Introduction
The LXD team would like to announce the release of LXD 5.0.5 LTS!
This is the fifth bugfix release for LXD 5.0 which is supported until June 2027.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!
Highlights
This release fixes an issue that prevented upgrading from LXD 4.0 to LXD 5.0 in certain scenarios.
It also updates some snap dependencies.
Updated minimum Go version to 1.24.6
The minimum version of Go required to build LXD is now 1.24.6.
Snap packaging dependency updates
- criu: Bump to v4.0
- dqlite: Bump to v1.17.2
- go: Bump to 1.24.6
- lxd-ui: Bump to 0.5.1
- nvidia-container: Bump to v1.17.6
- zfs: Bump to zfs-2.2.8 and zfs-2.1.16
Complete changelog
Here is a complete list of all changes in this release.
Downloads
The release tarballs can be found on our download page.
Binary builds are also available for:
- Linux: snap install lxd
- MacOS: brew install lxc
- Windows: choco install lxc