From: Richard Jones Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:44:49 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Add release notes. X-Git-Tag: 1.3.20~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fd03b8400635d9c62ec0d635984128868e5bb63;p=libguestfs.git Add release notes. To generate the "Bugs fixed" list, run the bugs-in-changelog script like this: ./bugs-in-changelog 1.0.89.. --- diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea03dbd --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +Release notes for libguestfs 1.4.0 +---------------------------------- +[updated to 6c27155621f75351a3b18237ac7631f0eb12c336] + +These release notes only cover the differences from the previous +stable/dev branch split (1.2.0). For detailed changelogs, please see +the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball. + +New features + + - guestfish lets you choose a prepared disk image, eg: + guestfish -N fs:ext4 + + - Add write support to guestmount (FUSE) module. + + - virt-resize can now resize the content of partitions and logical + volumes in the guest, and we fully support shrinking guests. + + - Bash tab-completion script for guestfish. + + - Add ZFS support to virt-rescue. + + - New tool 'virt-make-fs' for creating filesystems with content. + + - Allow suffixes on any guestfish number parameter, eg. "1M". + + - guestfish 'man' command opens the manual page. + + - guestfish supports a "heredoc" syntax for uploading files: + upload -<<_end_ /foo + content + _end_ + + - Some guestfish commands now print their output in octal or hex + where appropriate (RHBZ#583242). + + - Allow dash prefix on guestfish command line. This ignores any + error from the second command: (RHBZ#578407) + guestfish -- cmd1 : -cmd2 : cmd3 + + - guestfish -h / help command now returns an error for non-existent + commands (RHBZ#597145). + + - New 'supported' command in guestfish to list optional groups of + commands which are supported by the daemon / configuration. + + - virt-inspector and guestfish -i now work for filenames which + contain spaces (RHBZ#507810). + + - Change the protocol to use link-local addresses, to avoid + conflicting with any address that the host might be using + (RHBZ#588763). + + - libguestfs now sets the correct time and timezone on filesystem + modifications. + + - Sort the domains into alphabetical order in virt-df. + + - Make mkfs-b command work for FAT and NTFS by mapping the blocksize + parameter to the cluster size (RHBZ#599464). + + - Add version numbers to Perl modules (RHBZ#521674). + + - Localization now works for all the libguestfs tools (RHBZ#559963). + + - Tools now support filesystem-on-image VMs (RHBZ#590167). + + - virt-list-partitions has a '-t' option to show the total size of disks. + + - Include extra Augeas lenses in the supermin appliance (Matthew Booth). + + - Multiple fixes for RHEL 5 compatibility. + + - Multiple fixes for Debian/Ubuntu compatibility. + + - Multiple revisions to improve the documentation. + +Security + + - Fix a potential DoS in virt-inspector and virt-v2v if a specially + crafted disk image contained a char device in place of one of the + configuration files that we read under /etc (RHBZ#582484). + +New APIs + + - aug-clear - clear Augeas path + - available-all-groups - return a list of all optional groups + - base64-in - upload base64-encoded data to file + - base64-out - download file and encode as base64 + - checksum-device - compute checksums on the contents of a device + - checksums-out - compute checksums of multiple files in a directory + - debug-upload - upload a file to the appliance + - fallocate64 - preallocate a file in the guest filesystem + - fill-pattern - fill a file with a repeating pattern of bytes + - get-umask - get the current umask + - lvresize-free - expand an LV to fill free space + - ntfsresize - resize an NTFS filesystem + - ntfsresize-size - resize an NTFS filesystem (with size) + - part-del - delete a partition + - part-get-bootable - get the bootable flag of a partition + - part-get-mbr-id - get the MBR type byte of a partition + - part-set-mbr-id - set the MBR type byte of a partition + - pvresize-size - resize a physical volume (with size) + - pwrite - write to part of a file + - resize2fs-size - resize an ext2/3/4 filesystem (with size) + - txz-in - unpack compressed tarball to directory (RHBZ#580556) + - txz-out - pack directory into compressed tarball (RHBZ#580556) + - vfs-label - get the filesystem label + - vfs-uuid - get the filesystem UUID + - vgscan - rescan for LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes + - write - create a new file + - zero-device - write zeroes to an entire device + +Internals + + - Extend the generator to support testing optional features. + - Stricter checks on input parameters to many calls (RHBZ#501893 RHBZ#501894) + - Extend the protocol to support sending arbitrary 8 bit data buffers. + - Ship 'BUGS' file with releases. This is a summary of the bugs in + the Red Hat Bugzilla database. + - Unify supermin appliance building into one place, in febootstrap 2.7. + - Fix the protocol code to handle the case where both ends send cancel + messages at the same time. + +Bugs fixed + + - 599464 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs + - 598309 part-list and several other cmd failed on libguestfs on RHEL5 + - 597145 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command + - 597135 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter + - 597118 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label + - 597112 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID + - 596776 virt-inspector doesn't discover modprobe aliases on RHEL 3 guests + - 596763 Updates to Spanish translation + - 593292 Updates to Spanish translation + - 592883 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd + - 592360 Updates to Spanish translation + - 591250 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format + - 591155 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable + - 591142 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images + - 590167 virt-inspector and other virt tools should be able to handle filesystem-on-image VMs + - 589039 guestfish read-file cmd will cause daemon hang when read large files + - 588851 guestfs_launch() returns -1, but guestfs_last_error() == NULL + - 588763 libguestfs should use non-public or link-local addresses for appliance network + - 588733 Updates to Spanish translation + - 588651 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint + - 587484 lvresize can't reduce size of a volumn + - 585961 Updates to Spanish translation + - 585223 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems + - 585222 pvresize should support shrinking PVs + - 585221 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems + - 584038 Updates to Spanish translation + - 583554 [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly + - 583242 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes) + - 582993 guestfish eats words when tab completing case (in)sensitive paths + - 582953 Misleading help information about lvcreate command + - 582948 mknod command doesn't make block, character or FIFO devices + - 582929 mknod doesn't check for invalid mode + - 582901 guestfish chmod/umask commands do not check invalid mode value + - 582899 guestfish:sparse is missed from command autocomplete list + - 582891 [Feature Request] behavior and return value of guestfish umask cmd should be changed + - 582548 [mknod] umask shouldn't take effect when mode is set explicitly + - 582484 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly + - 582252 Updates to Spanish translation + - 581501 Updates to Spanish translation + - 580650 virt-inspector warns "No grub default specified at /usr/lib/perl5/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm at [...]" + - 580556 request for libguestfs to support .txz tarballs + - 580246 tar-in command hangs if uploading more than available space + - 580016 aug-ls in guestfish does not take augeas variable as argument + - 579664 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation + - 579608 multiple commands in guestfish can not work for symbol links + - 579155 libguestfs hangs if qemu doesn't start (in null vmchannel mode) + - 578407 the prefix '-' in sub-command isn't handled by guestfish in remote control mode + - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks + - 559963 libguestfs Perl programs do set locale, but still localization doesn't work + - 521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers + - 516096 Race condition in test_swapon_label_0: /sbin/blockdev: BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy + - 507810 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames + - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs + - 501894 Some String parameters should be OptString + - 501893 String parameters should be checked for != NULL + - 501889 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL + - 484986 grub-install fails on virtio disk + +Release notes for previous versions of libguestfs +------------------------------------------------- + +2009-11-10 : 1.0.78 +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00095.html + +2009-09-13 : 1.0.67 +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00281.html + +2009-07-23 : 1.0.64 +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00059.html + +2009-07-14 : 1.0.59 +https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00023.html diff --git a/bugs-in-changelog b/bugs-in-changelog new file mode 100755 index 0000000..bb2c1c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/bugs-in-changelog @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +#!/bin/bash - +# bugs-in-changelog +# Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc. +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + +# Used when preparing the RELEASE-NOTES file. This script looks at +# the bugs noted in the git changelog since the last stable release +# (or any release). To use it, the only parameter should be the git +# commit range, eg: +# +# ./bugs-in-changelog "1.0.89.." + +if [ -z "$1" ]; then + echo "$0 git-commit-range" + exit 1 +fi + +# Comma-separated list of Bugzilla IDs. +bugids=$( + git log "$1" | egrep -o 'RHBZ#[0-9]+' | + sed 's/RHBZ#//' | + sort -u | + tr '\n' ',' | + sed 's/,$//' +) + +#echo bugids "$bugids" + +# Filter out any bugs which may still be in NEW or ASSIGNED: +bugzilla query -b "$bugids" \ + -t MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,PASSES_QA,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING,CLOSED \ + --outputformat=' - %{bug_id} %{short_desc}' | + sort -n -r