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 has been merged with the Packer core. It will be officially supported by the
 Packer team at HashiCorp moving forward. [GH-8480]
 
+** HCL2 variables & functions ** HCL2 configurations can now use `variable`, 
+`variables`, `locals`, and functions [GH-8588].
+
 ### IMPROVEMENTS:
 * builder/alicloud: Add AlicloudProfile option. [GH-8560]
 * builder/amazon: Add max_retries option to aws builders [GH-8709]