Packer v1.4.5 released!

[Megan Marsh]

Hi all,

We've released Packer v1.4.5 today. This one is a small patch release before a bigger and exciting minor release coming soon. Stay tuned!

Some key features and improvements in this release are:

* builder/amazon: New option to specify IAM policy for a temporary instance profile [GH-8247]

* builder/azure-arm: Allow specification of polling duration [GH-8226]

* builder/azure-chroot: Add Azure chroot builder [GH-8185]

* core: Add strftime function in templates [GH-8208]

See the Changelog at [1] for the full list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Sincerely,

The Packer Team

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#145-november-4-2019