Impact Score: 5/10
OpenTofu v1.7.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: opentofu · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
OpenTofu v1.7.8. Source highlight: Provider used in import is correctly identified. (#2336)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- Fix the error message when default value of a complex variable is containing a wrong type (2394)
- Changing Go version to 1.22.11 in order to fix CVE-2024-45336 and CVE-2024-45341 (#2438)
- Fix the way OpenTofu downloads a module that is sourced from a GitHub branch containing slashes in the name. (2396)
- Fix vulnerability GO-2024-2947
- Fix vulnerability GO-2024-2948
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
BUG FIXES:
- Provider used in import is correctly identified. ([#2336](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/2336))
- `plantimestamp()` now returns unknown value during validation ([#2397](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/2397))
- Syntax error in the `required_providers` block does not panic anymore, but yields "syntax error" ([2344](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/2344))
- Fix the error message when default value of a complex variable is containing a wrong type ([2394](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/2394))
- Changing Go version to 1.22.11 in order to fix [CVE-2024-45336](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-45336) and [CVE-2024-45341](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-45341) ([#2438](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/2438))
- Fix the way OpenTofu downloads a module that is sourced from a GitHub branch containing slashes in the name. ([2396](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/2396))
- Fix vulnerability [GO-2024-2947](https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2947)
- Fix vulnerability [GO-2024-2948](https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2948)
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/compare/v1.7.7...v1.7.8