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6 guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
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9 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
10 stable/dev branch split (1.2.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
11 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
12 New features
14 - guestfish lets you choose a prepared disk image, eg:
15 guestfish -N fs:ext4
16 - Add write support to guestmount (FUSE) module.
18 - virt-resize can now resize the content of partitions and logical
20 volumes in the guest, and we have better support for shrinking guests.
21 - Bash tab-completion script for guestfish.
23 - Add ZFS support to virt-rescue.
25 - New tool 'virt-make-fs' for creating filesystems with content.
27 - Allow suffixes on any guestfish number parameter, eg. "1M".
29 - guestfish 'man' command opens the manual page.
31 - guestfish supports a "heredoc" syntax for uploading files:
33 upload -<<_end_ /foo
34 content
35 _end_
36 - Some guestfish commands now print their output in octal or hex
38 where appropriate (RHBZ#583242).
39 - Allow dash prefix on guestfish command line. This ignores any
41 error from the second command: (RHBZ#578407)
42 guestfish -- cmd1 : -cmd2 : cmd3
43 - guestfish -h / help command now returns an error for non-existent
45 commands (RHBZ#597145).
46 - New 'supported' command in guestfish to list optional groups of
48 commands which are supported by the daemon / configuration.
49 - virt-inspector and guestfish -i now work for filenames which
51 contain spaces (RHBZ#507810).
52 - Change the protocol to use link-local addresses, to avoid
54 conflicting with any address that the host might be using
55 (RHBZ#588763).
56 - libguestfs now sets the correct time and timezone on filesystem
58 modifications.
59 - Sort the domains into alphabetical order in virt-df.
61 - Make mkfs-b command work for FAT and NTFS by mapping the blocksize
63 parameter to the cluster size (RHBZ#599464).
64 - Add version numbers to Perl modules (RHBZ#521674).
66 - Localization now works for all the libguestfs tools (RHBZ#559963).
68 - Tools now support filesystem-on-image VMs (RHBZ#590167).
70 - virt-list-partitions has a '-t' option to show the total size of disks.
72 - Include extra Augeas lenses in the supermin appliance (Matthew Booth).
74 - Add error and close callbacks.
76 - Add explicit close method in the Perl API.
78 - Multiple fixes for RHEL 5 compatibility.
80 - Multiple fixes for Debian/Ubuntu compatibility.
82 - Multiple revisions to improve the documentation.
84 Security
86 - Fix a potential DoS in virt-inspector and virt-v2v if a specially
87 crafted disk image contained a char device in place of one of the
88 configuration files that we read under /etc (RHBZ#582484).
89 New APIs
91 - aug-clear - clear Augeas path
92 - available-all-groups - return a list of all optional groups
93 - base64-in - upload base64-encoded data to file
94 - base64-out - download file and encode as base64
95 - checksum-device - compute checksums on the contents of a device
96 - checksums-out - compute checksums of multiple files in a directory
97 - debug-upload - upload a file to the appliance
98 - fallocate64 - preallocate a file in the guest filesystem
99 - fill-pattern - fill a file with a repeating pattern of bytes
100 - get-umask - get the current umask
101 - lvresize-free - expand an LV to fill free space
102 - ntfsresize - resize an NTFS filesystem
103 - ntfsresize-size - resize an NTFS filesystem (with size)
104 - part-del - delete a partition
105 - part-get-bootable - get the bootable flag of a partition
106 - part-get-mbr-id - get the MBR type byte of a partition
107 - part-set-mbr-id - set the MBR type byte of a partition
108 - pvresize-size - resize a physical volume (with size)
109 - pwrite - write to part of a file
110 - resize2fs-size - resize an ext2/3/4 filesystem (with size)
111 - txz-in - unpack compressed tarball to directory (RHBZ#580556)
112 - txz-out - pack directory into compressed tarball (RHBZ#580556)
113 - vfs-label - get the filesystem label
114 - vfs-uuid - get the filesystem UUID
115 - vgscan - rescan for LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes
116 - write - create a new file
117 - zero-device - write zeroes to an entire device
118 Internals
120 - Extend the generator to support testing optional features.
121 - Stricter checks on input parameters to many calls (RHBZ#501893 RHBZ#501894)
122 - Extend the protocol to support sending arbitrary 8 bit data buffers.
123 - Ship 'BUGS' file with releases. This is a summary of the bugs in
124 the Red Hat Bugzilla database.
125 - Ship 'RELEASE-NOTES' file with releases, containing release notes.
126 - Unify supermin appliance building into one place, in febootstrap 2.7.
127 - Fix the protocol code to handle the case where both ends send cancel
128 messages at the same time.
129 Bugs fixed
131 - 612178 guestfish: using -m option in conjunction with --listen option causes appliance to die
132 - 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
133 - 604691 OCaml bindings are not thread safe
134 - 603870 Updates to Spanish translation
135 - 602592 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
136 - 600977 virt-df -h --csv "Argument .. isn't numeric in printf"
137 - 599464 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
138 - 598807 add_cdrom does not work in RHEL 6
139 - 598309 part-list and several other cmd failed on libguestfs on RHEL5
140 - 597145 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
141 - 597135 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
142 - 597118 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
143 - 597112 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
144 - 596776 virt-inspector doesn't discover modprobe aliases on RHEL 3 guests
145 - 596763 Updates to Spanish translation
146 - 593292 Updates to Spanish translation
147 - 592883 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
148 - 592360 Updates to Spanish translation
149 - 591250 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
150 - 591155 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
151 - 591142 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
152 - 590167 virt-inspector and other virt tools should be able to handle filesystem-on-image VMs
153 - 589039 guestfish read-file cmd will cause daemon hang when read large files
154 - 588851 guestfs_launch() returns -1, but guestfs_last_error() == NULL
155 - 588763 libguestfs should use non-public or link-local addresses for appliance network
156 - 588733 Updates to Spanish translation
157 - 588651 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
158 - 587484 lvresize can't reduce size of a volumn
159 - 585961 Updates to Spanish translation
160 - 585223 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
161 - 585222 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
162 - 585221 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
163 - 584038 Updates to Spanish translation
164 - 583554 [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly
165 - 583242 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
166 - 582993 guestfish eats words when tab completing case (in)sensitive paths
167 - 582953 Misleading help information about lvcreate command
168 - 582948 mknod command doesn't make block, character or FIFO devices
169 - 582929 mknod doesn't check for invalid mode
170 - 582901 guestfish chmod/umask commands do not check invalid mode value
171 - 582899 guestfish:sparse is missed from command autocomplete list
172 - 582891 [Feature Request] behavior and return value of guestfish umask cmd should be changed
173 - 582548 [mknod] umask shouldn't take effect when mode is set explicitly
174 - 582484 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
175 - 582252 Updates to Spanish translation
176 - 581501 Updates to Spanish translation
177 - 580650 virt-inspector warns "No grub default specified at /usr/lib/perl5/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm at [...]"
178 - 580556 request for libguestfs to support .txz tarballs
179 - 580246 tar-in command hangs if uploading more than available space
180 - 580016 aug-ls in guestfish does not take augeas variable as argument
181 - 579664 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
182 - 579608 multiple commands in guestfish can not work for symbol links
183 - 579155 libguestfs hangs if qemu doesn't start (in null vmchannel mode)
184 - 578407 the prefix '-' in sub-command isn't handled by guestfish in remote control mode
185 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
186 - 559963 libguestfs Perl programs do set locale, but still localization doesn't work
187 - 521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
188 - 516096 Race condition in test_swapon_label_0: /sbin/blockdev: BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
189 - 507810 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
190 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
191 - 501894 Some String parameters should be OptString
192 - 501893 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
193 - 501889 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
194 - 484986 grub-install fails on virtio disk
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197 guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1),
198 guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1),
199 http://libguestfs.org/
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202 Richard W.M. Jones
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205 Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.
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208 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
209 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
210 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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212 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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223 To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
224 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
225 To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
227 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
228 When reporting a bug, please supply:
230 • The version of libguestfs.
232 • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
234 source, etc)
235 • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
237 • Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
239 into the bug report.
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