New aswf-docker VFX Platform images for 2024 / 2025 / 2026 (pre-release)

[Jean-Francois Panisset]

There is a new set of aswf-docker CI build images available: 2024.3, 2025.2 and 2026.0 which can be used to simplify building Linux x86_64 software in a VFX Platform compliant environment and are leveraged by the CI setups of most ASWF projects.

The 2026.0 images should be considered "pre-release" since 4 of the main projects haven't released their 2026 versions yet:

OpenEXR 3.4.x (2026.0 images have 3.4-apha)
OCIO 2.5.x (2026.0 images have 2.4.2)
OpenSubdiv 3.7.x (2026.0 images have 3.6.1)
OpenVDB 13.x (2026.0 images have 12.0.1)

Although incomplete, these 2026 images should allow projects to start testing against an updated set of 2026 dependencies, and in particular with gcc 14.2.1.Some other notable changes:

- the attempt to land libraries in /usr/local/lib64 was too problematic, in these images are libraries are in installed /usr/local/lib
- new Conan packages (with dependencies) and build containers for OpenFX (ci-openfx) and rawtoaces (ci-rawtoaces)
- OCIO built with Python wrappers
- OIIO built against libraw and OpenJPEG
- Alembic includes HDF5 support
- Qt built with Harfbuzz text shaping library

More details in CHANGELOG.md

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

All feedback welcome either on this mailing list, as GitHub issues:

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues

Or on the #wg-ci channel of the ASWF Slack:

https://aswf.slack.com/

JF Panisset