After some time, a much needed release! 🎉 🚀
Lots and lots of fixes, especially in how enter handles shells (this will remove future problems with escapes and so on!)
Improvmeents on Nvidia integration
Improvements on XDG_* env variables management
Remote distrobox assemble files! Keep them remote with distrobox assemble create --file https://foo.com/file.ini!
A lot of new container distros, from @ublue-os and @toolbx-images, New Fedora, Ubuntu, Alpine and @wolfi-dev wolfi-toolbox!
A lot of bug fixes and stability improvments
What's Changed
- all: ensure env variables are set and have values
- all: use registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:latest image by default, Fix #1402
- assemble: add support for remote manifest files
- assemble: ensure variables are reset correctly
- assemble: fix name detection with hyphens, Fix #1507
- assemble: fix possible empty lines, Fix #1514
- assemble: improve handling of hooks, pass around b64 encoded string to avoid unwanted evaluations
- compatibility: add missing url for ubuntu:23.04 by @sheevy in #1439
- create: better explain init/pre-init hooks
- create: ignore trailing slashes on custom homes, Fix #1575
- docs: Add kali icon by @andyspectre in #1451
- docs: Document support for alpine 3.20 containers by @Ferenc- in #1504
- docs: Fix issue with user not having permissions to write containers.conf by @nhermosilla14 in #1456
- docs: Seperate curl and wget commands by @axtloss in #1434
- docs: Update microos -> aeon/kalpa in docs by @TheRsKing in #1427
- docs: Update openSUSE and SLES compatibility guide by @alexandrevicenzi in #1489
- docs: add BlackaArch Linux compatibility, Fix #1358
- docs: add compatibility with ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-cli, Fix #1453
- docs: document an official way to detect when you're in a distrobox
- docs: document pipewire/alsa packages for ubuntu initful containers. Fix #1374
- docs: fix
subuidsspelling mistake by @yocoldle in #1431 - docs: fix link for Crystal linux. Fix #1418
- docs: fix linting
- docs: fix obsolete Chainguard Wolfi notes
- docs: point to new nixos wiki by @Mic92 in #1384
- docs: remove rhel-toolbox image from compatibility, it's now behind paywall
- docs: support for 3d acceleration in: run_libvirt_in_distrobox.md by @TheRsKing in #1426
- docs: update compatibility, add ublue toolboxes, update Alpine and Fedora versions, Fix #1501
- docs: update vscode integration docs
- enter: Fix distrobox-enter and distrobox-rm to handle containers that have environment variables shoter than 5 symbols by @senioroman4uk in #1545
- enter: Fix support for Active Directory usernames including backslashes pt. 2 by @phoppermann in #1458
- enter: fix additional flags evaluation, Fix #1541
- enter: fix docker timestamp incompatibility, Fix #1382, Fix #1424, Fix #1392
- enter: fix regression in login for initful container, Fix #1428
- enter: get rid of eval and pass arguments using set. This will avoid maniupulating args, and simplify our life. Fix #749, Fix #1461
- enter: improve positional args handling, treat enter command accordingly, improve comments explaining the black magic
- export: Actually fix XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_DATA_HOME handling by @TigerGorilla2 in #1582
- export: Fix XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_DATA_HOME handling by @e-luks in #1496
- export: ensure destpath exists, Fix #1405
- export: fix CONTAINER_ID fallback
- export: fix grep errors on list-apps
- export: improve documentation of the spec. Fix #1444
- export: simplify and cleanup code
- export: support exporting app launchers by full-path.
- extras: vscode- improve podman wrapper, add docker wrapper, fix reconnections
- fix for 1440 by @dtg01100 in #1441
- fix: init package in Gentoo Stage3 image by @xz-dev in #1455
- fix:[#1525] handle container creation failure by @jardon in #1526
- generate-entry: add 'Remove' action to entry, Fix #1433
- generate-entry: add timeout to downloads, Fix #1459
- generate-entry: fix generic icon download and setup
- generate-entry: fix linting
- generate-entry: use XDG_DATA_HOME by @Samueru-sama in #1468
- host-exec: fix arm naming, Fix #1442
- host-exec: fix host-spawn version
- host-exec: update host-spawn version
- init: fix arch locale-gen by @Boria138 in #1520
- init: Exclude repos from bind-mounting by @lunacd in #1503
- init: Fix SHELL using absolute path and disable duplicate profile inclusion by @eugenesan in #1397
- init: Generate host locales in container (fixed issue #1399) by @Boria138 in #1404
- init: add fallback values for host locale variables
- init: add iputils
- init: add iputils in setup_pacman by @intzaaa in #1576
- init: apt-get upgrade, force keeping old configs when non interactive
- init: arrange package manager to avoid conflicts when using more than one (eg: packaging containers)
- init: auto-link /usr/bin/flatpak, to better support opening links on host's browser, if those are flatpaks
- init: do not fail in "Setting up read-only mounts" if findmnt does not exist by @phoppermann in #1454
- init: ensure we have DBUS variables set for host-spawn to work in login scripts, Fix #1383
- init: fallback case where mounting /etc/localtime fails, Fix #1435
- init: fix detection of 32bit nvidia libs on suse family
- init: fix failing chpasswd on systemd-homed managed users, Fix #1423
- init: fix locale generation for minimal images
- init: fix locale generation on musl and older systems
- init: fix missing allowerasing flag for dnf
- init: fix nvidia integration mounting files from boost libs, Fix #1500
- init: fix nvidia integration, improve search of nvidia files, Fix #1500
- init: fix typo in fallback locale values
- init: fix udev clash on rootful initful systems
- init: fix void-linux failing due to runit, Fix #1380
- init: perform upgrade before setting up archlinux packages
- init: proper fix for void extraction paths. Fix #1457
- init: remove su-exec workaround for Wolfi, now that it supports proper sudo
- init: rework package managment code
- init: separate 'mount --rbind -o rslave ...' into 'mount --rbind ...'… by @timwa0669 in #1583
- rm: Fix distrobox-enter and distrobox-rm to handle containers that have environment variables shoter than 5 symbols by @senioroman4uk in #1545
- rm: add fallback value to response_force
- rm: ask to force-delete if running and in interactive mode
- rm: fix IFS overwriting, Fix #1400
- rm: remove dead code, remove container volumes.
New Contributors
- @Mic92 made their first contribution in #1384
- @eugenesan made their first contribution in #1397
- @TheRsKing made their first contribution in #1426
- @yocoldle made their first contribution in #1431
- @axtloss made their first contribution in #1434
- @sheevy made their first contribution in #1439
- @dtg01100 made their first contribution in #1441
- @nhermosilla14 made their first contribution in #1456
- @andyspectre made their first contribution in #1451
- @intzaaa made their first contribution in #1576
- @senioroman4uk made their first contribution in #1545
- @Samueru-sama made their first contribution in #1468
- @alexandrevicenzi made their first contribution in #1489
- @e-luks made their first contribution in #1496
- @lunacd made their first contribution in #1503
- @TigerGorilla2 made their first contribution in #1582
- @timwa0669 made their first contribution in #1583
- @jardon made their first contribution in #1526
Full Changelog: 1.7.2.1...1.8.0