Weekly status for the weeks of the 4th to the 10th of March.
Introduction
The highlight of this past week was the release of LXD 3.11!
The rest of the week was then spent tracking down issues, fixing bugs and working on bigger features like shiftfs, RBAC and Dqlite 1.0.
On the image building side, no new distributions were added this week, though OpenSUSE 42.3 images have been re-introduced following user requests.
We’ve also been doing a few changes to distrobuilder and our build infrastructure to hopefully significantly reduce the amount of manual interventions needed to operate it day to day.
Next week, Christian Brauner (@brauner) and Stéphane Graber (@stgraber) will be in San Jose, California to attend and present LXD clustering at GTC 2019.
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
- Added snapshot expiry to
lxc info - Simplified our internal SmartError handler
- Fixed a race condition in backup.yaml generation
- Improved cluster request targeting
- Fixed bad handling of default profile in container migration
LXC
- Fixed lxc.cgroup2. on cgroup2-only systems
- Tweaked post-stop hook to drop namespace references before call
- Fixed btrfs driver to ensure \0 byte at end
LXCFS
- Nothing to report this week
Distrobuilder
- Fixed package manager to honor package set order for install/remove
- Added a new global –timeout flag
- Fixed openSUSE --allow-downgrade flag
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
- Updated to LXD 3.11
- Bumped to Go 1.12
- Bumped to ZFS 0.7.13
- Cherry-picked a LXC mount namespace fix