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Those pesky system connections
Development of Podman 6 is heating up! I have another usability improvement to share with you that some people see when running the Podman CLI. This case usually came up when people had created multiple machines. It was also more prevalent on Macs where people were using both libkrun and applehv provider machines and attempting…
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Podman 6: machine usability improvements
I wanted to introduce a significant change we are making in Podman 6 for our machine function. To understand the problem and change, we first need to establish that Podman machine is based on a concept of providers. The provider is a generic term that describes how Podman runs the Linux virtual machine. The following…
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Disturbances in the force …
Podman 6 development is under way. Last week, we began the release process for Podman 5.7. At the same time, we switched our main branch over to version `6.0.0-dev`. We anticipate delivering Podman 6 in early 2026. Learn more by following our upstream development for the exciting changes and expect more from us as we…
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Migration to the Container-Libs Monorepo is Complete
We’re happy to share that the migration of our core container libraries to a single monorepo is now complete! What Changed As announced earlier this month, we consolidated three repositories (containers/common, containers/storage and containers/image) into a single monorepo: All active development now happens in this repository. The old repositories remain available in read-only mode, but…
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Podman 5.6 Released: Rosetta Status Update
Last week we released Podman 5.6 and I wanted to provide an update on the Apple Rosetta situation I discussed in my June blog post. Current Status As we indicated in June, Podman 5.6 ships with Rosetta disabled by default due to the compatibility issues between Rosetta and Linux kernels 6.13 and above. This means…
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