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6       guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
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RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.8

9       These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
10       stable/dev branch split (1.6.0).  For detailed changelogs, please see
11       the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
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13   New features
14        - Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
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16        - Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
17          of regressions.
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19        - Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
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21        - The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
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23            . virt-cat
24            . virt-df
25            . virt-inspector
26            . virt-ls
27            . virt-rescue
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29        - Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically.  This is
30          supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-inspector,
31          virt-ls.
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33        - New tool virt-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for
34          virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions, and has a superset
35          of the functionality of those tools.
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37        - guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option
38          parsing, so they support many common options such as '-a disk.img',
39          '-d libvirt-domain', '-x', '-v'.  The old command line option
40          parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc.
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42        - guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl
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44        - New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs-examples(3) (C/C++),
45          guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-ruby(3).
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47        - Trace mode prints return values from API functions.
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49        - virt-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along
50          with a great deal of information about those applications.
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52        - Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD.
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54        - guestfish --rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially
55          dangerous write access explicit.
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57        - guestfish --listen --csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks
58          Eric Blake).
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60        - The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now
61          documented in guestfs(3).
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63        - guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
64          daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
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66        - Functions can now have optional parameters.
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68        - Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
69          commands.
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71        - Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
72          around in /tmp.
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74        - getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
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76        - ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
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78   Security
79        - New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation.
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81        - virt-inspector no longer runs any guest commands.
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83        - Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
84          from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
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86        - FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
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88   New APIs
89        - add-domain
90        - add-drive-opts
91        - getxattr
92        - inspect-get-hostname
93        - inspect-get-package-format
94        - inspect-get-package-management
95        - inspect-get-roots
96        - inspect-list-applications
97        - lgetxattr
98        - mkfs-opts
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100   Internals
101        - C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use.
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103        - PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely
104          optional for building.
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106        - Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed.
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108        - Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files
109          across all programs.
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111        - Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
112          Windows guests.
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114        - Ruby bindings have 'make install' rule.
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116        - <guestfs.h> is now a single file.
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118        - <guestfs.h> does not require XDR headers.
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120        - ocaml xml-light library is no longer required to build (thanks
121          Maxim Koltsov).
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123        - ./configure --disable-[...] for each language binding (thanks
124          Maxim Koltsov).
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126        - Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
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128        - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
129          more quickly.
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131        - Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
132          file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
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134   Bugs fixed
135        - 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
136        - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
137        - 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
138        - 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
139        - 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
140        - 652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
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SEE ALSO

143       guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1),
144       guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1),
145       http://libguestfs.org/
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AUTHOR

148       Richard W.M. Jones
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151       Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.
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LICENSE

154       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
155       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
156       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
157       option) any later version.
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159       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
160       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
161       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
162       General Public License for more details.
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164       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
165       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
166       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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BUGS

169       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
170       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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172       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
173       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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175       When reporting a bug, please supply:
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177       ·   The version of libguestfs.
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179       ·   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
180           source, etc)
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182       ·   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
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184       ·   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
185           into the bug report.
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