hashicorp/packer v1.8.7 on GitHub

1.8.7 (May 4, 2023)

Warning
The version/version.go file tagged in this release refers to 1.8.6. If you are building Packer from source
please make sure to set the version information using ldflags at build time.
LD_FLAGS="-X github.com/hashicorp/packer/version.Version=1.8.7 -X github.com/hashicorp/packer/version.VersionPrerelease="
go build -o "$BIN_PATH"  --ldflags=$LD_FLAGS

NOTES:

Vendored plugins within Packer have not been updated. Plugin releases occur on
a regular basis to address issues and feature requests. Users are encouraged
to use packer init for HCL2 templates or packer plugins install with
legacy JSON templates for installing external plugins.
packer-plugin-digitalocean: The Digital Ocean Packer plugin has been handed
over to the Digital Ocean team. New releases for this plugin are available
at https://github.com/digitalocean/packer-plugin-digitalocean.
```
 required_plugins {
 	digitalocean = {
 	 source =  "github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean"
 	 version = ">=1.1.1"
 	}
 }
```
packer-plugin-linode: The Linode plugin has been handed over to the Linode
team. New releases for this plugin are available at
https://github.com/linode/packer-plugin-linode. This plugin is is no longer
being bundled in the Packer binary release. Existing references to the
plugin will continue to work but users are advised to update the
required_plugins block to use the new plugin source address.
GH-12329
```
 required_plugins {
   linode = {
     source  =  "github.com/linode/linode"
     version = ">=1.0.5"
    }
}
```
packer-plugin-ucloud: The UCloud plugin has been handed over to the UCloud
team. New releases for this plugin are available at
https://github.com/ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud. This plugin is is no longer
being bundled in the Packer binary release. Existing references to the
plugin will continue to work but users are advised to update the
required_plugins block to use the new plugin source address.
GH-12335
```
 required_plugins {
    ucloud = {
     source  =  "github.com/ucloud/ucloud"
     version = ">=1.0.8"
    }
}
```
packer-plugin-profitbricks: The Profitbricks plugin has been removed as a
bundled plugin in Packer. New releases for this plugin are available at
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-profitbricks. This plugin is is
no longer being bundled in the Packer binary release. Existing references
to the plugin will continue to work but users are advised to update the
required_plugins block to use the new plugin source address.
GH-12385
```
 required_plugins {
    ucloud = {
     source  =  "github.com/hashicorp/profitbricks"
     version = ">=1.0.2"
    }
}
```

PLUGINS

core: Migrate external Linode plugin to linode/packer-plugin-linode.
GH-12329
core: Migrate external UCloud plugin to ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud.
GH-12335
core: Remove external plugin for Digital Ocean as a vendored plugin.
GH-12376
core: Remove external plugins for Profitbricks and 1&1 as vendored plugins.
GH-12385
docs: Add HCP Ready label to Oracle builder components.
GH-12217

IMPROVEMENTS

cmd/console: Add config-type flag to command help.
GH-12360
core: Add enhanced support to Packer telemetry for HCL2.
GH-12319
Enhance zsh completion for the Packer command.
GH-12356,
GH-12366

BUG FIXES

cmd/hcl2_upgrade: Fix a crash when running the hcl2_upgrade command against a
legacy JSON template containing user variables with an undefined variables
block. GH-12257
core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go to 0.36.0.
GH-12292
core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to 0.4.0 to address
CVE-2023-0475, CVE-2022-41723.
GH-12306
core: Bump Go module version to 1.20
GH-12380
core: Fix regression introduced in 1.8.6, where legacy JSON templates with
custom builder names are outputted to STDOUT as uninterpolated user
variables. GH-12290