github.com/hashicorp/packer

IMPROVEMENTS:

We've extracted a majority of HashiCorp-maintained and community plugins from the Packer Core repository. They now live in their own multi-component plugin repositories. This is not a breaking change as we are enabling backwards compatibility in this release by vendoring components back into Packer. However, we encourage users to begin using packer init to download and install plugins to get the latest updates to each plugin, and to prepare for Packer v2.0 when we will stop vendoring the above plugins into the main Packer binary.

The following repositories have been created, and their components have been deleted from the "github.com/hashicorp/packer" repository.

• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-alicloud" [GH-10932]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon" [GH-10800]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-ansible" [GH-10912]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure" [GH-10979]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-chef" [GH-10921]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-cloudstack" [GH-10934]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-converge" [GH-10956]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-digitalocean" [GH-10961]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-docker" [GH-10695]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-googlecompute" [GH-10890]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hcloud" [GH-10966]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hyperone" [GH-10949]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hyperv" [GH-10949]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-inspec"
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-ionos-cloud"
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-jdcloud" [GH-10946]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-linode" [GH-10947]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-lxc" [GH-10965]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-lxd" [GH-10965]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-ncloud" [GH-10937]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-openstack" [GH-10933]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-oracle" [GH-10962]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-outscale" [GH-10941]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-parallels" [GH-10936]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-profitbricks" [GH-11084]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-proxmox" [GH-10930]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-puppet" [GH-10943]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu" [GH-10929]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-salt"
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-scaleway" [GH-10939]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-tencentcloud" [GH-10967]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-triton" [GH-10963]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-ucloud" [GH-10953]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vagrant" [GH-10960]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox" [GH-10910]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vmware" [GH-10920]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere" [GH-10896]
• "github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-yandex" [GH-10970]

The following components will not be removed from the main packer binary:

• null builder

• file builder

• breakpoint provisioner

• file provisioner

• powershell provisioner

• shell provisioner

• shell-local provisioner

• sleep provisioner

• windows-restart provisioner

• windows-shell provisioner

• artifice post-processor

• checksum post-processor

• compress post-processor

• manifest post-processor

• shell-local post-processor

Bug Fixes:

• builder/azure: Add keep_os_disk parameter to control OS disk deletion [GH-10045]
• builder/azure: Stop SIG timout from being overridden by PollingDuration [GH-10816]
• builder/azure: Support shared image gallery storage account type [GH-10863]
• builder/proxmox: Proxmox builder use ipv4 address instead of always ipv6. [GH-10858]
• core/hcl2_upgrade: Allow hcl2_upgrade continue with unknown builders. [GH-11049]
• core/hcl2_upgrade: Improve regex to fix escaping on split function. [GH-11083]
• core/hcl: Fix Invalid provisioner pause_before panic [GH-10978]
• core: HCL "index" function now actually returns the index of the element [GH-11008]
• core: Implemented DEFAULT_NAME handling for datasource plugins [GH-11026]

Enhancements:

• builder/azure: Added custom nicname and osdiskname [GH-10938]
• builder/azure: Add support for shared image gallery storage account type [GH-10863]
• builder/digitalocean: support ecdsa, ed25519, dsa temporary key types. [GH-10856]
• builder/ncloud: Support ncloud vpc version [GH-10870]
• core/fmt: When reading from stdin packer fmt will output the contents of the formatted file even if the input was already formatted. [GH-11047]
• core/hcl: HCL variables are now supported within the name, only, except, and keep_input_artifact fields for post-processor blocks. [GH-11094]
• core/hcl: Running packer build with an -only or -exclude flag will now inform the user if no match was found. [GH-11050]
• post-processor/compress: Add bzip2 support to post-processor [GH-10867]
• post-processor/googlecompute-import: Add Image Storage Locations field [GH-10864]
• Removed the golang "vendor" directory in favor of go modules. This should not affect end users. [GH-10916]