--- title: LXD 2.17 has been released description: 'The changes in this release include New features: Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property) Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”) Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-2-17-has-been-released?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber "More about Stéphane Graber") 23 August 2017 # LXD 2.17 has been released [containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/containers) [machine containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/machine-containers) --- Share the article ### The changes in this release include ## New features: * Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property) * Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”) * Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but with LXD knowledge) * Filesystem ACLs are now rewritten when the container changes uid/gid map * LXD now supports using binary deltas when refreshing daily images * “lxc image info” now shows whether an image was automatically cached by LXD ## Bugfixes: * client: Cleanup code duplication in image download function * client: Remove deprecated client code * client: Simplify ConnectPublicLXD logic * doc: Add storage documentation for volatile.pool.pristine * doc: Add the volatile.initial\_source key * doc: Fix bad JSON in rest-api.md (Issue #3654) * doc: Properly escape path params * extra/lxc-to-lxd: Ignore capabilities that are dropped by default * extra/lxc-to-lxd: Ignore sysfs/proc mounts * extra/lxc-to-lxd: Properly handle lxc.seccomp * i18n: Update translations from weblate * lxc: Fix race in progress reporter * lxc: Re-introduce remote protocol migration * lxc/config: Expose extra certificate functions (Issue #3606) * lxc/image: Fix copy of image aliases * lxc/image: Wait for the refresh to complete * lxc/remote: Don’t require a crt for public remotes (Issue #3627) * lxd: Move lxd/util.go into its own lxd/util/ sub-package * lxd/containers: Allow passing disk devices with the LXD snap (Issue #3660) * lxd/containers: Another LXC 2.1 key rename, lxc.idmap * lxd/containers: Fix a typo: now -> know * lxd/containers: Fix gpu attach when mixing GPU vendors (Issue #3642) * lxd/containers: Fix sorting order of devices (Issue #2895) * lxd/containers: Fix support for isolcpu in CPU scheduler (Issue #3624) * lxd/containers: Make stateful snapshot restores work again * lxd/daemon: Add initial lxd/sys sub-package and OperatingSystem structure * lxd/daemon: d.os.Init must be run after all paths are created * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.ExpireLogs into a standalone function * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.GetListeners into a standalone function * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.httpClient into a standalone HTTPClient function * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.ListenAddresses into a standalone function * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.PasswordCheck into a standalone function * lxd/daemon: Extract Daemon.SetupStorageDriver into a standalone function * lxd/daemon: Log a warning for unknown config keys instead of crashing * lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.BackingFs to the OS struct * lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.IdmapSet to OS.IdmapSet * lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.isRecursionRequest to the lxd/util sub-package * lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.lxcpath to OS.LxcPath * lxd/daemon: Move Daemon.MockMode to OS.MockMode * lxd/daemon: Move Deamon.CheckTrustState and Deamon.isTrustedClient to lxd/util * lxd/daemon: Move filesystemDetect function into lxd/util subpackage * lxd/daemon: Replace Daemon with State in all model entities * lxd/daemon: Use select and save a few goroutines * lxd/daemon: Use sql.DB or sys.OS instead of Daemon where possible * lxd/db: Drop dependencies on Daemon in db.go * lxd/db: Move db\*.go files into their own db/ sub-package * lxd/images: Carry old “cached” value on refresh (Issue #3698) * lxd/import: Don’t use un-initialized structs * lxd/networks: Allow starting LXD without dnsmasq (Issue #3678) * lxd/networks: Fix networkIptablesClear with missing ip{6}tables (Issue #3688) * lxd/networks: Make “dev” work as a network name * lxd/networks: Set dnsmasq.raw to be 0644 (Issue #3652) * lxd/networks: Stop networks on clean shutdown * lxd/patches: Fix canmount=noauto patch (Issue #3594) * lxd/patches: Unset “size” for ZFS containers + images (Issue #3679) * lxd/storage: Count custom volumes in pool UsedBy * lxd/storage: Enable “volume.size” for {btrfs,zfs} * lxd/storage: Fix “size” property * lxd/storage: Fix wrong driver name for log output * lxd/storage: Non-functional changes * lxd/storage/ceph: Fix double –cluster * lxd/storage/ceph: Unmap until EINVAL * lxd/storage/ceph: Use “/dev/rbd” via sysfs * lxd/storage/ceph: Use minimal image feature set for clones * lxd/storage/dir: Check if directory is empty (Issue #3680) * lxd/storage/zfs: Always require existing datasets to be empty (Issue #3657) * lxd/storage/zfs: Refactoring * shared: Add wrapper to translate host paths * shared: Move GetRemoteCertificate from lxc/remote (Issue #3606) * tests: function to include storage backends helpers * tests: Refactor cleanup functions * tests: Split out lxc and lxd related helper functions * tests: Split out network-related helper functions * tests: Split out storage-related helper functions * tests: Split out test setup related helper functions * tests: Use $storage\_backends variable ### Try it for yourself This new LXD release is already available for you to try on our [demo service](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/). ### Downloads The release tarballs can be found on our [download page](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/downloads/). *This article was originally featured at [discuss.linuxcontainers.org](https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-2-17-has-been-released/444)* ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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