How to get support

LXD maintains different release branches in parallel.

Long term support (LTS) releases

The current LTS releases are LXD 5.0.x (snap channel 5.0/stable) and LXD 4.0.x (snap channel 4.0/stable).

The LTS releases follow the Ubuntu release schedule and are released every two years:

  • LXD 5.0 is supported until June 2027 and gets frequent bugfix and security updates, but does not receive any feature additions. Updates to this release happen approximately every six months, but this schedule should be seen as a rough estimation that can change based on priorities and discovered bugs.

  • LXD 4.0 is supported until June 2025.

  • LXD 6.0 is planned for April 2024 and will be supported until June 2029.

Feature releases

The current feature release is LXD 5.x. It is available through the snap channels latest/stable, latest/candidate, and latest/edge, in addition to channels for the most recent specific releases (for example, 5.18/stable). See sudo snap info lxd for a full list of available channels.

Feature releases are pushed out about every month and contain new features as well as bugfixes. The normal support length for those releases is until the next release comes out. Some Linux distributions might offer longer support for particular feature releases that they decided to ship.

Support and community

The following channels are available for you to interact with the LXD community.

Bug reports

You can file bug reports and feature requests at: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/issues/new

Forum

A discussion forum is available at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/lxd/

IRC

If you prefer live discussions, you can find us in #lxd on irc.libera.chat. See Getting started with IRC if needed.

Commercial support

Commercial support for LXD can be obtained through Canonical Ltd.

Documentation

The official documentation is available at: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/

You can find additional resources on the website, on YouTube and in the Tutorials section in the forum.