Launch Notes – Podman Desktop 1.5
Podman Desktop 1.5 Launch! 🎉
With this launch of Podman Desktop, we’re introducing a brand new onboarding function that we hope will earn your 🦭 seal of approval! However wait… there’s a lot extra!
- Onboarding: Guided setup and configuration of Podman and Compose
- Podman 4.7.2: Podman 4.7.2 is now included in Home windows and Mac installers
- Command Palette: Acquire easy accessibility to numerous instructions through a brand new keyboard-driven command palette
- Expanded “Abstract” tab for Kubernetes pods: Go deep with prolonged particulars on Kubernetes pods within the pod “Abstract” tab
- Surroundings file assist: Chart out setting variables for brand new containers to entry on creation
- Enhancements to the Settings space: Get your bearings with improved Docker compatibility mode controls
- Improved person expertise for state modifications: No extra lifeless depending on container state with improved visible indication of standing
- Extension API enhancements: A boatload of enhancements to the extension API enabling extra goodness from 🦭 Podman Desktop’s extensions
Podman Desktop 1.5 is now obtainable. Click here to download it!
Launch Particulars
Onboarding
We’re introducing a brand new function offering guided flows for the preliminary setup of particular 🦭 Podman Desktop extensions. Launch 1.5 options two new onboarding flows: Podman, and Compose.
To begin the Podman onboarding movement, you can begin from the dashboard notification by clicking the “Arrange” button:
Go to Settings > Sources display screen and click on the Compose “Setup …” button with a purpose to begin Compose onboarding:
Command Palette
A brand new, search-driven command palette is now obtainable to allow fast entry to numerous instructions obtainable throughout 🦭 Podman Desktop. You may do this new software out by hitting the F1 key. #4081 && #3979
Expanded “Abstract” tab for Kubernetes pods
Kubernetes pods now provide a extra complete set of data underneath the “Abstract” tab, together with networking, volumes, setting variables, and different key metadata.
Surroundings file assist
When making a container from the Pictures checklist, there’s now an choice to supply an setting file to set env variables for the brand new container. #4026 && #4025
Enhancements to the Settings space
The person expertise for enabling or disabling Docker compatibility is improved, with a brand new entry within the Settings > Preferences display screen that features contextual steering. #4093
Improved person expertise for state modifications
The person expertise round state modifications for containers, pods, and different objects within the UI is improved, with clear standing messages and improved animated visible indicator of state modifications. #4056
Extension API enhancements
The 🦭 Podman Desktop extension API acquired many enhancements, together with:
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Along with pushing and itemizing picture from an extension, it is now attainable to tug photographs from a 🦭 Podman Desktop extension #4155
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The 🦭 Podman Desktop extension API has been enhanced with each the power to checklist photographs & networks and the power to create containers & networks. #4172
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🦭 Podman Desktop extensions now have a constant technique to run administrative duties. #4049
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Extensions now have the power to register a customized Kubernetes config generator. #3970
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The flexibility of extensions so as to add instructions to UI menus has been prolonged; beforehand for motion menus it was solely obtainable within the Picture checklist display screen. It’s now attainable for extensions so as to add instructions to the motion menus of things listed on the Containers checklist display screen as effectively. #3947 & #3963
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Extensions have gained the power to contribute menu objects within the UI primarily based on particular situations. #3959
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Enhanced logic for displaying or hiding properties listed underneath the Settings > Preferences screens is now obtainable. #4159
Different Notable Enhancements
- The progress of loading a picture into Type is now seen as a activity within the activity supervisor. #4061
- It is now attainable to start out a brand new Podman machine proper after creation, or you may create it and wait to start out it later. It is as much as you! #4046
- The Podman machine and Kubernetes supplier creation varieties have an up to date look & really feel consisted with different varieties within the person interface, together with minor bug fixes. #4317
- The empty display screen message proven when a search filter ends in no matches now gives a message particular to filter matching, together with the particular filter phrases and an specific button for clearing the filter. Beforehand, the display screen displayed a generic message about the way to create new objects of the kind displayed on the display screen, which led to some confusion concerning the standing of the system. #3988
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New assist for including spin animations to icons is now obtainable. #4188
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There’s a new indeterminate progress bar sort obtainable for the duty supervisor; that is meant for offering restricted standing for actions whose APIs don’t present detailed standing info. #4016
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For authenticating as admin to carry out administrative duties, 🦭 Podman Desktop now gives touchID assist for macOS. #4050
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Help for connecting to interactive terminals for containers through tty was added. #3900
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It is now extra clear which container/pod suppliers will autostart when 🦭 Podman Desktop begins. Beforehand autostart had each a world and a per-provider setting. It has been simplified by eradicating the worldwide setting. #3840
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The “Working with containers” part of the documentation has been reworked and improved. #3951
Notable Bug Fixes
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The disable registry command was not blocking subsequent pulls from disabled registries. This has been corrected. #4183
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Some customers behind community proxies had been unable to finish workflow involving the obtain of on-line assets. The mechanism for fetching these assets has been fastened to be proxy suitable to deal with this problem. #3994
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The standing of pods working in Kubernetes which might be present process the deletion course of is now precisely mirrored within the 🦭 Podman Desktop UI. #3877
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The picture particulars web page all the time listed the picture as being “not used” even when it was. This has been corrected. #3985
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Beforehand, deleting a particular picture tag would trigger all tags with the identical Picture ID to be deleted. This has been fastened so solely the chosen picture tag shall be deleted. #3837
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Couldn’t view the pod particulars for some distant Kubernetes cluster pods attributable to an encoding error. #4371
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Error logs had been being tracked individually from the actions they utilized to. This has been addressed for type cluster creation failure #4427 and Compose set up failure #4407.
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🦭 Podman Desktop beforehand didn’t seem underneath the “Improvement” menu when put in through Flatpak; it appeared underneath “Utilities.” 🦭 Podman Desktop now seems underneath the “Improvement” menu. #3911
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Podman Machine names are now not prefixed with the “Podman Machine” string. #3878
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The preliminary motion state of pods and containers was being displayed as “STARTING” no matter precise state; this has been corrected. #3889
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Resizing the applying window now not makes the final traces of a container’s terminal invisible. #3993
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A difficulty with incorrect terminal habits in response to lengthy traces within the terminal connected to a container has been resolved. #3955
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A spacing problem on the run picture kind has been corrected. [#4089]https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/4089
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The “podify” icon & button on the Containers checklist was unusually giant in launch 1.4. That regression has been corrected on this launch. #4122
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An error within the directions for Home windows customers on migrating from Docker has been corrected. #4157
🎉 We’d prefer to say an enormous thanks to everybody who helped to make 🦭 Podman Desktop even higher. On this
launch we acquired pull requests from the next individuals:
Ultimate notes
Recognized Points
We have now a dialogue board subject the place we have now posted identified points with this launch. Should you run into issues, please verify this checklist earlier than submitting a bug – if we have already got a difficulty open for it, it saves you the time and hassle of submitting, and there could also be a workaround posted within the problem.
Known Issues: Podman Desktop 1.5.2
Fastened Points
The entire checklist of points fastened on this launch is on the market here.
The place to Obtain
Get the most recent launch from the Downloads part of the web site and increase your growth journey with Podman Desktop. Moreover, go to the GitHub repository and see how one can assist us make Podman Desktop higher.