Packer v0.12.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-03-01 // about 7 years ago
  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

    • 0๏ธโƒฃ provisioner/ansible: by default, the staging dir will be randomized. [GH-4472]

    ๐Ÿ”‹ FEATURES:

    • ๐Ÿ†• New builder: ebs-surrogate for building AMIs from EBS volumes. [GH-4351]

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon-chroot: support encrypted boot volume. [GH-4584]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Add BuildRegion and SourceAMI template variables. [GH-4399]
    • ๐Ÿ builder/amazon: Change EC2 Windows password timeout to 20 minutes. [GH-4590]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: enable ena when enhanced_networking is set. [GH-4578]
    • builder/azure:: add two new config variables for temp_compute_name and temp_resource_group_name. [GH-4468]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/docker: create export dir if needed. [GH-4439]
    • builder/googlecompute: Add on_host_maintenance option. [GH-4544]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/openstack: add reuse_ips option to try to re-use existing IPs. [GH-4564]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware-esxi: try for longer to connect to vnc port. [GH-4480] [GH-4610]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: allow extra options for ovftool. [GH-4536]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/vmware: don't cache ip address so we know if it changes. [GH-4532]
    • ๐Ÿณ communicator/docker: preserve file mode. [GH-4443]
    • communicator/ssh: Use SSH agent when enabled for bastion step. [GH-4598]
    • ๐Ÿ‘ communicator/winrm: support ProxyFromEnvironment. [GH-4463]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป core: don't show ui color if we're not colorized. [GH-4525]
    • core: make VNC links clickable in terminal. [GH-4497] [GH-4498]
    • ๐Ÿ“„ docs: add community page. [GH-4550]
    • ๐Ÿ‘ post-processor/amazon-import: support AMI attributes on import [GH-4216]
    • ๐Ÿณ post-processor/docker-import: print stderr on docker import failure. [GH-4529]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon-ebsvolume: Fix interpolation of block_device. [GH-4464]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/amazon: Fix ssh agent authentication. [GH-4597]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/docker: Don't force tag if using a docker version that doesn't support it. [GH-4560]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/googlecompute: fix bug when creating image from custom image_family. [GH-4518]
    • ๐Ÿ— builder/virtualbox: remove guest additions before saving image. [GH-4496]
    • core: always check for an error first when walking a path. [GH-4467]
    • โšก๏ธ core: update crypto/ssh lib to fix large file uploads. [GH-4546]
    • provisioner/chef-client: only upload knife config if we're cleaning. [GH-4534]