docs: Finalize release notes for libguestfs 1.36 release.

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=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.36
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
=head2 New features
Bash completion is now available in every command line tool that is
shipped.
ExFAT filesystems are now supported (Miles Wolbe).
=head3 New tools
Virt-tail is a new tool for following (tailing) log files within a
@@ -60,6 +55,9 @@ Toscano).
Virt-dib can now create squashfs files (Pino Toscano).
Bash tab-completion is now available in every command line tool that
is shipped.
=head3 virt-v2v and virt-p2v
Conversions of Debian (6+) and Ubuntu (10.04+) guests are now
@@ -174,6 +172,10 @@ usable qemu at the time of writing).
Detection of S/390 and S/390x binaries and guests is now supported.
=head3 Other
ExFAT filesystems are now supported (Miles Wolbe).
=head2 Security
See also L<guestfs-security(1)>.
@@ -262,6 +264,9 @@ This call can now change the labels of swap partitions (Pino Toscano).
=head2 Build changes
libmagic, the library part of the C<file> command, is now required at
build time (previously optional).
GCC 7 is now supported.
"Silent rules" are now used for OCaml programs, Java bindings. To
@@ -271,7 +276,8 @@ line (Pino Toscano).
Slow testing (C<make check-slow>) now covers: firstboot scripts in
Linux guests; v2v conversion of a selection of real Linux guests; the
virt-customize I<--hostname> and I<--timezone> settings; the
I<--root-password> parameter; that the serial console works.
I<--root-password> parameter; that the serial console works in
virt-builder guests.
Large generated C source files, eg. the list of commands found in
F<fish/cmds.c> (and many more), have been split into smaller files to
@@ -285,8 +291,8 @@ going to be removed soon (Pino Toscano).
Debian hosts using UsrMerge are now supported (Pino Toscano).
Header files and C C<struct>s can now have internal documentation
using the special C</** ... */> comments.
Header files and C structs can now have internal documentation using
the special C</** ... */> comments.
C<@VAR@> subtitutions in C<./run> are now fully quoted. This is
necessary so that (eg) C<./configure PYTHON=/some/path> works robustly
@@ -299,7 +305,7 @@ Kraxel's old edk2 builds can no longer be used for UEFI support. UEFI
code is now fully free software, so use the versions bundled with your
Linux distro instead.
Libguestfs can now mostly be compiled on RHEL 5 (2007-era) Linux.
Virt-p2v can now be compiled on RHEL 5 (2007-era) Linux with Gtk 2.10.
=head2 Internals
@@ -360,7 +366,7 @@ The C<$TERM> environment variable is now validated before passing it
through to the appliance kernel command line.
Useless USB and memballoon devices are no longer created in the
appliance.
appliance (Laine Stump).
On aarch64 we now use virtio-pci for the appliance. This is somewhat
faster than virtio-mmio.