X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=cae2792f781ccd151070446da226003f280b1c39;hp=a368ffd9e11f63396e3c1753b2a9320faf63be1f;hb=663b99950daeaa2b023520aae756a3a28969c493;hpb=189a2f3075aa7073b608409382bd55cfa375f458 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index a368ffd..cae2792 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,257 @@ +Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0 +----------------------------------- + +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 +the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball. + +New features + + guestfish: + + - guestfish strings can use escapes, + eg. > write /foo "line 1\nline 2\n" + + - guestfish write-append command can be used to append to files. + + - Long-running file uploads and downloads can be cancelled through the + API or by hitting ^C in guestfish. + + - New guestfish "display" command for displaying graphical files + inside guests. + + - In guestfish, tab completion now works on /dev/mapper devices. + + virt-inspector: + + - 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. + + - CentOS and Scientific Linux are now treated as separate distros by + the inspection API. + + virt-resize: + + - virt-resize can now handle btrfs. + + - New virt-resize --ntfsresize-force option allows Windows VMs to be + resized multiple times. + + other virt tools: + + - 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. + + - virt-ls -lR option allows complex file iteration and guest analysis. + + - virt-win-reg supports HKEY_USERS\ and HKEY_USERS\. + + - virt-win-reg new option --unsafe-printable-strings allows printable + strings to be displayed in the output (unsafely: read the documentation + before using). + + - virt-edit has been rewritten in C. + + 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. + + - Python programs can now use the new event API. + + - Python GIL is released during libguestfs calls, allowing multithreaded + Python programs to work properly. + + - 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. + + - 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 + arguments. This closes a possible exploit in the daemon from + untrusted callers. + +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 + +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. + + - Perform safety checks on QEMU. + + - C API tests can now fully test calls that have optional arguments. + + - Use ./configure --enable-install-daemon to install /usr/sbin/guestfsd. + + - po-docs directory now covers all man pages. + + - stderr from qemu process is now captured by the event subsystem. + +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" + - 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 + - 721275 virt-resize in F16 should support btrfs + + Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0 -----------------------------------