Packer v1.4.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-15 // almost 5 years ago
  • 👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🆕 new builder: new proxmox builder implemented [GH-7490]
    • 🆕 new builder: new yandex cloud builder implemented [GH-7484]
    • 🆕 new builder: new linode builder implemented [GH-7508]
    • 🏗 build: Circle CI now generates test binaries for all pull requests [GH-7624] [GH-7625] [GH-7630]
    • 🏗 builder/alicloud: Support encryption with default service key [GH-7574]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Users of chroot and ebssurrogate builders may now choose between "x86_64" and "arm64" architectures when registering their AMIs. [GH-7620]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Users of the ebssurrogage builder may now choose to omit certain launch_block_devices from the final AMI mapping by using the omit_from_artifact feature. [GH-7612]
    • ⚡️ builder/azure: Update Azure SDK [GH-7563]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Better error messaging with container downloads. [GH-7513]
    • 🏗 builder/google: add image encryption support [GH-7551]
    • 🏗 builder/hyperv: Add keep_registered option to hyperv [GH-7498]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Replace dot-based parsing with hashicorp/go-version [GH-7614]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Add 30 minute timeout for destroying a VM [GH-7553]
    • core: Cleanup cache of used port after closing [GH-7613]
    • 🏗 core: New option to set number of builds running in parallel & test BuildCommand more [GH-7501]
    • packer compiles on s390x [GH-7567]
    • ⚠ provisioner/file: Added warnings about writeable locations [GH-7494]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix bug that always encrypted build region with default key. [GH-7507]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix bug that wasn't deleting unencrypted temporary snapshots [GH-7521]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix EBSsurrogate copy, encryption, and deletion of temporary unencrypted amis. [GH-7598]
    • 🏗 builder/hyperv: Fixes IP detection error if more than one VMNetworkAdapter is found [GH-7480]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Fix mistake switching ssh port mix/max for vnc port min/max [GH-7615]
    • 🏗 builder/vagrant: Fix bug with builder and vagrant-libvirt plugin [GH-7633]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Don't fail download when checksum is not set. [GH-7512]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Fix ovf download failures by using local ovf files in place instead of symlinking [GH-7497]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Fix panic configuring VNC for remote builds [GH-7509]
    • 🏗 core/build: Allow building Packer on solaris by removing progress bar and tty imports on solaris [GH-7618]
    • core: Fix race condition causing hang [GH-7579]
    • core: Fix tty related panics [GH-7517]
    • 🏁 core: Step download: Always copy local files on windows rather than symlinking them [GH-7575]
    • packer compiles on Solaris again [GH-7589] [GH-7618]
    • post-processor/vagrant: Fix bug in retry logic that caused failed upload to report success. [GH-7554]