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Packer v0.3.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-09-02 // over 10 years ago

  • 🔋 FEATURES:

    • 👉 User variables can now be specified as "required", meaning the user MUST specify a value. Just set the default value to "null". [GH-374]

    👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • core: Much improved interrupt handling. For example, interrupts now cancel much more quickly within provisioners.
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: In -debug mode, the keypair used will be saved to the current directory so you can access the machine. [GH-373]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: In -debug mode, the DNS is outputted.
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: IPv6 addresses supported for SSH. [GH-379]
    • 👍 communicator/ssh: Support for private keys encrypted using PKCS8. [GH-376]
    • provisioner/chef-solo: You can now use user variables in the json configuration for Chef. [GH-362]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • core: Concurrent map access is completely gone, fixing rare issues with runtime memory corruption. [GH-307]
    • core: Fix possible panic when ctrl-C during provisioner run.
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Retry destroy a few times because DO sometimes gives false errors.
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Properly handle the case no image is made. [GH-375]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Specifying a region is now required in a template.
    • provisioners/salt-masterless: Use filepath join to properly join paths.