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Even though this is tardy, here is an update reflecting milestones and features for 1Q25. Fixes https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RUN-2447 Signed-off-by: Brent Baude <bbaude@redhat.com>
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Podman Roadmap
The Podman development team reviews feature requests from its various stakeholders for consideration quarterly. Podman maintainers then prioritize these features. Top features are then assigned to one or more engineers.
Future feature considerations
The following features are of general importantance to Podman. While these features have no timeline associated with them yet, they will likely be on future quarterly milestones.
- Further improvements to
podman machine
to better support Podman Desktop and other developer usecases.- Smoother upgrade process for Podman machine operating system (OS) images
- Convergence of WSL technologies with other providers including its OS
- Remote client support for OCI artifacts and its RESTFUL API
- Integration of composefs
- Ongoing work around partial pull support (zstd:chunked)
- Improved support for the BuildKit API.
- Performance and stability improvements.
- Reductions to the size of the Podman binary.
Milestones and commitments by quarter
This section is a historical account of what features were prioritized by quarter. Results of the prioritization will be added at start of each quarter (Jan, Apr, July, Oct).
2025 Q1
Releases
- Release Podman 5.4
- Podman release automation
Features
- Artifact add --append
- Artifact extract
- Artifact add --options
- Mount OCI artifacts inside containers
- Determine strategy for configuration files when remote
CNCF
- Create Maintainers file
- Create Governance documentation