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# Podman Roadmap

The Podman development team reviews feature requests from its various stakeholders for consideration
quarterly.  Podman maintainers then prioritize these features.   Top features are then assigned to
one or more engineers.


## Future feature focus

* Further improvements to `podman machine` to better support Podman Desktop and other developer usecases.
  - Smoother upgrade process for Podman machine operating system (OS) images
  - Release and pipeline automation for Podman machine OS images
  - Performance improvements
  - Convergence of WSL technologies with other providers including its OS
* OCI artifact support
* Integration of composefs
* Partial pull support (zstd:chunked)
* Improved support for the BuildKit API.
* Performance and stability improvements.
* Reductions to the size of the Podman binary.

## Previous quarterly feature prioritizations

This section is a historical account of what features were prioritized by quarter.  Results of the prioritization will be added before at the beginning of each quarter (Jan, Apr, July, Oct).

**2025 Q1**

* TBD
