Apptainer 1.4.5-2 in EPEL/Fedora testing

['Dave Dykstra' via announce]

Someone reported that the apptainer-1.4.4 from EPEL did not fix the problem of unwritable overlay files like it was announced to do. That turned out to be a bug in only the EPEL/Fedora build, which has been fixed in apptainer-1.4.5-2. That is now available in epel-testing and Fedora updates-testing and should be promoted to stable in about a week if no more problems are found.

Dave

On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 12:40:06PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> Apptainer security release 1.4.5 is now available. It resolves a moderate severity CVE with the --security option. Thanks to Sylabs who discovered the problem and disclosed it to us for a coordinated release. It also fixes a problem with signals when directly running interactive programs that accept commands.
>
> Complete details are in the release announcement at
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.4.5
>
> The new version is also available now in the Ubuntu PPA. It should be in epel-testing and Fedora updates-testing tomorrow, and if no problems are found, in epel and Fedora updates repositories in about a week.
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> Please report any problems to https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/issues.
>
> Dave