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Packer v0.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-02-19 // about 8 years ago

  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

    • 🔌 Packer now ships as a single binary, including plugins. If you install packer 0.9.0 over a previous packer installation, you must delete all of the packer-* plugin files or packer will load out-of-date plugins from disk.
    • 🚀 Release binaries are now provided via https://releases.hashicorp.com.
    • Packer 0.9.0 is now built with Go 1.6.
    • 🔌 core: Plugins that implement the Communicator interface must now implement a DownloadDir method. [GH-2618]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Inline user_data for EC2 is now base64 encoded automatically. [GH-2539]
    • builder/parallels: parallels_tools_host_path and guest_os_distribution have been replaced by guest_os_type; use packer fix to update your templates. [GH-2751]

    🔋 FEATURES:

    • 🏁 Chef on Windows: The chef provisioner now has native support for Windows using Powershell and WinRM. [GH-1215]
    • 🆕 New vmware-esxi feature: Packer can now export images from vCloud or vSphere during the build. [GH-1921]
    • 🆕 New Ansible Provisioner: ansible provisioner supports remote provisioning to keep your build image cleaner. [GH-1969]
    • 🆕 New Amazon Import post-processor: amazon-import allows you to upload an OVA-based VM to Amazon EC2. [GH-2962]
    • Shell Local post-processor: shell-local allows you to run shell commands on the host after a build has completed for custom packaging or publishing of your artifacts. [GH-2706]
    • Artifice post-processor: Override packer artifacts during post- processing. This allows you to extract artifacts from a packer builder and use them with other post-processors like compress, docker, and Atlas.

    👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🔌 core: Packer plugins are now compiled into the main binary, reducing file size and build times, and making packer easier to install. The overall plugin architecture has not changed and third-party plugins can still be loaded from disk. Please make sure your plugins are up-to-date! [GH-2854]
    • 📜 core: Packer now indicates line numbers for template parse errors. [GH-2742]
    • core: Scripts are executed via /usr/bin/env bash instead of /bin/bash for broader compatibility. [GH-2913]
    • 🏗 core: target_path for builder downloads can now be specified. [GH-2600]
    • 👍 core: WinRM communicator now supports HTTPS protocol. [GH-3061]
    • core: Template syntax errors now show line, column, offset. [GH-3180]
    • 👍 core: SSH communicator now supports downloading directories. [GH-2618]
    • ⚡️ builder/amazon: Add support for ebs_optimized [GH-2806]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: You can now specify 0 for spot_price to switch to on demand instances. [GH-2845]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Added ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) [GH-3056]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: packer will try to derive the AZ if only a subnet is specified. [GH-3037]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: doubled instance wait timeouts to power off or shutdown (now 4 minutes) and to complete a snapshot (now 20 minutes) [GH-2939]
    • 🏗 builder/google: account_file can now be provided as a JSON string [GH-2811]
    • 🏗 builder/google: added support for preemptible instances. [GH-2982]
    • 🏗 builder/google: added support for static external IPs via address option [GH-3030]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: added retry on WaitForImage 404. [GH-3009]
    • builder/openstack: Can specify source_image_name instead of the ID [GH-2577]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: added support for SSH over IPv6. [GH-3197]
    • 🏗 builder/parallels: Improve support for Parallels 11. [GH-2662]
    • 🏗 builder/parallels: Parallels disks are now compacted by default. [GH-2731]
    • 🏗 builder/parallels: Packer will look for Parallels in /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app if it is not detected automatically [GH-2839]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: qcow2 images are now compacted by default. [GH-2748]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: qcow2 images can now be compressed. [GH-2748]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Now specifies virtio-scsi by default. [GH-2422]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Now checks for version-specific options. [GH-2376]
    • builder/qemu: Can now bypass disk cache using iso_skip_cache [GH-3105]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: <wait> in boot_command now accepts an arbitrary duration like [GH-3129]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Expose {{ .SSHHostPort }} in templates. [GH-2884]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Added VRDP for debugging. [GH-3188]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-esxi: Added private key auth for remote builds via remote_private_key_file [GH-2912]
    • 👍 post-processor/atlas: Added support for compile ID. [GH-2775]
    • 🐳 post-processor/docker-import: Can now import Artifice artifacts. [GH-2718]
    • provisioner/chef: Added encrypted_data_bag_secret_path option. [GH-2653]
    • provisioner/puppet: Added the extra_arguments parameter. [GH-2635]
    • provisioner/salt: Added no_exit_on_failure, log_level, and improvements to salt command invocation. [GH-2660]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 👀 core: Random number generator is now seeded. [GH-2640]
    • core: Packer should now have a lot less race conditions. [GH-2824]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: The no_device option for block device mappings is now handled correctly. [GH-2398]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: AMI name validation now matches Amazon's spec. [GH-2774]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Use snapshot size when volume size is unspecified. [GH-2480]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Pass AccessKey and SecretKey when uploading bundles for instance-backed AMIs. [GH-2596]
    • 🏗 builder/parallels: Added interpolation in prlctl_post [GH-2828]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: format option is now read correctly. [GH-2892]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-esxi: Correct endless loop in destroy validation logic [GH-2911]
    • provisioner/shell: No longer leaves temp scripts behind. [GH-1536]
    • provisioner/winrm: Now waits for reboot to complete before continuing with provisioning. [GH-2568]
    • 🐳 post-processor/artifice: Fix truncation of files downloaded from Docker. [GH-2793]