Packer v 1.6.0 has been released!

[Megan Marsh]

Hello, Packer community!

Packer v1.6.0 is out, and with it come a few exciting updates:

• HCL support continues to get closer to parity with JSON configs -- Packer now
• supports named builds, only/except flags, and the "packer validate" and "packer console" commands.
• We've implemented SSM support for AWS and IAP support for Google Compute.
• Packer can retrieve files stored on a smb share.
• We've fixed a long-standing VMware builder bug where Packer can no longer connect if a guest's dhcpd changes the IP address of the instance during a build.
• The Artifice post-processor now works with a much wider array of post-processors, allowing easier chaining of Packer builds.

But there's a whole lot more than that! Please take a look at the changelog for more details!

There are some backwards incompatabilities that you will need to be aware of:

• For all iso-based builders, the `iso_checksum_type` and `iso_checksum_url` fields have been removed in favor of simply setting the `iso_checksum` field.
• For the vsphere-iso builder, the fields `network`, `network_card`, `disk_size`, `disk_thin_provisioned`, and `disk_eagerly_scrub` have been deprecated in favor of a storage configuration block: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware/vsphere-iso/#storage-configuration

For both of these backwards-incompatabilities, you can use the packer fix command to update a config file to use the new format.

Thanks,

Megan and the Packer Team