apptainer-1.5.0 available in epel and fedora testing and Ubuntu PPA

['Dave Dykstra' via announce]

apptainer-1.5.0 is now available in the epel-testing dnf repository and
the Fedora updates-testing dnf repository. If no problems are found it
will be promoted to the stable repositories in about a week. It is also
now current in the Ubuntu PPA.

It can also be installed with "tools/install-unprivileged.sh -v 1.5.0'. For
installation details see
https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/latest/installation.html

Dave

On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 10:29:46PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> Subject: Re: Announcing Apptainer 1.5.0
>
> The final release of Apptainer 1.5.0 is now available!
>
> Like the release candidates, there are many new features along with some slightly changed behaviors and some bug fixes. Some of the highlights since 1.4.x are:
> 1. Support for Container Device Interface descriptions.
> 2. Support for Intel Gaudi accelerators.
> 3. Ability to create SIF files directly from Dockerfile definitions.
> 4. Support for downloading from IPFS gateways.
> 5. New `--no-env` option to block importing selected environment variables.
> 6. New build `--data` option to build data-only SIF files.
> 7. Ability to prepend and append to container's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 8. Ability to make completely reproducible SIF images.
>
> For complete details please see
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.5.0
>
> Dave