Incus

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

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Version 7.3.0 Released 2026-07-31
## What's Changed
* Fix typo in documented behavior in setting `restricted.containers.privilege` to `isolated` by @Hye-Dev in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3548
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3554
* doc: fix `config set` deprectation warning by @gagath in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3552
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3555
* incus/move: Apply --storage pool to dependent disks by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3550
* github: Build Windows and MacOS native installers. by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3551
* Add timeout for QMP commands by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3559
* github: Add a build workflow by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3562
* build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3567
* build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3566
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3570
* incusd/devices: Allow /32 and /128 for OCI addresses by @stgrabe
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Incus is available for Windows.
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