[Libguestfs] [ANNOUNCE] libguestfs 1.8.0 - tools for accessing and modifying VM disk images

Sun Dec 19 19:15:59 UTC 2010

The ArchLinux packages are available on the AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44372

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs,
> tools and a library for accessing, creating and modifying the contents
> of virtual machines and disk images.
>
> Home page: http://libguestfs.org/
>
> Binary packages for:
>   Fedora: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391
>   Debian: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/debian-packages/
>   Ubuntu: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/ubuntu-packages/
>   RHEL 6: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/rhel6.1-libguestfs-preview/(soon)
>
> Here are the release notes (also at
> http://libguestfs.org/RELEASE-NOTES.txt )
>
> Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
> ----------------------------------
>
> These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
> stable/dev branch split (1.6.0).  For detailed changelogs, please see
> 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
>     . virt-df
>     . virt-inspector
>     . virt-ls
>     . virt-rescue
>
>  - Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically.  This is
>   supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-inspector,
>   virt-ls.
>
>  - New tool virt-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for
>   virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions, and has a superset
>   of the functionality of those tools.
>
>  - guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option
>   parsing, so they support many common options such as '-a disk.img',
>   '-d libvirt-domain', '-x', '-v'.  The old command line option
>   parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc.
>
>  - guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl
>
>  - New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs-examples(3)
> (C/C++),
>   guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-ruby(3).
>
>  - Trace mode prints return values from API functions.
>
>  - virt-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along
>   with a great deal of information about those applications.
>
>  - Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD.
>
>  - guestfish --rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially
>   dangerous write access explicit.
>
>  - guestfish --listen --csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks
>   Eric Blake).
>
>  - The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now
>   documented in guestfs(3).
>
>  - guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
>   daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
>
>  - 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.
>
>  - getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
>
>  - ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
>
> Security
>
>  - New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation.
>
>  - virt-inspector no longer runs any guest commands.
>
>  - Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
>   from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
>
>  - FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
>
> New APIs
>
>  - add-domain
>  - add-drive-opts
>  - getxattr
>  - inspect-get-hostname
>  - inspect-get-package-format
>  - inspect-get-package-management
>  - inspect-get-roots
>  - inspect-list-applications
>  - lgetxattr
>  - mkfs-opts
>
> Internals
>
>  - C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use.
>
>  - PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely
>   optional for building.
>
>  - Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed.
>
>  - Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files
>   across all programs.
>
>  - Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
>   Windows guests.
>
>  - Ruby bindings have 'make install' rule.
>
>  - <guestfs.h> is now a single file.
>
>  - <guestfs.h> does not require XDR headers.
>
>  - ocaml xml-light library is no longer required to build (thanks
>   Maxim Koltsov).
>
>  - ./configure --disable-[...] for each language binding (thanks
>   Maxim Koltsov).
>
>  - Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
>
>  - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
>   more quickly.
>
>  - Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
>   file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
>
> Bugs fixed
>
>  - 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
>  - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such
> file or directory"
>  - 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
>  - 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
>  - 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
>  - 652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from
> the binary distribution
>
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many
> powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
> http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
>
> _______________________________________________
> Libguestfs mailing list
> Libguestfs at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/attachments/20101219/47f113b7/attachment.htm>