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Packer v1.4.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-08-14 // over 4 years ago

  • 👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • 🆕 new builder UCloud builder [GH-7775]
    • 🆕 new builder Outscale [GH-7459]
    • 🆕 new builder VirtualBox Snapshot [GH-7780]
    • 🆕 new builder JDCloud [GH-7962]
    • 🆕 new post-processor Exoscale Import post-processor [GH-7822] [GH-7946]
    • 🏗 build: Change Makefile to behave differently inside and outside the gopath when generating code. [GH-7827]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Don't calculate spot bids; Amazon has changed spot pricing to no longer require this. [GH-7813]
    • 🏗 builder/google: Add suse-byos-cloud to list of public GCP cloud image projects [GH-7935]
    • builder/openstack: New image_min_disk option [GH-7290]
    • builder/openstack: New option use_blockstorage_volume to set openstack image metadata [GH-7792]
    • 🏗 builder/openstack: Select instance network on which to assign floating ip [GH-7884]
    • 🏗 builder/qemu: Implement VNC password functionality [GH-7836]
    • 🏗 builder/scaleway: Allow removing volume after image creation for Scaleway builder [GH-7887]
    • 🏗 builder/tencent: Add run_tags to option to tag instance. [GH-7810]
    • 🏗 builder/tencent: Remove unnecessary image name validation check. [GH-7786]
    • 🏗 builder/tencent: Support data disks for tencentcloud builder [GH-7815]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Fix intense CPU usage because of poorly handled errors. [GH-7877]
    • communicator: Use context for timeouts, interruption in ssh and winrm communicators [GH-7868]
    • core: Change how on-error=abort is handled to prevent EOF errors that mask real issues [GH-7913]
    • 💻 core: Clean up logging vs ui call in step download [GH-7936]
    • core: New environment var option to allow user to set location of config directory [GH-7912]
    • 🚚 core: Remove obsolete Cancel functions from builtin provisioners [GH-7917]
    • post-processor/vagrant: Add option to allow box Vagrantfiles to be generated during the build [GH-7951]
    • 👍 provisioner/ansible: Add support for installing roles with ansible-galaxy [GH-7916
    • provisioner/salt-masterless: Modify file upload to handle non-root case. [GH-7833]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Add error to warn users of spot_tags regression. [GH-7989]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Allow EC2 Spot Fleet packer instances to run in parallel [GH-7818]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: Fix failures and duplication in Amazon region copy and encryption step. [GH-7870] [GH-7923]
    • 🏗 builder/amazon: No longer store names of volumes which get deleted on termination inside ebssurrogate artifact. [GH-7829]
    • ⚡️ builder/amazon: Update aws-sdk-go to v1.22.2, resolving some AssumeRole issues [GH-7967]
    • 🏗 builder/azure: Create configurable polling duration and set higher default for image copies to prevent timeouts on successful copies [GH-7920]
    • 🏗 builder/digitalocean: increase timeout for Digital Ocean snapshot creation. [GH-7841]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Check container os, not host os, when creating container dir default [GH-7939]
    • builder/docker: Fix bug where PACKER_TMP_DIR was created with root perms on linux [GH-7905]
    • 🏗 builder/docker: Fix file download hang caused by blocking ReadAll call [GH-7814]
    • 🏗 builder/google: Fix outdated oauth URL. [GH-7835] [GH-7927]
    • 🏗 builder/hyperv: Improve code for detecting IP address [GH-7880]
    • ⚡️ builder/ucloud: Update the api about stop instance to fix the read-only image build by ucloud-uhost [GH-7914]
    • builder/vagrant: Fix bug where source_path was being used instead of box_name when generating the Vagrantfile. [GH-7859]
    • 🏗 builder/virtualbox: Honor value of 'Comment' field in ssh keypair generation. [GH-7922]
    • 🏗 builder/vmware: Fix validation regression that occurred when user provided a checksum file [GH-7804]
    • 🏗 buildere/azure: Fix crash with managed images not published to shared image gallery. [GH-7837]
    • 🏗 communicator/ssh: Move ssh_interface back into individual builders from ssh communicator to prevent validation issues where it isn't implemented. [GH-7831]
    • console: Fix console help text [GH-7960]
    • 📜 core: Fix bug in template parsing where function errors were getting swallowed. [GH-7854]
    • core: Fix regression where a local filepath containing // was no longer properly resolving to /. [GH-7888]
    • core: Fix regression where we could no longer access isos on SMB shares. [GH-7800]
    • 🏗 core: Make ssh_host template option always override all builders' IP discovery. [GH-7832]
    • core: Regenerate boot_command PEG code [GH-7977]
    • 🛠 fix: clean up help text and fixer order to make sure all fixers are called [GH-7903]
    • 🗄 provisioner/inspec: Use --input-file instead of --attrs to avoid deprecation warning [GH-7893]
    • provisioner/salt-masterless: Make salt-masterless provisioner respect disable_sudo directive for all commands [GH-7774]