CHANGELOG.md

v0.5.7

• Fix an issue copying absolutely pathed symlinks into the container from the host.

v0.5.6

• The son of the bride of the environment fix

v0.5.5

Yet another fix to the portable environment.

v0.5.4

• A fix to the portable (os x and windows) script to allow it to pass variables in the environment.

With this patch, you can supply BOX_INCLUDE_ENV with a whitespace-separated list of environment variables to pass to box. This admittedly a hack until real variables arrive (0.6.0!) and we can deprecate the environment functionality.

Nothing in the binary itself has changed.

v0.5.3

copy statements have changed:

• Copy-over-dir is now on, will appropriately copy into dirs (or create them) or over them depending on the presence of a final / in the target path.
• Copies of relative symlinks now work correctly.
• Copies of files with no trailing / are added to the image verbatim.

and finally, a long note about entrypoint and cmd:

previously, nulls would be set on the entrypoint, triggering inheritance from run statments that were the previous commit in the docker chain. What this does now is set it to []string which is an empty command in the docker configuration.

Note that there is now no way to do entrypoint nil in a way that will inherit from the previous entrypoint statement, however, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. :)

v0.5.2

• Downgraded docker client to be more compatible with more versions of docker.

v0.5.1

• entrypoint and cmd now handle nils and arrays of strings appropriately.

v0.5.0

The biggest change in this release is the soft-removal of OS X support. The portable installation should work for most users; it is simply a script which calls docker for you.

The requirement was made because of a switch to an exciting new architecture. This architecture brings in the https://github.com/containers/image and https://github.com/containers/storage platforms and allows us to incorporate OCI image support (along with numerous other features!) and will be the future of box moving forward.

We want to support OS X and some efforts around this are in progress, so hopefully in a few versions we can bring a real binary back to OS X.

Aside, 0.5.0 contains these changes:

• Numerous fixes and improvements to formatting of output
• save function to tag and save images to a file (including OCI images)
• label verb to apply labels to images
• Symlinks are no longer hard-scoped to be under the WD. Copies to containers will now respect target paths more appropriately.
• Compiled with golang 1.7.5 for security and bug fixes.
• Many minor refactors and improvements.

v0.4.2

• Improve the performance of all copy operations
• Set more appropriate defaults for user and workdir in the event they aren't used in the run.
• from statements in multi mode which reference the same image will no longer start a download for each reference, but instead coalesce into one download.
• Globbing has been broken since 0.4.1 which this resolves.
• In multi-mode, errors would occasionally reference the wrong build plan when yielding errors.
• We now have deb, rpm and homebrew packages available!

v0.4.1

• Support .dockerignore files and per-copy-statement exclude/ignore statements[
• Support from :scratch and from "" as viable methods of using an empty container
• Compatibility fix around certain builder instructions setting the user/cmd/entrypoint/workdir incorrectly
• You can now suppress run statement output per-statement.
• New tarring routines capture special files, and other improvements in this area.
• New after verb which takes a proc of methods to be run after image composition.
• Fix for a bug where duplicate insertions of environment keys would cause the N++'d items to not be registered.
• Fix copying into volumes (by removing them all from the image)

v0.4

• multi-build mode! Now build whole projects full of multiple images at once!
• many stability enhancements
  • in particular, you should not get random unpreventable panics when invoking box anymore.

v0.3.3

• Summing performance has improved across the board, which should drastically affect copy, flatten, and skip operations.
• Globbing on the left-hand-side of copy statements is now supported. Consult the documentation for more.
• The REPL/Shell now handles multi-line input more appropriately.

v0.3.2

• Fix TTY handling in debug modes
• Improve signal handling in a few edge case scenarios in run statements
• USER, WORKDIR, CMD and ENTRYPOINT inheritance is much better now. It should be less surprising when issusing run statements the last layer in a series.
• Box no longer takes a final step to commit the image after the run has completed.
• New progress meters for all copy/tar/summing operations.
• Tarring routines (copy, flatten etc) no longer attempt to tar special files such as unix sockets.
• Many fixes around copy, path handling and workdir. Note that now if you want to copy files into a target that is a directory, it will fail. If you do wish to copy them into the directory instead of over it, suffix the directory name with a /.

v0.3.1

• Release version is reflected correctly in the binary

v0.3

• New REPL/shell! You can now interactively build container images with box.
• New skip verb: skip layers that you don't want in the final image.
• Improved signal handling; canceling builds now leaves no temporary files or containers within the system.
• A new command-line flag, box -f, omits the automatic final commit. It is typically used with the tag verb to avoid making two images.
• The readability of progress meters was improved.

v0.2.1

• Fix colorized output bleed for certain terminals on OS X.
• Fix run statements appropriately propagating when not supplied in the build plan
• Fix flatten statement to incorporate permissions when copying.
• Move to new official docker client.
• Clean up a file descriptor leak handling ruby files themselves.

v0.2

• TTY detection (for colorized output and terminal handling) and flags to force it on (--force-tty) and off (--no-tty).
• -t/--tag flags to tag the final image with the tag name. Does not affect the tag verb in any way.
• -o/--omit can be used to filter functions/verbs from the capabilities of the builder.
• from statements now appropriately cause the image to inherit their attributes, such as CMD and ENV.
• debug: set a breakpoint in your build plan to drop into a shell. Placing this anywhere in your code, once called, will drop you into a container. Once the container terminates, its layer will be saved and the run will continue.
• import: import another file's ruby code.
• Colorized output! This provides a clearer visual experience and is appropriately turned off when no TTY is present.

v0.1: Initial Release

This is the initial release of box! Huzzah!