v0.17.0

Note

Release Date: 2023-10-23
Previous Versioning: v23.10

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

New Contributors:

• @tintinhamans made their first contribution in #476
• @username-is-already-taken2 made their first contribution in #492
• @roshankathawate made their first contribution in #653
• @necarnot made their first contribution in #686
• @virtualistic made their first contribution in #670

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0