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NAME

6       nbdkit-release-notes-1.6 - release notes for nbdkit 1.6
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DESCRIPTION

9       These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.6.  This
10       describes the major changes since 1.4.
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12       nbdkit 1.6.0 was released on 28th August 2018.
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14   New features
15       •   You can now write plugins in the Lua scripting language, see
16           nbdkit-lua-plugin(3).
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18       •   nbdkit and common plugins are now "63 bit clean": the maximum disk
19           size supported is 2⁶³-1 bytes, and the core server and plugins now
20           have additional tests to check this works, even on 32 bit machines.
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22       •   Multiple improvements to the nbdkit-file-plugin(1) to make zeroing
23           and trimming perform better, work correctly with block devices, and
24           work on older Linux kernels [Nir Soffer, Eric Blake].
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26       •   New nbdkit-pattern-plugin(1) generates a simple, fixed test pattern
27           for testing nbdkit filters and NBD clients.
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29       •   New nbdkit-truncate-filter(1) can: truncate or extend the size of
30           plugins, or round up or down the size to next multiple of a power
31           of 2.  Useful for NBD clients like qemu which can only handle NBD
32           sizes which are a multiple of 512 bytes.
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34       •   New nbdkit-error-filter(1) which can be used to inject errors into
35           the protocol for testing how clients can handle and recover from
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38       •   New nbdkit-data-plugin(1) allows you to specify (small) disk images
39           directly on the command line.
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41       •   Enhanced error reporting in the Python plugin so full tracebacks
42           from errors are now displayed instead of being lost as before.
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44       •   "NBD_OPT_GO" now supported, so we can return errors when
45           negotiating the export name.
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47       •   Support for logging error messages to syslog.
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49       •   nbdkit can now be compiled with Clang (as well as GCC).
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51       •   nbdkit can now be compiled on FreeBSD.
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53       •   nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1) is compiled unconditionally.  You no longer
54           need to install the proprietary VDDK to compile it.
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56       •   Debug messages now include the name of the filter when invoked from
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59       •   Debug flags (-D option) provides lightweight debugging for plugin
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62   Acknowledgements
63       Thanks to all who contributed, especially Nir Soffer and Eric Blake.
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SEE ALSO

66       nbdkit(1),
67       https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-August/msg00279.html.
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AUTHORS

70       Eric Blake
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72       Richard W.M. Jones
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75       Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat Inc.
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LICENSE

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