[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-1.2.13

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Mar 2 05:27:08 UTC 2015


  As planned I just made the release for libvirt-1.2.13, it's tagged in
git, and signed tarballs and rpms are available at the usual place:

   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/

I also pushed a 1.2.13 for libvirt-python but it's really for
completeness as it's virtuallyequivalent to 1.2.12.

 February is short, that release packs 'only' 220 commits, mostly
bug fixes and a fair set of improvment, with the NUMA handling area
getting a fairly large update:

Features:
- a lot of NUMA updates and improvments (Peter Krempa)

Documentation:
- Add mist.io as libvirt-based application (Michal Privoznik)
- Fix typos in messages (Yuri Chornoivan)
- Clarify behavior or virDomainDetachDevice (Ján Tomko)
- virsh: Add missing parenthesis into man page (Martin Kletzander)
- man: moved virsh command cpu-models (Daniel Hansel)
- clarify nat range behavior (Ján Tomko)
- add page about virtlockd setup (Daniel P. Berrange)
- split out sanlock setup docs (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix version reference in vcpu/iothread scheduling (Martin Kletzander)
- S390: Documentation for ccw address type (Stefan Zimmermann)
- conf: fix a minor typo (Erik Skultety)
- virsh: man: Document behavior of some blkdeviotune's flags when querying (Peter Krempa)

Portability:
- virprocess: fix MinGW build and RHEL-5 build (Pavel Hrdina)
- virutil: fix MinGW build (Pavel Hrdina)
- Make tests independant of system page size (Daniel P. Berrange)

Bug Fixes:
- Really fix XML formatting flags in SaveImageUpdateDef (Ján Tomko)
- Ignore listen attribute of <graphics> for type network listens (Ján Tomko)
- util: storage: Fix error type in virStorageSourceParseBackingURI (Peter Krempa)
- util: storagefile: Don't crash on gluster URIs without path (Peter Krempa)
- conf: error out on invalid host id (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: fix ifindex array reported to systemd (Laine Stump)
- util: check for null ifname inside virNetDevBandwidthSet() (Laine Stump)
- network: only clear bandwidth if it has been set (Laine Stump)
- Fix error messages in virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD (Ján Tomko)
- Assign default SCSI controller model before checking attribute validity (Ján Tomko)
- qemu: Use correct flags for ABI stability check in SaveImageUpdateDef (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: fix memory leak while starting a guest (Pavel Hrdina)
- network_conf: Forbid commas in DNS TXT (Michal Privoznik)
- qemuMigrationDriveMirror: Listen to events (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Exit job on error path of qemuDomainSetVcpusFlags() (Peter Krempa)
- daemon: Fix segfault by reloading daemon right after start (Pavel Hrdina)
- qemu_cgroup: initialize mem_mask to NULL (Pavel Hrdina)
- PowerPC : Forbid NULL CPU model with 'host-model' mode. (Prerna Saxena)
- qemu: fix vm deadlock when try to use numatune in session mode (Luyao Huang)
- virsh: fix IP address in vncdisplay for listen type='network' (Luyao Huang)
- libxl: Resolve Coverity CHECKED_RETURN (John Ferlan)
- security: Resolve Coverity RESOURCE_LEAK (John Ferlan)
- lxc: Fix container cleanup for LXCProcessStart (Luyao Huang)
- lxc: Move console checks in LXCProcessStart (Luyao Huang)
- security: Refactor virSecurityManagerGenLabel (Erik Skultety)
- security: introduce virSecurityManagerCheckAllLabel function (Erik Skultety)
- Fix a syntax error in the description text of libvirtd.conf (Zhang Bo)
- Allow shrinking of file based volumes (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: do upfront check for vcpupids being null when querying pinning (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: fix setting of VM CPU affinity with TCG (Daniel P. Berrange)
- libxl: disable VNC and SDL until explicitly enabled (Marek Marczykowski-Górecki)
- libxl: pass ipaddr to libxl toolstack (Marek Marczykowski-Górecki)
- domain: avoid potential memory leak in virDomainGraphicsListenSet*() (Laine Stump)
- domain: backfill listen address to parent <graphics> listen attribute (Laine Stump)
- virsh: fix IP address in domdisplay for listen type='network' (Luyao Huang)
- bhyvexml2argvmock: change int to size_t for tapfdSize (Pavel Hrdina)
- qemu: fix crash when migrateuri has no scheme (Luyao Huang)
- conf: Fix libvirtd crash and memory leak caused by virDomainVcpuPinDel() (Zhang Bo)
- conf: forbid seclabel duplicates for domain devices (Erik Skultety)
- Fix qemu job handling in SetSchedulerParameters (Ján Tomko)
- conf: disallow invalid values for video attributes (Martin Kletzander)
- Clear dynamic seclabels on LXCProcessStart failure (Cédric Bosdonnat)
- network: don't allow multiple portgroups with the same name in a network (Laine Stump)
- Error out when custom tap device path makes no sense (Ján Tomko)
- Only parse custom vhost path for virtio interfaces (Ján Tomko)
- Trivially support DomainHasManagedSaveImage (Ján Tomko)
- libxl: update dom->id in libxlDomainCreateWithFlags (Marek Marczykowski-Górecki)
- qemu: Properly report error on uuid mismatch in the migration cookie (Luyao Huang)
- lxc: fix double close handshakefds[1] (Luyao Huang)
- util: storage: Fix parsing of nbd:// URI without path (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Properly report error of unsupported input bus type (Luyao Huang)
- conf: Properly report error when an unsupported chr device name is passed (Luyao Huang)
- virnetdev: fix some issues found by coverity and mingw builds (Pavel Hrdina)
- storage: Need to clear pool prior to refreshPool during Autostart (John Ferlan)
- qemu: command: Don't combine old and modern NUMA node creation (Peter Krempa)
- xend: Don't crash in virDomainXMLDevID (Michal Privoznik)
- conf: Don't mangle vcpu placement randomly (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Don't unconditionally delete file in qemuOpenFileAs (John Ferlan)
- virfile: Need to check for ENOTCONN from recvfd failure (John Ferlan)
- Remove flag checking in MacVLanCreate helper stub (Ján Tomko)
- storage: Check the partition name against provided name (John Ferlan)
- storage: Fix check for partition type for disk backing volumes (John Ferlan)
- qemu: fix cannot set graphic passwd via qemuDomainSaveImageDefineXML (Luyao Huang)
- hotplug: only add a chardev to vmdef after monitor call (Ján Tomko)
- systemd: don't report an error if the guest is already terminated (Daniel P. Berrange)

Improvements:
- conf: error out on missing dhcp host attributes (Ján Tomko)
- schema: Allow interleaving the /domain/os/type element (Peter Krempa)
- schema: Add virtio-mmio address type into RNG (Martin Kletzander)
- cpu: Format <cpu/> properly (Michal Privoznik)
- virCPUDefFormatBufFull: Use our general error handling pattern (Michal Privoznik)
- util: Introduce virBufferAddBuffer (Michal Privoznik)
- Rework s390 architecture checking (Stefan Zimmermann)
- Prevent default creation of usb controller on s390 and s390x (Stefan Zimmermann)
- po: Add config file for zanata (Daniel P. Berrange)
- libvirt-guests: Allow time sync on guests resume (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Fix AAVMF/OVMF #define names (Cole Robinson)
- libxl: support backend domain setting for disk and net devices (Marek Marczykowski)
- conf: support backend domain name in disk and network devices (Marek Marczykowski)
- network: allow <pf> together with <interface>/<address> in network status (Laine Stump)
- qemu: caps: Add capability bit for the "pc-dimm" device (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Hoist validation of memory size into the post parse callback (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Check ABI stability of NUMA configuration (Peter Krempa)
- conf: ABI: Hugepage backing definition is not guest ABI (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Move all NUMA configuration to virDomainNuma (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Add setter/getter for NUMA node memory size (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Add accessor to NUMA node's memory access mode (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Add accessor for the NUMA node cpu mask (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Add helper to get guest NUMA node count and refactor users (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Unify retrieval of NUMA cell count in qemuBuildNumaArgStr (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Don't pass double pointer to virDomainNumatuneParseXML (Peter Krempa)
- numa: conf: Tweak parameters of virDomainNumatuneSet (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Always allocate the NUMA config (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Allocate domain definition with the new helper (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Separate helper for creating domain objects (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Format <numatune> XML only if necessary (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Refactor logic in virDomainNumatuneParseXML (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Reformat virDomainNumatuneParseXML (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Improve error message in case a numa node doesn't have cpus (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Recalculate rather than remember total NUMA cpu count (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Move enum virMemAccess to the NUMA code and rename it (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Rename virDomainNumatune to virDomainNuma (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Move NUMA cell formatter to numa_conf (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numa: Don't duplicate NUMA cell cpumask (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Refactor virDomainNumaDefCPUParseXML (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Move NUMA cell parsing code from cpu conf to numa conf (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Move numatune_conf to numa_conf (Peter Krempa)
- virsh: fix vcpupin info (Pavel Hrdina)
- virQEMUCapsCacheLookupCopy: Filter qemuCaps based on machineType (Michal Privoznik)
- virQEMUCapsCacheLookupCopy: Pass machine type (Michal Privoznik)
- virsh-edit: Make force editing usable (Martin Kletzander)
- parallels: Set the first HDD from XML as bootable (Mikhail Feoktistov)
- parallels: Use IS_CT() macro instead of STREQ("exe") (Mikhail Feoktistov)
- parallels: code aligment (Mikhail Feoktistov)
- Search for schemas and cpu_map.xml in source tree (Jiri Denemark)
- qemuProcessHandleBlockJob: Take status into account (Michal Privoznik)
- qemuProcessHandleBlockJob: Set disk->mirrorState more often (Michal Privoznik)
- PowerPC : Make 'qemu-system-ppc64' the default emulator on ppc64[le]. (Prerna Saxena)
- qemuBuildMemoryBackendStr: Report backend requirement more appropriately (Michal Privoznik)
- qemuxml2argvtest: Fake response from numad (Michal Privoznik)
- numatune_conf: Expose virDomainNumatuneNodeSpecified (Michal Privoznik)
- lxc: Modify/add some debug messages (John Ferlan)
- Wire up mrg_rxbuf option for qemu (Ján Tomko)
- Add mrg_rxbuf option to virtio interfaces (Ján Tomko)
- virsh attach-interface: Allow macvtap hotplug (Michal Privoznik)
- virsh attach-interface: Use virDomainNetType{From,To}String() (Michal Privoznik)
- virsh attach-interface: Use enum instead of arbitrary integers (Michal Privoznik)
- libvirt_private.syms: Expose virDomainNetTypeFromString (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Add support for setting vCPU and I/O thread scheduler setting (Martin Kletzander)
- docs, schema, conf: Add support for setting scheduler parameters of guest threads (Martin Kletzander)
- util: Add virProcessSetScheduler() function for scheduler settings (Martin Kletzander)
- domain: include portgroup in interface status xml (Laine Stump)
- qemu: qemuOpenFileAs - set flag VIR_FILE_OPEN_FORCE_MODE (John Ferlan)
- virfile: Adjust error path for virFileOpenForked (John Ferlan)
- schema: allow multiple seclabel for devices in domaincommon.rng (Erik Skultety)
- qemu: Implement random number generator hotunplug (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: Implement random number generator hotplug (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: Implement random number generator cold (un)plug (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Add helpers to insert/remove/find RNG devices in domain def (Luyao Huang)
- audit: export virDomainAuditRNG (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: command: Refactor creation of RNG device commandline (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Break some very long lines in qemuBuildRNGDevStr() (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Shuffle around formatting of alias for RNG device backend (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Make RNG backend device IDs unique (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: refactor qemuBuildRNGDeviceArgs to allow reuse in RNG hotplug (Luyao Huang)
- qemu: Add helper to assign RNG device aliases (Luyao Huang)
- conf: Introduce helper to find duplicate device address (Peter Krempa)
- S390: ccw support for virsh attach-disk address parameter (Stefan Zimmermann)
- maint: improve usage of autogen's --no-git (Stefan Zimmermann)
- qemu: include libvirt & QEMU versions in QEMU log files (Daniel P. Berrange)
- nodedev: check/add for scsi_host caps for NumOfCaps and ListCaps (John Ferlan)
- nodedev: check/add for scsi_host caps for ListDevices (Shivaprasad G Bhat)
- cpu: add Freescale ppc64 CPU models (Olivia Yin)
- tests: virstoragetest: Switch backing chain test to use automatic numbering (Peter Krempa)
- virsh-volume: add support for --reflink (Chen Hanxiao)
- util: make virNetDev(Get|Set)IFFlags() static (Laine Stump)
- qemu: command: Refactor NUMA backend object formatting to use JSON objs (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Switch to bytes when formatting size for memory backends (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Unify values for boolean values when formating memory backends (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Shuffle around formating of alias for memory backend objs (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Extract code to setup memory backing objects (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: command: Add helper to format -object strings from JSON representation (Peter Krempa)
- util: json: add helper to iterate JSON object key=value pairs (Peter Krempa)
- util: json: Add functions to convert JSON arrays from/to virBitmaps (Peter Krempa)
- util: bitmap: Add option to allocate bitmap without reporting error (Peter Krempa)
- util: json: make value object creator universal by supporting adding (Peter Krempa)
- test: utils: Add helpers for automatic numbering of test cases (Peter Krempa)
- conf: numatune: Extract code for requesting memory nodeset from formatting (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: change macvtap device options in response to NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED (Tony Krowiak)
- util: Functions for getting/setting device options (Tony Krowiak)
- qemu: Adjust EndAsyncJob for qemuDomainSaveInternal error path (John Ferlan)
- schemas: Allow all generic elements and attributes for all interfaces (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Add AAVMF to the list of known UEFIs (Michal Privoznik)
- qemu: Allow UEFI paths to be specified at compile time (Michal Privoznik)
- Fix syntax-check (Ján Tomko)
- util: bitmap: Tolerate NULL bitmaps in virBitmapEqual (Peter Krempa)
- storage: When delete extended partition, need to refresh pool (John Ferlan)
- storage: Adjust how to refresh extended partition disk data (John Ferlan)
- storage: Attempt error recovery in virStorageBackendDiskCreateVol (John Ferlan)
- storage: Move virStorageBackendDiskDeleteVol (John Ferlan)
- libvirt.spec: remove vbox storage and network .so files (Pavel Hrdina)
- Split qemuDomainChrInsert into two parts (Ján Tomko)
- lxc: report veth device indexes to systemd (Daniel P. Berrange)
- lxc: more logging during startup paths (Daniel P. Berrange)
- lxc: delay setup of cgroup until we have the init pid (Daniel P. Berrange)
- lxc: only write XML once for lxc controller (Daniel P. Berrange)
- lxc: re-arrange startup synchronization sequence with controller (Daniel P. Berrange)
- lxc: don't build pidfile string multiple times (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: report TAP device indexes to systemd (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix shadowed variable warning (Ján Tomko)
- storage: add a flag to clone files on btrfs (Chen Hanxiao)
- storage: introduce btrfsCloneFile() for COW copy (Chen Hanxiao)
- Removing probing of secondary drivers (Daniel P. Berrange)
- don't disable state driver when libvirtd is not built (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove all secondary driver private data fields (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove use of interfacePrivateData from udev driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove use of nodeDevicePrivateData from nodeDev driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove use of storagePrivateData/networkPrivateData from vbox (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove use of nwfilterPrivateData from nwfilter driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove use of secretPrivateData from secret driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainSetMetadata (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job type in qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainSetSchedulerParametersFlags (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainSetMemoryParameters (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainSetAutostart (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainPinEmulator (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Fix job handling in qemuDomainPinVcpuFlags (Peter Krempa)

  So thanks everyone for the help with this release, be it with reports,
patches, reviews or documentation !

Daniel

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