Workshop 0.9.7 release notes

15 September 2026

These release notes cover new features and changes in Workshop 0.9.7 and SDKcraft 0.9.3.

Requirements and compatibility

Workshop relies on Snap and LXD:

What’s new in 0.9.7

Workshop 0.9.7 introduces virtual machine support, so workshops can now run in full VMs as well as containers. It adds a workshop confinement concept surfaced through workshop info, freezes filesystems before taking snapshots for more consistent backups, and makes workshop startup more reliable by replacing the start shell script with an LXD event listener. CLI tables also render correctly across ANSI and Unicode terminals.

Workshop

Repository: https://github.com/canonical/workshop

  • Introduced VM workshops. After running snap set workshop workshop.experimental-vms=1, add confinement: virtual-machine to the workshop definition file to create a VM-backed workshop. LXD must be installed from latest/edge.

  • Introduced workshop confinement and exposed it in workshop info.

  • Added support for freezing filesystems before taking snapshots for VMs.

  • Replaced the start command shell script with an LXD event listener.

  • Switched CLI tables to ansiterm/tabwriter with bold headings, fixing table rendering with ANSI colors and Unicode content.

  • Fixed the storage pool resize hint shown in the degraded-mode error.

  • Drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 workshops.

SDKcraft 0.9.3 (unchanged)

Repository: https://github.com/canonical/sdkcraft

  • No changes in this release.

Docs

Repository: https://github.com/canonical/workshop

  • Reorganized the documentation home page by subject and added accessible structured table-of-contents support.

  • Reworked the VS Code how-to around the Workshop extension, mapping the extension’s actions to their CLI equivalents and pinning the extension version.

  • Consolidated AI agent skill references and resolved documentation link redirects.

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