Features A new command has been added, podman volume rename, to allow renaming volumes. Volumes created using volume drivers and volumes that are currently used by a container cannot be renamed (#28189). A new command has been added, podman machine restart, to allow easy restart of VMs managed by podman machine (#28366). The podman network rm command now includes a new option, --ignore, which supp…
Bugfixes Fixed a bug where podman machine VMs created by the WSL provider on Windows were not properly cleaned up if the podman machine init command failed (#27036). Fixed a bug where the Windows installer for Podman would, when installing for all users, incorrectly modify the path of only the user installing Podman (#29160). Fixed a bug where the remote Podman client would throw errors when run o…
Bugfixes Fixed a bug where Podman Machine VMs on Mac using the libkrun provider could be regularly turned off by a port-scanning process on the host unintentionally commanding the VM to shut down. Fixed a bug where the podman machine init command would fail on Windows hosts when using the hyperv provider when WSL was not installed (#29053). Fixed a bug where the podman machine init command would f…
Bugfixes Fixed a bug where Podman Machine VMs on Mac using the libkrun provider could be regularly turned off by a port-scanning process on the host unintentionally commanding the VM to shut down.
Security This release addresses CVE-2026-57231, where a malicious image using malformed Env entries could cause host environment variables to leak into containers run based on the image, including the ability to use the * glob operator to leak large numbers of environment variables without knowing their exact names (GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68). The golang.org/x/crypto library has been updated to v0.53.0,…
Security This release addresses CVE-2026-57231, where a malicious image using malformed Env entries could cause host environment variables to leak into containers run based on the image, including the ability to use the * glob operator to leak large numbers of environment variables without knowing their exact names (GHSA-4hq8-gpf5-8p68). Breaking Changes Due to breaking changes in this release, Po…
Breaking Changes Due to breaking changes in this release, Podman v6.0.0 must be used with Buildah v1.44.0, Skopeo v1.23, Netavark and Aardvark v2.0.0, and configuration files from the container-libs repository's common/v0.68.0 release. Support for BoltDB databases has been dropped. Starting Podman 6 when the BoltDB database is in use will have Podman attempt an automatic migration from SQLite to B…
Security This release addresses CVE-2026-44517, where building a Dockerfile using a ADD or COPY instruction accessing a malicious Git repository or tar archive could cause files outside the build context directory to be included in the build context or copied into the build. Please see GHSA-49p4-px3h-rq49 for more details. Misc Updated Buildah to v1.43.2 Updated gvisor-tap-vsock to v0.8.9
Security This release addresses CVE-2026-33414, where the podman machine init --image command when run on Windows using the Hyper-V backend can run PowerShell-escaped commands from the user-specified image path on in a PowerShell session on the host (GHSA-hc8w-h2mf-hp59). Bugfixes Fixed a bug where containers with the unless-stopped restart policy would not restart after a reboot when podman-resta…
Bugfixes Fixed a critical bug where automatic migration from BoltDB to SQLite after a reboot could perform a partial migration, with some containers in SQLite and some remaining in BoltDB, when Quadlets were in use (#28215). For those who encountered this bug with 5.8.0 there is no way to automatically recover. If you do not have persistent containers/pods/volumes (i.e. all containers are run usin…
Features The podman quadlet install command can now install files which contain multiple separate Quadlet files. The files must be separated with a --- delimeter on a new line, and each section must begin with a # FileName=<name> line to name the new Quadlet (#27384). Quadlet .container files now support a new key, AppArmor, for configuring the container's AppArmor profile (#27095). When running t…
Features The podman quadlet install command can now install files which contain multiple separate Quadlet files. The files must be separated with a --- delimeter on a new line, and each section must begin with a # FileName=<name> line to name the new Quadlet (#27384). Quadlet .container files now support a new key, AppArmor, for configuring the container's AppArmor profile (#27095). When running t…
Bugfixes Fixed a bug where adding devices to emulated Linux containers on FreeBSD did not work. Fixed a bug where the podman system migrate command could panic under certain circumstances when run rootless. Fixed a bug where Podman would sometimes not correctly recreate the rootless user namespace when Conmon and the rootless pause process were unexpectedly killed. Fixed a bug where the podman kub…
Security This release addresses CVE-2025-52881, where arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects allowed runc container escape and denial of service. Features The remote Podman client and podman system service API server now support encrypting connections with TLS and mTLS, including client authentication by certificate (#24583). The podman system connection add command can now create conn…