Features
- The REST API and `podman system service` are no longer experimental, and ready for use!
- The Podman command now supports remotely connections via the REST API using the `--remote` flag.
- The Podman remote client has been entirely rewritten to use the HTTP API instead of Varlink.
- The `podman system connection` command has been added to allow configuring the endpoint that `podman-remote` and `podman --remote` will connect to.
- The `podman generate systemd` command now supports the `--new` flag when used with pods, allowing portable services for pods to be created.
- The `podman play kube` command now supports running Kubernetes Deployment YAML.
- The `podman exec` command now supports the `--detach` flag to run commands in the container in the background.
- The `-p` flag to `podman run` and `podman create` now supports forwarding ports to IPv6 addresses.
- The `podman run`, `podman create` and `podman pod create` command now support a `--replace` flag to remove and replace any existing container (or, for `pod create`, pod) with the same name
- The `--restart-policy` flag to `podman run` and `podman create` now supports the `unless-stopped` restart policy.
- The `--log-driver` flag to `podman run` and `podman create` now supports the `none` driver, which does not log the container's output.
- The `--mount` flag to `podman run` and `podman create` now accepts `readonly` option as an alias to `ro`.
- The `podman generate systemd` command now supports the `--container-prefix`, `--pod-prefix`, and `--separator` arguments to control the name of generated unit files.
- The `podman network ls` command now supports the `--filter` flag to filter results.
- The `podman auto-update` command now supports specifying an authfile to use when pulling new images on a per-container basis using the `io.containers.autoupdate.authfile` label.
Changes
- Varlink support, including the `podman varlink` command, is deprecated and will be removed in the next release.
- As part of the implementation of the REST API, JSON output for some commands (`podman ps`, `podman images` most notably) has changed.
- Named and anonymous volumes and `tmpfs` filesystems added to containers are no longer mounted `noexec` by default.
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where the `podman exec` command would log to journald when run in containers loggined to journald ([6555](https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/6555)).
- Fixed a bug where the `podman auto-update` command would not preserve the OS and architecture of the original image when pulling a replacement ([6613](https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/6613)).
- Fixed a bug where the `podman cp` command could create an extra `merged` directory when copying into an existing directory ([6596](https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/6596)).
- Fixed a bug where the `podman pod stats` command would crash on pods run with `--network=host` ([5652](https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/5652)).
- Fixed a bug where containers logs written to journald did not include the name of the container.
- Fixed a bug where the `podman network inspect` and `podman network rm` commands did not properly handle non-default CNI configuration paths ([6212](https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/6212)).
- Fixed a bug where Podman did not properly remove containers when using the Kata containers OCI runtime.
- Fixed a bug where `podman inspect` would sometimes incorrectly report the network mode of containers started with `--net=none`.
- Podman is now better able to deal with cases where `conmon` is killed before the container it is monitoring.
Misc
- The default Podman CNI configuration now sets `HairpinMode` to allow communication between containers by connecting to a forwarded port on the host.
- Updated Buildah to v1.15.0
- Updated containers/storage to v1.20.2
- Updated containers/image to v5.5.1
- Updated containers/common to v0.14.0