github.com/hashicorp/packer

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/alicloud: Increase polling timeout. [GH-5148]
• builder/azure: Add private_virtual_network_with_public_ip option to optionally obtain a public IP. [GH-5222]
• builder/googlecompute: use a more portable method of obtaining zone. [GH-5192]
• builder/hyperv: Properly interpolate user variables in template. [GH-5184]
• builder/parallels: Remove soon to be removed --vmtype flag in createvm. [GH-5172]
• contrib: add json files to zsh completion. [GH-5195]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Don't delete snapshots we didn't create. [GH-5211]
• builder/amazon: fix builds when using the null communicator. [GH-5217]
• builder/docker: Correctly handle case when uploading an empty directory. [GH-5234]
• command/push: Don't push variables if they are unspecified. Reverts to behavior in 1.0.1. [GH-5235]
• command/push: fix handling of symlinks. [GH-5226]
• core: Strip query parameters from ISO URLs when checking against a checksum file. [GH-5181]
• provisioner/ansible-remote: Fix issue where packer could hang communicating with ansible-remote. [GH-5146]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/azure: Update to latest Azure SDK, enabling support for managed disks. [GH-4511]
• builder/cloudstack: Add default cidr_list [ 0.0.0.0/0 ]. [GH-5125]
• builder/cloudstack: Add support for ssh_agent_auth. [GH-5130]
• builder/cloudstack: Add support for using a HTTP server. [GH-5017]
• builder/cloudstack: Allow reading api_url, api_key, and secret_key from env vars. [GH-5124]
• builder/cloudstack: Make expunge optional and improve logging output. [GH-5099]
• builder/googlecompute: Allow using URL's for network and subnetwork. [GH-5035]
• builder/hyperv: Add support for floppy_dirs with hyperv-iso builder.
• builder/hyperv: Add support for override of system %temp% path.
• core: Experimental Android ARM support. [GH-5111]
• post-processor/atlas: Disallow packer push of vagrant.box artifacts to atlas. [GH-4780]
• postprocessor/atlas: Disallow pushing vagrant.box artifacts now that Vagrant cloud is live. [GH-4780]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Fix panic that happens if ami_block_device_mappings is empty. [GH-5059]
• builder/azure: Write private SSH to file in debug mode. [GH-5070] [GH-5074]
• builder/cloudstack: Properly report back errors. [GH-5103] [GH-5123]
• builder/docker: Fix windows filepath in docker-toolbox call [GH-4887]
• builder/docker: Fix windows filepath in docker-toolbox call. [GH-4887]
• builder/hyperv: Use SID to verify membership in Admin group, fixing for non- english users. [GH-5022]
• builder/hyperv: Verify membership in the group Hyper-V Administrators by SID not name. [GH-5022]
• builder/openstack: Update gophercloud version, fixing builds > 1 hr long. [GH-5046]
• builder/parallels: Skip missing paths when looking for unnecessary files. [GH-5058]
• builder/vmware-esxi: Fix VNC port discovery default timeout. [GH-5051]
• communicator/ssh: Add ProvisionerTypes to communicator tests, resolving panic [GH-5116]
• communicator/ssh: Resolve race condition that sometimes truncates ssh provisioner stdout [GH-4719]
• post-processor/checksum: Fix interpolation of "output". [GH-5112]
• push: Push vars in packer config, not just those set from command line and in var-file. [GH-5101]

BUG FIXES:

• communicator/ssh: Fix truncated stdout from remote ssh provisioner. [GH-5050]
• builder/amazon: Fix bugs related to stop instance command. [GH-4719]
• communicator/ssh: Fix ssh connection errors. [GH-5038]
• core: Remove logging that shouldn't be there when running commands. [GH-5042]
• provisioner/shell: Fix bug where scripts were being run under sh. [GH-5043]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• provisioner/windows-restart: make it clear that timeouts come from the provisioner, not winrm. [GH-5040]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/amazon: Allow amis to be copied to other regions, encrypted with custom KMS keys. [GH-4948]
• builder/amazon: Allow configuration of api endpoint to support api-compatible cloud providers. [GH-4896]
• builder/amazon: Fix regex used for ami name validation [GH-4902]
• builder/amazon: Look up vpc from subnet id if no vpc was specified. [GH-4879]
• builder/amazon: Print temporary security group name to the UI. [GH-4997]
• builder/amazon: Support Assume Role with MFA and ECS Task Roles. Also updates to a newer version of aws-sdk-go. [GH-4996]
• builder/amazon: Use retry logic when creating instance tags. [GH-4876]
• builder/amazon: Validate ami name. [GH-4762]
• builder/azure: Add build output to artifact. [GH-4953]
• builder/azure: Use disk URI as artifact ID. [GH-4981]
• builder/digitalocean: Added support for monitoring. [GH-4782]
• builder/digitalocean: Support for copying snapshot to other regions. [GH-4893]
• builder/hyper-v: Remove the check for administrator rights when sending key strokes to Hyper-V. [GH-4687] # builder/openstack: Fix private key error message to match documentation [GH-4898]
• builder/null: Support SSH agent auth [GH-4956]
• builder/openstack: Add ssh agent support. [GH-4655]
• builder/openstack: Support client x509 certificates. [GH-4921]
• builder/parallels-iso: Configuration of disk type, plain or expanding. [GH-4621]
• builder/triton: An SSH agent can be used to authenticate requests, making triton_key_material optional. [GH-4838]
• builder/triton: If no source machine networks are specified, instances are started on the default public and internal networks. [GH-4838]
• builder/virtualbox: Add sata port count configuration option. [GH-4699]
• builder/virtualbox: Don't add port forwarding when using "none" communicator. [GH-4960]
• builder/vmware: Add option to remove interfaces from the vmx. [GH-4927]
• builder/vmware: Properly remove mounted CDs on OS X. [GH-4810]
• builder/vmware: VNC probe timeout is configurable. [GH-4919]
• command/push: add -sensitive flag to mark pushed vars are sensitive. [GH-4970]
• command/push: Vagrant support in Terraform Enterprise is deprecated. [GH-4950]
• communicator/ssh: Add ssh agent support for bastion connections. [GH-4940]
• communicator/winrm: Add NTLM authentication support. [GH-4979]
• communicator/winrm: Add support for file downloads. [GH-4748]
• core: add telemetry for better product support. [GH-5015]
• core: Build binaries for arm64 [GH-4892]
• post-processor/amazon-import: Add support for license_type. [GH-4634]
• post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Get vagrant cloud token from environment. [GH-4982]
• provisioner/ansible-local: Add extra-vars packer_build_name, packer_builder_type, and packer_http_addr. [GH-4821]
• provisioner/ansible: Add inventory_directory option to control where to place the generated inventory file. [GH-4760]
• provisioner/ansible: Add skip_version_check flag for when ansible will be installed from a prior provisioner. [GH-4983]
• provisioner/ansible: Add extra-vars packer_build_name and packer_builder_type. [GH-4821]
• provisioner/chef-solo: Add option to select Chef version. [GH-4791]
• provisioner/salt: Add salt bin directory configuration. [GH-5009]
• provisioner/salt: Add support for grains. [GH-4961]
• provisioner/shell: Use env to set environment variables to support freebsd out of the box. [GH-4909]
• website/docs: Clarify language, improve formatting. [GH-4866]
• website/docs: Update docker metadata fields that can be changed. [GH-4867]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon-ebssurrogate: Use ami device settings when creating the AMI. [GH-4972]
• builder/amazon: don't try to delete extra volumes during clean up. [GH-4930]
• builder/amazon: fix force_delete_snapshot when the launch instance has extra volumes. [GH-4931]
• builder/amazon: Only delete temporary key if we created one. [GH-4850]
• builder/azure: Replace calls to panic with error returns. [GH-4846]
• communicator/winrm: Use KeepAlive to keep long-running connections open. [GH-4952]
• core: Correctly reject config files which have junk after valid json. [GH-4906]
• post-processor/checksum: fix crash when invalid checksum is used. [GH-4812]
• post-processor/vagrant-cloud: don't read files to upload in to memory first. [GH-5005]
• post-processor/vagrant-cloud: only upload once under normal conditions. [GH-5008]
• provisioner/ansible-local: Correctly set the default staging directory under Windows. [GH-4792]

FEATURES:

• New builder: alicloud-ecs for building Alicloud ECS images. [GH-4619]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Fix b/c issue by reporting again the tags we create. [GH-4704]
• builder/amazon: Fix crash in step_region_copy. [GH-4642]
• builder/googlecompute: Correct values for on_host_maintenance. [GH-4643]
• builder/googlecompute: Use "default" service account. [GH-4749]
• builder/hyper-v: Don't wait for shutdown_command to return. [GH-4691]
• builder/virtualbox: fix none communicator by allowing skipping upload of version file. [GH-4678]
• builder/virtualbox: retry removing floppy controller. [GH-4705]
• communicator/ssh: don't return error if we can't close connection. [GH-4741]
• communicator/ssh: fix nil pointer error. [GH-4690]
• core: fix version number
• core: Invoking packer --help or --version now exits with status 0. [GH-4723]
• core: show correct step name when debugging. [GH-4672]
• communicator/winrm: Directory uploads behave more like scp. [GH-4438]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/amazon-chroot: Ability to give an empty list in copy_files to prevent the default /etc/resolv.conf file from being copied. If copy_files isn't given at all, the default behavior remains. [GH-4708]
• builder/amazon: set force_deregister to true on -force. [GH-4649]
• builder/amazon: validate ssh key name/file. [GH-4665]
• builder/ansible: Clearer error message when we have problems getting the ansible version. [GH-4694]
• builder/hyper-v: validate output dir in step, not in config. [GH-4645]
• More diligently try to complete azure-setup.sh. [GH-4752]
• website: fix display on ios devices. [GH-4618]