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v2.3.0-beta.1

Pre-release
Added 20
  • Experimentally support HCS driver on Windows hosts
  • Attach host block devices to VZ guests with limactl start --block-device
  • Add lima-privileged-net helper for Linux hosts
  • Support native Windows OpenSSH
  • Automatically append common tool directories to PATH on Windows hosts
  • Support provision on Windows guests
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v2.2.1

Latest
Added 1
  • add macos-27 (Golden Gate) template
Changed 4
  • update the Apptainer template for Ubuntu 26.04
  • update minimum Go version to 1.26
  • update nerdctl from v2.3.5 to v2.4.0
  • update nerdctl from v2.4.0 to v2.4.1
Fixed 15
  • end rsync option parsing before the copy paths
  • quote guest error string in time sync log
  • do not trust PID files left behind by a previous boot
  • strip control characters from guest cloud-init log lines
  • relay TCP half-close from the host in portfwdserver
  • reject qcow2 external data file references in qemuimgutil

From Lima

Several bug fixes and dependency updates.

Changes
  • Cherry-picks from master to release/2.2 (#5564)
    • end rsync option parsing before the copy paths (#5314, thanks to @Nashit-h)
    • quote guest error string in time sync log (#5365, thanks to @Nashit-h)
    • Update the Apptainer template for Ubuntu 26.04 (#5331, thanks to @afbjorklund)
    • fix(store): do not trust PID files left behind by a previous boot (#5437, thanks to @ekalinin)
    • strip control characters from guest cloud-init log lines (#5426, thanks to @Nashit-h)
    • portfwdserver: relay TCP half-close from the host (#5401, thanks to @ravi-arnan)
    • qemuimgutil: reject qcow2 external data file references (#5441, thanks to @Nashit-h)
    • portfwd: don't close the live udp listener on a duplicate forward (#5384, thanks to @SABITHSAHEB)
    • go.mod: update minimum Go version to 1.26 (remove pkg/ptr) (#5439)
    • reject guest agent events that report an invalid IP (#5454, thanks to @SABITHSAHEB)
    • hostagent: don't fsync every log record (#5418, thanks to @chrisanderton)
    • copytool: make copy -r into an existing directory consistent across backends (#5501)
    • templates: add macos-27 (Golden Gate) (#5503)
    • nerdctl: update from v2.3.5 to v2.4.0 (#5509)
    • driver(qemu): disable the TPM PPI on HVF with QEMU >= 11.0 (#5544, thanks to @unsuman)
    • hack: ignore the Ubuntu grubenv race in the systemd check (#5357, thanks to @jandubois)
    • CI: tolerate systemd-binfmt failure on wsl2 (#5555, thanks to @unsuman)
    • guestagent: close the gRPC connection when a write fails (#5546, thanks to @Sarthak-Shreshtha01)
    • fix: Disable LLMNR to prevent Debian SSH login delay (#5399, thanks to @mvanhorn)
    • nerdctl: update from v2.4.0 to v2.4.1 (#5561)
    • templates: update (#5562)
    • limactl-url-fedora-rawhide: don't rely on COMPOSE_ID (#5563, thanks to @kolyshkin)
    • portfwd: dial through the current guest agent client, not the one captured at listen time (#5558, thanks to @aka-rider)
    • build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.0 to 1.82.1 (#5318)
    • build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.0 (#5396)
    • CI: Windows: install perl (#5427)
    • CI: lint-quick: ignore cloud-native.slack.com 403 (#5428)
    • build(deps): bump the golang-x group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#5429)
    • hack/tools/go.mod: github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2 v2.13.0 (#5431)
    • build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.83.0 to 1.83.1 (#5444)
    • build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.83.1 to 1.83.2 (#5470)
    • go.mod: golang.org/x/crypto v0.56.0 (#5479)
    • fix(docs): replace broken Twitter/X URL in README (#5542, thanks to @unsuman)
    • CI: lint-quick: ignore deepwiki.com 429 (#5548, thanks to @jandubois)
    • build(deps): bump github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2 from 2.13.2 to 2.14.0 in /hack/tools (#5556)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/75?closed=1

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/37123971168

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 4805ceeb791229ecaddcde32bf04b14742f4d036b343ad5d8c478ba5d220fff2 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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v2.3.0-beta.0

Pre-release
Added 1
  • Experimental support for HCS driver on Windows hosts
Changed 1
  • Several enhancements for Windows guests
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v2.2.0

Added 14
  • Experimentally support Windows Server 2025 guests
  • Experimentally support Windows 11 guests
  • Experimentally allow opting out from password-less sudo
  • Add LaunchDaemon support for headless macOS servers
  • Implement TPM emulation in QEMU
  • Implement virtio-sound interface in VZ
Changed 5
  • Change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu on Windows hosts
  • Limit socket_vmnet access from %everyone to the %admin group
  • Update nerdctl from v2.3.4 to v2.3.5
  • Move almalinux-kitten template to experimental/
  • Point experimental/ubuntu-next template to ubuntu-26.10
Removed 1
  • Remove dependency on cygpath.exe
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v2.2.0-rc.0

Pre-release
Added 14
  • Experimentally support Windows Server 2025 guests
  • Experimentally support Windows 11 guests
  • Experimentally allow opting out from password-less sudo
  • Add LaunchDaemon support for headless macOS servers
  • Implement TPM emulation in QEMU
  • Implement virtio-sound interface in VZ
Changed 5
  • Change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu on Windows host
  • Update VM driver infrastructure API
  • Limit socket_vmnet access from %everyone to the %admin group
  • Move almalinux-kitten template to experimental/
  • Point experimental/ubuntu-next template to ubuntu-26.10
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v2.1.4

Added 1
  • support 9p mounts for FreeBSD 15 templates
Changed 3
  • update nerdctl from v2.3.3 to v2.3.4
  • update templates
  • include name in network list --json output
Fixed 2
  • Only add xorrisofs flag to the xorrisofs command
  • fallback from hvf to tcg on macOS
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v2.2.0-beta.0

Pre-release
Added 3
  • Experimentally support Windows Server 2025 guest OS
  • Add limactl screenshot command
  • Implement TPM emulation
Changed 1
  • Move almalinux-kitten template to experimental/
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v2.1.3

Changed 4
  • Do not default containerd.user=true on non-Linux guests
  • Switch the default image from ubuntu-25.10 to ubuntu-26.04
  • Disable ssh.overVsock by default
  • Update nerdctl from v2.2.2 to v2.3.3
Fixed 2
  • Copytool fallback to scp for remote source and destination in auto mode
  • Propagate build failure for additional drivers
Security 2
  • Fix CVE-2026-53657 (GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2) arbitrary user in a QEMU VM gaining root privilege via guest agent socket
  • Fix CVE-2026-50195, CVE-2026-53488, CVE-2026-53492, CVE-2026-53489, CVE-2026-47262 in bundled containerd v2.3.2
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v2.1.2

Added 5
  • Add --param shortcut for template parameters in limactl
  • Add tab suggestions for --set flag
  • Add ubuntu-26.04 template
  • Add Fedora 44 template and remove Fedora 41 template
  • Support SSHOverVsock in Krunkit and replace SSH-based guestagent connection with vsock
Changed 5
  • Update k8s.yaml for bootstrapToken configuration in kubeadm
  • Migrate from cpuType to vmOpts.qemu.cpuType in templates
  • Bump k8s flannel version from 0.27.4 to 0.28.4
  • Pin Kubernetes version to 1.36 in k8s template
  • Split template:alpine to template:alpine-{3.21,3.22,3.23}
Fixed 10
  • Check if mounts contain hostCurrentDir, not just len > 0 in shell command
  • Fix path quoting for rsync 3.0.0 through 3.2.3
  • Treat unknown terminal width as unlimited in limactl ls
  • Preserve synced guest changes on TUI interruption in shell-sync
  • Add missing image and checksum for debian-13 riscv64
  • Prevent docker from running as root in rootless environment
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v2.1.2-beta.0

Pre-release
Added 3
  • Add --param shortcut for template parameters in limactl
  • Add ubuntu-26.04 template
  • Validate macOS 26+ requirement for macOS guest VMs
Changed 3
  • Update k8s.yaml for bootstrapToken configuration in kubeadm
  • Migrate from cpuType to vmOpts.qemu.cpuType in templates
  • Bump k8s flannel version from 0.27.4 to 0.28.4
Fixed 4
  • Check if mounts contain hostCurrentDir, not just len > 0 in shell command
  • Fix path quoting for rsync 3.0.0 through 3.2.3 in shell
  • Close stale GuestAgentClient on reconnect to stop ClientConn leak in hostagent
  • Fix race condition in 04-persistent-data-volume.sh
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v2.1.1

Added 1
  • Add Windows artifacts
Changed 3
  • Allow unusual range of UID in macOS guest
  • Update nerdctl from v2.2.1 to v2.2.2
  • Add riscv64 support to almalinux-kitten-10 template
Fixed 1
  • Honor audio.device=none in vz
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v2.1.0

Added 9
  • Support macOS guests via limactl start template:macos
  • Support FreeBSD guests via limactl start template:freebsd
  • Add limactl watch command
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true'
  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization
Changed 6
  • Change guest home directory from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest with symlink for compatibility
  • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures
  • k3s template now supports creating multi-node clusters
  • Restore debian-11 template
  • Reduce guestagent binary footprint from 14M to 6.1M
  • Consolidate basedisk and diffdisk into a single disk file for efficiency
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v2.1.0-rc.1

Pre-release
Added 8
  • Support macOS guests with limactl start template:macos
  • Support FreeBSD guests with limactl start template:freebsd
  • Add limactl watch command
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true'
  • Support nested virtualization in krunkit
  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization
  • Restore debian-11 template
Changed 5
  • Guest home directory changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest with old path symlinked for compatibility
  • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures
  • Reduce guestagent binary footprint from 14M to 6.1M
  • Consolidate basedisk and diffdisk into a single disk file for efficiency
  • k3s template now supports creating multi-node clusters
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