Announcing Incus 6.23

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.23!

This release is going to be our last 6.x release before Incus 7.0 LTS which is due out on April 30th.

It’s also quite a busy release with a good mix of security issues (mostly thanks to an ongoing analysis by 7asecurity), bug fixes and performance improvements and then a very good selection of features from expanding our OS support for VMs to adding more flexible instance storage with dependent volumes!

This fixes the following security issues:

• CVE-2026-33711 (low)
• CVE-2026-33542 (moderate)
• CVE-2026-33743 (moderate)
• CVE-2026-33898 (high)
• CVE-2026-33897 (critical)
• CVE-2026-33945 (critical)

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

• Dependent storage volumes
• FreeBSD VM support
• Reworked CLI parser
• Support for disabling DHCP announcement of the gateway
• Support for ipv4.dhcp.gateway on OVN networks
• Support for io.bus on OVN NICs
• VM agent lifecycle events
• Reworked incus file pull and incus storage volume file pull
• Project related metrics
• Instance low-level repair 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!