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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Podman (the POD MANager) is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes m
 Podman runs containers on Linux, but can also be used on Mac and Windows systems using a Podman-managed virtual machine.
 Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management that is also contained in this repository. The libpod library provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and volumes.
 
-* [Latest Version: 4.2.0](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.2.0)
+* [Latest Version: 4.3.0](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.3.0)
   * Latest Remote client for Windows
   * Latest Remote client for macOS
   * Latest Static Remote client for Linux
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
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@@ -1,5 +1,144 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## 4.3.0
+### Features
+- A new command, `podman generate spec`, has been added, which creates a JSON struct based on a given container that can be used with the Podman REST API to create containers.
+- A new command, `podman update`, has been added,which makes changes to the resource limits of existing containers. Please note that these changes do not persist if the container is restarted ([#15067](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15067)).
+- A new command, `podman kube down`, has been added, which removes pods and containers created by the given Kubernetes YAML (functionality is identical to `podman kube play --down`, but it now has its own command).
+- The `podman kube play` command now supports Kubernetes secrets using Podman's secrets backend.
+- Systemd-managed pods created by the `podman kube play` command now integrate with sd-notify, using the `io.containers.sdnotify` annotation (or `io.containers.sdnotify/$name` for specific containers).
+- Systemd-managed pods created by `podman kube play` can now be auto-updated, using the `io.containers.auto-update` annotation (or `io.containers.auto-update/$name` for specific containers).
+- The `podman kube play` command can now read YAML from URLs, e.g. `podman kube play https://example.com/demo.yml` ([#14955](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14955)).
+- The `podman kube play` command now supports the `emptyDir` volume type ([#13309](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13309)).
+- The `podman kube play` command now supports the `HostUsers` field in the pod spec.
+- The `podman play kube` command now supports `binaryData` in ConfigMaps.
+- The `podman pod create` command can now set additional resource limits for pods using the new `--memory-swap`, `--cpuset-mems`, `--device-read-bps`, `--device-write-bps`, `--blkio-weight`, `--blkio-weight-device`, and `--cpu-shares` options.
+- The `podman machine init` command now supports a new option, `--username`, to set the username that will be used to connect to the VM as a non-root user ([#15402](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15402)).
+- The `podman volume create` command's `-o timeout=` option can now set a timeout of 0, indicating volume plugin operations will never time out.
+- Added support for a new volume driver, `image`, which allows volumes to be created that are backed by images.
+- The `podman run` and `podman create` commands support a new option, `--env-merge`, allowing environment variables to be specified relative to other environment variables in the image (e.g. `podman run --env-merge "PATH=$PATH:/my/app" ...`) ([#15288](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15288)).
+- The `podman run` and `podman create` commands support a new option, `--on-failure`, to allow action to be taken when a container fails health checks, with the following supported actions: `none` (take no action, the default), `kill` (kill the container), `restart` (restart the container), and `stop` (stop the container).
+- The `--keep-id` option to `podman create` and `podman run` now supports new options, `uid` and `gid`, to set the UID and GID of the user in the container that will be mapped to the user running Podman (e.g. `--userns=keep-id:uid=11` will made the user running Podman to UID 11 in the container) ([#15294](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15294)).
+- The `podman generate systemd` command now supports a new option, `--env`/`-e`, to set environment variables in the generated unit file ([#15523](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15523)).
+- The `podman pause` and `podman unpause` commands now support the `--latest`, `--cidfile`, and `--filter` options.
+- The `podman restart` command now supports the `--cidfile` and `--filter` options.
+- The `podman rm` command now supports the `--filter` option to select which containers will be removed.
+- The `podman rmi` command now supports a new option, `--no-prune`, to prevent the removal of dangling parents of removed images.
+- The `--dns-opt` option to `podman create`, `podman run`, and `podman pod create` has received a new alias, `--dns-option`, to improve Docker compatibility.
+- The `podman` command now features a new global flag, `--debug`/`-D`, which enables debug-level logging (identical to `--log-level=debug`), improving Docker compatibility.
+- The `podman` command now features a new global flag, `--config`. This flag is ignored, and is only included for Docker compatibility ([#14767](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14767)).
+- The `podman manifest create` command now accepts a new option, `--amend`/`-a`.
+- The `podman manifest create`, `podman manifest add` and `podman manifest push` commands now accept a new option, `--insecure` (identical to `--tls-verify=false`), improving Docker compatibility.
+- The `podman secret create` command's `--driver` and `--format` options now have new aliases, `-d` for `--driver` and `-f` for `--format`.
+- The `podman secret create` command now supports a new option, `--label`/`-l`, to add labels to created secrets.
+- The `podman secret ls` command now accepts the `--quiet`/`-q` option.
+- The `podman secret inspect` command now accepts a new option, `--pretty`, to print output in human-readable format.
+- The `podman stats` command now accepts the `--no-trunc` option.
+- The `podman save` command now accepts the `--signature-policy` option ([#15869](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15869)).
+- The `podman pod inspect` command now allows multiple arguments to be passed. If so, it will return a JSON array of the inspected pods ([#15674](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15674)).
+- A series of new hidden commands have been added under `podman context` as aliases to existing `podman system connection` commands, to improve Docker compatibility.
+- The remote Podman client now supports proxying signals for attach sessions when the `--sig-proxy` option is set ([#14707](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14707)).
+
+### Changes
+- Duplicate volume mounts are now allowed with the `-v` option to `podman run`, `podman create`, and `podman pod create`, so long as source, destination, and options all match ([#4217](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/4217)).
+- The `podman generate kube` and `podman play kube` commands have been renamed to `podman kube generate` and `podman kube play` to group Kubernetes-related commands. Aliases have been added to ensure the old command names still function.
+- A number of Podman commands (`podman init`, `podman container checkpoint`, `podman container restore`, `podman container cleanup`) now print the user-inputted name of the container, instead of its full ID, on success.
+- When an unsupported option (e.g. resource limit) is specified for a rootless container on a cgroups v1 system, a warning message is now printed that the limit will not be honored.
+- The installer for the Windows Podman client has been improved.
+- The `--cpu-rt-period` and `--cpu-rt-runtime` options to `podman run` and `podman create` now print a warning and are ignored on cgroups v2 systems (cgroups v2 having dropped support for these controllers) ([#15666](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15666)).
+- Privileged containers running systemd will no longer mount `/dev/tty*` devices other than `/dev/tty` itself into the container ([#15878](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15878)).
+- Events for containers that are part of a pod now include the ID of the pod in the event.
+- SSH functionality for `podman machine` commands has seen a thorough rework, addressing many issues about authentication.
+- The `--network` option to `podman kube play` now allows passing `host` to set the pod to use host networking, even if the YAML does not request this.
+- The `podman inspect` command on containers now includes the digest of the image used to create the container.
+- Pods created by `podman play kube` are now, by default, placed into a network named `podman-kube`. If the `podman-kube` network does not exist, it will be created. This ensures pods can connect to each other by their names, as the network has DNS enabled.
+
+### Bugfixes
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman network prune` and `podman container prune` commands did not properly support the `--filter label!=` option ([#14182](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14182)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube generate` command added an unnecessary `Secret: null` line to generated YAML ([#15156](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15156)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube generate` command did not set `enableServiceLinks` and `automountServiceAccountToken` to false in generated YAML ([#15478](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15478) and [#15243](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15243)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube play` command did not properly handle CPU limits ([#15726](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15726)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube play` command did not respect default values for liveness probes ([#15855](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15855)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube play` command did not bind ports if `hostPort` was not specified but `containerPort` was ([#15942](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15942)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kube play` command sometimes did not create directories on the host for `hostPath` volumes.
+- Fixed a bug where the remote Podman client's `podman manifest push` command did not display progress.
+- Fixed a bug where the `--filter "{{.Config.Healthcheck}}"` option to `podman image inspect` did not print the image's configured healthcheck ([#14661](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14661)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman volume create -o timeout=` option could be specified even when no volume plugin was in use.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman rmi` command did not emit `untag` events when removing tagged images ([#15485](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15485)).
+- Fixed a bug where API forwarding with `podman machine` VMs on windows could sometimes fail because the pipe was not created in time ([#14811](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14811)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman pod rm` command could error if removal of a container in the pod was interrupted by a reboot.
+- Fixed a bug where the `exited` and `exec died` events for containers did not include the container's labels ([#15617](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15617)).
+- Fixed a bug where running Systemd containers on a system not using Systemd as PID 1 could fail ([#15647](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15647)).
+- Fixed a bug where Podman did not pass all necessary environment variables (including `$PATH`) to Conmon when starting containers ([#15707](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15707)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman events` command could function improperly when no events were present ([#15688](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15688)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `--format` flag to various Podman commands did not properly handle template strings including a newline (`\n`) ([#13446](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13446)).
+- Fixed a bug where Systemd-managed pods would kill every container in a pod when a single container exited ([#14546](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14546)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman generate systemd` command would generate incorrect YAML for pods created without the `--name` option.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman generate systemd --new` command did not properly set stop timeout ([#16149](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/16149)).
+- Fixed a bug where a broken OCI spec resulting from the system rebooting while a container is being started could cause the `podman inspect` command to be unable to inspect the container until it was restarted.
+- Fixed a bug where creating a container with a working directory on an overlay volume would result in the container being unable to start ([#15789](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15789)).
+- Fixed a bug where attempting to remove a pod with running containers without `--force` would not error and instead would result in the pod, and its remaining containers, being placed in an unusable state ([#15526](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15526)).
+- Fixed a bug where memory limits reported by `podman stats` could exceed the maximum memory available on the system ([#15765](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15765)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman container clone` command did not properly handle environment variables whose value contained an `=` character ([#15836](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15836)).
+- Fixed a bug where the remote Podman client would not print the container ID when running the `podman-remote run --attach stdin` command.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman machine list --format json` command did not properly show machine starting status.
+- Fixed a bug where automatic updates would not error when attempting to update a container with a non-fully qualified image name ([#15879](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15879)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman pod logs --latest` command could panic ([#15556](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15556)).
+- Fixed a bug where Podman could leave lingering network namespace mounts on the system if cleaning up the network failed.
+- Fixed a bug where specifying an unsupported URI scheme for `podman system service` to listen at would result in a panic.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman kill` command would sometimes not transition containers to the exited state ([#16142](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/16142)).
+
+### API
+- Fixed a bug where the Compat DF endpoint reported incorrect reference counts for volumes ([#15720](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15720)).
+- Fixed a bug in the Compat Inspect endpoint for Networks where an incorrect network option was displayed, causing issues with `docker-compose` ([#15580](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15580)).
+- The Libpod Restore endpoint for Containers now features a new query parameter, `pod`, to set the pod that the container will be restored into ([#15018](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15018)).
+- Fixed a bug where the REST API could panic while retrieving images.
+- Fixed a bug where a cancelled connection to several endpoints could induce a memory leak.
+
+### Misc
+- Error messages when attempting to remove an image used by a non-Podman container have been improved ([#15006](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15006)).
+- Podman will no longer print a warning that `/` is not a shared mount when run inside a container ([#15295](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15295)).
+- Work is ongoing to port Podman to FreeBSD.
+- The output of `podman generate systemd` has been adjusted to improve readability.
+- A number of performance improvements have been made to `podman create` and `podman run`.
+- A major reworking of the manpages to ensure duplicated options between commands have the same description text has been performed.
+- Updated Buildah to v1.28.0
+- Updated the containers/image library to v5.23.0
+- Updated the containers/storage library to v1.43.0
+- Updated the containers/common library to v0.50.1
+
+## 4.2.1
+### Features
+- Added support for Sigstore signatures (`sigstoreSigned`) to the `podman image trust set` and `podman image trust show` commands.`
+- The `podman image trust show` command now recognizes new `lookaside` field names.
+- The `podman image trust show` command now recognizes `keyPaths` in `signedBy` entries.
+
+### Changes
+- BREAKING CHANGE: `podman image trust show` may now show multiple entries for the same scope, to better represent separate requirements. GPG IDs on a single row now always represent alternative keys, only one of which is required; if multiple sets of keys are required, each is represented by a single line.
+- The `podman generate kube` command no longer adds the `bind-mount-options` annotation to generated Service YAML ([#15208](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15208)).
+
+### Bugfixes
+- Fixed a bug where Podman could deadlock when using `podman kill` to send signals to containers ([#15492](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15492)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman image trust set` command would silently discard unknown fields.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman image trust show` command would not show signature enforcement configuration for the default scope.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman image trust show` command would silently ignore multiple kinds of requirements in a single scope.
+- Fixed a bug where a typo in the `podman-kube@.service` unit file would cause warnings when running `systemctl status` on the unit.
+- Fixed a bug where the `--compress` option to `podman image save` was incorrectly allowed with the `oci-dir` format.
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman container clone` command did not properly clone environment variables ([#15242](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15242)).
+- Fixed a bug where Podman would not accept environment variables with whitespace in their keys ([#15251](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15251)).
+- Fixed a bug where Podman would not accept file paths containing the `:` character, preventing some commands from being used with `podman machine` on Windows ([#15247](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15247)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman top` command would report new capabilities as unknown.
+- Fixed a bug where running Podman in a container could cause fatal errors about an inability to create cgroups ([#15498](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15498)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman generate kube` command could generate incorrect YAML when the `bind-mount-options` was used ([#15170](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15170)).
+- Fixed a bug where generated container names were deterministic, instead of random ([#15569](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15569)).
+- Fixed a bug where the `podman events` command would not work with custom `--format` specifiers ([#15648](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15648)).
+
+### API
+- Fixed a bug where the Compat List endpoint for Containers did not sort the `HostConfig.Binds` field as Docker does.
+- Fixed a bug where the Compat List endpoint for Containers send the name (instead of ID) of the image the container was based on.
+- Fixed a bug where the Compat Connect endpoint for Networks would return an error (instead of 200) when attempting to connect a container to a network it was already connected to ([#15499](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15499)).
+- Fixed a bug where the Compat Events endpoint set an incorrect status for image removal events (`remove` instead of `delete`) ([#15485](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15485)).
+
 ## 4.2.0
 ### Features
 - Podman now supports the Gitlab Runner (using the Docker executor), allowing its use in Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.