Stéphane Graber, leader of the Linux Containers project and former technical lead of the LXD project, announced the release of Incus 7.0 LTS, a fork container and virtual machine management system LXD, created by the community after the original project moved under the wing of Canonical and changed the license. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Online demo is available for review.
Incus 7.0 LTS will be supported until June 2031. For the first two years, it is planned to release corrective updates with bug fixes and minor improvements, after which the project will move to the maintenance stage with corrections of only critical vulnerabilities. The current Incus 6.0 LTS branch has been moved into support mode, where only security-related fixes are published.
- S3-based object storage engine Minio replaced with its own built-in implementation.
- Added the “core.shutdown_action” option to define actions when the server is shut down.
- Implemented a low-level API for creating backups.
- Added the “restricted.storage-pools.access” setting, through which you can limit the storage pools available for the project.
- Added scriptlets to control the placement of instances when rebalancing the cluster.
- The behavior of the “incus file push” and “incus file pull” commands is closer to the “cp” utility.
- Fixed 9 vulnerabilities, of which 7 are of moderate severity (including