go-eventlog v0.0.3-0.20260617163629-883cc5652c69 // 
indirect
  +     github.com/google/go-sev-guest v0.15.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/google/go-tdx-guest v0.3.2-0.20250814004405-ffb0869e6f4d // 
indirect
  +     github.com/google/logger v1.1.2 // indirect
  +     github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.9 // indirect
  +     github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.3.17 // indirect
  +     github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.22.0 // indirect
  +     github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf v0.6.1-0.20240319094008-0393e58bdf10 
// indirect
  +     github.com/spiffe/go-spiffe/v2 v2.8.1 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk v1.2.1 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc 
v0.69.0 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.69.0 
// indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.44.0 // indirect
  +     go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
  +     golang.org/x/net v0.56.0 // indirect
  +     golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.36.0 // indirect
  +     golang.org/x/sync v0.21.0 // indirect
  +     golang.org/x/text v0.38.0 // indirect
  +     golang.org/x/time v0.15.0 // indirect
  +     google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20260630182238-925bb5da69e7 // 
indirect
  +     google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api 
v0.0.0-20260630182238-925bb5da69e7 // indirect
  +     google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc 
v0.0.0-20260630182238-925bb5da69e7 // indirect
-  )
+  )
  
  ```
  
  [Where Problems Could Occur]
  
  There are _a lot_ of upstream changes between `20260819.00` vs. 
`20250506.01-0ubuntu3` (55 commits, 50 file changes, not to mention the 
inclusion of the new vendored .tar.gz...)
  However between CIT [1] (which is run for validation by CPC _and_ Google) and 
CPC's own internal test harness (CTF), there is confidence that most if not all 
"edge cases" and/or obvious regressions concerns can be dismissed before the 
new version lands in `-updates`. There are also brand new test suites within 
CIT that address the functionality introduced by the new upstream code 
(`compatmanager` and `pluginmanager`). Also the package is not seeded and we 
also vendor all the golang dependencies.
  
  [Other Information]
  
  This bug is used for tracking of releasing the new upstream version for
  all supported series, as per the approved policy mentioned in the
  following MRE:
  
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-guest-agent-Updates
  
  This package is only used on AMD64 and ARM64 but is built for all
  available architectures.
  
  [0]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-guest-agent
  [1]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-image-tests

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