v1.12.0

1.12.0 (May 14, 2025)

NEW FEATURES:

ENHANCEMENTS:

Terraform Test command now accepts a -parallelism=n option, which sets the number of parallel operations in a test run's plan/apply operation. (#34237)
Logical binary operators can now short-circuit (#36224)
Terraform Test: Runs can now be annotated for possible parallel execution. (#34180)
Allow terraform init when tests are present but no configuration files are directly inside the current directory (#35040)
Terraform Test: Continue subsequent test execution when an expected failure is not encountered. (#34969)
Produce detailed diagnostic objects when test run assertions fail (#34428)
backend/oss: Supports more standard environment variables to keep same with provider setting (#36581)
Improved elapsed time display in UI Hook to show minutes and seconds in mm:ss format. (#36368)
Update legacy term used in error messages. (Terraform Cloud agent => HCP Terraform Agent) (#36706)
import blocks: Now support importing a resource via a new identity attribute. This is mutually exclusive with the id attribute (#36703)

BUG FIXES:

Refreshed state was not used in the plan for orphaned resource instances (#36394)
Fixes malformed Terraform version error when the remote backend reads a remote workspace that specifies a Terraform version constraint. (#36356)
Changes to the order of sensitive attributes in the state format would erroneously indicate a plan contained changes when there were none. (#36465)
Avoid reporting duplicate attribute-associated diagnostics, such as "Available Write-only Attribute Alternative" (#36579)
for_each expressions in import blocks should not be able to reference the import target (#36801)

UPGRADE NOTES:

On Linux, Terraform now requires Linux kernel version 3.2 or later; support for previous versions has been discontinued. (#36478)

For information on prior major and minor releases, refer to their changelogs: