Incus 6.12 Released With Enhanced Features for Virtual Machines and Container Management

The Incus team has announced the release of Incus 6.12, introducing several significant enhancements aimed at improving the user experience for both virtual machines and containers.

Among the key features are the support for online growth of virtual machine memory, which allows users to increase memory limits at runtime. This advancement addresses a long-standing gap in the functionality between containers and virtual machines.

Additionally, Incus now includes support for network address sets, simplifying the management of complex network ACL rules. These address sets can contain both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and are tied to specific projects, streamlining the process of configuring access control lists.

The logging functionality has also been revamped, offering a more flexible mechanism that supports multiple logging targets. Users can now define various logging endpoints, whether for syslog or Loki, and can select specific events to log.

Performance enhancements have been implemented, particularly for systems with numerous snapshots, as well as optimizations for users of ZFS. This aims to deliver a more efficient experience across diverse setups.

Further improvements include support for SNAT in complex network forwards, enhanced authentication through an access token parameter, and refined server-side filtering capabilities in the command-line interface.

For those interested in trying out the new features, the Incus documentation and installation instructions can be found here.

For more detailed information about the release, users can visit the official Incus documentation.