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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index cae2792f..836225b6 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0 ----------------------------------- -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 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball. @@ -20,44 +18,53 @@ New features virt-sysprep is a new tool to make cloning guests from a template simpler. - inspection: + guestfish: - - Improve detection of Windows disks. + - New commands setenv, unsetenv, to set environment variables. - - 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) + - The input file and line number is printed in error messages. - - Handle some guest types that use /dev/root in /etc/fstab. + - guestfish progress bars are now a "mini-library" used by other + tools too. - - Fix handling of guests with > 26 disks (thanks Matthew Booth) + guestmount: - - Add support for guests with HP Smart Array disks (thanks Matthew Booth) + - the --live option (for access to live VMs) now works. - guestfish: + virt-cat: - - New commands setenv, unsetenv, to set environment variables. + - virt-cat can now handle Windows paths and drive letters (RHBZ#693359). - - The input file and line number is printed in error messages. + virt-filesystems: - - guestfish progress bars are now a "mini-library" used by other - tools too. + - the MBR partition type byte is displayed in --long output. - febootstrap: + virt-make-fs: - - FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL, FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES environment variables can - be set in order to choose which kernel to use for the appliance. + - virt-make-fs now sets the MBR partition type byte correctly, + improving compatibility with Windows (RHBZ#746295). virt-resize: + - virt-resize can now work with guests using extended and logical + partitions, in particular Ubuntu guests. + + - virt-resize can now align the first partition of Windows guests, + improving performance. The new virt-resize --align-first option + controls this behaviour. + - 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. + default. This improves efficiency on high-end storage. The new + virt-resize --alignment option allows the alignment to be + adjusted. + + virt-win-reg: + + - The syntax for deleting registry keys and values is documented + in the man page (RHBZ#737944). library: @@ -68,17 +75,51 @@ New features - the library contains systemtap/DTrace probes. + - the library can now be compiled without hivex (RHBZ#723474). + + inspection: + + - Improve detection of Windows disks. + + - 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) + + febootstrap: + + - FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL, FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES environment variables can + be set in order to choose which kernel to use for the appliance. + misc: - ArchLinux support now working with Linux 3.0 (thanks Erik Nolte) + - libvirt disks marked <readonly/> are now added readonly when + using the virt-tools '-d' option. + Security + (no security problems were found or fixed in this release) + New APIs + compress-out, compress-device-out, copy-device-to-device, + copy-device-to-file, copy-file-to-device, copy-file-to-file, + get-smp, part-to-partnum, set-smp. + The mount API no longer implicitly adds -o sync,noatime options. - compress-out, compress-device-out, set-smp, get-smp + add-domain has a new 'readonlydisk' optional parameter to control + how <readonly/> disks are handled. Internals @@ -106,17 +147,25 @@ Internals Bugs fixed - ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.12.0.. - + - 748266 libguestfs should detect versions of qemu which require -machine pc option + - 747290 libguestfs ignores <readonly/> in libvirt XML + - 747287 Misleading error message when permission denied opening a disk image + - 746295 virt-make-fs doesn't set partition ID + - 744795 guestmount --live is not usable + - 737944 virt-win-reg hyphen (delete key) syntax may be wrong, and is not documented - 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 + - 723474 If hivex and/or pcre not installed, libguestfs fails to compile + - 693359 virt-cat and virt-edit don't handle case sensitive NTFS paths properly - 678231 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID - 671082 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt - 666578 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2 + - 642821 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition + Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0 |