It was really time for a new release, quite a lot of patches had accumulated
since the previous one ! Available at
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt
* New features:
- build on MacOSX (Richard Jones)
- storage management (Daniel Berrange)
- Xenner - Xen on KVM - support (Daniel Berrange)
* Documentation:
- Fix of various typos (Atsushi SAKAI)
- memory and vcpu settings details (Richard Jones)
- ethernet bridging typo (Maxwell Bottiger)
- add storage APIs documentation (Daniel Berrange)
* Bug fixes:
- OpenVZ code compilation (Mikhail Pokidko)
- crash in policykit auth handling (Daniel Berrange)
- large config files (Daniel Berrange)
- cpumap hypercall size (Saori Fukuta)
- crash in remote auth (Daniel Berrange)
- ssh args error (Daniel Berrange)
- preserve vif order from config files (Hiroyuki Kaguchi)
- invalid pointer access (Jim Meyering)
- virDomainGetXMLDesc flag handling
- device name conversion on stats (Daniel Berrange)
- double mutex lock (Daniel Berrange)
- config file reading crashes (Guido Guenther)
- xenUnifiedDomainSuspend bug (Marcus Meissner)
- do not crash if /sys/hypervisor/capabilities is missing (Mark McLoughlin)
- virHashRemoveSet bug (Hiroyuki Kaguchi)
- close-on-exec flag for qemud signal pipe (Daniel Berrange)
- double free in OpenVZ (Anton Protopopov)
- handle mac without addresses (Shigeki Sakamoto)
- MAC addresses checks (Shigeki Sakamoto and Richard Jones)
* Improvements:
- Windows build (Richard Jones)
- KVM/QEmu shutdown (Guido Guenther)
- catch virExec output on debug (Mark McLoughlin)
- integration of iptables and lokkit (Mark McLoughlin)
- keymap parameter for VNC servers (Daniel Hokka Zakrisson)
- enable debug by default using VIR_DEBUG (Daniel Berrange)
- xen 3.2 fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- Python bindings for VCPU and scheduling (Daniel Berrange)
- framework for automatic code syntax checks (Jim Meyering)
- allow kernel+initrd setup in Xen PV (Daniel Berrange)
- allow change of Disk/NIC of an inactive domains (Shigeki Sakamoto)
- virsh commands to manipulate and create storage(Daniel Berrange)
- update use of PolicyKit APIs
- better detection of fedault hypervisor
- block device statistics for QEmu/KVM (Richard Jones)
- various improvements for Xenner (Daniel Berrange)
* Code cleanups:
- avoid warnings (Daniel Berrange)
- virRun helper function (Dan Berrange)
- iptable code fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
- static and const cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- malloc and python cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- xstrtol_ull and xstrtol_ll functions (Daniel Berrange)
- remove no-op networking from OpenVZ (Daniel Berrange)
- python generator cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
- cleanup ref counting (Daniel Berrange)
- remove uninitialized warnings (Jim Meyering)
- cleanup configure for RHEL4 (Daniel Berrange)
- CR/LF cleanups (Richard Jones)
- various automatic code check and associated cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- various memory leaks (Jim Meyering)
- fix compilation when building without Xen (Guido Guenther)
- mark translatables strings (Jim Meyering)
- use virBufferAddLit for constant strings (Jim Meyering)
- fix make distcheck (Jim Meyering)
- return values for python bindings (Cole Robinson)
- trailing blanks fixes (Jim Meyering)
- gcc-4.3.0 fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
- use safe read and write routines (Jim Meyering)
- refactoring of code dealing with hypervisor capabilities (Daniel Berrange)
- qemudReportError to use virErrorMsg (Cole Robinson)
- intemediate library and Makefiles for compiling static and coverage rule support (Jim Meyering)
- cleanup of various leaks (Jim Meyering)
Thanks to everybody who helped by providing code, patches or reporting
problems !
Daniel
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