v0.16.0
Note
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
andPubKeyAcceptedAlgorithms +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
forpacker
to>= 1.8.5
. #423 - Updates
required_plugins
forpacker-plugin-vsphere
to>= 1.1.1
. #416 - Updates
required_versions
forterraform
to>= 1.3.7
. #456 - Updates
required_versions
forhashicorp/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:
- @aseques made their first contribution in #380
- @keys1234249 made their first contribution in #440
- @sophware made their first contribution in #439
Full Changelog: