Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 (released on August 5, 2025) includes multiple highlights:

• New update is based on Debian 13 "Trixie"
• VM snapshots on LVM for thick-provisioned LVM storage
• "Fabrics" for the SDN stack - build complex network topologies with minimal effort. See documentation https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesdn.html#pvesdn_config_fabrics
• New node metrics
• Modernized mobile interface
• Debian 13 (Trixie), but using a newer Linux kernel 6.14.8;
• QEMU 10.0.2, LXC 6.0.4, ZFS 2.3.3;
• Ceph Squid 19.2.3;
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.3 (released on November 21, 2024) includes multiple enhancements:

• New view type "Tag View" for the resource tree
• More streamlined guest import from files in OVF and OVA
• Tighter integration of the SDN stack with the firewall
• New change detection modes for speeding up container backups to Proxmox Backup Server
• GUI available in 30 languages
• Debian 12.8 (Bookworm), Linux kernel 6.8.12-4 and kernel 6.11 as opt-in
• New versions: Ceph Reef 18.2 or Ceph Squid 19.2, QEMU 9.0.2, LXC 6.0.0, ZFS 2.2.6
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_8.3

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.2 (released on April 24, 2024) includes multiple enhancements:

• Support for automated and unattended installation
• Import wizard for VMware ESXi VMs
• Modernized Firewall based on nftables
• LXC device passthrough
• Advanced Backup settings
• Support for custom ACME-enabled CAs
• UI improvements
• Debian 12.5 (Bookworm), but using a newer Linux kernel 6.8;
• New versions: QEMU 8.1, Ceph Reef 18.2, LXC 6.0, and Open ZFS 2.2;
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_8.2

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This video will show how to use the Proxmox VE Import Wizard to migrate VMware ESXi VMs to Proxmox Virtual Environment. Version 8.2 provides an integrated VM importer using the storage plugin system for native integration into the API and web-based user interface. You can use this to import a VMware ESXi VM as a whole. The video demonstrates the following steps:

• Mounting the host as a new Proxmox storage
• Launching the Import Wizard for the Windows 2022 Server
• Resulting configuration and import
• Import progress
• First boot of the imported VM
• Enabling VirtIO SCSI boot
• Device Manager – final checks
• and much more....

Read the step-by-step guide:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE#Automatic_Import_of_Full_VM

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.1 (released on November 23, 2023) includes multiple enhancements:

• Software-defined Networking (SDN) stack
• New Flexible Notification System
• Support for Secure Boot
• Bulk Actions
• VM Wizard – Add VirtIO driver ISO
• Debian 12.2 "Bookworm", but using a newer Linux kernel 6.5
• QEMU 8.1.2, and ZFS 2.2.0 including the most important bugfixes from 2.2.1 already
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0 (released on June 22, 2023) includes multiple enhancements:

• Debian 12 "Bookworm", but using a newer Linux kernel 6.2
• QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.12
• Optional Text mode installer (TUI)
• New default CPU type x86-64-v2-AES for VMs
• Ceph Quincy 17.2.6 and a new, stable Ceph Enterprise repository
• Authentication realm sync jobs
• ACL for network resources
• Resource mappings between PCI(e) or USB devices and nodes in a cluster
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes including links to the upgrade guides:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4 (released on March 23, 2023) includes multiple enhancements:

• Debian 11.6 "Bullseye", but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15 or kernel 6.2 (opt-in)
• QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9
• Ceph Quincy 17.2.5 and Ceph Pacific 16.2.11
• Opt-in Linux kernel 6.2
• Cluster Ressource Scheduler (CRS): rebalance VMs & containers automatically on start
• A fully-integrated "Proxmox Dark" theme variant
• Dark Mode for Proxmox Community Forum
• Sorting of resource tree by name and VM ID
• Detailed Ceph OSD information in GUI and API
• Download task logs as text files
• and much more....

View the detailed release notes including links to the upgrade guides:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.3 (released on November 22, 2022) includes various enhancements:

• Debian 11.5 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15 or 5.19;
• QEMU 7.1, LXC 5.0.0, and ZFS 2.1.6;
• Ceph Quincy 17.2.5 and Ceph Pacific 16.2.10;
• Tags for virtual guests are enabled in the GUI;
• Initial support for Cluster Ressource Scheduling with new mode „Static Load“. The new TOPSIS tool uses the "total memory" and "vCPU" properties of the HA resource to guide the decision on which node in the cluster a HA resource is started on.
• New Container templates: AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 22.10, etc.
• Proxmox Offline Mirror: to update policy-restricted or air-gapped systems;
• and much more....

For a complete list of changes, view the release notes which also include upgrade guidance: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_7.3

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Proxmox VE 7.2 (released on May 4, 2022) includes multiple enhancements and some are shown in this video:

• Debian 11.3 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15.30;
• QEMU 6.2.0, LXC 4.0.12, and ZFS 2.1.4
• Ceph Pacific 16.2.7 and continued support for Ceph Octopus 15.2.16 (until mid 2022);
• Support for the accelerated virtio-gl (VirGL) display driver;
• Notes templates for backup/restore;
• VMID range in clusters: configuration of a desired range of VMIDs with upper and the lower boundaries is possible;
• Pass the keyring secret to external Ceph clusters via GUI;
• Enhanced backup restore dialog - override basic settings;
• and much more....

For a complete list of changes, view the release notes which also include upgrade guidance: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 7.1 (released on November 17, 2021) includes many new highlights:

• Debian 11.1 "Bullseye" and a default Linux kernel 5.13
• LXC 4.0, Ceph 16.2.6, QEMU 6.1, and OpenZFS 2.1
• Updated VM wizard with defaults for Windows 11 (q35, OVMF, TPM)
• Latest virtio drivers
• New backup scheduler daemon for flexible scheduling options
• Backup retention
• Protected backups
• Improved TFA: WebAuthn, recovery keys, multiple factors for single account
• New container templates: Fedora, Ubuntu, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux

View the detailed release notes including links to the upgrade guides: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 (released on July 6, 2021) includes many new features, the highlights are:

• Debian 11 "Bullseye" and a Linux kernel 5.11
• LXC 4, Ceph 16.2, QEMU 6.0, and OpenZFS 2.0
• Reworked installer with Btrfs
• New panel for managing 'Repositories' via GUI
• Download ISO images from URL
• Single Sign-On (SSO) with OpenID Connect
• Markdown in "Notes"
• Ceph 16.2 Pacific
• and many more...

View the detailed release notes, including links to the upgrade guides: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 6.4 (released on April 28, 2021) includes many new features, the highlights are:

• Debian Buster 10.9, but using a newer, LTS Linux kernel 5.4
• LXC 4.0, QEMU 5.12, OpenZFS 2.0.4
• Single File Restore for virtual machine and container backup archives stored on a Proxmox Backup Server;
• Live Restore of VM backup archives located on a Proxmox Backup Server;
• Support for Ceph Octopus 15.2.11 and Ceph Nautilus 14.2.20;
• Improved integration of the placement group (PG) auto-scaler;
• Configuration of Target Size or Target Ratio settings in the GUI and seeing the optimal numbers of PGs;
• Improved ISO installer - the boot setup for ZFS installations is now better equipped for legacy hardware;
• Adding backup notes on CephFS, CIFS, or NFS storage is possible;
• Pinning a VM to a specific QEMU machine version;
• and many more...

View the detailed release notes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 6.3 (released on November 26, 2020) includes many new features. These are the highlights:

• Debian Buster 10.6 and a Linux kernel 5.4 (LTS)
• LXC 4.0, Ceph 15.2, QEMU 5.1
• ZFS 0.85.
• Proxmox Backup Server integration
• Strong encryption with multiple ways to store the keys
• QEMU dirty-bitmaps for very fast backups
• Job details - for detailed view per backup job
• New backup retention, highly flexible
• Ceph Octopus - select preferred Ceph version during the installation
• Connect external metric server (InfluxDB, Graphite) via GUI
• Improved editor for VM boot order
• and much more

View the detailed release notes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 6.2 (released on May 12, 2020) includes many new features. The highlights are:

• Debian Buster 10.4 and a longterm Linux kernel 5.4
• QEMU 5.0, LXC 4.0, and ZFS 0.8.3
• Ceph Nautilus 14.2.9
• Domain validation for Let's Encrypt TLS certificates via the DNS-based challenge mechanism
• Full support for up to eight corosync network links via GUI
• Synchronization of LDAP users and groups
• API tokens
• Backup/Restore with support for Zstandard (zstd)
• and many more...

View the detailed release notes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 6.1 (released on December 4, 2019) includes countless new features:

• Debian Buster 10.2 and a Linux Kernel 5.3
• QEMU 4.1.1, LXC 3.2, Corosync 3.0, ZFS 0.8.2
• Ceph 14.2.4 (Nautilus)
• GUI: many new data center configuration options
• Change network settings via GUI without reboot (ifupdown2)
• New HA migrate option
• Set noVNC scale mode in "My settings"
• TOTP and U2F as two factor authentication
• Container: pending changes
• SPICE enhancements
• and many more...

View the detailed release notes: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 6.0 introduces new features:

• Debian Buster 10 and a Linux Kernel 5.0 (based on Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo")
• QEMU 4.0, LXC 3.1.0, Corosync 3.0.2
• Proxmox cluster stack with Corosync 3 using Kronosnet
• Ceph 14.2 (Nautilus) and many new functionalities in the Ceph management dashboard
• QEMU live migrate disks backed by local storage
• and many more...

View the detailed release notes: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 5.4 introduces new features:

• Debian Stretch 9.8 and Linux Kernel 4.15.
• New installation wizard for Ceph in the UI,
• New HA policies freeze/fail-over/default for greater flexibility,
• Suspend to disk/Hibernation support for Qemu guests,
• Support for Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication,
• Improved ISO installation wizard,
• New options for Qemu guest creation wizard

View the detailed release notes: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Proxmox VE 5.3 includes many new features:

• Debian Stretch 9.6 and Linux Kernel 4.15.
• Ceph Storage 12.2.8 (Luminous LTS, stable),
• CephFS, the distributed, POSIX-compliant file system for Ceph
• GUI Disk management for ZFS raid volumes, LVM, and LVMthin pools
• LIO support for ZFS over iSCSI
• Nesting for LXC containers
• PCI passthrough and vGPU (e.g. Intel KVMGT) via GUI

View the detailed release notes: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Check out the highlights of the new release Proxmox VE 5.2:

• Debian 9.4 and Linux Kernel 4.15
• Create cluster via GUI
• New certificate management w/ Let's Encrypt
• Cloud-Init
• New Samba/CIFS storage plugin for shared storage
• LXC: move disk and create templates
• Xterm.js console
• I/O limits for restore

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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Watch this video if you want to see some highlights of the new major release Proxmox VE 5.0:

• Debian 9 "Stretch"
• Linux Kernel 4.10
• New open-source storage replication stack
• Ceph updates

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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The video tutorial explains the installation of a distributed Ceph storage on an existing three node Proxmox VE cluster. At the end of this tutorial you will be able to build a free and open source hyper-converged virtualization and storage cluster.

Learn more:

• Proxmox VE documentation - https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html

The video demonstrates the detailed installation of a Windows 2016 server on Proxmox VE. At the end of the tutorial, you will be able to correctly install a Windows 2016 server with correspondant drivers.

Learn more: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki

This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.2:

• Debian Jessie 8.4 and a long-term 4.4 Linux kernel 
• GUI: Sencha Ext JS 6 framework
• LXC containers with additional mount points
• rate limit for network (containers)
• LVM thin pool and ZFS storage plugin "out of the box"
• improvements at Ceph GUI

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.3:

• Debian Jessie 8.6 and long-term 4.4 Linux kernel
• vertical GUI structure with groups and new icons
• disk management via GUI
• search function
• new documentation framework for Proxmox VE technical docu (html, pdf, epub)

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.4:

• Ceph dashboard
• Cluster dashboard
• Optimized HA GUI
• CPU limitation for containers
• Unprivileged containers
• Container restart migration

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 4.0:

• Debian Jessie 8.2 and 4.2 Linux kernel
• Linux Containers (LXC)
• IPv6 support
• Bash completion
• New Proxmox VE HA Manager

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This video highlights the new features in Proxmox VE 3.4:

• ZFS file system
• ZFS storage plugin
• Hotplug: adding disks, network cards, USB,...
• Network disconnect
• Stop, migrate or start all VMs

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This video explores the new features in Proxmox VE 3.3:

• HTML5 console
• Proxmox VE Firewall
• Two-factor authentication with YubiKey
• ZFS storage plugin
• QEMU 2.1

View all updates:http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This tutorial shows you how to upload a subscription key to Proxmox VE and how to install new updates.

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This video will demonstrate the installation of a new Windows 7 virtual machine on Proxmox VE -- using virtio and SPICE. At the end of the tutorial, you will be able to use great SPICE features like resizing your window or full-screen view.

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Learn more: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE

This video explores new features in Proxmox VE 3.2:

• SPICE console 
• opening a shell using Proxmox spiceterm 
• even faster VM snapshots
• Open vSwitch with bonds, bridges, internal ports 
• Ceph storage integration

View all updates: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap

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This tutorial explains how to create a redundant network bond with Proxmox VE. For best quality watch the video in full screen mode.

Read more: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Network_Model