Packer v1.1.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-12-08 // over 6 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ”’ builder/alicloud-ecs: Add security token support and set TLS handshake timeout through environment variable. [GH-5641]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Add a new parameter ssh_interface. Valid values include public_ip, private_ip, public_dns or private_dns. [GH-5630]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/azure: Add sanity checks for resource group names [GH-5599]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/azure: Allow users to specify an existing resource group to use, instead of creating a new one for every run. [GH-5548]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/hyper-v: Add support for differencing disk. [GH-5458]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware-iso: Improve logging of network errors. [GH-5456]
    • core: Add new packer_version template engine. [GH-5619]
    • core: Improve logic checking for downloaded ISOs in case where user has provided more than one URL in iso_urls [GH-5632]
    • provisioner/ansible-local: Add ability to clean staging directory. [GH-5618]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Allow region to appear in ami_regions. [GH-5660]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: C5 instance types now build more reliably. [GH-5678]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Correctly set AWS region if given in template along with a profile. [GH-5676]
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ builder/amazon: Prevent sriov_support and ena_support from being used with spot instances, which would cause a build failure. [GH-5679]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/hyper-v: Fix interpolation context for user variables in boot_command [GH-5547]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/qemu: Set default disk size to 40960 MB to prevent boot failures. [GH-5588]
    • ๐Ÿ builder/vmware: Correctly detect Windows boot on vmware workstation. [GH-5672]
    • ๐Ÿ core: Fix windows path regression when downloading ISOs. [GH-5591]
    • ๐Ÿ provisioner/chef: Fix chef installs on Windows. [GH-5649]