+Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
+-----------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+New features
+
+ - libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
+ See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
+ the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
+ get-attach-method.
+
+ - New virt tools:
+ virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
+
+ - libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
+
+ - virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
+ operating systems.
+
+ - guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
+
+ - guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
+ options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
+ file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
+
+ - New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
+ each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
+ and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
+ from stderr.
+
+ - Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
+ for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
+
+ - guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
+ through to the underlying filesystem.
+
+ - mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
+
+ - More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
+ and umount-all commands to work together properly.
+
+ - Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
+ be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
+
+ - guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
+ messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
+ seconds to run.
+
+ - Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
+ to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
+ in guestfish has been updated to display these.
+
+ - Publish new example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
+
+ - New virt-dhcp-address example program.
+
+ - The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
+
+ - Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
+
+ - Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
+
+ - Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
+ http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
+
+ - Inspection now supports Red Hat Desktop, Slackware distributions.
+
+ - Inspection no longer fails for Windows guests that have two or
+ more disks.
+
+ - Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
+ and Windows 7.
+
+ - 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
+
+ [none]
+
+New APIs
+
+ 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.
+
+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.
+
+ - rpcgen-generated files are compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing
+ which should be safer (thanks Matt Booth).
+
+ - virt-resize was rewritten in OCaml.
+
+ - guestfish and other tools tested with valgrind; some memory leaks
+ were fixed.
+
+Bugs fixed
+
+ - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
+ - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
+ - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
+ - 617440 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
+ - 664558 RFE: Allow to set log callback in Ruby bindings
+ - 665358 Punjabi Translation Completed (pa_IN)
+ - 666577 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
+ - 667610 Multiple bugs, memory leaks in libguestfs ruby bindings
+ - 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
+ - 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
+ - 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
+ - 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
+ - 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
+ - 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
+ - 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesytem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
+ - 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
+ - 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
+ - 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
+ - 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
+
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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/
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