v1.9.5

1.9.5 (December 4, 2023)

SECURITY

• Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 to address GO-2023-2334.
  GH-12723

BUG FIXES:

• Add VirtualBox as known plugin prefix to prevent endless bundled plugin warning.
  GH-12719

v1.9.4

1.9.4 (August 18, 2023)

BUG FIXES:

• core: When invoking Packer with the CHECKPOINT_DISABLE environment variable the telemetry
  reporter is left uninitialized in order to disable telemetry reporting.
  Any method calls on the nil reporter is expected to check if the reporter is active or in
  NOOP mode. The SetBundledUsage function, introduced in Packer 1.9.2, failed to perform a nil
  check before attempting to modify an attribute, causing Packer to fail when telemetry is
  disabled. This release fixes this issue by introducing such a check.

v1.9.3

1.9.3 (August 17, 2023)

NOTES:

• New Docker Image: As part of the bundled plugin removal effort, a new
  Docker target called release-full has been added to the Packer release
  artifacts. The release-full image includes Packer and all the official
  plugins pre-installed in its environment. This image is being offered as an
  alternative option for those users who may still be relying on the plugin
  versions bundled into the Packer binary.
  GH-12532

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core/docs: Clarify the expected usage of the packer init command for HCL2
  template builds.GH-12535
• core/hcp: Add support for project-level service principals. A user connecting
  with a project level service principals must provide a valid HCP_PROJECT_ID
  in order to connect.
  GH-12520
  GH-12576
• core: A new Docker image packer:release-full has been added for all
  supported architectures. The release-full image includes Packer and all the
  official plugins pre-installed in its environment.
  GH-12532
• core: Add enhanced support to Packer telemetry for bundle plugins usage.
  GH-12536

BUG FIXES:

• core: Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.13.0 to address CVE GO-2023-1988. Packer
  itself is not vulnerable to the CVE as we don't render web pages, but
  security checks do point it as an issue that needs to be addressed.
  GH-12561
• core: Fix custom plugin loading in current working directory regression.
  GH-12544

v1.9.2

1.9.2 (July 19, 2023)

NOTES:

• Vendored plugins within Packer have not been updated. Plugin releases occur on
  a regular basis to address issues and feature requests.
  Please note that in an upcoming version of Packer, we will remove the last
  bundled plugins from Packer.
  Users are encouraged to use packer init for HCL2 templates or
  packer plugins install with legacy JSON templates for installing external
  plugins.

• Packer will now warn when using bundled plugins. This feature will be removed in
  a future version of the tool, so this warning is meant to bring awareness of the
  upcoming change, and to help users update their environment/templates to be
  ready for this.
  GH-12495

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bug with how Packer was discovering plugins: in order to load
  plugins, Packer would recursively scan all the known directories in which
  we could have installed plugins. This caused unnecessary directory
  walks and slowdowns upon invocation. Packer will now only check
  for nested plugins within the directories used by commands such as packer init, or packer plugins install, or as defined in PACKER_PLUGIN_PATH.
  Refer to
  Packer's plugin directory documentation
  for details on how loading works.
  GH-12414

• The packer init subcommand now bundles all the missing installed plugins into one
  condensed warning, as opposed to one warning per missing plugin.
  GH-12506

PLUGINS:

• packer-plugin-parallels: The Parallels plugin has been handed over to the Parallels
  team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/parallels/packer-plugin-parallels. This plugin is is no longer
  being bundled in the Packer binary 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-12476

   required_plugins {
     parallels = {
       source  =  "github.com/parallels/parallels"
       version =  "~> 1"
      }
  }
  

IMPROVEMENTS:

• The hcl2_upgrade subcommand will now add required_plugins to the template
  generated from JSON for all our officially supported plugins.
  GH-12504

v1.9.1

1.9.1 (June 1, 2023)

BUG FIXES:

• On May 16th 2023, HCP introduced multi-project support to the platform.
  In order to use multiple projects in your organization, you will need to update Packer
  to version 1.9.1 or above. Starting with 1.9.1, you may specify a project ID to push
  builds to with the HCP_PROJECT_ID environment variable. If no project ID is specified,
  Packer will pick the project with the oldest creation date. Older versions of Packer are
  incompatible with multi-project support on HCP, and builds will fail for HCP
  organizations with multiple projects on versions before 1.9.1.
  GH-12453

v1.9.0

1.9.0 (May 31, 2023)

NOTES:

• Breaking Change: Iteration fingerprints used to be computed from the Git SHA of the
  repository where the template is located when running packer build. This
  changes with this release, and now fingerprints are automatically generated
  as a ULID. This implies that continuing an existing iteration will require
  users to define the fingerprint in the environment manually in order to
  adopt this behaviour, otherwise, by default, a new iteration will be
  created. This does not impact workflows where the fingerprint was defined
  through the HCP_PACKER_ITERATION_FINGERPRINT environment variable, and
  these builds will work exactly as they did before.
  GH-12172

• Breaking Change: Community-maintained plugins bundled with the Packer binary have been removed.
  These external plugin components are released independently of Packer core and can be installed
  directly by the user. Users relying on the external plugin components listed below should refer
  to the packer plugins sub-command and, if using HCL2, a required_plugins block to define a
  list of plugins for building a template.

PLUGINS

• Remove provisioner plugins for Chef, Converge, Puppet, Salt, and Inspec as
  vendored plugins. These plugins have been previously archived and not
  updated in release since being archived. These plugins can be installed
  using packer init or with the Packer plugins sub-command packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/chef.
  GH-12374

• The following community plugins won't be bundled with Packer anymore:

  • Alicloud
  • CloudStack
  • HCloud
  • HyperOne
  • Hyper-V
  • JDCloud
  • LXC
  • LXD
  • NCloud
  • OpenStack
  • Proxmox
  • TencentCloud
  • Triton
  • Yandex

  GH-12436

Users relying on these external plugin components should refer to the packer plugins sub-command and,
if using HCL2, a required_plugins block to define a list of plugins to use for building a template.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core/hcp: Now, fingerprints used by HCP Packer are randomly generated ULIDs
  instead of a Git SHA, and a new one is always generated, unless one is
  specified in the environment.
  GH-12172

BUG FIXES:

• Fix LDFLAGS for release pipelines: Between Packer 1.8.5 and Packer 1.8.7, changes
  to the LDFLAGS in use for building the binaries for Packer had mistakenly
  removed some compilation flags, leading to the final binaries not being stripped.
  This change raised the size of the built binaries by as much as 45%.
  In this release, we fixed the LDFLAGS during compilation, yielding leaner binaries.

• Bumped gopsutil to v3. This fixes a macOS intermittent crash reported by the community
  GH-12430

v1.8.7

1.8.7 (May 4, 2023)

Warning
The version/version.go file tagged in this release refers to 1.8.6. If you are building Packer from source
please make sure to set the version information using ldflags at build time.

LD_FLAGS="-X github.com/hashicorp/packer/version.Version=1.8.7 -X github.com/hashicorp/packer/version.VersionPrerelease="
go build -o "$BIN_PATH"  --ldflags=$LD_FLAGS

NOTES:

• Vendored plugins within Packer have not been updated. Plugin releases occur on
  a regular basis to address issues and feature requests. Users are encouraged
  to use packer init for HCL2 templates or packer plugins install with
  legacy JSON templates for installing external plugins.

• 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.

   required_plugins {
   	digitalocean = {
   	 source =  "github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean"
   	 version = ">=1.1.1"
   	}
   }
  

• packer-plugin-linode: The Linode plugin has been handed over to the Linode
  team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/linode/packer-plugin-linode. This plugin is is no longer
  being bundled in the Packer binary 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-12329

   required_plugins {
     linode = {
       source  =  "github.com/linode/linode"
       version = ">=1.0.5"
      }
  }
  

• packer-plugin-ucloud: The UCloud plugin has been handed over to the UCloud
  team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud. This plugin is is no longer
  being bundled in the Packer binary 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-12335

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

• packer-plugin-profitbricks: The Profitbricks plugin has been removed as a
  bundled plugin in Packer. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-profitbricks. This plugin is is
  no longer being bundled in the Packer binary 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-12385

   required_plugins {
      ucloud = {
       source  =  "github.com/hashicorp/profitbricks"
       version = ">=1.0.2"
      }
  }
  

PLUGINS

• core: Migrate external Linode plugin to linode/packer-plugin-linode.
  GH-12329
• core: Migrate external UCloud plugin to ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud.
  GH-12335
• core: Remove external plugin for Digital Ocean as a vendored plugin.
  GH-12376
• core: Remove external plugins for Profitbricks and 1&1 as vendored plugins.
  GH-12385
• docs: Add HCP Ready label to Oracle builder components.
  GH-12217

IMPROVEMENTS

• cmd/console: Add config-type flag to command help.
  GH-12360
• core: Add enhanced support to Packer telemetry for HCL2.
  GH-12319
• Enhance zsh completion for the Packer command.
  GH-12356,
  GH-12366

BUG FIXES

• cmd/hcl2_upgrade: Fix a crash when running the hcl2_upgrade command against a
  legacy JSON template containing user variables with an undefined variables
  block. GH-12257
• core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go to 0.36.0.
  GH-12292
• core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to 0.4.0 to address
  CVE-2023-0475, CVE-2022-41723.
  GH-12306
• core: Bump Go module version to 1.20
  GH-12380
• core: Fix regression introduced in 1.8.6, where legacy JSON templates with
  custom builder names are outputted to STDOUT as uninterpolated user
  variables. GH-12290

v1.8.6

1.8.6 (February 15, 2023)

NOTES:

• core: Users will see some changes in how names are displayed during a Packer
  build for JSON templates. Previously only the builder type or the builder
  name, if it was set, would be displayed. Now for named builders
  ("name":"mybuilder") the builder's type and name will be displayed (i.e
  ".mybuilder". This does not impact the behavior of options such as
  only or except, they will continue to work as they did before.)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Bump bundled plugins to latest available version.
  GH-12271
• bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go from 0.28.0 to 0.29.0
  GH-12163
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go from 0.33.0 to 0.34.0
  GH-12262
• core/hcl2: Packer will no longer warn on excluded post-processors when using
  -only/exlude filters for running select builds.
  GH-12187

BUG FIXES:

• cmd/hcl2_upgrade: Fix crash when variables block is undefined.
  GH-12250
• core/hcl2: Templates with build blocks referencing an unknown source block
  would display an empty string for the template filename at line 0, which
  made it difficult to identify the broken build block. Packer has been
  updated to display the proper filename and line number where the unknown
  reference resides.
  GH-12167
• core: Linux packages now have vendor label and set the default label to
  HashiCorp. This fix is implemented for any future releases, but will not be
  updated for historical releases.

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.

• [email protected] - CHANGELOG
• [email protected] - CHANGELOG
• [email protected] - CHANGELOG
• [email protected] - CHANGELOG
• [email protected] - 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