Announcing Apptainer 1.5.0-rc.1

['Dave Dykstra' via announce]

The first release candidate of Apptainer 1.5.0 is now (finally) available! There are many new features along with some slightly changed behaviors and some bug fixes. Some of the highlights 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-rc.1

Please test it and if you see any problems, submit github issues. The full 1.5.0 release will probably be in a few weeks, after the documentation is updated.

Dave

['Dave Dykstra' via announce]

Apptainer-1.5.0-rc.1 packages are now available in epel-testing and Fedora updates-testing dnf repositories. Please test and report any problems found. Since this is a release candidate, it will not be promoted to stable.

Dave