Weekly status for the weeks of the 25th of February to the 3rd of March.
Introduction
Last week, the entire LXD team was meeting in person in Malta for a week of planning and working together.
We mostly focused on fixing a number of LXD bugs, added two new distributions to distrobuilder, made some good progress on shiftfs and did a bunch of brainstorming for upcoming LXD features and refactoring.
Starting last week, both OpenSUSE and Oracle Linux images are now handled through distrobuilder, leaving only Plamo Linux and Ubuntu Core on the old build system.
Now with that behind us, the next milestone is LXD 3.11 to be released later today!
Upcoming conferences and events
- GTC 2019 - San Jose, CA (March 17-21)
Ongoing projects
The list below is feature or refactoring work which will span several weeks/months and can’t be tied directly to a single Github issue or pull request.
- Rework of internal LXD storage handling
- External RBAC support for LXD
- Dqlite 1.0
- Switching distribution building over to distrobuilder
- Various kernel work
- Stable release work for LXC, LXCFS and LXD
Upstream changes
The items listed below are highlights of the work which happened upstream over the past week and which will be included in the next release.
LXD
- Cleaned up
lxc execterminal logic - Fixed exec completion handling
- Fixed handling of multiple
lxc listfilters - Fixed type of length in file_to_buf
- Implemented some stricter node remove checks
- Fixed confusion between cluster and listen address on startup
- Removed all use of Exit() within lxc commands
- Made
lxc remoteuse candid if supported - Fixed project update when clustered
- Fixed incorrect image project association during replication
- Added the username to all internal http requests
- Cleaned up the request authentication code
- Added a first stab at FAQ to documentation
- Fixed formatting of markdown in rest-api.md
- Fixed some typoes in faq.md
LXC
- Tweaked download template to configure gpg http proxy, if http_proxy is set
- Removed fgets() from the codebase
- Removed some unused variables
- Updated our coding guidelines
- Fixed android compilation
- Updated gcc -Wall flag compat
- Fixed some wrongly licensed files
- Cleaned up some internal functions
- Fixed some uninitialized variable
- Fixed some compiler warning
LXCFS
- Nothing to report this week
Distrobuilder
- Added support for openSUSE
- Fixed handling of Oracle Linux 6
- Added i386 support for Oracle
- Fixed potential download path conflict
- Fixed openSUSE tarball URL
- Fixed ArchLinux latest release logic
- Fixed openSUSE Leap 15 tarball URL
Distribution work
This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXC, LXD and LXCFS as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers.
Ubuntu
- Nothing to report this week
Snap
- Cherry-picked some bugfixes