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Latest version
| Tarball: | criu-4.3.tar.gz |
| Version: | 4.3 "CRIURBO" |
| Released: | 19 Oct 2026 |
| GIT tag: | v4.3 |
New features
- Memory compression: Support for LZ4 memory page and block compression with multi-threaded decompression
- Support for AArch64 / ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS)
- Parallelize memfd and anonymous shared memory content restore via async daemon (asyncd)
- Restorer: Restore VMA pages with Linux native AIO
- Add --image-io-mode option to support O_DIRECT reads/writes for pages images
- plugins/amdgpu: Support checkpoint and restore of DRM buffer objects and DMA-BUF file descriptors
- Support for Linux kernel binfmt_misc sandboxing
- Add UPDATE_INETSK hook for socket address rewrite during restore
- crit: Add offline compress and decompress commands for memory images
- criu: Add collection and restoration of timer_slack_ns per thread
- plugins/cuda: Add CUDA Driver API checkpoint backend and GPU device mapping on restore.
- service/page-xfer: Support image streaming (--stream) over RPC and incremental streamed dumps with --prev-images-dir
- criu: Support dumping and restoring inet socket UIDs
- plugins: Pass namespaced PLUGIN.NAME=VALUE options to plugins as argv
- rpc/libcriu: Expose page-server TLS options, --stream, --lazy-pages, and cgroup options in libcriu
Bugfixes
- restore: Fix exit code and wait status truncation for zombie processes
- restorer/pagemap: Detect EOF on truncated pages file to prevent infinite loops
- file-lock: Fix type confusion in broken read lease restore
- soccr: Restore TCP_REPAIR_WINDOW before TCP_SEND_QUEUE to avoid window collapse
- sk-queue: Fix SCM restore for packets containing both SCM_RIGHTS and SCM_CREDENTIALS
- sk-unix: Fix mutex deadlock on connect failure in standalone restore
- pipes: Restore pipe ownership to fix /proc/self/fd access permissions
- compel: Fix heap alignment for structs with XSAVE state
- fsnotify: Fix memory and file descriptor leaks in inotify/fanotify error paths
- pycriu: Fix self-dump failure when explicit PID is provided
- seize/compel: Always trace clone/fork/vfork on seized tasks and verify no new tasks were created during CHECKPOINT_DEVICES
Improvements
- compel/infect: Optimize task interception and stop tasks without hardware breakpoints
- restorer: Switch thread synchronization to atomic operations
- restore: Parallelize task stopping in attach_to_tasks and catch_tasks
- fsnotify: Add overlayfs directory walk fallback for inotify watches
- sockets: Support dumping and restoring ucred for Unix and Netlink sockets
- coredump: Enable coredump generation on riscv64
- contrib: Add reference client and test suite for criu-service
- docs: Major overhaul and export of "Under the Hood" architecture documentation
- ci: Consolidate test workflows, shard test suites, and add Lima-based kernel test jobs
- docs: Add CRIU image security and workload security considerations guides
- page-xfer: Support sending compressed page-server data over TLS
- cgroup: Clone /sys/fs/cgroup mount with OPEN_TREE_CLONE when dumping cgroup v2
Old versions
3.x
The follofinw 3.x releases were made:
2.x
The following 2.x releases were made:
- 2.12.1
- 2.12 "Vulcanite Rook"
- 2.11.1
- 2.11 "Acrylic Bullfinch"
- 2.10 "Brass Waxwing"
- 2.9 "Silk Tit"
- 2.8 "Bronze Siskin"
- 2.7 "Rubber Owl"
- 2.6 "Paper Crane"
- 2.5 "Concrete Oriole"
- 2.4 "Marble Lark"
- 2.3 "Wooden Duck"
- 2.2 "Carbon Nightingale"
- 2.1 "Steel Lapwing"
- 2.0
1.x
The following 1.x releases were made:
0.x
The following 0.x releases were made:
See also
- Changelogs to see all the changelogs on a single page.