v1.9.0-alpha

Bump for 1.9.0-alpha release

v1.8.5

1.8.5 (December 12, 2022)

NOTES:

• data/packer-image-iteration has been removed. This was an undocumented and
  unusable data source that was built for experimentation but not released. It
  should not affect users in any way but is being mentioned for visibility
  purposes.
  GH-12111

FEATURES:

• core: Metadata for capturing template types such as JSON or HCL2 has been added to the
  HCP Packer registry metadata. Upon running a packer build the type of
  template used during execution will be sent along to the registry as
  additional build metadata.GH-12132

PLUGINS:

The following external plugins have been updated and pinned to address open
issues. Please see their respective changelogs for details on plugin
specific bug fixes and improvements.

• alicloud@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• amazon@v1.1.6 - CHANGELOG
• proxmox@v1.1.0 - CHANGELOG
• vsphere@v1.1.1 - CHANGELOG
• qemu@v1.0.8 - CHANGELOG

IMPROVEMENTS:

• cmd/hcl2_upgrade: Generate variable block for all referenced user input
  variables. GH-12136
• cmd/validate: Add support for the -evaluate-datasources flag to evaluate
  the data sources from a template during validation time.
  GH-12106
  GH-12152
• core/hcl2: Variable definition files containing undeclared variables within
  an HCL2 template will no longer warn during build execution. Warnings will
  be displayed to a user during template validation, which can be disabled by
  passing the -no-warn-undeclared-var flag to the validate command.
  GH-12104
  GH-12109
• core: Docker images have been updated to include the xorriso package for
  supporting the creation of ISO files.GH-12081
• core: Split HCP Packer publishing components into a separate internal-only
  module. GH-11
  GH-12116

BUG FIXES:

• cmd/init: The init command will try to fallback to the next available version
  for a plugin, if the most recent version is not available or has a missing
  checksum file. This should prevent Packer from trying to install versions
  that have a GitHub tag but no actual assets.
  GH-12103
• cmd/plugins: The plugins install sub-command will try to fallback to the
  next available version for a plugin, if the most recent version is not
  available or has a missing checksum file. This should prevent Packer from
  trying to install versions that have a GitHub tag but no actual assets.
  GH-12103
• core: Bump Go version to 1.18.9 to address vulnerability GO-2022-1144, which
  concerns the net/http and golang.org/x/net
  packages.GH-12153
  GH-12158
• core: Fix the registration of deleted input artifacts in HCP Packer when
  setting keep_input_artifacts to
  false.GH-11462
• core: Using different template types when building a HCP Packer
  image iteration will now trigger a runtime build error due to the
  mixing of template types.
  GH-12132

v1.8.4

1.8.4 (October 28 2022)

NOTES:

• Packer user documentation has been moved to the new HashiCorp developer
  documentation portal. The main Packer site (https://www.packer.io) will
  continue to be the home for Packer but all requests for general
  documentation and binary downloads will be redirected to
  https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer. Users are encouraged to visit the
  developer documentation portal for access to all Packer related
  documentation; including integrations with HCP Packer.

• The Oracle builder and post-processor are no longer vendored with Packer
  core. Users of the Oracle plugin should use packer init to install the
  latest version of the plugin. See the Oracle Plugin
  Documentation for more
  information. GH-11983

• HCP Packer environment variables: The behaviour of some HCP Packer-specific
  environment variables has changed slightly. Refer to HCP Packer
  in the Packer documentation for a full list of HCP Packer environment variables. GH-12059

  • For JSON templates, the HCP_PACKER_REGISTRY environment variable was
    previously required to enable the HCP Packer integration. In this release,
    the environment variable is now optional, and can be used for disabling the
    publishing of metadata for any HCP Packer enabled configuration template.
  • For HCL2 templates, the HCP_PACKER_REGISTRY environment variable can be used
    to disable publishing to a HCP Packer registry even if the template defines a
    hcp_packer_registry block. This can be useful for testing that a template
    works as intended prior to pushing metadata to HCP Packer.
  • The HCP_PACKER_BUCKET_NAME environment variable is now the only
    requirement to push metadata to a HCP Packer registry, in both JSON
    and HCL2 templates without a hcp_packer_registry block.

FEATURES:

• provisioner/powershell: Add use_pwsh configuration argument to support pwsh
  in powershell provisioner. GH-11950

PLUGINS:

• builder/oracle: Remove Oracle plugin from the list of vendored
  plugins. GH-11983

IMPROVEMENTS:

• command/hcl2_upgrade: Has been updated to persist all possible template
  engine options that were supported by the legacy JSON templates. While the
  upgrade command copies the template engine options as is support for the
  template options may not actually work with HCL2 templates; indicated by an
  error similar to fieldname type <no value> is invalid. Before executing a
  build with the upgraded template you are encouraged to run packer validate
  against the template and fix any invalid <no value> references.
  GH-12068
• core/hcl2: Packer will now report an error when executing a build with no
  sources selected for execution.
  GH-12016
• core/hcp: Configuration errors for HCP Packer enabled builds have been
  consolidated into a single report to help users address all potential
  issues before retrying their build.
  GH-12031
• core/hcp: Named builds within a legacy JSON template are now published to a
  HCP Packer registry using its full build name (e.g happycloud.windows-srv-2019),
  as opposed to just the build name field (e.g "name"="windows-srv-2019").
  Builders with no defined name will continue to publish build
  metadate using the builder type as the build name (e.g happycloud).
  GH-12059
• core:hcl2: When a variable is set in a variables definitions file (i.e
  *.pkrvars.hcl), but isn't defined with the template files (i.e
  *.pkr.hcl), the outputted error message will now include an example of
  variable block that can be added to the build template to remedy the issue.
  GH-12020
• core: Add ppc64le to binary releases for Linux.
  GH-11966
• core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2.
  GH-11981
• core: Bump supported Go version to 1.18.
  GH-11927

BUG FIXES:

• command/hcl2_upgrade: special case: Azure shared_image_gallery fix.
  GH-12087
• core: Bump golang.org/x/sys to address CVE-2022-29526.
  GH-11953
• core: Bump golang.org/x/text to v0.3.8.
  GH-12047
• core: Update dependency to resolve GO-2022-0969.
  GH-12009

v1.8.3

1.8.3 (August 2, 2022)

NOTES:

• There's been a change in the way the ssh_timeout and the
  ssh_handshake_attempts configuration arguments work together. The
  behaviour is unchanged if both or none are specified. However, if only one
  of the two is set the other won't have a default value anymore and will be
  ignored. See Packer Plugin SDK change for details

• packer-plugin-digitalocean: The Digital Ocean Packer plugin has been handed over
  to the Digital Ocean team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/digitalocean/packer-plugin-digitalocean. This plugin is
  still being bundled in the Packer binary but will be removed in a future
  release. Existing references to the plugin will continue to work but
  users are advised to update the required_plugins block to use the new
  plugin source address.
  GH-11912

required_plugins {
    digitalocean = {
     source =  "github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean"
     version = ">=1.0.8"
    }
}

• packer-plugin-outscale: The Outscale Packer plugin managed by the Outscale
  team, since Packer 1.7.9, has been removed from the Packer binary. Users are
  advised to install the latest version of the plugin by running
  packer plugins install github.com/outscale/outscale. GH-11912

• packer-plugin-outscale: The Scaleway Packer plugin managed by the Scaleway
  team, since Packer 1.7.7, has been removed from the Packer binary. Users are
  advised to install the latest version of the plugin by running
  packer plugins install github.com/scaleway/scaleway. GH-11912

FEATURES:

• Future Scaffolding: This release contains additional changes that allow
  Packer core to validate that a newly built image is a direct child of a HCP
  Packer registry source image. This feature is only available for HCP Packer
  enabled builds using the hcp_packer_image and hcp_packer_iteration data
  source for setting a builder's source image.
  GH-11861

PLUGINS:

The following external plugins have been updated and pinned to address open
issues. Please see their respective changelogs for details on plugin
specific bug fixes and improvements.

• amazon@v1.1.2 - CHANGELOG
• ansible@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• azure@v1.3.0 - CHANGELOG
• docker@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
• googlecompute@v1.0.14 - CHANGELOG
• lxc@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• triton@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• vsphere@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
• yandex@v1.1.2 - CHANGELOG

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Bump packer-plugin-sdk to v0.3.1 to fix inconsistencies between ssh_timeout
  and ssh_handshake_attempts configuration arguments in the SSH
  communicator. GH-11909
• core: During long running builds the HCP Packer registry will mark a build as
  timed out if it has not posted an update after a certain number of minutes. For HCP
  Packer enabled builds a status update will now be sent every 2 minutes to
  the registry to prevent long builds from being marked as timed
  out. GH-11846
• data/hcp_packer_image: Add component_type configuration argument to
  support specifying an exact build image when multiple images exist in the
  same provider and region for a given HCP Packer bucket iteration.
  GH-11872
• data/hcp_packer_image: Add support for channel as input argument to
  retrieve an image from the associated iteration. If
  using several images from a single iteration, you may prefer sourcing an
  iteration first, and referencing it for subsequent uses, as every
  hcp_packer_image with the channel set will generate a potentially
  billable HCP Packer request, but if several hcp_packer_images use a
  shared hcp_packer_iteration that will only generate one potentially
  billable request.
  GH-11865

BUG FIXES

• core/hcl2: Fix crash when parsing malformed provisioner override blocks.
  GH-11881
• core/hcl2: Fix crash when running packer validate on templates containing
  one or more HCP Packer data sources.
  GH-11883

v1.8.2

1.8.2 (June 21, 2022)

NOTES:

The Packer plugin SDK includes the latest version of the go-getter library, which has been updated to address the vulnerabilities listed in HCSEC-2022-13.

The updated SDK contains changes that can be breaking for some plugins as the updated go-getter settings in the SDK prevent reading/writing through symlinks and to sub-directories that require upward path traversal (e.g /tmp/.../etc/hosts). The updates also includes a 30 minute maximum timeout for file downloading, which can be an issue for very large or slow downloads if they exceed more than 30 minutes to complete.

SECURITY:

• Bump packer-plugin-sdk to v0.3.0 to address reported vulnerabilities within
  the go-getter library.
  GH-11843
• Bump plugins relying on go-getter for downloading remote files to address
  reported vulnerabilities within the go-getter library. See HCSEC-2022-13 for details.
  GH-11844

FEATURES:

• Future Scaffolding: This release contains changes that allow Packer core to
  validate that a newly built image is a direct child of a HCP Packer
  registry source image. This feature is only available for HCP Packer
  enabled builds using the hcp_packer_image data source for setting a
  builder's source image.
  GH-11832

PLUGINS:

External plugins have been pinned to the following versions. Please see their
respective changelogs for details on plugin specific bug fixes and
improvements.

• azure@v1.1.0 - CHANGELOG
• hyperv@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• parallels@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• proxmox@v1.0.8 - CHANGELOG
• qemu@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• vagrant@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• virtualbox@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• vmware@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
• vsphere@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Add pause_after configuration argument to Powershell provisioner.
  GH-11792
• HCP Packer data sources will now fail for revoked iterations to prevent building non-compliant images.
  GH-11854

BUG FIXES:

• Add missing support for the env configuration argument in remote shell
  provisioners. GH-11819
• The preinst and postrm user scripts, including the service configuration
  directives, have been removed from the Packer rpm installations packages,
  as Packer does not require a service user in order to run.
  GH-11831

v1.8.1

1.8.1 (May 27, 2022)

NOTES:

• All bundled plugins have been updated to their latest release to address any
  open issues pertaining to the legacy SSH key algorithm fix made to the
  Packer plugin SDK.
  GH-11761
  GH-11802
• This release contains the latest golang.org/x/crypto/ssh module which
  implements client authentication support for signature algorithms based on
  SHA-2 for use with existing RSA keys. Previously, a client would fail to
  authenticate with RSA keys to servers that reject signature algorithms
  based on SHA-1.

FEATURES:

• New Datasource HTTP datasource retrieves information from a HTTP
  endpoint to be used during Packer builds.
  GH-11658

PLUGINS:

External plugins have been pinned to the following versions. Please see their
respective changelogs for details on plugin specific bug fixes and
improvements.

• alicloud@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• amazon@v1.1.0 - CHANGELOG
• ansible@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• azure@v1.0.8 - CHANGELOG
• chef@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• cloudstack@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• converge@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• digitalocean@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• docker@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• googlecompute@v1.0.13 - CHANGELOG
• hcloud@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• hyperone@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• hyperv@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• inspec@v1.0.0 - CHANGELOG
• jdcloud@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• linode@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• lxc@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• lxd@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• ncloud@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• oneandone@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• openstack@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• oracle@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• parallels@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• profitbricks@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• proxmox@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
• puppet@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• qemu@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• salt@v1.0.0 - CHANGELOG
• tencentcloud@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• triton@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• ucloud@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• vagrant@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• virtualbox@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• vmware@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• vsphere@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• yandex@v1.1.1 - CHANGELOG

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Bump hcp-sdk-go to latest version.
  GH-11763
• Plugins installed via the packer plugins install command will now
  automatically load for builds using HCL2 templates without a
  required_plugins block.
  GH-11712
• Plugins installed via the packer plugins install command will now
  automatically load for builds using JSON templates.
  GH-11712

BUG FIXES:

• Bump github.com/hashicorp/go-getter to fix the untarring of OVA files
  regression. GH-11675
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to address legacy SSH key
  algorithms in SSH communicator.
  GH-11774
  GH-11754

v1.8.0

1.8.0 (March 4, 2022)

NOTES:

• Breaking Change: The packer-plugin-check(github.com/hashicorp/packer/cmd/packer-plugins-check) has been replaced by the packer-sdc plugin-check command. Plugin maintainers who may be using the packer-plugin-check as part of their release pipeline are encouraged to move to the packer-sdc command. As an alternative, maintainers can continue to use the packer-plugin-check by pinning the command to Packer 1.7.10. GH-11317

FEATURES

• New Command packer plugins command and subcommands to manage external
  plugins. GH-11553
  GH-11625

IMPROVEMENTS

• core: Add a env argument to provisioner blocks that allow for setting a
  map of key/value pairs to inject prior to the execute_command. The env argument
  is an alternative to using environment_vars for setting environment variables,
  which has the added ability to read from Packer datasources. GH-11569
• core: Bump version of go-getter to allow for downloading ISOs with PGP signed
  checksums. GH-11495
• core: Docker images are now available for all supported architectures that
  the linux binaries are built for including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64
  GH-11564
  GH-11601
  GH-11603
• core: Packer's linux package service configs and pre/post install scripts are
  now available under .release/linux.
  GH-11601
  GH-11603
• core: Packer's linux packages are now available for all supported linux
  architectures including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64
  GH-11564
  GH-11601
  GH-11603
• core: The dockerfile that is used to build the packer docker image available
  at hashicorp/packer now lives in the root of this repo. The README that
  describes how to build the docker targets defined in the Dockerfile are
  available under ./release/docker/README.md.
  GH-11564
  GH-11601
  GH-11603
• core: The packer-plugin-check command has been removed. Plugin maintainers
  should update their release configuration to use the packer-sdc plugin- check command. GH-11317

BUG FIXES

• core/hcl2: Fixes an issue preventing builds from pausing between provisioners when
  the --debug argument has been passed.
  GH-11537
• core/hcl2: Fixes a data loss issue when merging an empty-object map to a non-
  empty map variable.
  GH-11566
• core/hcl2: Fixes a regression where references to locals via the lookup
  function were failing to find defined keys.
  GH-11566
• core/hcl2: Fixes an issue where HCP Packer build labels from the first
  completed build image were being copied to all images within the same
  build. GH-11574
  GH-11584
• core: HCP Packer datasources will no longer fail for iterations with
  scheduled revocations.
  GH-11619
• core: Packer darwin builds now use macOS system DNS resolver for resolving
  hostnames.GH-9710
  GH-11564

v1.7.10

Packer patch release version 1.7.10

v1.7.9

Packer patch release version 1.7.9

v1.7.8

Packer patch release version 1.7.8