Podman: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Podman from Containers

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is Podman?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementPodman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers and container images on your Linux System. Podman provides a Docker-compatible command line front end that can simply alias the Docker cli, alias docker=podman. Podman also provides a socket activated REST API service to allow remote applications to launch on-demand containers. This REST API also supports the Docker API, allowing users of docker-py and docker-compose to interact with the Podman as a service.
 

The entire lifecycle of Podman

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Podman. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Podman (Containers) release, version and end-of-life information
XPodman (Containers) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Podman (Containers)
 

Facts and figures about Podman

Product
Podman
Vendor
Containers
Latest version
5.8.2
Number of releases
6
Number of versions
261
Number of unstable versions
85
Number of versions affected by CVE
194
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Licence details
https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0
 
 

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