LXD 6.9 has been released

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Introduction

The LXD team would like to announce the release of LXD 6.9!

This is the ninth feature release in the 6.x series.

It includes many new features and improvements.

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…

LXD UI update tour

Creating a new project replicator

Running a project replicator

Project replication configuration

Load balancer pool creation

Load balancer creation

Instance overview showing load balancer pool membership

Instance file explorer

SSO configuration screen

Dell PowerStore driver configuration

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=6/stable
• MacOS client: brew install lxc
• Windows client: choco install lxc

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LXD 6.9 is now released into the 6/candidate snap channel.

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LXD 6.9 is now being progressively rolled out to the 6/stable snap channel.

Do get the new version immediately (assuming you are already tracking the 6/stable channel) use this snap refresh invocation:

snap refresh lxd --cohort=+

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…