As planned the release is now available on the server at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ This is mostly an enhancement and bug fix release, there is less patches than for usual monthly releases, I guess a number of people had a break in August :-) Features: - various improvements to UML driver (Soren Hansen) Documentation: - docs: fix lxc examples (Serge Hallyn) - docs: mention domain <clock> improvements (Eric Blake) - docs: fix an incorrect keyword in updated hooks page (Justin Clift) - docs: significant expansion of custom hook script information (Justin Clift) Portability - cygwin: build fix (Stefan Berger) - build: allow mingw VPATH build (Eric Blake) - Generate libvirt_qemu.def from libvirt_qemu.syms for MinGW builds (Matthias Bolte) - Only require XDR when building libvirtd or the remote driver (Matthias Bolte) - build-sys: fix build when daemon is disabled by not installing libvirtd.8 (Diego Elio Pettenò) Bug Fixes: - Fix block statistics with newer versions of Xen (Guido Günther) - Fix off-by-1 in QEMU boot arg array handling (Daniel P. Berrange) - bridge: Fix static-only DHCP configuration (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: qemuMonitorJSONEjectMedia(): Fix arguments' type (Luiz Capitulino) - qemu: qemuMonitorJSONMigrate(): Fix arguments' type (Luiz Capitulino) - test: Don't overwrite storage volume target path and key (Matthias Bolte) - build: Fix permissions of sysconfig files (Jiri Denemark) - virsh: remove driver check from attach-disk command (Ryan Harper) - phyp: Bad comparison when checking for existing domain name (Eduardo Otubo) - esx: Fix esxVI_BuildSelectSet's invalid argument check (Matthias Bolte) - spec: Fix undefined with_libnl (Jiri Denemark) - Fix handling of sparse NUMA topologies (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Check for errors when converting PCI address to string (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Fix JSON migrate_set_downtime command (Jiri Denemark) - uml: fix logic bug in checking reply length (Eric Blake) - xen: Fix scheduler setting problems (Daniel Veillard) - nodedev: Free the right pointers when getting WWNs fails (Jiri Denemark) - nodedev: Fix sysfs paths for vport operations (Dave Allan) - xen: Fix device count on detach (Daniel Berrange) - remote: Fix incorrect use of private data field (Daniel Berrange) - esx: Fix memory leak when looking up an non-existing domain by name (Matthias Bolte) - Fix up qemu domain save/managed save locking. (Chris Lalancette) - qemu: Release PCI slot when detaching disk and net devices (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Re-reserve all PCI addresses on libvirtd restart (Jiri Denemark) - Close fd's of persistent tap devices (Soren Hansen) - Fix tunnelled migration with qemu running as qemu:qemu. (Chris Lalancette) - Fix valgrind complaints when using kill -SIGHUP on libvirtd (Stefan Berger) - bridge: Fix potential segfault when preparing dnsmasq arguments (Jiri Denemark) - Fix return value usage (Doug Goldstein) - nodeinfo: skip offline CPUs (Eric Blake) - Do not use boot=on on IDE device (Daniel Veillard) Improvements: - virsh: Option for overriding disk type in attach-disk (Jiri Denemark) - Explicitly pass uml_dir argument to user-mode-linux (Soren Hansen) - Fix dependancies for remote generated files (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure remote daemon unions are always non-zero length (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add nwfilter support to UML driver (Soren Hansen) - esx: Use SessionIsActive when available (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Fall back to path as key when QueryVirtualDiskUuid isn't available (Matthias Bolte) - mingw: match recent changes in spec file (Eric Blake) - Update of localization files (Daniel Veillard) - esx: Use the VirtualDisk UUID as storage volume key (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Add .vmdk storage volume creation (Matthias Bolte) - OpenVZ: add ethernet interface type support (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) - esx: Rework datastore path parsing and handling (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Fix generator for string return values (Matthias Bolte) - build: add some modules (Eric Blake) - Use global directory as UML's monitorDir for privileged connections (Soren Hansen) - maint: track moved file (Eric Blake) - Add tests for Xen's blktap2 implementation (Jim Fehlig) - Add blktap2 support to xend driver (Jim Fehlig) - esx: Map the .vmx annotation to the domain XML description (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Add read-only storage volume access (Matthias Bolte) - Move libvirt-guests init script and config to tools (Jiri Denemark) - Support virDomainAttachDevice and virDomainDetachDevice for disks in UML (Soren Hansen) - Log return value for virConnectGetCapabilities (Daniel P. Berrange) - Try harder to send RPC error message back to client (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add explicit warning messages when failing to serialize to XDR (Daniel P. Berrange) - Allow chardev of type 'file' for UML domains. (Soren Hansen) - esx: Improve object-by-type lookup performance (Matthias Bolte) - xen tests: Fix PV-VFB tests with RHEL-5 API (Jiri Denemark) - xen tests: Fix missing "type ioemu" with rhel5-api (Jiri Denemark) - nodeinfotest: Print libvirt error on failure (Jiri Denemark) - xenapi: support xenapi 5.6.0 headers (Eric Blake) - Add support for -enable-kqemu flag (Daniel P. Berrange) - esx: Use MD5 sum of mount path as storage pool UUID (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Make sure dumpxml outputs proper ID for active domains (Matthias Bolte) - Add actions to virDomainLifecycle enum (Jim Fehlig) - vbox: add location used in rpmfusion release (Eric Blake) - storage: add support for Vendor and Model in XML (Patrick Dignan) - qemu: Fix copy&paste error in warning message (Jiri Denemark) - nwfilter: extend nwfilter reload support (Stefan Berger) - esx: Explicitly disable unused floppy devices (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Add rudimentary network driver (Eduardo Otubo) - Make umlConnectTapDevice ask brAddTap for a persistent tap device. (Soren Hansen) - Make sure all command line arguments get passed to UML (Soren Hansen) - nwfilter: Discard class D,E IP addresses when sniffing pkts (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: serialize execution of scripts with ebtables cmds (Stefan Berger) - Move the tunnelled migration unix socket to /var/lib/libvirt/qemu (Chris Lalancette) - qemu: avoid calling the balloon info command if disabled (Daniel Veillard) - bridge: Add --dhcp-no-override option to dnsmasq (Jiri Denemark) - esx: Improve VMX file name parsing and formatting (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Split VMX code into a general and an ESX specific part (Matthias Bolte) - allow memballoon type of none to desactivate it (Daniel Veillard) - Add a detailed message when tap device add fails (Doug Goldstein) - qemu: Hack around asynchronous device_del (Jiri Denemark) - build-sys: only build the test programs during the check phase. (Diego Elio Pettenò) - Add "ubd" to the list of disk prefixes (Soren Hansen) - Extend virSocketParseAddr() to allow a NULL result pointer (Daniel Veillard) - bootloader_args is named bootargs in xen-xm (Philipp Hahn) - Fix return value usage (Doug Goldstein) - qemu: improve error if tun device is missing (Doug Goldstein) - build: rerun bootstrap if po/Makevars got nuked (Eric Blake) Cleanups: - Remove hack to get static binaries in DV environment (Daniel Veillard) - build: avoid uninitialized variable warning (Eric Blake) - vbox: factor a large function (Eric Blake) - lxc: avoid large stacks with veth creation (Eric Blake) - openvz: use virAsprintf to avoid large stacks (Eric Blake) - openvz: formatting cleanups (Eric Blake) - network: use virAsprintf when appropriate (Eric Blake) - Move hextobin as virHexToBin to util.c (Matthias Bolte) - Rename qemudShrinkDisks to virDomainDiskRemove and move to domain_conf.c (Soren Hansen) - xml2sexprtest: Remove graphics from unrelated tests (Jiri Denemark) - xenapi: Fix compile error in previous commit (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Remove code duplication (Jiri Denemark) - vbox: factor a large function (Eric Blake) - xenapi: avoid sprintf (Eric Blake) - storage: avoid s[n]printf (Eric Blake) - maint: whitespace cleanups (Eric Blake) - build: delete dead comments (Eric Blake) - nwfilter: use consistent OOM reporting (Eric Blake) - build: fix compiler warning (Eric Blake) - build: fix AppArmor compilation (Jamie Strandboge) - Avoid unnecessary bootstrap runs in VPATH builds (Jiri Denemark) - maint: update an email address preference (Eric Blake) - phyp: refactor phypListDomainsGeneric to eliminate buffer overflow (Eduardo Otubo) Thanks everybody who helped for the release with patches, bug reports or documentation ! 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