Hello Packer Community, The Packer team is excited to announce the release of Packer 1.9.0.
This minor release improves how Packer builds are registered to HCP Packer, provides a new mechanism for managing HCP Packer fingerprints, and removes the bundling of external community-maintained plugins from Packer. Users are encouraged to use either the *packer plugins* subcommands or the *required_plugins* block in HCL2 templates alongside the *packer init* command for managing and installing external plugins. For a full list of changes, please refer to the Packer CHANGELOG <https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#190-may-31-2023> . *Notable Changes:* When publishing builds artifacts to HCP Packer, Packer will now generate a fingerprint that is *not* based on the Git SHA, but instead a randomly generated ULID. The generated fingerprint removes the need for users to manually define a fingerprint when building images outside of a Git repository. This change also allows re-running of HCP Packer builds on the same template revision. The following external community-maintained plugins have been removed from the Packer release binary. Users can install these plugins manually using packer init or packer plugins install. * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-alicloud * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-cloudstack * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hcloud * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hyperone * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hyperv * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-jdcloud * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-lxc * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-lxd * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-ncloud * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-openstack * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-proxmox * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-tencentcloud * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-triton * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-yandex In addition to the plugins above, the following archived provisioner plugins have been removed: * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-chef * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-converge * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-inspec * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-puppet * https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-salt *Notable Fixes:* * The Go module github.com/shirou/gopsutil was updated to fix an intermittent crash on macOS because of an off-by-one error. * We fixed a problem in our release process regarding LDFLAGS introduced in 1.8.5. This bug resulted in unstripped binaries, raising their size by as much as 45%. As always thank you for your continued support and contributions. The Packer team -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7b8af74b-f4a6-4cd7-b669-f499cc193f5dn%40googlegroups.com.
