Update release notes for new features in 1.5 branch.

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Release notes for libguestfs 1.6.0
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[updated to commit d75a2bff1264828f02b68a9c8bc7eb2521bd6684]
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.4.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
New features
- Use a new method for creating and caching the appliance. This
greatly improves the performance of libguestfs.
- Support for guest inspection (like virt-inspector) via the ordinary
API and all language bindings. 'guestfish -i' option is as a side-
effect much quicker.
- Support for LUKS-encrypted guests.
- PHP bindings.
- Progress messages (and progress bars in guestfish and virt-resize)
for certain long-running operations.
- virt-df is now much more efficient. Use '--one-per-guest' to restore
the old per-guest isolation behaviour.
- guestfish 'copy-in' and 'copy-out' commands for copying files and
directories recursively in and out of the guest.
- guestfish 'hexedit' command for doing binary edits to devices and
files.
- Change guestfish -i syntax slightly to allow commands to be specified.
- guestfish '-d <domain>' for adding disks from libvirt domains.
- guestfish '-N' option supports several new prepared disk image types:
lvfs : disk with LV formatted with filesystem
lv : disk with LV
bootroot : boot+root
bootrootlv : boot and root on LV
- guestfish 'more' and 'edit' commands now work with arbitrary files.
- guestfish '--echo-keys' option allows you to echo keys/passphrases
while typing them.
- Use virtio-serial for communications with the appliance. This
also has a major performance benefit.
- virt-edit '-b' option to create a backup of edited files.
- virt-edit '-e' option for non-interactive edits to files.
- Ability to capture core dumps from the appliance (thanks Matthew Booth).
- virt-rescue now shuts down cleanly (thanks Matthew Booth).
- Translations of manual pages.
Security
New APIs
- download-offset
- file-architecture
- findfs-label
- findfs-uuid
- inspect-os
- inspect-get-arch
- inspect-get-distro
- inspect-get-filesystems
- inspect-get-major-version
- inspect-get-minor-version
- inspect-get-mountpoints
- inspect-get-product-name
- inspect-get-type
- is-blockdev
- is-chardev
- is-fifo
- is-lv
- is-socket
- is-symlink
- list-filesystems
- luks-add-key
- luks-close
- luks-format
- luks-format-cipher
- luks-kill-slot
- luks-open
- luks-open-ro
- lvm-clear-filter
- lvm-set-filter
- part-to-dev
- upload-offset
Internals
- Use size_t for loop iterators.
- Refactor the library code into separate files.
- Refactor the generator code into separate files.
- Generate guestfish commands.
- Protocol changes:
error message size increased to 64K
send errno to library
- Add 'make bindist' to make a binary distribution.
Bugs fixed
- 633357 Updates to Spanish translation
- 629593 Dutch translation added
- 627556 Updates to Spanish translations of libguestfs
- 626843 Updates to Spanish translations
- 619793 [RFE] Need a way to determine if a particular block device is a logical volume
- 618556 virt-rescue return none zero value when exit
- 617200 mount operation failed and hung on some images which running in read-only mode
- 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
- 571714 Running virt-df on disk image relabels it, so qemu can no longer write to it.
- 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
Release notes for libguestfs 1.4.0
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