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LXC 2.0.1 release announcement¶

May 16, 2016
This is the first bugfix release for LXC 2.0.

The main bugfixes in this release are:

• apparmor: Also allow fstype=fuse for fuse filesystems
• attach: adapt lxc-attach tests & add test for pty logging
• attach: don't fail attach on failure to setup a SIGWINCH handler.
• attach: fix a variety of lxc-attach pts handling issues
• attach: switch console pty to raw mode (fixes ncurses-based programs)
• attach: use raw settings of ssh for pty
• bindings: fixed python-lxc reference to var before assignment in create()
• bindings: set PyErr when Container.__init__ fails
• cgfsng: defer to cgfs if needed subsystems are not available
• cgfsng: don't require that systemd subsystem be mounted
• core: Added missing type to keys in lxc_list_nicconfigs
• core: Allow configuration file values to be quoted
• core: log: remove duplicate definitions and bump buffer size
• core: sync: properly fail on unexpected message sizes
• core: Unshare netns after setting the userns mappings (fixes ownership of /proc/net)
• core: various fixes as reported by static analysis
• c/r: add an option to use faster inotify support in CRIU
• c/r: rearrange things to pass struct migrate_opts all the way down
• doc: ignore temporary files generated by doxygen
• doc: tweak manpage generation date to be compatible with reproducible builds
• doc: update MAINTAINERS
• doc: update to translated manpages
• init: add missing lsb headers to sysvinit scripts
• init: don't make sysv init scripts dependent on distribution specifics
• init: drop obsolete syslog.target from lxc.service.in
• lxc-attach: add logging option to manpage
• lxc-checkconfig: better render when stdout isn't a terminal
• lxc-create: fix -B best option
• lxc-destroy: avoid double print
• lxc-ls: use fewer syscalls when doing ipc
• templates: Add apt-transport-https to minbase variant of Ubuntu template
• templates: fix a typo in the capabilities name for Gentoo (sys_resource)
• templates: logic fix in the Centos template for RHEL7+ support
• templates: tweak Alpine DHCP configuration to send its hostname
• templates: tweak to network configuration of the Oracle template

Downloads¶

The release tarballs may be found on our download page and we expect most distributions
will very soon ship a packaged version of LXC 2.0.1.

Should you be interested in individual changes or just looking at the detailed development history,
our stable branch is on GitHub.