-Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
+Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0
-----------------------------------
-LAST UPDATED TO COMMIT 9f135be96e21d899b36ef2287a6ba8cea9beb4ff
+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
+the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
+
+New features
+
+ Erlang bindings.
+
+ 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - The input file and line number is printed in error messages.
+
+ - guestfish progress bars are now a "mini-library" used by other
+ tools too.
+
+ febootstrap:
+
+ - FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL, FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES environment variables can
+ be set in order to choose which kernel to use for the appliance.
+
+ virt-resize:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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
+
+ The mount API no longer implicitly adds -o sync,noatime options.
+
+ compress-out, compress-device-out, set-smp, get-smp
+
+Internals
+
+ - Coverity was run on the source and more bugs were identified and
+ fixed.
+
+ - PCRE library is now required to build libguestfs.
+
+ - APIC is now the default for the appliance. You can also enable
+ SMP support in the appliance.
+
+ - OCaml bindings now correctly acquire GC lock during callbacks.
+
+ - Out of tree builds should now work correctly (thanks Hilko Bengen).
+
+ - ./configure --with-extra="..." can be used by packagers to set
+ the extra version string.
+
+ - zero, zero-device APIs: if the blocks already contain zeroes,
+ don't write zeroes, so that we don't unnecessarily make the
+ underlying storage non-sparse.
+
+ - is-zero, is-zero-device APIs: optimize these so zero detection is
+ faster.
+
+Bugs fixed
+
+ ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.12.0..
+
+ - 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
+ - 671082 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
+ - 666578 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
+
+
+Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
+-----------------------------------
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.10.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
API and language bindings:
+ - Java is now completely supported.
+ See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-java.3.html
+
+ - JRuby is supported via the Java bindings.
+
- guestfs_close now appears in trace messages.
- Python binding adds explicit g.close() method.
- mkfs-opts can now set inode size and sector size on created filesystems
(thanks Nikita Menkovich).
+ - guestfs_last_errno is now accessible from OCaml (as g#last_errno ()).
+
Security
- optargs_bitmask is checked even for calls that have no optional
New APIs
- btrfs-filesystem-resize
- get-pgroup
- inspect-get-icon
- is-zero
- is-zero-device
- list-9p
- list-dm-devices
- mount-9p
- ntfsresize-opts
- set-pgroup
- write-append
+ btrfs-filesystem-resize, get-pgroup, inspect-get-icon, is-zero,
+ is-zero-device, list-9p, list-dm-devices, mount-9p, ntfsresize-opts,
+ set-pgroup, write-append
Internals
- Use ./configure --enable-install-daemon to install /usr/sbin/guestfsd.
-Bugs fixed
+ - po-docs directory now covers all man pages.
+
+ - stderr from qemu process is now captured by the event subsystem.
- ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.10.0.. | sort -n
+Bugs fixed
- 602997 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
- 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
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