Changelog for v26.7.2

website/docs/About/Changelog.md

@@ -17,6 +17,32 @@ instead.
 > If you do wish to manually update your local reference, run `git remote set-url origin https://github.com/ethstaker/eth-docker.git`
 
 
+## v26.7.2 2026-07-22
+
+*This is a recommended release for users of Nethermind, Nimbus EL and Nimbus archive node, and optional for everyone else*
+
+**Breaking changes**
+- Requires Nethermind `v1.37.1` or later (recommended: `v1.39.2` or later)
+
+Changes
+- Enable Nethermind's log index by default
+- Replace "beaconstate.info" checkpoint URLs
+- Support Nimbus Unified client
+- Nimbus archive node supports EraC download; warns user to use EraC when not genesis syncing
+- Support podman, see https://ethdocker.com/Usage/Prerequisites#podman
+- Track Eth Docker version in metrics, and allow restricting Alloy scraping to one instance of Eth Docker. Thanks @erl-100!
+- Improve custom network support, support current Glamsterdam devnet format for metadata. Support custom networks with Caplin
+- Nimbus EL default tag changes to `latest`, and both `master` and `latest` will build
+- Lighthouse and Reth source builds cache Rust artefacts 
+- Prysm source build uses `make`, not `bazel`
+- Remove GitPOAP badge 😭
+
+Bug fixes
+- Nimbus EL logs are being collected
+- Grandine plugin supports Graffiti with spaces
+- Nimbus resync works when not using checkpoint sync
+- Lighthouse source build always uses clang
+
 ## v26.7.1 2026-07-01
 
 *This is a mandatory release for users of Erigon, and recommended for everyone else*

website/docs/Usage/Prerequisites.md

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 [Asahi Linux](https://asahilinux.org/) on Apple Silicon Macs or
 [Debian Linux](https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple) on Intel x64 Macs.
 
+## podman
+
+Podman is expected to work from Podman `v6.0` on. Networking needs to be changed so that P2P connections work.
+> NB: Podman only works with IPv4. IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack is not supported. This means it is not well suited for nodes behind CGNAT.
+
+Install Podman and `crun`. `crun`, not `runc`. `runc` in Debian is vulnerable and will not be updated for Trixie and earlier  
+`sudo apt update && sudo apt install podman crun`
+
+Add alias and env vars to the end of `~/.profile`
+```
+cat <<EOF >>~/.profile
+export DOCKER_CONFIG=${DOCKER_CONFIG:-$HOME/.docker}
+export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock
+export PODMAN_COMPOSE_WARNING_LOGS=false
+alias docker=podman
+EOF
+```
+
+Activate  
+`source ~/.profile`
+
+Change podman to use pasta's experimental pesto port forwarder, so the CL can get peers.
+
+```
+mkdir -p ~/.config/containers
+nano ~/.config/containers/containers.conf
+```
+then
+```
+[network]
+rootless_port_forwarder="pasta"
+```
+
+Test:
+```
+systemctl --user start dbus
+podman info
+echo $DOCKER_CONFIG
+```
+
+Download docker compose plugin
+
+```
+mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG"/cli-plugins
+curl -sSL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 \
+  -o $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose
+chmod +x $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose
+```
+
+Test  
+`podman compose version`
+
+Enable podman socket  
+`systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket`
+
+Confirm socket connection  
+`podman info | grep -iA2 socket`
+
 ## Windows 11
 
 It is technically possible to run Eth Docker on [Windows 11](../Support/Windows.md).