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+Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
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+
+LAST UPDATED TO COMMIT 76bd81820f50a390b7e853d65f41b29a37e63f43
+
+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.
+
+New features
+
+ - virt-ls -lR option allows complex file iteration and guest analysis.
+
+ - virt-win-reg supports HKEY_USERS\<SID> and HKEY_USERS\<username>.
+
+ - virt-win-reg new option --unsafe-printable-strings allows printable
+   strings to be displayed in the output (unsafely: read the documentation
+   before using).
+
+ - Inspection API can get an icon or logo for certain guests.
+
+ - virt-inspector includes the logo and hostname for certain guests.
+
+ - virt-inspector can now get the version and release numbers for RPM
+   packages.
+
+ - virt-edit has been rewritten in C.
+
+ - guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit, virt-filesystems,
+   virt-inspector, virt-ls and virt-rescue now allow you to use
+   "-d UUID" option to specify a guest by UUID.  This makes them more
+   robust to use from other programs.
+
+ - guestfs_close now appears in trace messages.
+
+ - Python binding adds explicit g.close() method.
+
+ - Python programs can now use the new event API.
+
+ - Python GIL is released during libguestfs calls, allowing multithreaded
+   Python programs to work properly.
+
+ - New guestfish "display" command for displaying graphical files
+   inside guests.
+
+ - 9pfs (Plan 9 filesystems exported from the host) are now supported.
+
+ - Add -DGUESTFS_WARN_DEPRECATED=1 to warn about use of deprecated API
+   functions in C programs.
+
+ - New manual page guestfs-recipes(1) with recipes.
+
+ - CentOS and Scientific Linux are now treated as separate distros by
+   the inspection API.
+
+Security
+
+  [none]
+
+New APIs
+
+  inspect-get-icon
+  is-zero
+  is-zero-device
+  list-9p
+  mount-9p
+
+Internals
+
+ - Coverity (a static analysis tool) was run across the codebase and
+   many fixes were made.
+
+ - Generator can handle functions that return RBufferOut and have
+   optional arguments.
+
+ - Compatible with Perl 5.14.
+
+ - Compatible with gcc 4.6.
+
+Bugs fixed
+
+  ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.10.0.. | sort -n
+
+ - 700369 qemu-system-x86_64 says 'KVM not supported for this target'
+ - 705200 guestmount attempt results in access denied
+ - 714981 'list-filesystems' does not know about virtio 9p filesystems or detect existing mounts
+ - 717786 libguestfs python bindings should have an explicit close call
+
+
+
 Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
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