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Releases

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases for the latest release.

1 - Deprecated features

The following features are deprecated:

  • CentOS 7 support
  • Loading non-strict YAMLs (i.e., YAMLs with unknown properties)
  • limactl show-ssh command (Use ssh -F ~/.lima/default/ssh.config lima-default instead)
  • Ansible provisioning mode (Use ansible-playbook playbook.yaml after the start instead)

Removed features

  • YAML property network: deprecated in Lima v0.7.0 and removed in Lima v0.14.0, in favor of networks
  • YAML property useHostResolver: deprecated in Lima v0.8.1 and removed in Lima v0.14.0,in favor of hostResolver.enabled
  • VDE support, including VNL and vde_vmnet: deprecated in Lima v0.12.0 and removed in Lima v0.22.0, in favor of socket_vmnet

2 - Experimental features

The following features are experimental and subject to change:

  • mountType: virtiofs on Linux
  • vmType: wsl2 and relevant configurations (mountType: wsl2)
  • arch: riscv64, armv7l, s390x, and ppc64le
  • video.display: vnc and relevant configuration (video.vnc.display)
  • audio.device
  • mountInotify: true
  • External drivers: building and using drivers as separate executables (see Virtual Machine Drivers)

The following commands are experimental and subject to change:

  • limactl snapshot *
  • limactl tunnel
  • limactl template *
  • limactl mcp *

Graduated

The following features were experimental in the past:

Until v1.0

  • mountType: 9p
  • vmType: vz and relevant configurations (mountType: virtiofs, rosetta, []networks.vzNAT)
  • mode: user-v2 in networks.yml and relevant configuration in lima.yaml