Canonical just announced that the version is available 2.8 from LXD Pure Container Hypervisor, the environment created so that users can run Linux systems and applications as if they were virtual machines.
During the past month the application has undergone a long series of modifications that, between patches and updates, has accumulated up to 45 fixes proposed by the users of this application. Although most have been problems that have already been fixed, Canonical has also had time to include some new features as the Weblate support to be able to translate the application.
Another feature that has been included in the latest update of LXD 2.8 Pure-Container Hypervisor is the full Virtual LAN support about the API and the client. Thanks to this, users will be able to run the instances dnsmasq used by LXC to manage bridges without having special privileges. It has also been added customer support to display the date when LXD last used an image.
There is more news, since LXD 2.8 also makes those sessions that are terminated by a kill signal report their signal number as part of the exit code, a Useful information for the Go client API.
LXD 2.8 can be installed in the Ubuntu operating system in its versions 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) with a series of simple commands. You can also install it in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) if you use this PPA repository or through the latest snapshots of Go.
Installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
For install LXD 2.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS run the following command:
apt-get install lxd
Installation on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
For install LXD 2.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS run this other command:
apt-get -t trusty-backports install lxd
Those of us who are familiar with LXD and LXC (or Linux containers in general) as well as with LXCFS and GCManager, you can find all the information related to Canonical products in the following websites.
Source: Softpedia.