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=head1 NAME
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guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
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=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.8
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These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
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stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
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the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
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=head2 New features
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- Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
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- Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
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of regressions.
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- Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
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- The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
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. virt-cat
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. virt-df
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. virt-inspector
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. virt-ls
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. virt-rescue
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- Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically. This is
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supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-inspector,
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virt-ls.
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- New tool virt-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for
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virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions, and has a superset
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of the functionality of those tools.
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- guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option
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parsing, so they support many common options such as '-a disk.img',
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'-d libvirt-domain', '-x', '-v'. The old command line option
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parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc.
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- guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl
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- New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs-examples(3) (C/C++),
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guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-ruby(3).
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- Trace mode prints return values from API functions.
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- virt-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along
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with a great deal of information about those applications.
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- Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD.
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- guestfish --rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially
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dangerous write access explicit.
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- guestfish --listen --csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks
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Eric Blake).
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- The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now
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documented in guestfs(3).
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- guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
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daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
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- Functions can now have optional parameters.
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- Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
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commands.
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- Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
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around in /tmp.
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- getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
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- ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
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=head2 Security
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- New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation.
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- virt-inspector no longer runs any guest commands.
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- Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
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from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
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- FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
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=head2 New APIs
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- add-domain
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- add-drive-opts
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- getxattr
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- inspect-get-hostname
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- inspect-get-package-format
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- inspect-get-package-management
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- inspect-get-roots
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- inspect-list-applications
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- lgetxattr
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- mkfs-opts
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=head2 Internals
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- C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use.
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- PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely
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optional for building.
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- Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed.
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- Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files
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across all programs.
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- Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
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Windows guests.
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- Ruby bindings have 'make install' rule.
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- <guestfs.h> is now a single file.
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- <guestfs.h> does not require XDR headers.
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- ocaml xml-light library is no longer required to build (thanks
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Maxim Koltsov).
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- ./configure --disable-[...] for each language binding (thanks
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Maxim Koltsov).
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- Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
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- New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
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more quickly.
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- Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
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file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
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=head2 Bugs fixed
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- 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
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- 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
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- 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
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- 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
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- 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
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- 652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<guestfs-examples(1)>,
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L<guestfs-faq(1)>,
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L<guestfs-performance(1)>,
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L<guestfs-recipes(1)>,
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L<guestfs-testing(1)>,
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L<guestfs(3)>,
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L<guestfish(1)>,
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L<http://libguestfs.org/>
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=head1 AUTHOR
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Richard W.M. Jones
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Red Hat Inc.
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