Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
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-Updated to commit 0b2a3bd8404a72a3b7e99e330143c26bf42d458a (1.7.16).
-
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
New features
+ - Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
+
+ - Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
+ of regressions.
+
+ - Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
+
- The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
. virt-cat
- guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
- - Some functions now support optional parameters.
+ - Functions can now have optional parameters.
+
+ - Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
+ commands.
+
+ - Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
+ around in /tmp.
+
+ - getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
+
+ - ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
Security
- Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
+ - FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
+
New APIs
- add-domain
- add-drive-opts
+ - getxattr
- inspect-get-hostname
- inspect-get-package-format
- inspect-get-package-management
- inspect-get-roots
- inspect-list-applications
+ - lgetxattr
+ - mkfs-opts
Internals
- Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
+ - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
+ more quickly.
+
+ - Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
+ file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
+
Bugs fixed
+ - 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
+ - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
- 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
- 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
- 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
2009-07-14 : 1.0.59
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00023.html
+
+2009-04-01 : Initial announcement
+http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/libguestfs-access-and-modify-virtual-machine-disk-images/