guestfs-release-notes-1.16 - Man Page

libguestfs

​   - allow XFS filesystems to be created over an existing filesystem
​     (Wanlong Gao)
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​   - the (unspecified) default alignment for part-disk has been
​     changed to 64K for better support of high-end network-attached
​     storage
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​   - new guestfs-testing(1) man page
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​   - list-filesystems returns MD devices containing filesystems
​     (Matthew Booth)
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​   - support for GCC >= 4.7 (Jim Meyering)
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​   - check user does not add the same drive twice (Wanlong Gao).

language bindings

​   - Experimental GObject bindings, with support for GObject
​     Introspection.  You can now use libguestfs from Javascript.
​     Please note these are not stable and final in this release.
​     (Matthew Booth).
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​   - support for Ruby >= 1.9
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​   - Ruby bindings can be disabled individually (Hilko Bengen)
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​   - support for Python 2.6, 3.x (Richard Jones, Hilko Bengen)
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​   - support for PHP >= 5.4
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​   - new %guestfs_introspection hash is available in Perl bindings so
​     you can query which optional arguments are available

inspection

​   - guests with MD devices can be inspected (Matthew Booth)
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​   - support for GNU/Hurd guests

guestfish

​   - libguestfs events (such as progress bar events and log messages) can
​     be trapped and processed by user-defined shell scripts.
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​   - MD devices are tab-completed (Matthew Booth)

virt tools

​   - New tool virt-format for erasing and making blank disks
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​   - virt-sparsify new --compress and -o options to allow for compressed
​     and different format output
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​   - virt-sparsify can now detect and sparsify .vdi files
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​   - virt-sysprep no longer requires xmlstarlet; a new virt-inspector --xpath
​     option has been added to replace this functionality
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​   - virt-rescue has a new --suggest option which suggests mount commands
​     for the guest
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​   - virt-resize no longer requires OCaml pcre library

libguestfs live

​   - daemon will no longer try to edit your live /etc/lvm configuration
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​   - fix a potential security problem with predictable /tmp names (Steve Kemp)

​  CVE-2011-4127, RHBZ#757071
​  Mitigate possible privilege escalation via SG_IO ioctl
​  For more information, see: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/9a5f784d511a8f00a8386f316eab41fe660430db

​  blkid: print all attributes of a device known to blkid (Wanlong Gao)
​  e2fsck: access to more features of e2fsck (Wanlong Gao)
​  list-md-devices: list of Linux MD devices (Matthew Booth)
​  md-create: create an MD device
​  md-detail: returns metadata for an MD device (Matthew Booth)
​  md-stop: stop an MD device (Wanlong Gao)
​  tune2fs: allow ext2/3/4 filesystems to be tuned

​  Git hosting has moved to http://github.com/libguestfs
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​  The various test directories have been rearranged logically, and now
​  all appear under 'tests/'.
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​  There is a 'make extra-tests' rule which runs ordinary tests and
​  additional tests, using valgrind to check for memory problems.
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​  Multiple memory leaks and other problems found by valgrind and fixed.
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​  Support for optional arguments in the generator has been rewritten
​  to provide more features and safety (Matthew Booth).
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​  With gcc -fvisibility=hidden is used for internal symbols, avoiding
​  call indirection via the PLT.
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​  RHashtable functions can be tested in the generator.
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​  ADD_ARG macro in daemon allows arg lists to be constructed without
​  risk of stack smashing.
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​  Fix generation of OCaml functions that have more than 10 arguments.
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​  psmisc has been added to the appliance, allowing use of 'fuser',
​  'killall' and 'pstree' for debugging.
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​  bindtests now cover RBufferOut and optional arguments (Matthew Booth).

​ - 769680 temporary directories created during appliance builds are not cleaned up on error
​ - 761460 guestfs_utimens hangs on named pipes
​ - 761451 guestfs_utimens cannot set times on a directory
​ - 760775 "guestfish: multi-boot operating systems are not supported by the -i option" should be more explanatory
​ - 760669 guestfish copy-in and <! (inline execution) don't mix well: pclose: No child processes
​ - 760000 libguestfs fails to compile with Ruby >= 1.9
​ - 755729 Error message for resize2fs-M needs tweaking
​ - 750889 Python code incompatible with Python v3.
​ - 596761 Ctrl-\ causes guestfish to abort