Packer - 1.10.0

(Upcoming)

NOTES:

This release contains breaking changes for those users who may be relying on plugins previously bundled into Packer.
As specified in the Bundled Plugins Removal announcement HashiCorp maintained plugins
will no longer be shipped with Packer. Users are encouraged to use packer init or packer plugins [...] for managing required plugins needed for executing their
builds. GH-12660

The affected plugins include:
* packer-plugin-amazon
* packer-plugin-ansible
* packer-plugin-azure
* packer-plugin-docker
* packer-plugin-googlcompute
* packer-plugin-qemu
* packer-plugin-vagrant
* packer-plugin-virtualbox
* packer-plugin-vmware
* packer-plugin-vsphere

PLUGINS:

• Removed all HashiCorp vendored plugins from being bundled into the Packer binary.
  GH-12660
• packer-plugin-hcloud: The Hetzner Cloud plugin has been handed over to the
  Hetzner integrations team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/hetznercloud/packer-plugin-hcloud. Existing references
  to the plugin will continue to work but users are advised to update the
  required_plugins block to use the new plugin source address.
  required_plugins { parallels = { source = "github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud" version = "~> 1" } }

IMPROVEMENTS:

• cmd/plugins: install SHA256SUM file with 0644 perms.
  GH-12265
• cmd/plugins: remove SHA256SUM file on plugin removal.
  GH-12267
• cmd/plugins: remove will error if it fails to find the plugin being selected
  for removal. GH-12269

BUG FIXES:

• Bump Go to 1.20.10 to Address CVE-2023-44487 / CVE-2023-39325.
  GH-12261