Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 0.6! This second release of 2024 features a number of improvements, both large and small. It comes with a completely new storage driver for cluster users, import/export support for storage buckets, a number of improvements for OVN users, support for new container kernel features, quite a few improvements to the migration tooling and more! As usual, you can try it for yourself online: Linux Containers - Incus - Try it on...

Incus, a community-managed fork of LXD (container and VM manager), has been updated to v0.6.

New features:

  • Clustered LVM storage driver

  • Storage bucket backup and import

  • Listing images across all projects

  • Mounting binfmt_misc filesystems inside of unprivileged containers

  • Control over shared block storage volumes

  • OVN logical router name in network info

  • File ownership and permissions in image templates

  • Encrypted EC client certificate keys

  • lxd-to-incus improvements:

    • Support for Void Linux
    • Detection of the boot.debug_edk2 configuration key
    • Handling of OVN SSL database connections
    • Automatic clearing of the simplestreams cache during migration