Images

Released on 2026-11-09. Barn 1.1.0 adds image and guest-architecture overrides, live progress tables, and more reliable CPU/memory resizing. It embeds signed image catalog revision 2026110502, with 9 distribution releases and 17 architecture-specific …

Barn currently supports amd64 and arm64 Linux guests. QEMU can emulate more architectures, but each additional Barn target needs an image and a complete boot-and-operation contract. This design assessment, reviewed on 2026-11-08, separates the …

An image audit answers a narrower question than an image release. It can find a newer upstream file, but Barn may add that file to its signed catalog only after the artifact, runtime profile, and boot path have all been verified. The image reference …

Released on 2026-11-05. Barn 1.0.0 is the first stable release. For the latest stable release, see Barn 1.1.0. Barn 1.0.0 completes a pre-release audit of destructive operations, data-disk recovery, catalog integrity, and process cancellation. It …

Released on 2026-10-31. Barn 0.x releases use GitHub’s pre-release channel. For the latest release, see Barn 1.1.0. Barn 0.9.3 focuses on safer changes to local labs. It adds resource-only VM resize, lets selected nodes converge independently, …

Note Historical release record (0.8.0). Old release downloads are retired; use the installation guide for the current release. Barn 0.8.0 cuts down on manual cleanup after interrupted host setup or partial VM starts, and refreshes the Debian and …

Note Historical release record (0.5.0). Official mirror failover was later added in 0.7.0, and the rm alias was removed in 0.9.0. Old release downloads are retired; see the CLI reference and installation guide for current usage. Barn 0.5.0 adds an …

This essay explains the Linux image repository contract in Barn 1.1.0 (macOS guests manage Apple .ipsw restore images and APFS base images separately via barn mac). A static VM image repository needs two kinds of metadata: human policy decisions …