Proxmox VE 8.1 Introduces Secure Boot Compatibility
Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is an open-source virtualization platform for managing virtual machines and containers. It provides a comprehensive solution for both virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructure.
Built on top of Debian, it integrates key technologies such as kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) for virtual machines and Linux containers (LXC) for lightweight container-based virtualization.
Five months after the release of the previous 8.0 version, Proxmox 8.1 is here, so let’s see what’s new.
Update (by Roy)
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Proxmox VE 8.1 released!
We're very excited to announce the release 8.1 of Proxmox Virtual Environment! It's based on Debian 12.2 "Bookworm" but uses a newer Linux kernel 6.5, QEMU 8.1.2, and OpenZFS 2.2.0 ((with stable fixes backported)
Here is a selection of the highlights of Proxmox VE 8.1
- Debian 12.2 (“Bookworm”), but uses a newer Linux kernel 6.5 as stable default
- latest versions of QEMU 8.1.2 and ZFS 2.2.0 including the most important bugfixes from 2.2.1 already
- Software-defined Networking (SDN)
- Secure Boot
- New flexible notification system with matcher-based approach
- Ceph Server: Ceph Reef 18.2.0 is default, and Ceph Quincy 17.2.7 comes with continued support.
- Countless GUI and API improvements.
As always, we have included countless bugfixes and improvements on many places; see the release notes for all details.