v2.1.1

Changes

• Binary release:

  • Add Windows artifacts (#4789)

• macOS guest:

  • Allow unusual range of UID (#4171, thanks to @balajiv113)

• vz:

  • Honor audio.device=none (#4762, thanks to @BizerNotNull)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v2.2.1 to v2.2.2 (#4787)
    • This release of the nerdctl distribution updates BuildKit (0.28.1), CNI plugins (1.9.1), and a few dependencies (#4815). See the release note of BuildKit and CNI plugins for their security updates.

• Templates:

  • almalinux-kitten-10: support riscv64 (#4753)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Ansuman Sahoo (@unsuman) to a Committer (#4765)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/69?closed=1
Thanks to @BizerNotNull @balajiv113 @jandubois @lukasfroehlich1 @qeinstein @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/23954640668

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.1.0

🎉 Highlights:

• 🍎 Support macOS guests: limactl start template:macos
• 👿 Support FreeBSD guests: limactl start template:freebsd
• 🔄 Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files

Changes

• Guest OS support:

  • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)
  • Experimentally support FreeBSD guests (#4627)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true' (#4663)

• Guest home directory:

  • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578).
    For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

• QEMU:

  • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures (#4725)

• krunkit:

  • Support nested virtualization (#4658, thanks to @abiosoft)

• Hostagent:

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

• Guestagent:

  • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

• Internal file structure:

  • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois).
    No impact is expected for end users.
    An instance created with Lima v2.0 or v1.x should continue to boot with Lima v2.1 (but not vice versa).

• Templates:

  • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)
  • Add homebrew-macos (#4737)
  • Add experimental/fedora-rawhide (#4738)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1
Thanks to @Harry-kp @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @abiosoft @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @bmwiedemann @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @qeinstein @tharunn0 @tushar1977 @unsuman @xvchris

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/23181461567

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v2.1.0-rc.1

🎉 Highlights:

• Support macOS guests: limactl start template:macos
• Support FreeBSD guests: limactl start template:freebsd
• Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files

Changes

• Guest OS support:

  • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)
  • Experimentally support FreeBSD guests (#4627)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true' (#4663)

• Guest home directory:

  • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578).
    For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

• QEMU:

  • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures (#4725)

• krunkit:

  • Support nested virtualization (#4658, thanks to @abiosoft)

• Hostagent:

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

• Guestagent:

  • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

• Internal file structure:

  • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois).
    No impact is expected for end users.
    An instance created with Lima v2.0 or v1.x should continue to boot with Lima v2.1 (but not vice versa).

• Templates:

  • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1
@Harry-kp @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @abiosoft @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @bmwiedemann @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @tharunn0 @tushar1977 @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

---

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/23115903481

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 90f5f673101d51e1f1b4c219d883a34b389cea5fb3f0d65b4b2944b96def4015 .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.1.0-rc.0

🎉 Highlights:

• Support macOS guests: limactl start template:macos
• Support FreeBSD guests: limactl start template:freebsd
• Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files

Changes

• Guest OS support:

  • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)
  • Experimentally support FreeBSD guests (#4627)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true' (#4663)

• Guest home directory:

  • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578).
    For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

• krunkit:

  • Support nested virtualization (#4658, thanks to @abiosoft)

• Hostagent:

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

• Guestagent:

  • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

• Internal file structure:

  • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois).
    No impact is expected for end users.

• Templates:

  • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1
@Harry-kp @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @abiosoft @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @bmwiedemann @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @tharunn0 @tushar1977 @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

---

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/22991479495

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 39f540912af232c0c5a8766f6c0225aec88fdc2cd7ad563e28d2b3822a5029d9 .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.1.0-beta.1

🎉 Highlights:

• Support macOS guests: limactl start template:macos
  • Significantly improved since v2.1.0-beta.0
• Support FreeBSD guests: limactl start template:freebsd
• Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files

Changes

• Guest OS support:

  • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)
  • Experimentally support FreeBSD guests (#4627)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)

• Guest home directory:

  • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578).
    For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

• Hostagent:

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

• Guestagent:

  • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

• Internal file structure:

  • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois).
    No impact is expected for end users.

• Templates:

  • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1

Thanks to @Harry-kp @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @bmwiedemann @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @tushar1977 @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

---

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/22564212173

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 86002b8e174ccc460a0cd511dcff79affa15c3d0778cfa04e193cb6a20b9bd6d .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.1.0-beta.0

🎉 Highlights:

• Support macOS guests: limactl start template:macos
• Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files

Changes

• vz:

  • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)

• Guest home directory:

  • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578).
    For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

• Hostagent:

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

• Guestagent:

  • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

• Internal file structure:

  • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois).
    No impact is expected for end users.

• Templates:

  • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)

• Project:

  • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1

Thanks to @AndiDog @Horiodino @afbjorklund @alexandear @ashwat287 @balajiv113 @bonifaido @dharsanb @gnawhleinad @iamleot @jandubois @kachick @muchzill4 @ningmingxiao @nlordell @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @plandem @stek29 @unsuman @valdela1 @vax-r @vishalanarase @zyfy29

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

---

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/22358822431

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 238c7d18f593939378133586c4931161338a83a5e0fc80975da914a22062f9ed .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.1.0-alpha.0

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
  • Add limactl --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)

• Hostagent

  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1
Thanks to @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @afbjorklund @alexandear @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @norio-nomura @tushar1977 @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

---

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/21534844153

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 80aa373d94e7bfa612409fc623af0e17d13d9f3ba04c372f1d3f4280ad4be50d .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.0.3

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Fix #4468 "[v2 regression] limactl copy (w/ rsync) puts the destination directory in an extra directory" (#4482)

• vz:

  • Fix compilation on macOS < 13 (#4412, #4438, thanks to @jandubois @razzius)
  • Support ASIF disk format (#4327, thanks to @norio-nomura)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v2.2.0 to v2.2.1 (#4484)
  • nerdctl.lima: respect $LIMA_INSTANCE (#4432, thanks to @Kim-Yukyung)

• Project:

  • Set up X and Mastodon accounts (#445)
    • https://x.com/@TheLimaProject
    • https://mastodon.social/@TheLimaProject

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/67?closed=1
Thanks to @EclipseAditya @Kim-Yukyung @afbjorklund @ashwat287 @buraksekili @jandubois @k-veda @norio-nomura @paralin @razzius @sneugle @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 4e87c2b80108bcbf96cb02a18349b702dc9cdec4386b218def65007f98152001 .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v1.2.3

Changes

• nerdctl: update from v2.2.0 to v2.2.1 (#4487)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/68?closed=1

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

v2.0.2

Changes

• vz:
  • Fix incompatibility with Fedora 43 (#4384)
• limactl CLI:
  • Make errors less scary (#4387)
• Misc:
  • Don't trim whitespace from boot commands (#4381, thanks to @jandubois)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/65?closed=1
Thanks to @alexandear @jandubois @norio-nomura @pragneshbagary @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda