Packer v1.14.2

1.14.2 (September 9, 2025)

✨ Features

• HCP Certificate Authentication Support – by @JenGoldstrich (#13435)
  Adds support for the HCP_CRED_FILE environment variable and removes restrictions on HCP_CLIENT_ID and HCP_CLIENT_SECRET when connecting builds to an HCP Packer registry.

• Upgrade Node.js to v22 – by @LeahMarieBush (#13450)
  Updates the Node.js version used for Packer website builds.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(winrm): catch cmd err from winrm – by @anurag5sh in (#298)
  Improved reliability by catching WinRM remote shell failures during provisioning
• PowerShell wrapper cleanup – by @kp2099 (#13451)
  Removed the unused $result variable from the wrapper string.
• fix tests for shell and shell-local – by @kp2099 in (#300)
  Acceptance test fixes for shell and shell-local

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🛠 Improvements

• Added workflow-dispatch and set PACKER_ACC_BUILDERS for acceptance tests – by @kp2099 (#13444)
• Improved spacing in hcl2template error messages – by @sbraz (#13453)
• Added callouts for HashiCorp-maintained plugins moving to releases.hashicorp.com – by @BrianMMcClain (#13438)

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📦 Dependencies

• Bump github.com/ulikunitz/xz from 0.5.10 → 0.5.14 – by @dependabot (#13459)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.13.0 → 0.27.0 – by @dependabot (#13460)
• Bump github.com/ulikunitz/xz from 0.5.10 → 0.5.15 – by @kp2099 (#13461)
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk from 0.6.2 → 0.6.3 – by @kp2099 (#13462)

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👩‍💻 New Contributors

• @LeahMarieBush made their first contribution in #13450 🎉