# Podman Community Meeting
## February 3, 2026 11:00 a.m. Eastern (UTC-5)

Meeting ID: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/97486138230?password=3144ae43-0fd5-457e-a495-bb4e0202e9c2
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### Attendees ( total)
Tom Sweeney, Brent Baude, Matt Heon, Dave Darrah, Miloslav Trmac, Gerald Seidman, Suraj G, Mario Loriedo, Tim Zho, Mark Russell, Kevin Clevenger, Giuseppe Scrivano, Nicolla Sella, Paul Holzinger, Chandan Singh, Fatih Akca, Neil Smith, Jan Kaluza, Nalin Dahyabhai, Ashley Cui, Mario Loriedo, Chandan Singh, Martin Beckert

### Topics

1) Podman 5.8/6.0 - Matt Heon
2) AI Policy - Paul Holzinger/Jan Kaluza
3) PQC - Matt Heon/Miloslav Trmac

## Meeting Start: 11: a.m. EST
### Video [Recording]()

## Topic
### Presenter
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1) Podman v5.8 1 - Presenter -

5.8 and 6.0 probably not going to make the original mid Feb target, most likely last Feb or early March.

Podman 6.0 is shaping up well. On track for our next major.

Discussion on Red Hat influence of the schedule and if that's a valid influencer.

2) AI Policy

Proposed policy here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VxYDXT3kIiBAFJHY4fsyFRrddtgIKCrFt_juI7ofsXo/edit?tab=t.0

Contact Jan at ([e-mail]) if you have problems getting to it. He would like to hear from the community about it.

3) PQC

People won't notice for a while if we do the jobs right. Governments are pushing for this functionality. Post Quantum Crptology, in particular signature for container images.

In hte middle of this year, we'll enable sha512 encryption. The big difference here is image IDs will become larger. You will be able to use sha256 and sha512 images in the container storage. Other than the ID length, you shouldn't notice a difference.

PQC TLS will be, or is just now available if you compile with the correct version of Go.

4) Podlet

Martin just release with Paul() a new podlet release.

Would like to move https://github.com/k9withabone/compose_spec_rs to the Containers organization on GitHub.

Brent asked Martin to create an issue in the Podman repo, and then be discussed there.

Would like a couple of channels on the Podman Discord channel.

## Open Forum/Questions?
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Dropins for storage.conf are coming with Podman 6.0.

## Topics for Next Meeting
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## Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 11:00 a.m. Eastern (UTC-5)

## Next Cabal Meeting: Tuesday, Mar 3, 2026, 11:00 a.m. Eastern (UTC-5)

### Meeting End: 11:50 p.m. Eastern (UTC-5)

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