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Packer is a useful application for the users who need to create virtual machine images that can be used on multiple platforms. This package includes multiple command line tools that enable you to create identical images with minimum effort.

The tools support VMware, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean platforms out of the box and enable you to extend their usage by using plugins.

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    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 behavior of some HCP Packer-specific environment variables have 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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    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.
    alicloud@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
    amazon@v1.1.6 - CHANGELOG
    proxmox@v1.1.0 - CHANGELOG
    vsphere@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
    qemu@v1.0.8 - 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

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    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.
    Core/hcp: The bucket's description was not properly set in the bucket object sent to HCP Packer leaving all newly created buckets with an empty description. [GH-12235] GH-12235

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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 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 sub-command will now add required_plugins to the template generated from JSON for official plugins. GH-12504

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    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

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    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.

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    IMPROVEMENTS:

    cmd/plugins: Add support for installing local development binaries to packer plugins install.
    core: Validate bucket name when using hcp_packer_registry block.
    core: Update github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go from 0.83.0 to 0.85.0.

    BUG FIXES:

    core/hcp: HCP Packer build failures properly distinguish between incompatible plugins and general publishing errors.

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NOTES

    A LICENSE.txt file has been added to the Packer release artifacts.
    12981

FEATURES

    Packer users can now track Packer version and plugin versions used for each
    build artifact in HCP Packer.
    GH-12891
    GH-12910
    GH-12923
    GH-12926

SECURITY

    Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 to address GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g .
    GH-12928
    Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.24.0 to address GO-2024-2687.
    GH-12924

BUG FIXES

    cmd/fmt: Display information error when Packer fmt fails due to HCL2
    parsing error. GH-12870

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