v1.0.0-beta.0

With the support from 110+ contributors in 3+ years, the Lima project has finally reached v1.0 (Pre-release). 🎉

This release introduces several breaking changes, such as switching the default machine driver from QEMU to VZ for better filesystem performance.

The limactl CLI is designed to print hints when the user hits those breaking changes.
e.g., limactl create template://experimental/vz now fails with a hint that suggests using limactl create --vm-type=vz template://default instead.

🔴 = Major breaking changes
🟡 = Minor breaking changes

• VZ:

  • Graduate VZ machine driver from experimental (#2758)
  • 🔴 Use VZ by default for new instances on macOS >= 13.5 (#1951)
  • Support nested virtualization on M3 (#2530, thanks to @abiosoft)
  • Optimize image conversion (lima-vm/go-qcow2reader#31 , lima-vm/go-qcow2reader#34 , thanks to @nirs)
  • Support specifying a custom kernel (#2562, thanks to @norio-nomura)

• QEMU:

  • Graduate 9p mount driver from experimental (#2758)
  • 🔴 Use 9p by default (#1953)
  • riscv64: switch from u-boot to EDK2 (#2592)

• Network:

  • Graduate user-v2 network driver from experimental (#2758)
  • Support UDP port forwarding (#2411, thanks to @balajiv113)
  • 🔴 Strictly require socket_vmnet binary to be owned by root (#2734)

• SSH:

  • 🟡 Disable ssh.loadDotSSHPubKeys by default (#2706)

• YAML:

  • Support generating jsonschema (#2306, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Support specifying PARAM (#2570, thanks to @jandubois)
  • Support template expansion in mounts (#2588, thanks to @norio-nomura)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add --log-format=json (#2584, thanks to @nirs)
  • limactl prune: Add --keep-referred (#2569, thanks to @norio-nomura)

• nerdctl:

  • rootless: allocate 1G subuids from 524288 (0x80000) for new users (#2725)

• Templates:

  • 🔴 experimental/vz: Merged into the default template (#2730, #2736)
  • 🟡 experimental/{riscv64, armv7l}: Merged into the default template (#2730, #2736)
  • 🔴 vmnet: Removed in favor of limactl create --network=lima:shared template://default (#2736)
  • 🟡 experimental/net-user-v2: Removed in favor of limactl create --network=lima:user-v2 template://default (#2736)
  • 🔴 experimental/9p: Removed in favor of limactl create --mount-type=9p template://default (#2736)
  • 🟡 experimental/virtiofs-linux: Removed in favor of limactl create --mount-type=virtiofs template://default (#2736)
  • 🔴 alpine: renamed to alpine-iso (#2704)
  • 🔴 alpine-image: renamed to alpine (#2704)
  • archlinux: Demoted from Tier 1 (#2717)
  • opensuse: Renamed to opensuse-leap (#2612, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed: Support aarch64 (#2613, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• Project:

  • Invite Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) as a Reviewer (#2567)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/47?closed=1
Thanks to @AdamKorcz @SmartManoj @YorikSar @abiosoft @afbjorklund @alexandear @balajiv113 @hasan4791 @jandubois @nirs @norio-nomura @tsukasaI

Usage

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

[macOS]$ 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/11430109582

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 85671aa3701b7b206af26ecd5a2e5a30dca3aa2d9dce9f35a5f58a6fcfad5779 .

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