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Incus 6.3 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2024,

updated Jul 13, 2024

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Over a month after the previous 6.2 release, Incus, an open-source container and virtual machine manager, has just released its latest update, Incus 6.3.

For those unfamiliar, the project emerged in response to Canonical’s increased control over LXD, aiming to provide an open-source alternative that remains under the stewardship of the original LXD community.

This version introduces exciting new features, primarily focusing on initial support for OCI (Open Container Initiative) application containers, marking a significant milestone for the platform.

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Update

Stéphane Graber: Announcing Incus 6.3

This release includes the long awaited OCI/Docker image support! With this, users who previously were either running Docker alongside Incus or Docker inside of an Incus container just to run some pretty simple software that’s only distributed as OCI images can now just do it directly in Incus.

In addition to the OCI container support, this release also comes with: [...]