We would like to announce version 0.8.0 beta release of Multipass!
Getting it
The Snap version is now in the beta channel.
The Windows version is found here and the Mac version is found here.
Highlights
multipass findoutput is now nicely formatted (#794)- separate data for different drivers, allowing safe switching between them (#800)
- standard input/output support in
transfer(#789 - thanks @MaximDanilov!) - you can change the primary instance name, meaning any existing instance of your choice can be the primary one - just
multipass set client.primary-name=<name>(#805) - it is now as easy as
multipass set local.driver=virtualboxto change drivers (#835)
if you usedsnap setto change it previously, the setting will get migrated to multipass set for you - in the snap, the
libvirtdriver now uses systemlibvirtdinstead of an internal one (#850)
You can find the full list of changes in our v0.8.0 project and even more detailed in the full commit log.
Notes
The MULTIPASS_VM_DRIVER environment variable is now ignored. Please unset it and use multipass set local.driver=… to switch backends.
Significant bugfixes
- prevent crash on
delete --purge(#761) - fix concurrent launches of the same image (#664)
- improve
findformatting (#603, #765, #530) - clean up instance data on failed launch (#680)
- long output to exec hangs (#772)
System menu
At the moment, on Windows and macOS there’s no icon to click on to run the GUI, as it’s our first iteration. You can run multipass-gui yourself and see the menu in action 
We’ll be properly integrating it with the desktop environments soon.
Feedback
Please file issues here for problems and feature requests, or come to our discourse to chat. We’re also on #multipass on Freenode. See you there