cardinal 1.23 — a persistent restart supervisor and scheduled backups

1.23 is about keeping containers alive and restorable:

• Persistent systemd supervisor — always and unless-stopped containers

restart automatically after reboot or crash, with configurable

--restart-delay.

• Crash-loop protection — --restart-max-attempts / --restart-window

put a budget on rapid restarts; once exhausted the container is blocked

(restart_blocked) until an explicit cardinal start.

• Scheduled backups — backup enable/disable/status with configurable

intervals and retention; backup verify checks an archive's checksum.

• Offline image verification — cardinal verify IMAGE checks layer

digests against the locally stored manifest.

• Runtime hardening — zombie-exit detection, rm tombstones that stop

supervisor races, safe OCI extraction, and protected bind sources.

The complete bilingual (EN/RU) documentation suite ships with it.