Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
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-LAST UPDATED TO COMMIT 9f135be96e21d899b36ef2287a6ba8cea9beb4ff
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These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.10.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
API and language bindings:
+ - Java is now completely supported.
+ See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-java.3.html
+
+ - JRuby is supported via the Java bindings.
+
- guestfs_close now appears in trace messages.
- Python binding adds explicit g.close() method.
- mkfs-opts can now set inode size and sector size on created filesystems
(thanks Nikita Menkovich).
+ - guestfs_last_errno is now accessible from OCaml (as g#last_errno ()).
+
Security
- optargs_bitmask is checked even for calls that have no optional
New APIs
- btrfs-filesystem-resize
- get-pgroup
- inspect-get-icon
- is-zero
- is-zero-device
- list-9p
- list-dm-devices
- mount-9p
- ntfsresize-opts
- set-pgroup
- write-append
+ btrfs-filesystem-resize, get-pgroup, inspect-get-icon, is-zero,
+ is-zero-device, list-9p, list-dm-devices, mount-9p, ntfsresize-opts,
+ set-pgroup, write-append
Internals
- Use ./configure --enable-install-daemon to install /usr/sbin/guestfsd.
-Bugs fixed
+ - po-docs directory now covers all man pages.
+
+ - stderr from qemu process is now captured by the event subsystem.
- ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.10.0.. | sort -n
+Bugs fixed
- 602997 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
- 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"