As scheduled, the release hist the server, it's available on the ftp ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ It really includes a lot of bug fixes, as well as some new API and features. I would expect the next release to be around end of January 2010 something like a feature freeze around Jan 22 and a push on 29. That way we will be back on the "end of month release" scheme :-) Features: - Add new API virDomainMemoryStats to header and drivers (Adam Litke) - Public API and domain extension for CPU flags (Jiri Denemark) - expose SR IOV physical/virtual function relationships (Dave Allan) - Support for JSON mode monitor [deactivated] (Daniel P. Berrange) - Support for interface model='netfront' (Jiri Denemark) - vbox: Add support for version 3.1 (Pritesh Kothari) - Support QEMU's virtual FAT block device driver (Daniel P. Berrange) Documentation: - Document the dommemstat command in the virsh man page (Adam Litke) - esx: Add more links to external documentation (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Extend documentation about 'vcenter' and add some about 'auto_answer' (Matthias Bolte) - Fix and improve domain xml video element description (Matthias Bolte) - Fix owner and group in example volume XML (Matthew Booth) - add missing doc for device <shareable/> option (Daniel Veillard) - add AppArmor test and examples to dist (Jamie Strandboge) - Update location of C# bindings. (Richard Jones) - Fix typo in QEMU driver webpage (Daniel P. Berrange) - Clarify documentation for private symbols (Wolfgang Mauerer) - Fix news.html validation (Dan Kenigsberg) Portability: - Define ATTRIBUTE_SENTINEL for GCC < 4.0 too (Matthias Bolte) - Fix compilation with configure --disable-nls (Matthias Bolte) - Fix configure check for SASL (Matthias Bolte) - Fix GnuTLS pkg-config check (Matthias Bolte) - Report an error if no XDR library can be found (Matthias Bolte) - Fix compilation with gcrypt < 1.4.2 (Matthias Bolte) - Don't mix LDFLAGS and LIBS in the configure script (Diego Elio Pettenò) - Don't make it possible to define HAVE_HAL but not enable it in automake (Diego Elio Pettenò) - Fix install location for Python bindings (Matthias Bolte) - Use AM_PATH_PYTHON and python-config to detect Python configuration (Matthias Bolte) - Fix a compilation failure if yajl not avail (Daniel Veillard) - Fix compilation for configure --disable-nls (Matthias Bolte) Bug fixes: - cpu: Fix memory leaks in x86FeatureLoad and x86ModelLoad (Matthias Bolte) - Make Xen VT-d PCI attach/detach work (Chris Lalancette) - Fix detection of JSON when restarting libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix reporting of TLS connection errors (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix typo in qemudDomainAttachHostPciDevice() (Daniel Veillard) - esx: Destroy virtual machine on a vCenter if available (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Undefine virtual machine on a vCenter if available (Matthias Bolte) - Initialize gcrypt threading (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix bug in storage driver accessing wrong private data (Daniel P. Berrange) - esx_vi.c: do not call through NULL function pointer (Jim Meyering) - esx_util.c: avoid NULL deref for invalid inputs (Jim Meyering) - esx: Don't goto failure for invalid arguments in VMX code (Matthias Bolte) - Fix memory leak in qemudBuildCommandLine (Matthias Bolte) - avoid malfunction when virFileResolveLink is applied to non-POSIX FS (Jim Meyering) - libvirt.c: don't let a NULL "cpumaps" argument provoke a NULL-deref (Jim Meyering) - qemu migration: avoid NULL-deref given an invalid input (Jim Meyering) - qemu_driver.c: don't unlink(NULL) on OOM error path (Jim Meyering) - remote_driver.c: also zero out ->saslDecodedOffset member (Jim Meyering) - qemu_driver.c: avoid double free on error path (Jim Meyering) - libvirtd: avoid a NULL dereference on error path (Jim Meyering) - virsh: avoid double-free (Jim Meyering) - node_device_driver.c: don't write beyond EOB for 4K-byte symlink (Jim Meyering) - Eliminate failure to delete empty storage pools (Laine Stump) - Fix use of virEventAddHandleImpl() (Jiri Denemark) - Fix possible NULL pointer dereference (Paolo Bonzini) - fix various breakages in qemu Dump command (Paolo Bonzini) - Fix reference leak in remoteDispatchStorageVolCreateXmlFrom (Matthias Bolte) - Fix memory leak in virStorageBackendCopyToFD (Matthias Bolte) - retrieve paused/running state at migration start (Paolo Bonzini) - fix migration of paused vms upon failure (Paolo Bonzini) - qemu driver: Fix segfault in libvirt/libvirtd when uri->path is NULL. (Richard Jones) - Fix a wellformedness problem in secret.rng (Diego Elio Pettenò) - Fix virDomainObj ref handling in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Pull code to start CPUs executing out of qemudInitCpuAffinity() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix migration cancellation for QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix crash when deleting monitor while a command is in progress (Daniel P. Berrange) - udev_device_get_devpath might return NULL (Guido Günther) - Fix some locking issues (Matthias Bolte) - Fix event test timer checks on kernels with HZ=100 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix threading problems in python bindings (Daniel P. Berrange) - Supress annoying libcap-ng errors from valgrind (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix two leaks in test driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Free cgroup device ACL list on driver shutdown (Daniel P. Berrange) - xen: Fix unconditional freeing in xenDaemonListDefinedDomains() (Matthias Bolte) - Fix default disk type when parsing QEMU argv (Daniel P. Berrange) - remove port filter when network device is detached (Gerhard Stenzel) Improvements: - convert missing server entry points into unsupported errors (Daniel Veillard) - fix some error report when on remote access (Olivier Fourdan) - Disable JSON mode monitor until QEMU is more mature (Daniel P. Berrange) - Only probe for CPU models if required (Jiri Denemark) - Add cpu_map.xml to libvirt.spec (Jiri Denemark) - Install cpu_map.xml (Jiri Denemark) - esx: Don't warn about '/' paths (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Extend vCenter query parameter (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Improve domain lookup by UUID (Matthias Bolte) - build: update gnulib submodule to latest (Jim Meyering) - Relax the allowed values for machine type in schema (Daniel Veillard) - Implement --pool option for virsh vol-path (Dave Allan) - nodedev: Add removable storage 'media_label' prop (Cole Robinson) - add --live support to "virsh dump" (Paolo Bonzini) - add --crash support to "virsh dump" (Paolo Bonzini) - Get QEMU pty paths from the monitor (Matthew Booth) - Extract the assigned pty device for QEmu channels (Matthew Booth) - Make QEMU driver use -chardev everywhere if available (Matthew Booth) - add virsh --suspend arg to migrate command (Paolo Bonzini) - reload iptables rules on libvirtd restart (Mark McLoughlin) - reload iptables rules simply by re-adding them (Mark McLoughlin) - Plumb domain description tag in xend backend (Jim Fehlig) - Make QEMU text monitor parsing more robust (Daniel P. Berrange) - Hook up JSON monitor to emit basic lifecycle events (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add QEMU monitor callbacks for basic lifecycle events (Daniel P. Berrange) - Switch over to passing a callback table to QEMU monitor (Daniel P. Berrange) - Introduce callbacks for serializing domain object private data to XML (Daniel P. Berrange) - Switch LXC driver to use a private data blob for virDomainObj state (Daniel P. Berrange) - Switch UML driver to use a private data blob for virDomainObj state (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a 'format' arg to qemuMonitorChangeMedia() since JSON will support it (Daniel P. Berrange) - Introduce a simple API for handling JSON data (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add --system flag to autogen.sh to make it easy to build with right prefix (Daniel P. Berrange) - Export all symbols from xml.h for internal use (Jiri Denemark) - vbox: Use virIndexToDiskName() in vboxGenerateMediumName() (Matthias Bolte) - Tests for interface type/model configuration (Jiri Denemark) - Add virIndexToDiskName and fix mapping gap (Matthias Bolte) - Add another SENTINEL attribute (Paolo Bonzini) - Fix help message (Wolfgang Mauerer) - Alternate CPU affinity impl to cope with NR_CPUS > 1024 (Daniel P. Berrange) Cleanups: - The secret driver is stateful, link it directly to libvirtd (Matthias Bolte) - Remove undefined symbols from libvirt_private.syms (Matthias Bolte) - boolean shadows a typedef in rpcndr.h when compiled with MinGW (Matthias Bolte) - Rename DATADIR to PKGDATADIR to fix win32 build (Jiri Denemark) - Move cpu_map.xml to -client RPM (Jiri Denemark) - Fix undefined reference to 'close_used_without_including_unistd_h' (Matthias Bolte) - Fix argument type of virProcessInfoSetAffinity dummy function (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Use occurrence enum to specify expected result of a SOAP call (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Fix occurence typo (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Removed unused inttypes.h include (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Replace libxml1 'xmlChildrenNode' with libxml2 'children' (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Use more suitable error code in esxVI_LookupVirtualMachineByUuid() (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Add automatic question handling (Matthias Bolte) - avoid calling exit with a constant; use EXIT_* instead (Jim Meyering) - maint: remove from VC two gnulib-provided files (Jim Meyering) - xm_internal.c: remove misleading dead code (Jim Meyering) - Cleanup temporary #define after use (Matthew Booth) - Suppress cgroup error message on sucess startup (Ryota Ozaki) - Small change of RNG syntax for domain (Diego Elio Pettenò) - remove iptablesReloadRules() and related code (Mark McLoughlin) - remove all traces of lokkit support (Mark McLoughlin) - Add virBufferFreeAndReset() and replace free() (Matthias Bolte) - Fix the news file non-ascii characters (Daniel Veillard) - Add missing commas to the 0.7.4 news section (Matthias Bolte) - Change generated HTML to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard) - Avoid an type-punned pointer aliasing pbm (Daniel Veillard) - Move qemuMonitorEscape + migrate status enum into shared monitor code (Daniel P. Berrange) - vbox: Update IIDs from version 3.1-beta2 to 3.1-final (Matthias Bolte) - Fix ReprotError vs ReportError typo in JSON code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix inverted conditional test in configure.ac check for yajl (Daniel P. Berrange) - Pull schedular affinity code out into a separate module (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ignore docs/ directory for strcmp() syntax check (Daniel P. Berrange) Again a lot of work in this release, thanks everybody for your contributions, enjoy and I wish you a good end of year ! 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/