Release: Flox 1.3.9

We’ve just released version 1.3.9 of the Flox CLI. You can get the new release here.

Previously it was difficult to know if Flox was doing work during a long-running transaction, or if it was hung on something. There is now more status output as Flox is performing actions that might take some time. We have status and spinners!

flox containerize improvements, including fixing an FLOX_ENV_DESCRIPTION: unbound variable error. We now provide better output if containerize fails.
flox containerize is now available on MacOS if you have Docker Desktop installed (and running). It’s still new, and may not be completely aligned with Linux capabilities quite yet.

Other Fixes

Removed a condition where an environment that’s not ready tries to start a process and would deadlock, requiring users to edit activations.json (an internal file) manually.
Users using zsh along with vcs_info no longer will have to run hash -r manually if they’re installing a new package into an environment that contains an executable name that is already in $PATH.
A few other zsh subshell fixes to ensure activations are clean on MacOS. These included situations where $PATH or $MANPATH were incorrectly set in some scenarios.
Fix a bug where repeat in-place activations after modifying an environment would leave it in a non-ready state that could no longer be attached to.

Edmondo Porcu <[email protected]> added a help output for flox services.