.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Podwrapper::Man 1.52.2 (Pod::Simple 3.45) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "guestfs-release-notes-1.8 1" .TH guestfs-release-notes-1.8 1 2024-07-08 libguestfs-1.52.2 "Virtualization Support" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME guestfs\-release\-notes \- libguestfs Release Notes .SH "RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.8" .IX Header "RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.8" These release notes only cover the differences from the previous stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball. .SS "New features" .IX Subsection "New features" .Vb 1 \& \- Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu. \& \& \- Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk \& of regressions. \& \& \- Port to ArchLinux \*(Aqpacman\*(Aq (thanks Thomas S Hatch). \& \& \- The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl): \& \& . virt\-cat \& . virt\-df \& . virt\-inspector \& . virt\-ls \& . virt\-rescue \& \& \- Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically. This is \& supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt\-cat, virt\-inspector, \& virt\-ls. \& \& \- New tool virt\-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for \& virt\-list\-filesystems and virt\-list\-partitions, and has a superset \& of the functionality of those tools. \& \& \- guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option \& parsing, so they support many common options such as \*(Aq\-a disk.img\*(Aq, \& \*(Aq\-d libvirt\-domain\*(Aq, \*(Aq\-x\*(Aq, \*(Aq\-v\*(Aq. The old command line option \& parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc. \& \& \- guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl \& \& \- New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs\-examples(3) (C/C++), \& guestfs\-ocaml(3), guestfs\-python(3), guestfs\-ruby(3). \& \& \- Trace mode prints return values from API functions. \& \& \- virt\-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along \& with a great deal of information about those applications. \& \& \- Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD. \& \& \- guestfish \-\-rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially \& dangerous write access explicit. \& \& \- guestfish \-\-listen \-\-csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks \& Eric Blake). \& \& \- The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now \& documented in guestfs(3). \& \& \- guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the \& daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system. \& \& \- Functions can now have optional parameters. \& \& \- Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload \& commands. \& \& \- Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files \& around in /tmp. \& \& \- getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt\-rescue. \& \& \- ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases. .Ve .SS Security .IX Subsection "Security" .Vb 1 \& \- New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation. \& \& \- virt\-inspector no longer runs any guest commands. \& \& \- Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files \& from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service. \& \& \- FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount \-x. .Ve .SS "New APIs" .IX Subsection "New APIs" .Vb 10 \& \- add\-domain \& \- add\-drive\-opts \& \- getxattr \& \- inspect\-get\-hostname \& \- inspect\-get\-package\-format \& \- inspect\-get\-package\-management \& \- inspect\-get\-roots \& \- inspect\-list\-applications \& \- lgetxattr \& \- mkfs\-opts .Ve .SS Internals .IX Subsection "Internals" .Vb 1 \& \- C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use. \& \& \- PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely \& optional for building. \& \& \- Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed. \& \& \- Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files \& across all programs. \& \& \- Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and \& Windows guests. \& \& \- Ruby bindings have \*(Aqmake install\*(Aq rule. \& \& \- is now a single file. \& \& \- does not require XDR headers. \& \& \- ocaml xml\-light library is no longer required to build (thanks \& Maxim Koltsov). \& \& \- ./configure \-\-disable\-[...] for each language binding (thanks \& Maxim Koltsov). \& \& \- Old ocaml\-viewer program removed (use guestfs\-browser instead). \& \& \- New C API test type \*(AqInitScratchFS\*(Aq makes the tests run a little \& more quickly. \& \& \- Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate \& file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per\-distro. .Ve .SS "Bugs fixed" .IX Subsection "Bugs fixed" .Vb 6 \& \- 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths \& \- 661280 virt\-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory" \& \- 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail \& \- 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt\-inspector \& \- 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names \& \- 652796 ruby bindings not installed by \*(Aqmake install\*(Aq, hence omitted from the binary distribution .Ve .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" \&\fBguestfs\-examples\fR\|(1), \&\fBguestfs\-faq\fR\|(1), \&\fBguestfs\-performance\fR\|(1), \&\fBguestfs\-recipes\fR\|(1), \&\fBguestfs\-testing\fR\|(1), \&\fBguestfs\fR\|(3), \&\fBguestfish\fR\|(1), http://libguestfs.org/ .SH AUTHOR .IX Header "AUTHOR" Richard W.M. Jones .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (C) 2009\-2023 Red Hat Inc. .SH LICENSE .IX Header "LICENSE" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. .PP This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. .PP You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110\-1301 USA. .SH BUGS .IX Header "BUGS" To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools .PP To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools .PP When reporting a bug, please supply: .IP \(bu 4 The version of libguestfs. .IP \(bu 4 Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc) .IP \(bu 4 Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it. .IP \(bu 4 Run \fBlibguestfs\-test\-tool\fR\|(1) and paste the \fBcomplete, unedited\fR output into the bug report.