[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-0.9.6

That's what is now usually called a brown paper bag release (dixit Linus) [*] since 0.9.5 had broken shudown with the two last released versions of QEmu 0.9.6 should be available at the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ and obviously only contains a few bug fixes and local improvements. People should not ship 0.9.5, and use 0.9.6 instead, thanks in advance ! Bug Fixes: - snapshot: fix logic bug in qemu undefine (Eric Blake) - sanlock: fix memory leak (Eric Blake) - virsh: fix regression in argv parsing (Eric Blake) - storage: Wait udev events are handled before removing lvm vol (Osier Yang) - qemu: avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer (Alex Jia) - qemu: Avoid loop of fake reboots (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Fix shutdown regression with buggy qemu (Jiri Denemark) - remote: fix crash on OOM (Eric Blake) Improvements: - snapshot: also delete empty directory (Eric Blake) - snapshot: remove snapshot metadata on transient exit (Eric Blake) - snapshot: prepare to remove transient snapshot metadata (Eric Blake) - virsh: More friendly err if no pool is specified for looking up a vol (Osier Yang) - tests: improve test failure diagnosis (Oskari Saarenmaa) - API: prefer to use NULLSTR macro (Osier Yang) - xen: use typical allocations (Eric Blake) - virsh: Remove useless codes of cmdVolPath (Osier Yang) Portability: - build: silence warning on 32-bit build (Eric Blake) Thanks to all who reported and helped fix those issues quickly !!! Daniel [*] and no I won't carry one, they are non-existent where I live for context http://lwn.net/1999/0204/kernel.php3 -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/