Podman 6.0: Goodbye CNI, iptables, Slirp4netns — A Container Engine Rewrite
Podman v6.0 ships with sweeping breaking changes: CNI, iptables, and slirp4netns removed in favor of Netavark + nftables + Pasta. Also patches CVE-2026-57231 environment variable leak and moves under CNCF governance.











