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.
- Further improvements to
podman machineto better support Podman Desktop and other developer usecases.- Smoother upgrade process for Podman machine operating system (OS) images
- Release and pipeline automation for Podman machine OS images
- Performance improvements
- Convergence of WSL technologies with other providers including its OS
- OCI artifact support
- Integration of composefs
- Partial pull support (zstd:chunked)
- Improved support for the BuildKit API.
- Performance and stability improvements.
- Reductions to the size of the Podman binary.
This section is a historical account of what features were prioritized by quarter. Results of the prioritization will be added before at the beginning of each quarter (Jan, Apr, July, Oct).
2025 Q1
- TBD