apptainer-1.4.2 available in epel and fedora updates

['Dave Dykstra' via announce]

apptainer-1.4.2 is now available in epel8 & epel9 and fedora 41 & 42 updates.

I realized late that the build I had been doing for epel10 was actually only applying to CentOS Stream 10 and not RHEL/Rocky/Alma 10, so that build is now in the epel10.0 epel-testing repository and should get promoted to that branch's epel repository later this week. That branch's epel repository is currently still at apptainer-1.3.6 and apparently nobody else noticed it is behind.

Dave

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 10:17:36PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> apptainer-1.4.2 is now available in the epel-testing dnf repository and the Fedora updates-testing dnf repository. Please test it if you can and report problems you find. 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 1.4.2'. For installation details see
> https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/latest/installation.html
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 12:00:52PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Announcing Apptainer 1.4.2
> >
> > Apptainer 1.4.2 is now available, fixing a few bugs. The most significant fix is restoring the functionality of looking up registry mirrors in system configuration files. Also, separate debian packages for Debian 13 are now in the release assets. Complete details are in the release announcement at
> > https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.4.2
> >
> > Please report any problems to https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/issues.
> >
> > Dave