7:12 p.m.
Update on Podman V2
A few weeks ago, we made an announcement about the development of
Podman V2. In the announcement, we mentioned that the state of
upstream code would be jumbled for a while and that we would be
temporarily disabling many of our CI/CD tests. The upstream
development team has been hard at work, and we are starting to see that
work pay off.
Today, we are very excited to announce:
The local Podman v2 client is complete. It is passing all of its
rootfull and rootless system and integration tests.
The CI/CID tests have been reenabled upstream and are run with each
pull request submission. We are now hard at work finishing up some of
the core podman-remote functions. Once those functions are complete,
we can then begin to run our podman-remote system and integration tests
to catch any regressions.
We have re-enabled the autobuilds for Podman v2 in Fedora rawhide. As
mentioned earlier, the Podman remote client is not complete, so that
binary is temporarily being removed from the RPM. It will be re-added
when the remote client is complete. As a corollary, the Windows and
OS/X clients are also not being compiled or tested. This will occur
once the remote client for Linux is complete.
We encourage you to pull the latest upstream Podman code and exercise
it with your use cases to help us protect against regressions from
Podman v1. We hope to make a full Podman v2.0 release in several
weeks, once we are confident it is stable. We look forward to hearing
what you think, and please do not hesitate to raise issues and comments
on this in our [GitHub repository](
https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues), our Freenode IRC channel
`#podman`, or to the Podman mailing list.
We’re very excited to bring Podman v2.0 to you as it offers a lot more
flexibility through it’s new REST API interface and adds several
enhancements to the existing commands. If your project builds on top
of Podman, we would especially love to have you test this new version
out so we can ensure complete compatibility with Podman v1.0 and
address any issues found ASAP.
Note: This announcement was first released to the Podman mailing
list. If you are not yet a member of that community, please join us by
sending an email to [podman-join(a)lists.podman.io](mailto:
podman-join(a)lists.podman.io?subject=subscribe) with the word
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