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09 Feb 23:43

v1.9.0-alpha

d8194a4

v1.9.0-alpha Pre-release

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12 Dec 23:02

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v1.8.5

e4f3138

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.

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

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28 Oct 15:47

hc-github-team-es-release-engineering

v1.8.4

83cc093

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

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02 Aug 18:44

hc-github-team-es-release-engineering

v1.8.3

38b47d8

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.

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

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21 Jun 21:16

hc-github-team-es-release-engineering

v1.8.2

f0e24a2

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.

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

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27 May 20:10

hc-github-team-es-release-engineering

v1.8.1

467529f

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.

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

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04 Mar 21:16

hc-github-team-es-release-engineering

v1.8.0

1c398a7

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

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02 Feb 22:30

packer-ci

v1.7.10

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v1.7.10

Packer patch release version 1.7.10

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v1.7.9

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v1.7.9

Packer patch release version 1.7.9

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v1.7.8

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v1.7.8

Packer patch release version 1.7.8

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