Author Archives: Stéphane Graber

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.21!

We’re starting 2026 with a couple of security fixes, but that’s not all, we’re also introducing some long requested CLI improvements, made SR-IOV easier to use with network cards, improved startup performance and more!

This release includes two security fixes:

• CVE-2026-23953 (Newline injection in environment variable)
• CVE-2026-23954 (Arbitrary file read/write through templates)

On the feature front, the highlights for this release are:

• New “incus wait” command
• Automatic SR-IOV network VF selection
• Support for detaching and disconnecting network interfaces
• Parallel instance startup
• Source subnet restrictions through OIDC claims
• Better DNS SOA handling in network zones
• Forceful (recursive) directory deletion in file REST API

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.20!

This is the last release of 2025 and a shorter development cycle so we don’t end up releasing right in the middle of the holidays!

The highlights for this release are:

• QCOW2 formatted volumes on clustered LVM
• Standalone incus cluster join command
• Configuration file for the VM agent
• Reverse DNS records in OVN

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.19!

This is a slightly less busy release than usual as we’ve recently been spending quite a bit of time smoothing some of the initial rough edges from the IncusOS release.

That said, it still contains quite a few nice improvements and quite a lot of bugfixes!

The highlights for this release are:

• Initial SELinux support
• Improved Windows agent support
• Serial devices in the resources API
• Bandwidth limits on OVN NICs
• Support for multi-object deletion in most CLI commands
• Ability to turn off passthrough of PCI firmware to VM
• PKCS12 generation in the CLI
• Option for raw units in CLI CSV output

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.18!

This is a reasonably busy release with quite a few smaller releases in every corner of Incus so there should be something for everyone!

The highlights for this release are:

• Systemd credentials support
• File operations on storage volumes
• Exporting of ISO volumes
• BFP token delegation
• MacOS support in the Incus VM agent
• VirtIO sound cards for VMs
• Support for temporarily detaching USB devices
• Configurable DNS mode for OVN networks
• Configurable MAC address patterns for networks and instances
• Extended IncusOS management CLI

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!