Join Us for Podman 6.0 Test Days - May 11-15, 2026

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Originally published at: Join Us for Podman 6.0 Test Days - May 11-15, 2026 – Fedora Community Blog

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:

  1. Visit Podman 6.0 Test Days wiki and find links to rawhide iso and test cases.
  2. 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.

Learn more:

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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?