--- title: 'LXD weekly status #43' description: Introduction This week’s focus was on bugfixes with a good number of clustering related fixes and improvements as well as some tweaks and fixes to other recently added features. On the feature development front, the current focus is on improving the database tooling in LXD and adding a new backup feature to the API to […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-43?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber "More about Stéphane Graber") 17 April 2018 # LXD weekly status #43 [Linux Containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/linux-containers) [LXD](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxd) [machine containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/machine-containers) [NorthSec](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/northsec) --- Share the article ## Introduction This week’s focus was on bugfixes with a good number of clustering related fixes and improvements as well as some tweaks and fixes to other recently added features. On the feature development front, the current focus is on improving the database tooling in LXD and adding a new backup feature to the API to implement container export/import. ## Upcoming conferences and events * [NorthSec](https://nsec.io/speakers/#st-phane-graber) (Montreal, May 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. * [Database management improvements](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/4390) * [Container backup and restore](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/3730) * Switching distribution building over to [distrobuilder](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder) * Various kernel work * 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 passing [`--no-profiles` to `lxc init` and `lxc launch`](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4434) * Fixed [pulling files from a remote server](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4435) * Tweaked the [userns-idmap documentation](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4438) * Fixed some [permission issues with storage pools](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4439) * Added code to [deal with older NVIDIA drivers](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4442) * Added a new internal function to [retrieve all containers for the local cluster node](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4443) * Improved [cluster logging for raft-http](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4448) * Added logic to [automatically promote a new node as database node](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4456) * Update the [backup documentation](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4457) * Added a [root requirement for interactively joining a cluster through `lxd init`](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4458) * Improved [logging on daemon failure](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4461) * Fixed [querying non-JSON endpoints in `lxc query`](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4462) ### LXC * Fix [rootfs pinning handling on NFS](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2259) * Changed lxc-attach to [always drop supplementary groups](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2266) * Tweaked lxc-attach [supplementary group logic](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2270) * Fixed [devpts mount in containers that don’t have a uid 5](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2272) * Fixed [net type checks in run\_script\_argv](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2273) * Fixed handling of [mixed personalities in seccomp](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2274) * Improved [seccomp error handling](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2275) ### LXCFS * Nothing to report this week ### Distrobuilder * Fixed [cache directory handling](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/90) ## 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 * Nothing to report this week ### Snap * Reverted the change to make lxcfs run in its own mount namespace ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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