1.16.0

These release notes cover new features and changes in Multipass 1.16.0.

We’re pleased to announce Multipass 1.16.0, where the entire code base became fully open source! This is a consolidation release, bringing a ton of improvements to our GUI, fixes to the Multipass daemon/service, as well as important security enhancements.

New features and improvements

Fully open source

Previously proprietary bits for Windows and macOS are now unified within canonical/multipass.

Custom image launch

Custom image launch is now supported on macOS and Windows too (with file:// or https:// URLs).

GUI improvements

  • Facilitate reusing launch configurations with a button to “Launch and configure next”

  • Support zoom in the terminal (use Ctrl or ⌘ together with +, -, or 0)

  • Start VMs with the “Open shell” button

  • Remember window size + better default sizes

Other improvements

  • Support the QEMU driver on ARM Linux hosts

  • Improve copy-paste support

  • Improve gRPC security with standard mTLS

  • Update almost all our dependencies and move some more to vcpkg

  • Multipass documentation has been migrated to ReadTheDocs and included in this repository.

Deprecations

  • LXD and libvirt drivers are being deprecated, along with blueprints. The plan is to remove them in the next feature release.

  • This is also likely to be the last release that will support macOS 13.

Bug fixes

New contributors

Special thanks to our new contributors :wink:

Feedback

Please file issues on the Multipass GitHub for problems and feature requests, or join the Multipass Discourse forum to chat. You can also find us in the Multipass room on Matrix.