regressions: Enable both tests for bug 576879 (not fixed).

[libguestfs.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index c9c6ae6..2f7f8f2 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
 ----------------------------------
 
-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
@@ -54,7 +59,17 @@ New features
  - 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
 
@@ -65,15 +80,20 @@ 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
 
@@ -104,8 +124,16 @@ 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
@@ -486,3 +514,6 @@ 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
+
+2009-04-01 : Initial announcement
+http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/libguestfs-access-and-modify-virtual-machine-disk-images/