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@tenthirtyam tenthirtyam released this 06 Apr 14:16
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v0.16.0
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Release Date: 2023-01-17
Previous Versioning: v23.01

Enhancement:

  • Adds support for disabling password expiration for the local administrator account on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. #334.
  • Adds support for enabling Remote Desktop on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. #335.
  • Adds support to allow SSH authentication with RSA keys for Ansible, if necessary. Adds a note related to OpenSSH >= 9.0 in the documentation. #387.

Bugfix:

  • Fixes missing privileges for the custom role in vSphere that effected the ability to build using disk-based deployment modes and Windows 11 22H2 with vTPM. #295, #339, #340
  • Updates the URI in user-data.pkrtpl.hcl for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 to remove the country code. This will help to ensure that GeoIP lookup works for all users. #421
  • Updates the install commands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to use the correct EPEL repository version. #440

Documentation:

  • Updates options to download a release or clone the project. #385
  • Updates syntax to append RSA algorithm to HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa and PubKeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa. #386
  • Updates the ssh-keygen example for generating the ECDSA public key to use a 521 bit key length. Valid key lengths are 256, 384, or 521. #439

Refactor:

  • Refactors builds to use the current Git branch / tag as the build_version local variable used for virtual machine image names and descriptions. #385
  • Refactors Ansible roles to remove the warn: false args for ansible-core 2.14 compatibility. #443

Chore:

  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.5. #423
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.1.1. #416
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.3.7. #456
  • Updates required_versions for hashicorp/hcp to >= 0.51.0. #408, #409, #410, #411, #412, #413, #414, #415
  • Updates Gomplate to 3.11.3. #380, #382
  • Updates Debian 11 to 11.6 release. #432
  • Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.1 release. #366
  • Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.7 release. #365
  • Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.1 release. #381
  • Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.7 release. #368
  • Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.1 release. #362
  • Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.7 release. #361
  • Updates CentOS Stream 9 to latest December 2022 release. #454
  • Updates CentOS Stream 8 to latest December 2022 release. #453
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to December 2022 (US English) release. #452
  • Updates Windows Server 2019 to November 2022 (US English) release. #373
  • Updates Windows 11 22H2 to December 2022 (US English) release.#451
  • Updates Windows 10 22H2 to December 2022 (US English) release. #450
  • Removes Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (x86_64) and macOS.
  • Big Sur (Intel) as tested operating systems for the Packer host. #393

Breaking Change:

  • Removes support to use the iso_url variable to download the guest operating system .iso from a URL introduced in #249 due to #343. #435

New Contributors:

Full Changelog:

v0.15.0...v0.16.0

Contributors

sophware, aseques, and keys1234249
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