X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=cae2792f781ccd151070446da226003f280b1c39;hp=81a1e1cef492c550598e7354e2ae8e66a2c8ce7e;hb=a08bfe2896c15e1f58bc8514791e0c5ff8a09d62;hpb=36d8bbb8586bbe571739a79de071edd392001963 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 81a1e1c..cae2792 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0 ----------------------------------- -UPDATED TO COMMIT e59e35708b4ad66c99f908c5226cb232931e1791 +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 @@ -11,19 +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-alignment-scan: 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. @@ -43,6 +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. @@ -50,8 +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 @@ -91,6 +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