The changes in this release include
New features:
- New client library
- Add a CreateContainerFromImage function
- Implement image upload
- Implement remote operations
- API additions
- New “description” field for containers, networks, storage pools and storage volumes
- Allow for image refreshes (lxc image refresh)
- When launching containers, an existing cached image is now preferred over downloading a refreshed one
- “lxd init” can now be preseeded with “–preseed” and a yaml config file
- Introduce a new btrfs.mount_options pool property
- Implement volume resizing for LVM (grow/shrink for ext4, grow only for xfs)
Bugfixes:
- client: Add image_create_aliases backward compat
- client: Always pass pointer to queryStruct
- client: Don’t return cache on GetServer
- client: Fill the server fingerprint if missing
- client: Fix private image handling
- client: Fix race condition in operation handler
- client: Improve error on image copy
- client: Keep track of protocol
- client: Move CopyImage to the target server
- client: Remove unneeded condition
- client: Require the volume type for storage volume
- client: Support partial fingerprints
- client: Track the server certificate, not client
- client: Use RemoteOperation for CopyImage
- doc: Add documentation about the init preseed feature
- doc: Correct typo in device type name
- doc: Fix markdown escaping
- doc: Update README.md Docker instructions
- doc/network: Add section on macvlan vs bridge (Issue #3273)
- doc/storage: Correct grammer
- doc/storage: Document zfs quota vs refquota (Issue #2959)
- doc/storage: Fix ordering
- extra/lxc-to-lxd: Don’t crash on missing mount file (Issue #3237)
- global: Fix typos
- global: Replace file Chmod() with os.Chmod() (Issue #3275)
- global: Use containerGetParentAndSnapshotName() everywhere
- i18n: Pre-release update
- i18n: Update translations from weblate
- lxc: Fix obscure error on missing object name (Issue #3230)
- lxc: Implement progress tracking for operations
- lxc/copy: Improve error handling (Issue #3243)
- lxc/copy: Simplify the code
- lxc/file: Fix broken file push on Windows
- lxc/file: Fix recursive file push on Windows
- lxc/init: Drop unnecessary else statement
- lxc/remote: Show the fingerprint as string not hex (Issue #3293)
- lxc/storage: Don’t ignore yaml errors
- lxd: Support running individual testify test suites
- lxd/containers: Also clear the host_name volatile key
- lxd/containers: Cleanup volatile keys on update (Issue #3231)
- lxd/containers: Disable IPv6 on created macvlan parents
- lxd/containers: fillNetworkDevice is only for nic
- lxd/containers: Use networkSysctl whenever possible
- lxd/daemon: Fix ETag handling for /1.0
- lxd/daemon: Actually set ServerFingerprint
- lxd/db: Add a testify test suite for db tests, rework existing tests
- lxd/db: Clear database state in the mock daemon after each lxdSuiteTest
- lxd/db: Don’t special-case mock mode unnecessarily in db patches
- lxd/db: Return NoSuchObjectError on missing storage pools (Issue #3257)
- lxd/db: Separate db-level update logic from daemon-level one
- lxd/images: Check if the image already exists on upload
- lxd/images: Fix potential double unlock
- lxd/images: Fix regression in image auto-update logic
- lxd/images: Save image source certificate and pass it to the download
- lxd/images: Split autoUpdateImage function
- lxd/import: Error on out missing name
- lxd/init: Extract validation of --auto args into a separate method
- lxd/init: Move state-changing inline functions to own methods
- lxd/init: Rollback to initial state if anything goes wrong
- lxd/init: Properly set the default port (Issue #3341)
- lxd/networks: Fix ETag regression
- lxd/patches: Drop unused variable
- lxd/profiles: Remove the Docker profile
- lxd/storage: Add helper to detect if pool is in use
- lxd/storage: Add lxdResolveMountoptions()
- lxd/storage: Add MS_LAZYTIME to mount options
- lxd/storage: Add permission helpers
- lxd/storage: Avoid an infinite loop
- lxd/storage: Fix bad internal types
- lxd/storage: Move mount helpers to storage utils
- lxd/storage: Only delete custom volumes
- lxd/storage: Pass container struct to ContainerMount()
- lxd/storage: Re-order storage pool checks
- lxd/storage/btrfs: Add getBtrfsPoolMountOptions()
- lxd/storage/btrfs: Handle migration on different LXDs (Issue #3323)
- lxd/storage/btrfs: Remove unused variable
- lxd/storage/btrfs: Use lxdResolveMountoptions()
- lxd/storage/lvm: Allow re-using existing thinpools (Issue #3351)
- lxd/storage/lvm: Check whether volume group is already in use
- lxd/storage/lvm: Disallow using non-empty volume groups (Issue #3351)
- lxd/storage/lvm: Only delete VG when empty (Issue #3351)
- lxd/storage/lvm: Resolve mount options properly (Issue #3284)
- lxd/storage/lvm: Simplify and improve pool creation
- lxd/storage/zfs: Create image dataset with mountpoint=none (Issue #3359)
- lxd/storage/zfs: Fix folder permissions after dataset creation (Issue #3090)
- lxd/storage/zfs: Try to work around zfs EBUSY bug (Issue #3228)
- Makefile: Add update-po to i18n target
- Makefile: Fix static-analysis target
- shared: Add yaml-mode marker in template for “lxc edit” actions
- shared/cmd: Add new package with initial command I/O logic
- shared/cmd: Complete cmd.Context support for various AskXXX methods
- shared/cmd: Don’t depend on testify
- shared/cmd: Make the log cmdInit unit-testable
- shared/logger: Make golint clean
- shared/logger: Replace PrintStack with GetStack
- shared/logging: Export LogfmtFormat
- shared/logging: Make golint clean
- shared/termios: Make golint clean
- tests: Add btrfs.mount_options test (Issue #3264)
- tests: Add LV resizing tests
- tests: Add mount option test for LVM (Issue #3284)
- tests: Add quota tests
- tests: Allow random storage backend selection
- tests: Don’t rely on busybox shutting down nicely
- tests: Drop jenkins-specific check again
- tests: Explicitly pass shell type to shellcheck
- tests: Honor the LXD_BACKEND environment variable in storage tests
- tests: Make sure storage volume is mounted
- tests: Remove invalid test for Jenkins
- tests: Test suites use space indent
- tests/deps: Make golint clean
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Downloads
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