Singularity 3.8.0 available in EPEL and Fedora testing

[Dave Dykstra]

singularity-3.8.0 is now available in the EPEL epel-testing and Fedora
updates-testing repositories. Please test and post Karma at
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=singularity

Dave

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:14:01AM -0700, Krishna Muriki wrote:
> Singularity 3.8.0 is now available
>
> https://github.com/hpcng/singularity/releases/tag/v3.8.0
> We are pleased to announce the release of Singularity 3.8.0. This is a new
> version of Singularity with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements
> detailed below. Please read the release notes below carefully. As always,
> please report any bugs to: https://github.com/hpcng/singularity/issues/new
>
> If you think that you've discovered a security vulnerability please report
> it to singularit...@hpcng.org.
>
> Changed defaults/ behaviours
>
> Go module was renamed from github.com/sylabs/singularity to
> github.com/hpcng/singularity
>
> New features / functionalities
>
> A new overlay command allows creation and addition of writable overlays.
>
> Administrators can allow named users/groups to use specific CNI network
> configurations. Managed by directives in singularity.conf.
>
> The build command now honors --nv, --rocm, and --bind flags, permitting
> builds that require GPU access or files bound in from the host.
>
> A library service hostname can be specified as the first component of a
> library:// URL.
>
> Singularity is now relocatable for unprivileged installations only.
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> Respect http proxy server environment variables in key operations.
>
> When pushing SIF images to oras:// endpoints, work around Harbor &
> GitLab failure to accept the SifConfigMediaType.
>
> Avoid a setfsuid compilation warning on some gcc versions.
> - Fix a crash when silent/quiet log levels used on pulls from shub://
> and http(s):// URIs.
>
> - Wait for dm device to appear when mounting an encrypted container
> rootfs.
> - Accommodate ppc64le pageSize in TestCgroups and disable -race.
> - Fix Debian packaging.
>
> Testing/Development
>
> make test runs limited unit and integration tests that will not require
> docker hub credentials.
>
> make testall runs the full unit/integration/e2e test suite that requires
> docker credentials to be set with E2E_DOCKER_USERNAME and
> E2E_DOCKER_PASSWORD environment variables.