Breaking changes

v2.0.0

  • /tmp/lima is no longer mounted by default.
  • SSH port is no longer hard-coded to 60022 for the “default” instance.
  • Port forwarding with sudo nerdctl run -p no longer works with nerdctl prior to v2.1.6.
  • The default of guestIPMustBeZero was changed from false to true when guestIP is 0.0.0.0.

v1.1.0

  • The lima-additional-guestagent package was split from the main lima package.

v1.0.0

  • The default VM type was changed from qemu to vz on macOS hosts with the support for vz.
  • The default mount type was changed from reverse-sshfs to virtiofs for vz, 9p for qemu.
  • socket_vmnet binary has to be strictly owned by root.
  • The default value of ssh.loadDotSSHPubKeys was changed from true to false.
  • Several templates were removed or renamed.

v0.22.0

  • Support for vde_vmnet was dropped in favor of socket_vmnet.

v0.3.0

  • limactl start no longer starts a VM in the foreground.

See also https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases.

Last modified November 5, 2025: docs: releases/breaking: new page (9170996c)