Announcing Incus 7.0 LTS!

[Stéphane Graber]

Hello,

It’s with great pride and pleasure that the Incus team is announcing the
release of Incus 7.0 LTS!

Incus is a modern system container, application container and virtual
machine manager. It’s released under the Apache 2.0 license and is run
as a community led Open Source project as part of the Linux Containers
organization.

Incus provides a cloud-like environment, creating instances from our
premade images or any OCI registry and offers a wide variety of
features, including the ability to seamlessly cluster servers together.

It supports multiple different local or remote storage options,
traditional or fully distributed networking and offers most common cloud
features, including a full REST API and integrations with common tooling
like Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Packr, Kubernetes Cluster API and
more!

This is the second LTS release for Incus with Incus 6.0 LTS now entering
its security-only phase for the remaining 3 years of its 5 years
lifespan.

Incus 7.0 LTS joins LXC 7.0 LTS and LXCFS 7.0 LTS in wrapping up this
round of LTS releases. Just like its sister projects, Incus 7.0 LTS will
be supported until June 2031.

The first 2 years will feature bug and security fixes as well as minor
usability improvements, delivered through occasional point releases
(7.0.x). After that initial two years, Incus 7.0 LTS will move to
security only maintenance for the remaining of its 5 years of support.

A total of 204 individuals contributed to Incus between the 6.0 LTS and
7.0 LTS releases with 45 contributing between the 6.23 and 7.0 LTS
releases.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2026-35527 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-8gw4-p4wq-4hcv)
- CVE-2026-40195 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-gc7j-g665-rxr9)
- CVE-2026-40197 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-r7w7-mmxr-47r9)
- CVE-2026-40251 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-4m88-wxj4-9qj6)
- CVE-2026-41647 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m)
- CVE-2026-41684 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-x5r6-jr56-89pv)
- CVE-2026-41685 (Moderate)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-98vh-x9cx-9cfp)
- CVE-2026-40243 (Low)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-c839-4qxr-j4x3)
- CVE-2026-41648 (Low)
(https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-67wx-r9xr-x75x)

Breaking changes:

- New minimum system requirements
- Removal of CGroupV1 support
- Removal of xtables support
- Incus CLI changes, removing handling for older syntax

New features for those coming from Incus 6.23:

- Minio replaced by built-in S3 listener
- Server shutdown action
- Low level backup API
- Storage pool project restriction
- Placement scriptlet call on cluster rebalance
- File transfer commands now aligned with cp
- --reuse flag in incus image copy

New features for those coming from Incus 6.0.6 LTS:

- All of the new features listed above
- Application containers (OCI)
- Dependent storage volumes
- Network address sets
- Linstor storage driver
- TrueNAS storage driver
- CPU baseline definition in cluster groups

Try it online:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it

Install it on your own system:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/tutorial/first_steps

A detailed release announcement can be found here:
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-7-0-lts-has-been-released/26641

As well as a video overview of all the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp0l84fSeP0

The code can be found on Github:
https://github.com/lxc/incus

And support is done through our community forum and live chat:
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org

Enjoy!

Stéphane Graber, on behalf of the Incus team.