[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: Release of libvirt-sandbox version 0.1.0

[Daniel P. Berrange]

I pleased to announce the a new public release of libvirt-sandbox,
version 0.1.0, is now available for download

  ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/sandbox/

The packages are GPG signed with

  Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E  8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)

The libvirt-sandbox package provides an API layer on top of libvirt-gobject
which facilitates the cration of application sandboxes using virtualization
technology. An application sandbox is a virtual machine or container that
runs a single application binary, directly from the host OS filesystem.
In other words there is no separate guest operating system install to build
or manager.

At this point in time libvirt-sandbox can create sandboxes using either LXC
or KVM, and should in theory be extendable to any libvirt driver. The first
release is able to run simple command line based programs. This release has
focused on improving the virt-sandbox-service tool, to facilitate creation
and management of system services within sandboxes. For example, to allow
a single host to easily run 100's of isolated apache instances.

Changed in this release:

 - ABI+API incompatible with previous library, so new soname
 - Some changes to CLI args for virt-sandbox command
 - Many fixes to virt-sandbox-service
 - Use /run/libvirt-sandbox instead of /root/.cache/libvirt
   when run as root
 - Fix typo setting RUNDIR
 - Re-add /kernel suffix to kmod search dir
 - Add APIs to select kernel version
 - Fix SEGV when attaching consoles to NULL stdin
 - Add logrotate script for virt-sandbox-service
 - Turn GVirSandboxConsole into an abstract class
 - Configurable keysequence for breaking out of console
   (defaults to Ctrl+])
 - Fix handling of strace debugging
 - Add APIs to select kmod directory prefix
 - Require glib >= 2.32
 - Refactor APIs for configuring sandbox mounts
 - Maintain a single sorted list of mounts
 - Add support for RAM filesystems
 - Setup tmpfs for /run and /tmp in sandbox services
 - Remove need to provide executable for sandbox services,
   just rely on systemd unit filename
 - Enable admin customization of systemd services in sandbox
   services
 - Rewrite part of virt-sandbox-service in C to reduce
   long term memory overhead
 - Create custom systemd startup sequence


Thanks to everyone who has contributed towards this release.

Regards,
Daniel
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