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.Next

Release Date: Unreleased

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds support for disabling password expiration for the local administrator account on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. GH-334.
  • Adds support for enabling Remote Desktop on localized (non-English) Windows guest operating systems. GH-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. GH-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. GH-295, GH-339, GH-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. GH-421

📄 Documenation:

  • Updates options to download a release or clone the project. GH-385
  • Updates syntax to append RSA algorithm to HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa andPubKeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa. GH-386

🔧 Refactor:

  • Refactors builds to use the current Git branch / tag as the build_version local variable used for virtual machine image names and descriptions. GH-385

💦 Chore:

  • Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-366
  • Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-365
  • Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-381
  • Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-368
  • Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.1 release. GH-362
  • Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.7 release. GH-361
  • Updates CentOS Stream 9 to December 2022 release. GH-418
  • Updates CentOS Stream 8 to November 2022 release. GH-417
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to November 2022 (US English) release. GH-376
  • Updates Windows Server 2019 to November 2022 (US English) release. GH-373
  • Updates Windows 11 22H2 to November 2022 (US English) release. GH-419
  • Updates Windows 10 22H2 to November 2022 (US English) release. GH-374
  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.5. GH-423
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.1.1. GH-416
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.3.6. GH-391
  • Updates required_versions for hashicorp/hcp to >= 0.51.0. GH-408, GH-409, GH-410, GH-411, GH-412, GH-413, GH-414, GH-415
  • Updates Gomplate to 3.11.3. GH-380, GH-382
  • Removes Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (x86_64) and macOS Big Sur (Intel) as tested operating systems for the Packer host. GH-393

⚠️ Breaking Change:

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

v22.09

Release Date: 2022-09-28

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds support for disk-based deployment mode for Debian 11. GH-272.
  • Adds support for disk-based deployment mode for SLES 15. GH-276

🐛 Bugfix:

  • Fixes mismatches in source names for Windows Server when only builds for Standard or Datacenter are launched using ./build.sh. GH-281

💦 Chore:

  • Updates Debian 11 to 11.5.0 release. GH-273
  • Updates SLES 15 to 15.4 release. GH-287
  • Updates Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.04.1 release. GH-274
  • Updates Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.04.5 release. GH-275
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to September 2022 (US English) release. GH-282
  • Updates Windows 11 to 22H2 September 2022 (US English) release. GH-284
  • Updates Windows 10 to 21H2 September 2022 (US English) release. GH-283
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.3.1. GH-292

v22.08

Release Date: 2022-08-25

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds Debian 11. GH-195
  • Adds support for initial configuration and use of the HCP Packer Registry. GH-236 and GH-256
  • Adds support to use the iso_url variable to download the guest operating system .iso from a URL. GH-249

⚠️ Breaking Change:

  • Updates vm_cpu_sockets to vm_cpu_count for CPUs. The value of the sockets is determined by dividing the number of CPUs by the number of cores per socket defined. GH-253

💦 Chore:

  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.3.
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.8.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.2.8.
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to August 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates Windows 11 to August 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates Windows 10 to August 2022 (US English) release.

Note

  • HTTP-based deployment only.

v22.07

Release Date: 2022-07-26

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  • Adds CentOS 9 Stream.
  • Adds Rocky Linux 9.
  • Adds AlmaLinux OS 9.
  • Adds SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. GH-227.
  • Adds option for setting the number of video displays and the size for the video memory for both Windows 11 and 10, which is useful for virtual desktop use cases (e.g., Horizon). The ability to set the number of displays was added in v1.0.6 of packer-plugin-vsphere.
  • Adds a common option to export machine image artifacts (.ovf,.vmdk, and .mf) to an output path.
  • Removes the default requirement for a trusted root authority certificate to be imported and trusted by each machine image build. This will allow project users to get started more quickly without a pre-requisite.

🔧 Refactor:

  • Refactors builds to use local variables for virtual machine image names and descriptions.
  • Refactors builds to use local variables for ISO paths and checksums.
  • Refactors builds to use local variables for manifest data and output path.

💦 Chore:

  • Updates vSphere to version 7.0.3D (vCenter Server and ESXi) or higher to address a known issue with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with EFI firmware.
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.6.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.2.5.
  • Updates Rocky Linux 8 to use other4xLinuxGuest64.
  • Updates Almalinux 8 to use other4xLinuxGuest64.
  • Removes the deprecated CentOS 8 option; end-of-life as of December 31, 2021.
  • Removes the deprecated Windows Server 2016 option; end-of-life as of January 11, 2022.

Note

  • Supports 15.3 / 15 Service Pack 3.
  • HTTP-based deployment only. Disk-based deployment planned.

v22.06

Release Date: 2022-06-27

💦 Chore:

  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.2.
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.5.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.2.3.
  • Updates required_versions for hashicorp/vsphere to >= 2.2.0.
  • Updates vSphere to version 7.0.3 or higher.
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to June 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates Windows 11 to June 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates vm_guest_os_type for Windows Server 2022 guest ID to windows2019srvNext_64Guest.

v22.05

Release Date: 2022-05-31

💦 Chore:

  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.4.
  • Updates required_plugins and packer-plugin-windows-update to >= 0.14.1.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.2.1.
  • Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.6 release.
  • Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.6 release.
  • Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.6 release.
  • Updates CentOS Stream 8 checksum to latest release.
  • Updates Windows Server 2022 to April 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates Windows 11 to May 2022 (US English) release.
  • Updates requirements to include VMware Photon OS 4 as a tested operating system.
  • Updates requirements to include Ubuntu 22.04 as a tested operating system.

v22.04

Release Date: 2022-04-28

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (GH-185)
  • Adds an option to generate a custom build script. (GH-188)

🐞 Bugfix:

  • Updates the Python interpreter for Ansible on AlmaLinux to use /usr/libexec/platform-python. (GH-182)
  • Adds the use of build_password to the Linux distributions to ensure use of set-envvars.sh works as expected. (GH-197)
  • Updates the SHA256 checksum for the CentOS 7 .iso CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso. (GH-201)

💦 Chore:

  • Updates the Windows Server 2022 February 2022 (US English) release. (GH-192)
  • Updates the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 20.04.4 release. (GH-184)

v22.03

Release Date: 2022-03-17

💦 Chore:

  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.0.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.7.
  • Updates required_versions for hashicorp/vsphere to >= 2.1.1.

v22.02

Release Date: 2022-02-22

💥 Enhancement:

  • Updates the configuration of Linux machine images to use the Ansible roles instead of shell scripts.

💦 Chore:

  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.10.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.5.

v22.01

Release Date: 2022-01-21

💥 Enhancement:

  • Updates the notes to automatically include the Packer version and a build_version.
  • Updates the naming for the machine image output and includes a build_version (e.g., linux-photon-4-v22.01).
  • Updates all Microsoft Windows Server machine image builds to a default of 4096 MB of memory to increase performance during operating system patching.

💦 Chore:

  • Updates the structure of the subdirectories in builds/.
  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.9.
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.3.
  • Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.4.
  • Updates Microsoft Windows 11 Professional to use virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) and removes experimental project support. vTPM is now supported by packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.3.
  • Updates VMware Photon OS 4.0 to Revision 2.
  • Adds configurable data source provisioning for VMware Photon OS 4.0. Revision 2 adds support for secondary devices with kickstart. Edit the common_data_source in common.pkvars.hcl from http to disk. The build will attach an on-demand .iso as the secondary CD-ROM for the kickstart. This is useful for environments that can not use HTTP-based kickstart.
  • Adds a GitHub Action on pull requests to check code quality using linters.
  • Updates all of project code to address issues found by the linter(s).

v21.11

Release Date: 2021-11-09

💥 Enhancement:

  • Adds support for cloud-init and the [VMware] data source introduced in cloud-init v21.3 for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

    Important Note: Uncomment these lines in the script for Ubuntu 20.04 and guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools vs. cloud-init.

    # Uncomment below if guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools.
# touch /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg
# echo "network: {config: disabled}" >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg

  • Adds custom disk partitioning for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS

  • Updates Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to efi-secure.

  • Updates all certificates to the PEM-encoded .cer format.

  • Adds example Terraform plans for deployment testing.

  • Adds an Ansible playbook example to create a custom role in vSphere for Packer.

v21.10.01

Release Date: 2021-10-20

  • Updates LICENSE and NOTICE to BSD-2.
  • Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.7.
  • Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.2.
  • Updates Linux distributions to generate new host keys on first-boot.
  • Adds option to usefloppy_content included in packer-plugin-vsphere releasev1.0.2. Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS will toggle to use floppy_content from http_content when common_data_source = "disk" is enabled.
  • Updates VMware Photon OS 4.0 to Revision 1.
  • Adds Microsoft Windows 11 Professional as experimental until vsphere-iso supports vTPM.
  • Adds support for skip_import Adds to packer-plugin-vsphere in v1.0.2. When set to true the virtual machine will not be imported into the content library. This is useful for testing / debugging. Defaults to false.

v21.10

Release Date: 2021-10-11

  • Adds the config.sh to create config/*.prkvars.hcl (default) files from the examples in builds/.

  • Adds the option for create >1 set of configuration set by passing an argument to config.sh (e.g. config.sh config/us-west-1) and the pass the configuration set to build.sh (e.g. build.sh config/us-west-1).

  • Use of the content library is now optional by updating the config/common.pkvars.hcl settings to the following:

    common_template_conversion     = true
common_content_library_name    = null
common_content_library_ovf     = false
common_content_library_destroy = false

  • Adds support for a SOCKS proxy by editing config/proxy.pkvars.hcl.

  • Adds the ability to set the IP address to bind the HTTP server by editing the common_http_ip in config/common.pkvars.hcl from null to an IP address on the Packer host:

    common_http_ip = "172.16.11.100"

  • Add configurable data source provisioning for Linux images. By default, HTTP is used for the kickstart. By editing the common_data_source in config/common.pkvars.hcl from http to disk the build will use a disk-based method, such as a .iso as the secondary CD-ROM. This is useful for environments that can not communicate back to the Packer host's HTTP server.

    common_data_source = "disk"

  • Renames all certificates to *.ctr.example and *.pb7.example. Please add your own custom certificates to the directories per the README.md.

  • Adds the ability for Packer to be run from any directory by including the use of $(path.cwd)/.

  • Adds the ansible provisioner to Linux builds for base configuration using roles. More updates to follow.

  • Adds information on least privilege service account using a custom role in vSphere.

  • Adds a Terraform example for creation of the custom role in vSphere.

  • Updates manifests to use manifests/ and a JSON output based on the timestamp.

  • Updates manifests to use include relevant data in the JSON output for the build.

  • Adds RHEL 7 and CentoOS 7 back to the builds per requests.

  • Refactors RHEL and RHEL derivative kickstarts templates.

  • Adds Windows 10 Professional.

  • Updates PhotonOS to efi-secure.

  • Updates Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to efi-secure.

  • Adds vendor provided filename and checksums to the build examples.

  • Updates CONTRIBUTING.md with the contributor workflow.

  • Adds headers to various scripts and files, as needed.

  • Add public keys and specific Terraform files to .gitignore.

  • Updates issue templates to use forms.

  • Various bugfixes and code cleanliness.

  • Bumped Packer to >= 1.7.6.

  • Thanks to the new contributors: @sestegra, @metabsdm, and @gcblack!

v21.09.1

Release Date: 2021-09-16

  • Refactors issue templates to use GitHub custom issue forms.
  • Refactors all builds to pass the language, keyboard, and timezone to the configuration files.
  • Updates the Rocky Linux build to use UEFI; however without secure boot.
  • Updates the defaults in common.pkvars.hcl to use hardware version 19, which provides the best performance and latest features available in ESXi 7.0 U2. Refer to the VMware vSphere 7.0 product documentation if using a previous release
  • Refactors all builds with input variable definitions separated into variables.pkr.hcl.
  • Refactors all builds to use <build>.auto.pkvars.hcl for input variables the and <build>.pkr.hcl for the template configurations, with simplified names for <build>.
  • Refactors all builds to use ${path.cwd}/output/ as the path for the manifest post-processor.
  • Adds disclaimers and Updates descriptions in script files.
  • Updates README.md.

v21.09

Release Date: 2021-09-07

  • Adds support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 machine image builds.
  • Refactors configuration files to be generated using templates. Reduces the number of files and passes variables into the .pkrtpl.hcl content.
  • Refactors builds for Linux distributions to use http_content instead of http_directory and http_file.
  • Refactors builds for Microsoft Windows to use cd_content instead of floppy_files, which allows for use generated configuration files. A Packer compatible .iso command-line tool is required and noted in the README.md.
  • Adds disclaimers and Updates descriptions in script files.
  • Adds NOTICE.
  • Updates the packer init commands run in build.sh.
  • Updates MAINTAINERS.md.
  • Updates CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • Updates README.md.

v21.08

Release Date: 2021-08-18

  • Moves vsphere.pkrvars.hcl and rhsm.pkrvars.hcl to the builds directory.
  • Isolates variables to simplify updates to common settings with builds/common.pkrvars.hcl.
  • Refactors all build definitions to use variables and reduce any hard-coded settings.
  • All machine image build definitions use the the recommended firmware based on the guest operating system and the minimum vSphere release supported by the repository. EFI Secure Boot is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentoOS Linux/Stream 8, AlmaLinux 8, and Microsoft Windows Server 2019/2016. BIOS is enabled Rocky Linux 8.
  • Adds the manifest post-provisioner to machine image build definitions.
  • Moves public keys to variables.
  • Adds a user for Ansible to Linux machine images with authorized_keys. Uses builds/ansible.pkrvars.hcl. Password is randomized.
  • Updates the Packer block to all builds with required_versions >= "1.7.4" for Packer.
  • Adds the required_plugins to the Packer block for all builds to use the vsphere plugin version = ">= 1.0.1".
  • Updates the Packer block for Windows builds with required_plugins and version = "0.14.0" for the Windows-Update plugin.
  • All builds automatically run packer init to initialize required plugins before running a build with build.sh.
  • Updates Microsoft Windows autounattend.xml files to use the attached VMware Tools .iso for PVSCSI driver.
  • Simplified and reduced the script files used by provisioners.
  • Patches the script for VNware Photon OS 4 due to an issue performing updates with tdnf.
  • Patches the script for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS to remove cloud-init and remove all netplan configurations before GuestOS customization.
  • Removes support for VMware Photon OS 3 machine image builds.
  • Removes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 machine image builds.
  • Removes support for CentOS Linux 7 machine image builds.
  • Deprecates CentOS Linux 8. Removing in a future update. The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31.
  • Deprecating Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Removing in a future update. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 EOL: 2022-01-22.
  • Adds MAINTAINERS.md.
  • Updates README.md.

v21.07

Release Date: 2021-07-21

Release v20.11

Release Date: 2020-11-26

  • Initial release.