[Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.44 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

This is only a small release because I wanted to get something out
before the big refactoring I'm doing this week.  The release notes are
below.

Rich.

RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.44
   Language bindings
       Python 2 support has been dropped.  The minimum version of Python
       required is 3.6.

       Python bindings no longer use deprecated "PyEval_ThreadsInitialized".

       Python bindings now include type hints (Sam Eiderman).

       Erlang bindings now use libei instead of liberl_interface (Sergei
       Golovan).

   Tools
       virt-get-kernel(1) can now find uncompressed kernels (Pino Toscano).

       virt-sysprep(1) now regenerates the guest certificate store when a
       certificate is removed from the guest (Pino Toscano).

       virt-sysprep(1) can now remove IPA enrollment files and Kerberos
       keytabs (Pino Toscano, Christian Heimes and François Cami).

   API
       New APIs

       "cryptsetup-open" and "cryptsetup-close" replace "luks-open", luks-
       open-ro and luks-close.  The new APIs add support for BitLocker
       encryption.

       Other API changes

       "lvm-canonical-lv" no longer produces a noisy error message when called
       with a non-LV parameter.

   Build changes
       C programs using libguestfs can now be compiled against the build
       directory:

        ../libguestfs/run ./configure
        ../libguestfs/run make

       OCaml components are now linked correctly when building in a different
       directory from the source (Geoff Toole).

       GCC LTO is now supported.

       Weblate is now used for localization instead of Zanata (Pino Toscano).

       The dependencies for guestfsd are no longer hard-coded but are now
       generated from the built binary, ensuring that they shouldn't get out
       of synch in future (Hilko Bengen).

   Internals
       lib/guestfs.h was moved to include/guestfs.h in the source.  This is
       not an externally visible change but affected a lot of places inside
       the build system.

   Bugs fixed
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1811539
           The virt-diff command doesn't work on windows 2019 image

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1384241
           The tar-in command does not allow restoring file capabilities

SEE ALSO
       guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1),
       guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1),
       http://libguestfs.org/

AUTHORS
       ·   Andrey Shinkevich

       ·   Dmitry Tantsur

       ·   Geoff Toole

       ·   Hilko Bengen

       ·   Pino Toscano

       ·   Richard W.M. Jones

       ·   Sam Eiderman

       ·   Sergei Golovan

       ·   Thierry Vignaud

       ·   Yuri Chornoivan

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

BUGS
       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       When reporting a bug, please supply:

       ·   The version of libguestfs.

       ·   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
           source, etc)

       ·   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       ·   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
           into the bug report.

libguestfs-1.44.0                 2021-01-05     guestfs-release-notes-1.44(1)


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