LXD 2.19 has been released

The changes in this release include

Features:

  • The LXD documentation is now available at https://lxd.readthedocs.io
  • A new “resources” API was added allowing to get CPU and memory information as well as storage pool sizes from the API. In the client, this maps to “lxc info --resources” and “lxc storage show NAME --resources”.
  • A new set of limits.kernel.[limit name] container configuration keys are available to tweak the various kernel process limits for the container.
  • The command line client now has a number of “rename” subcommands, for profiles, networks and image aliases. The toplevel “rename” command was also updated to match.
  • The LXD API now allows renaming of custom storage volumes. In the client tool, this can be done through “lxc storage volume rename”.
  • Extended the LXD user-agent to include the kernel version, architecture and OS name and release. This will allow LXD image servers to show a filtered image list when applicable.
  • Added a new insecureSkipVerify flag to ConnectionArgs struct in the client allowing to connect to a LXD host bypassing any kind of TLS validation.

Bugfixes:

  • doc: Document instance types
  • doc: Document that squashfs images can also be used
  • github: Add SUPPORT.md
  • github: Refresh the issue template
  • global: Add some more TLS ciphers (Issue #3822)
  • lxc/file: Use shared.HostPath for push/pull
  • lxc/image: Fix regression in exported filename (Issue #3869)
  • lxc/image: Use shared.HostPath for import/export
  • lxc/storage: Fix remote operations
  • lxd-benchmark: Add “spawn” as equivalent but deprecated to “launch”
  • lxd-benchmark: Change name of spawn command to launch
  • lxd/apparmor: Drop useless apparmor denies
  • lxd/daemon: Don’t update images while pruning
  • lxd/daemon: Fix handling of config triggers
  • lxd/daemon: Simplify time channels
  • lxd/db: Fix bad DB schema update between schema 30 and 31 (Issue #3878) (Issue #3890)
  • lxd/images: Actually get the list of images to remove
  • lxd/images: Fix bad error message
  • lxd/images: Respect disabled cache expiry
  • lxd/images: Store UploadedAt as RFC3399
  • lxd/import: Check for on-disk only snapshots
  • lxd/import: Re-create mountpoints and symlinks
  • lxd/import: Rewrite (Issue #3682)
  • lxd/init: Only nest btrfs if container is on btrfs
  • lxd/migration: Fix lvm stateful restores
  • lxd/migration: Fix stateless incremental containers (Issue #3798)
  • lxd/network: Better handle dnsmasq version checks (Issue #3837)
  • lxd/network: Do not update limits unconditionally (Issue #3920)
  • lxd/networks: Fix renaming networks (Issue #3912)
  • lxd/networks: Update dnsmasq on container renames
  • lxd/patches: Convert UploadedAt to RFC3399
  • lxd/resources: Deal with missing cpufreq directory
  • lxd/storage: Add growFileSystem helper
  • lxd/storage: Add shrinkFileSystem helper
  • lxd/storage: Add shrinkVolumeFilesystem helper
  • lxd/storage: Have “usedby” functions return empty slice
  • lxd/storage: Ignore vanished file warnings during rsync (Issue #3859)
  • lxd/storage: Move check for type into api
  • lxd/storage: Re-import image if volume filesystem has changed
  • lxd/storage: Rework container volume properties
  • lxd/storage: Rework storage pool updating (Issue #3834)
  • lxd/storage: Rework storage volume updating
  • lxd/storage: Support resizing btrfs-based volumes
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Existence check before container delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Existence check before custom delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Existence check before image delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Existence check before snapshot delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Remove dependency on symlink
  • lxd/storage/btrfs: Workaround btrfs bug (Issue #3843)
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Check for mountpoint before calling umount
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Correctly implement (none-)live migration
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Existence check before container delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Existence check before custom delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Existence check before pool delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Existence check before snapshot delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Handle volume.block.filesystem update
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Remove size property from OSD pools
  • lxd/storage/ceph: Use [grow|shrink]FileSystem helpers
  • lxd/storage/dir: Check whether pool is already mounted (Issue #3938)
  • lxd/storage/dir: Make sure pool is mounted (Issue #3938)
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Existence check before container delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Existence check before custom delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Existence check before image delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Existence check before pool delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Mount xfs snapshots with “nouuid”
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Non-functional changes
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Re-import image on thinpool-based pools if volume filesystem has changed
  • lxd/storage/lvm: Use DottedVersion for version comparison
  • lxd/storage/zfs: Existence check before custom delete (Issue #3775)
  • lxd/storage/zfs: Existence check before delete for pools (Issue #3775)
  • shared: Cleanup use of the log package
  • shared: Move testhelpers into shared/osarch for now
  • shared/api: Consistent file names
  • shared/api: Split storage in separate files for pools and volumes
  • shared/canceler: Support canceling with parallel downloads
  • shared/idmap: Fix numerous issues (Issue #3946)
  • shared/idmap: Make ACL failures more verbose
  • shared/logger: Temporary workaround for log15 API breakage
  • shared/util: Implement mountpoint checking (Issue #3877)
  • shared/util: More snap handling logic
  • tests: Add stateless live migration tests
  • tests: Add tests for btrfs resize
  • tests: Add tests using btrfs on LVM and ceph volumes
  • tests: Fix bad raw.lxc test
  • tests: Fix dependency check
  • tests: Fix image expiry test
  • tests: Fix shell return value masking
  • tests: Setup basic channel handler for triggers
  • tests: Test mountpoint and symlink recreation
  • tests: Update and expand container import tests
  • tests: Update perf.sh to “lxd-benchmark launch”
  • tests: Use 50MB as minimal block dev size for xfs

Try it for yourself

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

Downloads

The release tarballs can be found on our download page.

Snap is now building in the candidate channel and will be released to the stable channel after 24 hours. The LXD Ubuntu package will take a week or so before it’s published due to Ubuntu currently being in final freeze ahead of the Ubuntu 17.10 release.

  • Snap is now available in the candidate channel.
  • LXD 2.19 client is available to macOS users through homebrew.

got this trying to update:

lxd is already the newest version (2.18-0ubuntu6~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa1).

Yes, has mentioned above only the snap and macOS packages are available right now as we need to wait for the next Ubuntu development release to open before we can update the PPA and backports.