vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere v23.01

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Release v23.01

Release Date: 2023-01-17

💥 Enhancement:

• Adds support for disabling password expiration for the local administrator account on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. GH-334.
• Adds support for enabling Remote Desktop on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. GH-335.
• Adds support to allow SSH authentication with RSA keys for Ansible, if necessary. Adds a note related to OpenSSH >= 9.0 in the documentation. GH-387.

🐛 Bugfix:

• Fixes missing privileges for the custom role in vSphere that effected the ability to build using disk-based deployment modes and Windows 11 22H2 with vTPM. GH-295, GH-339, GH-340
• Updates the URI in user-data.pkrtpl.hcl for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 to remove the country code. This will help to ensure that GeoIP lookup works for all users. GH-421
• Updates the install commands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to use the correct EPEL repository version. GH-440

📄 Documenation:

• Updates options to download a release or clone the project. GH-385
• Updates syntax to append RSA algorithm to HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa andPubKeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa. GH-386
• Updates the ssh-keygen example for generating the ECDSA public key to use a 521 bit key length. Valid key lengths are 256, 384, or 521. GH-439

🔧 Refactor:

• Refactors builds to use the current Git branch / tag as the build_version local variable used for virtual machine image names and descriptions. GH-385
• Refactors Ansible roles to remove the warn: false args for ansible-core 2.14 compatibility. GH-443

💦 Chore:

• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-366
• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-365
• Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-381
• Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-368
• Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-362
• Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-361
• Updates CentOS Stream 9 to latest December 2022 release. GH-454
• Updates CentOS Stream 8 to latest December 2022 release. GH-453
• Updates Debian 11 to 11.6 release. GH-432
• Updates Windows Server 2022 to December 2022 (US English) release. GH-452
• Updates Windows Server 2019 to November 2022 (US English) release. GH-373
• Updates Windows 11 22H2 to December 2022 (US English) release. GH-451
• Updates Windows 10 22H2 to December 2022 (US English) release. GH-450
• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.5. GH-423
• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.1.1. GH-416
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.3.7. GH-456
• Updates required_versions for hashicorp/hcp to >= 0.51.0. GH-408, GH-409, GH-410, GH-411, GH-412, GH-413, GH-414, GH-415
• Updates Gomplate to 3.11.3. GH-380, GH-382
• Removes Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (x86_64) and macOS Big Sur (Intel) as tested operating systems for the Packer host. GH-393

⚠️ Breaking Change:

• Removes support to use the iso_url variable to download the guest operating system .iso from a URL introduced in GH-249 due to GH-343. GH-435

Full Changelog: v22.09...v23.01