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Buildah version 1.11.0 Release Announcement

We’re pleased to announce the release of Buildah version 1.11.0 which is now available from GitHub for any Linux distro. We are shipping this release on Fedora, RHEL 8, RHEL 7, CentOS, openSUSE and Ubuntu in the near future. Also container images will be available at https://quay.io/repository/buildah/stable.

The Buildah project has continued to grow over the past several weeks, welcoming several new contributors to the mix. Notable enhancements: * Cgroups v2 is now supported. (Fedora 31 default) * The --debug option has been changed to --log-level for all commands.
* Error reporting for the run command has been improved.

This release comprises changes made for v1.11.0.

The major highlights of this release are:

Cgroups v2 is now supported. This will allow cgroups to be used in rootless mode.
The --debug option has been changed to --log-level for all commands. This option now takes debug, info, warn or error as an argument, defaulting to error.
The run command now reports back the error received from the container rather than ‘1’.
The names of images pulled from local directories are now prefixed with ‘localhost’ rather than ‘docker.io’.
The buildah bud command can now be called without arguments.
A number of bugs and performance improvements were created.

Release Changes

Changes for v1.11.0

The push, pull and commit commands now use the $BUILD_REGISTRY_SOURCES environment variable as documented.
Add a --log-level command line option to all commands for better log output and deprecate the --debug option.
Added support for cgroupsV2 allowing cgroups to be used in rootless mode.
Correctly detect ExitError values from the container when the run command is used. Prior all errors were set to ‘1’ rather than the error raised by the command (Fixes https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/1813)
Disabled empty logrus timestamps to reduce logger noise.
Updated the ‘shebangs’ in a number of shell scripts to make them more portable across different Linux distributions.
The names of images pulled from a local directory such as dir: or oci were always prefixed with docker.io, they are now instead prefixed with localhost.
Added the --digestfile option to the push commands. When used, the manifest id of the image that was pushed is recorded in the specified file. Also added the Successfully pushed … ending line as a debug statement.
Use digests of the added content in history entries that we create for the ADD and COPY commands.
Fixed a possible runtime panic in the bud command.
Add further security-related checks in the validation code of a volume.
When hard links were part of a copy operation, the files were sometimes copied multiple times unnecessarily, this has been corrected.
The performance of symlink copying operations has been improved.
Allow buildah bud to be called without arguments.
A build failure has been corrected when successive buildah bud --layers commands were invoked and the first one used the --target option and the second command did not.
A bug has been fixed when usernamespaces were always being created in rootless mode even if they had not been configured prior to execution as they should have been.
Handling of /dev/null masked devices has been changed to avoid an selinux issue.
Bumped the upstream version to v1.12.0-dev.

Overall Miscellaneous Changes

Documentation changes:
Update README.md to mention that Podman uses Buildah’s API.
Touched up go mod instructions in install.md.
Update bud/from help to contain indicator for --dns=none
Vendored:
Vendor github.com/openshift/api v3.9.1-0.
Vendor Storage v1.13.2.
Tests:
Add –signature-policy option to several buildah bud tests.
Add bud ‘without arguments’ integration tests.
The VM images used by the Cirrus test system were updated.
Plus a number of smaller fixes.

Try it Out.

If you haven’t yet, install Buildah from one of the Linux repos or GitHub and give it a spin. We’re betting you’ll find it’s an easy and quick way to build containers in your environment without a daemon being involved!

For those of you who contributed to this release, thank you very much for your contributions! If you haven’t joined our community yet, don’t wait any longer! Come join us on GitHub, where Open Source communities live.