Distrobox v2: any rough timeline for stable release?

[arvindautar]

Hi all,

I noticed that Distrobox v2 is currently available as a release candidate and that the project is focusing on reaching feature parity with v1 before declaring v2 stable.

I understand there is no fixed release schedule, but I was wondering if the maintainers could share a rough status update:

How close is v2 to feature parity with v1?

What are the main remaining blockers before a stable release?

Are there any major areas where community testing would be especially helpful right now?

Distrobox has become an important part of projects like VanillaOS, Bluefin, Bazzite, and Aeon, so I'm very interested in the roadmap for v2.

Thanks for all the work on the rewrite!

[dottorblaster]

No hard deadlines as we try to match the project with a functional adult life 😄

But yeah, it's definitely sooner rather than later. We are in fact merging the code to main as soon as possible, and unless somebody comes to us and tells us "oh my this is really broken" we are also going to just ship it.

Are there any major areas where community testing would be especially helpful right now?

Just use it, try to stress it, and when you find something weird compare it to distrobox v1 to see if it's actually weirder in v2 or just something pre-existing. The biggest struggle we had with the new codebase so far is that v1 was quirky in some aspects, and sometimes v2 is quirky as well (because of podman/containerd upstreams) 😅