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IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/amazon: Correctly deregister AMIs when force_deregister is set. [GH-5525]
• builder/digitalocean: Add ipv6 option to enable on droplet. [GH-5534]
• builder/docker: Add aws_profile option to control the aws profile for ECR. [GH-5470]
• builder/google: Add clean_image_name template engine. [GH-5463]
• builder/google: Allow selecting container optimized images. [GH-5576]
• builder/google: Interpolate network and subnetwork values, rather than relying on an API call that packer may not have permission for. [GH-5343]
• builder/hyper-v: Add disk_additional_size option to allow for up to 64 additional disks. [GH-5491]
• builder/hyper-v: Also disable automatic checkpoints for gen 2 VMs. [GH-5517]
• builder/lxc: Add new publish_properties field to set image properties. [GH-5475]
• builder/lxc: Add three new configuration option categories to LXC builder: create_options, start_options, and attach_options. [GH-5530]
• builder/triton: Add source_machine_image_filter option to select an image ID based on a variety of parameters. [GH-5538]
• builder/virtualbox-ovf: Error during prepare if source path doesn't exist. [GH-5573]
• builder/virtualbox-ovf: Retry while removing VM to solve for transient errors. [GH-5512]
• communicator/ssh: Add socks 5 proxy support. [GH-5439]
• core/iso_config: Support relative paths in checksum file. [GH-5578]
• core: Rewrite vagrantfile code to make cross-platform development easier. [GH-5539]
• post-processor/docker-push: Add aws_profile option to control the aws profile for ECR. [GH-5470]
• post-processor/vsphere: Properly capture ovftool output. [GH-5499]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Add a delay option to security group waiter. [GH-5536]
• builder/amazon: Fix regressions relating to spot instances and EBS volumes. [GH-5495]
• builder/amazon: Set region from profile, if profile is set, rather than being overridden by metadata. [GH-5562]
• builder/docker: Remove login_email, which no longer exists in the docker client. [GH-5511]
• builder/hyperv: Fix admin check that was causing powershell failures. [GH-5510]
• builder/oracle: Defaulting of OCI builder region will first check the packer template and the OCI config file. [GH-5407]
• builder/triton: Fix a bug where partially created images can be reported as complete. [GH-5566]
• post-processor/vsphere: Use the vm disk path information to re-create the vmx datastore path. [GH-5567]
• provisioner/windows-restart: Wait for restart no longer endlessly loops if user specifies a custom restart check command. [GH-5563]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• New builder: hyperv-vmcx for building images from existing VMs. [GH-4944] [GH-5444]
• builder/amazon-instance: Add .Token as a variable in the BundleUploadCommand template. [GH-5288]
• builder/amazon: Add temporary_security_group_source_cidr option to control ingress to source instances. [GH-5384]
• builder/amazon: Output AMI Name during prevalidation. [GH-5389]
• builder/amazon: Support template functions in tag keys. [GH-5381]
• builder/amazon: Tag volumes on creation instead of as a separate step. [GH-5417]
• builder/docker: Add option to set --user flag when running exec. [GH-5406]
• builder/docker: Set file owner to container user when uploading. Can be disabled by setting fix_upload_owner to false. [GH-5422]
• builder/googlecompute: Support setting labels on the resulting image. [GH-5356]
• builder/hyper-v: Add vhd_temp_path option to control where the VHD resides while it's being provisioned. [GH-5206]
• builder/hyper-v: Allow vhd or vhdx source images instead of just ISO. [GH-4944] [GH-5444]
• builder/hyper-v: Disable automatic checkpoints. [GH-5374]
• builder/virtualbox-ovf: Add keep_registered option. [GH-5336]
• builder/vmware: Add disable_vnc option to prevent VNC connections from being made. [GH-5436]
• core: Releases will now be built for ppc64le.
• post-processor/vagrant: When building from a builder/hyper-v artifact, link instead of copy when available. [GH-5207]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/cloudstack: Fix panic if build is aborted. [GH-5388]
• builder/hyper-v: Respect enable_dynamic_memory flag. [GH-5363]
• builder/puppet-masterless: Make sure directories created with sudo are writable by the packer user. [GH-5351]
• provisioner/chef-solo: Fix issue installing chef-solo on Windows. [GH-5357]
• provisioner/powershell: Fix issue setting environment variables by writing them to a file, instead of the command line. [GH-5345]
• provisioner/powershell: Fix issue where powershell scripts could hang. [GH-5082]
• provisioner/powershell: Fix Powershell progress stream leak to stderr for normal and elevated commands. [GH-5365]
• provisioner/puppet-masterless: Fix bug where puppet_bin_dir wasn't being respected. [GH-5340]
• provisioner/puppet: Fix setting facter vars on Windows. [GH-5341]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/alicloud: Update alicloud go sdk and enable multi sites support for alicloud [GH-5219]
• builder/amazon: Upgrade aws-sdk-go to 1.10.14, add tags at instance run time. [GH-5196]
• builder/azure: Add object_id to windows_custom_image.json. [GH-5285]
• builder/azure: Add support for storage account for managed images. [GH-5244]
• builder/azure: Update pkcs12 package. [GH-5301]
• builder/cloudstack: Add support for Security Groups. [GH-5175]
• builder/docker: Uploading files and directories now use docker cp. [GH-5273] [GH-5333]
• builder/googlecompute: Add labels option for labeling launched instances. [GH-5308]
• builder/googlecompute: Add support for accelerator api. [GH-5137]
• builder/profitbricks: added support for Cloud API v4. [GH-5233]
• builder/vmware-esxi: Remote builds now respect output_directory [GH-4592]
• builder/vmware: Set artifact ID to VMName. [GH-5187]
• core: Build solaris binary by default. [GH-5268] [GH-5248]
• core: Remove LGPL dependencies. [GH-5262]
• provisioner/puppet: Add guest_os_type option to add support for Windows. [GH-5252]
• provisioner/salt-masterless: Also use sudo to clean up if we used sudo to install. [GH-5240]

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• builder/amazon: Changes way that AMI artifacts are printed out after build, aligning them to builder. Could affect output parsing. [GH-5281]
• builder/amazon: Split enhanced_networking into sriov_support and ena_support to support finer grained control. Use packer fix <template.json> to automatically update your template to use ena_support where previously there was only enhanced_networking. Make sure to also add sriov_support if you need that feature, and to ensure ena_support is what you intended to be in your template. [GH-5284]
• builder/cloudstack: Setup temporary SSH keypair; backwards incompatible in the uncommon case that the source image allowed SSH auth with password but not with keypair. [GH-5174]
• communicator/ssh: Renamed ssh_disable_agent to ssh_disable_agent_forwarding. Need to run fixer on packer configs that use ssh_disable_agent. [GH-5024]
• communicator: Preserve left-sided white-space in remote command output. Make sure any scripts that parse this output can handle the new whitespace before upgrading. [GH-5167]
• provisioner/shell: Set default for ExpectDisconnect to false. If your script causes the connection to be reset, you should set this to true to prevent errors. [GH-5283]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: force_deregister works in all regions, not just original region. [GH-5250]
• builder/docker: Directory uploads now use the same semantics as the rest of the communicators. [GH-5333]
• builder/vmware: Fix timestamp in default VMName. [GH-5274]
• builder/winrm: WinRM now waits to make sure commands can run successfully before considering itself connected. [GH-5300]
• core: Fix issue where some builders wouldn't respect -on-error behavior. [GH-5297]
• provisioner/windows-restart: The first powershell provisioner after a restart now works. [GH-5272]

FEATURES:

• New builder: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builder for creating custom images. [GH-4554]
• New builder: lxc for building lxc images. [GH-3523]
• New builder: lxd for building lxd images. [GH-3625]
• New post-processor: vSphere Template post-processor to be used with vmware-iso builder enabling user to mark a VM as a template. [GH-5114]