apptainer-1.3.5 available in EPEL and Fedora testing

[Dave Dykstra]

apptainer-1.3.4 is now available in the epel-testing repository and the Fedora
updates-testing repository. Please test it if you can; if no significant
problems are found it should be promoted to the stable repositories in about a
week. It can also be installed with "tools/install-unprivileged.sh -v 1.3.5".
For installation details see
https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/latest/installation.html

Dave

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:36:22PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> Apptainer 1.3.5 is now available:
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.3.5
>
> This is a bug fix and minor improvement release. Please read the release
> notes, build and test it in your environment and report problems to
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/issues
>
> Questions can be raised at dis...@apptainer.org or on the Apptainer
> #general Slack channel.
>
> Apptainer 1.3.5 Release Notes:
>
> - Fix a regression introduced in 1.3.4 that overwrote existing
> standard /.singularity.d files such as runscript in container images
> even if they had been modified.
> - Skip attempting to bind inaccessible mount points when handling the
> mount hostfs = yes configuration option.
> - Support parsing nested variables defined inside %arguments section
> of definition files.
> - Ignore invalid environment variables when pulling oci/docker
> containers.
>
> Dave