adding 2.3 release

Author: vsoch

_posts/releases/2017-05-31-release-2-3.md

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+title:  "Singularity 2.3 Release"
+category: releases
+permalink: "release-2-3"
+version: "2.3"
+---
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+We have some egg-citing news! It's the release of Singularity 2.3!
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+<img src="/assets/img/posts/releases/singularity-egg.png">
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+For the full release announcement and downloads, please see <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/singularityware/singularity/releases/tag/2.3">the release on Github</a>.
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+There are a massive number of fixes, updates, optimizations and awesomeness contained within this release, and here are the major ones, in a nutshell:
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+- Lots of backend library changes to accommodate a more flexible API
+- Restructured Python backend
+- Updated bootstrap backend to make it much more reliable
+- Direct support for Singularity-Hub
+- Ability to run additional commands without root privileges (e.g. create, import, copy, export, etc..).
+- Added ability to pull images from Singularity Hub and Docker
+- Containers now have labels, and are inspect'able
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+We are excited about the release, and grateful to the community and all contributors. Have fun, egglings! Please report any additional bugs <a href="https://github.com/singularityware/singularity/issues/new" target="_blank">as issues</a>.
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+Thank you!