Packer v0.3.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-09-09 // over 10 years ago
  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

    • ๐Ÿ— The "event_delay" option for the DigitalOcean builder is now gone. The builder automatically waits for events to go away. Run your templates through packer fix to get rid of these.

    ๐Ÿ”‹ FEATURES:

    • ๐Ÿ†• NEW PROVISIONER: puppet-masterless. You can now provision with a masterless Puppet setup. [GH-234]
    • ๐Ÿ†• New globally available template function: uuid. Generates a new random UUID.
    • ๐Ÿ†• New globally available template function: isotime. Generates the current time in ISO standard format.
    • New Amazon template function: clean_ami_name. Substitutes '-' for characters that are illegal to use in an AMI name.

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/all: Ability to specify the format of the temporary keypair created. [GH-389]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/all: Support the NoDevice flag for block mappings. [GH-396]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/digitalocean: Retry on any pending event errors.
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/openstack: Can now specify a project. [GH-382]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox: Can now attach hard drive over SATA. [GH-391]
    • provisioner/file: Can now upload directories. [GH-251]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • core: Detect if SCP is not enabled on the other side. [GH-386]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/all: When copying AMI to multiple regions, copy the metadata (tags and attributes) as well. [GH-388]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/all: Fix panic case where eventually consistent instance state caused an index out of bounds.
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox: The vm_name setting now properly sets the OVF name of the output. [GH-401]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: Autoanswer VMware dialogs. [GH-393]
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ command/inspect: Fix weird output for default values for optional vars.