Announcing ORAS v1.3.0: Elevating artifact and registry management workflows

Your registry’s safety net: Portable backup & restore Multi-platform image and artifact management Enable scripting and automation: Formatted output Stability & user experience polish Why this release matters Thanks to all contributors Posted on October 6, 2025 by Feynman Zhou CNCF projects highlighted in this post The ORAS community is thrilled to announce the release of ORAS CLI v1.3.0, a version packed with stability improvements and pioneering capabilities. In addition to strengthening existing functionality, this release introduces three major new features designed to enhance artifact and registry management workflows: Portable backup and restore of repositories and artifacts Multi-platform image and artifact management Rich formatted output for scripting and pipelines Moreover, ORAS is now fully compliant with OCI distribution-spec v1.1.1. With oras backup and oras restore, ORAS now lets you save your registry content into local directories or tarballs (OCI image layout format) as a snapshot and restore to any registry. All manifests, along with any optional tags and referrers, will be included in the backup. Use cases include: Air-gapped environments: Organizations operating in isolated or high-security environments can use oras backup to export artifacts from a registry to the local filesystem, and oras restore to import them into an internal registry with restricted access. Disaster recovery and audit archival: Take periodic snapshots of repositories and store them off-site. In case of accidental deletions, outages, or long-term storage for regulatory audits, oras restore can quickly recover full registry content. Registry migration: When moving from one container registry provider to another, these commands enable a full repository export, preserving tags, manifests, layers, and referrers. Compliance and supply chain security: Back up and restore images along with their supply chain artifacts, such as SBOMs, signatures, and vulnerability scanning reports. Repository duplication or promotion: Move artifacts from dev to staging to production registries reliably using an intermediate backup file. Check out the user guide Backup and Restore of OCI Artifacts, Images, and Repositories for details. Multi-platform images are commonly used in IoT and Edge computing, particularly in heterogeneous deployments.