[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-0.8.8

As scheduled the release is out, and available from the site: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Thanks everybody for the earlier testing on the release candidate series that was I think quite useful ! So this release is again mostly consisting of a very large batch of small improvements and bug fixes, and a few new features: Features: - sysinfo: expose new API (Eric Blake) - cgroup blkio weight support. (Gui Jianfeng) - smartcard device support (Eric Blake) - qemu: Support per-device boot ordering (Jiri Denemark) Documentation: - docs: fix typos (Eric Blake) - docs: added link for nimbus to apps page (Justin Clift) - Update src/README (Matthias Bolte) - docs: Add information about libvirt-php new location (Michal Novotny) - Add libvirt-php information page (Michal Novotny) - cgroup: Add documentation for blkiotune elements. (Gui Jianfeng) - docs/index.html.in: update KVM url (Niels de Vos) - docs/index.html.in: update QEMU url (Alon Levy) - docs: more on qemu locking patterns (Eric Blake) - docs: renamed hudson project link to jenkins, matching project rename (Justin Clift) - docs: Update docs for cpu_shares setting (Osier Yang) - docs: replace CRLF with LF (Juerg Haefliger) - docs: Add docs for new extra parameter pkipath (Osier Yang) - docs: expand the man page text for virsh setmaxmem (Justin Clift) - docs: fix incorrect XML element mentioned by setmem text (Justin Clift) - docs: add a link to the bindings page under the downloads menu item (Justin Clift) - docs: document <controller> element (Eric Blake) - docs: move the apps page to the top level as its good promo (Justin Clift) - docs: added new entries to apps page, plus adjusted a few existing (Justin Clift) - docs: document <sysinfo> and <smbios> elements (Eric Blake) - datatypes: Fix outdated function names in the documentation (Matthias Bolte) - Add documentation for VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED (Matthias Bolte) - docs: Move the "Network Filtering" page one level up in the hierarchy (Matthias Bolte) - docs: add buildbot to the apps page (Justin Clift) - docs: add new conversion heading to the apps listing (Justin Clift) - docs: updated windows page for new 0.8.7 installer (Justin Clift) - docs: clarify virsh setvcpus and setmem usage with active domains (Justin Clift) - Document HAP domain feature (Jim Fehlig) - docs: fix trivial typos in currentMemory description (Justin Clift) - doc: improve the documentation of desturi (Wen Congyang) - docs: reorder apps page alphabetically, plus add libguestfs entries (Justin Clift) - docs: add entry for archipel to the apps page (Justin Clift) - docs: use xml entity encoding for extended character last name (Justin Clift) - docs: updated memtune info again in virsh command reference (Justin Clift) - docs: updated release of virsh cmd reference, with memtune info (Justin Clift) - maint: document dislike of mismatched if/else bracing (Eric Blake) - docs: added libvirt-announce to contact page (Justin Clift) Portability: - qemu: ignore failure of qemu -M ? on older qemu (Eric Blake) - virsh: avoid mingw compiler warnings (Eric Blake) - build: avoid problems with autogen.sh runs from tarball (Eric Blake) - build: fix cygwin strerror_r failure (Eric Blake) - Avoid pthread_sigmask on Win32 platforms (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix compilation when building without sasl (Daniel Veillard) - build: fix parted detection at configure time (Eric Blake) - Fix setup of lib directory with autogen.sh --system (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: fix 'make check' with older git (Eric Blake) - maint: support --no-git option during autogen.sh (Eric Blake) - libvirt-guests: remove bashisms (Laurent Léonard) - build: restore mingw build (Eric Blake) - commandtest: avoid printing loader-control variables from commandhelper (Diego Elio Pettenò) Bug Fixes: - cgroup: preserve correct errno on failure (Eric Blake) - qemu: Fix command line generation with faked host CPU (Jiri Denemark) - tests: Fake host capabilities properly (Jiri Denemark) - build: address clang reports about virCommand (Eric Blake) - qemu: don't mask real error with oom report (Eric Blake) - qemu: avoid NULL derefs (Eric Blake) - virDomainMemoryStats: avoid null dereference (Eric Blake) - Fix leak of mutex attributes in POSIX threads impl (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix leak in SCSI storage backend (Daniel P. Berrange) - storage: Create enough volumes for mpath pool (Osier Yang) - qemu: avoid NULL deref on error (Eric Blake) - conf: Fix XML generation for smartcards (Jiri Denemark) - Fix cleanup on VM state after failed QEMU startup (Daniel P. Berrange) - libvirt-qemu: Fix enum type declaration (Jiri Denemark) - xen: Prevent updating device when attaching a device (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fix escape_monitor(escape_shell(command)) (Philipp Hahn) - qemu: fix attach-interface regression (Wen Congyang) - Fix typo in parsing of spice 'auth' data (Michal Privoznik) - Reset logging filter function when forking (Daniel P. Berrange) - Block SIGPIPE around virExec hook functions (Daniel P. Berrange) - Only initialize/cleanup libpciaccess once (Daniel P. Berrange) - macvtap: fix 2 nla_put expressions (non-serious bug) (Stefan Berger) - qemu: avoid double shutdown (Eric Blake) - Fix conflicts with glibc globals (Davidlohr Bueso) - qemuBuildDeviceAddressStr() checks for QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_PCI_MULTIBUS (Niels de Vos) - Don't sleep in poll() if there is existing SASL decoded data (Daniel P. Berrange) - Initialization error of controller in QEmu SCSI hotplug (Wen Congyang) - esx: Ensure max-memory has 4 megabyte granularity (Matthias Bolte) - Remove double close of qemu monitor (Daniel P. Berrange) - Prevent overfilling of self-pipe in python event loop (Daniel P. Berrange) - avoid vm to be deleted if qemuConnectMonitor failed (Wen Congyang) - tests: Fix virtio channel tests (Jiri Denemark) - event: fix event-handling allocation crash (Eric Blake) - storage: Round up capacity for LVM volume creation (Osier Yang) - Do not use virtio-serial port 0 for generic ports (David Allan) - Manually kill gzip if restore fails before starting qemu (Laine Stump) - Set SELinux context label of pipes used for qemu migration (Laine Stump) - virsh: require --mac to avoid detach-interface ambiguity (Michal Privoznik) - dispatch error before return (Wen Congyang) - event: fix event-handling data race (Eric Blake) - qemu: Retry JSON monitor cont cmd on MigrationExpected error (Jim Fehlig) - Fix startup with VNC password expiry on old QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix error reporting when machine type probe fails (Daniel P. Berrange) - Avoid crash in security driver if model is NULL (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Fix a possible deadlock in p2p migration (Wen Congyang) - qemu: Avoid sending STOPPED event twice (Jiri Denemark) - spec: Start libvirt-guests only if it's on in current runlevel (Jiri Denemark) - Increase size of driver table to make UML work again (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: don't fail capabilities check on 0.12.x (Eric Blake) - Fix 'make check' after commit 04197350 (Jim Fehlig) - esx: Fix memory leak in HostSystem managed object free function (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Watchdog IB700 is not a PCI device (RHBZ#667091). (Richard W.M. Jones) - cpu: plug memory leak (Eric Blake) - network: plug memory leak (Eric Blake) - network: plug unininitialized read found by valgrind (Eric Blake) - remote: Don't lose track of events when callbacks are slow (Cole Robinson) - conf: Report error if invalid type specified for character device (Osier Yang) - daemon: Fix core dumps if unix_sock_group is set (Jiri Denemark) - vbox: Use correct VRAM size unit (Matthias Bolte) - bridge: Fix generation of dnsmasq's --dhcp-hostsfile option (Kay Schubert) - qemu: Fix bogus warning about uninitialized saveptr (Jiri Denemark) - Don't chown qemu saved image back to root after save if dynamic_ownership=0 (Laine Stump) Improvements: - maint: delete unused 'make install' step (Eric Blake) - Update czech localization (Zdenek Styblik) - Avoid empty strings when --with-packager(-version) is not specified (Matthias Bolte) - Output commandline on status != 0 in virCommandWait (Matthias Bolte) - add missing error handling to virGetDomain (Christophe Fergeau) - call virReportOOMError when appropriate in hash.c (Christophe Fergeau) - xml: avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake) - nwfilter: reorder match extensions relative to state match (Stefan Berger) - fix OOM handling in hash routines (Christophe Fergeau) - docs: Distribute XSLT files to generate HACKING (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Report a more informative error for missing cgroup controllers (Matthias Bolte) - Imprint all logs with version + package build information (Daniel P. Berrange) - Reduce log level when cgroups aren't mounted (Daniel P. Berrange) - Avoid warnings from nwfilter driver when run non-root (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: distribute 'make syntax-check' tweaks (Eric Blake) - Adjust some log levels in udev driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add check for binary existing in machine type probe (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a little more debugging for async events (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move connection driver modules directory (Daniel P. Berrange) - Support SCSI RAID type & lower log level for unknown types (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't use CLONE_NEWUSER for now (Serge E. Hallyn) - sysinfo: implement qemu support (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: refactor xml formatting (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: implement virsh support (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: implement the remote protocol (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: implement the public API (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: define internal driver API (Eric Blake) - LXC: LXC Blkio weight configuration support. (Gui Jianfeng) - qemu: Implement blkio tunable XML configuration and parsing. (Gui Jianfeng) - cgroup: Update XML Schema for new entries. (Gui Jianfeng) - cgroup: Implement blkio.weight tuning API. (Gui Jianfeng) - cgroup: Enable cgroup hierarchy for blkio cgroup (Gui Jianfeng) - Update Dutch and Polish localizations (Daniel Veillard) - Vietnamese translations for libvirt (Hero Phương) - spicevmc: support older -device spicevmc of qemu 0.13.0 (Eric Blake) - smartcard: add spicevmc support (Eric Blake) - spicevmc: support new qemu chardev (Daniel P. Berrange) - smartcard: turn on qemu support (Eric Blake) - smartcard: enable SELinux support (Eric Blake) - smartcard: check for qemu capability (Eric Blake) - smartcard: add domain conf support (Eric Blake) - smartcard: add XML support for <smartcard> device (Eric Blake) - qemu: Support booting from hostdev PCI devices (Jiri Denemark) - Support booting from hostdev devices (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Add shortcut for HMP pass through (Jiri Denemark) - macvtap: fix variable in debugging output (Stefan Berger) - qemu: Build command line for incoming tunneled migration (Osier Yang) - bridge_driver: handle DNS over IPv6 (Paweł Krześniak) - tests: handle backspace-newline pairs in test input files (Juerg Haefliger) - qemu: More clear error parsing domain def failure of tunneled migration (Osier Yang) - maint: reject raw close, popen in 'make syntax-check' (Eric Blake) - build: avoid close, system (Eric Blake) - Add VIR_DIV_UP to divide memory or storage request sizes with round up (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: fix augeas support for vnc_auto_unix_socket (Eric Blake) - virsh: added --all flag to freecell command (Michal Privoznik) - esx: Don't try to change max-memory of an active domain (Matthias Bolte) - qemu aio: enable support (Eric Blake) - qemu aio: parse aio support from qemu -help (Matthias Dahl) - qemu aio: add XML parsing (Matthias Dahl) - Remove bogus log warning lines when launching QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: fix error messages (Eric Blake) - qemu: Report more accurate error on failure to attach device. (Hu Tao) - Force guest suspend at timeout (Wen Congyang) - Show migration progress. (Wen Congyang) - Cancel migration if user presses Ctrl-C when migration is in progress (Hu Tao) - qemu: use separate alias for chardev and associated device (Eric Blake) - remote: Add extra parameter pkipath for URI (Osier Yang) - Update localization files from Fedora i10n (Daniel Veillard) - Add check for poll error events in monitor (Daniel P. Berrange) - Filter out certain expected error messages from libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a function to the security driver API that sets the label of an open fd. (Laine Stump) - qemu: Error prompt when managed save a shutoff domain (Osier Yang) - build: avoid corrupted gnulib/tests/Makefile (Eric Blake) - qemu: sound: Support intel 'ich6' model (Cole Robinson) - vmx: Use VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED when appropriated (Matthias Bolte) - Push unapplied fixups for previous patch (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Add conf option to auto setup VNC unix sockets (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Allow serving VNC over a unix domain socket (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Set domain def transient at beginning of startup process (Cole Robinson) - qemu: report more proper error for unsupported graphics (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fail if per-device boot is used but deviceboot is not supported (Jiri Denemark) - Turn libvirt.c error reporting functions into macros (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: use more gnulib modules for simpler code (Eric Blake) - Remove two unused PATH_MAX-sized char arrays from the stack (Matthias Bolte) - Use VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID when appropriated (Matthias Bolte) - Fix misuse of VIR_ERR_INVALID_* error code (Matthias Bolte) - Simplify "NWFilterPool" to "NWFilter" (Matthias Bolte) - datatypes: Get virSecretFreeName in sync with the other free functions (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: use -incoming fd:n to avoid qemu holding fd indefinitely (Eric Blake) - tests: Add tests for per-device boot elements (Jiri Denemark) - Introduce per-device boot element (Jiri Denemark) - conf: Move boot parsing into a separate function (Jiri Denemark) - build: let xgettext see strings in libvirt-guests (Eric Blake) - A couple of fixes for the search PHP code (Daniel Veillard) - virsh: Use WITH_SECDRIVER_APPARMOR to detect AppArmor support (Matthias Bolte) - memtune: Let virsh know the unlimited value for memory tunables (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - maint: improve sc_prohibit_strncmp syntax check (Eric Blake) - Enable tuning of qemu network tap device "sndbuf" size (Laine Stump) - Add XML config switch to enable/disable vhost-net support (Laine Stump) - Use the new set_password monitor command to set password. (Marc-André Lureau) - qemu: add set_password and expire_password monitor commands (Marc-André Lureau) - qemu: move monitor device out of domain_conf common code (Eric Blake) - domain_conf: split source data out from ChrDef (Eric Blake) - cpu: Add support for Westmere CPU model (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: improve device flag parsing (Eric Blake) - util: add missing string->integer conversion functions (Eric Blake) - qemu: convert capabilities to use virCommand (Eric Blake) - virsh: ensure --maximum flag used only with --config for setvcpus (Justin Clift) - Add HAP to xen hypervisor capabilities (Jim Fehlig) - Add support for HAP feature to xen drivers (Jim Fehlig) - Add HAP to virDomainFeature enum (Jim Fehlig) - tests: virsh is no longer in builddir/src (Eric Blake) - virFindFileInPath: only find executable non-directory (Eric Blake) - Fix old PHP syntax in the search online form (Daniel Veillard) - report error when specifying wrong desturi (Wen Congyang) - qemu: Reject SDL graphic if it's not supported by qemu (Osier Yang) - vbox: Silently ignore missing registry key on Windows (Matthias Bolte) - python: Use PyCapsule API if available (Cole Robinson) - event-test: Simplify debug on/off (Cole Robinson) - Refactor the security drivers to simplify usage (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Guido Günther) - esx: Move occurrence check into esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Add domain autostart support (Matthias Bolte) - vmx: Add support for video device VRAM size (Matthias Bolte) - API: Improve log for domain related APIs (Osier Yang) - schema: tighten <serial><protocol type=...> relaxNG (Eric Blake) - Log an error on attempts to add a NAT rule for non-IPv4 addresses (Laine Stump) - Improve error reporting when parsing dhcp info for virtual networks (Laine Stump) - qemu driver: fix positioning to end of log file (Stefan Berger) - build: satisfy 'make syntax-check' regarding year change (Eric Blake) Cleanups: - build: silence some clang warnings (Eric Blake) - maint: kill dead assignments (Eric Blake) - build: silence false positive clang report (Eric Blake) - maint: whitespace cleanup (Eric Blake) - maint: update AUTHORS (Eric Blake) - Prefer C style comments over C++ ones (Matthias Bolte) - Revert all previous error log priority hacks (Daniel P. Berrange) - Cleanup code style in logging APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove redundant brackets around return values (Daniel P. Berrange) - tests: Remove obsolete secaatest (Matthias Bolte) - datatypes: avoid redundant __FUNCTION__ (Eric Blake) Thanks everybody for the patches, reports and documentation improvements ! Daniel -- 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/