* core: Affects Windows guests: User variables containing Powershell special characters no longer need to be escaped.[GH-5376]
* provisioner/powershell: Regression from v1.1.1 forcing extra escaping of environment variables in the non-elevated provisioner has been fixed. [GH-5515] [GH-5872]
* 3rd party plugins: We have moved internal dependencies, meaning your 3rd party plugins will no longer compile (however existing builds will still work fine); the work to fix them is minimal and documented in GH-5810. [GH-5810]
* provisioner/file: We've made destination semantics more consistent across the various communicators. In general, if the destination is a directory, files will be uploaded into the directory instead of failing. This mirrors the behavior of `rsync`. There's a chance some users might be depending on the previous buggy behavior, so it's worth ensuring your configuration is correct. [GH-5426]
* builder/openstack: Extension support has been removed. To use OpenStack builder with the OpenStack Newton (Oct 2016) or earlier, we recommend you use Packer v1.1.2 or earlier version.
* builder/amazon: The `ssh_private_ip` option has been removed. Instead, please use `"ssh_interface": "private"`. A fixer has been written for this, which can be invoked with `packer fix`. [GH-5876]
* 3rd party plugins: We have moved internal dependencies, meaning your 3rd
party plugins will no longer compile (however existing builds will still
work fine); the work to fix them is minimal and documented in GH-5810.
[GH-5810]
* builder/amazon: The `ssh_private_ip` option has been removed. Instead, please
use `"ssh_interface": "private"`. A fixer has been written for this, which
can be invoked with `packer fix`. [GH-5876]
* builder/openstack: Extension support has been removed. To use OpenStack
builder with the OpenStack Newton (Oct 2016) or earlier, we recommend you
use Packer v1.1.2 or earlier version.
* core: Affects Windows guests: User variables containing Powershell special
characters no longer need to be escaped.[GH-5376]
* provisioner/file: We've made destination semantics more consistent across the
various communicators. In general, if the destination is a directory, files
will be uploaded into the directory instead of failing. This mirrors the
behavior of `rsync`. There's a chance some users might be depending on the
previous buggy behavior, so it's worth ensuring your configuration is
correct. [GH-5426]
* provisioner/powershell: Regression from v1.1.1 forcing extra escaping of
environment variables in the non-elevated provisioner has been fixed.
[GH-5515] [GH-5872]
### IMPROVEMENTS:
* **New builder:**`scaleway` - The Scaleway Packer builder is able to create new images for use with Scaleway BareMetal and Virtual cloud server. [GH-4770]
* **New builder:**`ncloud` for building server images using the NAVER Cloud Platform. [GH-5791]
* **New builder:**`oci-classic` for building new custom images for use with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic Compute. [GH-5819]
* builder/docker: Remove credentials from being shown in the log. [GH-5666]
* builder/triton: Triton RBAC is now supported. [GH-5741]
* provisioner/ansible: Improve user retrieval. [GH-5758]
* post-processor/docker: Remove credentials from being shown in the log. [GH-5666]
* builder/amazon: Warn during prepare if we didn't get both an access key and a secret key when we were expecting one. [GH-5762]
* builder/amazon: Replace `InstanceStatusOK` check with `InstanceReady`. This reduces build times universally while still working for all instance types. [GH-5678]
* **New builder:**`ncloud` for building server images using the NAVER Cloud
Platform. [GH-5791]
* **New builder:**`oci-classic` for building new custom images for use with
* communicator/ssh: Detect dead connections. [GH-4709]
* core: Gracefully clean up resources on SIGTERM. [GH-5318]
* core: Improved error logging in floppy file handling. [GH-5802]
* core: Improved support for downloading and validating a uri containing a
Windows UNC path or a relative file:// scheme. [GH-2906]
* post-processor/amazon-import: Allow user to specify role name in amazon-
import [GH-5817]
* post-processor/docker: Remove credentials from being shown in the log.
[GH-5666]
* post-processor/google-export: Synchronize credential semantics with the
Google builder. [GH-4148]
* post-processor/vagrant: Add vagrant post-processor support for Google
[GH-5732]
* post-processor/vsphere-template: Now accepts artifacts from the vSphere post-
processor. [GH-5380]
* provisioner/amazon: Use Amazon SDK's InstanceRunning waiter instead of
InstanceStatusOK waiter [GH-5773]
* provisioner/ansible: Improve user retrieval. [GH-5758]
* provisioner/chef: Add support for 'trusted_certs_dir' chef-client
configuration option [GH-5790]
* provisioner/chef: Added Policyfile support to chef-client provisioner.
[GH-5831]
### BUG FIXES:
* provisioner/ansible-remote: Fixes an error where Packer's private key can be overridden by inherited `ansible_ssh_private_key` options. [GH-5869]
* builder/alicloud-ecs: Attach keypair before starting instance in alicloud builder [GH-5739]
* builder/vmware: Fixed file handle leak that may have caused race conditions in vmware builder [GH-5767]
* provisioner/powershell: Regression from v1.1.1 forcing extra escaping of environment variables in the non-elevated provisioner has been fixed. [GH-5515] [GH-5872]
* provisioner/ansible: The "default extra variables" feature added in Packer v1.0.1 caused the ansible-local provisioner to fail when an --extra-vars argument was specified in the extra_arguments configuration option; this has been fixed. [GH-5335]
* communicator/ssh: Add deadline to SSH connection to prevent Packer hangs after script provisioner reboots vm [GH-4684]
* builder/virtualbox: Fix regression affecting users running Packer on a Windows host that kept Packer from finding Virtualbox guest additions if Packer ran on a different drive from the one where the guest additions were stored. [GH-5761]
* builder/virtualbox: Fix interpolation ordering so that edge cases around guest_additions_url are handled correctly [GH-5757]
* builder/amazon: NewSession now inherits MaxRetries and other settings. [GH-5719]
* builder/alicloud-ecs: Attach keypair before starting instance in alicloud
builder [GH-5739]
* builder/amazon: Fix tagging support when building in us-gov/china. [GH-5841]
* builder/vmware: Fix case where artifacts might not be cleaned up correctly. [GH-5835]
* provisioner/ansible-local: Fix support for `--extra-vars` in `extra_arguments`. [GH-5703]
* builder/amazon: NewSession now inherits MaxRetries and other settings.
[GH-5719]
* builder/virtualbox: Fix interpolation ordering so that edge cases around
guest_additions_url are handled correctly [GH-5757]
* builder/virtualbox: Fix regression affecting users running Packer on a
Windows host that kept Packer from finding Virtualbox guest additions if
Packer ran on a different drive from the one where the guest additions were
stored. [GH-5761]
* builder/vmware: Fix case where artifacts might not be cleaned up correctly.
[GH-5835]
* builder/vmware: Fixed file handle leak that may have caused race conditions
in vmware builder [GH-5767]
* communicator/ssh: Add deadline to SSH connection to prevent Packer hangs
Matthew Hooker
8 years ago