Call for testing: The Juju Terraform provider v1.3.0-rc1

[alesstimec]

The Juju team is happy to announce that the Juju Terraform provider v1.3.0-rc1 is released on 18 February 2026!

This release candidate has been pushed to the HashiCorp repository. For testing update your provider configuration to:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    juju = {
      source = "juju/juju"
      version = "1.3.0-rc1"
    }
  }
}

NEW FEATURES

This release introduces a new feature to the Juju Terraform provider: Juju controller management. Read more about this new feature in our documentation.

LINKS:

GitHub repo

NOTES:

• This release requires Juju controller version 2.9.49 or higher Juju.
• If using JAAS, this release requires Juju controller version 3.6.5 or higher.
• This release uses Juju client api code from the Juju 3.6.11 release.

ENHANCEMENTS

• Add the controller_mode flag to the provider configuration by @SimoneDutto in #993
• Introduce the juju_controller resource by @alesstimec in #996
• Implement controller bootstrap by @kian99 in #1015
• Implement controller config read/update by @kian99 in #1017
• Add a lock around filestore methods for concurrent bootstrap by @SimoneDutto in #1032
• Add controller destroy support by @luci1900 in #1035
• Add controller import support by @SimoneDutto in #1049
• Make juju_binary required and document snap confinement by @SimoneDutto in #1054
• Merge controller management changes by @SimoneDutto in #1064
• Rearrange the bootstrap command runner by @luci1900 in #1030

BUG FIXES

• Fix controller_mode provider config for CLI usage by @SimoneDutto in #1026
• Replace Juju prefix version match with parsing by @luci1900 in #1037
• Fix the fuzzy matching bug of #1038 by @ale8k in #1046
• Grant access to secret when app does not exist by @ale8k in #1050
• Remove sensitive property from the juju_ssh_key payload attribute by @alesstimec in #1067
• Fix an identity wipe when require-replace failed destruction by @SimoneDutto in #1071
• Surface error in WaitForAppsAvailable by @SimoneDutto in #1041

DOCUMENTATION

• Add metadata by @tmihoc in #1031
• Expand the how-to on controller management by @kian99 in #1033
• Fix juju_kubernetes_cloud docs by @alesstimec in #1045
• RTD fix for juju-kubernetes-cloud by @alesstimec in #1047
• Add documentation for importing controllers by @SimoneDutto in #1055
• Multi-step create controller and use it by @SimoneDutto in #1070

CI & MAINTENANCE

• Acceptance tests for bootstrapping a controller on LXD and MicroK8s by @SimoneDutto in #1025
• Acceptance tests for controller config by @kian99 in #1028
• Merge main into feature branch by @SimoneDutto in #1036
• Update golangci-lint to version 2 and Go to 1.26 by @SimoneDutto in #1043
• Re-add skipped tests by @kian99 in #1058

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