Hello Packer Community,
The Packer team is excited to announce the release of Packer 1.8.1.
This release contains a number of fixes to features released in 1.8.0 including a much needed fix to the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh module which implements client authentication support for signature algorithms based on SHA-2. For a full list of changes please take a look at the Packer CHANGELOG.
Notable Features:
Notable Fixes:
packer plugins install
command will now automatically load for builds using JSON templates or HCL2 templates without a required_plugins block.