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+title: Podman Desktop 1.8 Release
+description: Podman Desktop 1.8 has been released!
+slug: podman-desktop-release-1.8
+authors: deboer
+tags: [podman-desktop, release, kubernetes, openshift, onboarding, extensions, settings]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+image: /img/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.8/selkie-family.png
+---
+
+import ReactPlayer from 'react-player'
+
+Podman Desktop 1.8 Release! 🎉
+
+![Podman-desktop-1-8-hero](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/selkie-family.png)
+
+We've got a new release with a ton of seal appeal! This release introduces:
+
+- **Podman 4.9.3**: [Podman 4.9.3](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.9.3) is now included in both Windows and Mac installers.
+- **Kubernetes Explorer**: Advanced UI and new tools for working with Kubernetes clusters.
+- **Global Onboarding**: Configure and set up your environment without any hassle, with a set of guided workflows.
+- **Learning Center**: Discover new use cases and capabilities for developers.
+- **Extension API Improvements**: Another big update to the extension API enabling more goodness for 🦭 Podman Desktop's extensions.
+- **Enhanced Builds, Pods List, and Troubleshooting Pages**: Build for different platforms, an upgraded pods view, and more.
+
+Podman Desktop 1.8 is now available. [Click here to download it](/downloads)!
+
+---
+
+## Release Details
+
+### Podman 4.9.3
+
+🦭 Podman 4.9.3 includes key fixes for stability and reliability issues reported by our users - especially
+if you are using Apple silicon architecture. If you've been floundering we highly recommend updating!
+
+### Kubernetes Explorer
+
+Progressively introduced in past releases as an experimental feature, we're ready to expand
+our capabilities to help developers transition from containers to Kubernetes. In this release we
+are introducing a new set of features that enable the developers to work with more Kubernetes
+resources, offering more granular and interactive control over your applications.
+
+Now available in 🦭 Podman Desktop is a new Kubernetes Explorer with the ability to work with
+Deployments, Services, Ingresses, and Routes, in addition to the existing support for Pods.
+For each of those resources, 🦭 Podman Desktop provides real-time information about the status of
+resources on the cluster. From the top right of this overview page you can also click Apply YAML
+to create or update resources on the cluster similar to 'kubectl apply -f', and see the current
+connection status.
+
+![Deployments Overview](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/deployments.png)
+
+Just like with local containers or images, you can click for more
+details on Summary, Inspect, and Kube (YAML) pages.
+
+![Deployment Summary](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/deployment-summary.png)
+
+See a problem? You can edit and apply changes direct from the Kube tab.
+
+![Deployment Kube YAML](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/deployment-edit.png)
+
+🦭 Podman Desktop continues to bridge the gap and discrepancies to empower developers working
+with containers with efficient workflows to target Kubernetes from their local workstation.
+This is all in addition to some of the great features already available:
+
+- Native Kubernetes support with Podman
+- Podify - transition containers into Pods
+- Setting up local Kubernetes environments with Minikube and Kind extensions
+- Deploy to Kubernetes and push local image from Podman to a Kubernetes environments
+- Managing Kubernetes contexts
+- Connecting to remote Kubernetes clusters
+
+### Global Onboarding
+
+Configuring and setting up a local environment is now easier with the introduction of a new
+wizard-based onboarding flow. In this flow developers can pick the different tools that they
+need, and 🦭 Podman Desktop will walk them through the configuration and setup of each of these
+tools.
+
+The global onboarding flow allows developers to configure Podman, Compose, and kubectl
+(needed for working with Kind and Minikube or remote Kubernetes environments). This makes
+the transition to 🦭 Podman Desktop becomes simpler, as any needed dependencies are
+automatically configured.
+
+![Global Onboarding](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/global-onboarding.png)
+
+### Learning Center
+
+In this release, we've added a Learning Center on the Dashboardm enabling developers to
+discover, learn, and expand their knowledge on related topics to containerization. These
+guides are handy and easily accessible, and cover topics from learning how to containerize
+an existing application to discovering the latest features of 🦭 Podman Desktop and how to
+best use them.
+
+![Learning Center](img/podman-desktop-release-1.8/learning-center.png)
+
+### Extension API Improvements
+
+We continued spent a lot of time adding new extension API to give upcoming extensions
+more capabilites and even better integration into 🦭 Podman Desktop:
+
+- Split getMatchingPodmanEngine [#6160](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6160)
+- Add HealthCheck parameter when creating container [#5981](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5981)
+- Expose listPods to extensions [#5864](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5864)
+- Labels for createPod [#5862](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5862)
+- Allow to create containers within a pod [#5848](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5848)
+- OpenPod should redirect to the pod's view [#5846](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5846)
+- Enhance createContainer API with missing parameters [#6011](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6011)
+- Allow extensions to use openDialog/saveDialog [#6009](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6009)
+- Allow customized icons in contributed actions [#5995](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5995)
+- Adding missing types [#6213](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6213)
+- Allow to navigate to a specific webview from extensions [#5899](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5899)
+- Expose stopPod and removePod to extensions [#5898](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5898)
+- Use new API for open/save dialog [#6051](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6051), [#6050](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6050), [#6049](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6049)
+- Extend Podman Desktop API Build Image parameters [#5882](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5882)
+- Allow extension to stats container [#6211](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/6211)
+
+---
+
+## Other Notable Enhancements
+
+We've added over 40 features this release, here are some other highlights:
+
+- Improve Podman Desktop update alert [#6068](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6068)
+- Add gather & download logs button in troubleshooting [#5119](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5119)
+- Enable podman machine for Linux [#5902](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5902)
+- Multi-delete animation [#5717](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5717)
+- Image deletion animation [#5709](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5709)
+- Volume deletion animation [#5707](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5707)
+- Open OpenShift routes [#5560](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5560)
+- Add open created pod details [#4499](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/4499)
+- Use https when deploying to kubernetes cluster [#5824](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5824)
+- Getting started carousel on dashboard page [#5142](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5142)
+- Add confirmation dialog when deleting objects [#5445](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5445)
+
+We've also made some significant progress on implementing light mode:
+
+- Use theme colors for invert content [#6029](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6029)
+- Use theme colors for secondary nav [#6028](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6028)
+- Apply theme colors for global nav [#6027](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6027)
+- Apply theme colors for the titlebar [#6025](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6025)
+- Consistent close button [#6060](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6060)
+- Use components in quickpick [#6057](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6057)
+- Provide css colors to webviews [#5963](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5963)
+- Publish colors to the style of the app [#5962](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5962)
+- Allow extensions to contribute themes with set of colors [#5961](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5961)
+- Store for colors [#5960](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5960)
+- Include a color registry [#5958](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5958)
+- Add utility method to get the value of the theme [#5947](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5947)
+- Send event when operating system change the colors [#5946](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5946)
+- Cleanup dark: prefix colors [#5944](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5944)
+- Extract color palette to its own file [#5931](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5931)
+- Input component [#5904](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5904)
+- Input errors, use input component in run image [#5988](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5988)
+- Use input when building image [#5986](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5986)
+- Use input for proxy settings [#5943](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5943)
+- Use input for registries [#5939](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5939)
+- Use input when creating pod from containers [#5935](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5935)
+- Use input component in extension pages [#5934](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5934)
+- Use input in create volume [#5933](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5933)
+- Use input when renaming image [#5964](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5964)
+- Use checkbox component in deploy to kube [#6030](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6030)
+
+---
+
+## Notable Bug Fixes
+
+We squashed a lot of bugs this release, including the following:
+
+- Copy volume mounted when copying container to pod [#5640](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5640)
+- Change order of "Create" button on Volumes and Containers list [#6092](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6092)
+- Refresh onboarding item when context value gets updated (#4597) [#6173](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6173)
+- Better log on informer connection error [#6158](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6158)
+- Website: replace broken links [#6111](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6111)
+- Center empty screens [#6077](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6077)
+- Do not ask confirmation to open local folder/files [#5743](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5743)
+- Force breadcrumbs to be vertically aligned [#5741](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5741)
+- Long usernames in auth page [#5737](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5737)
+- Message property used to update task name [#5731](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5731)
+- Nav item UI fixes [#5886](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5886)
+- Display back the icons of registries [#5843](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5843)
+- Check route tls to use either http or https [#5825](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5825)
+- White tooltips [#5887](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5887)
+- Limit registry username column width [#5718](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5718)
+- Remove docker compatibility warning & button on Linux [#5903](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5903)
+- Image usage by containers [#5663](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5663)
+- Current context should be changed/updated when deleting it [#5819](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5819)
+- Do not collapse categories on sidebar [#5727](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5727)
+- Make localhost a valid domain for env.openExternal calls [#5716](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5716)
+
+---
+
+## Documentation
+
+Along with this new version of 🦭 Podman Desktop the documentation has had the following improvements:
+
+- Container and image related methods of containerEngine api [#5891](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5891)
+- Removed installing podman with openshift local [#6070](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6070)
+- Document image checker provider API [#5813](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5813)
+- Adding withProgress api docs [#5736](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5736)
+- Added link to the troubleshooting page [#5734](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5734)
+- Troubleshooting installation on macOS M1/M2/M3 [#5708](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5708)
+- Volume deletion [#5707](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5707)
+- Added _Accessing Podman from another WSL instance_ (config, verify) [#5706](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5706)
+- Using typedoc to generate api documentation [#5705](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5705)
+
+---
+
+## Community Thank You
+
+🎉 We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped make 🦭 Podman Desktop even better. In this release we received pull requests from the following people:
+
+- [Anders Björklund](https://github.com/afbjorklund) in [docs: linux no longer disabled](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6238), [fix: don't check default machine on Linux](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6161), [feat: show docker version](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6043), [docs: drop the word virtual from lima](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6003), [docs: document lima socket name prefs](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5984), [docs: split the lima custom config](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5983), [feat: show lima instance name in connection name](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5227), [feat: make it possible for lima to provide both](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/4539)
+- [Kenichi Kamiya](https://github.com/kachick) in [docs: fix missing podman command in WSL example](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6126)
+- [Michael Prankl](https://github.com/eidottermihi) in [docs: fix instructions to edit registries.conf](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6122)
+- [Cedric Clyburn](https://github.com/cedricclyburn) in [docs: blog post about devies award](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6078)
+- [anon](https://github.com/Moortu) in [chore: Add windows instructions for emulating docker cli](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/6066)
+- [Thiago Mendes](https://github.com/trmendes) in [docs: Shorter sidebar category names](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5959), [fix: remove incorrect usage of component](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5822), [ci: use macos arm64 runners](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5795), [style: do not hide terminal when there are errors](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5710), [refactor: dialog box moving from 'no' to 'cancel'](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5702), [chore: add copy to clipboard button to resources page](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5687)
+- [CARBONNEAUX Mathieu](https://github.com/mcarbonneaux) in [Remove http:// prefix when set proxy variable before exec](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5694)
+- [Christophe Fergeau](https://github.com/cfergeau) in [doc: Fix 'podman-mac-help' typo](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/5692)
+
+---
+
+## Final notes
+
+### Fixed Issues
+
+The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available [here](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A1.8.0).
+
+### Where to Download
+
+Get the latest release from the [Downloads](/downloads) section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop) and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
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