From 97fb89387899564bcd571010b978edfe76fc0aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:02:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Finalize release notes for libguestfs 1.36 release. --- docs/guestfs-release-notes.pod | 32 +++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/guestfs-release-notes.pod b/docs/guestfs-release-notes.pod index 4fecc7158..3f0a6c71b 100644 --- a/docs/guestfs-release-notes.pod +++ b/docs/guestfs-release-notes.pod @@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes =begin comment -UPDATED TO e53ee5befa3e067a3c7d163d63eb2a2eba960858 +UPDATED TO =end comment -=begin html +=begin comment -=end html +=end comment =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. @@ -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 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) 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 (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 Cs 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.