Packer v0.8.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-07-02 // almost 9 years ago
  • 👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🏁 builder/amazon: When debug mode is enabled, the Windows administrator password for Windows instances will be shown. [GH-2351]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • core: min_packer_version field in configs work. [GH-2356]
    • 🏗 core: The build_name and build_type functions work in provisioners. [GH-2367]
    • ⏱ core: Handle timeout in SSH handshake. [GH-2333]
    • 🏗 command/build: Fix reading configuration from stdin. [GH-2366]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix issue with sharing AMIs when using ami_users [GH-2308]
    • 🔒 builder/amazon: Fix issue when using multiple Security Groups. [GH-2381]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix for tag creation when creating new ec2 instance. [GH-2317]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix issue with creating AMIs with multiple device mappings. [GH-2320]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix failing AMI snapshot tagging when copying to other regions. [GH-2316]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix setting AMI launch permissions. [GH-2348]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix spot instance cleanup to remove the correct request. [GH-2327]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix bundle_prefix not interpolating timestamp [GH-2352]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon-instance: Fix issue with creating AMIs without specifying a virtualization type. [GH-2330]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Fix builder using private IP instead of public IP. [GH-2339]
    • 🏗 builder/google: Set default communicator settings properly. [GH-2353]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-iso: Setting checksum_type to none for ESX builds now works. [GH-2323]
    • provisioner/chef: Use knife config file vs command-line params to clean up nodes so full set of features can be used. [GH-2306]
    • 🔌 post-processor/compress: Fixed crash in compress post-processor plugin. [GH-2311]