[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 38/61: Further updates to the release notes, for 1.26.
Hilko Bengen
bengen at moszumanska.debian.org
Sat Mar 29 14:36:27 UTC 2014
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commit 218ac6996be19b84d92f654633d8ad53d1937a02
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date: Tue Mar 25 23:52:51 2014 +0000
Further updates to the release notes, for 1.26.
---
guestfs-release-notes.pod | 20 ++++++++++----------
guestfs-release-notes.txt | 15 ++++++++-------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/guestfs-release-notes.pod b/guestfs-release-notes.pod
index 13c477b..74bbbf8 100644
--- a/guestfs-release-notes.pod
+++ b/guestfs-release-notes.pod
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ Inspection can recognize Debian live images.
ARMv7 (32 bit) now supports KVM acceleration.
-Aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) is supported, but the appliance part does not yet
-work.
+Aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) is supported, but the appliance part does not
+work yet.
PPC64 support has been fixed and enhanced.
@@ -97,17 +97,17 @@ PPC64 support has been fixed and enhanced.
=item Denial of service when inspecting disk images with corrupt btrfs volumes
-It was possible to crash libguestfs, and programs that use libguestfs
-as a library, by presenting a disk image containing a corrupt btrfs
+It was possible to crash libguestfs (and programs that use libguestfs
+as a library) by presenting a disk image containing a corrupt btrfs
volume.
This was caused by a NULL pointer dereference causing a denial of
service, and is not thought to be exploitable any further.
-See commit d70ceb4cbea165c960710576efac5a5716055486 for the fix.
-This fix is included in libguestfs stable branches S<E<ge> 1.26.0>,
-S<E<ge> 1.24.6> and S<E<ge> 1.22.8>. Earlier versions of libguestfs
-are not vulnerable.
+See commit d70ceb4cbea165c960710576efac5a5716055486 for the fix. This
+fix is included in libguestfs stable branches S<E<ge> 1.26.0>, S<E<ge>
+1.24.6> and S<E<ge> 1.22.8>, and also in RHEL S<E<ge> 7.0>.
+Earlier versions of libguestfs are not vulnerable.
=item Better generation of random root passwords and random seeds
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ if qemu supports it.
C<./configure --without-qemu> can be used if you don't want to specify
a default hypervisor.
-Overlays (for readonly drives) are now created through an internal
-backend API.
+Copy-on-write [COW] overlays, used for example for read-only drives,
+are now created through an internal backend API (C<.create_cow_overlay>).
Libvirt backend uses some funky C macros to generate XML. These are
simpler and safer.
diff --git a/guestfs-release-notes.txt b/guestfs-release-notes.txt
index f6fb8f3..865e95d 100644
--- a/guestfs-release-notes.txt
+++ b/guestfs-release-notes.txt
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
ARMv7 (32 bit) now supports KVM acceleration.
- Aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) is supported, but the appliance part does not yet
- work.
+ Aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) is supported, but the appliance part does not work
+ yet.
PPC64 support has been fixed and enhanced.
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
Denial of service when inspecting disk images with corrupt btrfs
volumes
- It was possible to crash libguestfs, and programs that use libguestfs
- as a library, by presenting a disk image containing a corrupt btrfs
+ It was possible to crash libguestfs (and programs that use libguestfs
+ as a library) by presenting a disk image containing a corrupt btrfs
volume.
This was caused by a NULL pointer dereference causing a denial of
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
See commit d70ceb4cbea165c960710576efac5a5716055486 for the fix. This
fix is included in libguestfs stable branches ≥ 1.26.0, ≥ 1.24.6 and
- ≥ 1.22.8. Earlier versions of libguestfs are not vulnerable.
+ ≥ 1.22.8, and also in RHEL ≥ 7.0. Earlier versions of libguestfs are
+ not vulnerable.
Better generation of random root passwords and random seeds
@@ -187,8 +188,8 @@ RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
./configure --without-qemu can be used if you don't want to specify a
default hypervisor.
- Overlays (for readonly drives) are now created through an internal
- backend API.
+ Copy-on-write [COW] overlays, used for example for read-only drives,
+ are now created through an internal backend API (.create_cow_overlay).
Libvirt backend uses some funky C macros to generate XML. These are
simpler and safer.
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