Skip to content
Docs
Support

How to get support

LXD maintains different release branches in parallel.

Long term support (LTS) releases

The current LTS releases are LXD 5.21.x (snap channel 5.21/stable - this is the default channel), LXD 5.0.x (snap channel 5.0/stable) and LXD 4.0.x (snap channel 4.0/stable).

An LTS release starts its life with full support, then moves to maintenance support, and finally to extended support. OS vendors might provide additional support[1].

  • Full support: some new features, frequent bugfixes, and security updates are provided.

  • Maintenance support: high impact bugfixes and security updates are provided.

  • Extended support: only high and critical security updates are provided.

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

  • LXD 5.21 is supported until June 2029. It 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. Currently in full support phase.

  • LXD 5.0 is supported until June 2027. Currently in maintenance support phase.

  • LXD 4.0 is supported until June 2025. Currently in extended support phase.

Feature releases

The current feature series is LXD 6.x (starting with 6.1). This is available from the 6/stable snap channel and will continue to follow the LXD 6.x series as it progresses from a feature release series into an LTS release in 2026. See snap info lxd for a full list of available channels.

Feature releases are pushed out more often 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 (opens in a new tab)

Forum

A discussion forum is available at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/lxd/ (opens in a new tab)

IRC

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

Commercial support

Commercial support for LXD is available through Ubuntu Pro (opens in a new tab) (Infra-only or full Ubuntu Pro). The support covers all LTS versions for five years starting from the day of the release.

LXD instances are also eligible for Ubuntu Pro support. See: How to get Ubuntu Pro on LXD guests (opens in a new tab) in the Ubuntu Pro Client documentation.

See the full service description (opens in a new tab) for detailed information about what support Ubuntu Pro provides.

Documentation

The official documentation is available at: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/stable-5.21/ (opens in a new tab)

You can find additional resources on the website (opens in a new tab), on YouTube (opens in a new tab) and in the Tutorials section (opens in a new tab) in the forum.

Instance options