Packer - 1.8.7

(Upcoming)

NOTES:

• packer-plugin-linode: The Linode plugin has been handed over to the Linode
  team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/linode/packer-plugin-linode. This plugin is is no longer
  being bundled in the Packer binary release. 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.
  GH-12329
  required_plugins { linode = { source = "github.com/linode/linode" version = ">=1.0.5" } }
• packer-plugin-ucloud: The UCloud plugin has been handed over to the UCloud
  team. New releases for this plugin are available at
  https://github.com/ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud. This plugin is is no longer
  being bundled in the Packer binary release. 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.
  GH-12335
  required_plugins { ucloud = { source = "github.com/ucloud/ucloud" version = ">=1.0.8" } }

Plugins

• Migrate external Linode plugin to linode/packer-plugin-linode.
  GH-12329
• Migrate external UCloud plugin to ucloud/packer-plugin-ucloud.
  GH-12335

BUG FIXES

• Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go to 0.36.0.
  GH-12292
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to 0.4.0 to address CVE-2023-0475, CVE-2022-41723.
  GH-12306
• cmd/hcl2_upgrade: Fix crash when variables block is undefined in legacy JSON
  templates. GH-12257
• Fix regression introduced in 1.8.6, where configurations with custom builder
  names , via the name attribute, but would display the name to STDOUT with
  uninterpolated variable values.
  GH-12290