v4.6.1

Quadlet

• Quadlet now selects the first Quadlet file found when multiple Quadlets exist with the same name.

API

• Fixed a bug in the container kill endpoint to correctly return 409 when a container is not running (#19368).

Misc

• Updated Buildah to v1.31.2
• Updated the containers/common library to v0.55.3

v4.6.0

Features

• The podman manifest inspect command now supports the --authfile option, for authentication purposes.
• The podman wait command now supports --condition={healthy,unhealthy}, allowing waits on successful health checks.
• The podman push command now supports a new option, --compression-level, which specifies the compression level to use (#18939).
• The podman machine start command, when run with --log-level=debug, now creates a console window to display the virtual machine while booting.
• Podman now supports a new option, --imagestore, which allows images to be stored in a different directory than the graphroot.
• The --ip-range option to the podman network create command now accepts a new syntax, <startIP>-<endIP>, which allows more flexibility when limiting the ip range that Podman assigns.
• [Tech Preview] A new command, podmansh, has been added, which executes a user shell within a container when the user logs into the system. The container that the users get added to can be defined via a Podman Quadlet file. This feature is currently a Tech Preview which means it's ready for users to try out but changes can be expected in upcoming versions.
• The podman network create command supports a new --option, bclim, for the macvlan driver.
• The podman network create command now supports adding static routes using the --route option.
• The podman network create command supports a new --option, no_default_route for all drivers.
• The podman info command now prints network information about the binary path, package version, program version and DNS information (#18443).
• The podman info command now displays the number of free locks available, helping to debug lock exhaustion scenarios.
• The podman info command now outputs information about pasta, if it exists in helper_binaries_dir or $PATH.
• The remote Podman client’s podman build command now accepts Containerfiles that are not in the context directory (#18239).
• The remote Podman client’s podman play kube command now supports the --configmap option (#17513).
• The podman kube play command now supports multi-doc YAML files for configmap arguments. (#18537).
• The podman pod create command now supports a new flag, --restart, which sets the restart policy for all the containers in a pod.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman ps command now shows the number of times a container has been restarted based on its restart policy.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman pod ps command now shows the total number of container restarts in a pod.
• The podman machine provider can now be specified via the CONTAINERS_MACHINE_PROVIDER environment variable, as well as via the provider field in containers.conf (#17116).
• A default list of pasta arguments can now be set in containers.conf via pasta_options.
• The podman machine init and podman machine set commands now support a new option, --user-mode-networking, which improves interops with VPN configs that drop traffic from WSL networking, on Windows.
• The remote Podman client’s podman push command now supports the --digestfile option (#18216).
• Podman now supports a new option, --out, that allows redirection or suppression of STDOUT (#18120).

Changes

• When looking up an image by digest, the entire repository of the specified value is now considered. This aligns with Docker's behavior since v20.10.20. Previously, both the repository and the tag was ignored and Podman looked for an image with only a matching digest. Ignoring the name, repository, and tag of the specified value can lead to security issues and is considered harmful.
• The podman system service command now emits a warning when binding to a TCP socket. This is not a secure configuration and the Podman team recommends against using it.
• The podman top command no longer depends on ps(1) being present in the container image and now uses the one from the host (#19001).
• The --filter id=xxx option will now treat xxx as a CID prefix, and not as a regular expression (#18471).
• The --filter option now requires multiple --filter flags to specify multiple filters. It will no longer support the comma syntax (--filter label=a,label=b).
• The slirp4netns binary for will now be searched for in paths specified by the helper_binaries_dir option in containers.conf (#18239).
• Podman machine now updates /run/docker.sock within the guest to be consistent with its rootless/rootful setting (#18480).
• The podman system df command now counts files which podman generates for use with specific containers as part of the disk space used by those containers, and which can be reclaimed by removing those containers. It also counts space used by files it associates with specific images and volumes as being used by those images and volumes.
• The podman build command now returns a clearer error message when the Containerfile cannot be found. (#16354).
• Containers created with --pid=host will no longer print errors on podman stop (#18460).
• The podman manifest push command no longer requires a destination to be specified. If a destination is not provided, the source is used as the destination (#18360).
• The podman system reset command now warns the user that the graphroot and runroot directories will be deleted (#18349), (#18295).
• The package and package-install targets in Makefile have now been fixed and also renamed to rpm and rpm-install respectively for clarity (#18817).

Quadlet

• Quadlet now exits with a non-zero exit code when errors are found (#18778).
• Rootless podman quadlet files can now be installed in /etc/containers/systemd/users directory.
• Quadlet now supports the AutoUpdate option.
• Quadlet now supports the Mask and Unmask options.
• Quadlet now supports the WorkingDir option, which specifies the default working dir in a container.
• Quadlet now supports the Sysctl option, which sets namespaced kernel parameters for containers (#18727).
• Quadlet now supports the SecurityLabelNetsted=true option, which allows nested SELinux containers.
• Quadlet now supports the Pull option in .container files (#18779).
• Quadlet now supports the ExitCode field in .kube files, which reflects the exit codes of failed containers.
• Quadlet now supports PodmanArgs field.
• Quadlet now supports the HostName field, which sets the container's host name, in .container files (#18486).

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the podman machine start command would fail with a 255 exit code. It now waits for systemd-user sessions to be up, and for SSH to be ready, addressing the flaky machine starts (#17403).
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto update command did not correctly use authentication files when contacting container registries.
• Fixed a bug where --label option to the podman volume ls command would return volumes that matched any of the filters, not all of them (#19219).
• Fixed a bug where the podman kube play command did not recognize containerPort names inside Kubernetes liveness probes. Now, liveness probes support both containerPort names as well as port numbers (#18645).
• Fixed a bug where the --dns option to the podman run command was ignored for macvlan networks (#19169).
• Fixed a bug in the podman system service command where setting LISTEN_FDS when listening on TCP would misbehave.
• Fixed a bug where hostnames were not recognized as a network alias. Containers can now resolve other hostnames, in addition to their names (#17370).
• Fixed a bug where the podman pod run command would error after a reboot on a non-systemd system (#19175).
• Fixed a bug where the --syslog option returned a fatal error when no syslog server was found (#19075).
• Fixed a bug where the --mount option would parse the readonly option incorrectly (#18995).
• Fixed a bug where hook executables invoked by the podman run command set an incorrect working directory. It now sets the correct working directory pointing to the container bundle directory (#18907).
• Fixed a bug where the -device-cgroup-rule option was silently ignored in rootless mode ([#18698](https://github.com/containers/podman/issu...

v4.6.0-RC2

Features

• The podman manifest inspect command now supports the --authfile option, for authentication purposes.
• The podman wait command now supports --condition={healthy,unhealthy}, allowing waits on successful health checks.
• The podman push command now supports a new option, --compression-level, which specifies the compression level to use (#18939).
• The podman machine start command, when run with --log-level=debug, now creates a console window to display the virtual machine while booting.
• Podman now supports a new option, --imagestore, which allows images to be stored in a different directory than the graphroot.
• The --ip-range option to the podman network create command now accepts a new syntax, <startIP>-<endIP>, which allows more flexibility when limiting the ip range that Podman assigns.
• [Tech Preview] A new command, podmansh, has been added, which executes a user shell within a container when the user logs into the system. The container that the users get added to can be defined via a Podman Quadlet file. This feature is currently a Tech Preview which means it's ready for users to try out but changes can be expected in upcoming versions.
• The podman network create command supports a new --option, bclim, for the macvlan driver.
• The podman network create command now supports adding static routes using the --route option.
• The podman network create command supports a new --option, no_default_route for all drivers.
• The podman info command now prints network information about the binary path, package version, program version and DNS information (#18443).
• The podman info command now displays the number of free locks available, helping to debug lock exhaustion scenarios.
• The podman info command now outputs information about pasta, if it exists in helper_binaries_dir or $PATH.
• The remote Podman client’s podman build command now accepts Containerfiles that are not in the context directory (#18239).
• The remote Podman client’s podman play kube command now supports the --configmap option (#17513).
• The podman kube play command now supports multi-doc YAML files for configmap arguments. (#18537).
• The podman pod create command now supports a new flag, --restart, which sets the restart policy for all the containers in a pod.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman ps command now shows the number of times a container has been restarted based on its restart policy.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman pod ps command now shows the total number of container restarts in a pod.
• The podman machine provider can now be specified via the CONTAINERS_MACHINE_PROVIDER environment variable, as well as via the provider field in containers.conf (#17116).
• A default list of pasta arguments can now be set in containers.conf via pasta_options.
• The podman machine init and podman machine set commands now support a new option, --user-mode-networking, which improves interops with VPN configs that drop traffic from WSL networking, on Windows.
• The remote Podman client’s podman push command now supports the --digestfile option (#18216).
• Podman now supports a new option, --out, that allows redirection or suppression of STDOUT (#18120).

Changes

• The --filter id=xxx option will now treat xxx as a CID prefix, and not as a regular expression (#18471).
• The --filter option now requires multiple --filter flags to specify multiple filters. It will no longer support the comma syntax (--filter label=a,label=b).
• The slirp4netns binary for will now be searched for in paths specified by the helper_binaries_dir option in containers.conf (#18239).
• Podman machine now updates /run/docker.sock within the guest to be consistent with its rootless/rootful setting (#18480).
• The podman system df command now counts files which podman generates for use with specific containers as part of the disk space used by those containers, and which can be reclaimed by removing those containers. It also counts space used by files it associates with specific images and volumes as being used by those images and volumes.
• The podman build command now returns a clearer error message when the Containerfile cannot be found. (#16354).
• Containers created with --pid=host will no longer print errors on podman stop (#18460).
• The podman manifest push command no longer requires a destination to be specified. If a destination is not provided, the source is used as the destination (#18360).
• The podman system reset command now warns the user that the graphroot and runroot directories will be deleted (#18349), (#18295).

Quadlet

• Quadlet now exits with a non-zero exit code when errors are found (#18778).
• Rootless podman quadlet files can now be installed in /etc/containers/systemd/users directory.
• Quadlet now supports the AutoUpdate option.
• Quadlet now supports the Mask and Unmask options.
• Quadlet now supports the WorkingDir option, which specifies the default working dir in a container.
• Quadlet now supports the Sysctl option, which sets namespaced kernel parameters for containers (#18727).
• Quadlet now supports the SecurityLabelNetsted=true option, which allows nested SELinux containers.
• Quadlet now supports the Pull option in .container files (#18779).
• Quadlet now supports the ExitCode field in .kube files, which reflects the exit codes of failed containers.
• Quadlet now supports PodmanArgs field.
• Quadlet now supports the HostName field, which sets the container's host name, in .container files (#18486).

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the podman machine start command would fail with a 255 exit code. It now waits for systemd-user sessions to be up, and for SSH to be ready, addressing the flaky machine starts (#17403).
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto update command did not correctly use authentication files when contacting container registries.
• Fixed a bug where the --dns option to the podman run command was ignored for macvlan networks (#19169).
• Fixed a bug in the podman system service command where setting LISTEN_FDS when listening on TCP would misbehave.
• Fixed a bug where hostnames were not recognized as a network alias. Containers can now resolve other hostnames, in addition to their names (#17370).
• Fixed a bug where the podman pod run command would error after a reboot on a non-systemd system (#19175).
• Fixed a bug where the --syslog option returned a fatal error when no syslog server was found (#19075).
• Fixed a bug where the --mount option would parse the readonly option incorrectly (#18995).
• Fixed a bug where hook executables invoked by the podman run command set an incorrect working directory. It now sets the correct working directory pointing to the container bundle directory (#18907).
• Fixed a bug where the -device-cgroup-rule option was silently ignored in rootless mode (#18698).
• Listing images is now more resilient towards concurrently running image removals.
• Fixed a bug where the --force option to the podman kube down command would not remove volumes (#18797).
• Fixed a bug where setting the --list-tags option in the podman search command would cause the command to ignore the --format option (#18939).
• Fixed a bug where the podman machine start command did not properly translate the proxy IP.
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto-update command would not restart dependent units (specified via Requires=) on auto update (#18926).
• Fixed a bug where the podman pull command would print ids multiple times when using additional stores (#18647).
• Fixed a bug where creating a container while setting unmask option to an empty array would cause the create to fail (#18848).
• Fixed a bug where the propagation of proxy settings for QEMU VMs was broken.
• Fixed a bug where the podman rm -fa command could fail to remove dependency containers such as pod infra containers (#18180).
• Fixed a bug where --tz option to the podman create ...

v4.6.0-rc1

Features

• The podman wait command now supports --condition={healthy,unhealthy}, allowing waits on successful health checks.
• The podman push command now supports a new option, --compression-level, which specifies the compression level to use (#18939).
• The podman machine start command, when run with --log-level=debug, now creates a console window to display the virtual machine while booting.
• Podman now supports a new option, --imagestore, which allows images to be stored in a different directory than the graphroot.
• The --ip-range option to the podman network create command now accepts a new syntax, <startIP>-<endIP>, which allows more flexibility when limiting the ip range that Podman assigns.
• [Tech Preview] A new command, podmansh, has been added, which executes a user shell within a container when the user logs into the system. The container that the users get added to can be defined via a Podman Quadlet file.
• The podman network create command supports a new --option, bclim, for the macvlan driver.
• The podman info command now prints network information about the binary path, package version, program version and DNS information (#18443).
• The podman info command now displays the number of free locks available, helping to debug lock exhaustion scenarios.
• The podman info command now outputs information about pasta, if it exists in helper_binaries_dir or $PATH.
• The remote Podman client’s podman build command now accepts Containerfiles that are not in the context directory (#18239).
• The remote Podman client’s podman play kube command now supports the --configmap option (#17513).
• The podman kube play command now supports multi-doc YAML files for configmap arguments. (#18537).
• The podman pod create command now supports a new flag, --restart, which sets the restart policy for all the containers in a pod.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman ps command now shows the number of times a container has been restarted based on its restart policy.
• The --format={{.Restarts}} option to the podman pod ps command now shows the total number of container restarts in a pod.
• The podman machine provider can now be specified via the CONTAINERS_MACHINE_PROVIDER environment variable, as well as via the provider field in containers.conf (#17116).
• A default list of pasta arguments can now be set in containers.conf via pasta_options.
• The podman machine init and podman machine set commands now support a new option, --user-mode-networking, which improves interops with VPN configs that drop traffic from WSL networking, on Windows.
• The remote Podman client’s podman push command now supports the --digestfile option (#18216).
• Podman now supports a new option, --out, that allows redirection or suppression of STDOUT (#18120).

Changes

• The --filter id=xxx option will now treat xxx as a CID prefix, and not as a regular expression (#18471).
• The --filter option now requires multiple --filter flags to specify multiple filters. It will no longer support the comma syntax (--filter label=a,label=b).
• The slirp4netns binary for will now be searched for in paths specified by the helper_binaries_dir option in containers.conf (#18239).
• Podman machine now updates /run/docker.sock within the guest to be consistent with its rootless/rootful setting (#18480).
• The podman system df command now counts files which podman generates for use with specific containers as part of the disk space used by those containers, and which can be reclaimed by removing those containers. It also counts space used by files it associates with specific images and volumes as being used by those images and volumes.
• The podman build command now returns a clearer error message when the Containerfile cannot be found. (#16354).
• Containers created with --pid=host will no longer print errors on podman stop (#18460).
• The podman manifest push command no longer requires a destination to be specified. If a destination is not provided, the source is used as the destination (#18360).
• The podman system reset command now warns the user that the graphroot and runroot directories will be deleted (#18349), (#18295).

Quadlet

• Quadlet now exits with a non-zero exit code when errors are found (#18778).
• Rootless podman quadlet files can now be installed in /etc/containers/systemd/users directory.
• Quadlet now supports the AutoUpdate option.
• Quadlet now supports the Mask and Unmask options.
• Quadlet now supports the WorkingDir option, which specifies the default working dir in a container.
• Quadlet now supports the Sysctl option, which sets namespaced kernel parameters for containers (#18727).
• Quadlet now supports the SecurityLabelNetsted=true option, which allows nested SELinux containers.
• Quadlet now supports the Pull option in .container files (#18779).
• Quadlet now supports the ExitCode field in .kube files, which reflects the exit codes of failed containers.
• Quadlet now supports PodmanArgs field.
• Quadlet now supports the HostName field, which sets the container's host name, in .container files (#18486).

Bugfixes

• The podman machine start command now waits for systemd-user sessions to be up, addressing flaky machine starts (##17403).
• Fixed a bug where setting the --list-tags option in the podman search command would cause the command to ignore the --format option (#18939).
• Fixed a bug where the podman machine start command did not properly translate the proxy IP.
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto-update command would not restart dependent units (specified via Requires=) on auto update (#18926).
• Fixed a bug where the podman pull command would print ids multiple times when using additional stores (#18647).
• Fixed a bug where creating a container while setting unmask option to an empty array would cause the create to fail (#18848).
• Fixed a bug where the propagation of proxy settings for QEMU VMs was broken.
• Fixed a bug where the podman rm -fa command could fail to remove dependency containers such as pod infra containers (#18180).
• Fixed a bug where --tz option to the podman create and podman run commands would not create a proper localtime symlink to the zoneinfo file, which was causing some applications (e.g. java) to not read the timezone correctly.
• Fixed a bug where lowering the ulimit after container creation would cause the container to fail (#18714).
• Fixed a bug where signals were not forwarded correctly in rootless containers (#16091).
• Fixed a bug where the --filter volume= option to the podman events command would not display the relevant events (#18618).
• Fixed a bug in the podman wait command where containers created with the --restart=always option would result in the container staying in a stopped state.
• Fixed a bug where the podman stats command returned an incorrect memory limit after a container update. (#18621).
• Fixed a bug in the podman run command where the PODMAN_USERNS environment variable was not ignored when the --pod option was set, resulting in a container created in a different user namespace than its pod (#18580).
• Fixed a bug where the podman run command would not create the /run/.containerenv when the tmpfs is mounted on /run (#18531).
• Fixed a bug where the $HOME environment variable would be configured inconsistently between container starts if a new passwd entry had to be created for the container.
• Fixed a bug where the podman play kube command would restart initContainers based on the restart policy of the pod. initContainers should never be restarted.
• Fixed a bug in the remote Podman client’s build command where an invalid platform would be set.
• Fixed a bug where the podman history command did not display tags (#17763).
• Fixed a bug where the podman machine init command would create invalid machines when run with certain UIDs (#17893).
• Fixed a bug in the remote Podman client’s podman manifest push command w...

v4.5.1

Security

• Do not include image annotations when building spec. These annotations can have security implications - crun, for example, allows rootless containers to preserve the user's groups through an annotation.

Quadlet

• Fixed a bug in quadlet to recognize the systemd optional prefix '-'.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where fully resolving symlink paths included the version number, breaking the path to homebrew-installed qemu files (#18111).
• Fixed a bug where Podman was splitting the filter map slightly differently compared to Docker (#18092).
• Fixed a bug where running make package did not work on RHEL 8 environments (#18421).
• Fixed a bug to allow comma separated dns server IP addresses in podman network create --dns and podman network update --dns-add/--dns-drop (#18663).
• Fixed a bug to correctly stop containers created with --restart=always in all cases (#18259).
• Fixed a bug in podman-remote logs to correctly display errors reported by the server.
• Fixed a bug to correctly tear down the network stack again when an error happened during the setup.
• Fixed a bug in the remote API exec inspect call to correctly display updated information, e.g. when the exec process died (#18424).
• Fixed a bug so that podman save on windows can now write to stdout by default (#18147).
• Fixed a bug where podman machine rm with the qemu backend now correctly removes the machine connection after the confirmation message not before (#18330).
• Fixed a problem where podman machine connections would try to connect to the ipv6 localhost ipv6 (::1) (#16470).

API

• Fixed a bug in the compat container create endpoint which could result in a "duplicate mount destination" error when the volume path was not "clean", e.g. included a final slash at the end. (#18454).
• The compat API now correctly accepts a tag in the images/create?fromSrc endpoint (#18597).

v4.5.0

Features

• The podman kube play command now supports the hostIPC field (#17157).
• The podman kube play command now supports a new flag, --wait, that keeps the workload running in foreground until killed with a sigkill or sigterm. The workloads are cleaned up and removed when killed (#14522).
• The podman kube generate and podman kube play commands now support SELinux filetype labels.
• The podman kube play command now supports sysctl options (#16711).
• The podman kube generate command now supports generating the Deployments (#17712).
• The podman machine inspect command now shows information about named pipe addresses on Windows (#16860).
• The --userns=keep-id option for podman create, run, and kube play now works for root containers by copying the current mapping into a new user namespace (#17337).
• A new command has been added, podman secret exists, to verify if a secret with the given name exists.
• The podman kube generate and podman kube play commands now support ulimit annotations (#16404).
• The podman create, run, pod create, and pod clone commands now support a new option, --shm-size-systemd, that allows limiting tmpfs sizes for systemd-specific mounts (#17037).
• The podman create and run commands now support a new option, --group-entry which customizes the entry that is written to the /etc/group file within the container when the --user option is used (#14965).
• The podman create and podman run commands now support a new option, --security-opt label=nested, which allows SELinux labeling within a confined container.
• A new command, podman machine os apply has been added, which applies OS changes to a Podman machine, from an OCI image.
• The podman search command now supports two new options: --cert-dir and --creds.
• Defaults for the --cgroup-config option for podman create and podman run can now be set in containers.conf.
• Podman now supports auto updates for containers running inside a pod (#17181).
• Podman can now use a SQLite database as a backend for increased stability. The default remains the old database, BoltDB. The database to use is selected through the database_backend field in containers.conf.
• Netavark plugin support has been added. The netavark network backend now allows users to create custom network drivers. podman network create -d <plugin> can be used to create a network config for your plugin and then Podman will use it like any other config and takes care of setup/teardown on container start/stop. This requires at least Netavark version 1.6.
• DHCP with macvlan and the netavark backend is now supported.

Changes

• Remote builds using the podman build command no longer allows .containerignore or .dockerignore files to be symlinks outside the build context.
• The podman system reset command now clears build caches.
• The podman play kube command now adds ctrName as an alias to the pod network (#16544).
• The podman kube generate command no longer adds hostPort to the pod spec when generating service kinds.
• Using a private cgroup namespace with systemd containers on a cgroups v1 system will explicitly error (this configuration has never worked) (#17727).
• The SYS_CHROOT capability has been re-added to the default set of capabilities.
• Listing large quantities of images with the podman images command has seen a significant performance improvement (#17828).

Quadlet

• Quadlet now supports the Rootfs= option, allowing containers to be based on rootfs in addition to image.
• Quadlet now supports the Secret key in the Container group.
• Quadlet now supports the Logdriver key in .container and .kube units.
• Quadlet now supports the Mount key in .container files (#17632).
• Quadlet now supports specifying static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in .container files via the IP= and IP6= options.
• Quadlet now supports health check configuration in .container files.
• Quadlet now supports relative paths in the Volume key in .container files (#17418).
• Quadlet now supports setting the UID and GID options for --userns=keep-id (#17908).
• Quadlet now supports adding tmpfs filesystems through the Tmpfs key in .container files (#17907).
• Quadlet now supports the UserNS option in .container files, which will replace the existing RemapGid, RemapUid, RemapUidSize and RemapUsers options in a future release (#17984).
• Quadlet now includes a --version option.
• Quadlet now forbids specifying SELinux label types, including disabling selinux separation.
• Quadlet now does not set log-driver by default.
• Fixed a bug where Quadlet did not recognize paths starting with systemd specifiers as absolute (#17906).

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in the network list API where a race condition would cause the list to fail if a container had just been removed (#17341).
• Fixed a bug in the podman image scp command to correctly use identity settings.
• Fixed a bug in the remote Podman client's podman build command where building from stdin would fail. podman --remote build -f - now works correctly (#17495).
• Fixed a bug in the podman volume prune command where exclusive (!=) filters would fail (#17051).
• Fixed a bug in the --volume option in the podman create, run, pod create, and pod clone commands where specifying relative mappings or idmapped mounts would fail (#17517).
• Fixed a bug in the podman kube play command where a secret would be created, but nothing would be printed on the terminal (#17071).
• Fixed a bug in the podman kube down command where secrets were not removed.
• Fixed a bug where cleaning up after an exited container could segfault on non-Linux operating systems.
• Fixed a bug where the podman inspect command did not properly list the network configuration of containers created with --net=none or --net=host (#17385).
• Fixed a bug where containers created with user-specified SELinux labels that created anonymous or named volumes would create those volumes with incorrect labels.
• Fixed a bug where the podman checkpoint restore command could panic.
• Fixed a bug in the podman events command where events could be returned more than once after a log file rotation (#17665).
• Fixed a bug where errors from systemd when restarting units during a podman auto-update command were not reported.
• Fixed a bug where containers created with the --health-on-failure=restart option were not restarting when the health state turned unhealthy (#17777).
• Fixed a bug where containers using the slirp4netns network mode with the cidr option and a custom user namespace did not set proper DNS IPs in resolv.conf.
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto-update command could fail to restart systemd units (#17607).
• Fixed a bug where the podman play kube command did not properly handle secret.items in volumes (#17829).
• Fixed a bug where the podman generate kube command could generate pods with invalid names and hostnames (#18054).
• Fixed a bug where names of limits (such as RLIMIT_NOFILE) passed to the --ulimit option to podman create and podman run were case-sensitive (#18077).
• Fixed a possible corruption issue with the configuration state of podman machine during system failures on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

API

• The Compat Stats endpoint for Containers now returns the Id key as lowercase id to match Docker (#17869).
• Fixed a bug where the Compat top endpoint incorrectly returned titles as a string instead of a list (#17524).

Misc

• The podman version command no longer joins the rootless user namespace (#17657).
• The podman-events --stream option is no longer hidden and is now documented.
• Updated Buildah to v1.30.0
• Updated the containers/storage library to v1.46.1
• Updated the containers/image library to v5.25.0
• Updated the containers/common library to v0.52.0

v4.5.0-RC2

Features

• The podman kube play command now supports the hostIPC field (#17157).
• The podman kube play command now supports a new flag, --wait, that keeps the workload running in foreground until killed with a sigkill or sigterm. The workloads are cleaned up and removed when killed (#14522).
• The podman kube generate and podman kube play commands now support SELinux filetype labels.
• The podman kube play command now supports sysctl options (#16711).
• The podman kube generate command now supports generating the Deployments (#17712).
• The podman machine inspect command now shows information about named pipe addresses on Windows (#16860).
• The --userns=keep-id option for podman create, run, and kube play now works for root containers by copying the current mapping into a new user namespace (#17337).
• A new command has been added, podman secret exists, to verify if a secret with the given name exists.
• The podman kube generate and podman kube play commands now support ulimit annotations (#16404).
• The podman create, run, pod create, and pod clone commands now support a new option, --shm-size-systemd, that allows limiting tmpfs sizes for systemd-specific mounts (#17037).
• The podman create and run commands now support a new option, --group-entry which customizes the entry that is written to the /etc/group file within the container when the --user option is used (#14965).
• The podman create and podman run commands now support a new option, --security-opt label=nested, which allows SELinux labeling within a confined container.
• A new command, podman machine os apply has been added, which applies OS changes to a Podman machine, from an OCI image.
• The podman search command now supports two new options: --cert-dir and --creds.
• Defaults for the --cgroup-config option for podman create and podman run can now be set in containers.conf.
• Podman now supports auto updates for containers running inside a pod (#17181).
• Podman can now use a SQLite database as a backend for increased stability. The default remains the old database, BoltDB. The database to use is selected through the database_backend field in containers.conf.
• Netavark plugin support has been added. The netavark network backend now allows users to create custom network drivers. podman network create -d <plugin> can be used to create a network config for your plugin and then Podman will use it like any other config and takes care of setup/teardown on container start/stop. This requires at least Netavark version 1.6.

Changes

• Remote builds using the podman build command no longer allows .containerignore or .dockerignore files to be symlinks outside the build context.
• The podman system reset command now clears build caches.
• The podman play kube command now adds ctrName as an alias to the pod network (#16544).
• The podman kube generate command no longer adds hostPort to the pod spec when generating service kinds.
• Using a private cgroup namespace with systemd containers on a cgroups v1 system will explicitly error (this configuration has never worked) (#17727).
• The SYS_CHROOT capability has been re-added to the default set of capabilities.
• Listing large quantities of images with the podman images command has seen a significant performance improvement (#17828).

Quadlet

• Quadlet now supports the Rootfs= option, allowing containers to be based on rootfs in addition to image.
• Quadlet now supports the Secret key in the Container group.
• Quadlet now supports the Logdriver key in .container and .kube units.
• Quadlet now supports the Mount key in .container files (#17632).
• Quadlet now supports specifying static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in .container files via the IP= and IP6= options.
• Quadlet now supports health check configuration in .container files.
• Quadlet now supports relative paths in the Volume key in .container files (#17418).
• Quadlet now supports setting the UID and GID options for --userns=keep-id (#17908).
• Quadlet now supports adding tmpfs filesystems through the Tmpfs key in .container files (#17907).
• Quadlet now supports the UserNS option in .container files, which will replace the existing RemapGid, RemapUid, RemapUidSize and RemapUsers options in a future release (#17984).
• Quadlet now includes a --version option.
• Quadlet now forbids specifying SELinux label types, including disabling selinux separation.
• Fixed a bug where Quadlet did not recognize paths starting with systemd specifiers as absolute (#17906).

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in the network list API where a race condition would cause the list to fail if a container had just been removed (#17341).
• Fixed a bug in the podman image scp command to correctly use identity settings.
• Fixed a bug in the remote Podman client's podman build command where building from stdin would fail. podman --remote build -f - now works correctly (#17495).
• Fixed a bug in the podman volume prune command where exclusive (!=) filters would fail (#17051).
• Fixed a bug in the --volume option in the podman create, run, pod create, and pod clone commands where specifying relative mappings or idmapped mounts would fail (#17517).
• Fixed a bug in the podman kube play command where a secret would be created, but nothing would be printed on the terminal (#17071).
• Fixed a bug in the podman kube down command where secrets were not removed.
• Fixed a bug where cleaning up after an exited container could segfault on non-Linux operating systems.
• Fixed a bug where the podman inspect command did not properly list the network configuration of containers created with --net=none or --net=host (#17385).
• Fixed a bug where containers created with user-specified SELinux labels that created anonymous or named volumes would create those volumes with incorrect labels.
• Fixed a bug where the podman checkpoint restore command could panic.
• Fixed a bug in the podman events command where events could be returned more than once after a log file rotation (#17665).
• Fixed a bug where errors from systemd when restarting units during a podman auto-update command were not reported.
• Fixed a bug where containers created with the --health-on-failure=restart option were not restarting when the health state turned unhealthy (#17777).
• Fixed a bug where containers using the slirp4netns network mode with the cidr option and a custom user namespace did not set proper DNS IPs in resolv.conf.
• Fixed a bug where the podman auto-update command could fail to restart systemd units (#17607).
• Fixed a bug where the podman play kube command did not properly handle secret.items in volumes (#17829).
• Fixed a bug where the podman generate kube command could generate pods with invalid names and hostnames (#18054).
• Fixed a bug where names of limits (such as RLIMIT_NOFILE) passed to the --ulimit option to podman create and podman run were case-sensitive (#18077).
• Fixed a possible corruption issue with the configuration state of podman machine during system failures on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

API

• The Compat Stats endpoint for Containers now returns the Id key as lowercase id to match Docker (#17869).

Misc

• The podman version command no longer joins the rootless user namespace (#17657).
• The podman-events --stream option is no longer hidden and is now documented.
• Updated Buildah to v1.30.0
• Updated the containers/storage library to v1.46.1
• Updated the containers/image library to v5.25.0
• Updated the containers/common library to v0.52.0

v4.5.0-RC1

This is the first release candidate of Podman v4.5.0. Full release notes are not available, but will be compiled for the next RC.

v4.4.4

Changes

• Podman now writes direct mappings for idmapped mounts.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a regression which caused the MacOS installer to fail if podman-mac-helper was already installed (#17910).

v4.4.3

Security

• This release fixes CVE-2022-41723, a vulnerability in the golang.org/x/net package where a maliciously crafted HTTP/2 stream could cause excessive CPU consumption, sufficient to cause a denial of service.

Changes

• Added SYS_CHROOT back to the default set of capabilities.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where quadlet would not use the default runtime set.
• Fixed a bug where podman system service --log-level=trace did not hijack the client connection, causing remote podman run/attach calls to work incorrectly (#17749).
• Fixed a bug where the podman-mac-helper returned an incorrect exit code after erroring. podman-mac-helper now exits with 1 on error (#17785).
• Fixed a bug where podman run --dns ... --network would not respect the dns option. Podman will no longer add host nameservers to resolv.conf when aardvark-dns is used (#17499).
• Fixed a bug where podman logs errored out with the passthrough driver when the container was run from a systemd service.
• Fixed a bug where --health-on-failure=restart would not restart the container when the health state turned unhealthy (#17777).
• Fixed a bug where podman machine VMs could have their system time drift behind real time. New machines will no longer be affected by this (#11541).

API

• Fixed a bug where creating a network with the Compat API would return an incorrect status code. The API call now returns 409 when creating a network with an existing name and when CheckDuplicate is set to true (#17585).
• Fixed a bug in the /auth REST API where logging into Docker Hub would fail (#17571).

Misc

• Updated the containers/common library to v0.51.1
• Updated the Mac pkginstaller QEMU to v7.2.0