Podman

Podman 5.8.3

A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers

  • By Red Hat
  • Open Source
  • Updated Jun 12, 2026
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About Podman

Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images.
Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.
Most users can simply alias Docker to Podman (alias docker=podman) without any problems.
Similar to other common Container Engines (Docker, CRI-O, containerd), Podman relies on an OCI compliant Container Runtime (runc, crun, runv, etc) to interface with the operating system and create the running containers.
This makes the running containers created by Podman nearly indistinguishable from those created by any other common container engine.

What's new in 5.8.3

Security
- This release addresses CVE-2026-44517, where building a Dockerfile using a ADD or COPY instruction accessing a malicious Git repository or tar archive could cause files outside the build context directory to be included in the build context or copied into the build. Please see GHSA-49p4-px3h-rq49 for more details.
Misc
- Updated Buildah to v1.43.2
- Updated gvisor-tap-vsock to v0.8.9

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Technical details

PublisherRed Hat
AuthorRed Hat Inc.
Version5.8.3
Release date2026-06-12
LicenseApache-2.0
Installer typeburn
Architecturex64, arm64
Package IDRedHat.Podman

Links & install command

Install Podman from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=RedHat.Podman -e

containerdockerimagepod

Older versions

  • 5.8.2
  • 5.8.1
  • 5.8.0
  • 5.7.1
  • 5.7.0
  • 5.6.2
  • 5.6.1
  • 5.6.0
  • 5.5.2