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Packer's Amazon plugin learns to survive an SSM reboot

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hariom-hashicorp hashicorp-copywrite[bot] Taru Garg
3 people shipped this
hariom-hashicorp @hariom-hashicorp 3 cited hashicorp-copywrite[bot] @hashicorp-copywrite[bot] 1 cited Taru Garg @taru-garg-2000

The packer-plugin-amazon gains an opt-in that stops SSM-tunneled builds from hanging on a dead session after the instance reboots, alongside a Go toolchain refresh and routine compliance headers.

fix(ssm): add opt-in session restart after instance reboot hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon

by hariom-hashicorp

AWS does not resume a Session Manager port forwarding session after an instance reboot, and session-manager-plugin does not always exit when its tunnel dies, so Packer would sit on a dead tunnel until the next provisioner timed out. The new session_manager_reconnect_on_reboot option (default false) polls ssm:GetConnectionStatus every 5 seconds and starts a fresh session once the SSM agent repor...

fix(ssm): add opt-in session restart after instance reboot (#719) hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon

by Hari

The commit lands the reconnect logic together with updated documentation for session_manager_reconnect_on_reboot, so the flag and its behavior ship as one piece.

chore: updated go version and packages hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon

by hariom-hashicorp

A dependency and Go version bump across the plugin; no behavior change stated in the description.

[COMPLIANCE] Add/Update Copyright Headers hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon

by hashicorp-copywrite[bot]

The long tail is housekeeping: copyright header updates across the repository.

$ ls hashicorp/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Consul provider patches two Go CVEs, adds 2.23.0 upgrade gate the month in review Consul patches four CVEs as Go bumps sweep repos
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Quick answers

What shipped in HashiCorp on October 26, 2026?
The packer-plugin-amazon gains an opt-in that stops SSM-tunneled builds from hanging on a dead session after the instance reboots, alongside a Go toolchain refresh and routine compliance headers. In total, 4 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to HashiCorp on October 26, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including hariom-hashicorp, Taru Garg, and hashicorp-copywrite[bot].
What were the notable HashiCorp updates?
fix(ssm): add opt-in session restart after instance reboot, fix(ssm): add opt-in session restart after instance reboot (#719), and chore: updated go version and packages.
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$ log @hashicorp --recent

A copyright sweep is the whole day 2 shipped HashiCorp: no material update 2 shipped Application Design Center lands, workload identity pools grow two fields 46 shipped Consul CI breaks on jq 1.8 as Ubuntu 26.04 runners arrive 31 shipped

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Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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