Announcing Apptainer release 1.5.0

We are happy to announce that Apptainer version 1.5.0 is now available.

This release has many new minor features, changes, and bug fixes. The most significant changes are:

1. Support for Container Device Interface descriptions.
2. Support for Intel Gaudi accelerators.
3. Ability to create SIF files directly from Dockerfile definitions.
4. Support for downloading from IPFS gateways.
5. New --no-env option to block importing selected environment variables.
6. New build --data option to build data-only SIF files.
7. Ability to prepend and append to container’s LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
8. Ability to make completely reproducible SIF images.

As always, please report any problems as an issue on github.