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Multipass version 1.12.0 RC

A new Multipass release candidate!

There are some significant changes in this release:

This is the last release that will support the hyperkit driver on macOS. This version includes a way to migrate existing Hyperkit-based Multipass instance to Qemu-based Multipass instances. Simply issuing:
$ multipass set local.driver=qemu
is enough to migrate the Hyperkit instance. Also, please follow the instructions given at the multipass client command line.
Along with this, Apple dropped support for macOS 10.15 on September 12, 2022, so this will be the last Multipass release supporting macOS 10.15.
When using native mounts on Windows, the password prompt every time is no longer necessary and makes for a much better user experience.
The Snap package for Linux platforms is now based on core22.

Windows and macOS installers are available below, and the Snap in the beta snap channel:

snap refresh multipass --beta

snap install multipass --beta

Updated a number of third party modules to newer release versions:
- Qemu to v. 7.2
- libssh to v. 0.10.4
- POCO to v. 1.12.4
- gRPC to v. 152.1
multipass find is much more friendly when displaying regular images and Blueprints.
More time is now allowed when shutting down Qemu instances to avoid corruption of the virtual disk.

mount/unmount foreign folder bug (#1405)
Launching via icon spawns new tray processes (#2900)
[macOS] Inconsistent mounting when using mount --type native on restart (#2917)
multipass launch pads its output to 80 characters with whitespace (#958)
[mounts/windows] Mounting a native mount during instance start is very slow (#2934)
False error: timeout on start VM from template (#2772)
Multipass GUI notification gets annoying after a while (#2975)
[cli/info] multipass info --all does not list deleted instances (#2936)
Flooding in the events log (#1712)
multipass list shows logs reading of /etc/ssh/ssh_config is DENIED (#2754)
info reports wrong disk numbers for core-based instances (#1245)
The client checks and complains about disabled mounts unecessarily (#2981)
Transferring non-plaintext files in or out of the virtual machine corrupts the files (#2990)
multipass find does not honour "remote" arg with blueprints (#2957)
[windows] download progress flickering (#1532)
VM instances do not remember mount points (#2986)

You can find the full list of changes since 1.11.1 in our v1.12.0 milestone and even more detailed in the full commit log.

Please file issues here for problems and feature requests, or come to our discourse to chat. We're also on #multipass on Libera Chat. See you there :)