So the release it out ! And hopefully we are back on our 'end of month' release cycle. The libvirt-0.8.5 release is available from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ So we have a number of features in this new release, I will also note the rather large mount of documentation fixes (thanks Justin and others!) and portability. Hopefully this will help people to use libvirt in a veriety of context ! Features: - Enable JSON and netdev features in QEMU >= 0.13 (Daniel P. Berrange) - framework for auditing integration (Daniel P. Berrange) - framework for DTrace/SystemTap integration (Daniel P. Berrange) - Setting the number of vcpu at boot (Eric Blake) - Enable support for nested SVM (Daniel P. Berrange) - Virtio plan9fs filesystem QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - Memory parameter controls (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - portability to OS-X (Justin Clift) Documentation: - virsh: improve the help description for managedsave and start (Justin Clift) - docs: updated the C# bindings page with arnauds latest changes (Justin Clift) - docs: update ruby bindings maintainer to chris lalancette (Justin Clift) - docs: reworded and reordered the bindings page, plus minor tweaks (Justin Clift) - Fix xen API documentation (Philipp Hahn) - docs: added a table of contents to the first 11 docs files (Justin Clift) - docs: reformated the bindings page html markup to match other pages (Justin Clift) - docs: revamp api_extension example, using vcpu patch series (Eric Blake) - docs: install the generated html files when make install is run (Justin Clift) - Fix documentation for virEventAddTimeout() (Philipp Hahn) - esx: Add documentation about certificates and connection problems (Matthias Bolte) - docs: added a table of contents to the new c sharp bindings page (Justin Clift) - docs: removed old changelog file, as it is no longer relevant (Justin Clift) - Update comments for the memory tunables macros (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - docs: added initial page for c# binding, with links to it (Justin Clift) - virsh: consolidate memtune docs (Eric Blake) - Update docs for memory parameters and memtune command (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - docs: document how to disable memballoon (Eric Blake) - Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website (Daniel P. Berrange) - virsh: update comment about parsing (Eric Blake) - virsh: document options in man page (Eric Blake) - Fixes for documentation extraction (Daniel Veillard) - Add automatic generation of a todo item page (Daniel P. Berrange) - nwfilter: Add 2nd example to the html docs (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Extend docs with info about the state attribute (Stefan Berger) - vcpu: improve cpuset attribute (Eric Blake) - nwfilter: Extend docs with information about comment attr. (Stefan Berger) - docs: grammar cleanups on logging examples (Eric Blake) - Fix spelling of Xen in comments (Philipp Hahn) - docs: reworked the policykit patch submitted by Patrick Dignan (Justin Clift) - docs: fix the xml validity errors regarding name and id (Justin Clift) - docs: improve wording for the dev guide (Justin Clift) - docs: add the app dev guide (Justin Clift) Portability: - mingw: Add body for virFork and remove double virDriverLoadModule export (Matthias Bolte) - daemon: exclude requirement for probes.h on systems without systemtap (Justin Clift) - build: skip xenapi driver when building for RHEL (Eric Blake) - build: fix mingw build (Eric Blake) - build: require pkg-config for bootstrap (Eric Blake) - configure: disable network and storage-fs drivers on mac os x (Justin Clift) - build: fix example build on MacOS X (Eric Blake) - mpath: disable devmapper-multipath checking on non-linux (Justin Clift) - mac os x: use awk selected by build system rather than first in path (Justin Clift) - virtualbox: fix a typo in the expected location on mac os x (Justin Clift) - nwfilter: Don't compile nwfilter driver on other systems than Linux (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: add a missing define, so libvirtd builds on macos x (Justin Clift) - build: avoid non-portable IPv6 struct member, for MacOS X (Eric Blake) - virsh: change wexitstatus order to allow compilation on mac osx (Justin Clift) - build: use portable sed expressions (Eric Blake) Bug Fixes: - eliminate possibility of a double-closed file descriptor (Stefan Berger) - qemu: check for vm after starting a job (Eric Blake) - Only attempt removal of the rule allowing tftp if it was added (Laine Stump) - qemu: don't use %.3d format for bus/addr of USB devices (Diego Elio Pettenò) - virsh: fix range of memtune command (Eric Blake) - qemu: work around dash 0.5.5 bug in managed save (Eric Blake) - Avoid squashing errors during network startup cleanup path (Daniel P. Berrange) - xen: Fix domain dump (Jiri Denemark) - dnsmasq: avoid potential crash (Eric Blake) - Fix netmask checks for IPv6 in virSocketCheckNetmask (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't fail lxc domain start when memory controller support is missing (Guido Günther) - root_squash: virFileOperation may fail with EPERM too (Dan Kenigsberg) - qemu: let qemu group look below /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ (Dan Kenigsberg) - qemu: Prohibit migration of guests with host devices (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: Use vendor in baseline CPU only if all hosts use it (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: Fix vendor for recent CPU models (Jiri Denemark) - Fix Xen SEXPR generation to properly quote strings containing () (Daniel P. Berrange) - nwfilter: resolve deadlock between VM ops and filter update (Stefan Berger) - Don't fail on missing D-Bus (Guido Günther) - cpu: Remove redundant features (Jiri Denemark) - xen: Fix virDomain{At,De}tachDevice (Jiri Denemark) - xen: xenXMDomain*DeviceFlags should obey all flags (Jiri Denemark) - nwfilter: fix memory leaks (Stefan Berger) - phyp: Checking for NULL values when building new guest (Eduardo Otubo) - libvirt-guests: start late and stop early (Jiri Denemark) - nwfilter bug appearing on big endian machines (Stefan Berger) - Rebuild network filter for UML guests on updates (Soren Hansen) Improvements: - vbox: Stop hardcoding a single path for VBoxXPCOMC.so (Matthias Bolte) - Add disk/net resource auditing to QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add auditing of security label in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add auditing of start/stop events to the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add printf format attribute annotation to virAuditSend method (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add audit helper for escaping log message strings (Daniel P. Berrange) - virsh: use - not _ in memtune option names (Eric Blake) - build: fix shell detection bug (Eric Blake) - virsh: improve help text where integers are expected (Eric Blake) - docs: make the location of the xml catalog file a configure option (Justin Clift) - Fix build for SystemTap 1.0 (Matthias Bolte) - Fix formatting of network address in iptables helpers (Daniel P. Berrange) - virsh: Add option 'model' for attach-interface (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fix detection of drive readonly option (Jiri Denemark) - vbox: Fix compile errors due to the virSocketAddr series (Matthias Bolte) - Don't try to parse a NULL ip address for boot server (Daniel P. Berrange) - Convert virNetwork to use virSocketAddr everywhere (Daniel P. Berrange) - Include socket address in client probe data (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add dtrace static probes in libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add test suite for virSocket APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ban use of all inet_* functions (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix error reporting for virSocketParse (Daniel P. Berrange) - Expand virSocketFormat to be more flexible (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix passing of address family to virSocketParseAddr (Daniel P. Berrange) - Include length with virSocketAddr data (Daniel P. Berrange) - audit: simplify declaration (Eric Blake) - qemu: Exit on first error in qemuDomainGetMemoryParameters (Matthias Bolte) - virsh: Don't read nparams when virDomainGetMemoryParameters fails (Matthias Bolte) - Fix formatting of the memtune XML element (Matthias Bolte) - Add process= support for 'qemu-kvm -name' (John Morrissey) - nwfilter: avoid dir. enforcement for certain types of rules (Stefan Berger) - Audit SELinux label assignment. (Miloslav Trmač) - Audit VM start/stop/suspend/resume (Miloslav Trmač) - vcpu: remove dead xen code (Eric Blake) - vcpu: improve support for setting xen vcpu counts (Eric Blake) - vcpu: improve support for getting xen vcpu counts (Eric Blake) - vcpu: improve vcpu support in xen command line (Eric Blake) - vcpu: complete vcpu support in qemu driver (Eric Blake) - vcpu: improve vcpu support in qemu command line (Eric Blake) - vcpu: support all flags in test driver (Eric Blake) - vcpu: add virsh support (Eric Blake) - vcpu: support maxvcpu in domain_conf (Eric Blake) - vcpu: make old API trivially wrap to new API (Eric Blake) - vcpu: implement the remote protocol (Eric Blake) - vcpu: implement the public APIs (Eric Blake) - vcpu: define internal driver API (Eric Blake) - vcpu: add new public API (Eric Blake) - nwfilter: changes to rules in VM->host table (Stefan Berger) - esx: Handle non-UTF-8 encoded VMX files (Matthias Bolte) - Run initgroups() in qemudOpenAsUID() (Dan Kenigsberg) - memtune: Add min_guarantee to the virsh memtune command (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - esx: Fix check in esxDomainGetInfo's perf metric handling (Matthias Bolte) - virsh: add tests for recent cli improvements (Eric Blake) - virsh: new echo command (Eric Blake) - virsh: add support for accepting arbitrary argv (Eric Blake) - esx: Explictly declare VMX file content as UTF-8 (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Handle name escaping properly (Matthias Bolte) - nwfilter: prevent filters with different name but same UUID (Stefan Berger) - new attribute accessmode to filesystem element (Harsh Prateek Bora) - nwfilter: cut off connections after changing filters (Stefan Berger) - build: provide URL in 'configure --help' (Eric Blake) - tests: Honor LIBVIRT_{DEBUG,LOG_*} variables (Jiri Denemark) - tests: Do not override LIBVIRT_DEBUG variable (Jiri Denemark) - Improve error reporting in test suites (Daniel P. Berrange) - virsh: move code into topological order (Eric Blake) - virsh: simplify top-level option parsing (Eric Blake) - virsh: add -- support (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: support single quote (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: add escaper \ for command string parsing (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: rework command parsing (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: add vshCommandParser abstraction (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: better handling the boolean option (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: allow zero length arguments (Lai Jiangshan) - virsh: better support double quote (Lai Jiangshan) - Add todo.pl and config example to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix several minor problems introduced by the memtune series (Matthias Bolte) - Remote protocol implementation of virDomainSet/GetMemoryParameters (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Adding memtune command to virsh tool (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Implement domainGetMemoryParamters for LXC (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Implement domainSetMemoryParamters for LXC (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Adding memtunables to libvirt-lxc command (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Adding memtunables to qemuSetupCgroup (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Implement domainGetMemoryParamters for QEmu (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Implement domainSetMemoryParamters for QEmu (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Implement cgroup memory controller tunables (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - XML parsing for memory tunables (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Adds xml entries for memory tunables in domain schema (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Adding structure and defines for virDomainSet/GetMemoryParameters (Nikunj A. Dadhania) - Set sensible defaults for cpu match and feature policy (Daniel P. Berrange) - xen: Fix logic bug in xenDaemon*DeviceFlags (Jiri Denemark) - xen: Make xenDaemon*DeviceFlags errors less confusing (Jiri Denemark) - Return a suitable error message if we can't find a matching emulator (Guido Günther) - Pass -n to ip(6)tables (Guido Günther) - nwfilter: Extend schema to accept state attribute (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Add test case for testing the state attribute (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Instantiate state match in ip(6)tables rules (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Extend XML parser and gen. to support state attr. (Stefan Berger) - xen: Fix bogus error when attaching a device (Jiri Denemark) - esx: Add support for virtual serial device network backing (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Verify that domain XML contains at least one disk element (Matthias Bolte) - implement usb and pci hot attach in AppArmor driver (Jamie Strandboge) - nwfilter: Add a test case for testing the comment attribute (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Extend nwfilter schema to accept comment attrib. (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Instantiate comments in ip(6)tables rules (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: Extend XML parser and generator w/ comment attribute (Stefan Berger) - configure: tweak logic flow of virtport check (Justin Clift) - Rework configure logic for virtualport support (Stefan Berger) - nwfilter: report if ip(6)tables rules would not be active (Stefan Berger) - app-armor: add 'rw' for appropriate devices (Jamie Strandboge) - add extra tests to virt-aa-helper-test for new '-p' option (Jamie Strandboge) - esx: Allow '-' in VMX entry names (Matthias Bolte) - Make SASL work over UNIX domain sockets (Daniel P. Berrange) - Refactor some daemon code to facilitate introduction of static probes (Daniel P. Berrange) - nodeinfo: work when hot-plugging is disabled (Eric Blake) - libvirtd: improve the error message displayed on tls client auth failure (Justin Clift) - virsh: Use virBuffer for generating XML (Jiri Denemark) Cleanups: - audit: printf warning fix (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - build: use shorter file names for 'make dist' (Eric Blake) - maint: fix syntax-check failure of previous patch (Eric Blake) - maint: ignore new test executable (Eric Blake) - tests: Silence qemuxml2argv test (Jiri Denemark) - Remove all use of inet_pton and inet_ntop (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove both addrToString methods (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove pointless nwIPAddress struct & void *casts (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove useless code in error path of getnameinfo() (Daniel P. Berrange) - maint: sort private sym lists (Eric Blake) - Rename VIR_DOMAIN_SWAP_HARD_LIMIT to VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_SWAP_HARD_LIMIT (Matthias Bolte) - Fix make check on RHEL-5 (Jiri Denemark) - Don't let daemon-conf test fail when auditing is disabled (Matthias Bolte) - Fix compile errors in remote.c and newly added audit code (Matthias Bolte) - Fix symbol exports & remove duplicated libvirt_util.la linkage (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix statstest when driver modules are enabled (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: avoid false positive syntax-check failure (Eric Blake) - proxy: Fix undefined reference to virClose (Matthias Bolte) - Introduce VIR_CLOSE to be used rather than close() (Stefan Berger) - Fix warning about a non-literal format string in qemu_driver.c (Laine Stump) - test: silence nwfilter test (Stefan Berger) - tests: fix spurious test failure (Eric Blake) - memory: fix remote protocol compilation (Eric Blake) - virsh: poison raw allocation routines (Eric Blake) - Avoid checking against strncpy in virsh.c (Daniel Veillard) - Cleanup some tabs issues (Daniel Veillard) - util: add missing export (Eric Blake) - virt-aa-helper-test cleanups (Jamie Strandboge) - python: drop unnecessary conn assignment (Dan Kenigsberg) - pciFindStubDriver should return NULL on error (Chris Wright) - tests: silence qemuargv2xmltest noise (Eric Blake) - tests: clean up qemuargv2xmltest (Eric Blake) - maint: silence warning from libtool (Eric Blake) - tests: Fix preprocessor indentation (Jiri Denemark) Thanks everybody who helped for this release ! 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