v0.19.0

Release Date: 2024-04-09

Enhancement:

• Adds templates and unit tests for managing custom network and storage configurations for Linux distributions. #473, #805
• Adds additional configuration to install packages for Linux distributions. #800
• Adds option to set a specified number of remaining CD-ROMs for a machine images added in packer-plugin-vsphere v1.2.4. #836
• Adds use of evaluation versions for Windows Server 2025, 2022, and 2019 images, by default. Keys are still supported. #844
• Adds use of evaluation versions for Windows 11 and 10 images, by default. Keys are still supported. #844
• Adds Windows Server 2025 Insiders Preview. #834
• Adds Ansible integration for Windows Server 2025, 2022, and 2019 images. #801
• Adds Ansible integration for Windows 11 and 10 images. #801
• Adds option to enable a content library to source all guest operating system ISOs or use a datastore path. Defaults to false, disabled.
  Set common_iso_content_library_enabled to true to enable use of a content library for all guest operating system ISOs.
• Adds option to enable a content library for the placement of virtual machine images builds. Defaults to true, enabled.
  Set common_content_library_enabled to false to disable use of a content library for saving virtual machine image builds.

Refactor:

• Refactors the Ubuntu builds not to use cloud-init, by default. #843
  Set vm_guest_os_cloudinit to true to enable cloud-init on the machine image.

Chore:

• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.10.0.
  #828
• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.2.7. #824, #871, #873
• Updates required_plugins for ethanmdavidson/packer-plugin-git to >= 0.6.2. #868
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.7.1. #829
• Updates required_versions for hashicorp/vsphere to >= 2.7.0. #866
• Updates required_versions for hashicorp/hcp to >= 0.84.1. #867
• Updates Gomplate to 3.11.7. #825
• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.3 release. #819
• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.9 release. #818
• Updates AlmaLinux 9 to 9.3 release. #817
• Updates AlmaLinux 8 to 8.9 release. #817
• Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.3 release. #823
• Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.9 release. #822
• Updates Oracle Linux 9 to 9.3 release. #821
• Updates Oracle Linux 8 to 8.9 release. #820
• Updates Debian 12 to 12.5 release. #865
• Updates Debian 11 to 11.9 release. #864
• Updates Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.04.4 release. #863
• Updates AlmaLinux to upgrade the almalinux-release package during the build.

New Contributors:

• @alcorwalter made their first contribution in #805

Full Changelog:

v0.18.0...v0.19.0