v1.2.0

Features

• Podman now supports image healthchecks! The podman healthcheck run command was added to manually run healthchecks, and the status of a running healthcheck can be viewed via podman inspect
• The podman events command was added to show a stream of significant events
• The podman ps command now supports a --watch flag that will refresh its output on a given interval
• The podman image tree command was added to show a tree representation of an image's layers
• The podman logs command can now display logs for multiple containers at the same time (#2219)
• The podman exec command can now pass file descriptors to the process being executed in the container via the --preserve-fds option (#2372)
• The podman images command can now filter images by reference (#2266)
• The podman system df command was added to show disk usage by Podman
• The --add-host option can now be used by containers sharing a network namespace (#2504)
• The podman cp command now has an --extract option to extract the contents of a Tar archive and copy them into the container, instead of copying the archive itself (#2520)
• Podman now allows manually specifying the path of the slirp4netns binary for rootless networking via the --network-cmd-path flag (#2506)
• Rootless Podman can now be used with a single UID and GID, without requiring a full 65536 UIDs/GIDs to be allocated in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid (#1651)
• The podman runlabel command now supports the --replace option to replace containers using the name requested
• Infrastructure containers for Podman pods will now attempt to use the image's CMD and ENTRYPOINT instead of a fixed command (#2182)
• The podman play kube command now supports the HostPath and VolumeMounts YAML fields (#2536)
• Added support to disable creation of resolv.conf or /etc/hosts in containers by specifying --dns=none and --no-hosts, respectively, to podman run and podman create (#2744)
• The podman version command now supports the {{ json . }} template (which outputs JSON)
• Podman can now forward ports using the SCTP protocol

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where directories could not be passed to podman run --device (#2380)
• Fixed a bug where rootless Podman with the --config flag specified would not use appropriate defaults (#2510)
• Fixed a bug where rootless Podman containers using the host network (--net=host) would show SELinux as enabled in the container when there were no privileges to use it
• Fixed a bug where importing very large images from STDIN could cause Podman to run out of memory
• Fixed a bug where some images would fail to run due to symlinks in paths where Podman would normally mount tmpfs filesystems
• Fixed a bug where podman play kube would sometimes segfault (#2209)
• Fixed a bug where podman runlabel did not respect the $PWD variable (#2171)
• Fixed a bug where error messages from refreshing the state in rootless Podman were not properly displayed (#2584)
• Fixed a bug where rootless podman build could not access DNS servers when slirp4netns was in use (#2572)
• Fixed a bug where rootless podman stop and podman rm would not work on containers which specified a non-root user (#2577)
• Fixed a bug where container labels whose values contained commas were incorrectly parsed and caused errors creating containers (#2574)
• Fixed a bug where calling Podman with a nonexistent command would exit 0, instead of with an appropriate error code (#2530)
• Fixed a bug where rootless podman exec would fail when --user was specified (#2566)
• Fixed a bug where, when a container had a name that was a fragment of another container's ID, Podman would refuse to operate on the first container by name
• Fixed a bug where podman pod create would fail if a pod shared no namespaces but created an infra container
• Fixed a bug where rootless Podman failed on the S390 and CRIS architectures
• Fixed a bug where podman rm would exit 0 if no containers specified were found (#2539)
• Fixed a bug where podman run would fail to enable networking for containers with additional CNI networks specified (#2795)
• Fixed a bug where the podman images command on the remote client was not displaying digests (#2756)
• Fixed a bug where Podman was unable to clean up mounts in containers using user namespaces
• Fixed a bug where podman image save would, when told to save to a path that exists, return an error, but still delete the file at the given path
• Fixed a bug where specifying environment variables containing commas with --env would cause parsing errors (#2712)
• Fixed a bug where podman umount would not error if called with no arguments
• Fixed a bug where the user and environment variables specified by the image used in containers created by podman create kube was being ignored (#2665)
• Fixed a bug where the podman pod inspect command would segfault if not given an argument (#2681)
• Fixed a bug where rootless podman pod top would fail (#2682)
• Fixed a bug where the podman load command would not error if an input file is not specified and a file was not redirected to STDIN
• Fixed a bug where rootless podman could fail if global configuration was altered via flag (for example, --root, --runroot, --storage-driver)
• Fixed a bug where forwarded ports that were part of a range (e.g. 20-30) were displayed individually by podman ps, as opposed to together as a range (#1358)
• Fixed a bug where podman run --rootfs could panic (#2654)
• Fixed a bug where podman build would fail if options were specified after the directory to build (#2636)
• Fixed a bug where image volumes made by podman create and podman run would have incorrect permissions (#2634)
• Fixed a bug where rootless containers were not using the containers/image blob cache, leading to slower image pulls
• Fixed a bug where the podman image inspect command incorrectly allowed the --latest, --type, and --size options

Misc

• Updated Buildah to v1.7.2
• Updated psgo library to v1.2, featuring greatly improved safety during concurrent use
• The podman events command may not show all activity regarding images, as only Podman was instrumented; images created, deleted, or pulled by CRI-O or Buildah will not be shown in podman events
• The podman pod top and podman pod stats commands are now usable with the Podman remote client
• The podman kill and podman wait commands are now usable with the Podman remote client
• Removed the unused restarting state and mapped stopped (also unused) to exited in podman ps --filter status
• Podman container, pod, and volume names may now contain the . (period) character