Buildah version 1.40.0 Release Announcement
We’re pleased to announce the release of Buildah version 1.40.0, which is now available from GitHub for any Linux distro. We are shipping this release on Fedora 41 and Fedora 42. Buildah will also be shipped on CentOS, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu soon. In addition, container images will be available at https://quay.io/repository/buildah/stable and https://quay.io/repository/containers/buildah.
The Buildah project has continued to grow over the past several weeks, welcoming several new contributors to the mix. This release features notable changes:
- The
--inherit-labelsoption has been added to inherit labels from the base image, or not. - Add a
--parentsoption for theCOPYcommand to preserve leading directories in the paths of items being copied, relative to either the top of the build context, or to the “pivot point”. - The
--timestamp option, if set, is now passed through to a destination of--tag=oci-archiveand is applied to the timestamp of entries in the tar archive
This release comprises changes made for v1.40.0 and will be included in Podman v5.5.
Release Changes
Changes for v1.40.0
- Bump Buildah to v1.39.0, c/storage v1.57.1, c/image v5.34.0, c/common v0.62.0 by @TomSweeneyRedHat in #5962
*The host directory used when a
buildah buildRUN instruction orbuildah runuses the--mount=type=cacheoption is now chosen based not only on its “target” or “id” value, but also on the combination of “uid” and “gid” flag values specified, by @nalind in #5978 - Better support for the containers.conf container_name_as_hostname option by @nalind in #5943
- Better validation of manifest and expected digests by @mtrmac in #6014
- stage_executor: history now correctly includes the heredoc summary by @flouthoc in #6041
- Add
--parentsoption for theCOPYcommand to preserve leading directories in the paths of items being copied, relative to either the top of the build context, or to the “pivot point” by @Honny1 in #6008 - The /proc/interrupts and /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/thermal_throttle are thermal paths are masked by default by @giuseppe in #6074
- Fix built-in args on ARM64 by @Honny1 in #6076
- The –timestamp option, if set, is now passed through to a destination of –tag=oci-archive: and is applied to the timestamp of entries in the tar archive by @aeijdenberg in #6023
- “chroot” isolation should no longer require the “–no-pivot” flag be specified in order to function on “image mode” systems. by @nalind in #6088
- Fixed a bug to add: correctly resolve git tags and branches and report errors if no reference is found by @flouthoc in #6087
- Fixed a bug in processing Windows style paths by @danegsta in #6083
- Return status 125 when a git operation fails instead of relaying the error code directly from git by @flouthoc in #6092
- The build process now resets the platform in systemcontext for every stage by @flouthoc in #5971
- Allow users to choose if they want to inherit labels from the base image by using –inherit-labels option by @flouthoc in #6103
- Certain errors encountered when calling
mount()while using “chroot” isolation will now use mount flag names in error diagnostic messages by @nalind in #6129 - A bug was fixed to close files after a build properly by @aeijdenberg in #6047
Overall Miscellaneous Changes
- Documentation:
- Switch to the CNCF Code of Conduct by @mheon in #5982
- buildah-build.1.md: secret examples by @hdub-tech in #5999
- Add a link to project governance and MAINTAINERS file by @mheon in #6108
- [CI:DOCS] Document rw/src for –mount in buildah-run(1) by @nalind in #6127
- Update Buildah issue template to new version and support podman build by @ninja-quokka in #6099
- Vendored:
- Update to Go 1.23 for vendoring
- Vendor in containers/automation_images to v20250324
- Vendor in dependency golangci/golangci-lint to v2.1.0
- Vendor in github.com/containernetworking/cni to v1.3.0
- Vendor in github.com/containers/common to v0.62.2
- Vendor in github.com/containers/image/v5 to v5.34.2
- Vendor in github.com/containers/luksy digest to 40bd943
- Vendor in github.com/opencontainers/selinux to v1.12.0
- Vendor in github.com/containers/storage to v1.58.0
- Vendor in github.com/docker/docker to v28.1.0+incompatible
- Vendor in github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 to v4.0.5
- Vendor in github.com/moby/buildkit to v0.21.0
- Vendor in github.com/opencontainers/image-spec
- Vendor in github.com/opencontainers/runc to v1.2.6
- Vendor in github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec to v1.2.1
- Vendor in github.com/opencontainers/runtime-tools digest to 260e151
- Vendor in github.com/openshift/imagebuilder digest to e87e4e1
- Vendor in github.com/spf13/cobra to v1.9.0
- Vendor in golang.org/x/crypto to v0.37.0
- Vendor in golang.org/x/net to v0.36.0 [security]
- Vendor in golang.org/x/sync to v0.11.0
- Vendor in golang.org/x/sys to v0.30.0
- Vendor in golang.org/x/term to v0.29.0
- Vendor in tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface to v1.0.1
- Tests
- Changes to the build infrastructure
- CI: parallize unit tests by @flouthoc in #5954
- Use tmpfs for integration tests by @flouthoc in #5959
- .cirrus: bump ci resources by @flouthoc in #5979
- cirrus: reduce task timeout by @Luap99 in #5994
- github: remove cirrus rerun action by @Luap99 in #6063
- github: check_cirrus_cron work around github bug by @Luap99 in #6120
- github: disable cron rerun action by @Luap99 in #6036
- cirrus: make Total Success wait for rootless integration by @Luap99 in #6130
- Plus a few minor 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.