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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-05-21 13:45:58 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-05-21 14:16:58 +0100
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Update release notes for 1.18 branch.
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0bfca6c6..e3f0651d 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
Release notes for libguestfs 1.18.0
-----------------------------------
-UPDATED TO COMMIT 500cc67f29b43ebb970f6f276967ee5e9959b140
-
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.16.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
@@ -12,9 +10,7 @@ New features
virt tools:
- virt-sysprep has been rewritten and expanded (thanks Wanlong Gao)
-
- - virt-edit preserves permissions, UID, GID and SELinux context
- when editing files
+ http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html
- virt-sparsify --zero is a new option that zeroes the named
partition or filesystem
@@ -22,10 +18,12 @@ New features
- virt-sparsify can now safely sparsify Linux swap partitions
- virt-sparsify fixed so it cleans up after ^C
+ http://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html
- a new tool 'libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance' is provided to build
fixed appliances that can be copied to other machines that don't
have febootstrap support
+ http://libguestfs.org/libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance.1.html
- virt-filesystems now displays the parents (containers) of MD
devices and volume groups
@@ -33,13 +31,27 @@ New features
- virt-alignment-scan, run with no args, displays alignment information
for all libvirt domains
+ - virt-df and virt-alignment-scan will display information from all
+ guests even when a disk is inaccessible
+
- virt-rescue new --scratch option to make scratch disks
+ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/virt-rescue-scratch/#content
- - comma and colon characters in filenames now handled correctly by
- all virt tools
+ - virt-make-fs can now be used to create btrfs
+
+ - virt-edit preserves permissions, UID, GID and SELinux context
+ when editing files
- guestfish passes the close event over stdout and remote correctly
+ - guestfish new '--pipe-error' option lets you detect errors in pipe
+ commands
+
+ - guestfish globs now expand device names
+
+ - comma and colon characters in filenames now handled correctly by
+ all virt tools
+
inspection:
- added support for Fedora 17+
@@ -53,10 +65,19 @@ New features
API:
+ - broad support for btrfs added, including adding multiple devices,
+ fsck, snapshots (thanks Wanlong Gao)
+
+ - the new 'mount-local' API brings FUSE support directly into the
+ core libguestfs API
+ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/tip-using-mount-local-api-from-c/#content
+
- new man page: guestfs-performance(1), which contains performance
- tuning tips.
+ tuning tips
+ http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-performance.1.html
- new man page: guestfs-faq(1), Frequently Asked Questions
+ http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html
- ENOTSUP (from guestfs_last_errno) is now returned for APIs that
are not supported
@@ -67,6 +88,8 @@ New features
- 'display_icon' program displays the icon associated with a guest
+ - 'mount_local.c' example shows how to use the mount-local API
+
Security
(no security problems were found or fixed in this release)
@@ -77,6 +100,8 @@ New APIs
btrfs-device-delete: Remove devices from a btrfs filesystem.
btrfs-filesystem-sync: Sync a btrfs filesystem.
btrfs-filesystem-balance: Balance a btrfs filesystem.
+ btrfs-fsck: Check btrfs filesystem.
+ btrfs-set-seeding: Enable or disable seeding.
btrfs-subvolume-create: Create a btrfs snapshot.
btrfs-subvolume-delete: Delete a btrfs snapshot.
btrfs-subvolume-list: List btrfs snapshots and subvolumes.
@@ -103,6 +128,8 @@ Internals
- The debian/ subdirectory has been removed. We recommend you use
the official Debian packages made by Hilko Bengen.
+ http://people.debian.org/~bengen/libguestfs/
+ http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libguestfs
- O_CLOEXEC / SOCK_CLOEXEC is now used for almost all file
descriptors that the library opens.
@@ -119,6 +146,8 @@ Internals
- use ./configure --enable-valgrind-daemon to use valgrind on the
daemon; many errors have been fixed
+ - use ./configure --with-qemu-options to pass extra options to qemu
+
- the daemon now has a growable strings buffer type (DECLARE_STRINGSBUF)
- the <guestfs.h> header file works with C++ and we have a regression
@@ -166,10 +195,13 @@ Internals
- gettext support now covers virt-resize, virt-sparsify and virt-sysprep
-Bugs fixed
+ - better support for the arm architecture
- [./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.16.0..]
+Bugs fixed
+ - 822490 virt-ls error: "libguestfs: error: checksum: path: parameter cannot be NULL"
+ - 816839 data overflow error when debug progress -1
+ - 816098 virt-make-fs fails to make a btrfs filesystem because it doesn't allocate enough space
- 811872 inspection fails on ubuntu 10.04 guest with encrypted swap
- 811650 guestfs_last_error not set when qemu fails early during launch
- 811649 libguestfs cannot open disk images which are symlinks to files that contain ':' (colon) character
@@ -180,20 +212,28 @@ Bugs fixed
- 805070 virt-filesystems should show 'parents' of LV and RAID devices
- 804464 libguestfs cannot be built when LINGUAS is different then ja or uk
- 803664 libguestfs inspection fails on Windows XP: libguestfs: error: hivex: could not locate HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
+ - 803533 guestfish: write error
+ - 802389 event handlers for 'close' event doesn't work in remote mode
- 802109 libguestfs uses putc on stderr, results in many individual 1 byte writes of debug messages
+ - 801640 [RFE] the error reported by resize2fs-M need to be more clear
+ - 801298 Possible null dereference and resource leaks
- 801273 Document for set-pgroup need to be updated
- 798196 virt-resize confuses format and output_format variables; using --output-format sets the input format
- 797986 virt-resize on Windows XP in sysprep state causes "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" BSOD
- 796520 [RFE] Prevent user from running some appliance configure commands after appliance boot up
- 790721 multiprovider build error: RuntimeError: link: /tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel /tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.10139: File exists
- 789960 guestfsd crash when try to mount non-exist disk
+ - 789504 virt-df (other tools?) should not give up if a guest disk is missing
- 788641 virt-edit doesn't preserve file permissions
- 786215 libguestfs inspection does not recognize FreeDOS operating system
- 786188 libguestfs inspection does not recognize FreeDOS install CD
- 785668 aug-defnode: daemon crash
- 784647 Libguestfs uses deprecated net-tools
- 769304 virt-resize on RHEL 6 kernel fails to re-read the partition table
+ - 755729 Error message for resize2fs-M needs tweaking
+ - 701814 virt-win-reg fails on a libvirt guest that has no defined disk format: "format parameter is empty or contains disallowed characters"
- 679737 libguestfs: improve error message when zerofree is not available in the appliance
+ - 635971 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
Release notes for libguestfs 1.16.0