--- title: 'LXD weekly status #44' description: Introduction Another week of bugfixes for us as more and more people update to the 3.0 releases! Quite a bit of work went into improving the handling of the two database in LXD 3.0, making it easier for us to debug issues and provide fixes to our users when something goes wrong. Work is also […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-44?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber "More about Stéphane Graber") 24 April 2018 # LXD weekly status #44 [containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/containers) [Crostini](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/crostini) [LXD](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxd) [NorthSec](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/northsec) --- Share the article ## Introduction Another week of bugfixes for us as more and more people update to the 3.0 releases! Quite a bit of work went into improving the handling of the two database in LXD 3.0, making it easier for us to debug issues and provide fixes to our users when something goes wrong. Work is also continuing on the new backup/restore API for LXD with it hopefully landing later this week. We’re also excited to see LXD debuts on the Chromebooks through the new Crostini feature. This also led to a minor change to LXD to allow restricting users to unprivileged containers as was needed for those users. Now that LXD 3.0 is mostly behind us, we’re focusing on the roadmap for the next 6 months and early preparation for LXD 3.1 to be released in a couple of weeks. ## 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 * Improved database [handling and debugging](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4459) * Renamed the [database files to cleanup the LXD directory](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4464) * Fixed [`raw.lxc` check for `lxc.net`](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4467) * Fixed [snap path in doc/backup.md](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4469) * Added a [new `lxc cluster enable` command](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4471) * Added a [new LXD\_UNPRIVILEGED\_ONLY environment variable](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4473) * Added support for [sending startup progress](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4480) ### LXC * Fixed [seccomp arch inversions handling](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2281) * Added [missing mkdir in lxc-oci](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2283) * Made pam-cgfs [ignore the system’s umask](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2284) * Added a [missing include to lxc-monitor](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2285) ### LXCFS * Nothing to report this week ### Distrobuilder * 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 3.0.0-0ubuntu4 to Ubuntu 18.04 with a large selection of cherry-picked fixes ### Snap * Updated list of cherry-picks for 3.0 * Tweaked unprivileged\_userns\_clone logic to hide error on some systems * Updated lxd-migrate to better handle potential ZFS failures ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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