Hello Packer Community,
Packer v1.6.2 has been released. This release comes with a new JSON to HCL2 transpiler to help users migrate existing JSON templates into their HCL2 equivalent. See the packer hcl2_upgrade command for more details.
Some release highlights include:
Vault integration for HCL2 enabled templates.
Enhanced support for vSphere Content Libraries.
Custom AWS builder variables such as SourceAMI and SourceAMIOwner are now available via the build template function for use by provisioners.
Various VMware/vSphere enhancements for customizing, exporting, and importing builder artifacts.
Some notable bugfixes include:
AWS Secrets Manager integration will now read the AWS configuration file for region information as opposed to requiring AWS_REGION or DEFAULT_AWS_REGION be set.
vSphere builder will no longer timeout waiting for an IP on guest vms with multiple interfaces.
For the full details, see our changelog: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#162-august-28-2020
As always, please reach out or open an issue if you have any problems.
Thanks,
The Packer Team