podman: changelog & breaking changes
Auto-tracked from github.com/containers/podman. Updated Jul 06, 2026.
v5.8.4
2026-06-26
✓ No breaking changes detected — looks safe to upgrade.
v6.0.0
2026-06-24
âš Breaking changes
- 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 BoltDB to SQLite.
- Support for running on Intel Macs has been removed.
- Support for running on Windows 10 has been removed.
- Support for running on cgroups v1 systems has been removed. Please update your system to use cgroups v2.
v6.0.0-rc1
2026-06-12
âš Breaking changes
- 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 BoltDB.
- Support for running on Intel Macs has been removed.
- Support for running on Windows 10 has been removed.
- Support for running on cgroups v1 systems has been removed. Please update your system to use cgroups v2.
v5.8.3
2026-06-12
✓ No breaking changes detected — looks safe to upgrade.
v5.8.2
2026-04-14
✓ No breaking changes detected — looks safe to upgrade.
v5.8.1
2026-03-11
✓ No breaking changes detected — looks safe to upgrade.
v5.8.0
2026-02-12
âš Breaking changes
- Fixed a bug where the Compat Remove endpoint for Secrets was misnamed as DELETE /secret/{name} instead of DELETE /secrets/{name} ().
v5.8.0-rc1
2026-02-10
âš Breaking changes
- Fixed a bug where the Compat Remove endpoint for Secrets was misnamed as DELETE /secret/{name} instead of DELETE /secrets/{name} ().
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