Packer v0.2.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-08-01 // over 10 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ”‹ FEATURES:

    • ๐Ÿ†• New builder: amazon-chroot can create EBS-backed AMIs without launching a new EC2 instance. This can shave minutes off of the AMI creation process. See the docs for more info.
    • ๐Ÿ†• New provisioner: salt-masterless will provision the node using Salt without a master.
    • ๐Ÿ The vmware builder now works with Workstation 9 on Windows. [GH-222]
    • ๐Ÿง The vmware builder now works with Player 5 on Linux. [GH-190]

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ core: Colors won't be outputted on Windows unless in Cygwin.
    • builder/amazon/all: Added iam_instance_profile to launch the source image with a given IAM profile. [GH-226]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox,vmware: relative paths work properly as URL configurations. [GH-215]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox,vmware: fix race condition in deleting the output directory on Windows by retrying.