hashicorp/packer v1.8.1

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1.8.1 (May 27, 2022)

NOTES:

• All bundled plugins have been updated to their latest release to address any
  open issues pertaining to the legacy SSH key algorithm fix made to the
  Packer plugin SDK.
  GH-11761
  GH-11802
• This release contains the latest golang.org/x/crypto/ssh module which
  implements client authentication support for signature algorithms based on
  SHA-2 for use with existing RSA keys. Previously, a client would fail to
  authenticate with RSA keys to servers that reject signature algorithms
  based on SHA-1.

FEATURES:

• New Datasource HTTP datasource retrieves information from a HTTP
  endpoint to be used during Packer builds.
  GH-11658

PLUGINS:

External plugins have been pinned to the following versions. Please see their
respective changelogs for details on plugin specific bug fixes and
improvements.

• alicloud@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• amazon@v1.1.0 - CHANGELOG
• ansible@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• azure@v1.0.8 - CHANGELOG
• chef@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• cloudstack@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• converge@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• digitalocean@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• docker@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• googlecompute@v1.0.13 - CHANGELOG
• hcloud@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• hyperone@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• hyperv@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• inspec@v1.0.0 - CHANGELOG
• jdcloud@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• linode@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• lxc@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• lxd@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• ncloud@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• oneandone@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• openstack@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• oracle@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• parallels@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• profitbricks@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• proxmox@v1.0.7 - CHANGELOG
• puppet@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• qemu@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• salt@v1.0.0 - CHANGELOG
• tencentcloud@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• triton@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• ucloud@v1.0.1 - CHANGELOG
• vagrant@v1.0.2 - CHANGELOG
• virtualbox@v1.0.3 - CHANGELOG
• vmware@v1.0.5 - CHANGELOG
• vsphere@v1.0.4 - CHANGELOG
• yandex@v1.1.1 - CHANGELOG

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Bump hcp-sdk-go to latest version.
  GH-11763
• Plugins installed via the packer plugins install command will now
  automatically load for builds using HCL2 templates without a
  required_plugins block.
  GH-11712
• Plugins installed via the packer plugins install command will now
  automatically load for builds using JSON templates.
  GH-11712

BUG FIXES:

• Bump github.com/hashicorp/go-getter to fix the untarring of OVA files
  regression. GH-11675
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to address legacy SSH key
  algorithms in SSH communicator.
  GH-11774
  GH-11754