hashicorp/packer v1.9.0

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1.9.0 (May 31, 2023)

NOTES:

• Breaking Change: Iteration fingerprints used to be computed from the Git SHA of the
  repository where the template is located when running packer build. This
  changes with this release, and now fingerprints are automatically generated
  as a ULID. This implies that continuing an existing iteration will require
  users to define the fingerprint in the environment manually in order to
  adopt this behaviour, otherwise, by default, a new iteration will be
  created. This does not impact workflows where the fingerprint was defined
  through the HCP_PACKER_ITERATION_FINGERPRINT environment variable, and
  these builds will work exactly as they did before.
  GH-12172

• Breaking Change: Community-maintained plugins bundled with the Packer binary have been removed.
  These external plugin components are released independently of Packer core and can be installed
  directly by the user. Users relying on the external plugin components listed below should refer
  to the packer plugins sub-command and, if using HCL2, a required_plugins block to define a
  list of plugins for building a template.

PLUGINS

• Remove provisioner plugins for Chef, Converge, Puppet, Salt, and Inspec as
  vendored plugins. These plugins have been previously archived and not
  updated in release since being archived. These plugins can be installed
  using packer init or with the Packer plugins sub-command packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/chef.
  GH-12374

• The following community plugins won't be bundled with Packer anymore:

  • Alicloud
  • CloudStack
  • HCloud
  • HyperOne
  • Hyper-V
  • JDCloud
  • LXC
  • LXD
  • NCloud
  • OpenStack
  • Proxmox
  • TencentCloud
  • Triton
  • Yandex

  GH-12436

Users relying on these external plugin components should refer to the packer plugins sub-command and,
if using HCL2, a required_plugins block to define a list of plugins to use for building a template.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core/hcp: Now, fingerprints used by HCP Packer are randomly generated ULIDs
  instead of a Git SHA, and a new one is always generated, unless one is
  specified in the environment.
  GH-12172

BUG FIXES:

• Fix LDFLAGS for release pipelines: Between Packer 1.8.5 and Packer 1.8.7, changes
  to the LDFLAGS in use for building the binaries for Packer had mistakenly
  removed some compilation flags, leading to the final binaries not being stripped.
  This change raised the size of the built binaries by as much as 45%.
  In this release, we fixed the LDFLAGS during compilation, yielding leaner binaries.

• Bumped gopsutil to v3. This fixes a macOS intermittent crash reported by the community
  GH-12430