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BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• core/hcl2: HCL2 singular blocks: use key/value or name/value depending on how the service names things [GH-9078]
• core/hcl2: Maps are now treated as settable arguments as opposed to blocks. For example tags = {} instead of tags {} [GH-9035]
• packer build command: removed option to set parallel=false, use -parallel-builds=1 for this.

FEATURES:

• New Builder azure-dtl allows creation of devtestlabs images in Azure [GH-8987]

• New Core Feature provisioners now support a max_retries option that can be used for retrying a provisioner on error [GH-9061]

• New Post-Processor: yandex-export Upload built image in Yandex Object Storage.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/azure-arm: Add boot_diag_storage_account option for enabling boot diagnostics on a virtual machine [GH-9053]
• builder/azure-arm: Add support for setting custom resource names [GH-9028]
• builder/azure-arm: Data disk names are now randomly generated [GH-8986]
• builder/azure: Add shared image destination for azure-chroot [GH-9021]
• builder/azure: Add shared image source for chroot builder [GH-9070]
• builder/google: Add support for custom shielded images [GH-8970]
• builder/google: Allow source_image_project_id to be a list of several projects to search. [GH-8679]
• builder/hyperv: Add boot_order option to override the default boot order [GH-9046]
• builder/oracle-oci: Allow Instance Principal Auth for Oracle OCI builder [GH-8893]
• builder/oracle-oci: Update Oracle SDK. [GH-9104]
• builder/proxmox: Add ability to add a cloud-init drive [GH-9045]
• builder/vsphere: Add disable_shutdown option to support manual vm shutdown over the default automatic shutdown step [GH-9095]
• builder/vsphere: Add vgpu_profile option for specifying vGPU profiles [GH-8946]
• builder/vsphere: Add support for EFI Secure Boot [GH-9018]
• builder/vsphere: Add support for specifying vGPU profiles [GH-8946]
• builder/yandex: Add target_image_folder_id option for changing the folder where a built image will be saved to [GH-9080]
• core/hcl2: HCL mode builds now honor -only and -except options [GH-8947]
• core/hcl2: Set packer_build_name and packer_builder_type variables for builder provisioners and post-processors [GH-8956]
• core/HCL: HCL mode now honors -only and -except options. [GH-8947]
• core: New template function: aws_secretsmanager [GH-9099]
• provisioner/ansible: Add use_proxy option to not use localhost proxy adapter. Removes need for ansible connection_plugin when using WinRM. [GH-8625]
• provisioner/powershell: Add debug_mode option to help with debugging generated scripts [GH-8996]
• provisioner/powershell: Add cleanup step to remove temporarily created scripts; cleanup can be skipped by setting the skip_clean option [GH-8908]

BUG FIXES:

• builder/amazon: Fix bug with launch_block_device_mappings in spot instances. [GH-8945]
• builder/azure-arm: Fix issue where managed image builds were using a different location then what was specified in the build configuration [GH-9068]
• builder/azure: Allow Managed Data Disks to be used with Azure Shared Image Gallery [GH-8912]
• builder/azure: Fix SSH connection for temporary admin users specified in ssh_username [GH-9103]
• builder/osc: Make compliant with oAPI spec for Outscale osc-bsu builder [GH-9093]
• builder/qemu: Remove net_device pre-validation [GH-8979]
• builder/tencentcloud: Update builder to handle the InstanceOperationInProgress error [GH-9069]
• builder/vsphere-iso: disk_size is no longer required if storage is defined [GH-8975]
• builder/vsphere: Add exported files to VSphere artifact [GH-9020]
• builder/vsphere: Fix issue where -force is not working with vsphere builders [GH-9039]
• core: Fix crash in wrapperreadline helper when calling os.NewFile on unknown file descriptor [GH-9037]
• core: Make sure CLI variables supersede variables from var files [GH-8964]
• provisioner/powershell: Fix integer decoding issue in the execution policy parser [GH-8997]

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• core: Interpolation of undefined variables will now error as expected, in previous versions variables were allowed to be set as a command line argument but that was because the validation was being ignored

IMPROVEMENTS:

• builder/azure: Add support for configurable KeyVault SKU [GH-8879]
• builder/hyperv: Add first_boot_device setting to allow the selection of the initial device or device class used for booting the VM. [GH-8714]
• builder/hyperv: Fix Hyper-V compacted disk size comparison [GH-8811]
• builder/openstack: Add new image_auto_accept_members option [GH-8931]
• builder/proxmox: Add ability to specify vga adapter [GH-8892]
• builder/proxmox: Add onboot directive support [GH-8935]
• builder/tencentcloud: Show tencentcloud image id after copy to destination region. [GH-8763]
• builder/vmware-iso: Add cleanup_remote_cache config option to [GH-8917]
• builder/vmware-iso: Do not perform dial test of NIC when ssh bastion is required [GH-8877]
• builder/vsphere-clone: Add ability to export VM to OVF file [GH-8764]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Add ability to define multiple disks. [GH-8787]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Add ability to export VM to OVF file [GH-8764]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Add support for eagerly zeroed / scrubbed disks. [GH-8756]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Add the remote iso first so that it is first in boot order, and clarify boot behavior. [GH-8732]
• communicator/ssh: Add flag to enable support for keyboard-interactive auth to connect bastion [GH-8847]
• core/hcl2: Add support for singular blocks [GH-8889]
• core/hcl2: Add support in HCL2 configs for dynamic blocks, document for loops and splat expressions [GH-8720]
• core/hcl2: Fix HCL2 local variables decoding to allow local usage within another local in the same locals block [GH-8755]
• core/hcl2: Import new replace and regex_replace funcs from go-cty + documentation [GH-8863]
• core: Enable hcl files as var files in HCL mode [GH-8882]
• core: Make "build" engine template variables SSHPublicKey and SSHPrivateKey strings [GH-8829]

Bug Fixes:

• builder/azure: Fix winrm_password attribution and allow users to set winrm_username [GH-8928]
• builder/azure: Fix azure key vault cleanup failure [GH-8905]
• builder/azure: Fix HCL2 bug that prevented Azure and other builders from loading properly. [GH-8785]
• builder/googlecompute: Fix WinRMPassword template engine. [GH-8890]
• builder/googlecompute: Replace deprecated "sshKeys" metadata with "ssh-keys" to fix SSH authentication issue [GH-8942]
• builder/proxmox: Add new validation to catch that template_name cannot contain spaces. [GH-8799]
• builder/proxmox: Bump proxmox-api-go to fix upstream bug where users hit open file limit. [GH-8800]
• builder/vagrant: Fix path validation in ssh config step. [GH-8826]
• builder/virtualbox-vm: Fix crash when VM has no snapshots. [GH-8906]
• builder/virtualbox: Remove all floppy controllers before adding a new one. [GH-8828]
• builder/vsphere-clone: Fix issue preventing the cloning of VMs with the same name in different folders [GH-8938]
• builder/vsphere-iso: Fix issue preventing the creation of VMs with the same name in different folders [GH-8938]
• builder/vsphere: Fix network object interface panic. [GH-8753]
• core/hcl2: Fix crash when an unset variable is used [GH-8837]
• core/hcl2: Fix logic for parsing literal value variables [GH-8834]
• core/hcl2: Make sure locals are evaluated only after variables are. [GH-8918]
• core: Fix "build" template engine interpolation for certain fields in certain provisioners. [GH-8771]
• core: Fix bug where user var recursion could fail intermittently when used with env vars [GH-8875]
• core: Interpolation of undefined variables will now error as expected
• plugins: Make plugin discovery stricter with respect to periods so that users can disable plugins by renaming the extension [GH-8735]
• provisioner/salt: Fix no_exit_on_failure config to work correctly as expected. [GH-9119]
• provisioner/shell: "inline" config option is now a template engine. [GH-8883]

no-change release to fix code-signing on OSX binaries. Since checksums for these binaries has changed, we are releasing a second time to prevent confusion.