LXD 5.21.7 release notes¶

This is a LTS release and is recommended for production use.

Release notes content

These release notes cover updates in the core LXD repository and the LXD snap package.

This is a maintenance release for the 5.21 LTS series. It includes documentation improvements and dependency updates.

Highlights¶

This section highlights new and improved features in this release.

Enhanced documentation tooling with LLM support¶

An automated Sphinx extension (sphinx-llm) has been added to generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt files from the documentation. These files make it easier for Large Language Models to work with the LXD documentation.

Documentation: sphinx-llm

Bug fixes¶

The following bug fixes are included in this release.

Prevent a panic when creating a custom volume snapshot without an expiry date

Snap packaging changes¶

QEMU was bumped to version 8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.18.
NVIDIA Container and NVIDIA Container Toolkit were bumped to version 1.20.0.
EDK2 Secure Boot variable generation now uses python3-virt-firmware instead of a QEMU virtual machine during snap builds.

Change log¶

View the complete list of all changes in this release.

Downloads¶

The source tarballs and binary clients can be found on our download page.

Binary packages are also available for:

Linux: snap install lxd --channel=5.21/stable
macOS client: brew install lxc
Windows client: choco install lxc