
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…

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…

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…

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…

We’re excited to announce the release of Podman 5.6, packed with significant new features and improvements that enhance the container management experience. This release brings substantial updates to Quadlet management, enhanced remote client capabilities, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. Quadlet Management One of the most significant additions in Podman 5.6 is the new suite of Quadlet…

Hello Podman users, I wanted to make you aware of a problem our team has been having on Apple MacOS in the recent months. And no, this is not an Apple bashing opportunity; I simply want to be transparent and communicate this specific problem and how it impacts our users. Our Podman machine OS images…

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…

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…
In my previous blog about OCI artifacts, I outlined several new, experimental commands that had been added to Podman. Those commands (Linux only, remote is not supported currently) are now included in the Podman v5.4 release. If you run Podman on Linux, check them out and help us exercise the functionality. We also had two…

Open Container Initiative (OCI hereafter) artifacts have been evolving with some significance lately. Projects like OCI Registry As Storage (ORAS) have been stalwarts in this arena. In fact, I think ORAS probably has the best explanation of artifacts. It is certainly worth a read if you are at all unfamiliar with the topic. In short,…
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