hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon v1.8.1

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1.8.1 (May 25, 2026)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ShouldRetry callbacks not receiving error from retry framework – Several ShouldRetry callbacks had unnamed parameters, causing retries to fail for transient AWS API errors such as InvalidAMIID.NotFound and InvalidSnapshot.NotFound. (#662)
• Fix instance profile propagation handling – Improved IAM instance profile propagation to avoid race conditions during instance launch. (#639)
• Fix IPv6 support – Corrected IPv6 handling in run_config, SSH config, and security group steps to properly support IPv6-only configurations. (#647)

📦 Dependencies

• Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk from 0.6.5 → 0.6.8
• Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 to v4.1.4
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from v0.43.0 → v0.52.0 – security fixes (OSV: GO-2026-5005 et al.)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from v0.46.0 → v0.55.0 – security fixes (OSV: GO-2026-4918 et al.)