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author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-09-04 11:55:13 +0100 |
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committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-09-04 11:55:35 +0100 |
commit | 381c067d5463b669f82d0601975f5a3f0e6faaba (patch) | |
tree | 83d9a1167443153b6dc543f29868a43184ba2235 /guestfs-release-notes.txt | |
parent | 9e4ac650e4c4d934a91a88d7e4aaf5495845a71b (diff) | |
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Update release notes (text file).
This updates commit 9e4ac650e4c4d934a91a88d7e4aaf5495845a71b.
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diff --git a/guestfs-release-notes.txt b/guestfs-release-notes.txt index ed9de419..5c0c154d 100644 --- a/guestfs-release-notes.txt +++ b/guestfs-release-notes.txt @@ -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 |