v1.8.0

1.8.0 (March 4, 2022)

NOTES:

• Breaking Change: The packer-plugin-check(github.com/hashicorp/packer/cmd/packer-plugins-check) has been replaced by the packer-sdc plugin-check command. Plugin maintainers who may be using the packer-plugin-check as part of their release pipeline are encouraged to move to the packer-sdc command. As an alternative, maintainers can continue to use the packer-plugin-check by pinning the command to Packer 1.7.10. GH-11317

FEATURES

• New Command packer plugins command and subcommands to manage external plugins. GH-11553 GH-11625

IMPROVEMENTS

• core: Add a env argument to provisioner blocks that allow for setting a map of key/value pairs to inject prior to the execute_command. The env argument is an alternative to using environment_vars for setting environment variables, which has the added ability to read from Packer datasources. GH-11569
• core: Bump version of go-getter to allow for downloading ISOs with PGP signed checksums. GH-11495
• core: Docker images are now available for all supported architectures that the linux binaries are built for including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64 GH-11564 GH-11601 GH-11603
• core: Packer's linux package service configs and pre/post install scripts are now available under .release/linux. GH-11601 GH-11603
• core: Packer's linux packages are now available for all supported linux architectures including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64 GH-11564 GH-11601 GH-11603
• core: The dockerfile that is used to build the packer docker image available at hashicorp/packer now lives in the root of this repo. The README that describes how to build the docker targets defined in the Dockerfile are available under ./release/docker/README.md. GH-11564 GH-11601 GH-11603
• core: The packer-plugin-check command has been removed. Plugin maintainers should update their release configuration to use the packer-sdc plugin- check command. GH-11317

BUG FIXES

• core/hcl2: Fixes an issue preventing builds from pausing between provisioners when the --debug argument has been passed. GH-11537
• core/hcl2: Fixes a data loss issue when merging an empty-object map to a non- empty map variable. GH-11566
• core/hcl2: Fixes a regression where references to locals via the lookup function were failing to find defined keys. GH-11566
• core/hcl2: Fixes an issue where HCP Packer build labels from the first completed build image were being copied to all images within the same build. GH-11574 GH-11584
• core: HCP Packer datasources will no longer fail for iterations with scheduled revocations. GH-11619
• core: Packer darwin builds now use macOS system DNS resolver for resolving hostnames.GH-9710 GH-11564