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Packer v1.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-09-11 // over 5 years ago

  • 👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • azure/arm: Retry cleanup of individual resources on error [GH-6644]
    • 🏗 builder/alicloud: Support source image coming from marketplace [GH-6588]
    • builder/amazon-chroot: Add new root_volume_type option. [GH-6669]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon-chroot: If you have a PV source AMI, with the Amazon Chroot builder, and the destination AMI is type HVM, you can now enable ena_support, example: [GH-6670]
    • builder/amazon-chroot: New feature root_volume_tags to tag the created volumes. [GH-6504]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Create a random interim AMI name when encrypt_boot is true so that ami name is not searchable. [GH-6657]
    • builder/azure: Implement clean_image_name template engine. [GH-6558]
    • 🏗 builder/cloudstack: Add option to use a fixed port via public_port. [GH-6532]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Add support for tagging to instances [GH-6546]
    • builder/googlecompute: Add new min_cpu_platform feature [GH-6607]
    • ⚡️ builder/googlecompute: Update the list of public image projects that we search, based on GCE documentation. [GH-6648]
    • 🏗 builder/lxc: Allow unplivileged LXC containers. [GH-6279]
    • 📇 builder/oci: Add metadata feature to Packer config. [GH-6498]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Add support for getting config from clouds-public.yaml. [GH-6595]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Add support for ports. [GH-6570]
    • builder/openstack: Add support for source_image_filter. [GH-6490]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Migrate floating IP usage to Network v2 API from Compute API. [GH-6373]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Support Block Storage volumes as boot volume. [GH-6596]
    • 🏗 builder/oracle-oci: Add support for freeform tagging of OCI images [GH-6338]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: add ssh agent support. [GH-6541]
    • builder/qemu: New use_backing_file feature [GH-6249]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-iso: Add support for disk compaction [GH-6411]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-iso: Try to use ISO files uploaded to the datastore when building remotely instead of uploading them freshly every time [GH-5165]
    • command/validate: Warn users if config needs fixing. [GH-6423]
    • 📜 core: Add a 'split' function to parse template variables. [GH-6357]
    • core: Add a template function allowing users to read keys from consul [GH-6577]
    • core: Add a template function allowing users to read keys from vault [GH-6533]
    • core: Add progress-bar to download step. [GH-5851]
    • core: Create a new root-level Packer template option, "sensitive-variables" which allows users to list which variables they would like to have scrubbed from the Packer logs. [GH-6610]
    • core: Create new config options, "boot_keygroup_interval" and "boot_key_interval" that can be set at the builder-level to supercede PACKER_KEY_INTERVAL for the bootcommand. [GH-6616]
    • 💻 core: Deduplicate ui and log lines that stream to terminal [GH-6611]
    • 🔨 core: Refactor and deduplicate ssh code across builders. This should be a no- op but is a big win for maintainability. [GH-6621] [GH-6613]
    • 👍 post-processor/compress: Add support for xz compression [GH-6534]
    • 🐳 post-processor/vagrant: Support for Docker images. [GH-6494]
    • post-processor/vsphere: Add new esxi_host option. [GH-5366]
    • 👍 postprocessor/vagrant: Add support for Azure. [GH-6576]
    • provisioner/ansible: Add new "extra var", packer_http_addr. [GH-6501]
    • provisioner/ansible: Enable {{.WinRMPassword}} template engine. [GH-6450]
    • provisioner/shell-local: Create PACKER_HTTP_ADDR environment variable [GH-6503]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 🏗 builder/amazon-ebssurrogate: Clean up volumes at end of build. [GH-6514]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Increase default waiter timeout for AWS WaitUntilImageAvailable command [GH-6601]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Increase the MaxRetries in the Amazon client from the default to 20, to work around users who regularly reach their requestlimit and are being throttled. [GH-6641]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Properly apply environment overrides to our custom-written waiters. [GH-6649]
    • 🏗 builder/azure: Generated password satisfies Azure password requirements [GH-6480]
    • 🏗 builder/hyper-v: Builder no longer errors if skip_compaction isn't true when skip_export is true, and compaction efficiency is improved [GH-6393]
    • 🏗 builder/lxc: Correctly pass "config" option to "lxc launch". [GH-6563]
    • 🏗 builder/lxc: Determine lxc root according to the running user [GH-6543]
    • 🏗 builder/lxc: Fix file copying for unprivileged LXC containers [GH-6544]
    • ⚡️ builder/oracle-oci: Update OCI sdk, fixing validation bug that occurred when RSA key was encrypted. [GH-6492]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware-iso: Fix crash caused by invalid datacenter url. [GH-6529]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Maintain original boot order during CreateVMX step for vmware-iso builder [GH-6204]
    • communicator/chroot: Fix quote escaping so that ansible provisioner works properly. [GH-6635]
    • 👍 core: Better error handling in downloader when connection error occurs. [GH-6557]
    • core: Fix broken pathing checks in checksum files. [GH-6525]
    • provisioner/shell Create new template option allowing users to choose to source env vars from a file rather than declaring them inline. This resolves a bug that occurred when users had complex quoting in their execute_commands [GH-6636]
    • 🏁 provisioner/shell-local: Windows inline scripts now default to being appended with ".cmd", fixing a backwards incompatibility in v1.2.5 [GH-6626]
    • 🏁 provisioner/windows-restart: Provisioner now works when used in conjunction with SSH communicator [GH-6606]

    BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

    • builder/amazon: "owners" field on source_ami_filter is now required for secuirty reasons. [GH-6585]
    • builder/vmware-iso: validation will fail for templates using esxi that have the "disk_type_id" set to something other than "thin" or "" and that do not have "skip_compaction": true also set. Use packer fix to fix this. [GH-6411]