[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 25/35: Update release notes.
Hilko Bengen
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Fri Oct 3 14:46:44 UTC 2014
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commit c68b510be2c58b729143b5940be6dfbb56a94182
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date: Thu Sep 18 13:35:03 2014 +0100
Update release notes.
---
guestfs-release-notes.pod | 348 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
guestfs-release-notes.txt | 338 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/guestfs-release-notes.pod b/guestfs-release-notes.pod
index d564359..a956c87 100644
--- a/guestfs-release-notes.pod
+++ b/guestfs-release-notes.pod
@@ -4,15 +4,361 @@ guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
=begin comment
-UPDATED TO cec31436f8b87d84887a50fd6eeba853ccef1581
+UPDATED TO 32736857b3590554c4707cfe33eebed0ccc04abe
+
+=end comment
+
+=begin html
<script>
document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url('draft.png')";
document.body.style.backgroundRepeat = "no-repeat";
</script>
+=end html
+
+=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.28
+
+These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
+stable/dev branch split (1.26.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
+the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
+
+=head2 New features
+
+=head3 Tools
+
+L<virt-v2v(1)> and L<virt-p2v(1)> are tools for converting from
+foreign hypervisors or physical machines, to KVM. These tools were
+previously a separate project. The code for both tools has been
+integrated into the libguestfs tree. As part of the refactoring,
+virt-p2v has been rewritten (from Ruby, now C), and virt-v2v now uses
+several modern features of qemu which make it run many times faster
+than before. L<virt-v2v(1)> can import from: VMware vCenter, VMware
+OVA files, local disk files, libvirt, RHEL 5 Xen. It can output to:
+oVirt or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M), OpenStack Glance,
+libvirt.
+
+L<virt-log(1)> is a new tool for listing log files from guests. It
+supports a variety of guests including Linux traditional, Linux using
+journal, and Windows event log.
+
+L<virt-builder(1)> has a new C<--machine-readable> option to make it
+simpler to consume virt-builder from other programs.
+
+New L<virt-builder(1)> and L<virt-customize(1)> I<--chmod> option.
+
+L<virt-sysprep(1)> will now remove: systemd journals, anaconda logs,
+lightdm logs, debian-installer files, apt logs, exim logs, ConsoleKit
+logs, and several other log files. The virt-sysprep C<user-account>
+operation is now able to remove or keep particular user accounts.
+(Pino Toscano).
+
+New L<guestmount(1)> I<--fd> option, allowing you to run guestmount
+captive under another process.
+
+L<virt-sparsify(1)> has a new I<--tmp> option allowing you to
+precisely control where temporary files are stored.
+
+L<virt-sparsify(1)> can now write to a block device.
+
+L<virt-customize(1)> and L<virt-sysprep(1)> now support adding
+firstboot scripts to Windows guests.
+
+L<virt-cat(1)>, L<virt-edit(1)>, L<virt-ls(1)> now support the I<-m>
+option, allowing you to override automatic inspection of guests and
+instead specify where to mount partitions (Pino Toscano).
+
+=head3 Language bindings
+
+You can build a Python distribution using C<make -C python sdist>
+
+Ruby bindings have switched from C<Test::Unit> to C<MiniTest>.
+
+The Java bindings are now compatible with OpenJDK 8 (Pino Toscano).
+
+
+=head3 Inspection
+
+Oracle Linux is returned as C<oraclelinux> (Nikos Skalkotos).
+
+Linux guests which do not have C</etc/fstab> can now be handled
+(Pino Toscano).
+
+=head3 Architectures
+
+Aarch64 (64 bit ARM) support has been added.
+
+=head2 Security
+
+=over 4
+
+=item CVE-2014-0191 Network usage and entity resolution in XML parsing
+
+Libguestfs previously used unsafe libxml2 APIs for parsing libvirt
+XML. These APIs defaulted to allowing network connections to be made
+when certain XML documents were presented. Using a malformed XML
+document it was also possible to exhaust all CPU, memory or file
+descriptors on the machine.
+
+Since the libvirt XML comes from a trusted source (the libvirt daemon)
+it is not thought that this could have been exploitable.
+
+This was fixed in libguestfs E<ge> 1.27.9 and the fix was backported
+to stable versions E<ge> 1.26.2, E<ge> 1.24.9, E<ge> 1.22.10 and E<ge>
+1.20.13. (Thanks: Dan Berrange, Pino Toscano).
+
+=back
+
+=head2 API
+
+=head3 New APIs
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<guestfs_clear_backend_setting>
+
+=item C<guestfs_get_backend_setting>
+
+=item C<guestfs_set_backend_setting>
+
+Use these APIs to set individual backend settings.
+
+=item C<guestfs_cpio_out>
+
+Convert a directory within the disk image to cpio format.
+
+=item C<guestfs_journal_get_realtime_usec>
+
+Fetch precise journal times, see L<sd_journal_get_realtime_usec(3)>.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Build changes
+
+Libguestfs can now be built with qemu 2.x.
+
+Add support for packaging the appliance on Mageia (Joseph Wang,
+Thierry Vignaud).
+
+Augeas is now a required dependency.
+
+Flex and bison are now required dependencies.
+
+=head2 Internals
+
+You can now connect gdb to qemu by specifying
+C<LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=gdb>
+
+Serial BIOS (sgabios) is now used by the libvirt backend (on x86 only)
+so that we see early BIOS messages.
+
+For the OCaml virt tools, exceptions are now handled and printed by a
+common function.
+
+A GCC warning about large stack frames is now enabled by default.
+Several places that used large arrays and structures on the stack have
+been fixed.
+
+There is now a test for booting the appliance repeatedly. Useful for
+finding kernel leaks. See: C<tests/qemu/qemu-boot.c>
+
+There is a test for testing the speed of various qemu features such as
+virtio-serial uploads and block device writes. See:
+C<tests/qemu/qemu-speed-test.c>
+
+GCC warnings are now enabled for OCaml-C bindings in the OCaml virt
+tools.
+
+The code for editing files used by L<virt-edit(1)>, L<guestfish(1)>
+C<edit> command, L<virt-customize(1)> I<--edit> option and more is now
+shared between all these utilities (thanks Pino Toscano).
+
+=head2 Bugs fixed
+
+=begin comment
+
+./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.26.0..
+
=end comment
+=over 4
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142416>
+
+part-get-name give 'libguestfs: error: part_get_name: parted does not support the machine output (-m)' error message when run 'part-get-name /dev/sda 1'
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142186>
+
+virt-sysprep option '--mount-options' don't work well
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142158>
+
+Illegal command 'part-get-name /dev/sda1 1' cause libguestfs appliance crashed
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142004>
+
+virt-v2v prints waring:WARNING:/files/boot/grub/device.map references unknown device "xvda"
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141723>
+
+virt-v2v: error: disk sda has no defined format shows when converting xen hvm guest
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141680>
+
+[RFE] virt-v2 should support convert a domain with using domain's UUID instead of domain name
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141631>
+
+[RFE] virt-v2 should support convert a guest to a dir-pool with using pool's uuid
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141157>
+
+virt-sysprep option '--user-accounts' don't work well
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141113>
+
+virt-v2v fails to convert esx guests
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140894>
+
+No error messages output if append '--format qcow2' after '-a guest.img', guest.img is a raw format image file
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140547>
+
+virt-builder option '--format' don't work well
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140156>
+
+RFE: Export to RHEV data domain
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140050>
+
+No error shows when multiple conflicting options used with virt-v2v
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139973>
+
+Improve the error info when converting xen guest with no passwordless SSH access configured
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139543>
+
+Improve the error info when converting guest with no space left
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138586>
+
+No error shows when converting running guest with virt-v2v
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138184>
+
+virt-v2v will fail when converting guests with initramfs-*kdump.img under /boot
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138182>
+
+xen guest will be kernel panic after converted by virt-v2v
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1130189>
+
+Annoying message about permissions of /dev/kvm
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1123007>
+
+libguestfs 'direct' backend should close file descriptors before exec-ing qemu to avoid leaking !O_CLOEXEC fds
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1122557>
+
+virt-sparsify overwrites block devices if used as output files
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1113156>
+
+Empty fstab breaks libguestfs inspection
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1111662>
+
+Guestfs.Error("vgchange_uuid_all: Volume group has active logical volumes")
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1109174>
+
+virt-win-reg manual page is corrupted
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1106548>
+
+root gets an error accessing to a non-root dir on a snapshot guestmount VMDK img
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1103877>
+
+These APIs also need to add to `guestfish -h` command list
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102448>
+
+mageia package list is incorrect
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102447>
+
+libguestfs 1.27.13 does not build due to libxml library order
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1100498>
+
+RFE: non-polling mechanism to detect guestmount --no-fork readiness
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1099490>
+
+scrub-file can't handle link file
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1098718>
+
+RFE: virt-builder aliases
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1096465>
+
+virt-builder "proxy=off" setting doesn't turn off the proxy for downloads
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1094746>
+
+virt-sparsify man failes to mention what happens to snapshots within a qcow2 image (they are discarded)
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1092753>
+
+virt-builder: If several repos contain the same os-version images, then they are duplicated in -l output
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1091803>
+
+tar-in-opts execute failed that cause libguestfs appliance crashed
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088424>
+
+virt-resize: libguestfs error: part_set_name: parted: /dev/sdb: Error during translation: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088262>
+
+virt-builder cannot write to a block device
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1085029>
+
+Ruby tests fail with latest Ruby
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079210>
+
+virt-sparsify --in-place cannot sparsify as much as it should
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079182>
+
+virt-df cannot report used disk space of windows guest when updated to 6.5
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1077817>
+
+virt-builder error: "syntax error at line 3: syntax error"
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1056290>
+
+virt-sparsify overwrites block devices if used as output files
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/812970>
+
+virt-rescue cannot set ><rescue> prompt, on Ubuntu 12.04
+
+=back
+
+=for comment ################################################################
+
=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
diff --git a/guestfs-release-notes.txt b/guestfs-release-notes.txt
index 1c1b012..1baa447 100644
--- a/guestfs-release-notes.txt
+++ b/guestfs-release-notes.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,344 @@ NAME
guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
+RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.28
+
+ These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
+ stable/dev branch split (1.26.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
+ the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
+
+ New features
+
+ Tools
+
+ virt-v2v(1) and virt-p2v(1) are tools for converting from foreign
+ hypervisors or physical machines, to KVM. These tools were previously a
+ separate project. The code for both tools has been integrated into the
+ libguestfs tree. As part of the refactoring, virt-p2v has been
+ rewritten (from Ruby, now C), and virt-v2v now uses several modern
+ features of qemu which make it run many times faster than before.
+ virt-v2v(1) can import from: VMware vCenter, VMware OVA files, local
+ disk files, libvirt, RHEL 5 Xen. It can output to: oVirt or Red Hat
+ Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M), OpenStack Glance, libvirt.
+
+ virt-log(1) is a new tool for listing log files from guests. It
+ supports a variety of guests including Linux traditional, Linux using
+ journal, and Windows event log.
+
+ virt-builder(1) has a new --machine-readable option to make it simpler
+ to consume virt-builder from other programs.
+
+ New virt-builder(1) and virt-customize(1) --chmod option.
+
+ virt-sysprep(1) will now remove: systemd journals, anaconda logs,
+ lightdm logs, debian-installer files, apt logs, exim logs, ConsoleKit
+ logs, and several other log files. The virt-sysprep user-account
+ operation is now able to remove or keep particular user accounts. (Pino
+ Toscano).
+
+ New guestmount(1) --fd option, allowing you to run guestmount captive
+ under another process.
+
+ virt-sparsify(1) has a new --tmp option allowing you to precisely
+ control where temporary files are stored.
+
+ virt-sparsify(1) can now write to a block device.
+
+ virt-customize(1) and virt-sysprep(1) now support adding firstboot
+ scripts to Windows guests.
+
+ virt-cat(1), virt-edit(1), virt-ls(1) now support the -m option,
+ allowing you to override automatic inspection of guests and instead
+ specify where to mount partitions (Pino Toscano).
+
+ Language bindings
+
+ You can build a Python distribution using make -C python sdist
+
+ Ruby bindings have switched from Test::Unit to MiniTest.
+
+ The Java bindings are now compatible with OpenJDK 8 (Pino Toscano).
+
+ Inspection
+
+ Oracle Linux is returned as oraclelinux (Nikos Skalkotos).
+
+ Linux guests which do not have /etc/fstab can now be handled (Pino
+ Toscano).
+
+ Architectures
+
+ Aarch64 (64 bit ARM) support has been added.
+
+ Security
+
+ CVE-2014-0191 Network usage and entity resolution in XML parsing
+
+ Libguestfs previously used unsafe libxml2 APIs for parsing libvirt
+ XML. These APIs defaulted to allowing network connections to be made
+ when certain XML documents were presented. Using a malformed XML
+ document it was also possible to exhaust all CPU, memory or file
+ descriptors on the machine.
+
+ Since the libvirt XML comes from a trusted source (the libvirt
+ daemon) it is not thought that this could have been exploitable.
+
+ This was fixed in libguestfs ≥ 1.27.9 and the fix was backported to
+ stable versions ≥ 1.26.2, ≥ 1.24.9, ≥ 1.22.10 and ≥ 1.20.13. (Thanks:
+ Dan Berrange, Pino Toscano).
+
+ API
+
+ New APIs
+
+ guestfs_clear_backend_setting
+
+ guestfs_get_backend_setting
+
+ guestfs_set_backend_setting
+
+ Use these APIs to set individual backend settings.
+
+ guestfs_cpio_out
+
+ Convert a directory within the disk image to cpio format.
+
+ guestfs_journal_get_realtime_usec
+
+ Fetch precise journal times, see sd_journal_get_realtime_usec(3).
+
+ Build changes
+
+ Libguestfs can now be built with qemu 2.x.
+
+ Add support for packaging the appliance on Mageia (Joseph Wang, Thierry
+ Vignaud).
+
+ Augeas is now a required dependency.
+
+ Flex and bison are now required dependencies.
+
+ Internals
+
+ You can now connect gdb to qemu by specifying
+ LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=gdb
+
+ Serial BIOS (sgabios) is now used by the libvirt backend (on x86 only)
+ so that we see early BIOS messages.
+
+ For the OCaml virt tools, exceptions are now handled and printed by a
+ common function.
+
+ A GCC warning about large stack frames is now enabled by default.
+ Several places that used large arrays and structures on the stack have
+ been fixed.
+
+ There is now a test for booting the appliance repeatedly. Useful for
+ finding kernel leaks. See: tests/qemu/qemu-boot.c
+
+ There is a test for testing the speed of various qemu features such as
+ virtio-serial uploads and block device writes. See:
+ tests/qemu/qemu-speed-test.c
+
+ GCC warnings are now enabled for OCaml-C bindings in the OCaml virt
+ tools.
+
+ The code for editing files used by virt-edit(1), guestfish(1) edit
+ command, virt-customize(1) --edit option and more is now shared between
+ all these utilities (thanks Pino Toscano).
+
+ Bugs fixed
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142416
+
+ part-get-name give 'libguestfs: error: part_get_name: parted does not
+ support the machine output (-m)' error message when run
+ 'part-get-name /dev/sda 1'
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142186
+
+ virt-sysprep option '--mount-options' don't work well
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142158
+
+ Illegal command 'part-get-name /dev/sda1 1' cause libguestfs
+ appliance crashed
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142004
+
+ virt-v2v prints waring:WARNING:/files/boot/grub/device.map references
+ unknown device "xvda"
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141723
+
+ virt-v2v: error: disk sda has no defined format shows when converting
+ xen hvm guest
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141680
+
+ [RFE] virt-v2 should support convert a domain with using domain's
+ UUID instead of domain name
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141631
+
+ [RFE] virt-v2 should support convert a guest to a dir-pool with using
+ pool's uuid
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141157
+
+ virt-sysprep option '--user-accounts' don't work well
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141113
+
+ virt-v2v fails to convert esx guests
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140894
+
+ No error messages output if append '--format qcow2' after '-a
+ guest.img', guest.img is a raw format image file
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140547
+
+ virt-builder option '--format' don't work well
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140156
+
+ RFE: Export to RHEV data domain
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140050
+
+ No error shows when multiple conflicting options used with virt-v2v
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139973
+
+ Improve the error info when converting xen guest with no passwordless
+ SSH access configured
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139543
+
+ Improve the error info when converting guest with no space left
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138586
+
+ No error shows when converting running guest with virt-v2v
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138184
+
+ virt-v2v will fail when converting guests with initramfs-*kdump.img
+ under /boot
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138182
+
+ xen guest will be kernel panic after converted by virt-v2v
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1130189
+
+ Annoying message about permissions of /dev/kvm
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1123007
+
+ libguestfs 'direct' backend should close file descriptors before
+ exec-ing qemu to avoid leaking !O_CLOEXEC fds
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1122557
+
+ virt-sparsify overwrites block devices if used as output files
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1113156
+
+ Empty fstab breaks libguestfs inspection
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1111662
+
+ Guestfs.Error("vgchange_uuid_all: Volume group has active logical
+ volumes")
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1109174
+
+ virt-win-reg manual page is corrupted
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1106548
+
+ root gets an error accessing to a non-root dir on a snapshot
+ guestmount VMDK img
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1103877
+
+ These APIs also need to add to `guestfish -h` command list
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102448
+
+ mageia package list is incorrect
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102447
+
+ libguestfs 1.27.13 does not build due to libxml library order
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1100498
+
+ RFE: non-polling mechanism to detect guestmount --no-fork readiness
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1099490
+
+ scrub-file can't handle link file
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1098718
+
+ RFE: virt-builder aliases
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1096465
+
+ virt-builder "proxy=off" setting doesn't turn off the proxy for
+ downloads
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1094746
+
+ virt-sparsify man failes to mention what happens to snapshots within
+ a qcow2 image (they are discarded)
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1092753
+
+ virt-builder: If several repos contain the same os-version images,
+ then they are duplicated in -l output
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1091803
+
+ tar-in-opts execute failed that cause libguestfs appliance crashed
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088424
+
+ virt-resize: libguestfs error: part_set_name: parted: /dev/sdb: Error
+ during translation: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088262
+
+ virt-builder cannot write to a block device
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1085029
+
+ Ruby tests fail with latest Ruby
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079210
+
+ virt-sparsify --in-place cannot sparsify as much as it should
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079182
+
+ virt-df cannot report used disk space of windows guest when updated
+ to 6.5
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1077817
+
+ virt-builder error: "syntax error at line 3: syntax error"
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1056290
+
+ virt-sparsify overwrites block devices if used as output files
+
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/812970
+
+ virt-rescue cannot set ><rescue> prompt, on Ubuntu 12.04
+
RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
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