Packer 1.11.2 Released

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Hello Packer Community,

The Packer team is excited to announce the official release of Packer 1.11.2. This release is an incremental update on Packer 1.11.1, with notable enhancements to build metadata being published to HCP Packer. Now, in addition to Packer and plugins versions, Packer will track:

  • Options passed to the packer build command (e.g. --only and --debug)
  • Os and arch details of the host running Packer.
  • Git-specific metadata: current HEAD commit, worktree status, etc.
  • CI-specific metadata: environment variables automatically gathered from GitHub actions or Gitlab CI.

For more information on the type of metadata gathered and exported to HCP Packer, please refer to our docs.

As always, you can refer to the Packer CHANGELOG for a detailed list of changes.

Notable changes:

  • core/hcp: export Packer options, OS, CI and VCS metadata for a build. Following up on the introduction of metadata for builds in Packer 1.11.0, this version introduces more metadata. In addition to the version of Packer core, and the plugins used, we now capture CI-specific environment variables (gitlab-ci and github-actions for now), Git-specific information, OS details like architecture and kernel version, and the command-line options passed to packer build.

As always, thank you for your continued support and contributions.

The Packer Team.