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@obilodeau obilodeau released this 26 Jul 02:32
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The BlackHat USA Arsenal 2017 edition

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Enhancements

  • New templates: Windows 7 64-bit: win7_64_analyst (#42)
  • Experimental profiles features: a separate configuration from OS templates that enables to add new installed packages, files and registry changes (#51)
  • Support for trial versions of Windows 7 Enterprise x86 and x64
  • Initial support for vSphere (ESXi / vCenter) on the back-end (#30, #68)
  • Better out of the box support of Fedora, CentOS and RedHat as host (#53)
  • Use user cache directories for packer. This avoids caching in memory-backed locations to prevent unnecessary memory pressure during builds or free space issues on low RAM systems (#45)
  • Default timeout for WinRM is 60m (from 30m) to allow slower machines the time to go through Windows' install process
  • Increased default disk size to 20GB
  • Added a --force flag to overwrite pre-existing packer artifacts or vagrant boxes (#46)
  • debug: Passes -on-error=abort to packer to allow investigation of failures (#35)
  • Documentation improvements

Bug fixes

  • NetworkLocation changes for Windows 7 solves a class of 'Timeout waiting for WinRM' errors (#33, #43, #60)
  • Increased WinRM memory limit on Windows 7 solves errors installing .Net Framework 4.0 (#31, #44)
  • More Windows 7 .Net Framework 4.0 fixes (#59)

Release meta

  • Released on: 2017-07-25
  • Released by: @obilodeau
  • Release beer: Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter IPA

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Credits

Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release:

Gregory Leblanc, @xambroz,
@malwarenights, Hugo Genesse and Olivier Bilodeau