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LXC 2.1 officially released, Linux container tool

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The LXC project consists of a Linux kernel patch and some userspace tools. These userspace tools use the new kernel features added by the patch to provide a set of simplified tools to maintain the container.

LXC 2.1 has been released, which contains a number of new features introduced since LXC 2.0 was released.

Please note that this is not an LTS version, so the official team will only support LXC 2.1 for a year. The need to support longer-term production environments should be retained using LXC 2.0 until June 2021.

The main update of the version is as follows:

  • Resource limit support
  • New  lxc.cgroup.dir key
  • Support for hybrid cgroup layout
  • Limiting the number of ptys a container can allocate
  • New log API extension
  • Deprecation of lxc-monitord
  • lxc-copy create snapshots on tmpfs

See the release notes for complete contents.

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