Lima v2.1.2-beta.0

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • fix(shell): check if mounts contain hostCurrentDir, not just len > 0 (#4799, thanks to @opjt)
  • limactl: add --param shortcut for template parameters (#4873, thanks to @jandubois)
  • shell: fix path quoting for rsync 3.0.0 through 3.2.3 (#4883, thanks to @Mysterio-17)

• Templates:

  • Update k8s.yaml for bootstrapToken configuration in kubeadm (#4829, thanks to @techthumb)
  • templates: migrate from cpuType to vmOpts.qemu.cpuType (#4834, thanks to @AkihiroSuda)
  • Multi node k8s test updates and related fixes (#4835, thanks to @techthumb)
  • Bump k8s flannel version from 0.27.4 to 0.28.4 (#4843, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • templates: add ubuntu-26.04 (#4874, thanks to @AkihiroSuda)

• Hostagent:

  • hostagent: close stale GuestAgentClient on reconnect to stop ClientConn leak (#4889, thanks to @mn-ram)

• Guest Support:

  • feat: validate macOS 26+ requirement for macOS guest VMs (#4809, thanks to @sharanrajt)
  • Fix race condition in 04-persistent-data-volume.sh (#4831, thanks to @jandubois)

• Documentation:

  • docs(stargz): drop Rosetta requirement note (#4860, thanks to @mvanhorn)
  • docs: add blogs section with curated CNCF and nttlabs posts (#4863, thanks to @singhvishalkr)

Full Changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/71?closed=1

Thanks to @afbjorklund @AkihiroSuda @jandubois @mn-ram @mvanhorn @Mysterio-17 @opjt @sharanrajt @singhvishalkr @techthumb 🙏🏻

Usage

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

$ lima uname
Linux

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The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions. The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/25182777406

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 8fd6476dfee91b841c3e42add090927ff54b2bd3c13bdc33242e842213d8cea7 .

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Release manager: Ansuman Sahoo (@unsuman)