Download Proxmox VE 8.1

Proxmox VE is an open source virtualization platform based on kvm and lxc containers. It can be managed via a web interface, and a command line and rest API are also available. For more information please refer to this page and various video tutorials can be found this page being watched. The whole is issued under the agpl. Version 8.1 has been released and the most important improvements have been made below:

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 bug fixes from 2.2.1 already
• Software-defined Networking (SDN)
• SecureBoot
• 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 bug fixes and improvements on many places; see the release notes for all details.