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Packer v0.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-06-23 // almost 9 years ago

  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

    • 0️⃣ core: SSH connection will no longer request a PTY by default. This can be enabled per builder.
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: no longer supports the v1 API which has been deprecated for some time. Most configurations should continue to work as long as you use the api_token field for auth.
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: image, region, and size are now required.
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: auth parameters have been changed to better reflect OS terminology. Existing environment variables still work.

    🔋 FEATURES:

    • WinRM: You can now connect via WinRM with almost every builder. See the docs for more info. [GH-2239]
    • 🏁 Windows AWS Support: Windows AMIs can now be built without any external plugins: Packer will start a Windows instance, get the admin password, and can use WinRM (above) to connect through. [GH-2240]
    • Disable SSH: Set communicator to "none" in any builder to disable SSH connections. Note that provisioners won't work if this is done. [GH-1591]
    • SSH Agent Forwarding: SSH Agent Forwarding will now be enabled to allow access to remote servers such as private git repos. [GH-1066]
    • SSH Bastion Hosts: You can now specify a bastion host for SSH access (works with all builders). [GH-387]
    • OpenStack v3 Identity: The OpenStack builder now supports the v3 identity API.
    • 🏗 Docker builder supports SSH: The Docker builder now supports containers with SSH, just set communicator to "ssh" [GH-2244]
    • File provisioner can download: The file provisioner can now download files out of the build process. [GH-1909]
    • 🆕 New config function: build_name: The name of the currently running build. [GH-2232]
    • 🆕 New config function: build_type: The type of the currently running builder. This is useful for provisioners. [GH-2232]
    • 🆕 New config function: template_dir: The directory to the template being built. This should be used for template-relative paths. [GH-54]
    • 🆕 New provisioner: shell-local: Runs a local shell script. [GH-770]
    • 🆕 New provisioner: powershell: Provision Windows machines with PowerShell scripts. [GH-2243]
    • 🆕 New provisioner: windows-shell: Provision Windows machines with batch files. [GH-2243]
    • 🆕 New provisioner: windows-restart: Restart a Windows machines and wait for it to come back online. [GH-2243]
    • 👍 Compress post-processor supports multiple algorithms: The compress post-processor now supports lz4 compression and compresses gzip in parallel for much faster throughput.

    👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🚦 core: Interrupt handling for SIGTERM signal as well. [GH-1858]
    • 👍 core: HTTP downloads support resuming. [GH-2106]
      • builder/*: Add ssh_handshake_attempts to configure the number of handshake attempts done before failure. [GH-2237]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Add force_deregister option for automatic AMI deregistration. [GH-2221]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Now applies tags to EBS snapshots. [GH-2212]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Clean up orphaned volumes from Source AMIs. [GH-1783]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Support custom keypairs. [GH-1837]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon-chroot: Can now resize the root volume of the resulting AMI with the root_volume_size option. [GH-2289]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon-chroot: Add mount_options configuration option for providing options to the mount command. [GH-2296]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Save SSH key to pwd if debug mode is on. [GH-1829]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: User data support. [GH-2113]
    • 🏗 builder/googlecompute: Option to use internal IP for connections. [GH-2152]
    • 🏗 builder/parallels: Support Parallels Desktop 11. [GH-2199]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Add rackconnect_wait for Rackspace customers to wait for RackConnect data to appear
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Add ssh_interface option for rackconnect for users that have prohibitive firewalls
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Flavor names can be used as well as refs
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Add availability_zone [GH-2016]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Machine will be stopped prior to imaging if the cluster supports the startstop extension. [GH-2223]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Support for user data. [GH-2224]
    • 🏁 builder/qemu: Default accelerator to "tcg" on Windows. [GH-2291]
    • builder/virtualbox: Added option: ssh_skip_nat_mapping to skip the automatic port forward for SSH and to use the guest port directly. [GH-1078]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Added SCSI support
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Support for additional disks. [GH-1382]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Can now customize the template used for adding disks. [GH-2254]
    • command/fix: After fixing, the template is validated. [GH-2228]
    • command/push: Add -name flag for specifying name from CLI. [GH-2042]
    • 🔧 command/push: Push configuration in templates supports variables. [GH-1861]
    • 🐳 post-processor/docker-save: Can be chained. [GH-2179]
    • 🐳 post-processor/docker-tag: Support force option. [GH-2055]
    • 🐳 post-processor/docker-tag: Can be chained. [GH-2179]
    • 👍 post-processor/vsphere: Make more fields optional, support empty resource pools. [GH-1868]
    • provisioner/puppet-masterless: working_directory option. [GH-1831]
    • 🏗 provisioner/puppet-masterless: packer_build_name and packer_build_type are default facts. [GH-1878]
    • provisioner/puppet-server: ignore_exit_codes option added. [GH-2280]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 🔌 core: Fix potential panic for post-processor plugin exits. [GH-2098]
    • core: PACKER_CONFIG may point to a non-existent file. [GH-2226]
    • builder/amazon: Allow spaces in AMI names when using clean_ami_name [GH-2182]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Remove deprecated ec2-upload-bundle parameter. [GH-1931]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Use IAM Profile to upload bundle if provided. [GH-1985]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Use correct exit code after SSH authentication failed. [GH-2004]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Retry finding created instance for eventual consistency. [GH-2129]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: If no AZ is specified, use AZ chosen automatically by AWS for spot instance. [GH-2017]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Private key file (only available in debug mode) is deleted on cleanup. [GH-1801]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: AMI copy won't copy to the source region. [GH-2123]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Validate AMI doesn't exist with name prior to build. [GH-1774]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Improved retry logic around waiting for instances. [GH-1764]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix issues with creating Block Devices. [GH-2195]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon/chroot: Retry waiting for disk attachments. [GH-2046]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon/chroot: Only unmount path if it is mounted. [GH-2054]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon/instance: Use -i in sudo commands so PATH is inherited. [GH-1930]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon/instance: Use --region flag for bundle upload command. [GH-1931]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Wait for droplet to unlock before changing state, should lower the "pending event" errors.
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Ignore invalid fields from the ever-changing v2 API
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: Private images can be used as a source. [GH-1792]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Fixed hang on prompt while copying script
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Use docker exec for newer versions of Docker for running scripts. [GH-1993]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Fix crash that could occur at certain timed ctrl-c. [GH-1838]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: validate that export_path is not a directory. [GH-2105]
    • 🏗 builder/google: ssh_timeout is respected. [GH-1781]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: ssh_interface can be used to specify the interface to retrieve the SSH IP from. [GH-2220]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Add disk_discard option. [GH-2120]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Use proper SSH port, not hardcoded to 22. [GH-2236]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Remove the floppy controller in addition to the floppy disk. [GH-1879]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Fixed regression where downloading ISO without a ".iso" extension didn't work. [GH-1839]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Add 100ms delay between keystrokes to avoid subtle timing issues in most cases. [GH-1663]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Case-insensitive match of MAC address to find IP. [GH-1989]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: More robust IP parsing from ifconfig output. [GH-1999]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Nested output directories for ESXi work. [GH-2174]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233]
    • 🏗 command/fix: For the virtualbox to virtualbox-iso builder rename, provisioner overrides are now also fixed. [GH-2231]
    • 🏗 command/validate: don't crash for invalid builds. [GH-2139]
    • 🏁 post-processor/atlas: Find common archive prefix for Windows. [GH-1874]
    • post-processor/atlas: Fix index out of range panic. [GH-1959]
    • 🛠 post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Fixed failing on response
    • post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Don't delete version on error. [GH-2014]
    • post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Retry failed uploads a few times
    • 0️⃣ provisioner/chef-client: Fix permissions issues on default dir. [GH-2255]
    • provisioner/chef-client: Node cleanup works now. [GH-2257]
    • provisioner/puppet-masterless: Allow manifest_file to be a directory
    • provisioner/salt-masterless: Add --retcode-passthrough to salt-call
    • provisioner/shell: chmod executable script to 0755, not 0777. [GH-1708]
    • provisioner/shell: inline commands failing will fail the provisioner. [GH-2069]
    • provisioner/shell: single quotes in env vars are escaped. [GH-2229]
    • provisioner/shell: Temporary file is deleted after run. [GH-2259]
    • 0️⃣ provisioner/shell: Randomize default script name to avoid strange race issues from Windows. [GH-2270]