generated: '2026-09-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md,
  https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/releases,
  https://buildah.io/releases
name: Buildah changelog
scheme: semver
current_version: v1.45.0
current_version_released: '2026-07-30'
changelog_url: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
releases_url: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/releases
announcements_url: https://buildah.io/releases
cadence: >-
  Minor releases roughly quarterly (1.39 Feb 2025, 1.40 Apr 2025, 1.41 Jul 2025, 1.42 Oct
  2025, 1.43 Feb 2026, 1.44 May 2026, 1.45 Jul 2026). Patch releases are cut on demand,
  including long-lived backport branches for older minors (v1.26.x, v1.29.x, v1.33.x,
  v1.39.x, v1.41.x all received patches in 2026) — a maintenance posture that matters to
  distributions shipping pinned versions.
format: >-
  CHANGELOG.md is a flat, dated, per-release list of commit subjects. It is not
  categorised into breaking / added / fixed, and the project publishes no separate
  machine-readable feed of changes. Each minor release also gets a narrative
  announcement post at buildah.io/releases.
entries:
  - version: v1.45.0
    date: '2026-07-30'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - 'CLI: add "mount-sshfs", "umount-sshfs"'
      - 'CLI: add "serve-sftp"'
      - 'Copier: add Symlink() for creating symlinks with inline target'
      - 'Copier: add CreateDestPath option to PutOptions'
      - 'build: accept "FROM containers-storage:" prefixes again'
      - Handle duplicate stage nicknames
      - 'chroot: skip setgroups when namespace denies it'
      - Bump to c/storage 1.64.0, c/image 5.41.0, c/common v0.69.0
    announcement: https://buildah.io/releases
  - version: v1.44.1
    date: '2026-07-21'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - Patch release on the 1.44 branch.
  - version: v1.44.0
    date: '2026-05-27'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - Minor release; see the announcement post.
    announcement: https://buildah.io/releases
  - version: v1.43.2
    date: '2026-06-08'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - Patch release on the 1.43 branch.
  - version: v1.43.1
    date: '2026-04-08'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - Patch release on the 1.43 branch.
  - version: v1.43.0
    date: '2026-02-06'
    breaking: unknown
    highlights:
      - Minor release; see the announcement post.
    announcement: https://buildah.io/releases
backport_branches:
  note: >-
    Still receiving patch releases in 2026 — evidence of an active long-tail maintenance
    policy for distribution consumers.
  entries:
    - version: v1.41.9
      date: '2026-04-17'
    - version: v1.39.9
      date: '2026-05-13'
    - version: v1.33.15
      date: '2026-05-04'
    - version: v1.29.8
      date: '2026-05-07'
    - version: v1.26.11
      date: '2026-05-06'
gaps:
  - Entries are unclassified — no breaking/added/fixed taxonomy, so a consumer cannot tell an API break from a dependency bump without reading each commit subject.
  - No machine-readable changelog (no JSON/feed); the releases Atom feed on GitHub is the closest thing.