1 Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
2 -----------------------------------
4 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
5 stable/dev branch split (1.10.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
6 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
12 - guestfish strings can use escapes,
13 eg. ><fs> write /foo "line 1\nline 2\n"
15 - guestfish write-append command can be used to append to files.
17 - Long-running file uploads and downloads can be cancelled through the
18 API or by hitting ^C in guestfish.
20 - New guestfish "display" command for displaying graphical files
23 - In guestfish, tab completion now works on /dev/mapper devices.
27 - Inspection API can get an icon or logo for certain guests.
29 - virt-inspector includes the logo and hostname for certain guests.
31 - virt-inspector can now get the version and release numbers for RPM
34 - CentOS and Scientific Linux are now treated as separate distros by
39 - virt-resize can now handle btrfs.
41 - New virt-resize --ntfsresize-force option allows Windows VMs to be
42 resized multiple times.
46 - guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit, virt-filesystems,
47 virt-inspector, virt-ls and virt-rescue now allow you to use
48 "-d UUID" option to specify a guest by UUID. This makes them more
49 robust to use from other programs.
51 - virt-ls -lR option allows complex file iteration and guest analysis.
53 - virt-win-reg supports HKEY_USERS\<SID> and HKEY_USERS\<username>.
55 - virt-win-reg new option --unsafe-printable-strings allows printable
56 strings to be displayed in the output (unsafely: read the documentation
59 - virt-edit has been rewritten in C.
61 API and language bindings:
63 - Java is now completely supported.
64 See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-java.3.html
66 - JRuby is supported via the Java bindings.
68 - guestfs_close now appears in trace messages.
70 - Python binding adds explicit g.close() method.
72 - Python programs can now use the new event API.
74 - Python GIL is released during libguestfs calls, allowing multithreaded
75 Python programs to work properly.
77 - 9pfs (Plan 9 filesystems exported from the host) are now supported.
79 - Add -DGUESTFS_WARN_DEPRECATED=1 to warn about use of deprecated API
80 functions in C programs.
82 - New manual page guestfs-recipes(1) with recipes.
84 - mkfs-opts can now set inode size and sector size on created filesystems
85 (thanks Nikita Menkovich).
87 - guestfs_last_errno is now accessible from OCaml (as g#last_errno ()).
91 - optargs_bitmask is checked even for calls that have no optional
92 arguments. This closes a possible exploit in the daemon from
97 btrfs-filesystem-resize, get-pgroup, inspect-get-icon, is-zero,
98 is-zero-device, list-9p, list-dm-devices, mount-9p, ntfsresize-opts,
99 set-pgroup, write-append
103 - Coverity (a static analysis tool) was run across the codebase and
104 many fixes were made.
106 - Generator can handle functions that return RBufferOut and have
109 - Compatible with Perl 5.14.
111 - Compatible with gcc 4.6.
113 - Perform safety checks on QEMU.
115 - C API tests can now fully test calls that have optional arguments.
117 - Use ./configure --enable-install-daemon to install /usr/sbin/guestfsd.
119 - po-docs directory now covers all man pages.
121 - stderr from qemu process is now captured by the event subsystem.
125 - 602997 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
126 - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
127 - 700369 qemu-system-x86_64 says 'KVM not supported for this target'
128 - 705200 guestmount attempt results in access denied
129 - 714981 'list-filesystems' does not know about virtio 9p filesystems or detect existing mounts
130 - 717786 libguestfs python bindings should have an explicit close call
131 - 721275 virt-resize in F16 should support btrfs
134 Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
135 -----------------------------------
137 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
138 stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
139 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
143 - libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
144 See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
145 the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
149 virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
151 - libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
153 - virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
155 - Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
156 when operating on Windows guests.
158 - virt-resize now works on 32 bit hosts.
160 - You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
163 - guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
165 - guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
166 options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
167 file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
169 - New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
170 each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
171 and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
174 - Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
175 for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
177 - guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
178 through to the underlying filesystem.
180 - mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
182 - More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
183 and umount-all commands to work together properly.
185 - Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
186 be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
188 - guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
189 messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
192 - Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
193 to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
194 in guestfish has been updated to display these.
196 - Publish new example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
198 - New virt-dhcp-address example program.
200 - The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
202 - Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
204 - Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
206 - Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
207 http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
209 - Inspection now supports Red Hat Desktop, Slackware distributions.
211 - Inspection no longer fails for Windows guests that have two or
214 - Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
217 - Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
218 Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
220 - A series of protocol fixes has fixed the old bug RHBZ#576879
221 which used to cause errors during the upload command to lose
222 protocol synchronization.
232 first-private, get-attach-method, inspect-get-drive-mappings,
233 inspect-get-product-variant,
234 inspect-get-windows-current-control-set, next-private, resize2fs-M,
239 - The 'HACKING' file is obsolete. The contents have been moved into
240 a section of the guestfs(3) manual page.
242 - libguestfs-test-tool simplified. It no longer needs the static
243 binary or tries to construct an ISO.
245 - rpcgen-generated files are compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing
246 which should be safer (thanks Matt Booth).
248 - virt-resize was rewritten in OCaml.
250 - guestfish and other tools tested with valgrind; some memory leaks
255 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
256 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
257 - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
258 - 617440 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
259 - 664558 RFE: Allow to set log callback in Ruby bindings
260 - 665358 Punjabi Translation Completed (pa_IN)
261 - 666577 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
262 - 667610 Multiple bugs, memory leaks in libguestfs ruby bindings
263 - 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
264 - 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
265 - 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
266 - 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
267 - 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
268 - 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
269 - 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesytem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
270 - 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
271 - 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
272 - 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
273 - 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
275 Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
276 ----------------------------------
278 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
279 stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
280 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
284 - Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
286 - Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
289 - Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
291 - The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
299 - Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically. This is
300 supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-inspector,
303 - New tool virt-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for
304 virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions, and has a superset
305 of the functionality of those tools.
307 - guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option
308 parsing, so they support many common options such as '-a disk.img',
309 '-d libvirt-domain', '-x', '-v'. The old command line option
310 parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc.
312 - guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl
314 - New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs-examples(3) (C/C++),
315 guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-ruby(3).
317 - Trace mode prints return values from API functions.
319 - virt-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along
320 with a great deal of information about those applications.
322 - Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD.
324 - guestfish --rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially
325 dangerous write access explicit.
327 - guestfish --listen --csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks
330 - The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now
331 documented in guestfs(3).
333 - guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
334 daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
336 - Functions can now have optional parameters.
338 - Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
341 - Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
344 - getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
346 - ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
350 - New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation.
352 - virt-inspector no longer runs any guest commands.
354 - Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
355 from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
357 - FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
364 - inspect-get-hostname
365 - inspect-get-package-format
366 - inspect-get-package-management
368 - inspect-list-applications
374 - C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use.
376 - PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely
377 optional for building.
379 - Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed.
381 - Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files
384 - Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
387 - Ruby bindings have 'make install' rule.
389 - <guestfs.h> is now a single file.
391 - <guestfs.h> does not require XDR headers.
393 - ocaml xml-light library is no longer required to build (thanks
396 - ./configure --disable-[...] for each language binding (thanks
399 - Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
401 - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
404 - Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
405 file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
409 - 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
410 - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
411 - 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
412 - 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
413 - 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
414 - 652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
416 Release notes for libguestfs 1.6.0
417 ----------------------------------
419 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
420 stable/dev branch split (1.4.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
421 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
425 - Use a new method for creating and caching the appliance. This
426 greatly improves the performance of libguestfs, often by a factor
429 - Support for guest inspection (like virt-inspector) via the ordinary
430 API and all language bindings. 'guestfish -i' option is as a side-
433 - virt-inspector and core inspection API can now detect guests running:
434 Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS,
435 Scientific Linux, Gentoo, Pardus, Arch Linux, MeeGo.
437 - Support for LUKS whole-disk encryption in guests.
441 - Progress messages (and progress bars in guestfish and virt-resize)
442 for certain long-running operations.
444 - virt-df is now much more efficient. Use '--one-per-guest' to restore
445 the old per-guest isolation behaviour.
447 - guestfish 'copy-in' and 'copy-out' commands for copying files and
448 directories recursively in and out of the guest.
450 - guestfish 'hexedit' command for doing binary edits to devices and
453 - Change guestfish -i syntax to allow commands to be specified on the
454 command line (retaining backwards compatibility).
456 - guestfish '-d <domain>' for adding disks from libvirt domains.
458 - guestfish '-N' option supports several new prepared disk image types:
459 lvfs : disk with LV formatted with filesystem
462 bootrootlv : boot and root on LV
464 - guestfish 'more' and 'edit' commands now work with arbitrary files.
466 - guestfish '--echo-keys' option allows you to echo keys/passphrases
469 - guestmount now supports -a / -d / -i options, like guestfish.
471 - Use virtio-serial for communications with the appliance. This
472 also has a major performance benefit.
474 - virt-edit '-b' option to create a backup of edited files.
476 - virt-edit '-e' option for non-interactive edits to files.
478 - Ability to capture core dumps from the appliance (thanks Matthew Booth).
480 - virt-rescue now shuts down cleanly (thanks Matthew Booth).
482 - virt-rescue now has a --network option to enable network access.
484 - virt-resize can now handle guests which use GPT partition table format.
486 - virt-resize has better support for shrinking guests.
488 - virt-resize supports qcow2-format guests.
490 - $TMPDIR can be used to override almost all temporary directory usage.
492 - OCaml users can use an alternate OO-style of coding, eg. g#launch ()
494 - The API supports calls which take optional parameters, eg.
495 $g->add_drive_opts ("disk", readonly => 1);
497 - Trace output now escapes and shortens large strings (thanks
500 - Autosync is now on by default, resulting in more reliable behaviour
501 when the handle is closed.
503 - virt-df --uuid option allows you to follow a domain across migration
506 - Translations of manual pages.
510 - CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk
511 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-October/msg00036.html
512 This is comprehensively fixed in this release, and the fix will be
513 backported to the other stable branches after more testing.
515 - virt-inspector no longer relies on untrusted guest code to list
516 applications in some guests.
520 download-offset, file-architecture, findfs-label, findfs-uuid,
521 inspect-os, inspect-get-arch, inspect-get-distro,
522 inspect-get-filesystems, inspect-get-major-version,
523 inspect-get-minor-version, inspect-get-mountpoints,
524 inspect-get-product-name, inspect-get-type, is-blockdev, is-chardev,
525 is-fifo, is-lv, is-socket, is-symlink, list-filesystems, luks-add-key,
526 luks-close, luks-format, luks-format-cipher, luks-kill-slot,
527 luks-open, luks-open-ro, lvm-clear-filter, lvm-canonical-lv-name,
528 lvm-set-filter, part-to-dev, pread-device, pwrite-device,
533 - Use size_t for loop iterators.
534 - Refactor the library code into separate files.
535 - Refactor the generator code into separate files.
536 - Generate guestfish commands.
537 - guestfish & guestmount options processing is unified.
539 error message size increased to 64K
540 send errno to library
541 - Add 'make bindist' to make a binary distribution.
542 - Cleaner behaviour under valgrind.
543 - More testing of the guestfish command line options and libvirt
545 - The Perl inspection code is no longer used by any of the tools.
549 - 646822 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
550 - 646821 virt-df should have --uuid option
551 - 646432 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
552 - 643624 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
553 - 642934 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
554 - 642933 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
555 - 642932 guestmount options should match guestfish options
556 - 642930 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
557 - 642929 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
558 - 642826 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
559 - 640961 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
560 - 639986 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
561 - 639405 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
562 - 638901 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
563 - 638899 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
564 - 636918 Updates to Spanish translation
565 - 636061 [abrt] guestfish-1.2.11-1.fc12: malloc_consolidate: Process /usr/bin/guestfish was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
566 - 635969 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
567 - 634246 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
568 - 633766 virt-resize --shrink fails
569 - 633357 Updates to Spanish translation
570 - 633096 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
571 - 629593 Dutch translation added
572 - 627556 Updates to Spanish translations of libguestfs
573 - 626843 Updates to Spanish translations
574 - 619793 [RFE] Need a way to determine if a particular block device is a logical volume
575 - 618556 virt-rescue return none zero value when exit
576 - 617200 mount operation failed and hung on some images which running in read-only mode
577 - 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
578 - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
579 - 571714 Running virt-df on disk image relabels it, so qemu can no longer write to it.
580 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
582 Release notes for libguestfs 1.4.0
583 ----------------------------------
585 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
586 stable/dev branch split (1.2.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
587 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
591 - guestfish lets you choose a prepared disk image, eg:
594 - Add write support to guestmount (FUSE) module.
596 - virt-resize can now resize the content of partitions and logical
597 volumes in the guest, and we have better support for shrinking guests.
599 - Bash tab-completion script for guestfish.
601 - Add ZFS support to virt-rescue.
603 - New tool 'virt-make-fs' for creating filesystems with content.
605 - Allow suffixes on any guestfish number parameter, eg. "1M".
607 - guestfish 'man' command opens the manual page.
609 - guestfish supports a "heredoc" syntax for uploading files:
614 - Some guestfish commands now print their output in octal or hex
615 where appropriate (RHBZ#583242).
617 - Allow dash prefix on guestfish command line. This ignores any
618 error from the second command: (RHBZ#578407)
619 guestfish -- cmd1 : -cmd2 : cmd3
621 - guestfish -h / help command now returns an error for non-existent
622 commands (RHBZ#597145).
624 - New 'supported' command in guestfish to list optional groups of
625 commands which are supported by the daemon / configuration.
627 - virt-inspector and guestfish -i now work for filenames which
628 contain spaces (RHBZ#507810).
630 - Change the protocol to use link-local addresses, to avoid
631 conflicting with any address that the host might be using
634 - libguestfs now sets the correct time and timezone on filesystem
637 - Sort the domains into alphabetical order in virt-df.
639 - Make mkfs-b command work for FAT and NTFS by mapping the blocksize
640 parameter to the cluster size (RHBZ#599464).
642 - Add version numbers to Perl modules (RHBZ#521674).
644 - Localization now works for all the libguestfs tools (RHBZ#559963).
646 - Tools now support filesystem-on-image VMs (RHBZ#590167).
648 - virt-list-partitions has a '-t' option to show the total size of disks.
650 - Include extra Augeas lenses in the supermin appliance (Matthew Booth).
652 - Add error and close callbacks.
654 - Add explicit close method in the Perl API.
656 - Multiple fixes for RHEL 5 compatibility.
658 - Multiple fixes for Debian/Ubuntu compatibility.
660 - Multiple revisions to improve the documentation.
664 - Fix a potential DoS in virt-inspector and virt-v2v if a specially
665 crafted disk image contained a char device in place of one of the
666 configuration files that we read under /etc (RHBZ#582484).
670 - aug-clear - clear Augeas path
671 - available-all-groups - return a list of all optional groups
672 - base64-in - upload base64-encoded data to file
673 - base64-out - download file and encode as base64
674 - checksum-device - compute checksums on the contents of a device
675 - checksums-out - compute checksums of multiple files in a directory
676 - debug-upload - upload a file to the appliance
677 - fallocate64 - preallocate a file in the guest filesystem
678 - fill-pattern - fill a file with a repeating pattern of bytes
679 - get-umask - get the current umask
680 - lvresize-free - expand an LV to fill free space
681 - ntfsresize - resize an NTFS filesystem
682 - ntfsresize-size - resize an NTFS filesystem (with size)
683 - part-del - delete a partition
684 - part-get-bootable - get the bootable flag of a partition
685 - part-get-mbr-id - get the MBR type byte of a partition
686 - part-set-mbr-id - set the MBR type byte of a partition
687 - pvresize-size - resize a physical volume (with size)
688 - pwrite - write to part of a file
689 - resize2fs-size - resize an ext2/3/4 filesystem (with size)
690 - txz-in - unpack compressed tarball to directory (RHBZ#580556)
691 - txz-out - pack directory into compressed tarball (RHBZ#580556)
692 - vfs-label - get the filesystem label
693 - vfs-uuid - get the filesystem UUID
694 - vgscan - rescan for LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes
695 - write - create a new file
696 - zero-device - write zeroes to an entire device
700 - Extend the generator to support testing optional features.
701 - Stricter checks on input parameters to many calls (RHBZ#501893 RHBZ#501894)
702 - Extend the protocol to support sending arbitrary 8 bit data buffers.
703 - Ship 'BUGS' file with releases. This is a summary of the bugs in
704 the Red Hat Bugzilla database.
705 - Ship 'RELEASE-NOTES' file with releases, containing release notes.
706 - Unify supermin appliance building into one place, in febootstrap 2.7.
707 - Fix the protocol code to handle the case where both ends send cancel
708 messages at the same time.
712 - 612178 guestfish: using -m option in conjunction with --listen option causes appliance to die
713 - 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
714 - 604691 OCaml bindings are not thread safe
715 - 603870 Updates to Spanish translation
716 - 602592 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
717 - 600977 virt-df -h --csv "Argument .. isn't numeric in printf"
718 - 599464 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
719 - 598807 add_cdrom does not work in RHEL 6
720 - 598309 part-list and several other cmd failed on libguestfs on RHEL5
721 - 597145 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
722 - 597135 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
723 - 597118 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
724 - 597112 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
725 - 596776 virt-inspector doesn't discover modprobe aliases on RHEL 3 guests
726 - 596763 Updates to Spanish translation
727 - 593292 Updates to Spanish translation
728 - 592883 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
729 - 592360 Updates to Spanish translation
730 - 591250 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
731 - 591155 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
732 - 591142 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
733 - 590167 virt-inspector and other virt tools should be able to handle filesystem-on-image VMs
734 - 589039 guestfish read-file cmd will cause daemon hang when read large files
735 - 588851 guestfs_launch() returns -1, but guestfs_last_error() == NULL
736 - 588763 libguestfs should use non-public or link-local addresses for appliance network
737 - 588733 Updates to Spanish translation
738 - 588651 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
739 - 587484 lvresize can't reduce size of a volumn
740 - 585961 Updates to Spanish translation
741 - 585223 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
742 - 585222 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
743 - 585221 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
744 - 584038 Updates to Spanish translation
745 - 583554 [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly
746 - 583242 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
747 - 582993 guestfish eats words when tab completing case (in)sensitive paths
748 - 582953 Misleading help information about lvcreate command
749 - 582948 mknod command doesn't make block, character or FIFO devices
750 - 582929 mknod doesn't check for invalid mode
751 - 582901 guestfish chmod/umask commands do not check invalid mode value
752 - 582899 guestfish:sparse is missed from command autocomplete list
753 - 582891 [Feature Request] behavior and return value of guestfish umask cmd should be changed
754 - 582548 [mknod] umask shouldn't take effect when mode is set explicitly
755 - 582484 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
756 - 582252 Updates to Spanish translation
757 - 581501 Updates to Spanish translation
758 - 580650 virt-inspector warns "No grub default specified at /usr/lib/perl5/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm at [...]"
759 - 580556 request for libguestfs to support .txz tarballs
760 - 580246 tar-in command hangs if uploading more than available space
761 - 580016 aug-ls in guestfish does not take augeas variable as argument
762 - 579664 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
763 - 579608 multiple commands in guestfish can not work for symbol links
764 - 579155 libguestfs hangs if qemu doesn't start (in null vmchannel mode)
765 - 578407 the prefix '-' in sub-command isn't handled by guestfish in remote control mode
766 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
767 - 559963 libguestfs Perl programs do set locale, but still localization doesn't work
768 - 521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
769 - 516096 Race condition in test_swapon_label_0: /sbin/blockdev: BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
770 - 507810 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
771 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
772 - 501894 Some String parameters should be OptString
773 - 501893 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
774 - 501889 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
775 - 484986 grub-install fails on virtio disk
777 Release notes for previous versions of libguestfs
778 -------------------------------------------------
781 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00095.html
784 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00281.html
787 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00059.html
790 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00023.html
792 2009-04-01 : Initial announcement
793 http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/libguestfs-access-and-modify-virtual-machine-disk-images/