Release: v2.1.0

[tenthirtyam]

Important

Please update to v2.1.1 to address the issue observed in #651.

I'm incredibly excited to announce the v2.1.0 release of vmware/packer-plugin-vsphere.

Below are the highlights for the release:

✨ Enhancements

• Added support for datastore clusters (datastore_cluster) for virtual machine builds and post-processing. (feat: add support for datastore clusters #574)
• Added datasource (vsphere-virtualmachine)for querying virtual machine information, enabling vsphere-clone to select a template. (feat: add datasource for virtual machines #498)
• Added an override (bool) option to the vsphere-template post-processor, allowing the overwrite of an existing template if set to true. (feat: add override option #560)
• Refactored tools_sync_time to ensure more flexible and accurate time synchronization settings for virtual machines. (refactor: time synchronization settings #581)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Addressed issue removing CD-ROM devices from a virtual machine to ensure a deterministic order of removal. (fix: keep lowest-numbered cd-roms #582)
• Addressed issue where hardware configuration wasn't always applied to virtual machines, ensuring consistent hardware settings. (fix: always apply hardware configuration #561)
• Addressed issue where IPv6 address were being double-wrapped in brackets in SSH communicator causing connection failures. (fix: IPv6 addresses double-wrapped in brackets #570)
• Addressed issue nested hardware virtualization settings to only apply when explicitly requested, preventing unintended configuration changes. (refactor: set NestedHVEnabled only when requested or true #554)
• Addressed issue in the vsphere-supervisor Jenkins template to address compatibility. (fix: update jenkins template used by supervisor builder #583)
• Refactored support for specifying the firmware type when creating and configuring the virtual machines to ensure that the APCI layout for virtual hardware 20 or later with EFI (and EFI with Secure Boot) have the correct APCI motherboard layout. (refactor: set firmware configuration during create #579)

🧹 Chores

• Refactored the builder identifier from jetbrains.vsphere to vmware.vsphere to align the identifier with the namespace. (refactor: update builder id to vmware.vsphere #629)
• Bumped Go to 1.24.13. (chore(deps): bump go to 1.24.13 #627)
• Bumpedhashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to v0.6.5. (chore(deps): bump hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to v0.6.5 #616)
• Bumpedhashicorp/hcl/v2 from v2.19.1 to v2.24.0. (chore(deps): bump hashicorp/hcl/v2 from v2.19.1 to v2.24.0 #558)
• BumpedBumpedgithub.com/vmware/govmomi from 0.51.0 to 0.52.0. (chore(deps): bump github.com/vmware/govmomi from 0.51.0 to 0.52.0 #553)
• Bumpedgithub.com/ulikunitz/xz from 0.5.10 to 0.5.15. (chore(deps): bump github.com/ulikunitz/xz from 0.5.10 to 0.5.15 #557)
• Bumpedgolang.org/x/crypto from 0.40.0 to 0.45.0. (refactor: update goreleaser #556)

🏗️ New Contributors

• @clarsen: fix: IPv6 addresses double-wrapped in brackets #570
• @castorsky: feat: add datasource for virtual machines #498

For list of all commits, please refer to the following: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

Ryan Johnson
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