X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=cae2792f781ccd151070446da226003f280b1c39;hp=d7672b24941f1c473ccb6fa0bc5b2d7033f84283;hb=31bf0cf313f21bdeb0d166c4c76aad050ad32232;hpb=ca8c2b599663563976d83766182ab8cf0722c755 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index d7672b2..cae2792 100644 --- 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