Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0
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-UPDATED TO COMMIT b0605f265be3f501930516ff95deab2910ced3ac
+UPDATED TO COMMIT 41260de67f9fa852eab168a6d36276c5deb02bf7
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.12.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
Erlang bindings.
- virt-sparsify: A new tool to make virtual machine disk images sparse.
+ virt-alignment-scan is a new tool to check the alignment of
+ partitions within virtual machines or disk images.
+
+ virt-sparsify is a new tool to make virtual machine disk images
+ sparse.
+
+ virt-sysprep is a new tool to make cloning guests from a template
+ simpler.
inspection:
- Improve detection of Windows disks.
- - Add support for ttylinux (a minimal Linux).
+ - Adds support for:
+ ttylinux - a minimal Linux
+ Mageia (thanks Michael Scherer)
+ OpenSUSE and zypper (thanks Michael Scherer, Vincent Untz)
+ Ubuntu logos (thanks Michael Scherer)
+ NetBSD and pkgsrc (thanks Michael Scherer)
- Handle some guest types that use /dev/root in /etc/fstab.
+ - Fix handling of guests with > 26 disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
+
+ - Add support for guests with HP Smart Array disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
+
guestfish:
- New commands setenv, unsetenv, to set environment variables.
- The virt-resize --machine-readable flag makes it possible to use
virt-resize from other programs.
+ - Partitions are now aligned to 128 sectors (usually 64K) by
+ default. This improves efficiency on high-end storage.
+
library:
- non-printing characters are escaped correctly in debug output.
- GUESTFS_EVENT_ENTER is a new event type generated whenever a
libguestfs function is called.
+ - the library contains systemtap/DTrace probes.
+
misc:
+ - ArchLinux support now working with Linux 3.0 (thanks Erik Nolte)
+
Security
New APIs
- 733297 ruby event handlers fail with "exception in callback: wrong argument type Proc (expected Data)"
- 731744 libguestfs should escape special/non-printing characters in debug output
- 729887 appliance crashes running aug_init with flags=4
+ - 729075 libguestfs confuses Hp_recovery partition with Windows root filesystem
- 727178 error: luks_open: cryptsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libfipscheck.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
- 726739 libguestfs: error: aug_get: no matching node, trying to find hostname
- 678231 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID