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OpenTofu v1.8.9stable Released Apr 24, 2025
Impact Score: 5/10

OpenTofu v1.8.9 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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🔧 Bug Fixes 4
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

OpenTofu v1.8.9. Source highlight: Provider used in import is correctly identified. (#2336)

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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)

  • Fix the error message when default value of a complex variable is containing a wrong type (2394)
  • Fix the way OpenTofu downloads a module that is sourced from a GitHub branch containing slashes in the name. (2396)
  • Changing Go version to 1.22.11 in order to fix CVE-2024-45336 and CVE-2024-45341 (#2438)
  • Changing Go version to 1.22.12 in order to fix CVE-2025-22866 and CVE-2024-45341 (#2438)
📄 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)) - 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)) - 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)) - Changing Go version to 1.22.12 in order to fix [CVE-2025-22866](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-22866) and [CVE-2024-45341](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-45341) ([#2438](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/2438)) **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/compare/v1.8.8...v1.8.9
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