The Fedora QA team invites you to participate in the Podman 6.0 Test Days from Monday, May 11-15, 2026.
Podman 6.0 is a major modernization release that removes legacy
components and finalizes previously announced deprecation:
What’s New in Podman 6.0
- Modern networking: Netavark switches from iptables to nftables,
aligning with current Fedora defaults - Simplified architecture: Removal of slirp4netns (replaced by Pasta)
and BoltDB (replaced by SQLite) - Cleaner configuration: Redesigned client/server configuration
These changes reduce technical debt and create a cleaner, more
maintainable codebase.
How to Participate
Requirements:
- Fedora 45 (Rawhide) – use the latest nightly image
- Virtual or physical machine
- Fully updated system
Testing:
- Visit Podman 6.0 Test Days wiki and find links to rawhide iso and test cases.
- Run tests and report results.
Need help?
Join us on Matrix: #podman:fedoraproject.org – developers and QA
specialists will be available all throughout the week. Or join our mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org.
I’ve looked through the wiki and testcases and, while the Test Day page itself says that using VMs is okay, all the testcases I’ve looked at want me to install on a bare metal system.
I don’t have a spare bare metal system; would it be okay to submit results from a VM as well?