I had planned to release it a couple of week ago but a lot of patches
and fixes were needed, but finally it's here. The changelog is huge,
there is a lot of improvements in this release, that also probably
implies there is a few new bugs hidden left and right too, at this point
the best is to push a release to increase testing especially for the
new features. Available as usual at:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
I guess that's the longuest changelog ever for a libvirt release,
and I cheated by aggregating a bunch of cleanups from Jim and Dan in
a single generic entry :-)
* New features:
- thread safety of the API and event handling (Daniel Berrange)
- allow QEmu domains to survive daemon restart (Guido Gunther)
- extended logging capabilities
- support copy-on-write storage volumes (Daniel Berrange)
- support of storage cache control options for QEmu/KVM (Daniel
Berrange)
* Portability:
- fix old DBus API problem
- Debian portability fix (Daniel Berrange)
- fix distcheck (Jim Meyering)
- build in debug mode (Jim Meyering)
- libnuma API portability (Jim Meyering)
- many portability fixes pointed by Solaris (John Levon)
- non-gcc portability fixes (John Levon)
- various include fixes (Jim Meyering)
- various Windows and Mingw portability fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- solaris Xen fixes (John Levon)
- RPC portability to Solaris (Daniel Berrange)
* Documentation:
- typo fixes (Richard Jones)
- logging support
- vnc keymap attributes (Guido Gunther)
- HACKING file updates (Jim Meyering)
- new PCI passthrough format
- libvirt-qpid and UML driver documentation (Daniel Berrange)
- provide RNG schemas for all XML formats used in libvirt APIs (Daniel
Berrange)
* Bug fixes:
- segfault on virtual network without bridge name (Cole Robinson)
- various locking fixes (Cole Robinson)
- fix serial and parallel devices on tcp/unix/telnet (Guido Gunther)
- leak in daemon (Jim Meyering)
- storage driver segfault (Miloslav TrmaC)
- missing check in read-only connections (Daniel Berrange)
- OpenVZ crash and mutex fixes (Anton Protopopov)
- couple of daemon bug fixes (John Levon)
- OpenVZ MAC addresses generation (Evgeniy Sokolov)
- poll call initialization fix (Daniel Berrange)
- various Xen driver fixes (John Levon)
- segfault on device back compat (Cole Robinson)
- couple Xen bug fixes coming from RHEL (Markus Armbruster)
- buffer overflow in libvirt proxy (rasputin@xxxxxxxx)
- vnc port report (John Levon)
- repair save and restore on recent KVM versions (Daniel Berrange)
- Xen cpu pinning XML fix (John Levon)
- various xen driver fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- some memory leak fixes (Daniel Berrange)
* Improvements:
- driver infrastructure and locking (Daniel Berrange)
- Test driver infrastructure (Daniel Berrange)
- parallelism in the daemon and associated config (Daniel Berrange)
- virsh help cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- logrotate daemon logs (Guido Gunther)
- more regression tests (Jim Meyering)
- QEmu SDL graphics (Itamar Heim)
- add --version flag to daemon (Dave Allan)
- memory consumption cleanup (Dave Allan)
- QEmu pid file and XML states for daemon restart (Guido Gunther)
- gnulib updates (Jim Meyering and Dan Berrange)
- PCI passthrough for KVM (Jason Krieg)
- generic internal thread API (Daniel Berrange)
- RHEL-5 specific Xen configure option and code (Markus Armbruster)
- save domain state as string in status file (Guido Gunther)
- add locking to all API entry points (Daniel Berrange)
- new ref counting APIs (Daniel Berrange)
- IP address for Xen bridges (John Levon)
- driver format for disk file types (Daniel Berrange)
- improve QEmu/KVM tun/tap performances (Mark McLoughlin)
- enable floppies for Xen fully virt (John Levon)
- support VNC password settings for QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange)
- qemu driver version reporting (Daniel Berrange)
* Cleanups:
- converting linked lists to arrays (Daniel Berrange)
- daemon RPC handling refactoring (Daniel Berrange)
- strings cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- gethostby* cleanup and test (Jim Meyering)
- some code fixes (Dave Allan)
- various code cleanup (Jim Meyering)
- virsh argument handling cleanup (Jim Meyering)
- virAsprintf cleanup replacement (Guido Gunther)
- QEmu monitor reads (Cole Robinson)
- Makefile cleanups (Guido Gunther)
- Xen code cleanups (John Levon)
- revamp of ELF export scripts (John Levon)
- domain event callback args (John Levon)
- enforce use of pid_t (John Levon)
- virsh pool-*-as XML code merge (Cole Robinson)
- xgettext warnings (Jim Meyering)
- add virKillProcess (Guido Gunther)
- add virGetHostname (David Lutterkort)
- add flags argument to the full XML parsing stack (Guido Gunther)
- various daemon code cleanups (Guido Gunther)
- handling of daemon missing config file (Jim Meyering)
- rpcgen invocation cleanup (Richard Jones)
- devhelp builkd makefile cleanups (John Levon)
- update error handling for threading (Daniel Berrange)
- remove all non-rentrant POSIX calls usage (Daniel Berrange)
- many small cleanups (Jim Meyering and Daniel Berrange)
- examples Makefile generator (John Levon)
- mis-use of PF_UNIX as a protocol (John Levon)
- cleanup OOM error paths (Jim Meyering)
- temporary fix fro valgrind on lxc (Daniel Berrange)
- QEmu driver init cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release, with a
special welcome to the people who gained commit right access !
Daniel
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