Packer v0.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-11-19 // over 10 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ”‹ FEATURES:

    • ๐Ÿ— Docker builder: build and export Docker containers, easily provisioned with any of the Packer built-in provisioners.
    • ๐Ÿ— QEMU builder: builds a new VM compatible with KVM or Xen using QEMU.
    • ๐Ÿ— Remote ESXi builder: builds a VMware VM using ESXi remotely using only SSH to an ESXi machine directly.
    • vSphere post-processor: Can upload VMware artifacts to vSphere
    • Vagrant post-processor can now make DigitalOcean provider boxes. [GH-504]

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ”’ builder/amazon/all: Can now specify a list of multiple security group IDs to apply. [GH-499]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/all: AWS API requests are now retried when a temporary network error occurs as well as 500 errors. [GH-559]
    • builder/virtualbox: Use VBOX_INSTALL_PATH env var on Windows to find VBoxManage. [GH-628]
    • post-processor/vagrant: skips gzip compression when compression_level=0
    • ๐Ÿ‘ provisioner/chef-solo: Encrypted data bag support. [GH-625]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/chroot: Copying empty directories works. [GH-588]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/chroot: Chroot commands work with shell provisioners. [GH-581]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon/chroot: Don't choose a mount point that is a partition of an already mounted device. [GH-635]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: VMX modifications are now case-insensitive. [GH-608]
    • โฌ†๏ธ builder/vmware: VMware Fusion won't ask for VM upgrade.
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618]
    • provisioner/chef-solo: Output is slightly prettier and more informative.