0.9.0 (Unreleased)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

Packer now ships as a single binary, including plugins. If you install packer 0.9.0 over a previous packer installation, you must delete all of the packer- plugin files* or packer will load out-of-date plugins from disk.
Release binaries are now provided via https://releases.hashicorp.com.
Packer 0.9.0 is now built with Go 1.5. Future versions will drop support for building with Go 1.4.

FEATURES:

Artifice post-processor: Override packer artifacts during post- processing. This allows you to extract artifacts from a packer builder and use them with other post-processors like compress, docker, and Atlas.
New vmware-esxi feature: Packer can now export images from vCloud or vSphere during the build. [GH-1921]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Packer plugins are now compiled into the main binary, reducing file size and build times, and making packer easier to install. The overall plugin architecture has not changed and third-party plugins can still be loaded from disk. Please make sure your plugins are up-to-date! [GH-2854]
core: Packer now indicates line numbers for template parse errors [GH-2742]
core: Scripts are executed via /usr/bin/env bash instead of /bin/bash for broader compatibility. [GH-2913]
core: target_path for builder downloads can now be specified. [GH-2600]
core: WinRM communicator now supports HTTPS protocol [GH-3061]
builder/amazon: Add support for ebs_optimized [GH-2806]
builder/amazon: You can now specify 0 for spot_price to switch to on demand instances [GH-2845]
builder/amazon: Added ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) [GH-3056]
builder/amazon: packer will try to derive the AZ if only a subnet is specified [GH-3037]
builder/digitalocean: doubled instance wait timeouts to power off or shutdown (now 4 minutes) and to complete a snapshot (now 20 minutes) [GH-2939]
builder/google: account_file can now be provided as a JSON string [GH-2811]
builder/google: added support for preemptible instances [GH-2982]
builder/google: added support for static external IPs via address option [GH-3030]
builder/openstack: added retry on WaitForImage 404 [GH-3009]
builder/parallels: Improve support for Parallels 11 [GH-2662]
builder/parallels: Parallels disks are now compacted by default [GH-2731]
builder/parallels: Packer will look for Parallels in /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app if it is not detected automatically [GH-2839]
builder/docker: Now works remote hosts, such as boot2docker [GH-2846]
builder/qemu: qcow2 images are now compacted by default [GH-2748]
builder/qemu: qcow2 images can now be compressed [GH-2748]
builder/qemu: Now specifies virtio-scsi by default [GH-2422]
builder/qemu: Now checks for version-specific options [GH-2376]
builder/docker-import: Can now import Artifice artifacts [GH-2718]
builder/vmware-esxi: Now supports private key auth for remote builds via remote_private_key_file [GH-2912]
provisioner/chef: Now supports encrypted_data_bag_secret_path option [GH-2653]
provisioner/puppet: Now accepts the extra_arguments parameter [GH-2635]
post-processor/atlas: Added support for compile ID. [GH-2775]

BUG FIXES:

core: Random number generator is now seeded. [GH-2640]
core: Packer should now have a lot less race conditions [GH-2824]
builder/amazon: The no_device option for block device mappings is now handled correctly [GH-2398]
builder/amazon: AMI name validation now matches Amazon's spec [GH-2774]
builder/amazon: Use snapshot size when volume size is unspecified [GH-2480]
builder/parallels: Now supports interpolation in prlctl_post [GH-2828]
builder/vmware: format option is now read correctly [GH-2892]
builder/vmware-esxi: Correct endless loop in destroy validation logic [GH-2911]
provisioner/shell: No longer leaves temp scripts behind [GH-1536]
provisioner/winrm: Now waits for reboot to complete before continuing with provisioning [GH-2568]
post-processor/artifice: Fix truncation of files downloaded from Docker. [GH-2793]

0.8.6 (Aug 22, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/docker: Now supports Download so it can be used with the file provisioner to download a file from a container. [GH-2585]
builder/docker: Now verifies that the artifact will be used before the build starts, unless the discard option is specified. This prevent failures after the build completes. [GH-2626]
post-processor/artifice: Now supports glob-like syntax for filenames [GH-2619]
post-processor/vagrant: Like the compress post-processor, vagrant now uses a parallel gzip algorithm to compress vagrant boxes. [GH-2590]

BUG FIXES:

core: When iso_url is a local file and the checksum is invalid, the local file will no longer be deleted. [GH-2603]
builder/parallels: Fix interpolation in parallels_tools_guest_path [GH-2543]

0.8.5 (Aug 10, 2015)

FEATURES:

[Beta] Artifice post-processor: Override packer artifacts during post- processing. This allows you to extract artifacts from a packer builder and use them with other post-processors like compress, docker, and Atlas.

IMPROVEMENTS:

Many docs have been updated and corrected; big thanks to our contributors!
builder/openstack: Add debug logging for IP addresses used for SSH [GH-2513]
builder/openstack: Add option to use existing SSH keypair [GH-2512]
builder/openstack: Add support for Glance metadata [GH-2434]
builder/qemu and builder/vmware: Packer's VNC connection no longer asks for an exclusive connection [GH-2522]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Can now customize salt remote directories [GH-2519]

BUG FIXES:

builder/amazon: Improve instance cleanup by storing id sooner [GH-2404]
builder/amazon: Only fetch windows password when using WinRM communicator [GH-2538]
builder/openstack: Support IPv6 SSH address [GH-2450]
builder/openstack: Track new IP address discovered during RackConnect [GH-2514]
builder/qemu: Add 100ms delay between VNC key events. [GH-2415]
post-processor/atlas: atlas_url configuration option works now [GH-2478]
post-processor/compress: Now supports interpolation in output config [GH-2414]
provisioner/powershell: Elevated runs now receive environment variables [GH-2378]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Clarify error messages when we can't create or write to the temp directory [GH-2518]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Copy state even if /srv/salt exists already [GH-1699]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Make sure /etc/salt exists before writing to it [GH-2520]
provisioner/winrm: Connect to the correct port when using NAT with VirtualBox / VMware [GH-2399]

Note: 0.8.3 was pulled and 0.8.4 was skipped.

0.8.2 (July 17, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/docker: Add option to use a Pty [GH-2425]

BUG FIXES:

core: Fix crash when min_packer_version is specified in a template. [GH-2385]
builder/amazon: Fix EC2 devices being included in EBS mappings [GH-2459]
builder/googlecompute: Fix default name for GCE images [GH-2400]
builder/null: Fix error message with missing ssh_host [GH-2407]
builder/virtualbox: Use --portcount on VirtualBox 5.x [GH-2438]
provisioner/puppet: Packer now correctly handles a directory for manifest_file [GH-2463]
provisioner/winrm: Fix potential crash with WinRM [GH-2416]

0.8.1 (July 2, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon: When debug mode is enabled, the Windows administrator password for Windows instances will be shown [GH-2351]

BUG FIXES:

core: min_packer_version field in configs work [GH-2356]
core: The build_name and build_type functions work in provisioners [GH-2367]
core: Handle timeout in SSH handshake [GH-2333]
command/build: Fix reading configuration from stdin [GH-2366]
builder/amazon: Fix issue with sharing AMIs when using ami_users [GH-2308]
builder/amazon: Fix issue when using multiple Security Groups [GH-2381]
builder/amazon: Fix for tag creation when creating new ec2 instance [GH-2317]
builder/amazon: Fix issue with creating AMIs with multiple device mappings [GH-2320]
builder/amazon: Fix failing AMI snapshot tagging when copying to other regions [GH-2316]
builder/amazon: Fix setting AMI launch permissions [GH-2348]
builder/amazon: Fix spot instance cleanup to remove the correct request [GH-2327]
builder/amazon: Fix bundle_prefix not interpolating timestamp [GH-2352]
builder/amazon-instance: Fix issue with creating AMIs without specifying a virtualization type [GH-2330]
builder/digitalocean: Fix builder using private IP instead of public IP [GH-2339]
builder/google: Set default communicator settings properly [GH-2353]
builder/vmware-iso: Setting checksum_type to none for ESX builds now works [GH-2323]
provisioner/chef: Use knife config file vs command-line params to clean up nodes so full set of features can be used [GH-2306]
post-processor/compress: Fixed crash in compress post-processor plugin [GH-2311]

0.8.0 (June 23, 2015)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

core: SSH connection will no longer request a PTY by default. This can be enabled per builder.
builder/digitalocean: no longer supports the v1 API which has been deprecated for some time. Most configurations should continue to work as long as you use the api_token field for auth.
builder/digitalocean: image, region, and size are now required.
builder/openstack: auth parameters have been changed to better reflect OS terminology. Existing environment variables still work.

FEATURES:

WinRM: You can now connect via WinRM with almost every builder. See the docs for more info. [GH-2239]
Windows AWS Support: Windows AMIs can now be built without any external plugins: Packer will start a Windows instance, get the admin password, and can use WinRM (above) to connect through. [GH-2240]
Disable SSH: Set communicator to "none" in any builder to disable SSH connections. Note that provisioners won't work if this is done. [GH-1591]
SSH Agent Forwarding: SSH Agent Forwarding will now be enabled to allow access to remote servers such as private git repos. [GH-1066]
SSH Bastion Hosts: You can now specify a bastion host for SSH access (works with all builders). [GH-387]
OpenStack v3 Identity: The OpenStack builder now supports the v3 identity API.
Docker builder supports SSH: The Docker builder now supports containers with SSH, just set communicator to "ssh" [GH-2244]
File provisioner can download: The file provisioner can now download files out of the build process. [GH-1909]
New config function: build_name: The name of the currently running build. [GH-2232]
New config function: build_type: The type of the currently running builder. This is useful for provisioners. [GH-2232]
New config function: template_dir: The directory to the template being built. This should be used for template-relative paths. [GH-54]
New provisioner: shell-local: Runs a local shell script. [GH-770]
New provisioner: powershell: Provision Windows machines with PowerShell scripts. [GH-2243]
New provisioner: windows-shell: Provision Windows machines with batch files. [GH-2243]
New provisioner: windows-restart: Restart a Windows machines and wait for it to come back online. [GH-2243]
Compress post-processor supports multiple algorithms: The compress post-processor now supports lz4 compression and compresses gzip in parallel for much faster throughput.

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Interrupt handling for SIGTERM signal as well. [GH-1858]
core: HTTP downloads support resuming [GH-2106]
builder/*: Add ssh_handshake_attempts to configure the number of handshake attempts done before failure [GH-2237]
builder/amazon: Add force_deregister option for automatic AMI deregistration [GH-2221]
builder/amazon: Now applies tags to EBS snapshots [GH-2212]
builder/amazon: Clean up orphaned volumes from Source AMIs [GH-1783]
builder/amazon: Support custom keypairs [GH-1837]
builder/amazon-chroot: Can now resize the root volume of the resulting AMI with the root_volume_size option [GH-2289]
builder/amazon-chroot: Add mount_options configuration option for providing options to the mount command [GH-2296]
builder/digitalocean: Save SSH key to pwd if debug mode is on. [GH-1829]
builder/digitalocean: User data support [GH-2113]
builder/googlecompute: Option to use internal IP for connections. [GH-2152]
builder/parallels: Support Parallels Desktop 11 [GH-2199]
builder/openstack: Add rackconnect_wait for Rackspace customers to wait for RackConnect data to appear
buidler/openstack: Add ssh_interface option for rackconnect for users that have prohibitive firewalls
builder/openstack: Flavor names can be used as well as refs
builder/openstack: Add availability_zone [GH-2016]
builder/openstack: Machine will be stopped prior to imaging if the cluster supports the startstop extension. [GH-2223]
builder/openstack: Support for user data [GH-2224]
builder/qemu: Default accelerator to "tcg" on Windows [GH-2291]
builder/virtualbox: Added option: ssh_skip_nat_mapping to skip the automatic port forward for SSH and to use the guest port directly. [GH-1078]
builder/virtualbox: Added SCSI support
builder/vmware: Support for additional disks [GH-1382]
builder/vmware: Can now customize the template used for adding disks [GH-2254]
command/fix: After fixing, the template is validated [GH-2228]
command/push: Add -name flag for specifying name from CLI [GH-2042]
command/push: Push configuration in templates supports variables [GH-1861]
post-processor/docker-save: Can be chained [GH-2179]
post-processor/docker-tag: Support force option [GH-2055]
post-processor/docker-tag: Can be chained [GH-2179]
post-processor/vsphere: Make more fields optional, support empty resource pools. [GH-1868]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: working_directory option [GH-1831]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: packer_build_name and packer_build_type are default facts. [GH-1878]
provisioner/puppet-server: ignore_exit_codes option added [GH-2280]

BUG FIXES:

core: Fix potential panic for post-processor plugin exits [GH-2098]
core: PACKER_CONFIG may point to a non-existent file [GH-2226]
builder/amazon: Allow spaces in AMI names when using clean_ami_name [GH-2182]
builder/amazon: Remove deprecated ec2-upload-bundle paramger [GH-1931]
builder/amazon: Use IAM Profile to upload bundle if provided [GH-1985]
builder/amazon: Use correct exit code after SSH authentication failed [GH-2004]
builder/amazon: Retry finding created instance for eventual consistency. [GH-2129]
builder/amazon: If no AZ is specified, use AZ chosen automatically by AWS for spot instance. [GH-2017]
builder/amazon: Private key file (only available in debug mode) is deleted on cleanup. [GH-1801]
builder/amazon: AMI copy won't copy to the source region [GH-2123]
builder/amazon: Validate AMI doesn't exist with name prior to build [GH-1774]
builder/amazon: Improved retry logic around waiting for instances. [GH-1764]
builder/amazon: Fix issues with creating Block Devices. [GH-2195]
builder/amazon/chroot: Retry waiting for disk attachments [GH-2046]
builder/amazon/chroot: Only unmount path if it is mounted [GH-2054]
builder/amazon/instance: Use -i in sudo commands so PATH is inherited. [GH-1930]
builder/amazon/instance: Use --region flag for bundle upload command. [GH-1931]
builder/digitalocean: Wait for droplet to unlock before changing state, should lower the "pending event" errors.
builder/digitalocean: Ignore invalid fields from the ever-changing v2 API
builder/digitalocean: Private images can be used as a source [GH-1792]
builder/docker: Fixed hang on prompt while copying script
builder/docker: Use docker exec for newer versions of Docker for running scripts [GH-1993]
builder/docker: Fix crash that could occur at certain timed ctrl-c [GH-1838]
builder/docker: validate that export_path is not a directory [GH-2105]
builder/google: ssh_timeout is respected [GH-1781]
builder/openstack: ssh_interface can be used to specify the interface to retrieve the SSH IP from. [GH-2220]
builder/qemu: Add disk_discard option [GH-2120]
builder/qemu: Use proper SSH port, not hardcoded to 22. [GH-2236]
builder/qemu: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032]
builder/virtualbox: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709]
builder/virtualbox: Remove the floppy controller in addition to the floppy disk. [GH-1879]
builder/virtualbox: Fixed regression where downloading ISO without a ".iso" extension didn't work. [GH-1839]
builder/virtualbox: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233]
builder/virtualbox: Find unused SSH port if SSH port is taken. [GH-2032]
builder/vmware: Add 100ms delay between keystrokes to avoid subtle timing issues in most cases. [GH-1663]
builder/vmware: Bind HTTP server to IPv4, which is more compatible with OS installers. [GH-1709]
builder/vmware: Case-insensitive match of MAC address to find IP [GH-1989]
builder/vmware: More robust IP parsing from ifconfig output [GH-1999]
builder/vmware: Nested output directories for ESXi work [GH-2174]
builder/vmware: Output dir is verified at runtime, not template validation time. [GH-2233]
command/fix: For the virtualbox to virtualbox-iso builder rename, provisioner overrides are now also fixed [GH-2231]
command/validate: don't crash for invalid builds [GH-2139]
post-processor/atlas: Find common archive prefix for Windows [GH-1874]
post-processor/atlas: Fix index out of range panic [GH-1959]
post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Fixed failing on response
post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Don't delete version on error [GH-2014]
post-processor/vagrant-cloud: Retry failed uploads a few times
provisioner/chef-client: Fix permissions issues on default dir [GH-2255]
provisioner/chef-client: Node cleanup works now. [GH-2257]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: Allow manifest_file to be a directory
provisioner/salt-masterless: Add --retcode-passthrough to salt-call
provisioner/shell: chmod executable script to 0755, not 0777 [GH-1708]
provisioner/shell: inline commands failing will fail the provisioner [GH-2069]
provisioner/shell: single quotes in env vars are escaped [GH-2229]
provisioner/shell: Temporary file is deleted after run [GH-2259]
provisioner/shell: Randomize default script name to avoid strange race issues from Windows. [GH-2270]

0.7.5 (December 9, 2014)

FEATURES:

New command: packer push: Push template and files to HashiCorp's Atlas for building your templates automatically.
New post-processor: atlas: Send artifact to HashiCorp's Atlas for versioning and storing artifacts. These artifacts can then be queried using the API, Terraform, etc.

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/googlecompute: Support for ubuntu-os-cloud project
builder/googlecompute: Support for OAuth2 to avoid client secrets file
builder/googlecompute: GCE image from persistant disk instead of tarball
builder/qemu: Checksum type "none" can be used
provisioner/chef: Generate a node name if none available
provisioner/chef: Added ssl_verify_mode configuration

BUG FIXES:

builder/parallels: Fixed attachment of ISO to cdrom device
builder/parallels: Fixed boot load ordering
builder/digitalocean: Fixed decoding of size
builder/digitalocean: Fixed missing content-type header in request
builder/digitalocean: Fixed use of private IP
builder/digitalocean: Fixed the artifact ID generation
builder/vsphere: Fixed credential escaping
builder/qemu: Fixed use of CDROM with disk_image
builder/aws: Fixed IP address for SSH in VPC
builder/aws: Fixed issue with multiple block devices
builder/vmware: Upload VMX to ESX5 after editing
communicator/docker: Fix handling of symlinks during upload
provisioner/chef: Fixed use of sudo in some cases
core: Fixed build name interpolation
postprocessor/vagrant: Fixed check for Vagrantfile template

0.7.2 (October 28, 2014)

FEATURES:

builder/digitalocean: API V2 support. [GH-1463]
builder/parallels: Don't depend on prl-utils [GH-1499]

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: Support new AWS Frankfurt region.
builder/docker: Allow remote DOCKER_HOST, which works as long as volumes work. [GH-1594]
builder/qemu: Can set cache mode for main disk. [GH-1558]
builder/qemu: Can build from pre-existing disk. [GH-1342]
builder/vmware: Can specify path to Fusion installation with environmental variable FUSION_APP_PATH. [GH-1552]
builder/vmware: Can specify the HW version for the VMX. [GH-1530]
builder/vmware/esxi: Will now cache ISOs/floppies remotely. [GH-1479]
builder/vmware/vmx: Source VMX can have a disk connected via SATA. [GH-1604]
post-processors/vagrant: Support Qemu (libvirt) boxes. [GH-1330]
post-processors/vagrantcloud: Support self-hosted box URLs.

BUG FIXES:

core: Fix loading plugins from pwd. [GH-1521]
builder/amazon: Prefer token in config if given. [GH-1544]
builder/amazon/all: Extended timeout for waiting for AMI. [GH-1533]
builder/virtualbox: Can read VirtualBox version on FreeBSD. [GH-1570]
builder/virtualbox: More robust reading of guest additions URL. [GH-1509]
builder/vmware: Always remove floppies/drives. [GH-1504]
builder/vmware: Wait some time so that post-VMX update aren't overwritten. [GH-1504]
builder/vmware/esxi: Retry power on if it fails. [GH-1334]
builder/vmware-vmx: Fix issue with order of boot command support [GH-1492]
builder/amazon: Extend timeout and allow user override [GH-1533]
builder/parallels: Ignore 'The fdd0 device does not exist' [GH-1501]
builder/parallels: Rely on Cleanup functions to detach devices [GH-1502]
builder/parallels: Create VM without hdd and then add it later [GH-1548]
builder/parallels: Disconnect cdrom0 [GH-1605]
builder/qemu: Don't use -redir flag anymore, replace with hostfwd options. [GH-1561]
builder/qmeu: Use pc as default machine type instead of pc-1.0.
providers/aws: Ignore transient network errors. [GH-1579]
provisioner/ansible: Don't buffer output so output streams in. [GH-1585]
provisioner/ansible: Use inventory file always to avoid potentially deprecated feature. [GH-1562]
provisioner/shell: Quote environmental variables. [GH-1568]
provisioner/salt: Bootstrap over SSL. [GH-1608]
post-processors/docker-push: Work with docker-tag artifacts. [GH-1526]
post-processors/vsphere: Append "/" to object address. [GH-1615]

0.7.1 (September 10, 2014)

FEATURES:

builder/vmware: VMware Fusion Pro 7 is now supported. [GH-1478]

BUG FIXES:

core: SSH will connect slightly faster if it is ready immediately.
provisioner/file: directory uploads no longer hang. [GH-1484]
provisioner/file: fixed crash on large files. [GH-1473]
scripts: Windows executable renamed to packer.exe. [GH-1483]

0.7.0 (September 8, 2014)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

The authentication configuration for Google Compute Engine has changed. The new method is much simpler, but is not backwards compatible. packer fix will not fix this. Please read the updated GCE docs.

FEATURES:

New Post-Processor: compress - Gzip compresses artifacts with files.
New Post-Processor: docker-save - Save an image. This is similar to export, but preserves the image hierarchy.
New Post-Processor: docker-tag - Tag a created image.
New Template Functions: upper, lower - See documentation for more details.
core: Plugins are automatically discovered if they're named properly. Packer will look in the PWD and the directory with packer for binaries named packer-TYPE-NAME.
core: Plugins placed in ~/.packer.d/plugins are now automatically discovered.
builder/amazon: Spot instances can now be used to build EBS backed and instance store images. [GH-1139]
builder/docker: Images can now be committed instead of exported. [GH-1198]
builder/virtualbox-ovf: New import_flags setting can be used to add new command line flags to VBoxManage import to allow things such as EULAs to be accepted. [GH-1383]
builder/virtualbox-ovf: Boot commands and the HTTP server are supported. [GH-1169]
builder/vmware: VMware Player 6 is now supported. [GH-1168]
builder/vmware-vmx: Boot commands and the HTTP server are supported. [GH-1169]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: isotime function can take a format. [GH-1126]
builder/amazon/all: AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN is read and can also be set with the token configuration. [GH-1236]
builder/amazon/all: Can force SSH on the private IP address with ssh_private_ip. [GH-1229]
builder/amazon/all: String fields in device mappings can use variables. [GH-1090]
builder/amazon-instance: EBS AMIs can be used as a source. [GH-1453]
builder/digitalocean: Can set API URL endpoint. [GH-1448]
builder/digitalocean: Region supports variables. [GH-1452]
builder/docker: Can now specify login credentials to pull images.
builder/docker: Support mounting additional volumes. [GH-1430]
builder/parallels/all: Path to tools ISO is calculated automatically. [GH-1455]
builder/parallels-pvm: reassign_mac option to choose wehther or not to generate a new MAC address. [GH-1461]
builder/qemu: Can specify "none" acceleration type. [GH-1395]
builder/qemu: Can specify "tcg" acceleration type. [GH-1395]
builder/virtualbox/all: iso_interface option to mount ISO with SATA. [GH-1200]
builder/vmware-vmx: Proper floppy_files support. [GH-1057]
command/build: Add -color=false flag to disable color. [GH-1433]
post-processor/docker-push: Can now specify login credentials. [GH-1243]
provisioner/chef-client: Support chef_environment. [GH-1190]

BUG FIXES:

core: nicer error message if an encrypted private key is used for SSH. [GH-1445]
core: Fix crash that could happen with a well timed double Ctrl-C. [GH-1328] [GH-1314]
core: SSH TCP keepalive period is now 5 seconds (shorter). [GH-1232]
builder/amazon-chroot: Can properly build HVM images now. [GH-1360]
builder/amazon-chroot: Fix crash in root device check. [GH-1360]
builder/amazon-chroot: Add description that Packer made the snapshot with a time. [GH-1388]
builder/amazon-ebs: AMI is deregistered if an error. [GH-1186]
builder/amazon-instance: Fix deprecation warning for ec2-bundle-vol [GH-1424]
builder/amazon-instance: Add --no-filter to the ec2-bundle-vol command by default to avoid corrupting data by removing package manager certs. [GH-1137]
builder/amazon/all: delete_on_termination set to false will work.
builder/amazon/all: Fix race condition on setting tags. [GH-1367]
builder/amazon/all: More desctriptive error messages if Amazon only sends an error code. [GH-1189]
builder/docker: Error if DOCKER_HOST is set.
builder/docker: Remove the container during cleanup. [GH-1206]
builder/docker: Fix case where not all output would show up from provisioners.
builder/googlecompute: add disk_size option. [GH-1397]
builder/googlecompute: Auth works with latest formats on Google Cloud Console. [GH-1344]
builder/openstack: Region is not required. [GH-1418]
builder/parallels-iso: ISO not removed from VM after install [GH-1338]
builder/parallels/all: Add support for Parallels Desktop 10 [GH-1438]
builder/parallels/all: Added some navigation keys [GH-1442]
builder/qemu: If headless, sdl display won't be used. [GH-1395]
builder/qemu: Use 512M as -m default. [GH-1444]
builder/virtualbox/all: Search VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH for path to VBoxManage on Windows. [GH-1337]
builder/virtualbox/all: Seed RNG to avoid same ports. [GH-1386]
builder/virtualbox/all: Better error if guest additions URL couldn't be detected. [GH-1439]
builder/virtualbox/all: Detect errors even when VBoxManage exits with a zero exit code. [GH-1119]
builder/virtualbox/iso: Append timestamp to default name for parallel builds. [GH-1365]
builder/vmware/all: No more error when Packer stops an already-stopped VM. [GH-1300]
builder/vmware/all: ssh_host accepts templates. [GH-1396]
builder/vmware/all: Don't remount floppy in VMX post step. [GH-1239]
builder/vmware/vmx: Do not re-add floppy disk files to VMX [GH-1361]
builder/vmware-iso: Fix crash when vnc_port_min and max were the same value. [GH-1288]
builder/vmware-iso: Finding an available VNC port on Windows works. [GH-1372]
builder/vmware-vmx: Nice error if Clone is not supported (not VMware Fusion Pro). [GH-787]
post-processor/vagrant: Can supply your own metadata.json. [GH-1143]
provisioner/ansible-local: Use proper path on Windows. [GH-1375]
provisioner/file: Mode will now be preserved. [GH-1064]

0.6.1 (July 20, 2014)

FEATURES:

New post processor: vagrant-cloud - Push box files generated by vagrant post processor to Vagrant Cloud. [GH-1289]
Vagrant post-processor can now packer Hyper-V boxes.

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon: Support for enhanced networking on HVM images. [GH-1228]
builder/amazon-ebs: Support encrypted EBS volumes [GH-1194]
builder/ansible: Add playbook_dir option. [GH-1000]
builder/openstack: Add ability to configure networks. [GH-1261]
builder/openstack: Skip certificate verification. [GH-1121]
builder/parallels/all: Add ability to select interface to connect to.
builder/parallels/pvm: Support boot_command. [GH-1082]
builder/virtualbox/all: Attempt to use local guest additions ISO before downloading from internet. [GH-1123]
builder/virtualbox/ovf: Supports guest_additions_mode [GH-1035]
builder/vmware/all: Increase cleanup timeout to 120 seconds [GH-1167]
builder/vmware/all: Add vmx_data_post for modifying VMX data after shutdown. [GH-1149]
builder/vmware/vmx: Supports tools uploading. [GH-1154]

BUG FIXES:

core: isotime is the same time during the entire build. [GH-1153]
builder/amazon-common: Sort AMI strings before outputting [GH-1305]
builder/amazon: User data can use templates/variables. [GH-1343]
builder/amazon: Can now build AMIs in GovCloud.
builder/null: SSH info can use templates/variables. [GH-1343]
builder/openstack: Workaround for gophercloud.ServerById crashing [GH-1257]
builder/openstack: Force IPv4 addresses from address pools [GH-1258]
builder/parallels: Do not delete entire CDROM device. [GH-1115]
builder/parallels: Errors while creating floppy disk. [GH-1225]
builder/parallels: Errors while removing floppy drive. [GH-1226]
builder/virtualbox-ovf: Supports guest additions options. [GH-1120]
builder/vmware-iso: Fix esx5 path separator in windows. [GH-1316]
builder/vmware: Remote ESXi builder now uploads floppy. [GH-1106]
builder/vmware: Remote ESXi builder no longer re-uploads ISO every time. [GH-1244]
post-processor/vsphere: Accept DOMAIN\account usernames [GH-1178]
provisioner/chef-*: Fix remotePaths for Windows [GH-394]

0.6.0 (May 2, 2014)

FEATURES:

New builder: null - The null builder does not produce any artifacts, but is useful for debugging provisioning scripts. [GH-970]
New builder: parallels-iso and parallels-pvm - These can be used to build Parallels virtual machines. [GH-1101]
New provisioner: chef-client - Provision using a the chef-client command, which talks to a Chef Server. [GH-855]
New provisioner: puppet-server - Provision using Puppet by communicating to a Puppet master. [GH-796]
min_packer_version can be specified in a Packer template to force a minimum version. [GH-487]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: RPC transport between plugins switched to MessagePack
core: Templates array values can now be comma separated strings. Most importantly, this allows for user variables to fill array configurations. [GH-950]
builder/amazon: Added ssh_private_key_file option [GH-971]
builder/amazon: Added ami_virtualization_type option [GH-1021]
builder/digitalocean: Regions, image names, and sizes can be names that are looked up for their valid ID. [GH-960]
builder/googlecompute: Configurable instance name. [GH-1065]
builder/openstack: Support for conventional OpenStack environmental variables such as OS_USERNAME, OS_PASSWORD, etc. [GH-768]
builder/openstack: Support openstack_provider option to automatically fill defaults for different OpenStack variants. [GH-912]
builder/openstack: Support security groups. [GH-848]
builder/qemu: User variable expansion in ssh_key_path [GH-918]
builder/qemu: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086]
builder/virtualbox: Support an export_opts option which allows specifying arbitrary arguments when exporting the VM. [GH-945]
builder/virtualbox: Added vboxmanage_post option to run vboxmanage commands just before exporting [GH-664]
builder/virtualbox: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086]
builder/vmware: Workstation 10 support for Linux. [GH-900]
builder/vmware: add cloning support on Windows [GH-824]
builder/vmware: Floppy disk files list can also include globs and directories. [GH-1086]
command/build: Added -parallel flag so you can disable parallelization with -no-parallel. [GH-924]
post-processors/vsphere: disk_mode option. [GH-778]
provisioner/ansible: Add inventory_file option [GH-1006]
provisioner/chef-client: Add validation_client_name option. [GH-1056]

BUG FIXES:

core: Errors are properly shown when adding bad floppy files. [GH-1043]
core: Fix some URL parsing issues on Windows.
core: Create Cache directory only when it is needed. [GH-367]
builder/amazon-instance: Use S3Endpoint for ec2-upload-bundle arg, which works for every region. [GH-904]
builder/digitalocean: updated default image_id [GH-1032]
builder/googlecompute: Create persistent disk as boot disk via API v1 [GH-1001]
builder/openstack: Return proper error on invalid instance states [GH-1018]
builder/virtualbox-iso: Retry unregister a few times to deal with VBoxManage randomness. [GH-915]
provisioner/ansible: Fix paths when provisioning Linux from Windows [GH-963]
provisioner/ansible: set cwd to staging directory [GH-1016]
provisioners/chef-client: Don't chown directory with Ubuntu. [GH-939]
provisioners/chef-solo: Deeply nested JSON works properly. [GH-1076]
provisioners/shell: Env var values can have equal signs. [GH-1045]
provisioners/shell: chmod the uploaded script file to 0777. [GH-994]
post-processor/docker-push: Allow repositories with ports. [GH-923]
post-processor/vagrant: Create parent directories for output path [GH-1059]
post-processor/vsphere: datastore, network, and folder are no longer required. [GH-1091]

0.5.2 (02/21/2014)

FEATURES:

New post-processor: docker-import - Import a Docker image and give it a specific repository/tag.
New post-processor: docker-push - Push an imported image to a registry.

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Most downloads made by Packer now use a custom user agent. [GH-803]
builder/googlecompute: SSH private key will be saved to disk if -debug is specified. [GH-867]
builder/qemu: Can specify the name of the qemu binary. [GH-854]
builder/virtualbox-ovf: Can specify import options such as "keepallmacs". [GH-883]

BUG FIXES:

core: Fix crash case if blank parameters are given to Packer. [GH-832]
core: Fix crash if big file uploads are done. [GH-897]
core: Fix crash if machine-readable output is going to a closed pipe. [GH-875]
builder/docker: user variables work properly. [GH-777]
builder/qemu: reboots are now possible in provisioners. [GH-864]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: iso_checksum is not required if the checksum type is "none"
builder/virtualbox,vmware/qemu: Support for additional scancodes for boot_command such as <up>, <left>, <insert>, etc. [GH-808]
communicator/ssh: Send TCP keep-alives on connections. [GH-872]
post-processor/vagrant: AWS/DigitalOcean keep input artifacts by default. [GH-55]
provisioners/ansible-local: Properly upload custom playbooks. [GH-829]
provisioners/ansible-local: Better error if ansible isn't installed. [GH-836]

0.5.1 (01/02/2014)

BUG FIXES:

core: If a stream ID loops around, don't let it use stream ID 0 [GH-767]
core: Fix issue where large writes to plugins would result in stream corruption. [GH-727]
builders/virtualbox-ovf: shutdown_timeout config works. [GH-772]
builders/vmware-iso: Remote driver works properly again. [GH-773]

0.5.0 (12/30/2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

"virtualbox" builder has been renamed to "virtualbox-iso". Running your template through packer fix will resolve this.
"vmware" builder has been renamed to "vmware-iso". Running your template through packer fix will resolve this.
post-processor/vagrant: Syntax for overriding by provider has changed. See the documentation for more information. Running your template through packer fix should resolve this.
post-processor/vsphere: Some available configuration options were changed. Running your template through packer fix should resolve this.
provisioner/puppet-masterless: The execute_command no longer has the Has* variables, since the templating language now supports comparison operations. See the Go documentation for more info: http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/

FEATURES:

New builder: Google Compute Engine. You can now build images for use in Google Compute Engine. See the documentation for more information. [GH-715]
New builder: "virtualbox-ovf" can build VirtualBox images from an existing OVF or OVA. [GH-201]
New builder: "vmware-vmx" can build VMware images from an existing VMX. [GH-201]
Environmental variables can now be accessed as default values for user variables using the "env" function. See the documentation for more information.
"description" field in templates: write a human-readable description of what a template does. This will be shown in packer inspect.
Vagrant post-processor now accepts a list of files to include in the box.
All provisioners can now have a "pause_before" parameter to wait some period of time before running that provisioner. This is useful for reboots. [GH-737]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Plugins communicate over a single TCP connection per plugin now, instead of sometimes dozens. Performance around plugin communication dramatically increased.
core: Build names are now template processed so you can use things like user variables in them. [GH-744]
core: New "pwd" function available globally that returns the working directory. [GH-762]
builder/amazon/all: Launched EC2 instances now have a name of "Packer Builder" so that they are easily recognizable. [GH-642]
builder/amazon/all: Copying AMIs to multiple regions now happens in parallel. [GH-495]
builder/amazon/all: Ability to specify "run_tags" to tag the instance while running. [GH-722]
builder/digitalocean: Private networking support. [GH-698]
builder/docker: A "run_command" can be specified, configuring how the container is started. [GH-648]
builder/openstack: In debug mode, the generated SSH keypair is saved so you can SSH into the machine. [GH-746]
builder/qemu: Floppy files are supported. [GH-686]
builder/qemu: Next run_once option tells Qemu to run only once, which is useful for Windows installs that handle reboots for you. [GH-687]
builder/virtualbox: Nice errors if Packer can't write to the output directory.
builder/virtualbox: ISO is ejected prior to export.
builder/virtualbox: Checksum type can be "none" [GH-471]
builder/vmware: Can now specify path to the Fusion application. [GH-677]
builder/vmware: Checksum type can be "none" [GH-471]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: Can now specify a manifest_dir to upload manifests to the remote machine for imports. [GH-655]

BUG FIXES:

core: No colored output in machine-readable output. [GH-684]
core: User variables can now be used for non-string fields. [GH-598]
core: Fix bad download paths if the download URL contained a "." before a "/" [GH-716]
core: "{{timestamp}}" values will always be the same for the entire duration of a build. [GH-744]
builder/amazon: Handle cases where security group isn't instantly available. [GH-494]
builder/virtualbox: don't download guest additions if disabled. [GH-731]
post-processor/vsphere: Uploads VM properly. [GH-694]
post-processor/vsphere: Process user variables.
provisioner/ansible-local: all configurations are processed as templates [GH-749]
provisioner/ansible-local: playbook paths are properly validated as directories, not files. [GH-710]
provisioner/chef-solo: Environments are recognized. [GH-726]

0.4.1 (December 7, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/ebs: New option allows associating a public IP with non-default VPC instances. [GH-660]
builder/openstack: A "proxy_url" setting was added to define an HTTP proxy to use when building with this builder. [GH-637]

BUG FIXES:

core: Don't change background color on CLI anymore, making things look a tad nicer in some terminals.
core: multiple ISO URLs works properly in all builders. [GH-683]
builder/amazon/chroot: Block when obtaining file lock to allow parallel builds. [GH-689]
builder/amazon/instance: Add location flag to upload bundle command so that building AMIs works out of us-east-1 [GH-679]
builder/qemu: Qemu arguments are templated. [GH-688]
builder/vmware: Cleanup of VMX keys works properly so cd-rom won't get stuck with ISO. [GH-685]
builder/vmware: File cleanup is more resilient to file delete races with the operating system. [GH-675]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: Check for hiera config path existence properly. [GH-656]

0.4.0 (November 19, 2013)

FEATURES:

Docker builder: build and export Docker containers, easily provisioned with any of the Packer built-in provisioners.
QEMU builder: builds a new VM compatible with KVM or Xen using QEMU.
Remote ESXi builder: builds a VMware VM using ESXi remotely using only SSH to an ESXi machine directly.
vSphere post-processor: Can upload VMware artifacts to vSphere
Vagrant post-processor can now make DigitalOcean provider boxes. [GH-504]

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: Can now specify a list of multiple security group IDs to apply. [GH-499]
builder/amazon/all: AWS API requests are now retried when a temporary network error occurs as well as 500 errors. [GH-559]
builder/virtualbox: Use VBOX_INSTALL_PATH env var on Windows to find VBoxManage. [GH-628]
post-processor/vagrant: skips gzip compression when compression_level=0
provisioner/chef-solo: Encrypted data bag support [GH-625]

BUG FIXES:

builder/amazon/chroot: Copying empty directories works. [GH-588]
builder/amazon/chroot: Chroot commands work with shell provisioners. [GH-581]
builder/amazon/chroot: Don't choose a mount point that is a partition of an already mounted device. [GH-635]
builder/virtualbox: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618]
builder/vmware: VMX modifications are now case-insensitive. [GH-608]
builder/vmware: VMware Fusion won't ask for VM upgrade.
builder/vmware: Ctrl-C interrupts during waiting for boot. [GH-618]
provisioner/chef-solo: Output is slightly prettier and more informative.

0.3.11 (November 4, 2013)

FEATURES:

builder/amazon/ebs: Ability to specify which availability zone to create instance in. [GH-536]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: builders can now give warnings during validation. warnings won't fail the build but may hint at potential future problems.
builder/digitalocean: Can now specify a droplet name
builder/virtualbox: Can now disable guest addition download entirely by setting "guest_additions_mode" to "disable" [GH-580]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: ISO urls can now be https [GH-587]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: Warning if shutdown command is not specified, since it is a common case of data loss.

BUG FIXES:

core: Won't panic when writing to a bad pipe. [GH-560]
builder/amazon/all: Properly scrub access key and secret key from logs. [GH-554]
builder/openstack: Properly scrub password from logs [GH-554]
builder/virtualbox: No panic if SSH host port min/max is the same. [GH-594]
builder/vmware: checks if ifconfig is in /sbin [GH-591]
builder/vmware: Host IP lookup works for non-C locales. [GH-592]
common/uuid: Use cryptographically secure PRNG when generating UUIDs. [GH-552]
communicator/ssh: File uploads that exceed the size of memory no longer cause crashes. [GH-561]

0.3.10 (October 20, 2013)

FEATURES:

Ansible provisioner

IMPROVEMENTS:

post-processor/vagrant: support instance-store AMIs built by Packer. [GH-502]
post-processor/vagrant: can now specify compression level to use when creating the box. [GH-506]

BUG FIXES:

builder/all: timeout waiting for SSH connection is a failure. [GH-491]
builder/amazon: Scrub sensitive data from the logs. [GH-521]
builder/amazon: Handle the situation where an EC2 instance might not be immediately available. [GH-522]
builder/amazon/chroot: Files copied into the chroot remove destination before copy, fixing issues with dangling symlinks. [GH-500]
builder/digitalocean: don't panic if erroneous API response doesn't contain error message. [GH-492]
builder/digitalocean: scrub API keys from config debug output [GH-516]
builder/virtualbox: error if VirtualBox version cant be detected. [GH-488]
builder/virtualbox: detect if vboxdrv isn't properly setup. [GH-488]
builder/virtualbox: sleep a bit before export to ensure the sesssion is unlocked. [GH-512]
builder/virtualbox: create SATA drives properly on VirtualBox 4.3 [GH-547]
builder/virtualbox: support user templates in SSH key path. [GH-539]
builder/vmware: support user templates in SSH key path. [GH-539]
communicator/ssh: Fix issue where a panic could arise from a nil dereference. [GH-525]
post-processor/vagrant: Fix issue with VirtualBox OVA. [GH-548]
provisioner/salt: Move salt states to correct remote directory. [GH-513]
provisioner/shell: Won't block on certain scripts on Windows anymore. [GH-507]

0.3.9 (October 2, 2013)

FEATURES:

The Amazon chroot builder is now able to run without any sudo privileges by using the "command_wrapper" configuration. [GH-430]
Chef provisioner supports environments. [GH-483]

BUG FIXES:

core: default user variable values don't need to be strings. [GH-456]
builder/amazon-chroot: Fix errors with waitin for state change. [GH-459]
builder/digitalocean: Use proper error message JSON key (DO API change).
communicator/ssh: SCP uploads now work properly when directories contain symlinks. [GH-449]
provisioner/chef-solo: Data bags and roles path are now properly populated when set. [GH-470]
provisioner/shell: Windows line endings are actually properly changed to Unix line endings. [GH-477]

0.3.8 (September 22, 2013)

FEATURES:

core: You can now specify only and except configurations on any provisioner or post-processor to specify a list of builds that they are valid for. [GH-438]
builders/virtualbox: Guest additions can be attached rather than uploaded, easier to handle for Windows guests. [GH-405]
provisioner/chef-solo: Ability to specify a custom Chef configuration template.
provisioner/chef-solo: Roles and data bags support. [GH-348]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: User variables can now be used for integer, boolean, etc. values. [GH-418]
core: Plugins made with incompatible versions will no longer load.
builder/amazon/all: Interrupts work while waiting for AMI to be ready.
provisioner/shell: Script line-endings are automatically converted to Unix-style line-endings. Can be disabled by setting "binary" to "true". [GH-277]

BUG FIXES:

core: Set TCP KeepAlives on internally created RPC connections so that they don't die. [GH-416]
builder/amazon/all: While waiting for AMI, will detect "failed" state.
builder/amazon/all: Waiting for state will detect if the resource (AMI, instance, etc.) disappears from under it.
builder/amazon/instance: Exclude only contents of /tmp, not /tmp itself. [GH-437]
builder/amazon/instance: Make AccessKey/SecretKey available to bundle command even when they come from the environment. [GH-434]
builder/virtualbox: F1-F12 and delete scancodes now work. [GH-425]
post-processor/vagrant: Override configurations properly work. [GH-426]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: Fix failure case when both facter vars are used and prevent_sudo. [GH-415]
provisioner/puppet-masterless: User variables now work properly in manifest file and hiera path. [GH-448]

0.3.7 (September 9, 2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

The "event_delay" option for the DigitalOcean builder is now gone. The builder automatically waits for events to go away. Run your templates through packer fix to get rid of these.

FEATURES:

NEW PROVISIONER: puppet-masterless. You can now provision with a masterless Puppet setup. [GH-234]
New globally available template function: uuid. Generates a new random UUID.
New globally available template function: isotime. Generates the current time in ISO standard format.
New Amazon template function: clean_ami_name. Substitutes '-' for characters that are illegal to use in an AMI name.

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: Ability to specify the format of the temporary keypair created. [GH-389]
builder/amazon/all: Support the NoDevice flag for block mappings. [GH-396]
builder/digitalocean: Retry on any pending event errors.
builder/openstack: Can now specify a project. [GH-382]
builder/virtualbox: Can now attach hard drive over SATA. [GH-391]
provisioner/file: Can now upload directories. [GH-251]

BUG FIXES:

core: Detect if SCP is not enabled on the other side. [GH-386]
builder/amazon/all: When copying AMI to multiple regions, copy the metadata (tags and attributes) as well. [GH-388]
builder/amazon/all: Fix panic case where eventually consistent instance state caused an index out of bounds.
builder/virtualbox: The vm_name setting now properly sets the OVF name of the output. [GH-401]
builder/vmware: Autoanswer VMware dialogs. [GH-393]
command/inspect: Fix weird output for default values for optional vars.

0.3.6 (September 2, 2013)

FEATURES:

User variables can now be specified as "required", meaning the user MUST specify a value. Just set the default value to "null". [GH-374]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Much improved interrupt handling. For example, interrupts now cancel much more quickly within provisioners.
builder/amazon: In -debug mode, the keypair used will be saved to the current directory so you can access the machine. [GH-373]
builder/amazon: In -debug mode, the DNS is outputted.
builder/openstack: IPv6 addresses supported for SSH. [GH-379]
communicator/ssh: Support for private keys encrypted using PKCS8. [GH-376]
provisioner/chef-solo: You can now use user variables in the json configuration for Chef. [GH-362]

BUG FIXES:

core: Concurrent map access is completely gone, fixing rare issues with runtime memory corruption. [GH-307]
core: Fix possible panic when ctrl-C during provisioner run.
builder/digitalocean: Retry destroy a few times because DO sometimes gives false errors.
builder/openstack: Properly handle the case no image is made. [GH-375]
builder/openstack: Specifying a region is now required in a template.
provisioners/salt-masterless: Use filepath join to properly join paths.

0.3.5 (August 28, 2013)

FEATURES:

NEW BUILDER: openstack. You can now build on OpenStack. [GH-155]
NEW PROVISIONER: chef-solo. You can now provision with Chef using chef-solo from local cookbooks.
builder/amazon: Copy AMI to multiple regions with ami_regions. [GH-322]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: Can now use SSH keys as an auth mechanism for SSH using ssh_key_path. [GH-70]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: Support SHA512 as a checksum type. [GH-356]
builder/vmware: The root hard drive type can now be specified with "disk_type_id" for advanced users. [GH-328]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Ability to specfy a minion config. [GH-264]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Ability to upload pillars. [GH-353]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Output message when Ctrl-C received that we're cleaning up. [GH-338]
builder/amazon: Tagging now works with all amazon builder types.
builder/vmware: Option ssh_skip_request_pty for not requesting a PTY for the SSH connection. [GH-270]
builder/vmware: Specify a vmx_template_path in order to customize the generated VMX. [GH-270]
command/build: Machine-readable output now contains build errors, if any.
command/build: An "end" sentinel is outputted in machine-readable output for artifact listing so it is easier to know when it is over.

BUG FIXES:

core: Fixed a couple cases where a double ctrl-C could panic.
core: Template validation fails if an override is specified for a non-existent builder. [GH-336]
core: The SSH connection is heartbeated so that drops can be detected. [GH-200]
builder/amazon/instance: Remove check for ec2-ami-tools because it didn't allow absolute paths to work properly. [GH-330]
builder/digitalocean: Send a soft shutdown request so that files are properly synced before shutdown. [GH-332]
command/build,command/validate: If a non-existent build is specified to '-only' or '-except', it is now an error. [GH-326]
post-processor/vagrant: Setting OutputPath with a timestamp now always works properly. [GH-324]
post-processor/vagrant: VirtualBox OVA formats now turn into Vagrant boxes properly. [GH-331]
provisioner/shell: Retry upload if start command fails, making reboot handling much more robust.

0.3.4 (August 21, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

post-processor/vagrant: the file being compressed will be shown in the UI [GH-314]

BUG FIXES:

core: Avoid panics when double-interrupting Packer.
provisioner/shell: Retry shell script uploads, making reboots more robust if they happen to fail in this stage. [GH-282]

0.3.3 (August 19, 2013)

FEATURES:

builder/virtualbox: support exporting in OVA format. [GH-309]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: All HTTP downloads across Packer now support the standard proxy environmental variables (HTTP_PROXY, NO_PROXY, etc.) [GH-252]
builder/amazon: API requests will use HTTP proxy if specified by enviromental variables.
builder/digitalocean: API requests will use HTTP proxy if specified by environmental variables.

BUG FIXES:

core: TCP connection between plugin processes will keep-alive. [GH-312]
core: No more "unused key keep_input_artifact" for post processors [GH-310]
post-processor/vagrant: output_path templates now work again.

0.3.2 (August 18, 2013)

FEATURES:

New command: packer inspect. This command tells you the components of a template. It respects the -machine-readable flag as well so you can parse out components of a template.
Packer will detect its own crashes (always a bug) and save a "crash.log" file.
builder/virtualbox: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order.
builder/vmware: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order.

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: built with Go 1.1.2
core: packer help output now loads much faster.
builder/virtualbox: guest_additions_url can now use the Version variable to get the VirtualBox version. [GH-272]
builder/virtualbox: Do not check for VirtualBox as part of template validation; only check at execution.
builder/vmware: Do not check for VMware as part of template validation; only check at execution.
command/build: A path of "-" will read the template from stdin.
builder/amazon: add block device mappings [GH-90]

BUG FIXES:

windows: file URLs are easier to get right as Packer has better parsing and error handling for Windows file paths. [GH-284]
builder/amazon/all: Modifying more than one AMI attribute type no longer crashes.
builder/amazon-instance: send IAM instance profile data. [GH-294]
builder/digitalocean: API request parameters are properly URL encoded. [GH-281]
builder/virtualbox: dowload progress won't be shown until download actually starts. [GH-288]
builder/virtualbox: floppy files names of 13 characters are now properly written to the FAT12 filesystem. [GH-285]
builder/vmware: dowload progress won't be shown until download actually starts. [GH-288]
builder/vmware: interrupt works while typing commands over VNC.
builder/virtualbox: floppy files names of 13 characters are now properly written to the FAT12 filesystem. [GH-285]
post-processor/vagrant: Process user variables. [GH-295]

0.3.1 (August 12, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

provisioner/shell: New setting start_retry_timeout which is the timeout for the provisioner to attempt to start the remote process. This allows the shell provisioner to work properly with reboots. [GH-260]

BUG FIXES:

core: Remote command output containing '\r' now looks much better within the Packer output.
builder/vmware: Fix issue with finding driver files. [GH-279]
provisioner/salt-masterless: Uploads work properly from Windows. [GH-276]

0.3.0 (August 12, 2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

All {{.CreateTime}} variables within templates (such as for AMI names) are now replaced with {{timestamp}}. Run packer fix to fix your templates.

FEATURES:

User Variables allow you to specify variables within your templates that can be replaced using the command-line, files, or environmental variables. This dramatically improves the portability of packer templates. See the documentation for more information.
Machine-readable output can be enabled by passing the -machine-readable flag to any Packer command.
All strings in a template are now processed for variables/functions, so things like {{timestamp}} can be used everywhere. More features will be added in the future.
The amazon builders (all of them) can now have attributes of their resulting AMIs modified, such as access permissions and product codes.

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: User data can be passed to start the instances. [GH-253]
provisioner/salt-masterless: local_state_tree is no longer required, allowing you to use shell provisioner (or others) to bring this down. [GH-269]

BUG FIXES:

builder/amazon/ebs,instance: Retry deleing security group a few times. [GH-278]
builder/vmware: Workstation works on Windows XP now. [GH-238]
builder/vmware: Look for files on Windows in multiple locations using multiple environmental variables. [GH-263]
provisioner/salt-masterless: states aren't deleted after the run anymore. [GH-265]
provisioner/salt-masterless: error if any commands exit with a non-zero exit status. [GH-266]

0.2.3 (August 7, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: Added Amazon AMI tag support [GH-233]

BUG FIXES:

core: Absolute/relative filepaths on Windows now work for iso_url and other settings. [GH-240]
builder/amazon/all: instance info is refreshed while waiting for SSH, allowing Packer to see updated IP/DNS info. [GH-243]

0.2.2 (August 1, 2013)

FEATURES:

New builder: amazon-chroot can create EBS-backed AMIs without launching a new EC2 instance. This can shave minutes off of the AMI creation process. See the docs for more info.
New provisioner: salt-masterless will provision the node using Salt without a master.
The vmware builder now works with Workstation 9 on Windows. [GH-222]
The vmware builder now works with Player 5 on Linux. [GH-190]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Colors won't be outputted on Windows unless in Cygwin.
builder/amazon/all: Added iam_instance_profile to launch the source image with a given IAM profile. [GH-226]

BUG FIXES:

builder/virtualbox,vmware: relative paths work properly as URL configurations. [GH-215]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: fix race condition in deleting the output directory on Windows by retrying.

0.2.1 (July 26, 2013)

FEATURES:

New builder: amazon-instance can create instance-storage backed AMIs.
VMware builder now works with Workstation 9 on Linux.

IMPROVEMENTS:

builder/amazon/all: Ctrl-C while waiting for state change works
builder/amazon/ebs: Can now launch instances into a VPC for added protection [GH-210]
builder/virtualbox,vmware: Add backspace, delete, and F1-F12 keys to the boot command.
builder/virtualbox: massive performance improvements with big ISO files because an expensive copy is avoided. [GH-202]
builder/vmware: CD is removed prior to exporting final machine. [GH-198]

BUG FIXES:

builder/amazon/all: Gracefully handle when AMI appears to not exist while AWS state is propogating. [GH-207]
builder/virtualbox: Trim carriage returns for Windows to properly detect VM state on Windows. [GH-218]
core: build names no longer cause invalid config errors. [GH-197]
command/build: If any builds fail, exit with non-zero exit status.
communicator/ssh: SCP exit codes are tested and errors are reported. [GH-195]
communicator/ssh: Properly change slash direction for Windows hosts. [GH-218]

0.2.0 (July 16, 2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

"iso_md5" in the virtualbox and vmware builders is replaced with "iso_checksum" and "iso_checksum_type" (with the latter set to "md5"). See the announce below on packer fix to automatically fix your templates.

FEATURES:

NEW COMMAND: packer fix will attempt to fix templates from older versions of Packer that are now broken due to backwards incompatibilities. This command will fix the backwards incompatibilities introduced in this version.
Amazon EBS builder can now optionally use a pre-made security group instead of randomly generating one.
DigitalOcean API key and client IDs can now be passed in as environmental variables. See the documentatin for more details.
VirtualBox and VMware can now have floppy_files specified to attach floppy disks when booting. This allows for unattended Windows installs.
packer build has a new -force flag that forces the removal of existing artifacts if they exist. [GH-173]
You can now log to a file (instead of just stderr) by setting the PACKER_LOG_FILE environmental variable. [GH-168]
Checksums other than MD5 can now be used. SHA1 and SHA256 can also be used. See the documentation on iso_checksum_type for more info. [GH-175]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: invalid keys in configuration are now considered validation errors. [GH-104]
core: all builders now share a common SSH connection core, improving SSH reliability over all the builders.
amazon-ebs: Credentials will come from IAM role if available. [GH-160]
amazon-ebs: Verify the source AMI is EBS-backed before launching. [GH-169]
shell provisioner: the build name and builder type are available in the PACKER_BUILD_NAME and PACKER_BUILDER_TYPE env vars by default, respectively. [GH-154]
vmware: error if shutdown command has non-zero exit status.

BUG FIXES:

core: UI messages are now properly prefixed with spaces again.
core: If SSH connection ends, re-connection attempts will take place. [GH-152]
virtualbox: "paused" doesn't mean the VM is stopped, improving shutdown detection.
vmware: error if guest IP could not be detected. [GH-189]

0.1.5 (July 7, 2013)

FEATURES:

"file" uploader will upload files from the machine running Packer to the remote machine.
VirtualBox guest additions URL and checksum can now be specified, allowing the VirtualBox builder to have the ability to be used completely offline.

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: If SCP is not available, a more descriptive error message is shown telling the user. [GH-127]
shell: Scripts are now executed by default according to their shebang, not with /bin/sh. [GH-105]
shell: You can specify what interpreter you want inline scripts to run with inline_shebang.
virtualbox: Delete the packer-made SSH port forwarding prior to exporting the VM.

BUG FIXES:

core: Non-200 response codes on downloads now show proper errors. [GH-141]
amazon-ebs: SSH handshake is retried. [GH-130]
vagrant: The BuildName template propery works properly in the output path.
vagrant: Properly configure the provider-specific post-processors so things like vagrantfile_template work. [GH-129]
vagrant: Close filehandles when copying files so Windows can rename files. [GH-100]

0.1.4 (July 2, 2013)

FEATURES:

virtualbox: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99]
virtualbox: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97]
vmware: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99]
vmware: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97]
vmware: Disks are defragmented and compacted at the end of the build. This can be disabled using "skip_compaction"

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Template syntax errors now show line and character number. [GH-56]
amazon-ebs: Access key and secret access key default to environmental variables. [GH-40]
virtualbox: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth [GH-121]
vmware: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth [GH-121]

BUG FIXES:

vmware: Wait until shut down cleans up properly to avoid corrupt disk files [GH-111]

0.1.3 (July 1, 2013)

FEATURES:

The VMware builder can now upload the VMware tools for you into the VM. This is opt-in, you must specify the tools_upload_flavor option. See the website for more documentation.

IMPROVEMENTS:

digitalocean: Errors contain human-friendly error messages. [GH-85]

BUG FIXES:

core: More plugin server fixes that avoid hangs on OS X 10.7 [GH-87]
vagrant: AWS boxes will keep the AMI artifact around [GH-55]
virtualbox: More robust version parsing for uploading guest additions. [GH-69]
virtualbox: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91]
vmware: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91]

0.1.2 (June 29, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Template doesn't validate if there are no builders.
vmware: Delete any VMware files in the VM that aren't necessary for it to function.

BUG FIXES:

core: Plugin servers consider a port in use if there is any error listening to it. This fixes I18n issues and Windows. [GH-58]
amazon-ebs: Sleep between checking instance state to avoid RequestLimitExceeded [GH-50]
vagrant: Rename VirtualBox ovf to "box.ovf" [GH-64]
vagrant: VMware boxes have the correct provider type.
vmware: Properly populate files in artifact so that the Vagrant post-processor works. [GH-63]

0.1.1 (June 28, 2013)

BUG FIXES:

core: plugins listen explicitly on 127.0.0.1, fixing odd hangs. [GH-37]
core: fix race condition on verifying checksum of large ISOs which could cause panics [GH-52]
virtualbox: boot_wait defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44]
virtualbox: if http_port_min and max are the same, it will no longer panic [GH-53]
vmware: boot_wait defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44]
vmware: if http_port_min and max are the same, it will no longer panic [GH-53]

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