Hi everyone,

The Container-Tools team is planning to migrate the following repositories into a single monorepository:
- https://github.com/containers/common
- https://github.com/containers/storage
- https://github.com/containers/image

The new repository will be:
- https://github.com/containers/container-libs (Note: This link is not active yet)

The migration is targeted for August 26, 2025. We'll send additional emails with more information as the date approaches.

After the migration, development will continue in the new monorepo. The old repositories will remain accessible in read-only mode, but they will no longer receive updates.

If your project imports or depends on any of the three current repositories, you’ll need to update your imports to point to https://github.com/containers/container-libs. To make this change smoother (and future-proof), we’ll use Go vanity imports [1] to create stable import paths that won’t break with future repo changes. I will send additional email once these import paths are available.

We believe merging these repositories will provide easier development of these projects, mainly the ability to develop and test changes affecting all of them together in a single PR as well as easier vendoring and faster Podman release process.

Follow our progress:
- https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RUN-3284
- https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RUN-3297

[1] https://blog.gllm.dev/go-vanity-imports-474947d21621

Best regards,
Jan Kaluza