Get ready for OpenTofu 1.8.0-beta1

Hey there, OpenTofu community! We've been working hard to refine the 1.8.0-alpha1 with your feedback! A few rough edges have been polished and a few new features have been added.

If you have a non-production setup that you would be willing to test any of the new features on, please give it a try and give us feedback using a GitHub issue, even if it's just telling us that everything went well.

This blog post will go over how to download the new preview release and expand on the features presented in the 1.8.0-alpha1 blog post.

The beta release is available exclusively from the GitHub Releases page. Please select the appropriate file for your platform. Here are some quick links:

For the releases above, please unpack the archive and you should find the tofu binary inside. You can also use the standalone installer to download the release with signature verification.

Building on the existing ability to override specific data sources, resources, and module calls, tofu test now supports mocking entire provider definitions. This new feature allows you to automatically generate mock values for resources and data sources on a per-provider basis. As an example, consider the following code that spins up an m6i.2xlarge instance on AWS:

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