April 2026

(full changelog)

API and Breaking Changes

• Bump base image to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS #1417 (@yuvipanda, @manics, @minrk, @rgaiacs, @weiji14)

New features added

• Allow disabling default buildpack #1511 (@minrk, @manics)

Enhancements made

• Add support to both .yml and .yaml #1501 (@rgaiacs, @minrk)

Bugs fixed

• R: use remotes::local_install instead of deprecated devtools::install_local #1530 (@minrk, @manics)
• fix figshare url regex #1529 (@minrk, @manics)
• R: update shiny-proxy to 1.4 #1528 (@minrk, @manics)
• trade chardet for charset-normalizer #1510 (@minrk)
• Fix typo in pyproject.toml file name #1499 (@rgaiacs)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• try to fix dependabot for Dockerfile #1527 (@minrk, @manics)
• missing newline in dataverse log #1526 (@minrk, @manics)
• freeze requirements in Dockerfile #1512 (@minrk, @manics)

Documentation improvements

• Make Podman support more prominent in the documentation #1471 (@rgaiacs, @manics, @minrk)

Continuous integration improvements

• Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3 to 4 #1517 (@consideRatio)
• Bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 3 to 4 #1516 (@manics)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6 to 7 #1515 (@consideRatio)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5 to 6 #1514 (@consideRatio)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 #1506 (@manics)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6 #1497 (@manics)

Other merged PRs

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1519 (@minrk)
• Clarify where/how repo2docker locates config files #1509 (@chuckwondo, @mfisher87, @rgaiacs)
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1502 (@minrk)
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1500 (@rgaiacs)
• Update the changelog to reflect breaking change #1496 (@GeorgianaElena)
• Update the changelog with a new version #1495 (@GeorgianaElena, @minrk)

Contributors to this release

The following people contributed discussions, new ideas, code and documentation contributions, and review.
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(GitHub contributors page for this release)

@billbrod (activity) | @bollwyvl (activity) | @chuckwondo (activity) | @consideRatio (activity) | @GeorgianaElena (activity) | @manics (activity) | @mfisher87 (activity) | @minrk (activity) | @rgaiacs (activity) | @shaneknapp (activity) | @weiji14 (activity) | @yuvipanda (activity)