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Overview of changes in 0.1.0
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* Add ubuntu-toolbox image definitions for Ubuntu 24.10
* Optimize the CI on stable Fedora nodes
* Stop updating the ubuntu-toolbox images for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
* Stop using slirp4netns(1) in the system tests
* Unbreak the downstream Fedora CI
* Unbreak the ubuntu-toolbox image build for Ubuntu 24.04
* Update fallback release to 40 for non-fedora hosts


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.6
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* Add all the iconv converter modules for glibc to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add an extra space after the ⬢ in the PS1
* Add cracklib-dicts to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add logos to the Arch Linux and Fedora badges, and a badge for the Ubuntu
  package
* Add manual pages and pacman progress bars to the arch-toolbox image
* Add toolbox image definitions for RHELs 8.8, 8.9, 9.2 and 9.3
* Add translations for gawk to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add ubuntu-toolbox image definitions for Ubuntu 24.04
* Avoid running out of storage space when running the system tests on the CI
* Bump the minimum github.com/briandowns/spinner version to 1.18.0
* Depend on github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt version 0.5.0
* Depend on github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvlib version 0.6.1
* Depend on github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit version 1.16.1
* Don't unmarshal the 'podman ps' JSON twice
* Don't use use auto dependencies for shell completion scripts
* Drop one "o" and rename the project as "Toolbx"
* Enable more tests on Ubuntu 22.04 by setting the SHELL environment variable
* Enable the proprietary NVIDIA driver
* Exclude the meson.build files when installing the system tests
* Fix pacman cache removal in the arch-toolbox image
* Let 'create' use an image without a name
* Let the terminal know the active container on all host operating systems,
  and not just Fedora Silverblue and Workstation
* Limit the scope of temporary files used by the system tests
* Optimize 'enter' and 'run' for both an already running container and a
  container getting initialized
* Optimize the CI on Fedora nodes
* Optimize the resource limits tests
* Preserve the Konsole and xterm versions
* Require --assumeyes to pull an image when not connected to a terminal
* Retain errors from toolbox(1) without --verbose when forwarding to host
* Retain exit codes from toolbox(1) when forwarding to host
* Show the entry point's debug logs & errors in 'enter' and 'run'
* Support 64-bit LoongArch
* Synchronize the documentation with the website
* Unbreak Podman's downstream Fedora CI
* Use Buildah and Podman to build and test the arch-toolbox and ubuntu-toolbox
  images
* Use the same linker flags as NVIDIA Container Toolkit, and '-z now' is
  unsupported
* Work around bug in pasta(1) networks in the system tests


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.5
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* Add psmisc to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add several new system and unit tests, and make the existing ones stricter
* Add workaround to support configuring the user's password on some Active
  Directory set-ups
* Be aware of security hardened mount points marked with 'nosuid,nodev,noexec'
* Bump the minimum Bats version to 1.7.0 to simplify running a subset of the
  system tests and fix various warnings
* Bump the minimum Go requirement to 1.20
* Bump the minimum github.com/docker/go-units version to 0.5.0
* Bump the minimum golang.org/x/sys version to 0.1.0 for CVE-2022-29526 or
  GHSA-p782-xgp4-8hr8
* Bump the minimum golang.org/x/text version to 0.3.8 for CVE-2022-32149 or
  GHSA-69ch-w2m2-3vjp
* Bump the minimum gopkg.in/yaml.v3 version to 3.0.0 for CVE-2022-28948 or
  GHSA-hp87-p4gw-j4gq
* Deprecate the --monitor-host option of 'init-container'
* Don't leak the NAME and VERSION environment variables into containers made
  from the fedora-toolbox images
* Drop golang.org/x/term as a dependency
* Ensure that Toolbx containers start even if there aren't sufficient resources
  for inotify(7)
* Ensure that the fedora-toolbox images retain documentation and translations
* Ensure that toolbox(1) can be built without using podman(1) and validating
  subordinate IDs
* Fix DNS queries in Toolbx containers made from images with systemd-resolved,
  when running on hosts that don't use it
* Handle space-separated input when asking for confirmation
* Let the terminal know the active container also on Fedora Linux Asahi Remix
* Offer built-in support for Arch Linux
* Offer built-in support for Ubuntu
* Preserve the host's environment variables for Bash's history facility inside
  Toolbx containers
* Rely on podman >= 1.6.4 always being present
* Report the size of the image that will be downloaded from a registry
* Show welcome message on Fedora Sericea
* Support 64-bit RISC-V
* Update fallback release to 38 for non-fedora hosts
* Unbreak the line count checks with Bats >= 1.10.0
* Unbreak the manual page checks with GNU roff >= 1.23
* Various updates to the documentation and manuals


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.4
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* Add an --authfile option to 'create'
* Add a --preserve-fds option to 'run'
* Add a test that runs codespell
* Add fedora-toolbox image definition for Fedoras 37, 38 and 39
* Add several new system tests and make the existing ones stricter
* Avoid unexpected DNF behaviour with reinstalling or swapping RPMs when
  building the fedora-toolbox images
* Be more strict when looking for a C compiler for building
* Call 'systemd-tmpfiles --create' when installing
* Check if subordinate ID ranges are present for also the UID, and not just
  the username
* Document the toolbox.conf configuration file
* Don't create a nested pseudo-terminal device during 'run' if the standard
  input and output streams are not connected to a terminal
* Don't leak ID and VARIANT_ID into the shell
* Don't unmarshal the 'podman images' JSON twice
* Enable OpenGL and Vulkan for hardware with free drivers on the
  fedora-toolbox images
* Enable running non-nested display servers from a virtual terminal
* Enforce all the default 'go vet' checks on all Go sources
* Enforce gofmt on all Go sources
* Ensure that the 'distro' option is valid, instead of silently falling back
  to Fedora
* Ensure that 'run' has the same container environment as 'enter'
* Ensure that the fedora-toolbox images has all the locales known to glibc,
  and not just C, POSIX and C.UTF-8
* Exit 'run' with exit code of invoked command
* Fix the titles of the manuals
* Give precedence to /etc/os-release over /usr/lib/os-release in
  /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh
* Hide the Fedora-specific welcome banner on non-Fedora containers
* Improve the error messages if the 'distro' and 'release' options are invalid
* Improve the error messages for mutually exclusive options
* Improve the default image used for RHEL Toolbx containers to offer an
  interactive command line experience similar to that on RHEL Workstation
* Make /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh compatible with Z shell again
* Make sd_booted(3) work inside Toolbx containers
* Preserve the host's XDG_SESSION_CLASS environment variable inside Toolbx
  containers
* Replace github.com/mattn/go-isatty and the deprecated
  golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal API with golang.org/x/term
* Replace jwhois with whois in the fedora-toolbox images for Fedora >= 37
* Replace the hand-written shell completion for Bash with ones generated by
  Cobra that cover fish and Z shell too
* Restore more documentation removed from the base Fedora images
* Run unit tests with -Dmigration_path_for_coreos_toolbox on CentOS Stream 9 as
  part of the CI
* Silence warning when running the system tests with Bats >= 1.7.0
* Support RHEL 9 Toolbx containers
* Support subordinate user and group ID ranges on enterprise set-ups
* Unbreak sorting and clearly identify copied images in 'list'
* Update fallback release to 37 for non-fedora hosts
* Update the Go dependencies with 'go get -u'
* Various updates to the documentation and manuals
* Work around Cobra 1.1.2's handling of usage functions


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.3
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* Add bc and iproute to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add fedora-toolbox image definition for Fedoras 35 and 36
* Add support for configuration files
* Add optional migration paths for coreos/toolbox users
* Allow overriding the path to tmpfilesdir
* Avoid RPM failures due to unexpected file owners
* Bump minimum Meson version to 0.58.0
* Ensure that binaries are run against their build-time ABI
* Expose the host's entire / in the container at /run/host
* Fix the PS1 on Z shell
* Fix wrong use of regexp.MatchString
* Give access to PC/SC smart card daemon
* Make locate(1) opt-in by default
* Make the test suite non-destructive
* Mention that private images require 'podman login'
* Remove misleading and redundant CMD from the fedora-toolbox images
* Remove the deprecated com.github.debarshiray.toolbox label from the
  fedora-toolbox images, and when creating a new container
* Replace outdated logos with pixels
* Show basic help when man(1) is not available
* Show welcome message on Fedora Kinoite
* Test ImageReferenceCanBeID and ParseRelease
* Unbreak 'enter' if the shell had exited with 127
* Various additions and improvements to the test suite
* Various updates to the documentation and manuals


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.2
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* Add nano-default-editor to the fedora-toolbox images
* Add unit tests for pkg/shell
* Connect Go unit tests to Meson & rename CI job
* Decouple image caching from Zuul for the system tests
* Don't assume that the user's GID is the same as the UID
* Don't require /etc/machine-id in toolbox images
* Drop ShellCheck on Shell Toolbox
* Give access to systemd-resolved's Varlink socket
* Optimize 'enter' and 'run' in the non-fallback case
* Optimize the performance of 'list'
* Properly separate builddir setup & build in the Ansible playbooks
* Rename Dockerfile to Containerfile for the fedora-toolbox images
* Show test execution time for the system tests
* Support listing images without names
* Unbreak 'create' on an unlocked OSTree deployment
* Unbreak 'create' on CoreOS with read-only /boot
* Update default release to 33 for non-Fedora hosts
* Update the GitHub issue templates
* Use a regular file, not a symbolic link, for the README.md in the
  fedora-toolbox images
* Fall back to $HOME when using a container if the current working directory
  isn't present in it
* Various updates to the Bash completion
* Various updates to the manuals


Overview of changes in 0.0.99.1
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* Add deprecation notices to the POSIX shell implementation
* Add test for the new --distro option
* Drop the FGC namespace from the fedora-toolbox images
* Fix miscellaneous issues pointed out by https://www.shellcheck.net/
* Handle hosts with /etc/localtime as absolute symlink
* Improve README.md
* Improve the Zuul configuration
* Mount /mnt only if it is available
* Refactor the system tests, and use bats-assert and bats-support
* Test that sudo doesn't require a password
* Update the manuals


Overview of changes in 0.0.99
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* Add a --distro option to 'create', 'enter' and 'run'
* Prevent setting VTE-specific PROMPT_COMMAND without VTE
* Remove the --candidate-registry option from Bash completion and the manual
  for 'create'
* Remove the deprecated reset command
* Support RHEL hosts by creating containers based on UBI
* Try to avoid 'latest' tags, when looking at RepoTags
* Update the labels used for filtering toolbox containers images
* Update the range of supported Fedora releases


Overview of changes in 0.0.98.1
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* Pass the USER environment variable to the container
* Make /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh compatible with Z shell again
* Update the manual to mention that the --image and --release options of
  'create' can't be used together


Overview of changes in 0.0.98
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* Add nss-mdns to the fedora-toolbox images
* Correctly check validity of container name
* Don't leak all the os-release fields into the shell
* Don't rely on XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when running as root
* Give access to Avahi to resolve the .local mDNS domain
* Make coredumpctl(1) 'dump' and 'debug' work inside toolbox containers
* Make options --image and --release for 'create' mutually exclusive
* Notify the terminal about the real UID of 'toolbox enter'
* Remove periods at the end of flag descriptions
* Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when creating the toolbox container
* Unbreak 'enter' on hosts without a /etc/localtime
* Unbreak the system tests on Fedora 33
* Use the host's user namespace when running as root


Overview of changes in 0.0.97
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* Allow X11 clients to run as root
* Color the output only when displaying on a terminal
* Don't rely on user D-Bus to track time zone configuration
* Enable running minikube on Silverblue
* Expose the host's /boot inside the container at /run/host
* Fix missing terminfo warning for Ubuntu containers
* Make locate(1) work inside toolbox containers
* Make pseudo-terminal devices be owned by the 'tty' group
* Rework test to check if a toolbox container started successfully
* Run a login shell when falling back to Bash during 'enter'


Overview of changes in 0.0.96
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* Don't break GNU Readline's ctrl-p shortcut
* Enable system tests on Fedora 33
* Fix containers with missing /media possibly due to a failed RPM transaction
* Give access to the udev database
* Unbreak X11 applications with GNOME 3.38
* Update default release to 31 for non-Fedora hosts


Overview of changes in 0.0.95
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* Try to handle configuration files that're absolute symlinks when the entry
  point sets up the container
* Unbreak 'enter' on Fedora CoreOS
* Unbreak 'sudo' inside toolbox containers with Podman 2.0.5
* Warn if $TERM has no terminfo entry in the container


Overview of changes in 0.0.94
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* Add contribution guidelines
* Add fedora-toolbox image definition for Fedora 34
* Add more information to errors from creating symbolic links when setting up
  the toolbox container in the entry point
* Ensure binaries built on Fedora 33 run on Fedoras 32 & 31
* Install the tests
* Make it more obvious when falling back to /bin/bash
* Document that sudo(8) should work without a password
* Mount a tmpfs at /tmp to match the host
* Update issue templates


Overview of changes in 0.0.93
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* Ensure reproducible builds by using the -trimpath build flag
* Fix the test suite to work with the Go implementation
* Make listing of containers and images more robust against changes in the JSON
  returned by Podman
* List out dependencies and installation instructions
* Re-enable highlighting of running containers
* Show the spinner only when connected to a terminal
* Speed things up by caching the Podman version at runtime
* Update hint after creating a container to use the new syntax
* Use the correct verb format for string


Overview of changes in 0.0.92
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* Embed the version from Meson into the binary
* Make it build on aarch64


Overview of changes in 0.0.91
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* Add gvfs-client to the fedora-toolbox images
* Adjust for changes in JSON output from 'podman ps' and 'podman images' in
  Podman 2.0
* Lower the Go build requirements to make it easier to build on Fedora
* Show an error if $PWD is missing inside the container


Overview of changes in 0.0.90
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* Rewrite Toolbox in Go
* Remove support for toolbox containers created by Toolbox 0.0.9 and older
* Add option --version to show current Toolbox version
* Add options --log-level and --log-podman as possible future replacements for
  --verbose and --very-verbose
* Clean up the spinner when aborted by SIGINT (or ctrl+c) and such
* Fix duplication in the output of the list command
* Mark the reset command as deprecated (replaced by 'podman system reset')
* Support specifying the name of a toolbox container as an argument to the
  create and enter commands, in addition to the --container option


Overview of changes in 0.0.18
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* Check /usr/share/profile.d when bind mounting toolbox.sh
* Mount /media only if it is available
* Set up /media and /mnt to match the host
* Unbreak 'enter' when SELinux is disabled


Overview of changes in 0.0.17
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* Add a --very-verbose or -vv option
* Deprecate all toolbox containers that don't use a reflexive entry point
* Ensure that 'run' has at least one argument for the command
* Give access to the host's systemd journal
* Wipe out the container's /sys/fs/selinux to not advertise SELinux


Overview of changes in 0.0.16
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* Add a reset command
* Document requirements for distro support
* Don't use a toolbox container until after it has been configured
* Drop the coloured heading from 'list'
* Miscellaneous fixes to Bash completion
* Remove the hidden --sudo option and the /etc/sudoers.d snippet
* Try to migrate to a supported OCI runtime if 'podman start' suggests so
* Unbreak 'run' if container lacks files that are redirected to the host


Overview of changes in 0.0.15
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* Be forgiving of a missing /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh in 'run'
* Don't sanity check /etc/subgid and /etc/subuid when running as root
* Install only flatpak-spawn, not the rest of flatpak-xdg-utils, in the images
* Let the terminal know the active container only on some Fedora variants
* Rely on 'podman system migrate' always being present
* Simplify code by dropping compatibility with 'podman create' < 1.4.0
* Switch to using /usr/lib/os-release instead of /etc/os-release
* Unbreak 'create' on Silverblue
* Update default release to 30 when running on non-fedora hosts


Overview of changes in 0.0.14
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* Adjust the grep match pattern to be more specific
* Don't exit with a non-zero code from 'toolbox list -i'
* Expose a few more host locations inside the container under /run/host
* Give access to the system Flatpak directory
* Give access to the system libvirt instance
* Mount /run/media only if it is available
* Preserve the host's ulimits when creating toolbox containers
* Work around 'podman exec' resetting the terminal size to 80x24


Overview of changes in 0.0.13
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* Drop PackageKit-command-not-found from the images
* Improve the help or usage output
* Simplify code by taking advantage of 'podman create --userns=keep-id'
* Simplify code by taking advantage of 'podman exec --workdir ...'
* Tighten the Silverblue check for the welcome message


Overview of changes in 0.0.12
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* Create /run/.toolboxenv inside the toolbox container's entry point too
* Don't use 'podman cp' to copy toolbox.sh to old containers
* Drop the "immutable" term
* Unbreak /etc/localtime & /etc/timezone if /run/host/monitor is absent


Overview of changes in 0.0.11
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* Allow Qt applications to work without QT_X11_NO_MITSHM
* Check if /etc/subgid and /etc/subuid have entries for the user
* Give access to the entire /dev from the host operating system
* Keep /etc/host.conf, /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone synchronized with the
  host
* Notify the terminal about the current toolbox container in use
* Prevent Podman from complaining about 'podman cp --pause=true ...'
* Unbreak rendering & wrapping of commands typed at an interactive prompt
* Unbreak setting up /home as a symbolic link


Overview of changes in 0.0.10
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* Add a run command
* Create /run/.toolboxenv in 'toolbox enter' for identification
* Drop the Buildah dependency and the user-specific customized image
* Keep /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf synchronized with the host
* Migrate existing containers when Podman is updated
* Retain the PS1 across su(1) and sudo(8)
* Set the Kerberos credential cache type only if Kerberos is available
* Support column(1) from bsdmainutils
* Support 'sudo' as default sudo(8) group
* Use a magenta hexagon instead of 🔹 in the PS1


Overview of changes in 0.0.9
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* Add Bash completion
* Allow connecting to Wayland displays other than "wayland-0"
* Ask for confirmation before downloading the base image
* Improve the onboarding experience
* Make it available inside the toolbox container
* Make 'toolbox enter' create or fall back to a container when possible
* Set TOOLBOX_CONTAINER in the environment to identify as a toolbox
* Set default release to 29 when running on non-fedora hosts
* Show welcome texts on interactive shells


Overview of changes in 0.0.8
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* Add label for tagging, not tied to the fedora-toolbox name
* Add short variants for various options in 'create' and 'enter'
* Ensure that names of toolbox containers don't have a colon
* Enable Travis
* Fix miscellaneous issues pointed out by https://www.shellcheck.net/
* Give access to Kerberos if KCM credential caches are being used
* Improve the onboarding experience
* Reduce the sizes of the images by removing temporary files created by DNF
* Use a lighter entry point than /bin/sh


Overview of changes in 0.0.7
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* Add fedora-toolbox image definition for Fedora 31
* Add flatpak-xdg-utils to Fedoras 29 and 30
* Add manuals
* Add rm and rmi commands
* Be more informative when creating the working container
* Clarify the error message if the toolbox container is not found
* Don't create volumes in the image for bind mounts from the host
* Fix miscellaneous issues pointed out by https://www.shellcheck.net/
* Give access to /dev/bus for control transfers from USB devices
* Give access to removable devices and other temporary mounts
* Lots of Bash-isms removed for POSIX correctness
* Make the --image flag override the base toolbox image, as documented
* Make the spinner more efficient
* Restore documentation removed from the base Fedora images


Overview of changes in 0.0.6
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* Add a list command
* Drop the "fedora" prefix and rename the project as just "toolbox"
* Fix typos pointed out by https://www.shellcheck.net/
* Lots of Bash-isms removed for POSIX correctness
* Make --container and --image command-specific options
* Make it work inside the toolbox container itself
* Shorten the prefix for debug and error messages
* Use the host's PID namespace for the toolbox container
* Use the standard error output for error messages


Overview of changes in 0.0.5
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* Give access to mounts under $HOME, and make autofs work
* Show a spinner when creating the toolbox


Overview of changes in 0.0.4
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* Avoid spooky root-like behaviour for non-root interactive shells
* Give access to the FUSE kernel module
* Improve the readability of the debug output
* Set up $HOME and /home to match the host
* Try to enter the same directory inside the toolbox


Overview of changes in 0.0.3
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* Clean up the Buildah working containers on error
* Unbreak creating the toolbox if the toolbox image already exists


Overview of changes in 0.0.2
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* Allow an 'F' or 'f' prefix when specifying the release
* Avoid a Bash-ism (ie. ==) and stick to POSIX (ie. =)
* Fallback to /bin/bash if $SHELL doesn't exist in the toolbox container
* Give access to the system D-Bus instance
* Make shm_open work


Overview of changes in 0.0.1
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* First preview release


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