Packer v0.12.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-11-15 // over 7 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ”‹ FEATURES:

    • ๐Ÿ†• New builder: "cloudstack" Can create new templates for use with CloudStack taking either an ISO or existing template as input. [GH-3909]
    • ๐Ÿ†• New builder: "profitbricks" Builder for creating images in the ProfitBricks cloud. [GH-3660]
    • ๐Ÿ†• New builder: "amazon-ebsvolume" Can create Amazon EBS volumes which are preinitialized with a filesystem and data. [GH-4088]

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ“Š builder/amazon: Allow polling delay override with AWS_POLL_DELAY_SECONDS. [GH-4083]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Allow use of local SSH Agent. [GH-4050]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Dynamic source AMI [GH-3817]
    • builder/amazon: Show AMI ID found when using source_ami_filter. [GH-4096]
    • builder/googlecompute: Support ssh_private_key_file in communicator. [GH-4101]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/googlecompute: Support custom scopes. [GH-4043]
    • command/push: Fix variable pushes to Atlas. Still needs Atlas server to be updated before the issue will be fixed completely. [GH-4089]
    • ๐ŸŽ communicator/ssh: Improved SSH upload performance. [GH-3940]
    • ๐Ÿ‘ contrib/azure-setup.sh: Support for azure-cli 0.10.7. [GH-4133]
    • ๐Ÿ“„ docs: Fix command line variable docs. [GH-4143]
    • ๐Ÿ›  post-processor/vagrant: Fixed inconsistency between vagrant-libvirt driver and packer QEMU accelerator. [GH-4104]
    • ๐Ÿšš provisioner/ansible: Move info messages to log [GH-4123]
    • provisioner/puppet: Add puppet_bin_dir option. [GH-4014]
    • provisioner/salt: Add salt_call_args option. [GH-4158]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Fixed an error where we wouldn't fail the build even if we timed out waiting for the temporary security group to become available. [GH-4099]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Properly cleanup temporary key pairs. [GH-4080]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/google: Fix issue where we'd hang waiting for a startup script which doesn't exist. [GH-4102]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/qemu: Fix keycodes for ctrl, shift and alt keys. [GH-4115]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: Fix keycodes for ctrl, shift and alt keys. [GH-4115]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: Fixed build error when shutting down. [GH-4041]
    • common/step_create_floppy: Fixed support for 1.44MB floppies on Windows. [GH-4135]
    • ๐Ÿ›  post-processor/googlecompute-export: Fixes scopes. [GH-4147]
    • โช provisioner/powershell: Reverted [GH-3371] fixes quoting issue. [GH-4069]
    • ๐Ÿ scripts: Fix build under Windows for go 1.5. [GH-4142]