Incus 7.2 has been released – News – Linux Containers Forum
Incus 7.2 has been released, introducing new features and improvements to the container and virtual machine management tool. The update includes enhancements to instance configuration, networking, and storage handling, along with various bug fixes and performance optimizations.
Background
Incus is a free, open-source container and virtual machine manager built around system containers (lightweight environments that share the host OS kernel). It's a community fork of Canonical's LXD, created after Canonical shifted LXD's governance away from the original contributors. Incus 7.2 is a regular release in that fork.
- LXD was originally developed by Canonical for managing Linux system containers (like LXC, but friendlier). In 2023, Canonical moved LXD under a tighter Canonical-controlled governance model, which led the original LXD maintainers and much of the community to fork the project as "Incus."
- Incus aims to stay true to the original community-driven model. It provides a REST API, CLI, and web UI for running and managing containers and VMs on a single server or across a cluster.
- This release note covers new features, bug fixes, and improvements in Incus 7.2. For Linux users interested in lightweight virtualization, Incus is the main community-led alternative to LXD.