[Libguestfs] [nbdkit] Plan for nbdkit 1.4?

[Eric Blake]

On 07/01/2018 11:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that we release nbdkit 1.4 (next stable branch) soon.
> 
> The last stable branch was effectively released in January this year
> (although I didn't actually implement the stable/development branch
> policy until April).
> 
> There has been a lot of development since then:
> 
>   - Switch to defaulting to newstyle protocol.
>   - On-demand ramping of thread pool.
>   - TRIM support in the file plugin.
>   - nbdkit_parse_size rewritten.
>   - Test IPv6 connections.
>   - Reworked error handling.
>   - New log filter.
>   - New blocksize filter.
>   - New nozero filter.
>   - New fua filter.
>   - New can_zero, can_fua methods and better handling of FUA.

I proposed python plugin implementations of these, but never got around 
to testing that they worked in both python 2/3, and never extended my 
proposal to cover other languages like perl, so the python patches 
remain uncommitted.  That should not be the basis for avoiding a stable 
release, though.

>   - New nbdkit_realpath function.
>   - Better handling of shutdown.
>   - New ext2 plugin.
>   - Bash tab completion.
>   - New zero plugin.
>   - New random plugin.
>   - New PKG_CHECK_VAR variables.
>   - TLS-PSK authentication.
>   - New Tcl plugin (posted for review).
>   - Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements.
> 
> I'm also going to propose that we try to get 1.4 into RHEL 8, which
> means we will need to do this branching fairly quickly, in the next
> few weeks.
> 
> Let me know what you think.

I'm out the next couple of weeks, which means I won't be able to help 
with any final patches/branching/backporting until after July 20, but 
again, don't let my schedule be the driving factor.


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