containers/podman v6.0.1 Release Notes

Published at: 2026-07-08T20:15:01Z

Fixed a bug where Podman Machine VMs on Mac using the libkrun provider could be regularly turned off by a port-scanning process on the host unintentionally commanding the VM to shut down.
Fixed a bug where the podman machine init command would fail on Windows hosts when using the hyperv provider when WSL was not installed (#29053).
Fixed a bug where the podman machine init command would fail on Windows hosts when using the wsl provider when the user was a Hyper-V admin but Hyper-V is disabled (#29138).
Fixed a bug where error messages from the OCI runtime were sometimes not displayed when --log-level=debug was passed to Podman.
Fixed a bug where the podman machine os upgrade command did not function properly (#29085).
Fixed a bug where the default image used by podman machine was not being properly cached (#29090).
Fixed a bug where rootful Podman Machine VMs on Windows using the wsl provider would fail to start (#29003).
Fixed a bug where commands that did not support the --replace option would incorrectly suggest using that option in error messages (#24537).
Fixed a bug where the Pesto rootless port forwarding tool (enabled by rootless_port_forwarder=pasta) did not properly clean up rules on container restart and network reload, causing failures to forward traffic (#29032).