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Packer v1.1.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-10-13 // over 6 years ago

  • 👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🆕 New builder: hyperv-vmcx for building images from existing VMs. [GH-4944] [GH-5444]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon-instance: Add .Token as a variable in the BundleUploadCommand template. [GH-5288]
    • 🔒 builder/amazon: Add temporary_security_group_source_cidr option to control ingress to source instances. [GH-5384]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Output AMI Name during prevalidation. [GH-5389]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Support template functions in tag keys. [GH-5381]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Tag volumes on creation instead of as a separate step. [GH-5417]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Add option to set --user flag when running exec. [GH-5406]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Set file owner to container user when uploading. Can be disabled by setting fix_upload_owner to false. [GH-5422]
    • 🏗 builder/googlecompute: Support setting labels on the resulting image. [GH-5356]
    • builder/hyper-v: Add vhd_temp_path option to control where the VHD resides while it's being provisioned. [GH-5206]
    • 🏗 builder/hyper-v: Allow vhd or vhdx source images instead of just ISO. [GH-4944] [GH-5444]
    • 🏗 builder/hyper-v: Disable automatic checkpoints. [GH-5374]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox-ovf: Add keep_registered option. [GH-5336]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Add disable_vnc option to prevent VNC connections from being made. [GH-5436]
    • 🚀 core: Releases will now be built for ppc64le.
    • 🏗 post-processor/vagrant: When building from a builder/hyper-v artifact, link instead of copy when available. [GH-5207]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 🏗 builder/cloudstack: Fix panic if build is aborted. [GH-5388]
    • builder/hyper-v: Respect enable_dynamic_memory flag. [GH-5363]
    • 🏗 builder/puppet-masterless: Make sure directories created with sudo are writable by the packer user. [GH-5351]
    • 🏁 provisioner/chef-solo: Fix issue installing chef-solo on Windows. [GH-5357]
    • provisioner/powershell: Fix issue setting environment variables by writing them to a file, instead of the command line. [GH-5345]
    • provisioner/powershell: Fix issue where powershell scripts could hang. [GH-5082]
    • provisioner/powershell: Fix Powershell progress stream leak to stderr for normal and elevated commands. [GH-5365]
    • provisioner/puppet-masterless: Fix bug where puppet_bin_dir wasn't being respected. [GH-5340]
    • 🏁 provisioner/puppet: Fix setting facter vars on Windows. [GH-5341]