NEWS

        NEWS file for libvirt

  Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
       http://libvirt.org/news.html

Releases
0.1.1: Jun 21 2006:
   -  building fixes: ncurses fallback (Jim Fehlig), VPATH builds (Daniel P.
       Berrange)
  
   -  driver cleanups: new entry points, cleanup of libvirt.c (with Daniel P.
       Berrange)
  
   -  Cope with API change introduced in Xen changeset 10277
  
   -  new test driver for regression checks (Daniel P. Berrange)
  
   -  improvements: added UUID to XML serialization, buffer usage (Karel Zak),
       --connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange), 
  
   -  bug fixes: uninitialized memory access in error reporting, S-Expr
       parsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz), virConnectOpen bug, remove a TODO
       in xs_internal.c
  
   -  documentation: Python examples (David Lutterkort), new Perl binding URL,
       man page update (Karel Zak)
       



0.1.0: Apr 10 2006:
   - building fixes: --with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner), out of tree
    build and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)
   - enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David Lutterkort
    and Jim Fehlig)
   - new APIs: for Node information and Reboot
   - internal code cleanup: refactoring internals into a driver model, more
    error handling, structure sharing, thread safety and ref counting
   - bug fixes: error message (Jim Meyering), error allocation in virsh (Jim
    Meyering), virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig), 
   - documentation: updates on architecture, and format, typo fix (Jim
    Meyering)
   - bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering), perl ones out
    of tree (Daniel Berrange)
   - virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak), renaming of some
    options (Karel Zak), use stderr only for errors (Karel Zak), man page
    (Andrew Puch)


0.0.6: Feb 28 2006:
   - add UUID lookup and extract API
   - add error handling APIs both synchronous and asynchronous
   - added minimal hook for error handling at the python level, improved the
    python bindings
   - augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling


0.0.5: Feb 23 2006:
   - Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented the
    creation API virDomainCreateLinux()
   - new APIs to lookup and name domain by UUID
   - fixed the XML dump when using the Xend access
   - Fixed a few more problem related to the name change
   - Adding regression tests in python and examples in C
   - web site improvement, extended the documentation to cover the XML
    format and Python API
   - Added devhelp help for Gnome/Gtk programmers


0.0.4: Feb 10 2006:
   - Fix various bugs introduced in the name change


0.0.3: Feb 9 2006:
   - Switch name from from 'libvir' to libvirt
   - Starting infrastructure to add code examples
   - Update of python bindings for completeness


0.0.2: Jan 29 2006:
   - Update of the documentation, web site redesign (Diana Fong)
   - integration of HTTP xend RPC based on libxend by Anthony Liquori for
    most operations
   - Adding Save and Restore APIs
   - extended the virsh command line tool (Karel Zak)
   - remove xenstore transactions (Anthony Liguori)
   - fix the Python bindings bug when domain and connections where freed


0.0.1: Dec 19 2005:
   - First release
   - Basic management of existing Xen domains
   - Minimal autogenerated Python bindings