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Some updates following the 3Q 2025 priority updates. We have a lot of spikes that accompany work not listed here but given they are not true features, I am not adding them 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 Q3
Releases
- Podman 5.6
- Podman 6 (Spring 2026) High Level Design
Features
- Ongoing upgrades to support newer Docker API versions in the RESTFUl service
- Improvements to Quadlet documentation
- Systemwide rootless user configuration
- Improvements to the Windows installer
CNCF
- Continue towards incubation
2025 Q2
Releases
- Podman 5.5
- Fully automated Podman releases
Features
- Windows ARM64 installer
- Add support for artifacts in RESTFUL service
- Reduce binary size of Podman
- Add remote client support for artifacts
- Add support for newer Docker API versions to RESTFUL service
- Replace Podman pause image with a rootfs
CNCF
- Add and adhere to Governance model
2025 Q1
Releases
- 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