On November 6th, the Lima project team shipped the second major release of Lima. In this release, the team are expanding the project focus to cover AI as well…

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Lima v2.0 introduces plugin infrastructure, GPU acceleration via krunkit, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools for sandboxing AI agents. The release expands Lima's focus beyond containers to include secure AI workflows by running agents inside VMs to isolate them from direct host access. New features include progress flags, simplified mount syntax, environment variable propagation, UDP port forwarding, and multi-user support. The plugin system enables third-party extensions for hypervisors, CLI commands, and URL schemes.

Lima v2.0: New features for secure AI workflows