Weekly news #366

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Weekly status for the week of 30th September to 6th October.

Introduction

The highlight of the past week is the significant improvement in lxc CLI auto-completion. Additionally, LXD has gained support for binfmt_misc namespacing. The LXD UI also received several new features and bug fixes, including the ability to move instances and volumes between storage pools.
Thanks to all the contributors!

Support for binfmt misc namespace (from Incus)

LXD now supports the binfmt_misc namespacing feature, available in Linux 6.7 and higher. This includes a startup detection mechanism that attempts to mount binfmt_misc if the feature is supported, skipping the host’s binfmt_misc mount in such cases.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where certificates and identity entities would overlap in the authorization model. Certificates are now categorized by type (e.g., client, metrics, server), while identities manage permissions via group membership.

  • Improved lxc CLI auto-completion to show available devices when adding a device to an instance and properly display available instances for various instance actions, such as start, stop, and pause. Also fixed an issue where auto completion for instance configuration would also show server configuration options.

LXD UI

New features in the LXD UI include the ability to move instances and storage volumes to a different storage pool, as well as a new single-option selector that simplifies searching and displaying complex elements in the permission setup.

Additionally, several bug fixes have been implemented, such as adding an automatic retry mechanism for network issues when loading additional resources, which previously caused crashes.

All changes

The items listed below is all of the work which happened over the past week and which will be included in the next release.

LXD

LXD UI

LXD Charm

  • Nothing to report this week

LXD Terraform provider

PyLXD

Distribution work

This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXD as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers.

Ubuntu

  • Nothing to report this week.

LXD snap

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