[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-0.10.2

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Sep 24 07:48:07 UTC 2012


  Since there was no negative feedback since rc2, I have rolled the
release a bit earlier this morning, it is tagged in git and available
as usual at:
   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/

 Quite a bit of new APIs and some other features, this also includes
a fairly large amount of bug fixes and improvements (250+ commits in
4 weeks so quite an active month !):

Features:
- network: define new API virNetworkUpdate (Laine Stump)
- add support for QEmu sandbox support (Ján Tomko)
- blockjob: add virDomainBlockCommit (Eric Blake)
- node_memory: Define the APIs to get/set memory parameters (Osier Yang)
- list: Define new API virConnectListAllSecrets (Osier Yang)
- list: Define new API virConnectListAllNWFilters (Osier Yang)
- list: Define new API virConnectListAllNodeDevices (Osier Yang)
- parallels: add support of containers to the driver (Dmitry Guryanov)
- list: Define new API virConnectListAllInterfaces (Osier Yang)
- list: Define new API virConnectListAllNetworks (Osier Yang)
- list: Define new API virStoragePoolListAllVolumes (Osier Yang)
- Add PMSUSPENDED life cycle event (Jiri Denemark)
- list: Define new API virStorageListAllStoragePools (Osier Yang)
- Add per-guest S3/S4 state configuration (Martin Kletzander)
- qemu: Support for Block Device IO Limits (Viktor Mihajlovski)

Documentation:
- locking: Remove README file in favor of internals/locking.html (Jiri Denemark)
- fix typo in filesystem docs (Eric Blake)
- include article about libvirt+audit in relatedlinks.html (Marcelo Cerri)
- virsh: Clarify behavior of domain list filtering. (Peter Krempa)
- update usb redirection filter infomation on formatdomain.html (Guannan Ren)
- mention another iaas app built on libvirt (Eric Blake)
- page.xsl: fix FAQ link in subdirectories (Ján Tomko)
- hacking.html.in: fix table of contents (Ján Tomko)
- point out git send-email location, be more stern about make check (Laine Stump)
- examples: Fix event detail printing in python test (Jiri Denemark)
- virsh: Improve the document for pool-list (Osier Yang)
- conf: describe security_driver behavior (Martin Kletzander)
- correct dompmwakeup description (Martin Kletzander)

Portability:
- build: fix nodeinfo build on non-Linux platforms (Eric Blake)
- virBitmap: fix build without HAVE_NUMACTL (Ján Tomko)
- build: Fix build failure on non-linux platform (Osier Yang)
- build: fix missing include (Dwight Engen)
- Look in Debian's multiarch libs too (Guido Günther)
- build: don't fail if libnl-3 is not found (Eric Blake)
- build: Fix typo which causes build failure (Osier Yang)
- build: force libnl1 if netcf also used libnl1 (Eric Blake)
- build: fix build on older gcc (Eric Blake)
- Fix location of SELinux mount during RPM builds (Daniel P. Berrange)
- nwfilter: drop use of awk (Eric Blake)
- build: improved handling of <execinfo.h>, BSD <net/if.h> (Eric Blake)
- Define DYNLIB_NAME on OpenBSD. (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
- build: avoid test failure when sasl was not compiled in (Eric Blake)
- build: avoid check-symfile on non-Linux (Eric Blake)
- build: require netcf-0.2.2 when installing on Fedora18+ (Laine Stump)
- build: don't fail when xsltproc is missing (Eric Blake)
- build: avoid warnings from gcc 4.2.1 (Eric Blake)
- Remove explicit dependency on ceph RPM (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Pass a correct pointer type to localtime_r(3). (Paul Eggert)
- build: use correct libraries for clock_gettime (Eric Blake)
- Include an extra header needed for OpenBSD. (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
- Fix mingw64 build by using intptr_t for int->void* casts (Daniel P. Berrange)

Bug Fixes:
- network: don't "refresh" iptables rules on rule-less networks (Laine Stump)
- qemu: Fix failure path in disk hotplug (Jiri Denemark)
- Ensure existing selinux mount is removed before mounting new one in LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix crash accessing a NULL URI when looking up auth credentials (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Ensure autogen.sh exists if bootstrap fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
- security: Don't ignore errors when parsing DAC security labels (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Transition domain to PAUSED after 'stop' command (Michal Privoznik)
- network: fix element size / length in memmove (Laine Stump)
- network: fix incorrect VIR_NETWORK_UPDATE_COMMAND_* values (Laine Stump)
- virsh: Fix resource leaks when editing files. (Peter Krempa)
- util: don't print free'd dmidecode path (Eric Blake)
- rpc: Fix name of member in remote_protocol-structs (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Avoid deadlock on HandleAgentEOF (Michal Privoznik)
- conf: avoid freeing network object with undestroyed mutex (Laine Stump)
- Add missing 'goto error' in QEMU command line building (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix initialization of virCommandPtr when creating QEMU argv (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix 3 broken test cases which were mistakenly raising errors (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: fix uninitialized variable in qemuParseCommandLine (Ján Tomko)
- security: Fix libvirtd crash possibility (Martin Kletzander)
- snapshot: fix rollback failure in transaction mode (Guannan Ren)
- conf: avoid libvirt crash with empty address guestfwd channel (Alex Jia)
- Wait to receive QMP greeting before sending any monitor commands (Daniel P. Berrange)
- parallels: fix parallelsDomainDefineXML for domains with VNC and autoport (Dmitry Guryanov)
- parallels: fix parallelsDoCmdRun in case of command failure (Dmitry Guryanov)
- Backcompt for console devices in virDomainDeviceInfoIterate (Li Zhang)
- fix bug in qemuSetupCgroupForEmulator (Hu Tao)
- python: Initialize new_params in virDomainSetSchedulerParameters (Federico Simoncelli)
- Don't invoke the auth callback if all credentials were in config file (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Call virResetLastError in all virConnectOpen* functions (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Check against python None type when filling in auth parameters (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix crash passing an empty list to python openAuth() API (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix unwanted closing of libvirt client connection (Christophe Fergeau)
- Fix RPM spec conditional when %{rhel} is not defined (Daniel P. Berrange)
- events: Fix domain event race on client disconnect (Christophe Fergeau)
- Don't assume use of /sys/fs/cgroup (Daniel P. Berrange)
- remove dnsmasq command line parameter "--filterwin2k" (Gene Czarcinski)
- network: prevent infinite hang if ovs-vswitchd isn't running (Laine Stump)
- qemu: don't pin all the cpus (Martin Kletzander)
- build: use re-entrant functions in virsh (Eric Blake)
- qemu: Do not require auth scheme in graphics events (Jiri Denemark)
- qemu: Fix reboot with guest agent (Jiri Denemark)
- qemu: Don't update graphic definitions on password change failure (Peter Krempa)
- python: don't mask libvirt errors (Eric Blake)
- command: shell-quote when logging commands (Eric Blake)
- qemu: fix remote port searching (Martin Kletzander)
- schemas: Fix wwn pattern (Osier Yang)

Improvements:
- Don't install legacy initscripts at same time as systemd ones (Daniel P. Berrange)
- network: log error for unknown virNetworkUpdate command codes (Laine Stump)
- network: make virNetworkObjUpdate error detection/recovery better (Laine Stump)
- Drop unused return value of virLogOutputFunc (Miloslav Trmač)
- Add <seclabel> to character devices. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- Make virSecurityDeviceLabelDefParseXML into generic device <seclabel> parser. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- Improve some debugging log messages in LXC mount setup (Daniel P. Berrange)
- network: backend for virNetworkUpdate of portgroups (Laine Stump)
- network: backend for virNetworkUpdate of dhcp range (Laine Stump)
- virsh: new net-update command (Laine Stump)
- tests: Add tests for dump-core option (Martin Kletzander)
- qemu: add support for dump-guest-core option (Martin Kletzander)
- Add support for limiting guest coredump (Martin Kletzander)
- QEMU Tests for reboot-timeout (Martin Kletzander)
- qemu: Add support for reboot-timeout (Martin Kletzander)
- Add support for reboot-timeout (Martin Kletzander)
- simplify xenXMDomainPinVcpu function (liguang)
- Cleanup of domain_conf sentinels (Martin Kletzander)
- qemu: Cleanup boot parameter building (Martin Kletzander)
- virsh: Move daemon to misc since its not a network (Doug Goldstein)
- build: define WITH_INTERFACE for the driver (Doug Goldstein)
- virsh: Rename QEmu to QEMU to match upstream (Doug Goldstein)
- bitmap: fix problems in previous commit (Eric Blake)
- build: avoid non-portable byte-swapping (Eric Blake)
- Fix minor details not only in apic eoi (Martin Kletzander)
- secret: Fix error for private secrets (Martin Kletzander)
- virNetDevBandwidthClear: Improve error handling (Martin Kletzander)
- syntax-check: fix run.in (Martin Kletzander)
- Add a ./run script for running programs from the local directory. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- daemon: Fix error message when libvirtd is missing. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- gitignore: Ignore .gdb_history file. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- Fix the augea test for qemu libvirtd options (Daniel Veillard)
- network: implement backend of virNetworkUpdate(IP_DHCP_HOST) (Laine Stump)
- network: restart radvd/dnsmasq if needed when libvirtd is restarted (Laine Stump)
- network: implement virNetworkUpdate for test_driver (Laine Stump)
- network: implement virNetworkUpdate for bridge_driver (Laine Stump)
- network: reorganize dnsmasq and radvd config file / startup (Laine Stump)
- conf: implement NetworkObj backend of virNetworkUpdate API (Laine Stump)
- network: utility functions for updating network config (Laine Stump)
- network: implement RPC calls for virNetworkUpdate (Laine Stump)
- tests: add qemu-1.2.0 help data (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: add -sandbox to command line if requested (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: conf: add seccomp_sandbox option (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: add capability flag for seccomp sandbox (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: Use disk wwn in qemu command line (Osier Yang)
- qemu: Add caps to indentify if setting wwn is supported by qemu (Osier Yang)
- conf: Parse and format disk <wwn> (Osier Yang)
- schema: Add schema for disk <wwn> (Osier Yang)
- blockjob: add blockcommit support to rpc (Eric Blake)
- blockjob: add virsh blockcommit (Eric Blake)
- conf: separate functions to parse DHCPHostDef and DHCPRangeDef (Laine Stump)
- remove virDomainCpuSetFormat and virDomainCpuSetParse (Hu Tao)
- xen: eliminate remaining uses of virDomainCpuSetParse (Laine Stump)
- use virBitmap to store nodeinfo. (Hu Tao)
- use virBitmap to store cells' cpumask info. (Hu Tao)
- use virBitmap to store cpumask info. (Hu Tao)
- use virBitmap to store numa nodemask info. (Hu Tao)
- use virBitmap to store cpu affinity info (Hu Tao)
- use virBitmap to store cpupin info (Hu Tao)
- New functions for virBitmap (Hu Tao)
- bitmap: new member variable and function renaming (Hu Tao)
- Build: Fix typos which cause build failure (Osier Yang)
- node_memory: Expose the APIs to Python bindings (Osier Yang)
- node_memory: Expose the APIs to virsh (Osier Yang)
- node_memory: Support get/set memory parameters for drivers (Osier Yang)
- node_memory: Implement the internal APIs (Osier Yang)
- node_memory: Wire up the RPC protocol (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllSecrets in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Expose virConnectListAllSecrets to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllSecrets (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement RPC calls for virConnectListAllSecrets (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllNWFilters in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Expose virConnectListAllNWFilters to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllNWFilters (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement RPC calls for virConnectListAllNWFilters (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllNodeDevices in virsh (Osier Yang)
- virsh: Don't motify the const string (Osier Yang)
- list: Expose virConnectListAllNodeDevices to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllNodeDevices (Osier Yang)
- list: Add helpers for listing node devices (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement RPC calls for virConnectListAllNodeDevices (Osier Yang)
- Introduce a API for creating QEMU capabilities for a binary (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove upfront check for hmp - just try it cope with failure (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Don't overwrite errors raised by qemuMonitorHMPCommand (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: Add support for EOI with APIC (Martin Kletzander)
- Add support for EOI with APIC (Martin Kletzander)
- Improve virTypedParameterValidateSet (Osier Yang)
- parallels: implement containers creation (Dmitry Guryanov)
- parallels: fix parallelsDomainDefineXML for existing containers (Dmitry Guryanov)
- parallels: handle unlimited cpus on containers (Dmitry Guryanov)
- Fix data types used for list sizes in QEMU capabilities (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add API for copying instances of the qemuCapsPtr object (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add ability to store other metadata in the qemu capabilities object (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Make qemuCapsProbeCommand static (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Turn QEMU capabilities object into a full virObjectPtr (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Allow caps to be NULL when creating virDomainObjPtr instances (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add a virBitmapCopy API (Daniel P. Berrange)
- test: add xml2argvtest for usb-redir filter and update xml schema (Guannan Ren)
- qemu: build USB redirection filter qemu command line (Guannan Ren)
- qemu: define and parse USB redirection filter XML (Guannan Ren)
- virsh: Fix version numbers in comments (Osier Yang)
- qemu: add usb-redir.filter qemu capability flag (Guannan Ren)
- maint: fix missing spaces in message (Eric Blake)
- build: avoid confusing make with raw name 'undefine' (Eric Blake)
- Add API for opening a QEMU monitor from a socket FD (Daniel P. Berrange)
- list: Expose virConnectListAllInterfaces to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllInterfaces in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllInterfaces (Osier Yang)
- list: Implemente RPC calls for virConnectListAllInterfaces (Osier Yang)
- build: avoid dirty docs on fresh bootstrap (Eric Blake)
- Print any exception that occurs in authentication callback (Daniel P. Berrange)
- virsh: Fix the typos (Osier Yang)
- list: Expose virConnectListAllNetworks to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllNetworks in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllNetworks for test driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllNetworks for network driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Add helpers to list network objects (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement RPC calls for virConnectListAllNetworks (Osier Yang)
- list: Expose virStoragePoolListAllVolumes to Python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virStoragePoolListAllVolumes in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement virStoragePoolListAllVolumes for test driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement virStoragePoolListAllVolumes for storage driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement RPC calls for virStoragePoolListAllVolumes (Osier Yang)
- Introduce a test suite for the JSON monitor (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add helper library for testing the qemu monitor code (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add non-null annotations to qemuMonitorOpen (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix PMSuspend and PMWakeup events (Jiri Denemark)
- virsh: Update only changed scheduler tunables (Peter Krempa)
- util: Add helper to assign typed params from string (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Add range checking for scheduler tunables when changed by API (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: clean up qemuSetSchedulerParametersFlags() (Peter Krempa)
- list: fix typo in virsh patch (Eric Blake)
- Remove duplicate symbols and add test case (Daniel P. Berrange)
- python: Expose virStorageListAllStoragePools to python binding (Osier Yang)
- list: Use virConnectListAllStoragePools in virsh (Osier Yang)
- list: Change MATCH for common use in virsh (Osier Yang)
- virsh: Fix the wrong doc for pool-list (Osier Yang)
- list: Add helper to convert strings separated by ', ' to array (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllStoragePools for test driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement listAllStoragePools for storage driver (Osier Yang)
- list: Implement the RPC calls for virConnectListAllStoragePools (Osier Yang)
- list: Add helpers for listing storage pool objects (Osier Yang)
- esx: Add implementation for virConnectListAllDomains() (Peter Krempa)
- hyperv: Add implementation for virConnectListAllDomains() (Peter Krempa)
- maint: avoid doubled name in syntax check failures (Eric Blake)
- Rename iolimit to blockio. (Viktor Mihajlovski)
- tests: Add tests for qemu S3/S4 state configuration (Martin Kletzander)
- qemu: Add support for S3/S4 state configuration (Martin Kletzander)
- conf: Support for Block Device IO Limits (Viktor Mihajlovski)
- virsh: Improve checking for connection when running commands (Peter Krempa)
- util: Update the inconsistent and outdated comments (Osier Yang)

Cleanups:
- Remove redundant lines in src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (Tang Chen)
- Remove a redundant line in src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (Tang Chen)
- maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies (Eric Blake)
- build: avoid unused symbol (Eric Blake)
- Adhere to copyright_address check (Guido Günther)
- qemuhelptest: convert runaway tab to spaces (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: drop unused arguments for dump-guest-memory (Eric Blake)
- Build: Fix typos which cause build failure (Osier Yang)
- esx: Remove unused variable from esxDomainGetAutostart (Matthias Bolte)
- build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check (Eric Blake)
- virsh: remove unneeded usage of vshConnectionUsability() (Peter Krempa)

  Thanks everybody for the help on this release, with bug reports,
ideas and patches ! I would expect the next release to happen at the end
of October, i.e. keep the monthly release schedule,

Daniel

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