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The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.22!

This is quite the busy release with a lot of changes all across the board on top of a large quantities of bugfixes. There should be something for everyone!

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

• vsock support for the WIndows agent
• Direct backup retrieval
• Disk-only snapshot restoration
• Dedicated storage volume for server logs
• QCOW2 storage improvements
• lvmcluster storage pool resizing
• Automatic snapshot removal on restore with lvmcluster
• Full USB controller passthrough in unix-hotplug
• Certificate information in the authorization scriptlet
• VM fast reboot
• Image server URL restrictions in projects
• URL based imports in incus-migrate
• Multi-domain certificates with ACME
• Control of trusted property on SR-IOV NICs
• Additional cluster member states to track evacuation
• Cluster restore without instance migration
• Instance boot time metrics

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 6.21!

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!