Announcing Incus 6.5!

[Stéphane Graber]

Hello,

The Incus team is very excited to announce the release of Incus 6.5!

A strong focus for this release was on performance. Costly internal
calls like resolving a large number of profiles and devices have been
optimized significantly leading to up to a 20-30x performance
improvement. Similarly, handling of systems with thousands of instances
per server has also been greatly improved, cutting down startup checks
from tens of minutes down to tens of seconds.

But this isn’t just a bugfix release, Incus 6.5 also introduces quite a
few new features and other improvements. From making our CLI experience
more consistent, to making it easier to perform low-level actions on
virtual machines, to improving the life of application container users
and through a number of great new features for OVN users, this release
should have something for everyone!


The highlights for this release of Incus are:
- Instance auto-restart
- Column selection in all list commands
- QMP command hooks and scriptlet
- Live disk resize for VMs
- PCI devices hotplug for VMs
- OVN load-balancer health checks
- OVN Interconnect ECMP support
- OVN NICs promiscuous mode
- OVN NICs disabling of IP allocation
- Configurable LVM PV metadata size
- Configurable OVS socket path

You can give Incus a try online:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it

Before getting 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-6-5-has-been-released/21544

As well as a video overview of all the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnaVPDw1FQ

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

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

Enjoy!

Stéphane Graber, on behalf of the Incus team.