Buildah version 1.14.0 Release Announcement

We’re pleased to announce the release of Buildah version 1.14.0 which is now available from GitHub for any Linux distro. We are shipping this release on Fedora, RHEL 8, 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. This release features a new containers.conf file, added options for the bud, commit, push and pull commands, and many bug fixes. Notable enhancements:

• Containers.conf support. Containers.conf is a way to modify the default ways containers run on the system. The /usr/share/containers/containers.conf and /etc/containers/containers.conf files can now be used by Buildah to attain configuration options. In the near future Podman, Skopeo and other projects in the Containers repository will make use of these files too.
• A number of performance improvements were made to the bud command, especially so when a .dockerignore file was in use.
• The bud command now accepts --os and --arch as options.
• A --sign-by option has been added to the bud, commit and push commands.
• A --remove-signatures option has been added to the pull and/push commands.

This release comprises changes made for v1.13.1, v1.13.2 and v1.14.0.

Release Changes

Changes for v1.14.0

• The manifest push now has a --format option.
• The correct values of docker schema 1 manifests are now shown.
• Better error handling for multiple errors from seccomp have been added.
• The storage.conf file has been tweaked to use fuse-overlayfs specific mount options.
• The build has been fixed to better handle 32bit platforms.
• The bud command now accepts --os and --arch as options. See the buildah bud man page for more details.
• Environment variables were not always resolved appropriately in COPY commands in Dockerfiles, this has been corrected.
• A --sign-by option has been added to the bud, commit and push commands. See the man pages for details.
• A --remove-signatures option has been added to the pull andpush commands. See the man pages for details.
• Support was added for /etc/containers/containers.conf when running as root, and /usr/share/containers/containers.conf when running as a rootless user.
• Added codespell support to the builds to catch spelling errors.
• A number of internal changes were made to tar file handling in the build process to close files at an appropriate time and to not digest files that the process would otherwise ignore.
• A number of changes were made to speed up the bud command when .dockerignore was in use.
• Set the HOME environment variable to /root on chroot-isolation by default.
• When the buildah bud --volume command runs, it now runs in TMPDIR rather than in the source directory.
• The format of images names returned from the from command are now more consistent.
• The bud command has been made quiet again when the --quiet option is used.
• The buildah images output is more consistent when the --format option is used.
• Bump to v1.14.0-dev.

Overall Miscellaneous Changes

• Documentation
  • Clarifications were made to some of the os/architecture documentation.
  • The install instructions for Debian, Raspbian and Ubuntu were updated.
  • A number of references to containers-*.5 were fixed within the documentation.
• Vendored:
  • Bump github.com/mtrmac/gpgme v0.1.2
  • Bump github.com/containers/common to v0.1.4
  • Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0
  • vendor github.com/containers/image/v5@v5.2.0
  • Bump github.com/opencontainers/selinux from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
  • Bump github.com/containers/common from 0.0.5 to 0.0.7
  • Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo from 1.10.3 to 1.11.0
  • Bump github.com/pkg/errors from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
• Tests:
  • The info test now deals with random key order.
  • The copy tests now makes sure we detect failures due to missing a source.
  • A unit test for manifests was corrected.
• 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.

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