A new release of the Ubuntu Cloud Images for stable Ubuntu release 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is available at [1]. These new images superseded the existing images [2]. Images are available for download or immediate use on EC2 via publish AMI ids. Users who wish to update their existing installations can do so with:
   'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo reboot'.

The following packages have been updated. Please see the full changelogs
for a complete listing of changes:
 * linux-meta: 5.4.0.97.101 => 5.4.0.99.103 
 * linux-signed: 5.4.0-97.110 => 5.4.0-99.112 
 * sosreport: 4.1-1ubuntu0.20.04.3 => 4.2-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 
 * update-manager: 1:20.04.10.9 => 1:20.04.10.10 
 * vim: 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.6 => 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.7 


The following is a complete changelog for this image.
new: {'linux-headers-5.4.0-99-generic': '5.4.0-99.112', 'linux-headers-5.4.0-99': '5.4.0-99.112', 'linux-modules-5.4.0-99-generic': '5.4.0-99.112'}
removed: {'linux-headers-5.4.0-97': '5.4.0-97.110', 'linux-headers-5.4.0-97-generic': '5.4.0-97.110', 'linux-modules-5.4.0-97-generic': '5.4.0-97.110'}
changed: ['linux-headers-generic', 'linux-headers-virtual', 'linux-image-5.4.0-99-generic', 'linux-image-virtual', 'linux-virtual', 'python3-update-manager', 'sosreport', 'update-manager-core', 'vim', 'vim-common', 'vim-runtime', 'vim-tiny', 'xxd']
new snaps: {}
removed snaps: {}
changed snaps: []
==== linux-meta: 5.4.0.97.101 => 5.4.0.99.103 ====
====     linux-headers-generic linux-headers-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-virtual
  * Bump ABI 5.4.0-99
  * Bump ABI 5.4.0-98
==== linux-signed: 5.4.0-97.110 => 5.4.0-99.112 ====
====     linux-image-5.4.0-99-generic
  * Master version: 5.4.0-99.112
  * Master version: 5.4.0-98.111
==== sosreport: 4.1-1ubuntu0.20.04.3 => 4.2-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 ====
====     sosreport
  * New 4.2 upstream release. (LP: #1941745)
    - This release contains numerous improvements
      and bug fixes to several components within sos,
      including an overhaul to the project's test suite
      and infrastructure.
  * For more details, full release note is available here:
    - https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.2
  * Remaining patches:
   - d/p/0001-debian-change-tmp-dir-location.patch
  * New patches:
    - d/p/0002-report-implement_estimate-only.patch
    - d/p/0003-ceph-add-support-for-containerized-ceph-setup.patch
    - d/p/0004-ceph-split-plugin-by-components.patch
    - d/p/0005-openvswitch-get-userspace-datapath-implementations.patch
    - d/p/0006-report-check-for-symlink-before-rmtree.patch
  * Former patches, now fixed:
    - d/p/0002-clean-prevent-parsing-ubuntu-user.patch
    - d/p/0003-ubuntu-policy-fix-upload.patch
    - d/p/0004-networking-check-presence-of-devlink.patch 
  * d/control:
   - Add 'python3-coverage' as part of the build depends.
  * d/rules:
   - Fix misplaced and duplicated sos.conf file in /usr/config.
==== update-manager: 1:20.04.10.9 => 1:20.04.10.10 ====
====     python3-update-manager update-manager-core
  * ubuntu-security-status: Check if ESM for Apps is enabled or if it is not
    in beta before displaying information about the packages available from
    there. Additionally, improve pluralization in a couple of locations.
    (LP: #1955471)
==== vim: 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.6 => 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.7 ====
====     vim vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny xxd
  * No-change rebuild to fix cdimage build on riscv64

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[1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/release-20220207/
[2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/release-20220131.1/