github.com/hashicorp/packer

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Fix authentication issue when using instance profiles or assumed roles for loading session-derived credentials. [GH-10007]
• builder/azure: Fix crash when using azure_tag or azure_tags configuration options. [GH-10014]
• builder/qemu: Ensure qemu_img_args are honored during the disk convert step. [GH-10001]

1.6.3 (September 25, 2020)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/amazon: Add pause_before_ssm option to pause for some time before establishing a Session Manager session; defaults to 10s. [GH-9988]
• builder/amazon: Implement assume_role option that matches Terraform behavior. [GH-9981]
• builder/azure: Support publishing to a Shared Image Gallery with a different subscription id [GH-9875]
• builder/openstack: Add external_source_image_url and external_source_image_format to support building images from external source URLs. [GH-9992]
• builder/openstack: Include API requests and responses as part of the debug log output. [GH-9972]
• builder/oracle-oci: Add create_vnic_details option for launch details. [GH-9856]
• builder/oracle-oci: Allow freeform and defined tags to be added to an instance. [GH-9802]
• builder/proxmox: Add io_thread option for supporting io threads when using a virtio-scsi-single controller with a scsi or virtio disk type. [GH-9969]
• builder/proxmox: Add ability to specify interfaces for http_directory and VM. [GH-9874]
• builder/proxmox: Allow the mounting of multiple ISOs via the cd_drive option. [GH-9653]
• builder/proxmox: Fix boot command special keys. [GH-9885]
• builder/qemu: Add qemu_img_args option to set special cli flags for calls to qemu-img [GH-9956]
• builder/qemu: Add skip_resize_disk option to skip the resizing of QCOW2 images. [GH-9896] [GH-9860]
• builder/qemu: Skip qemu-img convert on MacOS to prevent the creation of corrupt images QEMU #1776920 [GH-9949]
• builder/scaleway: Change default boottype to local. [GH-9853]
• builder/scaleway: Update scaleway to use non-deprecated sdk. [GH-9902]
• builder/vmware: Add vnc_over_websocket to allow the sending of a boot_command to hosts running ESXi 6.7 and above. [GH-9938]
• builder/vmware: Allow user to set vmware tools source path. [GH-9983]
• builder/vsphere-clone: Add ability to set mac_address [GH-9930]
• builder/vsphere-clone: Add floppy_files, cd_files, and iso_paths options. [GH-9963]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Add NVMe controller support. [GH-9880]
• builder/vsphere: Look for a default resource pool when root resource pool is not found. [GH-9809]
• core: Add support for running cygwin/msys2 based cd/iso creation tool [GH-9954]
• core: New cd_files option to mount iso for modern OSes which don't support floppies. [GH-9796] [GH-9919] [GH-9928] [GH-9932] [GH-9941]
• HCL2: When the type of a variable is not known evaluate setting as a literal string instead of a variable name. [GH-9863]
• post-processor/vagrant: Support the use of template variables within Vagrantfile templates. [GH-9923]
• post-processor/yandex-import: Allow custom API endpoint. [GH-9850]
• provisioner/ansible: Add support for Ansible Galaxy Collections. [GH-9903]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon-ebs: Fix issue where retrying on invalid IAM instance profile error was creating multiple spot instances. [GH-9946]
• builder/amazon-ebssurrogate: Fix issue where builder defaults to AWS managed key even when custom kms_key_id is set. [GH-9959]
• builder/amazon: Update ssm_driver log polling logic to prevent infinite loops when SSM driver is terminated outside of Packer. [GH-9991]
• builder/azure: Fix crash when using HCL2 configs. [GH-9984] [GH-9985]
• builder/qemu: Fix hardcoded lowerbound causing negative ports [GH-9905]
• builder/qemu: Skip compaction when backing file is used. [GH-9918]
• builder/scaleway: Add pre validate step to prevent the creation of multiple images with the same name. [GH-9840]
• builder/vmware-iso: Prevent the use of reserved SCSI ID 0:7 when attaching multiple disks. [GH-9940]
• builder/vsphere: Fix overly strict iso_path validation regex. [GH-9855]
• command/console: Prevent failure when there are unknown vars. [GH-9864]
• command/inspect: Allow unset variables in HCL2 and JSON. [GH-9832]
• core: Prevent the UI progressbar from hanging and crashing when there is no TTY available. [GH-9974]
• core: Use $APPDATA over $HOME on Windows hosts when determining homedir. [GH-9830]
• post-processor/digitalocean-import: Fix crash caused by empty artifact.Files slice. [GH-9857]
• post-processor/yandex-export: Check for error after runner completes. [GH-9925]
• post-processor/yandex-export: Set metadata key to expected value on error. [GH-9849]
• post-processor/yandex-import: Fix S3 URL construct process. [GH-9931]