The Podman team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for Podman v5.5. Some of the highlights of the release include

The commands for managing artifacts got some improvements including a new command podman artifact extract. Even more exciting is Podman’s ability to mount artifacts into containers. There are also a number of improvements that have been made for Quadlets. Check out all the downloads, features, breaking changes, and bugfixes in our Github release announcement.

Podman machine-os images have been created for the new release and are already pushed to quay.io, but you can find them on the our github release page as well.

We are still weeks away from our final release. If you find any problems with the release, please report the issue to the Podman issues page.