v0.3.0
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