Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.6.0

I had planned to release it a couple of week ago but a lot of patches and fixes were needed, but finally it's here. The changelog is huge, there is a lot of improvements in this release, that also probably implies there is a few new bugs hidden left and right too, at this point the best is to push a release to increase testing especially for the new features. Available as usual at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I guess that's the longuest changelog ever for a libvirt release, and I cheated by aggregating a bunch of cleanups from Jim and Dan in a single generic entry :-) * New features: - thread safety of the API and event handling (Daniel Berrange) - allow QEmu domains to survive daemon restart (Guido Gunther) - extended logging capabilities - support copy-on-write storage volumes (Daniel Berrange) - support of storage cache control options for QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange) * Portability: - fix old DBus API problem - Debian portability fix (Daniel Berrange) - fix distcheck (Jim Meyering) - build in debug mode (Jim Meyering) - libnuma API portability (Jim Meyering) - many portability fixes pointed by Solaris (John Levon) - non-gcc portability fixes (John Levon) - various include fixes (Jim Meyering) - various Windows and Mingw portability fixes (Daniel Berrange) - solaris Xen fixes (John Levon) - RPC portability to Solaris (Daniel Berrange) * Documentation: - typo fixes (Richard Jones) - logging support - vnc keymap attributes (Guido Gunther) - HACKING file updates (Jim Meyering) - new PCI passthrough format - libvirt-qpid and UML driver documentation (Daniel Berrange) - provide RNG schemas for all XML formats used in libvirt APIs (Daniel Berrange) * Bug fixes: - segfault on virtual network without bridge name (Cole Robinson) - various locking fixes (Cole Robinson) - fix serial and parallel devices on tcp/unix/telnet (Guido Gunther) - leak in daemon (Jim Meyering) - storage driver segfault (Miloslav TrmaC) - missing check in read-only connections (Daniel Berrange) - OpenVZ crash and mutex fixes (Anton Protopopov) - couple of daemon bug fixes (John Levon) - OpenVZ MAC addresses generation (Evgeniy Sokolov) - poll call initialization fix (Daniel Berrange) - various Xen driver fixes (John Levon) - segfault on device back compat (Cole Robinson) - couple Xen bug fixes coming from RHEL (Markus Armbruster) - buffer overflow in libvirt proxy (rasputin(a)email.ru) - vnc port report (John Levon) - repair save and restore on recent KVM versions (Daniel Berrange) - Xen cpu pinning XML fix (John Levon) - various xen driver fixes (Daniel Berrange) - some memory leak fixes (Daniel Berrange) * Improvements: - driver infrastructure and locking (Daniel Berrange) - Test driver infrastructure (Daniel Berrange) - parallelism in the daemon and associated config (Daniel Berrange) - virsh help cleanups (Jim Meyering) - logrotate daemon logs (Guido Gunther) - more regression tests (Jim Meyering) - QEmu SDL graphics (Itamar Heim) - add --version flag to daemon (Dave Allan) - memory consumption cleanup (Dave Allan) - QEmu pid file and XML states for daemon restart (Guido Gunther) - gnulib updates (Jim Meyering and Dan Berrange) - PCI passthrough for KVM (Jason Krieg) - generic internal thread API (Daniel Berrange) - RHEL-5 specific Xen configure option and code (Markus Armbruster) - save domain state as string in status file (Guido Gunther) - add locking to all API entry points (Daniel Berrange) - new ref counting APIs (Daniel Berrange) - IP address for Xen bridges (John Levon) - driver format for disk file types (Daniel Berrange) - improve QEmu/KVM tun/tap performances (Mark McLoughlin) - enable floppies for Xen fully virt (John Levon) - support VNC password settings for QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange) - qemu driver version reporting (Daniel Berrange) * Cleanups: - converting linked lists to arrays (Daniel Berrange) - daemon RPC handling refactoring (Daniel Berrange) - strings cleanups (Jim Meyering) - gethostby* cleanup and test (Jim Meyering) - some code fixes (Dave Allan) - various code cleanup (Jim Meyering) - virsh argument handling cleanup (Jim Meyering) - virAsprintf cleanup replacement (Guido Gunther) - QEmu monitor reads (Cole Robinson) - Makefile cleanups (Guido Gunther) - Xen code cleanups (John Levon) - revamp of ELF export scripts (John Levon) - domain event callback args (John Levon) - enforce use of pid_t (John Levon) - virsh pool-*-as XML code merge (Cole Robinson) - xgettext warnings (Jim Meyering) - add virKillProcess (Guido Gunther) - add virGetHostname (David Lutterkort) - add flags argument to the full XML parsing stack (Guido Gunther) - various daemon code cleanups (Guido Gunther) - handling of daemon missing config file (Jim Meyering) - rpcgen invocation cleanup (Richard Jones) - devhelp builkd makefile cleanups (John Levon) - update error handling for threading (Daniel Berrange) - remove all non-rentrant POSIX calls usage (Daniel Berrange) - many small cleanups (Jim Meyering and Daniel Berrange) - examples Makefile generator (John Levon) - mis-use of PF_UNIX as a protocol (John Levon) - cleanup OOM error paths (Jim Meyering) - temporary fix fro valgrind on lxc (Daniel Berrange) - QEmu driver init cleanups (Daniel Berrange) Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release, with a special welcome to the people who gained commit right access ! 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/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list