[Libvirt-announce] libvirt-1.4.4 is out

As planned I tagged the git tree earlier today and pushed tarballs and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ The release is a bit smaller than usual in terms of commited patches probably due to a large part of the team travelling to KVM Forum ! This is mostly a bug fix and maintainance release, it includes 4 important security patches in addition to the usual set of bug and leak fixes. To note the added support for ARM 64 bits arch, and quite a large set of portability fixes: Features: - Add support for AArch64 architecture (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - Various improvements on test code and test driver (many people) Security: - Don't link virt-login-shell against libvirt.so (CVE-2013-4400) (Daniel P. Berrange) - Close all non-stdio FDs in virt-login-shell (CVE-2013-4400) (Daniel P. Berrange) - Only allow 'stderr' log output when running setuid (CVE-2013-4400) (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix perms for virConnectDomainXML{To,From}Native (CVE-2013-4401) (Daniel P. Berrange) Documentation: - generate links from plain text documentation (Claudio Bley) - define style of code blocks inside descriptions (Claudio Bley) - add class "description" to div's containing descriptions (Claudio Bley) - process code blocks similar to Markdown (Claudio Bley) - fix typos in formatnwfilter (Chen Hanxiao) - fix a typo in formatdomain (Chen Hanxiao) - virsh: fix doc typos (Eric Blake) - maint: typo fixes (Eric Blake) - fix some typos about 'informations' (Chen Hanxiao) - fix a typo in formatdomain (Chen Hanxiao) - Expand description of host-model CPU mode (Jiri Denemark) - virsh: fix a typo in virsh-domain (Chen Hanxiao) - storage: document existing pools (Eric Blake) - remote-driver: Fix 'leav' typo in comment (Christophe Fergeau) - change the minimum weight description for blkio (Chen Hanxiao) - Add some notes about secure usage of libvirt (Daniel P. Berrange) - lxc: Fix an improper comment in lxc_process.c (Chen Hanxiao) - nwfilter: fix a typo in nwfilter_gentech_driver.c (Hongwei Bi) - cgroup: fix a comment typo in vircgroup.c (Chen Hanxiao) - fix typo in HACKING (Chen Hanxiao) - aclpolkit: Fix a heading typo (Cole Robinson) Portability: - virnetsocket: fix getsockopt on FreeBSD (Ryota Ozaki) - MacOS: Handle changes to xdrproc_t definition (Doug Goldstein) - fix api changes in xen restore (Bamvor Jian Zhang) - MacOS: Re-add support for QEMU backend (Doug Goldstein) - rpc: Retrieve peer PID via new getsockopt() for Mac (Doug Goldstein) - build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls (Jim Fehlig) - build: fix linking virt-login-shell (Jim Fehlig) - nodeinfo: fix physical memory size on Mac OS X (Ryota Ozaki) - Add stub getegid impl for platforms lacking it (Daniel P. Berrange) - better error checking for LOCAL_PEERCRED (Brian Candler) - Add support for detecting PPC little endian arches (Daniel P. Berrange) - xenapi: Fix build after const correctnes changes (Peter Krempa) - rpc: Fix getsockopt on Snow Leopard and lower (Doug Goldstein) - build: fix linker error on FreeBSD (Giuseppe Scrivano) - tests: avoid compile failure on linux kernels older than 2.6.19 (Giuseppe Scrivano) - nodeinfo: make freebsdNodeGetCPUCount work on Mac OS X (Ryota Ozaki) - rpc: fix getsockopt for LOCAL_PEERCRED on Mac OS X (Ryota Ozaki) - build: fix build on 32-bit platforms (Eric Blake) - build: fix build on RHEL 5 (Eric Blake) - build: fix build --without-remote (Eric Blake) Bug fixes: - Fix race in starting transient VMs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use a port from the migration range for NBD as well (Ján Tomko) - nodedev_hal: fix segfault when virDBusGetSystemBus fails (Ryota Ozaki) - Fix race condition reconnecting to vms & loading configs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't update dom->persistent without lock held (Daniel P. Berrange) - storage: fix incorrect typedef (Eric Blake) - apparmor: Fix typo in function name in driver struct initialization (Peter Krempa) - qemu: fix well-formed migration URI formatting (Michael Chapman) - LXC: don't free tty before using it in lxcContainerSetupDevices (Gao feng) - python: Fix Create*WithFiles filefd passing (Marian Neagul) - networkStartDhcpDaemon: Check for dnsmasqCapsRefresh failure (Hongwei Bi) - virsh: Fix job watching when STDIN is not a tty (Peter Krempa) - qemu: fix removal of <interface type='hostdev'> (Laine Stump) - Fix a problem introduced by commit 99889012 (Geoff Hickey) - qemu: Avoid assigning unavailable migration ports (Wang Yufei) - viralloc.h: Fix typo in VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY_QUIT (Michal Privoznik) - remote: fix regression in event deregistration (Zhou Yimin) - daemon: don't free domain if it's null (Chen Hanxiao) - Remove ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(3) from qemuMonitorJSONDrivePivot (John Ferlan) - rpc: Correct the wrong payload size checking (Osier Yang) - Fix typo breaking cgroups for NBD backed filesystems (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ignore thin pool LVM devices. (Dusty Mabe) - domain_conf.c: Initialize arrVar and cntVar (Michal Privoznik) - vbox: handle 'saved' state of VMs (Ryota Ozaki) - esx: Fix floppy.fileName handling in the vmx file parser (Geoff Hickey) - Convert uuid to a string before printing it (Ján Tomko) - Initialize threading & error layer in LXC controller (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't ignore all dbus connection errors (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix exit status of lxc controller (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix flaw in detecting log format (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu_migration: Avoid crashing if domain dies too quickly (Michal Privoznik) - util: fix two virCompareLimitUlong bugs (Bing Bu Cao) - storage_backend: Fix issue with allocation of 0 length volume (John Ferlan) - qemu: Init @pcidevs in qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices (Michal Privoznik) - LXC: Fix handling of RAM filesystem size units (Ján Tomko) - Don't clobber 'ret' variable in testCompareXMLToXMLHelper (Daniel P. Berrange) - Adjust legacy max payload size to account for header information (Claudio Bley) - storage: fix file allocation behavior in file cloning (Oskari Saarenmaa) - virfile: safezero: fix buffer allocation max size (Oskari Saarenmaa) - test: Fix coverity warnings (Cole Robinson) - nodedev: Resolve Relax-NG validity error (John Ferlan) - Free cmd in virNetDevVethCreate (Gao feng) - Free cmd in virNetDevVethDelete (Gao feng) - qemu: check actual netdev type rather than config netdev type during init (Laine Stump) - qemuMonitorTestFree: Join worker thread (Michal Privoznik) - Avoid deleting NULL veth device name (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemuMonitorJSONSendKey: Avoid double free (Michal Privoznik) - qemuMonitorJSONGetVirtType: Fix error message (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: cgroup: Fix crash if starting nographics guest (Cole Robinson) - selinux: Only close the selabel_handle once (Ján Tomko) - Fix handling of IPv6 listen addresses in cmdDomDisplay (Ján Tomko) - util: recognize SMB/CIFS filesystems as shared (Laine Stump) - Fix leak of objects when reconnecting to QEMU instances (Daniel P. Berrange) Improvements: - libxl: fix dubious cpumask handling in libxlDomainSetVcpuAffinities (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) - Improve debugging of QEMU start/stop (Daniel P. Berrange) - Improve debugging of job enter/exit code (Daniel P. Berrange) - storage: use correct type for array count (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid further typedef accidents (Eric Blake) - libvirt.c: indent code of virDomainGetMemoryParameters's documentation (Claudio Bley) - libvirt.c: add 2 spaces of indentation to example code of virStreamSend (Claudio Bley) - Add '+' to uid/gid printing for label processing (John Ferlan) - Push RPM deps down into libvirt-daemon-driver-XXXX sub-RPMs (Daniel P. Berrange) - capabilities: add baselabel per sec driver/virt type to secmodel (Giuseppe Scrivano) - security: add new internal function "virSecurityManagerGetBaseLabel" (Giuseppe Scrivano) - security: use a single function to set DAC user and group (Giuseppe Scrivano) - virsh: new environment variable VIRSH_HISTSIZE (Pavel Raiskup) - maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) - Skip debug message in lxcContainerSetID if no map is set. (Chen Hanxiao) - Avoid Coverity DEADCODE warning (John Ferlan) - virsh: allow alias to expand to opt=value pair (Eric Blake) - Ignore GNU Global tag files (Martin Kletzander) - build: Fix prohibit_int_ijk (and iijjkk) on RHEL 5 (Martin Kletzander) - Get rid of shadowed booleans (Michal Privoznik) - vircgroupmock: Mock access() to some more files (Michal Privoznik) - tests: Use lv_abs_top_builddir instead of bare abs_top_builddir (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: move qemuDomainRemoveNetDevice to avoid forward reference (Laine Stump) - qemu: simplify calling qemuDomainHostdevNetConfigRestore (Laine Stump) - Move virt-login-shell into libvirt-login-shell sub-RPM (Daniel P. Berrange) - Block all use of libvirt.so in setuid programs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove (nearly) all use of getuid()/getgid() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't allow remote driver daemon autostart when running setuid (Daniel P. Berrange) - Only allow the UNIX transport in remote driver when setuid (Daniel P. Berrange) - Block all use of getenv with syntax-check (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove all direct use of getenv (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make virCommand env handling robust in setuid env (Daniel P. Berrange) - Set a sane $PATH for virt-login-shell (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Fix augeas support for migration ports (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Make migration port range configurable (Jiri Denemark) - netcf: Don't complain when cleanup is called before init (Christophe Fergeau) - virsh: improve usability of '--print-xml' flag for attach-disk command (Chen Hanxiao) - esx: Remove unnecessary NULL comparisons (3/3) (Geoff Hickey) - esx: Remove unnecessary NULL comparisons (2/3) (Geoff Hickey) - esx: Remove unnecessary NULL comparisons (1/3) (Geoff Hickey) - Add support for enabling SASL for SPICE guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemuDomainCleanupRemove: s/memmove/VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT_INPLACE/ (Michal Privoznik) - build: use the gnulib version of the .m4 files when present (Giuseppe Scrivano) - storage: allow interleave in pool XML (Eric Blake) - Add some logging to LXC disk/fs nbd/loop setup (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add logging to LXC cgroup devices setup (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add log statement when NBD device is setup (Daniel P. Berrange) - AArch64: Add qemu capabilities schemeta for test. (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - Implement minimal sysinfo for AArch64 platforms. (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - AArch64: Parse cputopology from /proc/cpuinfo. (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - AArch64: CPU Support for AArch64 (ARMv8 64bit). (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - AArch64: Add AArch64 architecture to list of valid arches. (Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar) - cpu: x86: Clean up error messages in x86VendorLoad() (Peter Krempa) - cpu: x86: Use whitespace to clarify context and use consistent labels (Peter Krempa) - cpu: x86: Fix function header formatting and whitespace (Peter Krempa) - cpu: x86: Fix return types of x86cpuidMatch and x86cpuidMatchMasked (Peter Krempa) - cpu: x86: Rename data_iterator and DATA_ITERATOR_INIT (Peter Krempa) - cpu: x86: Rename x86DataAddCpuid as virCPUx86DataAddCPUID (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: x86: Rename x86MakeCPUData as virCPUx86MakeData (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: x86: Rename x86DataFree() as virCPUx86DataFree() (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: x86: Rename struct cpuX86Data as virCPUx86Data (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: x86: Rename struct cpuX86cpuid as virCPUx86CPUID (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: Add support for loading and storing CPU data (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: command: Fix macro indentation (Peter Krempa) - conf: Mark user provided strings in error messages when parsing XML (Peter Krempa) - schema: Rename option 'hypervtristate' to 'featurestate' (Peter Krempa) - fix typo in lxc_driver.c and virsh-nodedev.c (Hongwei Bi) - build: Add lxc testcase to dist list (Daniel Hansel) - cgroup: leave blkio cgroup value checking to kernel (Chen Hanxiao) - cgroup: show error when EINVAL is returned (Chen Hanxiao) - vbox: merge duplicate state conversions (Ryota Ozaki) - build: syntax check to avoid 'const fooPtr' (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in all remaining places (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in qemu (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in security (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in conf (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in domain_conf (Eric Blake) - maint: fix awkward typing of virDomainChrGetDomainPtrs (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in python bindings (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in tests (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in nwfilter files (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in cpu files (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in virnet files (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in several util files (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in hashes (Eric Blake) - maint: avoid 'const fooPtr' in public API (Eric Blake) - Improve log filtering in virLXCProcessReadLogOutputData (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure lxcContainerResolveSymlinks reports errors (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure lxcContainerMain reports errors on stderr (Daniel P. Berrange) - VMX: Serial devices don't have to be attached (Doug Goldstein) - Revert "VMX: Some serial ports are not actually connected" (Doug Goldstein) - qemu: snapshot: Add support for compressing external snapshot memory (Peter Krempa) - qemu: managedsave: Add support for compressing managed save images (Peter Krempa) - Improve error reporting with LXC controller (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make LXC controller use a private dbus connection & close it (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a method for closing the dbus system bus connection (Daniel P. Berrange) - Allow use of a private dbus bus connection (Daniel P. Berrange) - VMware: Do version detection earlier (Doug Goldstein) - VMware: Simplify array walk for driver type (Doug Goldstein) - qemu: Include listenAddress in debug prints (Michal Privoznik) - Move virNetDevVPort enum impl into virnetdevvportprofile.c (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu_conf: Introduce "migration_address" (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Implement support for VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_LISTEN_ADDRESS (Michal Privoznik) - virsocket: Introduce virSocketAddrIsWildcard (Michal Privoznik) - Migration: Introduce VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_LISTEN_ADDRESS (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Introduce qemuDomainDefCheckABIStability (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONSendKey (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetVirtType (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetCPUInfo (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Extend the test for yet another monitor commands (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Prefer VFIO for PCI device passthrough (Peter Krempa) - qemu: hostdev: Add checks if PCI passthrough is available in the host (Peter Krempa) - qemu: hostdev: Fix function spacing and header formatting (Peter Krempa) - qemu: refactor qemuCompressProgramAvailable() (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Fix coding style in qemuDomainSaveFlags() (Peter Krempa) - storage: Use bool instead of int (Ján Tomko) - tests: Add qemu test for multiple timers (Cole Robinson) - qemu: hostdev: Refactor PCI passhrough handling (Peter Krempa) - virerror: s/VIR_ERR_STORAGE_VOL_EXISTS/VIR_ERR_STORAGE_VOL_EXISTS/ (Michal Privoznik) - fix a ambiguous output of the command:'virsh vol-create-as' (Hongwei Bi) - build: add configure --without-readline (Eric Blake) - build: move readline check into its own macro (Eric Blake) - build: kill maintainer mode, always rebuild by default (Eric Blake) - Remove use of virConnectPtr from all remaining nwfilter code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't pass virConnectPtr in nwfilter 'struct domUpdateCBStruct' (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove virConnectPtr arg from virNWFilterDefParse* (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Use maximum guest memory size when getting NUMA placement advice (Peter Krempa) - virfile: safezero: fall back to writing block by block if mmap fails (Oskari Saarenmaa) - test: snapshot: Add REDEFINE support (Cole Robinson) - qemu: snapshot: Break out redefine preparation to shared function (Cole Robinson) - test: Implement snapshot create/delete/revert APIs (Cole Robinson) - test: Allow specifying domainsnapshot XML (Cole Robinson) - qemu: snapshots: Simplify REDEFINE flag check (Cole Robinson) - qemucapabilitiesdata: Add qemu-1.6.50 data (Michal Privoznik) - qemucapabilitiesdata: Add qemu-1.6.0 data (Michal Privoznik) - qemucapabilitiesdata: Add qemu-1.4.2 data (Michal Privoznik) - qemucapabilitiesdata: Add qemu-1.3.1 data (Michal Privoznik) - qemucapabilitiesdata: Add qemu-1.2.2 data (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONSystemPowerdown (Michal Privoznik) - Use 'vnet' as prefix for veth devices (Daniel P. Berrange) - Retry veth device creation on failure (Daniel P. Berrange) - Avoid reporting an error if veth device is already deleted (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't set netdev offline in container cleanup (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetMigrationCapability (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetTargetArch (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONSetBlockIoThrottle (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetPtyPaths (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetSpiceMigrationStatus (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetMigrationStatus (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetMigrationCacheSize (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetBlockStatsInfo (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetBlockInfo (Michal Privoznik) - qemumonitorjsontest: Test qemuMonitorJSONGetBalloonInfo (Michal Privoznik) - qemu_hotplug: Allow QoS update in qemuDomainChangeNet (Michal Privoznik) - virNetDevBandwidthEqual: Make it more robust (Michal Privoznik) - test: Implement readonly snapshot APIs (Cole Robinson) - test: Wire up managed save APIs (Cole Robinson) - test: Allow specifying object transient state in driver XML (Cole Robinson) - tests: Introduce qemucapabilitiestest (Michal Privoznik) - qemuMonitorTest: Make check for monitor command match optional (Michal Privoznik) - tests: Learn qemuMonitorTestNew optional greeting (Michal Privoznik) - qemu_capabilities: Introduce virQEMUCapsInitQMPMonitor (Michal Privoznik) Cleanups: - xenapi: fix coding style in xenapi_driver.c (Hongwei Bi) - virsh: undocument --shareable (--mode already covers it) (Eric Blake) - Remove test case average timing (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove existing OOM test impl (Daniel P. Berrange) Thanks everybody for everyone who helped for this release, be it for documentation, bug reports, patches, etc ... Enjoy ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/