FEATURES:
New Command (HCL only) packer init command will download plugins defined in a new required_plugins block [GH-10304] [GH-10633].
New Plugin Type Data sources can be implemented (blog post forthcoming). [GH-10440]
New Plugin Aws Secrets Manager data source [GH-10505] [GH-10467]
BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:
core: The API that the Packer core uses to communicate with community plugins has changed; maintainers of community plugins will need to upgrade their plugins in order to make them compatible with v1.7.0. An upgrade guide will be available on our guides page
https://www.packer.io/guides.
IMPROVEMENTS:
builder/amazon: Add skip_create_ami option for testing and situations where artifact is not the ami. [GH-10531]
builder/amazon: Add IMDSv2 support for AWS EBS builder. [GH-10546]
builder/amazon: Add resource tags in the launch template used to request spot instances. [GH-10456]
builder/openstack: Add skip_create_image option for testing and situations where artifact is not the image. [GH-10496]
builder/oracle-oci: Add retry strategies to oci calls [GH-10591]
core/fmt: The packer fmt can now read from stdin. [GH-10500]
core/hcl: Add regex and regexall hcl2 template functions. [GH-10601]
core/hcl: Templates now support "sensitive" locals. [GH-10509]
core/hcl: Templates now support error-cleanup-provisioner. [GH-10604]
hcl2_upgrade: Command now comes with a flag so you can control whether output templates are annotated with helpful comments. [GH-10619]
hcl2_upgrade: Command now gracefully handles options with template engine interpolations. [GH-10625]
hcl2_upgrade: Command will convert amazon filters to use the ami data source. [GH-10491]
BUG FIXES:
amazon/ebssurrogate: Apply snapshot tags at same time as when taking snapshot. [GH-10150]
builder/amazon: Fix bug where validation fails if optional iops value is unset. [GH-10518]
builder/amazon: Wrap API call to get filtered image in a retry. [GH-10610]
builder/bsusurrogate: override bsu when omi root device is set. [GH-10490]
builder/google: Fix bug where Packer would fail when run by users who do not have permission to access the metadata, even though the metadata is not necessary to the run. [GH-10458]
builder/profitbricks: Profitbricks builder could not connect using SSH communicator. [GH-10549]
builder/proxmox: Ensure ISOs in additional_iso_files are mounted during VM creation. [GH-10586]
builder/proxmox: Improve cloud init error logging for proxmox builder. [GH-10499]
builder/qemu: Fix bug where vnc_min_port set to value greater then 5900 could prevent Packer from connecting to QEMU. [GH-10450] [GH-10451]
builder/qemu: Fix regression with cd indexing when disk_interface is ide. [GH-10519]
builder/vmware-esx: Skip credential validation, which requires ovftool to be installed, if we are not exporting an image. [GH-10520]
builder/yandex: Fix cloud-init config for ubuntu 20.04. [GH-10522]
builder/yandex: Fix incorrect access to instance_id. [GH-10522]
core/hcl: Fix bug where []uint8 types could not be passed to plugins.
core/hcl: fix bug where HCL core could not handle passing []uint8 to plugins. [GH-10516]
core/hcl: Fix force flag for hcl2 provisioners and post-processors. [GH-10571]
post-processor/vsphere: Fix regression where Packer would not check the exit status after streaming UI from the ovftool command. [GH-10468]
post-processor/yandex-export: Changed dhclient command and supported configuring disk for exportupdate-dump-method. Also added support for file builder. [GH-10488]
