- The
podman exec
command now includes a--workdir
option to set working directory for the executed command - The
podman create
andpodman run
commands now support the--init
flag to use a minimal init process in the container - Added the
podman image sign
command to GPG sign images - The
podman run --device
flag now accepts directories, and will added any device nodes in the directory to the container - Added the
podman play kube
command to create pods and containers from Kubernetes pod YAML
- Fixed a bug where passing
podman create
orpodman run
volumes with an empty host or container path could cause a segfault - Fixed a bug where
storage.conf
was sometimes ignored for rootless containers - Fixed a bug where Podman run as root would error if CAP_SYS_RESOURCE was not available
- Fixed a bug where Podman would fail to start containers after a system restart due to an out-of-date default Apparmor profile
- Fixed a bug where Podman's bash completions were not working
- Fixed a bug where
podman login
would use existing login credentials even if new credentials were provided - Fixed a bug where Podman could create some directories with the wrong permissions, breaking containers with user namespaces
- Fixed a bug where
podman runlabel
was not properly setting container names when the--name
was specified - Fixed a bug where
podman runlabel
sometimes included extra spaces in command output - Fixed a bug where
podman commit
was including invalid port numbers in created images when committing containers with published ports - Fixed a bug where
podman exec
was not honoring the container's environment variables - Fixed a bug where
podman run --device
would fail when a symlink to a device was specified - Fixed a bug where
podman build
was not properly picking up OCI runtime paths specified inlibpod.conf
- Fixed a bug where Podman would mount
/dev/shm
into the container read-only for read-only containers (/dev/shm
should always be read-write) - Fixed a bug where Podman would ignore any mount whose container mountpoint was
/dev/shm
- Fixed a bug where
podman export
did not work with the defaultfuse-overlayfs
storage driver - Fixed a bug where
podman inspect -f '{{ json .Config }}'
on images would not output anything (it now prints the image's config) - Fixed a bug where
podman rmi -fa
displayed the wrong error message when trying to remove images used by pod infra containers
- Rootless containers now unconditionally use postrun cleanup processes, ensuring resources are freed when the container stops
- A new version of Buildah is included for
podman build
, featuring improved build speed and numerous bugfixes - Pulling images has been parallelized, allowing individual layers to be pulled in parallel
- The
podman start --attach
command now defaults thesig-proxy
option totrue
, matchingpodman create
andpodman run
- The
podman info
command now prints the path of the configuration file controlling container storage - Added
podman list
andpodman ls
as aliases forpodman ps
, andpodman container ps
andpodman container list
as aliases forpodman container ls
- Changed
podman generate kube
to generate Kubernetes service YAML in the same file as pod YAML, generating a single file instead of two - To improve compatability with the Docker command line,
podman inspect -f '{{ json .ContainerConfig }}'
on images is no longer valid; please usepodman inspect -f '{{ json .Config }}'
instead
- Fixed a bug where an empty path for named volumes could make it impossible to create containers
- Fixed a bug where containers using another container's network namespace would not also use the other container's /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf
- Fixed a bug where containers with
--rm
which failed to start were not removed - Fixed a potential race condition attempting to read
/etc/passwd
inside containers
- Added the
podman generate kube
command to generate Kubernetes Pod and Service YAML for Podman containers and pods - The
podman pod stop
flag now accepts a--timeout
flag to set the timeout for stopping containers in the pod
- Fixed a bug where rootless Podman would fail to start if the default OCI hooks directory is not present
- Rootless Podman now creates the storage.conf, libpod.conf, and mounts.conf configuration files automatically in
~/.config/containers/
for ease of reconfiguration - The
podman pod create
command can expose ports in the pod's network namespace, allowing public services to be created in pods - The
podman container checkpoint
command can now keep containers running after they are checkpointed with the--leave-running
flag - The
podman container checkpoint
andpodman container restore
commands now support the--tcp-established
flag to checkpoint and restore containers with active TCP connections - The
podman version
command now has a--format
flag to produce machine-readable output - Added the
podman container exists
,podman pod exists
, andpodman image exists
commands to easily check for a container/pod/image, respectively, by name or ID - The
podman ps --pod
flag now has a short alias,-p
- The
podman rmi
andpodman rm
commands now have a--prune
flag to prune unused images and containers, respectively - The
podman ps
command now has a--sync
flag to force a sync of Podman's state against the OCI runtime, resolving some state desync errors - Added the
podman volume
set of commands for creating and managing local-only named volumes
- Fixed a breaking change in rootless Podman where a change in default paths caused Podman to be unable to function on systems upgraded from 0.10.x or earlier
- Fixed a bug where
podman exec
without-t
would still use a terminal if the container was created with-t
- Fixed a bug where container root propogation was not being properly adjusted if volumes with root propogation set were mounted into the container
- Fixed a bug where
podman exec
could hold the container lock longer than necessary waiting for an exited container - Fixed a bug where rootless containers using
slirp4netns
for networking were reporting usingbridge
networking inpodman inspect
- Fixed a bug where
podman container restore -a
was attempting to restore all containers, including created and running ones. It will now only attempt to restore stopped and exited containers - Fixed a bug where rootless Podman detached containers were not being properly cleaned up
- Fixed a bug where privileged containers were being mounted with incorrect (too restrictive) mount options such as
nodev
- Fixed a bug where
podman stop
would throw an error attempting to stop a container that had already stopped - Fixed a bug where
NOTIFY_SOCKET
was not properly being passed into Podman containers - Fixed a bug where
/dev/shm
was not properly mounted in rootless containers - Fixed a bug where rootless Podman would set up the CNI plugins for networking (despite not using them in rootless mode), potentially causing
inotify
related errors - Fixed a bug where Podman would error on numeric GIDs that do not exist in the container's
/etc/group
- Fixed a bug where containers in pods or created with
--net=container
were not mounting/etc/resolv.conf
and/etc/hosts
podman build
now defaults the--force-rm
flag totrue
- Improved
podman runlabel
support for labels featuring arguments with whitespace - Containers without a network namespace will now use the host's
resolv.conf
- The
slirp4netns
network mode can now be used with containers running as root. It may be useful for container-in-container scenarios where the outer container does not have host networking set - Podman now uses
inotify
to wait for container exit files to be created, instead of polling. Ifinotify
cannot be used, Podman will fall back to polling to check if the file has been created - The
podman logs
command now uses improved short-options handling, allowing its flags to be combined if desired (for example,podman logs -lf
instead ofpodman logs -l -f
) - Hardcoded OCI hooks directories used by Podman are now deprecated; they should instead be coded into the
libpod.conf
configuration file. They can be specified as an array viahooks_dir
- Fixed a bug where Podman was not correctly adding firewall rules for containers, preventing them from accessing the network
- Fixed a bug where full error messages were being lost when creating containers with user namespaces
- Fixed a bug where container state was not properly updated if a failure occurred during network setup, which could cause mounts to be left behind when the container was removed
- Fixed a bug where
podman exec
could time out on slower systems by increasing the relevant timeout
podman rm -f
now removes paused containers. As such,podman rm -af
completing successfully guarantees all Podman containers have been removed- Added a field to
podman info
to show if Podman is being run as rootless - Made a small output format change to
podman images
- image sizes now feature a space between number and unit (e.g.123 MB
now instead of123MB
) - Vendored an updated version of
containers/storage
to fix several bugs reported upstream
- Added
--all
and--latest
flags topodman checkpoint
andpodman restore
- Added
--max-workers
flag to all Podman commands that support operating in parallel, allowing the maximum number of parallel workers used to be specified - Added
--all
flag topodman restart
- Fixed a bug where
podman port -l
would segfault if no containers were present - Fixed a bug where
podman stats -a
would error if containers were present but not running - Fixed a bug where container status checks would sometimes leave zombie OCI runtime processes
- Fixed checkpoint and restore code to verify an appropriate version of
criu
is being used - Fixed a bug where environment variables with no specified value (e.g.
-e FOO
) caused errors (they are now added as empty) - Fixed a bug where rootless Podman would attempt to configure the system firewall, causing errors on some systems where iptables is not in the user's PATH
- Fixed a bug where rootless Podman was unable to successfully write the container ID to a file when
--cid-file
was specified topodman run
- Fixed a bug where
podman unmount
would refuse to unmount a container if it was running (the unmount will now be deferred until the container stops) - Fixed a bug where rootless
podman attach
would fail to attach due to a too-long path name - Fixed a bug where
podman info
was not properly reporting the Git commit Podman was built from - Fixed a bug where
podman run --interactive
was not holding STDIN open when-a
flag was specified - Fixed a bug where Podman with the
cgroupfs
CGroup driver was sometimes not successfully removing pod CGroups - Fixed a bug where rootless Podman was unable to run systemd containers (note that this also requires an update to systemd)
- Fixed a bug where
podman run
with the--user
flag would fail if the container image did not contain/etc/passwd
or/etc/group
podman rm
,podman restart
,podman kill
,podman pause
, andpodman unpause
now operate in parallel, greatly improving speed when multiple containers are specifiedpodman create
,podman run
, andpodman ps
have a number of improvements which should greatly increase their speed- Greatly improved performance and reduced memory utilization of container status checks, which should improve the speed of most Podman commands
- Improve ability of
podman runlabel
to run commands that are not Podman - Podman containers with an IP address now add their hostnames to
/etc/hosts
- Changed default location of temporary libpod files in rootless Podman
- Updated the default Podman seccomp profile
Several paths related to rootless Podman had their default values changed in this release. If paths were not hardcoded in libpod.conf, your system may lose track of running containers and believe they are newly-created.
- Fixed a bug where
podman build
would not work while any containers were running
- Fixed cgroup mount for containers using systemd as init to work properly with the systemd cgroup manager
- Added handling for running containers as users with numeric UIDs not present in the container's /etc/passwd. This allows getpwuid() to work inside these containers.
- Added support for the REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE environment variable, which specifies the location of credentials for registry login. This is supported by the
push
,pull
,login
,logout
,runlabel
, andsearch
commands
- Fixed handling for image volumes which are mounted on symlinks. The links are now resolved within the container, not on the host
- Fixed mounts for containers that use systemd as init to properly include all mounts required by systemd to function
- Updated vendored version of Buildah used to power
podman build
- Added the
podman container checkpoint
andpodman container restore
commands to checkpoint and restore containers - Added the
podman container runlabel
command to run containers based on commands contained in their images - Added the
podman create --ip
andpodman run --ip
flags to allow setting static IPs for containers - Added the
podman kill --all
flag to send a signal to all running containers
- Fixed Podman cleanup processes for detached containers to properly print debug information when
--syslog
flag is specified - Fixed manpages for
podman create
andpodman run
to document existing--net
flag as an alias for--network
- Fixed issues with rootless Podman where specifying a single user mapping container was causing all Podman commands to hang
- Fixed an issue with rootless Podman not properly detecting when user namespaces were not enabled
- Fixed an issue where Podman user namespaces were not preserving file capabilities
- Fixed an issue where
resolv.conf
in container would unconditionally forward nameservers into the container, even localhost - Fixed containers to release resources in the OCI runtime immediately after exiting, improving compatability with Kata containers
- Fixed OCI runtime handling to fix several issues when using gVisor as an OCI runtime
- Fixed SELinux relabel errors when starting containers after a system restart
- Fixed a crash when initializing hooks on containers running systemd as init
- Fixed an SELinux labelling issue with privileged containers
- Fixed rootless Podman to raise better errors when using CGroup resource limits, which are not currently compatible with rootless
- Fixed a crash when runc was used as the OCI runtime for containers running systemd as init
- Fixed SELinux labelling for containers run with
--security-opt label=disable
to assign the correct label
- Changed flag ordering on all Podman commands to ensure flags are alphabetized
- Changed
podman stop
to work in parallel when multiple containers are specified, greatly speeding up stop for containers that do not stop after SIGINT - Updated vendored version of Buildah used to power
podman build
- Added version of vendored Buildah to
podman info
to better debug issues
- Fixed a critical issue where SELinux contexts set on tmpfs volumes were causing runc crashes
- Added a flag to
libpod.conf
,label
, to globally enable/disable SELinux labelling for libpod - Added
--mount
flag topodman create
andpodman run
as a new, more explicit way of specifying volume mounts
- Fixed a crash during container creation when an image had no names
- Fixed default rootfs mount propagation to for containers to match Docker
- Fixed permissions of
/proc
in containers - Fixed permissions of some default bind mounts (for example,
/etc/hosts
) in read-only containers - Fixed
/dev/shm
in--ipc=container
and--ipc=host
containers to use the correct SHM - Fixed rootless Podman to properly join the namespaces of other containers
- Fixed the output of
podman diff
to not display some default changes that will not be committed - Fixed rootless to better handle cases where insufficient UIDs/GIDs are mapped into the container
- Updated Buildah dependency to fix several bugs in
podman build
- Small performance improvement in image handling code to not recalculate digests
- Added
--interval
flag topodman wait
to determine the interval between checks for container status - Added a switch in
libpod.conf
to disable reserving ports for running containers. This lowers the safety of port allocations, but can significantly reduce memory usage. - Added ability to search all the contents of a registry if no image name is specified when using
podman search
- Further fixes for sharing of UTS namespaces within pods
- Fixed a deadlock in containers/storage that could be caused by numerous parallel Podman processes.
- Fixed Podman running into open file limits when many ports are forwarded
- Fixed default mount propagation on volume mounts
- Fixed default mounts under /dev remaining if /dev is bind-mounted into the container
- Fixed rootless
podman create
with no command specified throwing an error
- Added
podman rm --volumes
flag for compatability with Docker. As Podman does not presently support named volumes, this does nothing for now, but provides improved compatability with the Docker command line. - Improved error messages from
podman pull
- Podman is no longer being built by default with support for the Devicemapper storage driver. If you are using this storage driver, you should investigate switching to overlayfs.
- Added support for configuring iptables and firewalld firewalls to allow container traffic. This should resolve numerous issues with network access in containers.
It is recommended that you restart your system firewall after installing this release to clear any firewall rules created by older Podman versions. If port forwarding to containers does not work, it is recommended that you restart your system.
- Added initial support for the
podman pod
command as non-root
- Fixed regression where invalid Podman commands would still cause a clean exit
- Fixed
podman rmi --all
to not error if no images are present on the system - Fixed parsing of container logs with
podman logs
to properly handle CRI logging, fixing some issues with blank lines in logs - Fixed a bug creating pod cgroups using the systemd cgroup driver with systemd versions 239 and higher
- Fixed handling of volume mounts that overlapped with default container mounts (for example,
podman run -v /dev/:/dev
) - Fixed sharing of UTS namespace in pods
- Added additional debug information when pulling images if
--log-level=debug
is specified podman build
now defaults to caching intermediate layers while building
- Added the ability to add a multipart entrypoint with
podman run --entrypoint
- Improved help text when invalid commands are specified
- Greatly improved support for containers which use systemd as init
- Fixed several bugs with rootless
podman exec
- Fixed rootless
podman
with a symlinked storage directory crashing - Fixed bug with
podman ps
and multiple filters where the interface did not match Docker - Fixed handling of
resolv.conf
on the host to handle symlinks - Increased open file descriptor and process limits to match Docker and Buildah
- Fixed
podman run -h
to specify the container's hostname (as it does in Docker) instead of printing help text - Fixed a bug with image shortname handling where repositories were incorrectly being treated as registries
- Fixed a bug where
podman wait
was busywaiting and consuming large amounts of CPU
- Added the
podman pod top
command - Added the ability to easily share namespaces within a pod
- Added a pod statistics endpoint to the Varlink API
- Added information on container capabilities to the output of
podman inspect
- Fixed a bug with the --device flag in
podman run
andpodman create
- Fixed
podman pod stats
to accept partial pod IDs and pod names - Fixed a bug with OCI hooks handling
ALWAYS
matches - Fixed a bug with privileged rootless containers with
--net=host
set - Fixed a bug where
podman exec --user
would not work with usernames, only numeric IDs - Fixed a bug where Podman was forwarding both TCP and UDP ports to containers when protocol was not specified
- Fixed issues with Apparmor in rootless containers
- Fixed an issue with database encoding causing some containers created by Podman versions 0.8.1 and below to be unusable.
We switched JSON encoding/decoding to a new library for this release to address a compatability issue introduced by v0.8.2. However, this may cause issues with containers created in 0.8.2 and 0.8.3 with custom DNS servers.