cardinal 1.1 — first stable release

The lightweight no-daemon container runtime reaches its first stable release.

cardinal (then still known as dck) ships its first stable release: a single

static binary that runs containers directly on the Linux kernel — no dockerd,

no background daemon, nothing to babysit.

The core model is already in place:

  • Namespaces — PID, mount, network, UTS, and IPC isolation via unshare.
  • Overlay filesystem — a writable diff layer on top of a read-only image.
  • Bridge networking — containers join a private bridge with per-container IPs.
  • systemd supervisorcardinal bootstrap --install wires up a persistent

service so containers recover automatically on boot.

cardinal run -d -n web -p 8080:80 nginx:alpine
curl http://localhost:8080

It's the foundation everything else in this changelog builds on.