Issues

• GC scheduler can miss deletion notifications during backend cleanup

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14461 · Filter by author Park-Jiyeonn opened on Oct 25, 2026

• Redundant runc kill command runc kill --all 9 on container exit

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14444 · Filter by author adamwathieu opened on Oct 21, 2026
  3

• Allow disabling skip of prepare API calls in the metadata snapshotter

  kind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14437 · Filter by author ktock opened on Oct 20, 2026

• runc shim: /tasks/exit often not published, or published after /tasks/delete, since v2.3.0

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14433 · Filter by author sladkani opened on Oct 20, 2026
  1

• CRI: containerd restart during StartContainer leaves a running container without IO, and its task delete then fails forever ("failed to drain init process ... io")

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14426 · Filter by author markx opened on Oct 19, 2026
  2

• Support configuring the shim API version for downgrade compatibility

  kind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14420 · Filter by author Zihong8060 opened on Oct 19, 2026
  1

• runc shim "delete" fails with getwd ENOENT when bundle is removed concurrently, leaking runc state dirs

  containerd/containerd#14416 · Filter by author tahsinrahman opened on Oct 18, 2026

• RemoveContainer can fail forever with "cannot delete running task" after a failed task create or an Unavailable exit

  containerd/containerd#14414 · Filter by author tahsinrahman opened on Oct 18, 2026

• runc shim: task.State blocks behind an in-flight Delete, causing 2s State timeouts

  containerd/containerd#14379 · Filter by author tahsinrahman opened on Oct 15, 2026
  1

• [nix-snapshotter] Broken containers after 257a590 (v2.4.0-beta.0)

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14367 · Filter by author arturkow2000 opened on Oct 14, 2026

• remotes/docker: pushWriter.Commit blocks indefinitely when context is canceled

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14358 · Filter by author DARSHANR007 opened on Oct 14, 2026
  4

• Sandbox API: complete support for sandboxer plugins

  kind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14356 · Filter by author milantracy opened on Oct 14, 2026
  1

• diff service sync_fs is not applied to transfer-service unpacks (CRI's default pull path)

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14336 · Filter by author kevinpark1217 opened on Oct 12, 2026
  4

• CRI: add a shared-netns handler that groups Pods by RuntimeClass name

  containerd/containerd#14315 · Filter by author lguohan opened on Oct 9, 2026
  5

• [SIG-Node]: KEP-5855 - bindMountOptions (noexec, nosuid, nodev) support for CRI mounts

  area/crikind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14310 · Filter by author nispriha opened on Oct 7, 2026
  

• Image snapshotter needs image pull credentials

  kind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14298 · Filter by author SergeyKanzhelev opened on Oct 6, 2026

• erofs snapshotter: snapshot diff and commit fail on unactivated mount-manager mounts

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14295 · Filter by author mike-sul opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Stopping a Pod with spec.shareProcessNamespace: true and 16+ containers takes ~1m

  kind/bug
  containerd/containerd#14292 · Filter by author adamwathieu opened on Oct 6, 2026
  2

  

• [SIG-Node]: KEP-6313 - Non Network Pods

  area/crikind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14279 · Filter by author MikeZappa87 opened on Oct 2, 2026
  4

  

• should it be size-offset in line 301 (core/content/helpers.go, seekReader())

  kind/bugstatus/more-info-needed
  containerd/containerd#14278 · Filter by author YellowDusk04 opened on Oct 2, 2026
  1

• exec/attach on release/2.2 lose the end of the output with slow clients

  containerd/containerd#14275 · Filter by author semx opened on Oct 1, 2026
  1

• [SIG-Node]: KEP-5714: cgroup namespaces

  area/crikind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14267 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Sep 30, 2026
  

• Support secondary root directories (secondary_roots) for preloaded images, blobs, and snapshots

  kind/featurestatus/accepted
  containerd/containerd#14262 · Filter by author AnishShah opened on Sep 30, 2026 · 2.5
  1

  

• Pods stuck Terminating: rootfs umount EBUSY exhausts the 50x50ms retry and never recovers (containerd 2.2.7, GKE/COS)

  kind/resource-leak
  containerd/containerd#14257 · Filter by author jitpatel04 opened on Sep 29, 2026
  11

• [SIG-Node]: 4216 - Support image pull per runtime class

  area/crikind/feature
  containerd/containerd#14252 · Filter by author ChengyuZhu6 opened on Sep 29, 2026
  5