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v1.12.0-beta2

Breaking Changes
📦 terraform
⚠ 1 breaking✨ 9 features🐛 5 fixes🔧 5 symbols

Summary

Terraform 1.12.0-beta2 introduces parallel execution options and short-circuiting operators, while dropping support for Linux kernels older than 3.2.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • Discontinued support for Linux kernel versions older than 3.2. To fix, ensure the host operating system is running Linux kernel 3.2 or later.

Migration Steps

  1. Verify Linux kernel version is 3.2 or higher before upgrading.
  2. Update any automation scripts using 'terraform test' if you wish to utilize the new -parallelism flag.

✨ New Features

  • Added -parallelism=n option to 'terraform test' to control parallel operations in plan/apply.
  • Logical binary operators now support short-circuiting.
  • Added ability to annotate 'terraform test' runs for parallel execution.
  • Allowed 'terraform init' to run when tests are present even if no configuration files are in the root directory.
  • Updated 'terraform test' to continue execution when an expected failure is not encountered.
  • Introduced detailed diagnostic objects for failed test run assertions.
  • Added support for standard environment variables in the OSS backend to match provider settings.
  • Improved UI Hook elapsed time display to use mm:ss format.
  • Updated 'Terraform Cloud agent' terminology to 'HCP Terraform Agent' in error messages.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where refreshed state was not used in the plan for orphaned resource instances.
  • Fixed malformed version error when remote backends read workspaces with version constraints.
  • Fixed erroneous plan changes caused by sensitive attribute ordering in state format.
  • Prevented duplicate attribute-associated diagnostics like 'Available Write-only Attribute Alternative'.
  • Restricted for_each expressions in import blocks from referencing the import target.

🔧 Affected Symbols

terraform testterraform initbackend/ossimportfor_each