Packer v1.4.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-06-26 // almost 5 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ†• new feature: Packer console [GH-7726]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/alicloud: cleanup image and snapshot if target image is still not available after timeout [GH-7744]
    • โšก๏ธ builder/alicloud: let product API determine the default value of io_optimized [GH-7747]
    • ๐Ÿ’พ builder/amazon: Add new skip_save_build_region option to fix naming conflicts when building in a region you don't want the final image saved in. [GH-7759]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Add retry for temp key-pair generation in amazon-ebs [GH-7731]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Enable encrypted AMI sharing across accounts [GH-7707]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: New SpotInstanceTypes feature for spot instance users. [GH-7682]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/azure: Allow users to publish Managed Images to Azure Shared Image Gallery (same Subscription) [GH-7778]
    • โšก๏ธ builder/azure: Update Azure SDK for Go to v30.0.0 [GH-7706]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/cloudstack: Add tags to instance upon creation [GH-7526]
    • ๐Ÿ builder/docker: Better windows defaults [GH-7678]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/google: Add feature to import user-data from a file [GH-7720]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/hyperv: Abort build if there's a name collision [GH-7746]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/hyperv: Clarify pathing requirements for hyperv-vmcx [GH-7790]
    • ๐Ÿ builder/hyperv: Increase MaxRamSize to match modern Windows [GH-7785]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/openstack: Add image filtering on properties. [GH-7597]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/qemu: Add additional disk support [GH-7791]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vagrant: Allow user to override vagrant ssh-config details [GH-7782]
    • ๐Ÿ“‡ builder/yandex: Gracefully shutdown instance, allow metadata from file, and create preemptible instance type [GH-7734]
    • ๐Ÿ”Š core: scrub out sensitive variables in scrub out sensitive variables logs [GH-7743]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • builder/alicloud: Fix describing snapshots issue when image_ignore_data_disks is provided [GH-7736]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Fix bug in region copy which produced badly-named AMIs in the build region. [GH-7691]
    • ๐Ÿท builder/amazon: Fix failure that happened when spot_tags was set but ami_tags wasn't [GH-7712]
    • โšก๏ธ builder/cloudstack: Update go-cloudstack sdk, fixing compatability with CloudStack v 4.12 [GH-7694]
    • โšก๏ธ builder/proxmox: Update proxmox-api-go dependency, fixing issue calculating VMIDs. [GH-7755]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/tencent: Correctly remove tencentcloud temporary keypair. [GH-7787]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป core: Allow timestamped AND colorless ui messages [GH-7769]
    • ๐Ÿ”Š core: Apply logSecretFilter to output from ui.Say [GH-7739]
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ core: Fix "make bin" command to use reasonbale defaults. [GH-7752]
    • core: Fix user var interpolation for variables set via -var-file and from command line [GH-7733]
    • ๐Ÿ”Š core: machine-readable UI now writes UI calls to logs. [GH-7745]
    • core: Switch makefile to use "GO111MODULE=auto" to allow for modern gomodule usage. [GH-7753]
    • provisioner/ansible: prevent nil pointer dereference after a language change [GH-7738]
    • โœ… provisioner/chef: Accept chef license by default to prevent hangs in latest Chef [GH-7653]
    • provisioner/powershell: Fix crash caused by error in retry logic check in powershell provisioner [GH-7657]
    • provisioner/powershell: Fix null file descriptor error that occurred when remote_path provided is a directory and not a file. [GH-7705]