add-drive-opts: Correctly handle unreadable and unwritable files (RHBZ#747287).

[libguestfs.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0
 -----------------------------------
 
-UPDATED TO COMMIT b0605f265be3f501930516ff95deab2910ced3ac
+UPDATED TO COMMIT 41260de67f9fa852eab168a6d36276c5deb02bf7
 
 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
 stable/dev branch split (1.12.0).  For detailed changelogs, please see
@@ -11,16 +11,32 @@ New features
 
   Erlang bindings.
 
-  virt-sparsify: A new tool to make virtual machine disk images sparse.
+  virt-alignment-scan is a new tool to check the alignment of
+  partitions within virtual machines or disk images.
+
+  virt-sparsify is a new tool to make virtual machine disk images
+  sparse.
+
+  virt-sysprep is a new tool to make cloning guests from a template
+  simpler.
 
   inspection:
 
    - Improve detection of Windows disks.
 
-   - Add support for ttylinux (a minimal Linux).
+   - Adds support for:
+         ttylinux - a minimal Linux
+         Mageia (thanks Michael Scherer)
+         OpenSUSE and zypper (thanks Michael Scherer, Vincent Untz)
+         Ubuntu logos (thanks Michael Scherer)
+         NetBSD and pkgsrc (thanks Michael Scherer)
 
    - Handle some guest types that use /dev/root in /etc/fstab.
 
+   - Fix handling of guests with > 26 disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
+
+   - Add support for guests with HP Smart Array disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
+
   guestfish:
 
    - New commands setenv, unsetenv, to set environment variables.
@@ -40,6 +56,9 @@ New features
    - The virt-resize --machine-readable flag makes it possible to use
      virt-resize from other programs.
 
+   - Partitions are now aligned to 128 sectors (usually 64K) by
+     default.  This improves efficiency on high-end storage.
+
   library:
 
    - non-printing characters are escaped correctly in debug output.
@@ -47,8 +66,12 @@ New features
    - GUESTFS_EVENT_ENTER is a new event type generated whenever a
      libguestfs function is called.
 
+   - the library contains systemtap/DTrace probes.
+
   misc:
 
+   - ArchLinux support now working with Linux 3.0 (thanks Erik Nolte)
+
 Security
 
 New APIs
@@ -88,6 +111,7 @@ Bugs fixed
  - 733297 ruby event handlers fail with "exception in callback: wrong argument type Proc (expected Data)"
  - 731744 libguestfs should escape special/non-printing characters in debug output
  - 729887 appliance crashes running aug_init with flags=4
+ - 729075 libguestfs confuses Hp_recovery partition with Windows root filesystem
  - 727178 error: luks_open: cryptsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libfipscheck.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  - 726739 libguestfs: error: aug_get: no matching node, trying to find hostname
  - 678231 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID