Incus
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
What’s new
Verified 34m ago# Announcement
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-7-4-has-been-released/27169
## What's Changed
* docs: Clarify the sentence about Incus owning the ZFS pool/dataset by @ldesgoui in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3755
* incus/low-level: Fix naming inconsistency by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3756
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3757
* shared/api: Hide additional sensitive config keys by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3758
* Various fixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3760
* Client-side near-live migration by @presztak in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3754
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3762
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3766
* incusd/cluster: Stop instances in place when evacuation has no target by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3767
* Implement security.protect.start by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3768
* Fix resolv.conf generation in forknet dhcp by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3769
* Preserve client state across derived clients by
Full release notes →
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-7-4-has-been-released/27169
## What's Changed
* docs: Clarify the sentence about Incus owning the ZFS pool/dataset by @ldesgoui in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3755
* incus/low-level: Fix naming inconsistency by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3756
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3757
* shared/api: Hide additional sensitive config keys by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3758
* Various fixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3760
* Client-side near-live migration by @presztak in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3754
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3762
* Various bugfixes by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3766
* incusd/cluster: Stop instances in place when evacuation has no target by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3767
* Implement security.protect.start by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3768
* Fix resolv.conf generation in forknet dhcp by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3769
* Preserve client state across derived clients by
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