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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-09-04 11:55:13 +0100
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ NAME
RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
- NOTES UPDATED TO COMMIT 56287d16ebde3d892ed4886724573015e39f79fa
+ NOTES UPDATED TO COMMIT d03361b1afee09135b0cbd92a2cc180c66c5f84e
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.18.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
* new --firstboot parameter allowing firstboot scripts for
customizing guests
+ * remove HOSTNAME field from ifcfg-eth* files (Wanlong Gao)
+
virt-make-fs can now create virtual floppy disks (VFDs).
guestmount has a --pid-file option.
@@ -85,6 +87,12 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
The automated 'bindtests' now test for 64 bit cleanliness in parameter
passing. Several bugs in the bindings were found and fixed as a result.
+ inspection
+
+ Windows guests with unlimited-sized Registries are now supported. By
+ adding the hivex API to the libguestfs API, it is much more efficient
+ and easier to inspect and modify the Windows Registry in guests.
+
ports
Libguestfs without the appliance can be compiled on Mac OS X (Masami
@@ -119,11 +127,16 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
canonical-device-name
device-index
+ disk-has-backing-file
+ disk-format
+ disk-virtual-size
filesystem-available
fill-dir
fstrim
+ hivex-*
ls0
max-disks
+ mkswap [added label and uuid optional arguments]
nr-devices
rsync
rsync-in
@@ -136,6 +149,7 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
xfs-admin (thanks Wanlong Gao)
xfs-growfs (thanks Wanlong Gao)
xfs-info (thanks Wanlong Gao)
+ xfs-repair (thanks Wanlong Gao)
Internals
@@ -151,15 +165,17 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
binary backwards compatibility is preserved for users of the API. APIs
which were changed are:
- * grep and related *grep* functions
+ * grep (deprecating other *grep* functions)
* add_drive / add_drive_opts
* mkfs / mkfs_opts
+ * mkswap (deprecating mkswap_L and mkswap_U)
+
* ntfsresize / ntfsresize_opts
- * tar_in and tar_out
+ * tar_in and tar_out (deprecating tgz_in etc.)
* umount
@@ -182,13 +198,25 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
Ruby 1.8.5 is now supported (though not recommended).
+ Perl bindings can be disabled via ./configure --disable-perl (Wulf C.
+ Krueger).
+
+ Java bindings are now enabled/disabled using ./configure --with-java or
+ ./configure --without-java (Wulf C. Krueger).
+
+ Multiple fixes to use of 64 bit integers in language bindings.
+
The appliance backend now uses sgabios instead of vgabios (Dan
Berrange).
The ./run script now sets enough environment variables that you can run
OCaml, Python, Ruby, Java, GJS programs.
- run --test flag for running tests with minimal output.
+ run --test flag for running tests with minimal output. It also prints
+ the time taken to run each test.
+
+ You can extract a list of external commands required by the daemon,
+ making building the appliance on certain distros easier (Olaf Hering).
Bugs fixed