Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
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These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
- Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
when operating on Windows guests.
+ - virt-resize now works on 32 bit hosts.
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- You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
operating systems.
and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
from stderr.
- - A series of protocol fixes has fixed the old bug RHBZ#576879
- which used to cause errors during the upload command to lose
- protocol synchronization.
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- Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
in guestfish has been updated to display these.
- - Publish example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
+ - Publish new example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
- New virt-dhcp-address example program.
- Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
+ - A series of protocol fixes has fixed the old bug RHBZ#576879
+ which used to cause errors during the upload command to lose
+ protocol synchronization.
+
- New logo!
Security
New APIs
- first-private,
- get-attach-method,
- inspect-get-drive-mappings,
+ first-private, get-attach-method, inspect-get-drive-mappings,
inspect-get-product-variant,
- inspect-get-windows-current-control-set,
- next-private,
- resize2fs-M,
- set-attach-method,
+ inspect-get-windows-current-control-set, next-private, resize2fs-M,
+ set-attach-method.
Internals
- The 'HACKING' file is obsolete. The contents have been moved into
a section of the guestfs(3) manual page.
+ - libguestfs-test-tool simplified. It no longer needs the static
+ binary or tries to construct an ISO.
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+ - rpcgen-generated files are compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing
+ which should be safer (thanks Matt Booth).
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+ - virt-resize was rewritten in OCaml.
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+ - guestfish and other tools tested with valgrind; some memory leaks
+ were fixed.
+
Bugs fixed
- 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs