The release is relevant to hosts using rootless containers, Quadlet, and automated volume cleanup, but should be tested before production rollout.
Podman 6.1.0 was released on August 12 as the first feature release in the 6.1 series. It adds podman volume rename, podman machine restart, and podman network rm --ignore.
The Pesto network stack can now forward IPv6 ports for rootless containers while preserving the source IP. podman generate kube maps a container healthcheck to livenessProbe, and manifest-list pushes can retry after transient failures.
The release also fixes a podman volume prune --all --filter defect that could ignore the filter and remove every unused volume. Other fixes cover remote Podman hangs over SSH, damaged healthcheck logs, and a Quadlet generator race.
Production upgrades should still be tested against existing unit files, network settings, and cleanup automation. This is not an urgent security advisory, but the prune fix deserves attention wherever volume deletion is automated.