I originaly though that this release would just include a set of bug
fixes from 0.6.0, but a couple feature are includd as well as a number
of local improvement.
Available as usual from
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
+ New features:
- new APIs for Node device detach reattach and reset (Mark McLoughlin)
- sVirt mandatory access control support (James Morris and Dan Walsh)
+ Portability:
- non gcc toolchain (John Levon)
- gcc-4.4 warnings fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
- fix build without LXC and QEmu (Jim Meyering)
+ Documentation:
- man page bugzilla URL (Mark McLoughlin)
- typo in domain format (Jesse Farinacci)
- clock offset fix (Mark McLoughlin)
- hostdev description typo (Mark McLoughlin)
- static host IP (Charles Duffy)
- new example program (David Allan)
+ Bug fixes:
- NULL dereference in LXC (Jim Meyering)
- fix domain error reporting (John Levon)
- fix loop of libvirtd --timeout (Daniel Berrange)
- limit history to 500 to restrict virsh memory (Daniel Berrange)
- wrong lvm volume format check (Cole Robinson)
- I/O error in daemon and associated remote acces crash (Daniel
Berrange)
- fix autostart of session daemon (Daniel Berrange)
- restart guest on qemu migration failures (Chris Lalancette)
- config parsing leaks (Ryota Ozaki)
- DBus multithreading activation to avoid crashes (Daniel Berrange)
- mark defined network descriptions as persistent (Cole Robinson)
- qemu+tls handshake negotiation hang (Chris Lalancette)
+ Improvements:
- don't hardcode ssh port (Guido Gunther)
- new test cases and testing infrastructure (Jim Meyering)
- improve the SExpr parser (John Levon)
- proper error reporting on xend shutdown command (John Levon)
- proper handling of errors when saving QEmu domains state (Guido
Gunther)
- revamp of the internal error memory APIs (John Levon)
- better virsh error reporting (John Levon)
- more daemon options to allow running multiple daemons (Jim Meyering)
- error handling when creating a QEmu domain (Guido Gunther)
- fix timeouts in QEmu log reading (Guido Gunther)
- migration with xend 3.3 fixes (John Levon)
- virsh XML dump flags cleanup (Cole Robinson)
- fix build with loadable drivers (Maximilian Wilhelm)
- internal XML APIs to read long long and hexa values (Mark McLoughlin)
- function to parse node device XML descriptions and associated test
(Mark McLoughlin)
- generate network bridge names if not provided (Cole Robinson)
- recognize ejectable media in hostdev hal driver (Cole Robinson)
- integration of sVirt (Daniel Berrange)
+ Cleanups:
- printf NULL string checks (John Levon)
- remove uses of strerror and use virStrerror (Jim Meyering)
- remove redundant NULL assignments (Jim Meyering)
- QEmu driver logging and exec cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- many error handling cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- XML module cleanups (Mark McLoughlin)
- compiler warning (Maximilian Wilhelm)
- daemon TCP listen cleanup (Cole Robinson)
- size_t type cleanup (Guido Gunther)
- parallel make fix (Michael Marineau)
- storage error diagnostic fix (Ryota Ozaki)
- remove redundant monitor watch variable (Cole Robinson)
- qemu AttachDevice error report improvement (Cole Robinson)
- virsh output cleanup (Jim Meyering)
- various tests cleanups and improvements (Jim Meyering)
- fix the internal export list with new APIs (Daniel Berrange)
- cleanups on new APIs for Node device (Daniel Berrange)
So quite a bit of changes happened in one month of development,
so it's getting clear we aren't really slowing down and keeping a
relatively fast release cycle is needed. So expect 0.6.2 in a month
or so.
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the release !
Daniel
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