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Finalize release notes for libguestfs 1.32.

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=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.32
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
=head3 New tools
The new L<virt-v2v-copy-to-local(1)> tool is an auxiliary tool for
The new L<virt-v2v-copy-to-local(1)> tool is an ancillary tool for
L<virt-v2v(1)> allowing you to convert source guests that virt-v2v is
unable to access directly.
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ default on openSUSE E<ge> 11 (Pino Toscano).
Virt-builder will now correctly handle output filenames containing
colon characters (C<:>), and will create temporary files in the
libguestfs cache directory instead of defaulting to C</tmp>
libguestfs cache directory instead of defaulting to F</tmp>
(Pino Toscano).
Virt-builder has a new I<--unknown-filesystems> option to control what
Virt-resize has a new I<--unknown-filesystems> option to control what
to do when asked to resize a filesystem that libguestfs doesn't know
how to resize.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ essential in order to fix this very serious bug.
Alpine Linux and the APK package manager, ALT Linux, Frugalware, and
PLD Linux are now recognized (Pino Toscano).
If it exists, C</etc/os-release> will be preferred for inspecting
If it exists, F</etc/os-release> will be preferred for inspecting
Linux guests (Pino Toscano).
The correct kernel version is returned for Windows guests E<ge> 10.
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The correct kernel version is returned for Windows guests E<ge> 10.
The large L<guestfs(3)> man page has been split into several separate
man pages: L<guestfs-hacking(1)> L<guestfs-internals(1)>
L<guestfs-security(1)>. In the source tree, a new C<docs> directory
L<guestfs-security(1)>. In the source tree, a new F<docs> directory
contains this documentation.
=head3 Architectures and platforms
@@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ allowed a malformed filesystem to take over the appliance.
If you use sVirt to confine qemu, that would thwart some attacks.
=item Virt-customize permissions on C<.ssh>, C<.ssh/authorized_keys>
=item Virt-customize permissions on F<.ssh>, F<.ssh/authorized_keys>
L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1260778>.
Previously when asked to inject an SSH key into a guest,
virt-customize (hence virt-builder too) would create the C<.ssh>
directory and C<.ssh/authorized_keys> file with too broad permissions,
virt-customize (hence virt-builder too) would create the F<.ssh>
directory and F<.ssh/authorized_keys> file with too broad permissions,
allowing other users to read. They are now created as C<0700> and
C<0600> respectively, which is the same as the L<ssh-copy-id(1)>
utility.
@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ L<posix_fallocate(3)> for efficiency.
These extra parameters control whether extended attributes, SELinux
contexts and/or POSIX ACLs are restored from / saved to tarballs.
=item C<guestfs_add_drive>
The existing C<username> and C<secret> parameters can be used to
supply authentication for iSCSI (Pino Toscano).
=back
=head2 Build changes
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@ failed if findlib was not installed.
C<make check> tests now run in parallel (within each test directory).
C<make install> no longer installs OCaml C<bindtests.*> files
C<make install> no longer installs OCaml F<bindtests.*> files
incorrectly.
C<make install> can now be run twice. Previously it would fail on the
@@ -285,17 +290,17 @@ some unsafe functions in stdlib.
Many more virt-v2v tests will now be run even if you don't have
rhsrvany and virtio-win installed (Roman Kagan).
The C<configure.ac> file has been split into several smaller files
called C<m4/guestfs_*.m4>.
The huge F<configure.ac> file has been split into several smaller
files called F<m4/guestfs_*.m4>.
The old C<tests/data> and C<tests/guests> directories have been moved
to C<test-data/>. This new top level directory carries all test data
The old F<tests/data> and F<tests/guests> directories have been moved
to F<test-data/>. This new top level directory carries all test data
which is common, large and/or shared between multiple tests.
There is a new top level C<website/> directory containing the public
There is a new top level F<website/> directory containing the public
L<http://libguestfs.org> website (or most of it).
The fuzz testing of inspection (C<tests/fuzz>) has been removed.
The fuzz testing of inspection (F<tests/fuzz>) has been removed.
Virt-p2v now saves the source physical machine dmesg output into the
conversion server debug directory, making it simpler to debug cases of
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=over 4
=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1294956>
set-label returns wrong error message when set the ext3/ext4 filesystem label
=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1288733>
Add a Fedora 23 32-bit base image for virt-builder