CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

udocker (1.3.17) - 2024-08-28

• Update docker tools url location

udocker (1.3.16) - 2024-04-09

• Fix unit tests: remove called_with and called_once_with as invalid assertion introduced in python 3.12
• This version is the same as 1.3.14

udocker (1.3.14) - 2024-04-04

• Support for runsc as engine for execution mode R1: closes #414
• New option login --password-stdin: closes #168
• New option run --pull=reuse to be used with --name= and with and image name as argument. Instead of always pulling and creating a new container --pull=reuse allows to execute an existing container and only pull+create if the container does not exist
• New option run --httpproxy=<proxy>: closes #418
• Improve handling of registry names in login: closes #168
• Improve handling of image names in pull: closes #168
• Improve handling of mount point removal: closes #406, #399
• Support for AWS ECR registries: closes #168
• Remove pycurl dependency on unit tests
• Documentation fixes

udocker (1.3.13) - 2024-02-05

• udocker improve binary executables selection
• udocker fix fakechroot parsing of so, exec_path and add cmd subst
• udocker implement minor pylint compliance improvements
• udocker mode Pn make links2symlinks disabled by default in config: closes #412
• New udockertools 1.2.11 tarball
• udockertools mode Fn glibc fix dladdr(), dlopen(), dlmopen(), dl_iterate_phdr()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc add dladdr1()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc add execvpe(), execveat()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc add getauxval()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc add scandirat(), scandirat64()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc change stat64(), lstat64(), stat()
• udockertools mode Fn glibc add narrowing of program_invocation_name
• udockertools mode Fn glibc improve command substitution
• udockertools mode Fn musl fix dladdr(), dlopen(), dlmopen(), dl_iterate_phdr()
• udockertools mode Fn musl execvpe()
• udockertools mode Fn musl improve command substitution
• udockertools mode Fn added support for Alpine 3.19 (x86_64)
• udockertools mode Fn added support for Fedora 39 (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le)
• udockertools mode Rn include runc 1.1.12

udocker (1.3.12) - 2023-11-02

• Fix unit tests, no modifications w.r.t. 1.3.11

udocker (1.3.11) - 2023-10-23

• Add support for hard link to symbolic link conversion in Pn modes as hard links cannot be created by unprivileged users: partially addresses #388
• Check of availability of network extensions for port mapping and netcoop in Pn modes and only use them if supported by the proot engine being invoked.
• Improve image metadata generated by udocker on import: closes #398

udocker (1.3.10) - 2023-07-03

• Improved handling of container platform information
• Added support for QEMU on Pn modes enabling execution of containers with architectures different than the host
• Selection of executable for Sn mode now defaults to apptainer and in second place to singularity
• The new command manifest inspect allows display of image manifests therefore enabling access to the catalogue of platforms supported by a given image
• The new command tag enables changing the name of an existing image
• New option pull --platform=os/architecture enables pulling of images of a given architecture possibly different from the host
• New option run --platform=os/architecture enables pull and run of images of a given architecture possibly different from the host
• New option import --platform=os/architecture enables to specify an architecture for the image
• New option ps -p enables list of the architectures of containers
• New option images -p enables list of the architectures of containers
• Build udockertools 1.2.10 and set it as default
• The udockertools support for Fn now includes Ubuntu 23:04, Fedora 38, Alpine 3.17 and 3.18.
• Experimental support for native Fn execution on arm64 for Fedora 36, Fedora 37, Fedora 38, CentOS 7, AlmaLinux 8, AlmaLinux 9 and Ubuntu 22, Ubuntu 20, Ubuntu 18 and similar.
• Experimental support for native Fn execution on ppc64le for CentOS 7, AlmaLinux 8, AlmaLinux 9, Ubuntu 22, Ubuntu 20, Ubuntu 18 and similar.
• Experimental support for runc in arm64 and ppc64le
• Updated version of Pn engines for x86, x86_64, arm64: addresses #393

udocker (1.3.9) - 2023-06-07

• Add support to access non-config metadata from containers
• Added support for multiplatform manifests and indices: closes #392, #355

udocker (1.3.8) - 2023-03-24

• Build udockertools 1.2.9 and set it as default
• Add Fn support for Ubuntu:22
• Remove files to be installed
• Set Fn preference to use runc

udocker (1.3.7) - 2023-01-24

• Remove deprecated unit tests. udocker is the same as version 1.3.6

udocker (1.3.6) - 2023-01-19

• Re-implement udocker namespace: closes #380
• Login fails all the time: closes #379
• Ignore image loading if already exists: closes #378

udocker (1.3.5) - 2022-10-21

• Fix python backwards compatibility issues: closes #374
• Fix incorrectly reported errors by image verification
• Fix image search returning empty results
• Fix issue with logical links in the udocker executable path
• Add check to verify if container name exists before creation or cloning
• Add --force option to create and clone to allow creation of container even if the intended name given by --name exists
• Prevent closing of file descriptors upon engine invocation improves PMI process management interface interoperability
• Fix issues in import and export while using pipes.
• Fix image name parsing where "library" component is missing: closes #359

udocker (1.3.4) - 2022-08-26

• Fix 2 unit tests

udocker (1.3.3) - 2022-08-23

• Image list does not truncate long names: closes #349
• Fix conditional warning in verify image
• Fix and improve udocker high level tests

udocker (1.3.2) - 2022-08-17

• Fix missing f (format) for string
• Fix bugs with dict .items()
• Solving several pylint issues
• Remove use2to3: closes #358

udocker (1.3.1) - 2021-06-24

• Add --entrypoint to run --help
• Set docker hub registry registry-1.docker.io
• Fix repository name in search --list-tags
• Improve tests: udocker_test.sh and udocker_test-run.sh
• Documentation revision and improvements
• Add licenses and licenses notice to documentation
• Add test instructions
• Issues with --allow-root in Python 3.8
• Add security policy SECURITY.md
• Remove old Python 2 tests
• Fix configuration hierarchy, configuration files
• Update documentation: README, user and install manuals
• Fix sqa and config

udocker (1.3.0) - 2021-06-05

• Prepare to move the stable code for Python 3 and Python 2 >= 2.6 to master
• Installation procedure changed since 1.1.x series see the installation_manual
• Improve user and installation documentation
• Extract documentation upon installation
• Add codemeta.json, metadata for the software
• Add support for faccessat2() in Pn and Fn execution modes
• Fix support for newfstatat() in Pn execution modes
• Add Fn libraries for Fedora 34 and Ubuntu 21.04
• Remove broken links in FileUtil.remove()
• Update minimum udocker tools tarball to 1.2.8
• Cmd and entrypoint metadata and arguments processing changed to mimic docker
• Improve removal of files and links in install and filebind restore
• Add follow location option to GetURL()
• Implement use of --entrypoint=<cmd> to force execution of command: closes #306
• Implement use of --entrypoint="" to bypass entrypoint in metadata: closes #306

udocker (1.2.9) - 2021-05-24

• Method Unshare.unshare os.strerror() takes one argument: closes #254
• Add unit test for #254
• Method chown udocker.utils.fileutil FileUtil: closes #276
• Several fixes of unit tests and pylint
• Fix confusion between exit code 0 and inferred False
• Dereference on safe_prefixes
• untar exclude dev
• Fix rmi for referenced layers
• Set default for PROOT_TMP_DIR
• sysdir mountpoint not found and set tmpdir
• Update installation instructions
• Improve oskernel_isgreater()
• Improve osinfo()
• Fix repository login/logout
• Improve keystore logic
• Fix pull /v2

udocker (1.2.8b2) - 2021-05-04

• Fix Rn modes to enable containers execution from readonly dirs
• Documentation centralized installation and readonly setups
• Fix handling of dockerhub repository names in /v2
• Improve documentation and align with 1.1.8b2
• Add credits
• Fix delete of paths with symlinks: closes #267, #265
• Fix issues with login credentials: closes #310
• Fix pull images from docker hub in Termux: closes #307
• Fix issues on running udocker in googlecolab: closes #286
• Fix execution with Pn modes in alternate /tmp: closes #284
• Add conditional delay-directory-restore to untar layers
• Add exclude of whiteouts on layer untar
• Add --nobanner to udocker run

udocker (1.2.7) - 2021-01-26

• Major restructuring of the code
• Major restructuring of the unit tests
• Porting to Python 3, still supports python 2.7
• All fixes up to previous 1.1.7 version have been applied
• Added scripts tests udocker: utils/udocker_test.sh utils/udocker_test-run.sh

udocker (1.1.8) - 2021-06-16

• Last 1.1.x release
• Fix Rn modes to enable containers execution from readonly dirs
• Documentation centralized installation and readonly setups

udocker (1.1.7) - 2021-02-21

• Fix P1 when Linux 4.8.0 SECCOMP is backported, affects newer CentOS 7: closes #282
• Check for file ownership on remove wrongly follows symlinks: closes #266, #267
• udocker unexpectedly uses P1 exec mode instead of P2: closes #274
• Allow passing of PROOT_TMP_DIR environment variable: closes #284

udocker (1.1.6)

• Complete fix for of ELF paths in modes Fn for "$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN": closes #255

udocker (1.1.5)

• Preliminary fix for of ELF paths in modes Fn for $ORIGIN:$ORIGIN
• Add Fn libraries for Ubuntu20, Fedora32, Fedora33
• Add Fn libraries for Alpine 3.12, 3.13

udocker (1.1.4-1) - 2020-01-10

• Fix run --location
• Fix udocker integrated help
• Fix naming of containers
• Improve parsing of image names
• Documentation improvements
• os._exit from Unshare.unshare()
• Disable FAKECHROOT_DISALLOW_ENV_CHANGES in F4 mode

udocker (1.1.4) - 2020-01-07

• Use hub.docker.com as default registry
• Search using v1 and v2 APIs
• Implement API /v2/search/repositories
• Adjust search results to screen size
• List container size with ps -s
• List container execution modes with ps -m
• Added support for nameat() and statx() in Pn and Fn modes
• Added Fn libraries for Ubuntu18, Ubuntu19, Fedora29, Fedora30, Fedora31, CentOS8
• Added Fn libraries for Alpine 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
• Added support for sha512 hashes
• Added support for opaque whiteouts
• Added search --list-tags to available tags for a given repository
• Add CLI support for image names in format host/repository:tag
• Support for fake root in Sn execution modes via --user=root
• Improve verify of loaded/pulled images
• Improve handling of mountpoints
• Added --containerauth to enable direct use of the container passwd and group
• Added support for file mount bindings in singularity
• Added UDOCKER_USE_PROOT_EXECUTABLE env var to select proot location
• Added UDOCKER_USE_RUNC_EXECUTABLE env var to select runc location
• Added UDOCKER_USE_SINGULARITY_EXECUTABLE env var to select singularity
• Added UDOCKER_DEFAULT_EXECUTION_MODE env var to select default execution mode
• Added R2 and R3 execution modes for PRoot overlay execution in runc
• Added setup --purge for cleanup of mountpoints and files
• Added setup --fixperms to fix container file permissions
• Added run --env-file= to load file with environment variables
• Improve file and directory binding support for Singularity and runc
• Add command rename for renaming of containers
• Create processes without shell context
• Safer parsing of config files and removal of directories
• Improve installation
• Improved fix of SECCOMP accelerated mode for P1 mode
• Added loading and handling of container images in OCI format
• Fixes for udocker in ARM aarch64
• Fix processing of --dri in Sn mode: closes #241
• Improve handling of container and host authentication: addresses #239
• Fixes to address authentication and redirects in pull: closes #225, #230
• Added minimal support to load OCI images: closes #111
• Added Pn support for newer distributions: closes #192
• Improve the installation of udockertools: closes #220, #228
• Add --env-file= - to read environment variables from file: closes #212
• Prepare for pypy: closes #211
• Fixes for verification of container images: closes #209
• Fix command line processing for "-" in argument: closes #202
• Fix file protections on extraction making files u+r : closes #202, #206
• Fix comparison of kernel versions having non-integers: closes #183
• Support for both manifest V2 schema 1 and schema 2: closes #218, #225
• Further improved pathname translation in Fn modes: closes #160
• Implement save images in docker format: closes #74
• useradd and groupadd not working in containers: closes #141
• fix return code when exporting to stdin: closes #202

udocker (1.1.3) - 2018-11-01

• Support for nvidia drivers on ubuntu: closes #162
• Installation improvements: closes #166
• Fix issue on Fn mode symlink conversion: addresses #160

udocker (1.1.2) - 2018-10-29

• Improve parsing of quotes in the command line: closes #98
• Fix version command to exit with 0: closes #107
• Add kill-on-exit to proot on Pn modes
• Improve download of udocker utils
• Handle authentication headers when pulling: closes #110
• Handle of redirects when pulling
• Fix registries table
• Support search quay.io
• Fix auth header when no standard Docker registry is used
• Add registry detection on image name
• Add --version option
• Force python2 as interpreter: closes #131
• Fix handling of volumes in metadata
• Handle empty metadata
• Fix http proxy functionality: closes #115
• Ignore --no-trunc and --all in the images command: closes #108
• Implement verification of layers in manifest
• Add --nvidia to support GPUs and related drivers
• Send download messages to stderr
• Enable override of curl executable
• Fix building on CentOS 6: closes #157
• Mitigation for upstream limitation in runC without tty: closes #132
• Fix detection of executable with symlinks in container: closes #118
• Updated runC to v1.0.0-rc5
• Experimental support for Alpine in Fn modes
• Improve pathname translation in Fn modes for mounted dirs: addresses #160

udocker (1.1.1) - 2017-11-24

• New execution engine using singularity
• Updated documentation with OpenMPI information and examples
• Additional unit tests
• Redirect messages to stderr
• Improved parsing of quotes in the command line: closes #87
• Allow override of the HOME environment variable
• Allow override of libfakechroot.so at the container level
• Automatic selection of libfakechroot.so from container info
• Improve automatic install
• Enable resetting prefix paths in Fn modes in remote hosts
• Do not set AF_UNIX_PATH in Fn modes when the host /tmp is a volume
• Export containers in both docker and udocker format
• Import containers docker and udocker format
• Load, import and export to/from stdin/stdout
• Clone existing containers
• Support for TCP/IP port remap in execution modes Pn
• Fix run with basenames failing: closes #89
• Allow run as root flag: closes #91

udocker (1.1.0) - 2017-09-30

• Support image names prefixed by registry similarly to docker
• Add execution engine selection logic
• Add fr execution engine based on shared library interception
• Add rc execution engine based on rootless namespaces
• Improve proot tmp files cleanup on non ext filesystems
• Improve search returning empty on Docker repositories
• Improve runC execution portability
• Add environment variable UDOCKER_KEYSTORE: closes #75
• Prevent creation of .udocker when UDOCKER_KEYSTORE is used: closes #75

udocker (1.0.4) - 2017-09-26

• Documentation fixes

udocker (1.0.3) - 2017-03-30

• Support for import Docker containers in newer metadata structure
• Improve the command line parsing
• Improve temporary file handling and removal
• Support for additional execution engines to be provided in the future
• Improved parsing of entrypoint and cmd metadata: closes #53
• Increase name alias length: closes #52
• Add support for change dir into volume directories: closes #51
• Fix deletion of files upon container import: closes #50
• Fix exporting of host environment variables to the containers: closes #48
• Change misleading behavior of import tarball from move to copy: closes #44
• Fix validation of volumes specification: closes #43

udocker (1.0.2) - 2017-02-13

• Improve download on repositories that fail authentication on /v2
• Improve run verification of binaries with recursive symbolic links
• Improve accelerated seccomp on kernels >= 4.8.0 : closes #40

udocker (1.0.1) - 2017-01-31

• Minor bugfixes
• Executable name changed from udocker.py to udocker
• Added support for login into docker repositories
• Added support for private repositories
• Added support for listing of v2 repositories catalog
• Added checksum verification for sha256 layers
• Improved download handling for v1 and v2 repositories
• Improved installation tarball structure
• Insecure flag fixed
• Address seccomp change introduced on kernels >= 4.8.0
• Utilities for packaging
• Improved verbose levels, messaging and output: closes #24, #23
• Fully implement support for registry selection --registry parameter: closes #29
• Provide support for private repositories e.g. gitlab registries: closes #30
• Provide --insecure command line parameter for SSL requests: closes #31

udocker (1.0.0) - 2016-06-06

• Initial version