## (UNRELEASED) ### IMRPOVEMENTS: * post-processor/docker-push: Add `aws_profile` option to control the aws profile for ECR. [GH-5470] * builder/docker: Add `aws_profile` option to control the aws profile for ECR. [GH-5470] * post-processor/vsphere: Properly capture `ovftool` output. [GH-5499] * builder/hyper-v: Also disable automatic checkpoints for gen 2 VMs. [GH-5517] * builder/hyper-v: Add `disk_additional_size` option to allow for up to 64 additional disks. [GH-5491] * builder/amazon: correctly deregister AMIs when `force_deregister` is set. [GH-5525] * builder/digitalocean: Add `ipv6` option to enable on droplet. [GH-5534] * builder/triton: Add `source_machine_image_filter` option to select an image ID based on a variety of parameters. [GH-5538] * communicator/ssh: Add socks 5 proxy support. [GH-5439] * builder/lxc: Add new `publish_properties` field to set image properties. [GH-5475] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: Retry while removing VM to solve for transient errors. [GH-5512] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/docker: Remove `login_email`, which no longer exists in the docker client. [GH-5511] ## 1.1.1 (October 13, 2017) ### 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] ## 1.1.0 (September 12, 2017) ### 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 ` 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] ## 1.0.4 (August 11, 2017) ### 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] ## 1.0.3 (July 17, 2017) ### 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 membersip 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] ## 1.0.2 (June 21, 2017) ### 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] ### IMRPOVEMENTS: * provisioner/windows-restart: make it clear that timeouts come from the provisioner, not winrm. [GH-5040] ## 1.0.1 (June 19, 2017) ### 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] ## 1.0.0 (April 4, 2017) ### 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] ## 0.12.3 (March 1, 2017) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * provisioner/ansible: by default, the staging dir will be randomized. [GH-4472] ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** `ebs-surrogate` for building AMIs from EBS volumes. [GH-4351] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon-chroot: support encrypted boot volume. [GH-4584] * builder/amazon: Add BuildRegion and SourceAMI template variables. [GH-4399] * builder/amazon: Change EC2 Windows password timeout to 20 minutes. [GH-4590] * builder/amazon: enable ena when `enhanced_networking` is set. [GH-4578] * builder/azure:: add two new config variables for temp_compute_name and temp_resource_group_name. [GH-4468] * builder/docker: create export dir if needed. [GH-4439] * builder/googlecompute: Add `on_host_maintenance` option. [GH-4544] * builder/openstack: add reuse_ips option to try to re-use existing IPs. [GH-4564] * builder/vmware-esxi: try for longer to connect to vnc port. [GH-4480] [GH-4610] * builder/vmware: allow extra options for ovftool. [GH-4536] * builder/vmware: don't cache ip address so we know if it changes. [GH-4532] * communicator/docker: preserve file mode. [GH-4443] * communicator/ssh: Use SSH agent when enabled for bastion step. [GH-4598] * communicator/winrm: support ProxyFromEnvironment. [GH-4463] * core: don't show ui color if we're not colorized. [GH-4525] * core: make VNC links clickable in terminal. [GH-4497] [GH-4498] * docs: add community page. [GH-4550] * post-processor/amazon-import: support AMI attributes on import [GH-4216] * post-processor/docker-import: print stderr on docker import failure. [GH-4529] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon-ebsvolume: Fix interpolation of block_device. [GH-4464] * builder/amazon: Fix ssh agent authentication. [GH-4597] * builder/docker: Don't force tag if using a docker version that doesn't support it. [GH-4560] * builder/googlecompute: fix bug when creating image from custom image_family. [GH-4518] * builder/virtualbox: remove guest additions before saving image. [GH-4496] * core: always check for an error first when walking a path. [GH-4467] * core: update crypto/ssh lib to fix large file uploads. [GH-4546] * provisioner/chef-client: only upload knife config if we're cleaning. [GH-4534] ## 0.12.2 (January 20, 2017) ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** `triton` for building images for Joyent Triton. [GH-4325] * **New provisioner:** `converge` for provisioning with converge.sh. [GH-4326] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/hyperv-iso: add `iso_target_extension` option. [GH-4294] * builder/openstack: Add support for instance metadata. [GH-4361] * builder/openstack: Attempt to use existing floating IPs before allocating a new one. [GH-4357] * builder/parallels-iso: add `iso_target_extension` option. [GH-4294] * builder/qemu: add `iso_target_extension` option. [GH-4294] * builder/qemu: add `use_default_display` option for osx compatibility. [GH-4293] * builder/qemu: Detect input disk image format during copy/convert. [GH-4343] * builder/virtualbox-iso: add `iso_target_extension` option. [GH-4294] * builder/virtualbox: add `skip_export` option to skip exporting the VM after build completes. [GH-4339] * builder/vmware & builder/qemu: Allow configurable delay between keystrokes when typing boot command. [GH-4403] * builder/vmware-iso: add `iso_target_extension` option. [GH-4294] * builder/vmware-iso: add `skip_export` option to skip exporting the VM after build completes. [GH-4378] * builder/vmware: Try to use `ip address` to find host IP. [GH-4411] * common/step_http\_server: set `PACKER_HTTP_ADDR` env var for accessing http server from inside builder. [GH-4409] * provisioner/powershell: Allow equals sign in value of environment variables. [GH-4328] * provisioner/puppet-server: Add default facts. [GH-4286] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon-chroot: Panic in AMI region copy step. [GH-4341] * builder/amazon: Crashes when new EBS vols are used. [GH-4308] * builder/amazon: Fix crash in amazon-instance. [GH-4372] * builder/amazon: fix run volume tagging [GH-4420] * builder/amazon: fix when using non-existant security\_group\_id. [GH-4425] * builder/amazon: Properly error if we don't have the ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups permission. [GH-4304] * builder/amazon: Properly wait for security group to exist. [GH-4369] * builder/docker: Fix crash when performing log in to ECR with an invalid URL. [GH-4385] * builder/openstack: fix for finding resource by ID. [GH-4301] * builder/qemu: Explicitly set WinRMPort for StepConnect. [GH-4321] * builder/virtualbox: Explicitly set WinRMPort for StepConnect. [GH-4321] * builder/virtualbox: Pause between each boot command element in -debug. [GH-4346] * builder/vmware builder/parallels: Fix hang when shutting down windows in certain cases. [GH-4436] * command/push: Don't interpolate variables when pushing. [GH-4389] * common/step_http_server: make port range inclusive. [GH-4398] * communicator/winrm: update winrm client, resolving `MaxMemoryPerShellMB` errors and properly error logging instead of panicking. [GH-4412] [GH-4424] * provider/windows-shell: Allows equals sign in env var value. [GH-4423] ## 0.12.1 (December 15, 2016) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * `ssh_username` is now required if using communicator ssh. [GH-4172] * builder/amazon: Change `shutdown_behaviour` to `shutdown_behavior`. Run "packer fix template.json" to migrate a template. [GH-4285] * builder/openstack: No long supports the `api_key` option for rackspace. [GH-4283] * post-processor/manifest: Changed `filename` field to be `output`, to be more consistent with other post-processors. `packer fix` will fix this for you. [GH-4192] * post-processor/shell-local: Now runs per-builder instead of per-file. The filename is no longer passed in as an argument to the script, but instead needs to be gleaned from the manifest post-processor. [GH-4189] ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** "Hyper-V" Added new builder for Hyper-V on Windows. [GH-2576] * **New builder:** "1&1" Added new builder for [1&1](https://www.1and1.com/). [GH-4163] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon-ebs: Support specifying KMS key for encryption. [GH-4023] * builder/amazon-ebsvolume: Add artifact output. [GH-4141] * builder/amazon: Add `snapshot_tag` overrides. [GH-4015] * builder/amazon: Added new region London - eu-west-2. [GH-4284] * builder/amazon: Added ca-central-1 to list of known aws regions. [GH-4274] * builder/amazon: Adds `force_delete_snapshot` flag to also cleanup snapshots if we're removing a preexisting image, as with `force_deregister_image`. [GH-4223] * builder/amazon: Support `snapshot_users` and `snapshot_groups` for sharing ebs snapshots. [GH-4243] * builder/cloudstack: Support reusing an already associated public IP. [GH-4149] * builder/docker: Introduce docker commit changes, author, and message. [GH-4202] * builder/googlecompute: Support `source_image_family`. [GH-4162] * builder/googlecompute: enable support for Google Compute XPN. [GH-4288] * builder/openstack: Added `image_members` to add new members to image after it's created. [GH-4283] * builder/openstack: Added `image_visibility` field to specify visibility of created image. [GH-4283] * builder/openstack: Automatically reauth as needed. [GH-4262] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: Can now give a URL to an ova file. [GH-3982] * communicator/ssh: adds ability to download download directories and wildcards, fix destination file mode (not hardcoded anymore). [GH-4210] * post-processor/shell-local: support spaces in script path. [GH-4144] * provisioner/ansible: Allow `winrm` communicator. [GH-4209] * provisioner/salt: Bootstrap fallback on wget if curl failed. [GH-4244] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon: Correctly assign key from `ssh_keypair_name` to source instance. [GH-4222] * builder/amazon: Fix `source_ami_filter` ignores `owners`. [GH-4235] * builder/amazon: Fix launching spot instances in EC2 Classic [GH-4204] * builder/qemu: Fix issue where multiple commands on a single line in boot_command wouldn't be parsed correctly. [GH-4269] * core: Unbreak glob patterns in `floppy_files`. [GH-3890] * post-processor/checksum: cleanup, and fix output to specified file with more than one artifacts. [GH-4210] * post-processor/checksum: reset hash after each artifact file. [GH-4210] * provisioner/file: fix for directory download. [GH-4210] * provisioner/file: fix issue uploading multiple files to a directory, mentioned in [GH-4049]. [GH-4210] * provisioner/shell: Treat disconnects as retryable when running cleanup. If you have a reboot in your script, we'll now wait until the host is available before attempting to cleanup the script. [GH-4197] ## 0.12.0 (November 15, 2016) ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** "cloudstack" Can create new templates for use with CloudStack taking either an ISO or existing template as input. [GH-3909] * **New builder:** "profitbricks" Builder for creating images in the ProfitBricks cloud. [GH-3660] * **New builder:** "amazon-ebsvolume" Can create Amazon EBS volumes which are preinitialized with a filesystem and data. [GH-4088] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon: Allow polling delay override with `AWS_POLL_DELAY_SECONDS`. [GH-4083] * builder/amazon: Allow use of local SSH Agent. [GH-4050] * builder/amazon: Dynamic source AMI [GH-3817] * builder/amazon: Show AMI ID found when using `source_ami_filter`. [GH-4096] * builder/googlecompute: Support `ssh_private_key_file` in communicator. [GH-4101] * builder/googlecompute: Support custom scopes. [GH-4043] * command/push: Fix variable pushes to Atlas. Still needs Atlas server to be updated before the issue will be fixed completely. [GH-4089] * communicator/ssh: Improved SSH upload performance. [GH-3940] * contrib/azure-setup.sh: Support for azure-cli 0.10.7. [GH-4133] * docs: Fix command line variable docs. [GH-4143] * post-processor/vagrant: Fixed inconsistency between vagrant-libvirt driver and packer QEMU accelerator. [GH-4104] * provisioner/ansible: Move info messages to log [GH-4123] * provisioner/puppet: Add `puppet_bin_dir` option. [GH-4014] * provisioner/salt: Add `salt_call_args` option. [GH-4158] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon: Fixed an error where we wouldn't fail the build even if we timed out waiting for the temporary security group to become available. [GH-4099] * builder/amazon: Properly cleanup temporary key pairs. [GH-4080] * builder/google: Fix issue where we'd hang waiting for a startup script which doesn't exist. [GH-4102] * builder/qemu: Fix keycodes for ctrl, shift and alt keys. [GH-4115] * builder/vmware: Fix keycodes for ctrl, shift and alt keys. [GH-4115] * builder/vmware: Fixed build error when shutting down. [GH-4041] * common/step_create_floppy: Fixed support for 1.44MB floppies on Windows. [GH-4135] * post-processor/googlecompute-export: Fixes scopes. [GH-4147] * provisioner/powershell: Reverted [GH-3371] fixes quoting issue. [GH-4069] * scripts: Fix build under Windows for go 1.5. [GH-4142] ## 0.11.0 (October 21, 2016) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * VNC and VRDP-like features in VirtualBox, VMware, and QEMU now configurable but bind to 127.0.0.1 by default to improve security. See the relevant builder docs for more info. * Docker builder requires Docker > 1.3 * provisioner/chef-solo: default staging directory renamed to `packer-chef-solo`. [GH-3971] ### FEATURES: * **New Checksum post-processor**: Create a checksum file from your build artifacts as part of your build. [GH-3492] [GH-3790] * **New build flag** `-on-error` to allow inspection and keeping artifacts on builder errors. [GH-3885] * **New Google Compute Export post-processor**: exports an image from a Packer googlecompute builder run and uploads it to Google Cloud Storage. [GH-3760] * **New Manifest post-processor**: writes metadata about packer's output artifacts data to a JSON file. [GH-3651] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon: Added `disable_stop_instance` option to prevent automatic shutdown when the build is complete. [GH-3352] * builder/amazon: Added `shutdown_behavior` option to support `stop` or `terminate` at the end of the build. [GH-3556] * builder/amazon: Added `skip_region_validation` option to allow newer or custom AWS regions. [GH-3598] * builder/amazon: Added `us-east-2` and `ap-south-1` regions. [GH-4021] [GH-3663] * builder/amazon: Support building from scratch with amazon-chroot builder. [GH-3855] [GH-3895] * builder/amazon: Support create an AMI with an `encrypt_boot` volume. [GH-3382] * builder/azure: Add `os_disk_size_gb`. [GH-3995] * builder/azure: Add location to setup script. [GH-3803] * builder/azure: Allow user to set custom data. [GH-3996] * builder/azure: Made `tenant_id` optional. [GH-3643] * builder/azure: Now pre-validates `capture_container_name` and `capture_name_prefix` [GH-3537] * builder/azure: Removed superfluous polling code for deployments. [GH-3638] * builder/azure: Support for a user defined VNET. [GH-3683] * builder/azure: Support for custom images. [GH-3575] * builder/azure: tag all resources. [GH-3764] * builder/digitalocean: Added `user_data_file` support. [GH-3933] * builder/digitalocean: Fixes timeout waiting for snapshot. [GH-3868] * builder/digitalocean: Use `state_timeout` for unlock and off transitions. [GH-3444] * builder/docker: Improved support for Docker pull from Amazon ECR. [GH-3856] * builder/google: Add `-force` option to delete old image before creating new one. [GH-3918] * builder/google: Add image license metadata. [GH-3873] * builder/google: Added support for `image_family` [GH-3531] * builder/google: Added support for startup scripts. [GH-3639] * builder/google: Create passwords for Windows instances. [GH-3932] * builder/google: Enable to select NVMe images. [GH-3338] * builder/google: Signal that startup script fished via metadata. [GH-3873] * builder/google: Use gcloud application default credentials. [GH-3655] * builder/google: provision VM without external IP address. [GH-3774] * builder/null: Can now be used with WinRM. [GH-2525] * builder/openstack: Added support for `ssh_password` instead of generating ssh keys. [GH-3976] * builder/parallels: Add support for ctrl, shift and alt keys in `boot_command`. [GH-3767] * builder/parallels: Copy directories recursively with `floppy_dirs`. [GH-2919] * builder/parallels: Now pauses between `boot_command` entries when running with `-debug` [GH-3547] * builder/parallels: Support future versions of Parallels by using the latest driver. [GH-3673] * builder/qemu: Add support for ctrl, shift and alt keys in `boot_command`. [GH-3767] * builder/qemu: Added `vnc_bind_address` option. [GH-3574] * builder/qemu: Copy directories recursively with `floppy_dirs`. [GH-2919] * builder/qemu: Now pauses between `boot_command` entries when running with `-debug` [GH-3547] * builder/qemu: Specify disk format when starting qemu. [GH-3888] * builder/virtualbox-iso: Added `hard_drive_nonrotational` and `hard_drive_discard` options to enable trim/discard. [GH-4013] * builder/virtualbox-iso: Added `keep_registered` option to skip cleaning up the image. [GH-3954] * builder/virtualbox: Add support for ctrl, shift and alt keys in `boot_command`. [GH-3767] * builder/virtualbox: Added `post_shutdown_delay` option to wait after shutting down to prevent issues removing floppy drive. [GH-3952] * builder/virtualbox: Added `vrdp_bind_address` option. [GH-3566] * builder/virtualbox: Copy directories recursively with `floppy_dirs`. [GH-2919] * builder/virtualbox: Now pauses between `boot_command` entries when running with `-debug` [GH-3542] * builder/vmware-vmx: Added `tools_upload_flavor` and `tools_upload_path` to docs. * builder/vmware: Add support for ctrl, shift and alt keys in `boot_command`. [GH-3767] * builder/vmware: Added `vnc_bind_address` option. [GH-3565] * builder/vmware: Adds passwords for VNC. [GH-2325] * builder/vmware: Copy directories recursively with `floppy_dirs`. [GH-2919] * builder/vmware: Handle connection to VM with more than one NIC on ESXi [GH-3347] * builder/vmware: Now paused between `boot_command` entries when running with `-debug` [GH-3542] * core: Supress plugin discovery from plugins. [GH-4002] * core: Test floppy disk files actually exist. [GH-3756] * core: setting `PACKER_LOG=0` now disables logging. [GH-3964] * post-processor/amazon-import: Support `ami_name` for naming imported AMI. [GH-3941] * post-processor/compress: Added support for bgzf compression. [GH-3501] * post-processor/docker: Improved support for Docker push to Amazon ECR. [GH-3856] * post-processor/docker: Preserve tags when running docker push. [GH-3631] * post-processor/vagrant: Added vsphere-esx hosts to supported machine types. [GH-3967] * provisioner/ansible-local: Support for ansible-galaxy. [GH-3350] [GH-3836] * provisioner/ansible: Improved logging and error handling. [GH-3477] * provisioner/ansible: Support scp. [GH-3861] * provisioner/chef: Added `knife_command` option and added a correct default value for Windows. [GH-3622] * provisioner/chef: Installs 64bit chef on Windows if available. [GH-3848] * provisioner/file: Now makes destination directory. [GH-3692] * provisioner/puppet: Added `execute_command` option. [GH-3614] * provisioner/salt: Added `custom_state` to specify state to run instead of `highstate`. [GH-3776] * provisioner/shell: Added `expect_disconnect` flag to fail if remote unexpectedly disconnects. [GH-4034] * scripts: Added `help` target to Makefile. [GH-3290] * vendor: Moving from Godep to govendor. See `CONTRIBUTING.md` for details. [GH-3956] * website: code examples now use inconsolata. Improve code font rendering on linux. ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon: Add 0.5 cents to discovered spot price. [GH-3662] * builder/amazon: Allow using `ssh_private_key_file` and `ssh_password`. [GH-3953] * builder/amazon: Fix packer crash when waiting for SSH. [GH-3865] * builder/amazon: Honor ssh_private_ip flag in EC2-Classic. [GH-3752] * builder/amazon: Properly clean up EBS volumes on failure. [GH-3789] * builder/amazon: Use `temporary_key_pair_name` when specified. [GH-3739] * builder/amazon: retry creating tags on images since the images might take some time to become available. [GH-3938] * builder/azure: Fix authorization setup script failing to creating service principal. [GH-3812] * builder/azure: check for empty resource group. [GH-3606] * builder/azure: fix token validity test. [GH-3609] * builder/docker: Fix file provisioner dotfile matching. [GH-3800] * builder/docker: fix docker builder with ansible provisioner. [GH-3476] * builder/qemu: Don't fail on communicator set to `none`. [GH-3681] * builder/qemu: Make `ssh_host_port_max` an inclusive bound. [GH-2784] * builder/virtualbox: Make `ssh_host_port_max` an inclusive bound. [GH-2784] * builder/virtualbox: Respect `ssh_host` [GH-3617] * builder/vmware: Do not add remotedisplay.vnc.ip to VMX data on ESXi [GH-3740] * builder/vmware: Don't check for poweron errors on ESXi. [GH-3195] * builder/vmware: Re-introduce case sensitive VMX keys. [GH-2707] * builder/vmware: Respect `ssh_host`/`winrm_host` on ESXi. [GH-3738] * command/push: Allows dot (`.`) in image names. [GH-3937] * common/iso_config: fix potential panic when iso checksum url was given but not the iso url. [GH-4004] * communicator/ssh: fixed possible panic when reconnecting fails. [GH-4008] * communicator/ssh: handle error case where server closes the connection but doesn't give us an error code. [GH-3966] * post-processor/shell-local: Do not set execute bit on artifact file. [GH-3505] * post-processor/vsphere: Fix upload failures with vsphere. [GH-3321] * provisioner/ansible: Properly set host key checking even when a custom ENV is specified. [GH-3568] * provisioner/file: Fix directory download. [GH-3899] * provisioner/powershell: fixed issue with setting environment variables. [GH-2785] * website: improved rendering on iPad. [GH-3780] ## 0.10.2 (September 20, 2016) ### BUG FIXES: * Rebuilding with OS X Sierra and go 1.7.1 to fix bug in Sierra ## 0.10.1 (May 7, 2016) ### FEATURES: * `azure-arm` builder: Can now build Windows images, and supports additional configuration. Please refer to the documentation for details. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Added support for `ATLAS_CAFILE` and `ATLAS_CAPATH` [GH-3494] * builder/azure: Improved build cancellation and cleanup of partially- provisioned resources. [GH-3461] * builder/azure: Improved logging. [GH-3461] * builder/azure: Added support for US Government and China clouds. [GH-3461] * builder/azure: Users may now specify an image version. [GH-3461] * builder/azure: Added device login. [GH-3461] * builder/docker: Added `privileged` build option. [GH-3475] * builder/google: Packer now identifies its version to the service. [GH-3465] * provisioner/shell: Added `remote_folder` and `remote_file` options [GH-3462] * post-processor/compress: Added support for `bgzf` format and added `format` option. [GH-3501] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fix hang after pressing enter key in `-debug` mode. [GH-3346] * provisioner/chef: Use custom values for remote validation key path [GH-3468] ## 0.10.0 (March 14, 2016) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * Building Packer now requires go >= 1.5 (>= 1.6 is recommended). If you want to continue building with go 1.4 you can remove the `azurearmbuilder` line from `command/plugin.go`. ### FEATURES: * **New `azure-arm` builder**: Build virtual machines in Azure Resource Manager ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/google: Added support for `disk_type` [GH-2830] * builder/openstack: Added support for retrieving the Administrator password when using WinRM if no `winrm_password` is set. [GH-3209] * provisioner/ansible: Added the `empty_groups` parameter. [GH-3232] * provisioner/ansible: Added the `user` parameter. [GH-3276] * provisioner/ansible: Don't use deprecated ssh option with Ansible 2.0 [GH-3291] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: Add `ignore_exit_codes` parameter. [GH-3349] ### BUG FIXES: * builders/parallels: Handle `output_directory` containing `.` and `..` [GH-3239] * provisioner/ansible: os.Environ() should always be passed to the ansible command. [GH-3274] ## 0.9.0 (February 19, 2016) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * Packer now ships as a single binary, including plugins. If you install packer 0.9.0 over a previous packer installation, **you must delete all of the packer-* plugin files** or packer will load out-of-date plugins from disk. * Release binaries are now provided via . * Packer 0.9.0 is now built with Go 1.6. * core: Plugins that implement the Communicator interface must now implement a DownloadDir method. [GH-2618] * builder/amazon: Inline `user_data` for EC2 is now base64 encoded automatically. [GH-2539] * builder/parallels: `parallels_tools_host_path` and `guest_os_distribution` have been replaced by `guest_os_type`; use `packer fix` to update your templates. [GH-2751] ### FEATURES: * **Chef on Windows**: The chef provisioner now has native support for Windows using Powershell and WinRM. [GH-1215] * **New `vmware-esxi` feature**: Packer can now export images from vCloud or vSphere during the build. [GH-1921] * **New Ansible Provisioner**: `ansible` provisioner supports remote provisioning to keep your build image cleaner. [GH-1969] * **New Amazon Import post-processor**: `amazon-import` allows you to upload an OVA-based VM to Amazon EC2. [GH-2962] * **Shell Local post-processor**: `shell-local` allows you to run shell commands on the host after a build has completed for custom packaging or publishing of your artifacts. [GH-2706] * **Artifice post-processor**: Override packer artifacts during post- processing. This allows you to extract artifacts from a packer builder and use them with other post-processors like compress, docker, and Atlas. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Packer plugins are now compiled into the main binary, reducing file size and build times, and making packer easier to install. The overall plugin architecture has not changed and third-party plugins can still be loaded from disk. Please make sure your plugins are up-to-date! [GH-2854] * core: Packer now indicates line numbers for template parse errors. [GH-2742] * core: Scripts are executed via `/usr/bin/env bash` instead of `/bin/bash` for broader compatibility. [GH-2913] * core: `target_path` for builder downloads can now be specified. [GH-2600] * core: WinRM communicator now supports HTTPS protocol. [GH-3061] * core: Template syntax errors now show line, column, offset. [GH-3180] * core: SSH communicator now supports downloading directories. [GH-2618] * builder/amazon: Add support for `ebs_optimized` [GH-2806] * builder/amazon: You can now specify `0` for `spot_price` to switch to on demand instances. [GH-2845] * builder/amazon: Added `ap-northeast-2` (Seoul) [GH-3056] * builder/amazon: packer will try to derive the AZ if only a subnet is specified. [GH-3037] * builder/digitalocean: doubled instance wait timeouts to power off or shutdown (now 4 minutes) and to complete a snapshot (now 20 minutes) [GH-2939] * builder/google: `account_file` can now be provided as a JSON string [GH-2811] * builder/google: added support for `preemptible` instances. [GH-2982] * builder/google: added support for static external IPs via `address` option [GH-3030] * builder/openstack: added retry on WaitForImage 404. [GH-3009] * builder/openstack: Can specify `source_image_name` instead of the ID [GH-2577] * builder/openstack: added support for SSH over IPv6. [GH-3197] * builder/parallels: Improve support for Parallels 11. [GH-2662] * builder/parallels: Parallels disks are now compacted by default. [GH-2731] * builder/parallels: Packer will look for Parallels in `/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app` if it is not detected automatically [GH-2839] * builder/qemu: qcow2 images are now compacted by default. [GH-2748] * builder/qemu: qcow2 images can now be compressed. [GH-2748] * builder/qemu: Now specifies `virtio-scsi` by default. [GH-2422] * builder/qemu: Now checks for version-specific options. [GH-2376] * builder/qemu: Can now bypass disk cache using `iso_skip_cache` [GH-3105] * builder/qemu: `` in `boot_command` now accepts an arbitrary duration like [GH-3129] * builder/qemu: Expose `{{ .SSHHostPort }}` in templates. [GH-2884] * builder/virtualbox: Added VRDP for debugging. [GH-3188] * builder/vmware-esxi: Added private key auth for remote builds via `remote_private_key_file` [GH-2912] * post-processor/atlas: Added support for compile ID. [GH-2775] * post-processor/docker-import: Can now import Artifice artifacts. [GH-2718] * provisioner/chef: Added `encrypted_data_bag_secret_path` option. [GH-2653] * provisioner/puppet: Added the `extra_arguments` parameter. [GH-2635] * provisioner/salt: Added `no_exit_on_failure`, `log_level`, and improvements to salt command invocation. [GH-2660] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Random number generator is now seeded. [GH-2640] * core: Packer should now have a lot less race conditions. [GH-2824] * builder/amazon: The `no_device` option for block device mappings is now handled correctly. [GH-2398] * builder/amazon: AMI name validation now matches Amazon's spec. [GH-2774] * builder/amazon: Use snapshot size when volume size is unspecified. [GH-2480] * builder/amazon: Pass AccessKey and SecretKey when uploading bundles for instance-backed AMIs. [GH-2596] * builder/parallels: Added interpolation in `prlctl_post` [GH-2828] * builder/vmware: `format` option is now read correctly. [GH-2892] * builder/vmware-esxi: Correct endless loop in destroy validation logic [GH-2911] * provisioner/shell: No longer leaves temp scripts behind. [GH-1536] * provisioner/winrm: Now waits for reboot to complete before continuing with provisioning. [GH-2568] * post-processor/artifice: Fix truncation of files downloaded from Docker. [GH-2793] ## 0.8.6 (Aug 22, 2015) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/docker: Now supports Download so it can be used with the file provisioner to download a file from a container. [GH-2585] * builder/docker: Now verifies that the artifact will be used before the build starts, unless the `discard` option is specified. This prevent failures after the build completes. [GH-2626] * post-processor/artifice: Now supports glob-like syntax for filenames. [GH-2619] * post-processor/vagrant: Like the compress post-processor, vagrant now uses a parallel gzip algorithm to compress vagrant boxes. [GH-2590] ### BUG FIXES: * core: When `iso_url` is a local file and the checksum is invalid, the local file will no longer be deleted. [GH-2603] * builder/parallels: Fix interpolation in `parallels_tools_guest_path` [GH-2543] ## 0.8.5 (Aug 10, 2015) ### FEATURES: * **[Beta]** Artifice post-processor: Override packer artifacts during post- processing. This allows you to extract artifacts from a packer builder and use them with other post-processors like compress, docker, and Atlas. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * Many docs have been updated and corrected; big thanks to our contributors! * builder/openstack: Add debug logging for IP addresses used for SSH. [GH-2513] * builder/openstack: Add option to use existing SSH keypair. [GH-2512] * builder/openstack: Add support for Glance metadata. [GH-2434] * builder/qemu and builder/vmware: Packer's VNC connection no longer asks for an exclusive connection. [GH-2522] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Can now customize salt remote directories. [GH-2519] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon: Improve instance cleanup by storing id sooner. [GH-2404] * builder/amazon: Only fetch windows password when using WinRM communicator. [GH-2538] * builder/openstack: Support IPv6 SSH address. [GH-2450] * builder/openstack: Track new IP address discovered during RackConnect. [GH-2514] * builder/qemu: Add 100ms delay between VNC key events. [GH-2415] * post-processor/atlas: atlas_url configuration option works now. [GH-2478] * post-processor/compress: Now supports interpolation in output config. [GH-2414] * provisioner/powershell: Elevated runs now receive environment variables. [GH-2378] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Clarify error messages when we can't create or write to the temp directory. [GH-2518] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Copy state even if /srv/salt exists already. [GH-1699] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Make sure /etc/salt exists before writing to it. [GH-2520] * provisioner/winrm: Connect to the correct port when using NAT with VirtualBox / VMware. [GH-2399] ## Note: 0.8.3 was pulled and 0.8.4 was skipped. ## 0.8.2 (July 17, 2015) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/docker: Add option to use a Pty. [GH-2425] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fix crash when `min_packer_version` is specified in a template. [GH-2385] * builder/amazon: Fix EC2 devices being included in EBS mappings. [GH-2459] * builder/googlecompute: Fix default name for GCE images. [GH-2400] * builder/null: Fix error message with missing ssh_host. [GH-2407] * builder/virtualbox: Use --portcount on VirtualBox 5.x. [GH-2438] * provisioner/puppet: Packer now correctly handles a directory for manifest_file. [GH-2463] * provisioner/winrm: Fix potential crash with WinRM. [GH-2416] ## 0.8.1 (July 2, 2015) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon: When debug mode is enabled, the Windows administrator password for Windows instances will be shown. [GH-2351] ### BUG FIXES: * core: `min_packer_version` field in configs work. [GH-2356] * core: The `build_name` and `build_type` functions work in provisioners. [GH-2367] * core: Handle timeout in SSH handshake. [GH-2333] * command/build: Fix reading configuration from stdin. [GH-2366] * builder/amazon: Fix issue with sharing AMIs when using `ami_users` [GH-2308] * builder/amazon: Fix issue when using multiple Security Groups. [GH-2381] * builder/amazon: Fix for tag creation when creating new ec2 instance. [GH-2317] * builder/amazon: Fix issue with creating AMIs with multiple device mappings. [GH-2320] * builder/amazon: Fix failing AMI snapshot tagging when copying to other regions. [GH-2316] * builder/amazon: Fix setting AMI launch permissions. [GH-2348] * builder/amazon: Fix spot instance cleanup to remove the correct request. [GH-2327] * builder/amazon: Fix `bundle_prefix` not interpolating `timestamp` [GH-2352] * builder/amazon-instance: Fix issue with creating AMIs without specifying a virtualization type. [GH-2330] * builder/digitalocean: Fix builder using private IP instead of public IP. [GH-2339] * builder/google: Set default communicator settings properly. [GH-2353] * builder/vmware-iso: Setting `checksum_type` to `none` for ESX builds now works. [GH-2323] * provisioner/chef: Use knife config file vs command-line params to clean up nodes so full set of features can be used. [GH-2306] * post-processor/compress: Fixed crash in compress post-processor plugin. [GH-2311] ## 0.8.0 (June 23, 2015) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * core: SSH connection will no longer request a PTY by default. This can be enabled per builder. * builder/digitalocean: no longer supports the v1 API which has been deprecated for some time. Most configurations should continue to work as long as you use the `api_token` field for auth. * builder/digitalocean: `image`, `region`, and `size` are now required. * builder/openstack: auth parameters have been changed to better reflect OS terminology. Existing environment variables still work. ### FEATURES: * **WinRM:** You can now connect via WinRM with almost every builder. See the docs for more info. [GH-2239] * **Windows AWS Support:** Windows AMIs can now be built without any external plugins: Packer will start a Windows instance, get the admin password, and can use WinRM (above) to connect through. [GH-2240] * **Disable SSH:** Set `communicator` to "none" in any builder to disable SSH connections. Note that provisioners won't work if this is done. [GH-1591] * **SSH Agent Forwarding:** SSH Agent Forwarding will now be enabled to allow access to remote servers such as private git repos. [GH-1066] * **SSH Bastion Hosts:** You can now specify a bastion host for SSH access (works with all builders). [GH-387] * **OpenStack v3 Identity:** The OpenStack builder now supports the v3 identity API. * **Docker builder supports SSH**: The Docker builder now supports containers with SSH, just set `communicator` to "ssh" [GH-2244] * **File provisioner can download**: The file provisioner can now download files out of the build process. [GH-1909] * **New config function: `build_name`**: The name of the currently running build. [GH-2232] * **New config function: `build_type`**: The type of the currently running builder. This is useful for provisioners. [GH-2232] * **New config function: `template_dir`**: The directory to the template being built. This should be used for template-relative paths. [GH-54] * **New provisioner: shell-local**: Runs a local shell script. [GH-770] * **New provisioner: powershell**: Provision Windows machines with PowerShell scripts. [GH-2243] * **New provisioner: windows-shell**: Provision Windows machines with batch files. [GH-2243] * **New provisioner: windows-restart**: Restart a Windows machines and wait for it to come back online. [GH-2243] * **Compress post-processor supports multiple algorithms:** The compress post-processor now supports lz4 compression and compresses gzip in parallel for much faster throughput. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Interrupt handling for SIGTERM signal as well. [GH-1858] * core: HTTP downloads support resuming. [GH-2106] * builder/*: Add `ssh_handshake_attempts` to configure the number of handshake attempts done before failure. [GH-2237] * builder/amazon: Add `force_deregister` option for automatic AMI deregistration. [GH-2221] * builder/amazon: Now applies tags to EBS snapshots. [GH-2212] * builder/amazon: Clean up orphaned volumes from Source AMIs. [GH-1783] * builder/amazon: Support custom keypairs. [GH-1837] * builder/amazon-chroot: Can now resize the root volume of the resulting AMI with the `root_volume_size` option. [GH-2289] * builder/amazon-chroot: Add `mount_options` configuration option for providing options to the `mount` command. [GH-2296] * builder/digitalocean: Save SSH key to pwd if debug mode is on. [GH-1829] * builder/digitalocean: User data support. [GH-2113] * builder/googlecompute: Option to use internal IP for connections. [GH-2152] * builder/parallels: Support Parallels Desktop 11. [GH-2199] * builder/openstack: Add `rackconnect_wait` for Rackspace customers to wait for RackConnect data to appear * buidler/openstack: Add `ssh_interface` option for rackconnect for users that have prohibitive firewalls * builder/openstack: Flavor names can be used as well as refs * builder/openstack: Add `availability_zone` [GH-2016] * builder/openstack: Machine will be stopped prior to imaging if the cluster supports the `startstop` extension. [GH-2223] * builder/openstack: Support for user data. [GH-2224] * builder/qemu: Default accelerator to "tcg" on Windows. [GH-2291] * builder/virtualbox: Added option: `ssh_skip_nat_mapping` to skip the automatic port forward for SSH and to use the guest port directly. [GH-1078] * builder/virtualbox: Added SCSI support * builder/vmware: Support for additional disks. [GH-1382] * builder/vmware: Can now customize the template used for adding disks. [GH-2254] * command/fix: After fixing, the template is validated. [GH-2228] * command/push: Add `-name` flag for specifying name from CLI. [GH-2042] * command/push: Push configuration in templates supports variables. [GH-1861] * post-processor/docker-save: Can be chained. [GH-2179] * post-processor/docker-tag: Support `force` option. [GH-2055] * post-processor/docker-tag: Can be chained. [GH-2179] * post-processor/vsphere: Make more fields optional, support empty resource pools. [GH-1868] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: `working_directory` option. [GH-1831] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: `packer_build_name` and `packer_build_type` are default facts. [GH-1878] * provisioner/puppet-server: `ignore_exit_codes` option added. [GH-2280] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fix potential panic for post-processor plugin exits. [GH-2098] * core: `PACKER_CONFIG` may point to a non-existent file. [GH-2226] * builder/amazon: Allow spaces in AMI names when using `clean_ami_name` [GH-2182] * builder/amazon: Remove deprecated ec2-upload-bundle paramger. [GH-1931] * builder/amazon: Use IAM Profile to upload bundle if provided. [GH-1985] * builder/amazon: Use correct exit code after SSH authentication failed. [GH-2004] * builder/amazon: Retry finding created instance for eventual consistency. [GH-2129] * builder/amazon: If no AZ is specified, use AZ chosen automatically by AWS for spot instance. [GH-2017] * builder/amazon: Private key file (only available in debug mode) is deleted on cleanup. [GH-1801] * builder/amazon: AMI copy won't copy to the source region. [GH-2123] * builder/amazon: Validate AMI doesn't exist with name prior to build. [GH-1774] * builder/amazon: Improved retry logic around waiting for instances. [GH-1764] * builder/amazon: Fix issues with creating Block Devices. [GH-2195] * builder/amazon/chroot: Retry waiting for disk attachments. [GH-2046] * builder/amazon/chroot: Only unmount path if it is mounted. [GH-2054] * builder/amazon/instance: Use `-i` in sudo commands so PATH is inherited. [GH-1930] * builder/amazon/instance: Use `--region` flag for bundle upload command. [GH-1931] * builder/digitalocean: Wait for droplet to unlock before changing state, should lower the "pending event" errors. * builder/digitalocean: Ignore invalid fields from the ever-changing v2 API * builder/digitalocean: Private images can be used as a source. [GH-1792] * builder/docker: Fixed hang on prompt while copying script * builder/docker: Use `docker exec` for newer versions of Docker for running scripts. [GH-1993] * builder/docker: Fix crash that could occur at certain timed ctrl-c. [GH-1838] * builder/docker: validate that `export_path` is not a directory. [GH-2105] * builder/google: `ssh_timeout` is respected. [GH-1781] * builder/openstack: `ssh_interface` can be used to specify the interface to retrieve the SSH IP from. [GH-2220] * builder/qemu: Add `disk_discard` option. [GH-2120] * builder/qemu: Use proper SSH port, not hardcoded to 22. [GH-2236] * builder/qemu: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032] * builder/virtualbox: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709] * builder/virtualbox: Remove the floppy controller in addition to the floppy disk. [GH-1879] * builder/virtualbox: Fixed regression where downloading ISO without a ".iso" extension didn't work. [GH-1839] * builder/virtualbox: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233] * builder/virtualbox: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032] * builder/vmware: Add 100ms delay between keystrokes to avoid subtle timing issues in most cases. [GH-1663] * builder/vmware: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709] * builder/vmware: Case-insensitive match of MAC address to find IP. [GH-1989] * builder/vmware: More robust IP parsing from ifconfig output. [GH-1999] * builder/vmware: Nested output directories for ESXi work. [GH-2174] * builder/vmware: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233] * command/fix: For the `virtualbox` to `virtualbox-iso` builder rename, provisioner overrides are now also fixed. [GH-2231] * command/validate: don't crash for invalid builds. [GH-2139] * post-processor/atlas: Find common archive prefix for Windows. [GH-1874] * post-processor/atlas: Fix index out of range panic. [GH-1959] * post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Fixed failing on response * post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Don't delete version on error. [GH-2014] * post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Retry failed uploads a few times * provisioner/chef-client: Fix permissions issues on default dir. [GH-2255] * provisioner/chef-client: Node cleanup works now. [GH-2257] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: Allow manifest_file to be a directory * provisioner/salt-masterless: Add `--retcode-passthrough` to salt-call * provisioner/shell: chmod executable script to 0755, not 0777. [GH-1708] * provisioner/shell: inline commands failing will fail the provisioner. [GH-2069] * provisioner/shell: single quotes in env vars are escaped. [GH-2229] * provisioner/shell: Temporary file is deleted after run. [GH-2259] * provisioner/shell: Randomize default script name to avoid strange race issues from Windows. [GH-2270] ## 0.7.5 (December 9, 2014) ### FEATURES: * **New command: `packer push`**: Push template and files to HashiCorp's Atlas for building your templates automatically. * **New post-processor: `atlas`**: Send artifact to HashiCorp's Atlas for versioning and storing artifacts. These artifacts can then be queried using the API, Terraform, etc. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/googlecompute: Support for ubuntu-os-cloud project * builder/googlecompute: Support for OAuth2 to avoid client secrets file * builder/googlecompute: GCE image from persistant disk instead of tarball * builder/qemu: Checksum type "none" can be used * provisioner/chef: Generate a node name if none available * provisioner/chef: Added ssl_verify_mode configuration ### BUG FIXES: * builder/parallels: Fixed attachment of ISO to cdrom device * builder/parallels: Fixed boot load ordering * builder/digitalocean: Fixed decoding of size * builder/digitalocean: Fixed missing content-type header in request * builder/digitalocean: Fixed use of private IP * builder/digitalocean: Fixed the artifact ID generation * builder/vsphere: Fixed credential escaping * builder/qemu: Fixed use of CDROM with disk_image * builder/aws: Fixed IP address for SSH in VPC * builder/aws: Fixed issue with multiple block devices * builder/vmware: Upload VMX to ESX5 after editing * communicator/docker: Fix handling of symlinks during upload * provisioner/chef: Fixed use of sudo in some cases * core: Fixed build name interpolation * postprocessor/vagrant: Fixed check for Vagrantfile template ## 0.7.2 (October 28, 2014) ### FEATURES: * builder/digitalocean: API V2 support. [GH-1463] * builder/parallels: Don't depend on _prl-utils_. [GH-1499] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: Support new AWS Frankfurt region. * builder/docker: Allow remote `DOCKER_HOST`, which works as long as volumes work. [GH-1594] * builder/qemu: Can set cache mode for main disk. [GH-1558] * builder/qemu: Can build from pre-existing disk. [GH-1342] * builder/vmware: Can specify path to Fusion installation with environmental variable `FUSION_APP_PATH`. [GH-1552] * builder/vmware: Can specify the HW version for the VMX. [GH-1530] * builder/vmware/esxi: Will now cache ISOs/floppies remotely. [GH-1479] * builder/vmware/vmx: Source VMX can have a disk connected via SATA. [GH-1604] * post-processors/vagrant: Support Qemu (libvirt) boxes. [GH-1330] * post-processors/vagrantcloud: Support self-hosted box URLs. ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fix loading plugins from pwd. [GH-1521] * builder/amazon: Prefer token in config if given. [GH-1544] * builder/amazon/all: Extended timeout for waiting for AMI. [GH-1533] * builder/virtualbox: Can read VirtualBox version on FreeBSD. [GH-1570] * builder/virtualbox: More robust reading of guest additions URL. [GH-1509] * builder/vmware: Always remove floppies/drives. [GH-1504] * builder/vmware: Wait some time so that post-VMX update aren't overwritten. [GH-1504] * builder/vmware/esxi: Retry power on if it fails. [GH-1334] * builder/vmware-vmx: Fix issue with order of boot command support. [GH-1492] * builder/amazon: Extend timeout and allow user override. [GH-1533] * builder/parallels: Ignore 'The fdd0 device does not exist' [GH-1501] * builder/parallels: Rely on Cleanup functions to detach devices. [GH-1502] * builder/parallels: Create VM without hdd and then add it later. [GH-1548] * builder/parallels: Disconnect cdrom0. [GH-1605] * builder/qemu: Don't use `-redir` flag anymore, replace with `hostfwd` options. [GH-1561] * builder/qemu: Use `pc` as default machine type instead of `pc-1.0`. * providers/aws: Ignore transient network errors. [GH-1579] * provisioner/ansible: Don't buffer output so output streams in. [GH-1585] * provisioner/ansible: Use inventory file always to avoid potentially deprecated feature. [GH-1562] * provisioner/shell: Quote environmental variables. [GH-1568] * provisioner/salt: Bootstrap over SSL. [GH-1608] * post-processors/docker-push: Work with docker-tag artifacts. [GH-1526] * post-processors/vsphere: Append "/" to object address. [GH-1615] ## 0.7.1 (September 10, 2014) ### FEATURES: * builder/vmware: VMware Fusion Pro 7 is now supported. [GH-1478] ### BUG FIXES: * core: SSH will connect slightly faster if it is ready immediately. * provisioner/file: directory uploads no longer hang. [GH-1484] * provisioner/file: fixed crash on large files. [GH-1473] * scripts: Windows executable renamed to packer.exe. [GH-1483] ## 0.7.0 (September 8, 2014) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * The authentication configuration for Google Compute Engine has changed. The new method is much simpler, but is not backwards compatible. `packer fix` will _not_ fix this. Please read the updated GCE docs. ### FEATURES: * **New Post-Processor: `compress`** - Gzip compresses artifacts with files. * **New Post-Processor: `docker-save`** - Save an image. This is similar to export, but preserves the image hierarchy. * **New Post-Processor: `docker-tag`** - Tag a created image. * **New Template Functions: `upper`, `lower`** - See documentation for more details. * core: Plugins are automatically discovered if they're named properly. Packer will look in the PWD and the directory with `packer` for binaries named `packer-TYPE-NAME`. * core: Plugins placed in `~/.packer.d/plugins` are now automatically discovered. * builder/amazon: Spot instances can now be used to build EBS backed and instance store images. [GH-1139] * builder/docker: Images can now be committed instead of exported. [GH-1198] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: New `import_flags` setting can be used to add new command line flags to `VBoxManage import` to allow things such as EULAs to be accepted. [GH-1383] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: Boot commands and the HTTP server are supported. [GH-1169] * builder/vmware: VMware Player 6 is now supported. [GH-1168] * builder/vmware-vmx: Boot commands and the HTTP server are supported. [GH-1169] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: `isotime` function can take a format. [GH-1126] * builder/amazon/all: `AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN` is read and can also be set with the `token` configuration. [GH-1236] * builder/amazon/all: Can force SSH on the private IP address with `ssh_private_ip`. [GH-1229] * builder/amazon/all: String fields in device mappings can use variables. [GH-1090] * builder/amazon-instance: EBS AMIs can be used as a source. [GH-1453] * builder/digitalocean: Can set API URL endpoint. [GH-1448] * builder/digitalocean: Region supports variables. [GH-1452] * builder/docker: Can now specify login credentials to pull images. * builder/docker: Support mounting additional volumes. [GH-1430] * builder/parallels/all: Path to tools ISO is calculated automatically. [GH-1455] * builder/parallels-pvm: `reassign_mac` option to choose wehther or not to generate a new MAC address. [GH-1461] * builder/qemu: Can specify "none" acceleration type. [GH-1395] * builder/qemu: Can specify "tcg" acceleration type. [GH-1395] * builder/virtualbox/all: `iso_interface` option to mount ISO with SATA. [GH-1200] * builder/vmware-vmx: Proper `floppy_files` support. [GH-1057] * command/build: Add `-color=false` flag to disable color. [GH-1433] * post-processor/docker-push: Can now specify login credentials. [GH-1243] * provisioner/chef-client: Support `chef_environment`. [GH-1190] ### BUG FIXES: * core: nicer error message if an encrypted private key is used for SSH. [GH-1445] * core: Fix crash that could happen with a well timed double Ctrl-C. [GH-1328] [GH-1314] * core: SSH TCP keepalive period is now 5 seconds (shorter). [GH-1232] * builder/amazon-chroot: Can properly build HVM images now. [GH-1360] * builder/amazon-chroot: Fix crash in root device check. [GH-1360] * builder/amazon-chroot: Add description that Packer made the snapshot with a time. [GH-1388] * builder/amazon-ebs: AMI is deregistered if an error. [GH-1186] * builder/amazon-instance: Fix deprecation warning for `ec2-bundle-vol` [GH-1424] * builder/amazon-instance: Add `--no-filter` to the `ec2-bundle-vol` command by default to avoid corrupting data by removing package manager certs. [GH-1137] * builder/amazon/all: `delete_on_termination` set to false will work. * builder/amazon/all: Fix race condition on setting tags. [GH-1367] * builder/amazon/all: More desctriptive error messages if Amazon only sends an error code. [GH-1189] * builder/docker: Error if `DOCKER_HOST` is set. * builder/docker: Remove the container during cleanup. [GH-1206] * builder/docker: Fix case where not all output would show up from provisioners. * builder/googlecompute: add `disk_size` option. [GH-1397] * builder/googlecompute: Auth works with latest formats on Google Cloud Console. [GH-1344] * builder/openstack: Region is not required. [GH-1418] * builder/parallels-iso: ISO not removed from VM after install. [GH-1338] * builder/parallels/all: Add support for Parallels Desktop 10. [GH-1438] * builder/parallels/all: Added some navigation keys. [GH-1442] * builder/qemu: If headless, sdl display won't be used. [GH-1395] * builder/qemu: Use `512M` as `-m` default. [GH-1444] * builder/virtualbox/all: Search `VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH` for path to `VBoxManage` on Windows. [GH-1337] * builder/virtualbox/all: Seed RNG to avoid same ports. [GH-1386] * builder/virtualbox/all: Better error if guest additions URL couldn't be detected. [GH-1439] * builder/virtualbox/all: Detect errors even when `VBoxManage` exits with a zero exit code. [GH-1119] * builder/virtualbox/iso: Append timestamp to default name for parallel builds. [GH-1365] * builder/vmware/all: No more error when Packer stops an already-stopped VM. [GH-1300] * builder/vmware/all: `ssh_host` accepts templates. [GH-1396] * builder/vmware/all: Don't remount floppy in VMX post step. [GH-1239] * builder/vmware/vmx: Do not re-add floppy disk files to VMX. [GH-1361] * builder/vmware-iso: Fix crash when `vnc_port_min` and max were the same value. [GH-1288] * builder/vmware-iso: Finding an available VNC port on Windows works. [GH-1372] * builder/vmware-vmx: Nice error if Clone is not supported (not VMware Fusion Pro). [GH-787] * post-processor/vagrant: Can supply your own metadata.json. [GH-1143] * provisioner/ansible-local: Use proper path on Windows. [GH-1375] * provisioner/file: Mode will now be preserved. [GH-1064] ## 0.6.1 (July 20, 2014) ### FEATURES: * **New post processor:** `vagrant-cloud` - Push box files generated by vagrant post processor to Vagrant Cloud. [GH-1289] * Vagrant post-processor can now packer Hyper-V boxes. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon: Support for enhanced networking on HVM images. [GH-1228] * builder/amazon-ebs: Support encrypted EBS volumes. [GH-1194] * builder/ansible: Add `playbook_dir` option. [GH-1000] * builder/openstack: Add ability to configure networks. [GH-1261] * builder/openstack: Skip certificate verification. [GH-1121] * builder/parallels/all: Add ability to select interface to connect to. * builder/parallels/pvm: Support `boot_command`. [GH-1082] * builder/virtualbox/all: Attempt to use local guest additions ISO before downloading from internet. [GH-1123] * builder/virtualbox/ovf: Supports `guest_additions_mode` [GH-1035] * builder/vmware/all: Increase cleanup timeout to 120 seconds. [GH-1167] * builder/vmware/all: Add `vmx_data_post` for modifying VMX data after shutdown. [GH-1149] * builder/vmware/vmx: Supports tools uploading. [GH-1154] ### BUG FIXES: * core: `isotime` is the same time during the entire build. [GH-1153] * builder/amazon-common: Sort AMI strings before outputting. [GH-1305] * builder/amazon: User data can use templates/variables. [GH-1343] * builder/amazon: Can now build AMIs in GovCloud. * builder/null: SSH info can use templates/variables. [GH-1343] * builder/openstack: Workaround for gophercloud.ServerById crashing. [GH-1257] * builder/openstack: Force IPv4 addresses from address pools. [GH-1258] * builder/parallels: Do not delete entire CDROM device. [GH-1115] * builder/parallels: Errors while creating floppy disk. [GH-1225] * builder/parallels: Errors while removing floppy drive. [GH-1226] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: Supports guest additions options. [GH-1120] * builder/vmware-iso: Fix esx5 path separator in windows. [GH-1316] * builder/vmware: Remote ESXi builder now uploads floppy. [GH-1106] * builder/vmware: Remote ESXi builder no longer re-uploads ISO every time. [GH-1244] * post-processor/vsphere: Accept DOMAIN\account usernames. [GH-1178] * provisioner/chef-*: Fix remotePaths for Windows. [GH-394] ## 0.6.0 (May 2, 2014) ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** `null` - The null builder does not produce any artifacts, but is useful for debugging provisioning scripts. [GH-970] * **New builder:** `parallels-iso` and `parallels-pvm` - These can be used to build Parallels virtual machines. [GH-1101] * **New provisioner:** `chef-client` - Provision using a the `chef-client` command, which talks to a Chef Server. [GH-855] * **New provisioner:** `puppet-server` - Provision using Puppet by communicating to a Puppet master. [GH-796] * `min_packer_version` can be specified in a Packer template to force a minimum version. [GH-487] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: RPC transport between plugins switched to MessagePack * core: Templates array values can now be comma separated strings. Most importantly, this allows for user variables to fill array configurations. [GH-950] * builder/amazon: Added `ssh_private_key_file` option. [GH-971] * builder/amazon: Added `ami_virtualization_type` option. [GH-1021] * builder/digitalocean: Regions, image names, and sizes can be names that are looked up for their valid ID. [GH-960] * builder/googlecompute: Configurable instance name. [GH-1065] * builder/openstack: Support for conventional OpenStack environmental variables such as `OS_USERNAME`, `OS_PASSWORD`, etc. [GH-768] * builder/openstack: Support `openstack_provider` option to automatically fill defaults for different OpenStack variants. [GH-912] * builder/openstack: Support security groups. [GH-848] * builder/qemu: User variable expansion in `ssh_key_path` [GH-918] * builder/qemu: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086] * builder/virtualbox: Support an `export_opts` option which allows specifying arbitrary arguments when exporting the VM. [GH-945] * builder/virtualbox: Added `vboxmanage_post` option to run vboxmanage commands just before exporting. [GH-664] * builder/virtualbox: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086] * builder/vmware: Workstation 10 support for Linux. [GH-900] * builder/vmware: add cloning support on Windows. [GH-824] * builder/vmware: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086] * command/build: Added `-parallel` flag so you can disable parallelization with `-no-parallel`. [GH-924] * post-processors/vsphere: `disk_mode` option. [GH-778] * provisioner/ansible: Add `inventory_file` option. [GH-1006] * provisioner/chef-client: Add `validation_client_name` option. [GH-1056] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Errors are properly shown when adding bad floppy files. [GH-1043] * core: Fix some URL parsing issues on Windows. * core: Create Cache directory only when it is needed. [GH-367] * builder/amazon-instance: Use S3Endpoint for ec2-upload-bundle arg, which works for every region. [GH-904] * builder/digitalocean: updated default image_id. [GH-1032] * builder/googlecompute: Create persistent disk as boot disk via API v1. [GH-1001] * builder/openstack: Return proper error on invalid instance states. [GH-1018] * builder/virtualbox-iso: Retry unregister a few times to deal with VBoxManage randomness. [GH-915] * provisioner/ansible: Fix paths when provisioning Linux from Windows. [GH-963] * provisioner/ansible: set cwd to staging directory. [GH-1016] * provisioners/chef-client: Don't chown directory with Ubuntu. [GH-939] * provisioners/chef-solo: Deeply nested JSON works properly. [GH-1076] * provisioners/shell: Env var values can have equal signs. [GH-1045] * provisioners/shell: chmod the uploaded script file to 0777. [GH-994] * post-processor/docker-push: Allow repositories with ports. [GH-923] * post-processor/vagrant: Create parent directories for `output` path. [GH-1059] * post-processor/vsphere: datastore, network, and folder are no longer required. [GH-1091] ## 0.5.2 (02/21/2014) ### FEATURES: * **New post-processor:** `docker-import` - Import a Docker image and give it a specific repository/tag. * **New post-processor:** `docker-push` - Push an imported image to a registry. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Most downloads made by Packer now use a custom user agent. [GH-803] * builder/googlecompute: SSH private key will be saved to disk if `-debug` is specified. [GH-867] * builder/qemu: Can specify the name of the qemu binary. [GH-854] * builder/virtualbox-ovf: Can specify import options such as "keepallmacs". [GH-883] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fix crash case if blank parameters are given to Packer. [GH-832] * core: Fix crash if big file uploads are done. [GH-897] * core: Fix crash if machine-readable output is going to a closed pipe. [GH-875] * builder/docker: user variables work properly. [GH-777] * builder/qemu: reboots are now possible in provisioners. [GH-864] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: iso\_checksum is not required if the checksum type is "none" * builder/virtualbox,vmware/qemu: Support for additional scancodes for `boot_command` such as ``, ``, ``, etc. [GH-808] * communicator/ssh: Send TCP keep-alives on connections. [GH-872] * post-processor/vagrant: AWS/DigitalOcean keep input artifacts by default. [GH-55] * provisioners/ansible-local: Properly upload custom playbooks. [GH-829] * provisioners/ansible-local: Better error if ansible isn't installed. [GH-836] ## 0.5.1 (01/02/2014) ### BUG FIXES: * core: If a stream ID loops around, don't let it use stream ID 0. [GH-767] * core: Fix issue where large writes to plugins would result in stream corruption. [GH-727] * builders/virtualbox-ovf: `shutdown_timeout` config works. [GH-772] * builders/vmware-iso: Remote driver works properly again. [GH-773] ## 0.5.0 (12/30/2013) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * "virtualbox" builder has been renamed to "virtualbox-iso". Running your template through `packer fix` will resolve this. * "vmware" builder has been renamed to "vmware-iso". Running your template through `packer fix` will resolve this. * post-processor/vagrant: Syntax for overriding by provider has changed. See the documentation for more information. Running your template through `packer fix` should resolve this. * post-processor/vsphere: Some available configuration options were changed. Running your template through `packer fix` should resolve this. * provisioner/puppet-masterless: The `execute_command` no longer has the `Has*` variables, since the templating language now supports comparison operations. See the Go documentation for more info: http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/ ### FEATURES: * **New builder:** Google Compute Engine. You can now build images for use in Google Compute Engine. See the documentation for more information. [GH-715] * **New builder:** "virtualbox-ovf" can build VirtualBox images from an existing OVF or OVA. [GH-201] * **New builder:** "vmware-vmx" can build VMware images from an existing VMX. [GH-201] * Environmental variables can now be accessed as default values for user variables using the "env" function. See the documentation for more information. * "description" field in templates: write a human-readable description of what a template does. This will be shown in `packer inspect`. * Vagrant post-processor now accepts a list of files to include in the box. * All provisioners can now have a "pause\_before" parameter to wait some period of time before running that provisioner. This is useful for reboots. [GH-737] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Plugins communicate over a single TCP connection per plugin now, instead of sometimes dozens. Performance around plugin communication dramatically increased. * core: Build names are now template processed so you can use things like user variables in them. [GH-744] * core: New "pwd" function available globally that returns the working directory. [GH-762] * builder/amazon/all: Launched EC2 instances now have a name of "Packer Builder" so that they are easily recognizable. [GH-642] * builder/amazon/all: Copying AMIs to multiple regions now happens in parallel. [GH-495] * builder/amazon/all: Ability to specify "run\_tags" to tag the instance while running. [GH-722] * builder/digitalocean: Private networking support. [GH-698] * builder/docker: A "run\_command" can be specified, configuring how the container is started. [GH-648] * builder/openstack: In debug mode, the generated SSH keypair is saved so you can SSH into the machine. [GH-746] * builder/qemu: Floppy files are supported. [GH-686] * builder/qemu: Next `run_once` option tells Qemu to run only once, which is useful for Windows installs that handle reboots for you. [GH-687] * builder/virtualbox: Nice errors if Packer can't write to the output directory. * builder/virtualbox: ISO is ejected prior to export. * builder/virtualbox: Checksum type can be "none" [GH-471] * builder/vmware: Can now specify path to the Fusion application. [GH-677] * builder/vmware: Checksum type can be "none" [GH-471] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: Can now specify a `manifest_dir` to upload manifests to the remote machine for imports. [GH-655] ### BUG FIXES: * core: No colored output in machine-readable output. [GH-684] * core: User variables can now be used for non-string fields. [GH-598] * core: Fix bad download paths if the download URL contained a "." before a "/" [GH-716] * core: "{{timestamp}}" values will always be the same for the entire duration of a build. [GH-744] * builder/amazon: Handle cases where security group isn't instantly available. [GH-494] * builder/virtualbox: don't download guest additions if disabled. [GH-731] * post-processor/vsphere: Uploads VM properly. [GH-694] * post-processor/vsphere: Process user variables. * provisioner/ansible-local: all configurations are processed as templates [GH-749] * provisioner/ansible-local: playbook paths are properly validated as directories, not files. [GH-710] * provisioner/chef-solo: Environments are recognized. [GH-726] ## 0.4.1 (December 7, 2013) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/ebs: New option allows associating a public IP with non-default VPC instances. [GH-660] * builder/openstack: A "proxy\_url" setting was added to define an HTTP proxy to use when building with this builder. [GH-637] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Don't change background color on CLI anymore, making things look a tad nicer in some terminals. * core: multiple ISO URLs works properly in all builders. [GH-683] * builder/amazon/chroot: Block when obtaining file lock to allow parallel builds. [GH-689] * builder/amazon/instance: Add location flag to upload bundle command so that building AMIs works out of us-east-1. [GH-679] * builder/qemu: Qemu arguments are templated. [GH-688] * builder/vmware: Cleanup of VMX keys works properly so cd-rom won't get stuck with ISO. [GH-685] * builder/vmware: File cleanup is more resilient to file delete races with the operating system. [GH-675] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: Check for hiera config path existence properly. [GH-656] ## 0.4.0 (November 19, 2013) ### FEATURES: * Docker builder: build and export Docker containers, easily provisioned with any of the Packer built-in provisioners. * QEMU builder: builds a new VM compatible with KVM or Xen using QEMU. * Remote ESXi builder: builds a VMware VM using ESXi remotely using only SSH to an ESXi machine directly. * vSphere post-processor: Can upload VMware artifacts to vSphere * Vagrant post-processor can now make DigitalOcean provider boxes. [GH-504] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: Can now specify a list of multiple security group IDs to apply. [GH-499] * builder/amazon/all: AWS API requests are now retried when a temporary network error occurs as well as 500 errors. [GH-559] * builder/virtualbox: Use VBOX\_INSTALL\_PATH env var on Windows to find VBoxManage. [GH-628] * post-processor/vagrant: skips gzip compression when compression_level=0 * provisioner/chef-solo: Encrypted data bag support. [GH-625] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon/chroot: Copying empty directories works. [GH-588] * builder/amazon/chroot: Chroot commands work with shell provisioners. [GH-581] * builder/amazon/chroot: Don't choose a mount point that is a partition of an already mounted device. [GH-635] * builder/virtualbox: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618] * builder/vmware: VMX modifications are now case-insensitive. [GH-608] * builder/vmware: VMware Fusion won't ask for VM upgrade. * builder/vmware: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618] * provisioner/chef-solo: Output is slightly prettier and more informative. ## 0.3.11 (November 4, 2013) ### FEATURES: * builder/amazon/ebs: Ability to specify which availability zone to create instance in. [GH-536] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: builders can now give warnings during validation. warnings won't fail the build but may hint at potential future problems. * builder/digitalocean: Can now specify a droplet name * builder/virtualbox: Can now disable guest addition download entirely by setting "guest_additions_mode" to "disable" [GH-580] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: ISO urls can now be https. [GH-587] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: Warning if shutdown command is not specified, since it is a common case of data loss. ### BUG FIXES: * core: Won't panic when writing to a bad pipe. [GH-560] * builder/amazon/all: Properly scrub access key and secret key from logs. [GH-554] * builder/openstack: Properly scrub password from logs. [GH-554] * builder/virtualbox: No panic if SSH host port min/max is the same. [GH-594] * builder/vmware: checks if `ifconfig` is in `/sbin` [GH-591] * builder/vmware: Host IP lookup works for non-C locales. [GH-592] * common/uuid: Use cryptographically secure PRNG when generating UUIDs. [GH-552] * communicator/ssh: File uploads that exceed the size of memory no longer cause crashes. [GH-561] ## 0.3.10 (October 20, 2013) ### FEATURES: * Ansible provisioner ### IMPROVEMENTS: * post-processor/vagrant: support instance-store AMIs built by Packer. [GH-502] * post-processor/vagrant: can now specify compression level to use when creating the box. [GH-506] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/all: timeout waiting for SSH connection is a failure. [GH-491] * builder/amazon: Scrub sensitive data from the logs. [GH-521] * builder/amazon: Handle the situation where an EC2 instance might not be immediately available. [GH-522] * builder/amazon/chroot: Files copied into the chroot remove destination before copy, fixing issues with dangling symlinks. [GH-500] * builder/digitalocean: don't panic if erroneous API response doesn't contain error message. [GH-492] * builder/digitalocean: scrub API keys from config debug output. [GH-516] * builder/virtualbox: error if VirtualBox version cant be detected. [GH-488] * builder/virtualbox: detect if vboxdrv isn't properly setup. [GH-488] * builder/virtualbox: sleep a bit before export to ensure the sesssion is unlocked. [GH-512] * builder/virtualbox: create SATA drives properly on VirtualBox 4.3. [GH-547] * builder/virtualbox: support user templates in SSH key path. [GH-539] * builder/vmware: support user templates in SSH key path. [GH-539] * communicator/ssh: Fix issue where a panic could arise from a nil dereference. [GH-525] * post-processor/vagrant: Fix issue with VirtualBox OVA. [GH-548] * provisioner/salt: Move salt states to correct remote directory. [GH-513] * provisioner/shell: Won't block on certain scripts on Windows anymore. [GH-507] ## 0.3.9 (October 2, 2013) ### FEATURES: * The Amazon chroot builder is now able to run without any `sudo` privileges by using the "command_wrapper" configuration. [GH-430] * Chef provisioner supports environments. [GH-483] ### BUG FIXES: * core: default user variable values don't need to be strings. [GH-456] * builder/amazon-chroot: Fix errors with waitin for state change. [GH-459] * builder/digitalocean: Use proper error message JSON key (DO API change). * communicator/ssh: SCP uploads now work properly when directories contain symlinks. [GH-449] * provisioner/chef-solo: Data bags and roles path are now properly populated when set. [GH-470] * provisioner/shell: Windows line endings are actually properly changed to Unix line endings. [GH-477] ## 0.3.8 (September 22, 2013) ### FEATURES: * core: You can now specify `only` and `except` configurations on any provisioner or post-processor to specify a list of builds that they are valid for. [GH-438] * builders/virtualbox: Guest additions can be attached rather than uploaded, easier to handle for Windows guests. [GH-405] * provisioner/chef-solo: Ability to specify a custom Chef configuration template. * provisioner/chef-solo: Roles and data bags support. [GH-348] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: User variables can now be used for integer, boolean, etc. values. [GH-418] * core: Plugins made with incompatible versions will no longer load. * builder/amazon/all: Interrupts work while waiting for AMI to be ready. * provisioner/shell: Script line-endings are automatically converted to Unix-style line-endings. Can be disabled by setting "binary" to "true". [GH-277] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Set TCP KeepAlives on internally created RPC connections so that they don't die. [GH-416] * builder/amazon/all: While waiting for AMI, will detect "failed" state. * builder/amazon/all: Waiting for state will detect if the resource (AMI, instance, etc.) disappears from under it. * builder/amazon/instance: Exclude only contents of /tmp, not /tmp itself. [GH-437] * builder/amazon/instance: Make AccessKey/SecretKey available to bundle command even when they come from the environment. [GH-434] * builder/virtualbox: F1-F12 and delete scancodes now work. [GH-425] * post-processor/vagrant: Override configurations properly work. [GH-426] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: Fix failure case when both facter vars are used and prevent_sudo. [GH-415] * provisioner/puppet-masterless: User variables now work properly in manifest file and hiera path. [GH-448] ## 0.3.7 (September 9, 2013) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * The "event_delay" option for the DigitalOcean builder is now gone. The builder automatically waits for events to go away. Run your templates through `packer fix` to get rid of these. ### FEATURES: * **NEW PROVISIONER:** `puppet-masterless`. You can now provision with a masterless Puppet setup. [GH-234] * New globally available template function: `uuid`. Generates a new random UUID. * New globally available template function: `isotime`. Generates the current time in ISO standard format. * New Amazon template function: `clean_ami_name`. Substitutes '-' for characters that are illegal to use in an AMI name. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: Ability to specify the format of the temporary keypair created. [GH-389] * builder/amazon/all: Support the NoDevice flag for block mappings. [GH-396] * builder/digitalocean: Retry on any pending event errors. * builder/openstack: Can now specify a project. [GH-382] * builder/virtualbox: Can now attach hard drive over SATA. [GH-391] * provisioner/file: Can now upload directories. [GH-251] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Detect if SCP is not enabled on the other side. [GH-386] * builder/amazon/all: When copying AMI to multiple regions, copy the metadata (tags and attributes) as well. [GH-388] * builder/amazon/all: Fix panic case where eventually consistent instance state caused an index out of bounds. * builder/virtualbox: The `vm_name` setting now properly sets the OVF name of the output. [GH-401] * builder/vmware: Autoanswer VMware dialogs. [GH-393] * command/inspect: Fix weird output for default values for optional vars. ## 0.3.6 (September 2, 2013) ### FEATURES: * User variables can now be specified as "required", meaning the user MUST specify a value. Just set the default value to "null". [GH-374] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Much improved interrupt handling. For example, interrupts now cancel much more quickly within provisioners. * builder/amazon: In `-debug` mode, the keypair used will be saved to the current directory so you can access the machine. [GH-373] * builder/amazon: In `-debug` mode, the DNS is outputted. * builder/openstack: IPv6 addresses supported for SSH. [GH-379] * communicator/ssh: Support for private keys encrypted using PKCS8. [GH-376] * provisioner/chef-solo: You can now use user variables in the `json` configuration for Chef. [GH-362] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Concurrent map access is completely gone, fixing rare issues with runtime memory corruption. [GH-307] * core: Fix possible panic when ctrl-C during provisioner run. * builder/digitalocean: Retry destroy a few times because DO sometimes gives false errors. * builder/openstack: Properly handle the case no image is made. [GH-375] * builder/openstack: Specifying a region is now required in a template. * provisioners/salt-masterless: Use filepath join to properly join paths. ## 0.3.5 (August 28, 2013) ### FEATURES: * **NEW BUILDER:** `openstack`. You can now build on OpenStack. [GH-155] * **NEW PROVISIONER:** `chef-solo`. You can now provision with Chef using `chef-solo` from local cookbooks. * builder/amazon: Copy AMI to multiple regions with `ami_regions`. [GH-322] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: Can now use SSH keys as an auth mechanism for SSH using `ssh_key_path`. [GH-70] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: Support SHA512 as a checksum type. [GH-356] * builder/vmware: The root hard drive type can now be specified with "disk_type_id" for advanced users. [GH-328] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Ability to specfy a minion config. [GH-264] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Ability to upload pillars. [GH-353] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Output message when Ctrl-C received that we're cleaning up. [GH-338] * builder/amazon: Tagging now works with all amazon builder types. * builder/vmware: Option `ssh_skip_request_pty` for not requesting a PTY for the SSH connection. [GH-270] * builder/vmware: Specify a `vmx_template_path` in order to customize the generated VMX. [GH-270] * command/build: Machine-readable output now contains build errors, if any. * command/build: An "end" sentinel is outputted in machine-readable output for artifact listing so it is easier to know when it is over. ### BUG FIXES: * core: Fixed a couple cases where a double ctrl-C could panic. * core: Template validation fails if an override is specified for a non-existent builder. [GH-336] * core: The SSH connection is heartbeated so that drops can be detected. [GH-200] * builder/amazon/instance: Remove check for ec2-ami-tools because it didn't allow absolute paths to work properly. [GH-330] * builder/digitalocean: Send a soft shutdown request so that files are properly synced before shutdown. [GH-332] * command/build,command/validate: If a non-existent build is specified to '-only' or '-except', it is now an error. [GH-326] * post-processor/vagrant: Setting OutputPath with a timestamp now always works properly. [GH-324] * post-processor/vagrant: VirtualBox OVA formats now turn into Vagrant boxes properly. [GH-331] * provisioner/shell: Retry upload if start command fails, making reboot handling much more robust. ## 0.3.4 (August 21, 2013) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * post-processor/vagrant: the file being compressed will be shown in the UI. [GH-314] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Avoid panics when double-interrupting Packer. * provisioner/shell: Retry shell script uploads, making reboots more robust if they happen to fail in this stage. [GH-282] ## 0.3.3 (August 19, 2013) ### FEATURES: * builder/virtualbox: support exporting in OVA format. [GH-309] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: All HTTP downloads across Packer now support the standard proxy environmental variables (`HTTP_PROXY`, `NO_PROXY`, etc.) [GH-252] * builder/amazon: API requests will use HTTP proxy if specified by enviromental variables. * builder/digitalocean: API requests will use HTTP proxy if specified by environmental variables. ### BUG FIXES: * core: TCP connection between plugin processes will keep-alive. [GH-312] * core: No more "unused key keep_input_artifact" for post processors. [GH-310] * post-processor/vagrant: `output_path` templates now work again. ## 0.3.2 (August 18, 2013) ### FEATURES: * New command: `packer inspect`. This command tells you the components of a template. It respects the `-machine-readable` flag as well so you can parse out components of a template. * Packer will detect its own crashes (always a bug) and save a "crash.log" file. * builder/virtualbox: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order. * builder/vmware: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: built with Go 1.1.2 * core: packer help output now loads much faster. * builder/virtualbox: guest_additions_url can now use the `Version` variable to get the VirtualBox version. [GH-272] * builder/virtualbox: Do not check for VirtualBox as part of template validation; only check at execution. * builder/vmware: Do not check for VMware as part of template validation; only check at execution. * command/build: A path of "-" will read the template from stdin. * builder/amazon: add block device mappings. [GH-90] ### BUG FIXES: * windows: file URLs are easier to get right as Packer has better parsing and error handling for Windows file paths. [GH-284] * builder/amazon/all: Modifying more than one AMI attribute type no longer crashes. * builder/amazon-instance: send IAM instance profile data. [GH-294] * builder/digitalocean: API request parameters are properly URL encoded. [GH-281] * builder/virtualbox: dowload progress won't be shown until download actually starts. [GH-288] * builder/virtualbox: floppy files names of 13 characters are now properly written to the FAT12 filesystem. [GH-285] * builder/vmware: dowload progress won't be shown until download actually starts. [GH-288] * builder/vmware: interrupt works while typing commands over VNC. * builder/virtualbox: floppy files names of 13 characters are now properly written to the FAT12 filesystem. [GH-285] * post-processor/vagrant: Process user variables. [GH-295] ## 0.3.1 (August 12, 2013) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * provisioner/shell: New setting `start_retry_timeout` which is the timeout for the provisioner to attempt to _start_ the remote process. This allows the shell provisioner to work properly with reboots. [GH-260] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Remote command output containing '\r' now looks much better within the Packer output. * builder/vmware: Fix issue with finding driver files. [GH-279] * provisioner/salt-masterless: Uploads work properly from Windows. [GH-276] ## 0.3.0 (August 12, 2013) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * All `{{.CreateTime}}` variables within templates (such as for AMI names) are now replaced with `{{timestamp}}`. Run `packer fix` to fix your templates. ### FEATURES: * **User Variables** allow you to specify variables within your templates that can be replaced using the command-line, files, or environmental variables. This dramatically improves the portability of packer templates. See the documentation for more information. * **Machine-readable output** can be enabled by passing the `-machine-readable` flag to _any_ Packer command. * All strings in a template are now processed for variables/functions, so things like `{{timestamp}}` can be used everywhere. More features will be added in the future. * The `amazon` builders (all of them) can now have attributes of their resulting AMIs modified, such as access permissions and product codes. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: User data can be passed to start the instances. [GH-253] * provisioner/salt-masterless: `local_state_tree` is no longer required, allowing you to use shell provisioner (or others) to bring this down. [GH-269] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon/ebs,instance: Retry deleing security group a few times. [GH-278] * builder/vmware: Workstation works on Windows XP now. [GH-238] * builder/vmware: Look for files on Windows in multiple locations using multiple environmental variables. [GH-263] * provisioner/salt-masterless: states aren't deleted after the run anymore. [GH-265] * provisioner/salt-masterless: error if any commands exit with a non-zero exit status. [GH-266] ## 0.2.3 (August 7, 2013) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: Added Amazon AMI tag support. [GH-233] ### BUG FIXES: * core: Absolute/relative filepaths on Windows now work for iso_url and other settings. [GH-240] * builder/amazon/all: instance info is refreshed while waiting for SSH, allowing Packer to see updated IP/DNS info. [GH-243] ## 0.2.2 (August 1, 2013) ### FEATURES: * New builder: `amazon-chroot` can create EBS-backed AMIs without launching a new EC2 instance. This can shave minutes off of the AMI creation process. See the docs for more info. * New provisioner: `salt-masterless` will provision the node using Salt without a master. * The `vmware` builder now works with Workstation 9 on Windows. [GH-222] * The `vmware` builder now works with Player 5 on Linux. [GH-190] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Colors won't be outputted on Windows unless in Cygwin. * builder/amazon/all: Added `iam_instance_profile` to launch the source image with a given IAM profile. [GH-226] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/virtualbox,vmware: relative paths work properly as URL configurations. [GH-215] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: fix race condition in deleting the output directory on Windows by retrying. ## 0.2.1 (July 26, 2013) ### FEATURES: * New builder: `amazon-instance` can create instance-storage backed AMIs. * VMware builder now works with Workstation 9 on Linux. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * builder/amazon/all: Ctrl-C while waiting for state change works * builder/amazon/ebs: Can now launch instances into a VPC for added protection. [GH-210] * builder/virtualbox,vmware: Add backspace, delete, and F1-F12 keys to the boot command. * builder/virtualbox: massive performance improvements with big ISO files because an expensive copy is avoided. [GH-202] * builder/vmware: CD is removed prior to exporting final machine. [GH-198] ### BUG FIXES: * builder/amazon/all: Gracefully handle when AMI appears to not exist while AWS state is propogating. [GH-207] * builder/virtualbox: Trim carriage returns for Windows to properly detect VM state on Windows. [GH-218] * core: build names no longer cause invalid config errors. [GH-197] * command/build: If any builds fail, exit with non-zero exit status. * communicator/ssh: SCP exit codes are tested and errors are reported. [GH-195] * communicator/ssh: Properly change slash direction for Windows hosts. [GH-218] ## 0.2.0 (July 16, 2013) ### BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES: * "iso_md5" in the virtualbox and vmware builders is replaced with "iso_checksum" and "iso_checksum_type" (with the latter set to "md5"). See the announce below on `packer fix` to automatically fix your templates. ### FEATURES: * **NEW COMMAND:** `packer fix` will attempt to fix templates from older versions of Packer that are now broken due to backwards incompatibilities. This command will fix the backwards incompatibilities introduced in this version. * Amazon EBS builder can now optionally use a pre-made security group instead of randomly generating one. * DigitalOcean API key and client IDs can now be passed in as environmental variables. See the documentatin for more details. * VirtualBox and VMware can now have `floppy_files` specified to attach floppy disks when booting. This allows for unattended Windows installs. * `packer build` has a new `-force` flag that forces the removal of existing artifacts if they exist. [GH-173] * You can now log to a file (instead of just stderr) by setting the `PACKER_LOG_FILE` environmental variable. [GH-168] * Checksums other than MD5 can now be used. SHA1 and SHA256 can also be used. See the documentation on `iso_checksum_type` for more info. [GH-175] ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: invalid keys in configuration are now considered validation errors. [GH-104] * core: all builders now share a common SSH connection core, improving SSH reliability over all the builders. * amazon-ebs: Credentials will come from IAM role if available. [GH-160] * amazon-ebs: Verify the source AMI is EBS-backed before launching. [GH-169] * shell provisioner: the build name and builder type are available in the `PACKER_BUILD_NAME` and `PACKER_BUILDER_TYPE` env vars by default, respectively. [GH-154] * vmware: error if shutdown command has non-zero exit status. ### BUG FIXES: * core: UI messages are now properly prefixed with spaces again. * core: If SSH connection ends, re-connection attempts will take place. [GH-152] * virtualbox: "paused" doesn't mean the VM is stopped, improving shutdown detection. * vmware: error if guest IP could not be detected. [GH-189] ## 0.1.5 (July 7, 2013) ### FEATURES: * "file" uploader will upload files from the machine running Packer to the remote machine. * VirtualBox guest additions URL and checksum can now be specified, allowing the VirtualBox builder to have the ability to be used completely offline. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: If SCP is not available, a more descriptive error message is shown telling the user. [GH-127] * shell: Scripts are now executed by default according to their shebang, not with `/bin/sh`. [GH-105] * shell: You can specify what interpreter you want inline scripts to run with `inline_shebang`. * virtualbox: Delete the packer-made SSH port forwarding prior to exporting the VM. ### BUG FIXES: * core: Non-200 response codes on downloads now show proper errors. [GH-141] * amazon-ebs: SSH handshake is retried. [GH-130] * vagrant: The `BuildName` template propery works properly in the output path. * vagrant: Properly configure the provider-specific post-processors so things like `vagrantfile_template` work. [GH-129] * vagrant: Close filehandles when copying files so Windows can rename files. [GH-100] ## 0.1.4 (July 2, 2013) ### FEATURES: * virtualbox: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99] * virtualbox: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97] * vmware: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99] * vmware: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97] * vmware: Disks are defragmented and compacted at the end of the build. This can be disabled using "skip_compaction" ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Template syntax errors now show line and character number. [GH-56] * amazon-ebs: Access key and secret access key default to environmental variables. [GH-40] * virtualbox: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth. [GH-121] * vmware: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth. [GH-121] ### BUG FIXES: * vmware: Wait until shut down cleans up properly to avoid corrupt disk files. [GH-111] ## 0.1.3 (July 1, 2013) ### FEATURES: * The VMware builder can now upload the VMware tools for you into the VM. This is opt-in, you must specify the `tools_upload_flavor` option. See the website for more documentation. ### IMPROVEMENTS: * digitalocean: Errors contain human-friendly error messages. [GH-85] ### BUG FIXES: * core: More plugin server fixes that avoid hangs on OS X 10.7. [GH-87] * vagrant: AWS boxes will keep the AMI artifact around. [GH-55] * virtualbox: More robust version parsing for uploading guest additions. [GH-69] * virtualbox: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91] * vmware: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91] ## 0.1.2 (June 29, 2013) ### IMPROVEMENTS: * core: Template doesn't validate if there are no builders. * vmware: Delete any VMware files in the VM that aren't necessary for it to function. ### BUG FIXES: * core: Plugin servers consider a port in use if there is any error listening to it. This fixes I18n issues and Windows. [GH-58] * amazon-ebs: Sleep between checking instance state to avoid RequestLimitExceeded. [GH-50] * vagrant: Rename VirtualBox ovf to "box.ovf" [GH-64] * vagrant: VMware boxes have the correct provider type. * vmware: Properly populate files in artifact so that the Vagrant post-processor works. [GH-63] ## 0.1.1 (June 28, 2013) ### BUG FIXES: * core: plugins listen explicitly on 127.0.0.1, fixing odd hangs. [GH-37] * core: fix race condition on verifying checksum of large ISOs which could cause panics. [GH-52] * virtualbox: `boot_wait` defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44] * virtualbox: if `http_port_min` and max are the same, it will no longer panic. [GH-53] * vmware: `boot_wait` defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44] * vmware: if `http_port_min` and max are the same, it will no longer panic. [GH-53] ## 0.1.0 (June 28, 2013) * Initial release