Incus 7.5 Moves Instances Between Projects Live — and OVN Networking Gets a Major Upgrade

Incus 7.5 shipped on September 25, 2026, adding a pair of capabilities that address two of the most requested gaps in the project's feature set: live instance migration between projects and a more flexible OVN networking model.

Live project migration: Until now, moving a container or virtual machine from one Incus project to another required stopping the instance, moving it, and restarting. That disruption is gone in 7.5. Instances can now be moved between projects while running, which changes how operators think about resource reorganization and capacity planning — no more scheduling maintenance windows for what should be a bookkeeping operation.

OVN child networks: The network side of the release is equally significant. Incus 7.5 introduces OVN child networks, which allow multiple internal subnets to share a single logical router, uplink, external address pool, and peering configuration. Each child network still maintains its own subnet, DHCP settings, DNS records, ACLs, and instance ports — and NAT can be independently configured per child. The practical effect is that large multi-tenant environments can consolidate their network topology without sacrificing per-tenant isolation. To support the updated OVN model, the minimum required versions are now Open vSwitch 3.3.0 and OVN 24.03.0.

Security fixes: The release addresses 11 security vulnerabilities — an unusually high count for a single point release. The quantity signals that users on earlier 7.x releases should treat the upgrade as urgent.

Incus 7.5 also extends VM agent support, adds new performance metrics for monitoring, and carries a range of smaller fixes. The project continues its monthly cadence, positioning 7.5 as the stable platform ahead of what the team has signaled will be a feature-heavy 8.0 series.

The release is available immediately through the LinuxContainers project.