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Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
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-Updated to commit 0b2a3bd8404a72a3b7e99e330143c26bf42d458a (1.7.16).
+Updated to commit 573e01e0871324c038bac2fd391c86c8b7fb0247 (1.7.23)
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
New features
+ - Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
+
+ - Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
+ of regressions.
+
+ - Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
+
- The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
. virt-cat
@@ -54,7 +61,13 @@ New features
- guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
- - Some functions now support optional parameters.
+ - Functions can now have optional parameters.
+
+ - Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
+ commands.
+
+ - Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
+ around in /tmp.
Security
@@ -74,6 +87,7 @@ New APIs
- inspect-get-package-management
- inspect-get-roots
- inspect-list-applications
+ - mkfs-opts
Internals
@@ -104,6 +118,9 @@ Internals
- Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
+ - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
+ more quickly.
+
Bugs fixed
- 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail