v0.18.0
Note
Release Date: 2023-10-23
Previous Versioning: v23.11
Enhancement:
- Adds VMware Photon OS 5.0 to the project. #582
- Adds Debian 12 to the project. #584
- Adds Oracle Linux 9 to the project. #670
- Adds Oracle Linux 8 to the project. #670
- Adds Windows 11 Enterprise to the project. #688
- Adds Windows 10 Enterprise to the project. #688
- Adds the option to configure the following target for builds: #471
- a vSphere cluster with Distributed Resource Scheduling enabled. (Default)
- an ESXi host in vSphere cluster with Distributed Resource Scheduling disabled. (Override)
- an ESXi host not in a vSphere cluster. (Override)
- Adds a development container for Visual Studio Code. #700
- Adds an example
.gitlab.yml
file for GitLab CI/CD. #675 - Adds a
build-ci.tmpl
that can be used to create or update the.gitlab-ci.yml
file using gomplate. #675 - Adds Packer logging settings to
set-envvars.sh
. #705 - Adds a debug option (
--debug
or-d
) to./build.sh
to enable debug logging for Packer. #706
Bugfix:
- Updates Debian 11 to include
build_password
in thelinux-debian.pkr.hcl
configuration file. #653 - Updates Debian 11 to ensure
/dev/sr1
is not mounted with use of the defaulthttp
data source. No changes to thedisk
data source. #686
Chore:
-
Updates
required_versions
forpacker
to>= 1.9.4
. #718 -
Updates
required_plugins
forpacker-plugin-vsphere
to>= 1.2.1
. #564 -
Updates
required_plugins
forethanmdavidson/packer-plugin-git
to>= 0.4.3
. #717 -
Updates
required_plugins
forrgl/packer-plugin-windows-update
to>= 0.14.3
. #565 -
Updates
required_versions
forterraform
to>= 1.6.0
. #757 -
Updates
required_versions
forhashicorp/vsphere
to>= 2.5.1
. #758 -
Updates Gomplate to
3.11.5
. #559 -
Updates ansible-core to
2.15
. #573 -
Updates Debian 11 to 11.8 release. #738
-
Updates Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.04.3 release. #720
-
Updates Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.04.6 release. #566
-
Removes Ubuntu 18.04 from the project. #578
On 31 May 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reached the end of standard support. See
Ubuntu Lifecycle for more information. -
Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.2 release. #576, #587
-
Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.8 release. #577
-
Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.2 release. #569
-
Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.8 release. #570
-
Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.2 release. #571
-
Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.8 release. #572
-
Updates CentOS Stream 9 to latest June 2023 release. #567
-
Updates CentOS Stream 8 to latest June 2023 release. #568
-
Updates SLES 15 to 15.5 release. #740
-
Updates Windows Server 2022 to October 2023 (US English) release. #744
-
Updates Windows 11 22H2 to October 2023 (US English) release. #743
-
Updates Windows 10 22H2 to October 2023 (US English) release. #742
Refactor:
- Removes the use of
iso_checksum
andiso_checksum_type
as they are not needed since the ISOs
are not being downloaded by the plugin and are expected to be present and already verified by the
user after download. #722 - Removes the installation of Chocolatey from the Microsoft Windows guest operating system builds. #586
New Contributors:
- @DavidRobson made their first contribution in #771
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