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Vagrant v1.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-12-21 // over 8 years ago

  • 🔋 FEATURES:

    • New Command: vagrant powershell: For machines that support it, this will open a PowerShell prompt.
    • New Command: vagrant port: For machines that support it, this will display the list of forwarded ports from the guest to the host.
    • Linked Clones: VirtualBox and VMware providers now support linked clones for very fast (millisecond) imports on up. [GH-4484]
    • Snapshots: The vagrant snapshot command can be used to checkpoint and restore point-in-time snapshots.
    • IPv6 Private Networks: Private networking now supports IPv6. This only works with VirtualBox and VMware at this point. [GH-6342]
    • New provisioner: ansible_local to execute Ansible from the guest machine. [GH-2103]

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES:

    • The ansible provisioner now can override the effective ansible remote user (i.e. ansible_ssh_user setting) to always correspond to the vagrant ssh username. This change is enabled by default, but we expect this to affect only a tiny number of people as it corresponds to the common usage. If you however use multiple remote usernames in your Ansible plays, tasks, or custom inventories, you can simply set the option force_remote_user to false to make Vagrant behave the same as before.
    • provisioners/salt: the "config_dir" option has been removed. It has no effect in Vagrant 1.8. [GH-6073]

    👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • core: allow removal of all box versions with --all flag [GH-3462]
    • core: prune entries from global status on non-existent cwd [GH-6535]
    • core: networking: allow specifying a DHCP IP [GH-6325]
    • core: run provisioner cleanup tasks before powering off the VM [GH-6553]
    • core: only run provisioner cleanup tasks if they're implemented [GH-6603] This improves UX, but wasn't a bug before.
    • command/plugin: Add --plugin-clean-sources flag to reset plugin install sources, primarily for corp firewalls. [GH-4738]
    • command/rsync-auto: SSH connection is cached for faster sync times [GH-6399]
    • command/up: provisioners are run on suspend resume [GH-5815]
    • communicators/ssh: allow specifying host environment variables to forward to guests [GH-4132, GH-6562]
    • communicators/winrm: Configurable execution time limit [GH-6213]
    • providers/virtualbox: cache version lookup, which caused significant slowdown on some Windows hosts [GH-6552]
    • providers/virtualbox: add public_address capability for virtualbox [GH-6583, GH-5978]
    • provisioners/chef: perform cleanup tasks on the guest instead of the host
    • provisioners/chef: automatically generate a node_name if one was not given [GH-6555]
    • provisioners/chef: install Chef automatically on Windows [GH-6557]
    • provisioners/chef: allow the user to specify the Chef product (such as the Chef Development Kit) [GH-6557]
    • provisioners/chef: allow data_bags_path to be an array [GH-5988, GH-6561]
    • provisioners/shell: Support interactive mode for elevated PowerShell scripts [GH-6185]
    • provisioners/shell: add env option [GH-6588, GH-6516]
    • provisioners/ansible+ansible_local: add support for ansible-galaxy [GH-2718]
    • provisioners/ansible+ansible_local: add support for group and host variables in the generated inventory [GH-6619]
    • provisioners/ansible+ansible_local: add support for alphanumeric patterns for groups in the generated inventory [GH-3539]
    • provisioners/ansible: add support for WinRM settings [GH-5086]
    • provisioners/ansible: add new force_remote_user option to control whether ansible_ssh_user parameter should be applied or not [GH-6348]
    • provisioners/ansible: show a warning when running from a Windows Host [GH-5292]
    • pushes/local-exec: add support for specifying script args [GH-6661, GH-6660]
    • guests/slackware: add support for networking [GH-6514]

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • core: Ctrl-C weirdness fixed where it would exit parent process before Vagrant finished cleaning up [GH-6085]
    • core: DHCP network configurations don't warn on IP addresses ending in ".1" [GH-6150]
    • core: only append access_token when it does not exist in the URL [GH-6395, GH-6534]
    • core: use the correct private key when packaging a box [GH-6406]
    • core: fix crash when using invalid box checksum type [GH-6327]
    • core: don't check for metadata if the download URL is not HTTP [GH-6540]
    • core: don't make custom dotfile path if there is no Vagrantfile [GH-6542]
    • core: more robust check for admin privs on Windows [GH-5616]
    • core: properly detect when HTTP server doesn't support byte ranges and retry from scratch [GH-4479]
    • core: line numbers show properly in Vagrantfile syntax errors on Windows [GH-6445]
    • core: catch errors setting env vars on Windows [GH-6017]
    • core: remove cached synced folders when they're removed from the Vagrantfile [GH-6567]
    • core: use case-insensitive comparison for box checksum validations [GH-6648, GH-6650]
    • commands/box: add command with ~ paths on Windows works [GH-5747]
    • commands/box: the update command supports CA settings [GH-4473]
    • commands/box: removing all versions and providers of a box will properly clean all directories in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes [GH-3570]
    • commands/box: outdated global won't halt on metadata download failure [GH-6453]
    • commands/login: respect environment variables in vagrant login command [GH-6590, GH-6422]
    • commands/package: when re-packaging a packaged box, preserve the generated SSH key [GH-5780]
    • commands/plugin: retry plugin install automatically a few times to avoid network issues [GH-6097]
    • commands/rdp: prefer xfreerdp if it is available on Linux [GH-6475]
    • commands/up: the --provision-with flag works with provisioner names [GH-5981]
    • communicator/ssh: fix potential crash case with PTY [GH-6225]
    • communicator/ssh: escape IdentityFile path [GH-6428, GH-6589]
    • communicator/winrm: respect boot_timeout setting [GH-6229]
    • communicator/winrm: execute scheduled tasks immediately on Windows XP since elevation isn't required [GH-6195]
    • communicator/winrm: Decouple default port forwarding rules for "winrm" and "winrm-ssl" [GH-6581]
    • communicator/winrm: Hide progress bars from PowerShell v5 [GH-6309]
    • guests/arch: enable network device after setting it up [GH-5737]
    • guests/darwin: advanced networking works with more NICs [GH-6386]
    • guests/debian: graceful shutdown works properly with newer releases [GH-5986]
    • guests/fedora: Preserve localhost entry when changing hostname [GH-6203]
    • guests/fedora: Use dnf if it is available [GH-6288]
    • guests/linux: when replacing a public SSH key, use POSIX-compliant sed flags [GH-6565]
    • guests/suse: DHCP network interfaces properly configured [GH-6502]
    • hosts/slackware: Better detection of NFS [GH-6367]
    • providers/hyper-v: support generation 2 VMs [GH-6372]
    • providers/hyper-v: support VMs with more than one NIC [GH-4346]
    • providers/hyper-v: check if user is in the Hyper-V admin group if they're not a Windows admin [GH-6662]
    • providers/virtualbox: ignore "Unknown" status bridge interfaces [GH-6061]
    • providers/virtualbox: only fix ipv6 interfaces that are in use [GH-6586, GH-6552]
    • provisioners/ansible: use quotes for the ansible_ssh_private_key_file value in the generated inventory [GH-6209]
    • provisioners/ansible: use quotes when passing the private key files via OpenSSH -i command line arguments [GH-6671]
    • provisioners/ansible: don't show the ansible-playbook command when verbose option is an empty string
    • provisioners/chef: fix nodes_path for Chef Zero [GH-6025, GH-6049]
    • provisioners/chef: do not error when the node_name is unset [GH-6005, GH-6064, GH-6541]
    • provisioners/chef: only force the formatter on Chef 11 or higher [GH-6278, GH-6556]
    • provisioners/chef: require nodes_path to be set for Chef Zero [GH-6110, GH-6559]
    • provisioners/puppet: apply provisioner uses correct default manifests with environments. [GH-5987]
    • provisioners/puppet: remove broken backticks [GH-6404]
    • provisioners/puppet: find Puppet binary properly on Windows [GH-6259]
    • provisioners/puppet-server: works with Puppet Collection 1 [GH-6389]
    • provisioners/salt: call correct executables on Windows [GH-5999]
    • provisioners/salt: log level and colorize works for masterless [GH-6474]
    • push/local-exec: use subprocess on windows when fork does not exist [GH-5307, GH-6563]
    • push/heroku: use current branch [GH-6554]
    • synced_folders/rsync: on Windows, replace all paths with Cygwin paths since all rsync implementations require this [GH-6160]
    • synced_folders/smb: use credentials files to allow for more characters in password [GH-4230]

    🔌 PLUGIN AUTHOR CHANGES:

    • installer: Upgrade to Ruby 2.2.3