As we draw close to the release of Podman 6, our developers have been working hard to get the features we committed to last year as part of our High Level Design ready and merged upstream. Unfortunately, it is taking longer than expected. In particular, several important features (including a rework of our configuration file…

The standups are coming, the standups are coming! Come one, come all to the Podman Standup Meetings! For the past many years, the Podman team at Red Hat has held standup meetings on Mondays at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, and also on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern. (Currently UTC-4, then UTC-5 once the USA goes to…
Starting with Podman 5.7, some of our users have noticed warning messages being printed by Podman when they run commands, looking a little like this: The deprecated BoltDB database driver is in use. This driver will be removed in the upcoming Podman 6.0 release in mid 2026. It is advised that you migrate to SQLite…

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…
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…

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…

Managing containers on Linux with Podman just got a new feature. If you’ve ever felt caught between running simple podman run commands and wrangling complex orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, you’re in for a treat. The latest version of Podman brings Quadlet management directly into its core with the new podman quadlet command suite, creating a…
We are excited to announce an upcoming change that will simplify and streamline development across several of our key libraries. We’re consolidating three of our major repositories into a single monorepo. What’s Changing? We’re planning to migrate the following repositories: All three will be merged into a new monorepository: Migration Date Planned migration date: August…

With the release of Podman 5.4, Podman Machine introduces a new option called –playbook for the podman machine init command. With –playbook, you can take advantage of Ansible Playbooks to customize your Podman Machines when they boot for the first time. Virtual Machine customization prior to 5.4 Leading up to the release of Podman 5.4,…
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