LXD 5.21.5 LTS has been released

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Introduction

The LXD team would like to announce the release of LXD 5.21.5 LTS!

This is the fifth bugfix release for LXD 5.21 which is supported until June 2029.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!

New features and highlights

For more details please see the full release notes.

Please note this release has some critical security fixes, for more information please see:

Security advisory: multiple vulnerabilities found in Canonical LXD

Critical vulnerabilities found Several critical and high impact vulnerabilities affecting LXD were identified and addressed. Some were identified directly by contributors, and some were referred to us from the Incus project, which were then confirmed to affect LXD as well. The critical vulnerabilities, primarily related to insufficient path sanitization, input validation, and configuration bypasses, could allow authenticated users to achieve arbitrary file read/write operations or arbitrary com…

Downloads

The source tarballs and binary clients can be found on our download page.

Binary packages are also available for:

• Linux: snap install lxd --channel=5.21/stable
• MacOS client: brew install lxc
• Windows client: choco install lxc

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LXD 5.21.5 is now available in the 5.21/candidate snap channel.

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LXD 5.21.5 is now progressively rolling out to the 5.21/stable channel.

You can get it now using:

snap refresh lxd --cohort=+