Yesterday our team released a new version of Podman: Podman-5.5.1. This release is a bug fix release only and fixed about a dozen or so problems including two in our RESTFul API. Check out the release notes for specifics on what was changed. You can also download installers and binaries from the release page as well. As always is the case, we welcome your feedback and contributions. You can file feature requests and issues for Podman for the latest version within our issues system on GitHub. Be sure to include as much information as possible including a reproducer for any defects. In some cases, we may ask you to verify the defect still exists in our main branch of Podman if we cannot replicate the problem.

We also released Buildah-1.40.1. It is a reasonably small release with a couple of notable changes. Check out its release page for more details. As with Podman, we welcome your feedback in the form of issues or feature requests. These can be filed upstream on the Buildah Github issues page.

If you are Fedora user, you can also provide feedback on Podman in Bodhi. This helps Podman and Buildah get moved to stable and released in Fedora to the general public. The process is an up/down vote of the and includes links to the RPMs in question.

As for this upcoming summer, we are now focused on development for Podman-5.6 which we plan to release the second week in August. If demand requires it, we would consider “patch” releases (5.5.2) throughout the summer. We usually judge demand by the criticality of problem. I also want to note that we will be deprecating the podman-$VERSION-setup.exe installer binary in Podman-5.6 in favor of the podman-installer-windows-$ARCH.exe binaries. These binaries already exist and can be used today as of 5.5.0. The setup.exe is amd64 only. Please update any scripted automations that use that installer and use the architecture specific installers instead.

I would like to thank you in advance for your support with feature requests, issues, and feedback in Fedora Bohdi. You are what makes our community so vibrant.

Brent