Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.

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IncusOS is a new minimal hypervisor OS for home labs in 2025. Learn how it compares to Proxmox, MicroOS, NixOS, and Talos with simple, fast container and VM hosting.

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Introduction After a bit over a year of hard work, the development team is very excited to announce general availability of IncusOS! IncusOS is a modern immutable OS image that’s specifically desi...

Introduction 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...

Incus 6.10 container & virtual machine manager introduces ACME DNS-01 validation for TLS, better API filtering, IOMMU support, LZ4 compression, and more.

Kurz nach der stabilen Version 6 der Linux Containers (LXC) ist nun auch das Verwaltungswerkzeug Incus 6 als Fork von Canonicals LXD erschienen.

今回はUbuntu 24.04 LTSに最新安定板のIncusをインストールして、Incusのシステムコンテナと、Dockerのアプリケーションコンテナを共存させる方法を紹介します。

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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Introduction</h1> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" src="https://linuxcontainers.org/static/img/containers.png" /></figure> <p>The <a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/">Linux Containers project</a> maintains Long Term Support (LTS) releases for its core projects. Those come with 5 years of support from upstream with the first two years including bugfixes, minor improvements and security fixes and the remaining 3 years getting only security fixes.</p> <p>This is now the third round of bugfix releases for LXC, LXCFS and Incus 6.0 LTS.</p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">LXC</h1> <p><a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/">LXC</a> is the oldest Linux Containers project and the basis for almost every other one of our projects. This low-level container runtime and library was first released in August 2008, led to the creation of projects like Docker and today is still actively used directly or indirectly on millions of systems.</p> <p>Announcement: <a href="https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22402">https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22402</a></p> <p>Highlights of this point release:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Added support for PuzzleFS images in lxc-oci</li> <li>SIGHUP is now propagated through lxc.init</li> <li>Reworked testsuite including support for 64-bit Arm</li> </ul> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">LXCFS</h1> <p><a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxcfs/">LXCFS</a> is a FUSE filesystem used to workaround some shortcomings of the Linux kernel when it comes to reporting available system resources to processes running in containers. The project started in late 2014 and is still actively used by Incus today as well as by some Docker and Kubernetes users.</p> <p>Announcement: <a href="https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxcfs-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22401">https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxcfs-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22401</a></p> <p>Highlights of this point release:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Better detection of swap accounting support</li> <li>Reworked testsuite including support for 64-bit Arm</li> </ul> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">Incus</h1> <p><a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/">Incus</a> is our most actively developed project. This virtualization platform is just over a year old but has already seen over 3500 commits by over 120 individual contributors. Its first LTS release made it usable in production environments and significantly boosted its user base.</p> <p>Announcement: <a href="https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22403">https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-0-3-lts-has-been-released/22403</a></p> <p>Highlights of this point release:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>OS info for virtual machines (<code>incus info</code>)</li> <li>Console history for virtual machines (<code>incus console --show-log</code>)</li> <li>Ability to create clustered LVM pools directly through Incus</li> <li>QCOW2 and VMDK support in <code>incus-migrate</code></li> <li>Configurable macvlan mode (<code>bridge</code>, <code>vepa</code>, <code>passthru</code> or <code>private</code>)</li> <li>Load-balancer health information (<code>incus network load-balancer info</code>)</li> <li>External interfaces in OVN networks (support for <code>bridge.external_interfaces</code>)</li> <li>Parallel cluster evacuation/restore (on systems with large number of CPUs)</li> <li>Introduction of <code>incus webui</code> as a quick way to access the web interface</li> <li>Automatic cluster re-balancing</li> <li>Partial instance/volume refresh (<code>incus copy --refresh-exclude-older --refresh</code>)</li> <li>Configurable columns, formatting and refresh time in <code>incus top</code></li> <li>Support for DHCP ranges in OVN (<code>ipv4.dhcp.ranges</code>)</li> <li>Support for changing the backing interface of a managed physical network</li> <li>Extended QEMU scriptlet (additional functions)</li> <li>New log file for QEMU QMP traffic (<code>qemu.qmp.log</code>)</li> <li>New <code>get_instances_count</code> function available in placement scriptlet</li> <li>Support for <code>--format</code> in <code>incus admin sql</code></li> <li>Storage live migration for virtual machines</li> <li>New authorization scriptlet as an alternative to OpenFGA</li> <li>API to retrieve console screenshots</li> <li>Configurable initial owner for custom storage volumes (<code>initial.uid</code>, <code>initial.gid</code>, <code>initial.mode</code>)</li> <li>Image alias reuse on import (<code>incus image import --reuse --alias</code>)</li> <li>New <code>incus-simplestreams prune</code> command</li> <li>Console access locking (<code>incus console --force</code> to override)</li> </ul> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">What’s next?</h1> <p>We’re expecting another LTS bugfix release for the 6.0 branches in the first quarter of 2025.<br />We’re also actively working on a new stable release (non-LTS) for LXCFS.<br />Incus will keep going with its usual monthly feature release cadence.</p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">Thanks</h1> <p>This LTS release update was made possible thanks to funding provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund (now part of the Sovereign Tech Agency).</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.sovereign.tech"><img alt="" class="wp-image-1648" height="326" src="https://stgraber.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ST-Fund-Logo-Default-Black-RGB-1024x326.png" width="1024" /></a></figure> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Its goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem, focusing on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.</p> </blockquote> <p>Find out more at: <a href="https://www.sovereign.tech">https://www.sovereign.tech</a></p>

En mellomøretransplantasjon med 3D-printede bein utført av professor Mashudu Chivulare, en ØNH-spesialist ved Steve Biko Academic Hospital. Dr. Mashudo og teamet hans erstattet effektivt malleus, incus og stapes, som er de små beinene som utgjør mellomøret. To pasienter har allerede hatt nytte av denne operasjonen, og den kan utføres på alle, inkludert barn og nyfødte. 3D-utskriftsteknologi brukes til å skrive ut disse knoklene og brukes også i kirurgi for å rekonstruere mellomørets ossiklene. Erstatte ossikler som ikke fungerer som de skal; Inngrepet medfører langt mindre risiko enn andre kirurgiske inngrep. Titan brukes til å skrive ut ossiklene, som er et biokompatibelt element med kroppen.

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