# Incus v6.20.0 — Incus 6.20

- Product: Incus (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/incus)
- Vendor: LinuxContainers
- Date: 2025-12-19
- Version: v6.20.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v6.20.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/incus/releases/v6.20.0
- Labels: Platforms: Linux

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- **fixed** — Fix SELinux issue with agent run path
- **fixed** — Fix cat order bug in selinuxContext()
- **added** — Add default environment variables for the Windows Agent
- **added** — Add new Windows environment variable 'SystemDrive'
- **changed** — Generate a stable MAC for managed physical bridge interfaces
- **fixed** — Fix VLAN for VMs on physical devices
- **added** — Allow reading Ephemeral flag from stdin in instance creation
- **changed** — Network bridge no longer listens for incoming Router Advertisements
- **changed** — Allow trailing dot in NS records for network zones
- **added** — Allow live-migration of bridged physical NICs
- **changed** — Improve VM state handling
- **fixed** — Return a copy of the metadata in operations to avoid concurrent modification issues
- **fixed** — Fix regression in reported state for QEMU instances
- **changed** — Implement Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) in TLS RFC3493Dialer
- **changed** — Make TPM device incompatible with live-migration
- **added** — Add support for QCOW2 formatted volumes on lvmcluster
- **fixed** — Fix storage related issues
- **changed** — Take project into account during QCOW2 operations
- **added** — Implement standalone `incus cluster join` command
- **added** — Implement agent feature restriction from the guest

#### Announcement
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-20-has-been-released/25635

##### What's Changed
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2718
* agent-loader/install-linux.sh Fix SELinux issue with agent run path by @rgerardi in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2719
* doc: fix instances-limit-units reference links by @hnakamur in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2716
* instance/drivers/driver_common: Fix cat order bug in selinuxContext() by @mschiff in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2721
* Add Default Environment Variables for the Windows Agent by @MOBergeron in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2720
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2722
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2723
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2724
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2729
* Added new Windows environment variable 'SystemDrive' by @MOBergeron in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2730
* incusd/instance/lxc: Generate a stable MAC for managed physical bridg… by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2727
* incusd/device/nic_physical: Fix VLAN for VMs by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2732
* incus/create: Allow reading Ephemeral flag from stdin by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2731
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2735
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2742
* incusd/network/bridge: Don't listen for incoming RAs by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2743
* incusd/network/zone: Allow trailing dot in NS records by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2744
* incusd/device/physical: Allow live-migration of bridged physical NICs by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2745
* Move ACME challenge logic to `shared` by @masnax in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2746
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2750
* Improve VM state handling by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2747
* incusd/operations: Return a copy of the metadata to avoid concurrent … by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2752
* incusd/instance/qemu: Fix regression in reported state by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2756
* Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2758
* Update dependencies by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2759
* build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2762
* incus/io: #2636 fix linter complaints in `internal/io` by @dector in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2763
* internal/jmap: Refactor Map methods and add comprehensive tests by @dector in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2765
* incusd/storage_volumes: Fix state handling in getVolumeFull by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2766
* Attempt to make the Incus Agent on Windows better integrated. by @MOBergeron in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2749
* generate-database: Allow overwriting the target column for a join by @breml in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2761
* shared/tls: implement Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) in RFC3493Dialer by @johnae in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2753
* incusd/devices/tpm: Make incompatible with live-migration by @stgraber in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2767
* incus/network_load_balancer: Fix typo in cmd info description by @positiveEV in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2768
* incus/util: #2636 fix linter complaints in `internal/filter` by @dector in https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2764
* Add support for QCOW2 formatted volumes o

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