Wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Podman5

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

== Summary ==
Ship Podman 5 in Fedora 40.


== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:lsm5| Lokesh Mandvekar]], [[User:mohanboddu| Mohan Boddu]]


== Detailed Description ==

== Feedback ==

== Benefit to Fedora ==
Podman 5 will:
* No longer support cgroups v1
* Deprecate CNI plugins
* Deprecate Boltdb
* Have passt as the default rootless network service instead of slirp4netns
* Support stable `--format` Go template structs
* Isolate podman bindings leading to improved usability
* Allow better handling of containers.conf



== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:

* Other developers:

* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issues #Releng issue number]

* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change) <!--
REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES -->


* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)


* Alignment with Community Initiatives:


== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==

Podman 5 will come with breaking changes affecting upgradability:
* CGroups v1 environments will be required to switch to CGroups v2
* CNI plugin environemnts will need to switch to netavark
* Changes in `--format` Go template structs



== How To Test ==
Probably best handled in a Podman Test Day aligned with Fedora 40 Test Days.

* Install Fedora 40
* Install Podman 5
* Run test cases / suite (TBD)


== User Experience ==

Podman 5 will provide better usability of Podman bindings, easier to
maintain containers.conf and other configuration files along with
database performance improvements and CLI enhancements.



== Dependencies ==
Projects / Packages likely to be affected:
* Cockpit
* CoreOS
* Toolbox
* Silverblue / Kinoite
* Podman Desktop



== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: (What to do?  Who will do it?) N/A
* Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)


== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== Release Notes ==



-- 
Aoife Moloney

Fedora Operations Architect

Fedora Project

Matrix: @amoloney:fedora.im

IRC: amoloney
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