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