LXD 2.17 has been released

The changes in this release include

New features:

• Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property)
• Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”)
• Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but with LXD knowledge)
• Filesystem ACLs are now rewritten when the container changes uid/gid map
• LXD now supports using binary deltas when refreshing daily images
• “lxc image info” now shows whether an image was automatically cached by LXD

Bugfixes:

• client: Cleanup code duplication in image download function
• client: Remove deprecated client code
• client: Simplify ConnectPublicLXD logic
• doc: Add storage documentation for volatile.pool.pristine
• doc: Add the volatile.initial_source key
• doc: Fix bad JSON in rest-api.md (Issue #3654)
• doc: Properly escape path params
• extra/lxc-to-lxd: Ignore capabilities that are dropped by default
• extra/lxc-to-lxd: Ignore sysfs/proc mounts
• extra/lxc-to-lxd: Properly handle lxc.seccomp
• i18n: Update translations from weblate
• lxc: Fix race in progress reporter
• lxc: Re-introduce remote protocol migration
• lxc/config: Expose extra certificate functions (Issue #3606)
• lxc/image: Fix copy of image aliases
• lxc/image: Wait for the refresh to complete
• lxc/remote: Don’t require a crt for public remotes (Issue #3627)
• lxd: Move lxd/util.go into its own lxd/util/ sub-package
• lxd/containers: Allow passing disk devices with the LXD snap (Issue #3660)
• lxd/containers: Another LXC 2.1 key rename, lxc.idmap
• lxd/containers: Fix a typo: now -> know
• lxd/containers: Fix gpu attach when mixing GPU vendors (Issue #3642)
• lxd/containers: Fix sorting order of devices (Issue #2895)
• lxd/containers: Fix support for isolcpu in CPU scheduler (Issue #3624)
• lxd/containers: Make stateful snapshot restores work again
• lxd/daemon: Add initial lxd/sys sub-package and OperatingSystem structure
• lxd/daemon: d.os.Init must be run after all paths are created
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.ExpireLogs into a standalone function
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.GetListeners into a standalone function
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.httpClient into a standalone HTTPClient function
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.ListenAddresses into a standalone function
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.PasswordCheck into a standalone function
• lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.SetupStorageDriver into a standalone function
• lxd/daemon: Log a warning for unknown config keys instead of crashing
• lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.BackingFs to the OS struct
• lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.IdmapSet to OS.IdmapSet
• lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.isRecursionRequest to the lxd/util sub-package
• lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.lxcpath to OS.LxcPath
• lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.MockMode to OS.MockMode
• lxd/daemon: Move Deamon.CheckTrustState and Deamon.isTrustedClient to lxd/util
• lxd/daemon: Move filesystemDetect function into lxd/util subpackage
• lxd/daemon: Replace Daemon with State in all model entities
• lxd/daemon: Use select and save a few goroutines
• lxd/daemon: Use sql.DB or sys.OS instead of Daemon where possible
• lxd/db: Drop dependencies on Daemon in db.go
• lxd/db: Move db*.go files into their own db/ sub-package
• lxd/images: Carry old “cached” value on refresh (Issue #3698)
• lxd/import: Don’t use un-initialized structs
• lxd/networks: Allow starting LXD without dnsmasq (Issue #3678)
• lxd/networks: Fix networkIptablesClear with missing ip{6}tables (Issue #3688)
• lxd/networks: Make “dev” work as a network name
• lxd/networks: Set dnsmasq.raw to be 0644 (Issue #3652)
• lxd/networks: Stop networks on clean shutdown
• lxd/patches: Fix canmount=noauto patch (Issue #3594)
• lxd/patches: Unset “size” for ZFS containers + images (Issue #3679)
• lxd/storage: Count custom volumes in pool UsedBy
• lxd/storage: Enable “volume.size” for {btrfs,zfs}
• lxd/storage: Fix “size” property
• lxd/storage: Fix wrong driver name for log output
• lxd/storage: Non-functional changes
• lxd/storage/ceph: Fix double –cluster
• lxd/storage/ceph: Unmap until EINVAL
• lxd/storage/ceph: Use “/dev/rbd” via sysfs
• lxd/storage/ceph: Use minimal image feature set for clones
• lxd/storage/dir: Check if directory is empty (Issue #3680)
• lxd/storage/zfs: Always require existing datasets to be empty (Issue #3657)
• lxd/storage/zfs: Refactoring
• shared: Add wrapper to translate host paths
• shared: Move GetRemoteCertificate from lxc/remote (Issue #3606)
• tests: function to include storage backends helpers
• tests: Refactor cleanup functions
• tests: Split out lxc and lxd related helper functions
• tests: Split out network-related helper functions
• tests: Split out storage-related helper functions
• tests: Split out test setup related helper functions
• tests: Use $storage_backends variable

Try it for yourself

This new LXD release is already available for you to try on our demo service.

Downloads

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