LXD Weekly Status #22

Introduction

Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu releases and backports.

@brauner was also busy talking about LXD and system containers in St Petersburg, Russia!

Upcoming conferences and events

• FOSDEM 2018 (Brussels, February 2018)

Ongoing projects

The list below is feature or refactoring work which will span several weeks/months and can’t be tied directly to a single Github issue or pull request.

• Console attach in LXD
• Distributed database for LXD clustering
• Stable release work for LXC, LXCFS and LXD.

Upstream changes

The items listed below are highlights of the work which happened upstream over the past week and which will be included in the next release.

LXD

• Fixed the testsuite to not use godeps anymore.
• Changed the liblxc version detection code to not require rebuilding.

LXC

• Fixed no-new-privs defines on older systems.
• Fixed building on toolchains that lack prlimit support.
• Added support for sharing namespaces between containers.

LXCFS

• Nothing to report this week

Distribution work

This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXC, LXD and LXCFS as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers.

Ubuntu

• Uploaded LXD 2.19-0ubuntu1 to the 18.04 development release.
• Uploaded LXCFS 2.0.8 to Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04.
• Uploaded LXC 2.2.1-0ubuntu1 to the 18.04 development release.

Snap

• No change to be reported this week.