v1.2.0

Added

• start services are supervised. A service that exits non-zero is restarted after 1 s, then 2, 4
  and up to 30 s. After five quick crashes in a row, boxer stops and the start log says so.
  restart = "never" turns it off. Each restart is a line in /tmp/boxer-start.log.
• boxer restart stops the start services and launches them again without recreating the
  sandbox.
• volumes = ["name:/guest/path"]: named directories kept on the host per scope and mounted
  read-write. They survive rm, --recreate and idle reclaim, and are deleted with their worktree
  by gc, or by boxer rm --volumes. Tested with Postgres on smolvm, including crash recovery
  after a kill -9.
• idle_action = "stop" | "delete" chooses what idle reclaim does to a sandbox whose worktree still
  exists.
• build = "Dockerfile" and build_context. boxer builds the Dockerfile on the host and boots the
  result. docker, podman and Apple container build into their own store. smolvm boots a
  docker save archive built by the host's docker. devcontainer build.dockerfile and dockerFile
  now map to it instead of being refused.
• [network] allow_presets expands npm, yarn, pypi, crates, rust, go, rubygems, maven, gradle,
  debian, alpine and github into the hosts each one needs.
• intercept_also adds programs to the default intercept list without restating it. boxer doctor suggests it for Ruby and JVM projects.
• boxer uninstall <harness>|all|git|conductor [--user] removes what boxer install wrote. Files
  boxer merged into keep everything else.
• pkg/boxer: ListAll lists sandboxes on every installed backend, with the new
  Machine.Backend field. Ports and URLs read a machine's forwarded ports and their URLs.
• Smoke cells for supervision, boxer restart, volumes, build, presets and file watching. File
  watching was measured on each backend. On Apple container and on podman on a Mac, host edits do
  not reach inotify, and the troubleshooting guide gives the polling fix.

Changed

• Idle reclaim now stops a sandbox whose worktree still exists, instead of deleting it. Set
  idle_action = "delete" for the 1.1 behaviour.

Fixed

• The test suite's fake smolvm isolates boxer's state directory itself. A test that used the fake
  without a repository wrote a fake pack into the developer's real pack cache.
• A local image archive on smolvm no longer tries to build a pack at every create. smolvm refuses
  to pack an archive, so each create printed the refusal and paid for the attempt.

Full changelog: https://github.com/BarakChamo/boxer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md