apptainer-1.3.6 available in epel & fedora testing

[Dave Dykstra]

apptainer-1.3.6 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 1.3.6".
For installation details see
https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/latest/installation.html

Dave

On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:41:06AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> Apptainer 1.3.6 is now available:
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.3.6
>
> This is a bug fix affecting sandbox containers on GPFS. Please 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 1.3.6 Release Notes:
>
> - Avoid using kernel overlayfs when the lower layer is a sandbox on an
> incompatible filesystem type such as GPFS or Lustre. For those cases
> use fuse-overlayfs instead. This fixes a regression introduced in
> 1.3.0. The regression didn't much impact Lustre because kernel
> overlayfs refused to try to use it and Apptainer proceeded to use
> fuse-overlayfs anyway, but with GPFS the kernel overlayfs allowed
> mounting but returned stale file handle errors.
>
> Dave