Introduction
The LXC team is pleased to announce the release of LXC 6.0.3!
This is the third bugfix release for LXC 6.0 which is supported until June 2029.
Changes
As usual this bugfix releases focus on stability and hardening.
Some of the highlights for this release are:
- Added support for PuzzleFS images in lxc-oci
- SIGHUP is now propagated through lxc.init
- Reworked testsuite including support for 64-bit Arm
The full list of commits is available below:
Detailed changelog
- meson.build: add -ffat-lto-objects
- meson.build: drop suggest-attribute=noreturn build option
- Add suppport for PuzzleFS images in the oci template
- create_run_template: don’t use txtuid and txtguid out of scope
- Avoid null pointer dereference when using shared rootfs. rootfs->storage not set by lxc_storage_prepare when using a shared rootfs.
- meson: fix minor typo
- lxc-net: Replace random IPv6 subnet
- fix return code of recursive all of cgroup_tree_prune
- lxccontainer: fix enter_net_ns helper to work when netns is inherited
- lxc.init: Switch to sigaction
- lxc.init: Ignore user signals coming from inside the contianer
- lxc.init: Allow SIGHUP from outside the container
- github: Update coverity workflow
- github: Introduce shared build logic
- github: Introduce shared testsuite logic
- github: Rework test workflow
- github: Cleanup OSS-fuzz
- github: Improve progress reporting
Support and upgrade
The LXC 6.0 branch is supported until June 2029.
Only bugfixes and securitiy issues get included into the stable bugfix releases, so it’s always safe and recommended to keep up and run the latest bugfix release.
Downloads
- Main release tarball: lxc-6.0.3.tar.gz
- GPG signature: lxc-6.0.3.tar.gz.asc
Thanks
This LTS release update was made possible thanks to funding provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund (now part of the Sovereign Tech Agency).
Find out more at: https://www.sovereign.tech