Canonical released Multipass 1.17 on October 19, 2026, adding built-in support for Debian and Fedora images alongside Ubuntu, plus new virtualization drivers for Windows and macOS.

Multipass launches Linux virtual machines with a single command on Windows, macOS and Linux. Until now it centered on Ubuntu instances.

Debian and Fedora join Ubuntu

The new distribution support builds on the custom image support added in Multipass 1.16. "We are opening the door for other distributions such that users can benefit from these as new playgrounds," Canonical wrote in the GitHub release notes , adding that it wants user feedback on whether to go further.

The release also adds availability zones for simulating a cloud setup on one machine. In the Ubuntu Discourse announcement , Canonical said VMs can be placed in one of three predefined zones with multipass launch --zone , each with its own isolated subnet.…