2024.6 - 2025.5 - 2026.3 releases.

- All releases
  - [clang / llvm now built with dynamic libraries](#336), significant reduction in image sizes
  - OpenShadingLanguage converted to a Conan package
  - don't set rpath when building imath, OCIO
  - nanobind 2.9.2 (needed by rawtoaces 2.0.0)

- 2025.5
  - OpenEXR 3.3.6 to 3.3.7

- 2026.3
  - Alembic 1.8.8 to 1.8.10
  - [OpenSubdiv 3.6.1 to 3.7.0](#328), VFX Platform 2026 calls for OpenSubdiv 3.7.x but this was missed in previous 2026 releases
  - OpenColorIO 2.5.0 to 2.5.1, note that [2.5.1 is not ABI compatible with 2.5.0](https://opencolorio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/ocio_2_5.html#library-version)
  - [MaterialX 1.39.3 to 1.39.4](#339)
  - [OpenEXR 3.4.3 to 3.4.5](#322)
  - [OpenImageIO 3.1.6.2 to 3.1.10.0](#329)
  - [OpenShadingLanguage 1.14.7.0 to 1.15.1.0](#330)
  - [rawtoaces 1.1.0 to 2.0.0](#324) - Python bindings via nanobind not enabled yet

Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Panisset <panisset@gmail.com>

Author: jfpanisset

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,29 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+# 2026-02-24
+
+2024.6 / 2025.5 / 2026.3 releases.
+
+- All releases
+  - [clang / llvm now built with dynamic libraries](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/336), significant reduction in image sizes
+  - OpenShadingLanguage converted to a Conan package
+  - don't set rpath when building imath, OCIO
+  - nanobind 2.9.2 (needed by rawtoaces 2.0.0)
+
+- 2025.5
+  - OpenEXR 3.3.6 to 3.3.7
+
+- 2026.3
+  - Alembic 1.8.8 to 1.8.10
+  - [OpenSubdiv 3.6.1 to 3.7.0](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/328), VFX Platform 2026 calls for OpenSubdiv 3.7.x but this was missed in previous 2026 releases
+  - OpenColorIO 2.5.0 to 2.5.1, note that [2.5.1 is not ABI compatible with 2.5.0](https://opencolorio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/ocio_2_5.html#library-version)
+  - [MaterialX 1.39.3 to 1.39.4](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/339)
+  - [OpenEXR 3.4.3 to 3.4.5](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/322)
+  - [OpenImageIO 3.1.6.2 to 3.1.10.0](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/329)
+  - [OpenShadingLanguage 1.14.7.0 to 1.15.1.0](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/330)
+  - [rawtoaces 1.1.0 to 2.0.0](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/issues/324) - Python bindings via nanobind not enabled yet
+
 # 2025-12-06
 
 Re-releasing 2025.5 / 2025.4 / 2026.2 without 1.5GB of Conan download cache bloat.

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ test.
 Pre-commit hooks need to be installed by running `pre-commit install`, and
 tests can be run manually by running `pre-commit run --all-files`.
 
+If the `test_releaser.py` test fails, it is possibly because your GitHub API
+token has expired or didn't get configured with `aswfdocker settings  --github-access-token`.
+
 ## Coding Style
 
 #### Formatting
@@ -408,20 +411,19 @@ as per [Storage Configurations](https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/config_files/g
 During development it can be convenient to peek into the results of a Conan package build. You can use:
 
 ```
-$ docker buildx du --verbose --filter Type=exec.cachemount
-ID:		ltu9ddgwws6cblhemncn9uzaj
-Created at:	2025-03-31 03:09:21.67231777 +0000 UTC
-Mutable:	true
-Reclaimable:	true
-Shared:		false
-Size:		93.56GB
-Description:	cached mount /opt/conan_home/d from exec /bin/sh -c conan create       ${ASWF_CONAN_BUILD_MISSING}       --profile:all ${ASWF_CONAN_HOME}/.conan2/profiles_${ASWF_PKG_ORG}/${ASWF_CONAN_CHANNEL}       --name ${ASWF_PKG_NAME}       --version ${ASWF_PKG_VERSION}       --user ${ASWF_PKG_ORG}       --channel ${ASWF_CONAN_CHANNEL}       ${ASWF_CONAN_HOME}/recipes/${ASWF_PKG_NAME} with id "//opt/conan_home/d"
-Usage count:	159
-Last used:	14 minutes ago
-Type:		exec.cachemount
+$ docker buildx du --format=json --filter Type=exec.cachemount | jq 'select(.Description | contains("conan_home")) | {ID, LastUsedAt}'
+{
+  "ID": "1ltu9ddgwws6cblhemncn9uzaj",
+  "LastUsedAt": "30 minutes ago"
+}
+{
+  "ID": "5u911hfw0umijdpkgrtabyivv",
+  "LastUsedAt": "3 weeks ago"
+}
 ```
 
-to retrieve the volume ID for the cache mount, which is then accessible at a path similar to:
+to retrieve the volume ID for the cache mount (there may be more than one, typically pick the most recently used),
+which is then accessible at a path similar to:
 
 ```
 /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ltu9ddgwws6cblhemncn9uzaj/diff
@@ -615,7 +617,7 @@ Check [#66](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/pull/66) fo
 aswfdocker release -t IMAGE -g baseos-gl-conan -v 4 -v 5 -v 6 --target baseos-gl-conan --docker-org aswf -m "RELEASE_NOTES!"
 
 # Common packages
-aswfdocker release -t PACKAGE -g common -v 4 -v 5 -v 6 --target ninja -target cmake --docker-org aswf -m "RELEASE_NOTES!"
+aswfdocker release -t PACKAGE -g common -v 4 -v 5 -v 6 --target ninja --target cmake --docker-org aswf -m "RELEASE_NOTES!"
 aswfdocker release -t PACKAGE -g common -v 4-clang16 -v 4-clang17 -v 5-clang18 -v 5-clang19 -v 6-clang19 -v 6-clang20 --target clang --docker-org aswf -m "RELEASE_NOTES!"
 # Wait for clang builds to finish (from 2 to 3 hours!)
 

README.md

@@ -165,14 +165,13 @@ as the branch is called `testing`. Images in this org will change without
 notice and could be broken in many unexpected ways!
 
 To get write access to the `aswftesting` Docker Hub organization you can open
-a ticket with the [Linux Foundation Project IT Services Support Portal]
-(https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2). You may need
-to first create a free [Linux Foundation account](https://sso.linuxfoundation.org).
+a ticket with the [Linux Foundation Project IT Services Support Portal](https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2).
+You may need to first create a free [Linux Foundation account](https://sso.linuxfoundation.org).
 
 ### Status
 
-As of July 2025 there are full 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,
-2023, 2024 and 2025 [VFX Platform](https://vfxplatform.com) compliant images. The 2026 images are for testing purposes only and won't be complete until the fall of 2025 when some major ASWF packages release their new versions called for by the 2026 VFX Platform.
+As of December 2025 there are full 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,
+2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. [VFX Platform](https://vfxplatform.com) compliant images.
 
 Note that the
 pre-2024 versions of the images still exist but are not maintained / rebuilt anymore, which
@@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ folders to be mounted at build time, and is built with `docker buildx`. The new
 Docker BuildKit system allows the building of many packages in parallel in an
 efficient way with support for [ccache](https://ccache.dev/).
 
-Starting with the 2023 versions, the non-ASWF dependencies and several of the ASWF
+Starting with the 2023 versions, the non-ASWF dependencies and most of the ASWF
 projects are being built as Conan packages only, with the eventual goal of getting
 rid of all the ci-package-{packagename} intermediate Docker images, and mostly
 assembling the CI build images from Conan packages.

ci-base/Dockerfile

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ packages:
   - glfw
   - log4cplus
   - minizip-ng
+  - nanobind
   - boost              # base1-3 packages
   - pybind11
 implicit_packages:

ci-base/README.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ packages:
   - glfw
   - log4cplus
   - minizip-ng
+  - nanobind
   - boost              # base1-3 packages
   - pybind11
   - libjpeg-turbo      # base2-1 packages