NEWS

        NEWS file for libvirt

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

Releases
0.2.1: Mar 16 2007:
   - Various internal cleanups (Richard Jones,Daniel Berrange,Mark McLoughlin)
   - Bug fixes: libvirt_qemud daemon path (Daniel Berrange), libvirt
      config directory (Daniel Berrange and Mark McLoughlin), memory leak in qemud (Mark), various fixes on network support (Mark), avoid Xen domain zombies on device hotplug errors (Daniel Berrange), various fixes on qemud (Mark), 
    argsparsing (Richard Jones), virsh -t argument (Saori Fukuta), avoid virsh
    crash on TAB key (Daniel Berrange), detect xend operation failures (Kazuki Mizushima), don't listen on null socket (Rich Jones), read-only socket cleanup (Rich Jones), use of vnc port 5900 (Nobuhiro Itou), assorted networking fixes
(Daniel Berrange), shutoff and shutdown mismatches (Kazuki Mizushima), unlimited memory handling (Atsushi SAKAI), python binding fixes (Tatsuro Enokura)
   - Build and portability fixes: IA64 fixes (Atsushi SAKAI), dependancies and build (Daniel Berrange), fix xend port detection (Daniel Berrange), icompile time warnings (Mark), avoid const related compiler warnings (Daniel Berrange), automated builds (Daniel Berrange), pointer/int mismatch (Richard Jones), configure time selection of drivers, libvirt spec hacking (Daniel Berrange)
   - Add support for network autostart and init scripts (Mark McLoughlin)
   - New API virConnectGetCapabilities() to detect the virtualization 
    capabilities of a host (Richard Jones)
   - Minor improvements: qemud signal handling (Mark), don't shutdown or reboot
    domain0 (Kazuki Mizushima), QEmu version autodetection (Daniel Berrange),
    network UUIDs (Mark), speed up UUID domain lookups (Tatsuro Enokura and
    Daniel Berrange), support for paused QEmu CPU (Daniel Berrange), keymap
    VNC attribute support (Takahashi Tomohiro and Daniel Berrange), maximum
    number of virtual CPU (Masayuki Sunou), virtsh --readonly option (Rich
    Jones), python bindings for new functions (Daniel Berrange)
   - Documentation updates especially on the XML formats


0.2.0: Feb 14 2007:
   - Various internal cleanups (Mark McLoughlin, Richard Jones,Daniel
    Berrange, Karel Zak)
   - Bug fixes: avoid a crash in connect (Daniel Berrange), virsh
    argsparsing (Richard Jones)
   - Add support for QEmu and KVM virtualization (Daniel Berrange)
   - Add support for network configuration (Mark McLoughlin)
   - Minor improvements: regression testing (Daniel Berrange),localization
    string updates


0.1.11: Jan 22 2007:
   - Finish XML <-> XM config files support
   - Remove memory leak when freeing virConf objects
   - Finishing inactive domain support (Daniel Berrange)
   - Added a Relax-NG schemas to check XML instances


0.1.10: Dec 20 2006:
   - more localizations
   - bug fixes: VCPU info breakages on xen 3.0.3, xenDaemonListDomains
    buffer overflow (Daniel Berrange), reference count bug when creating Xen
    domains (Daniel Berrange).
   - improvements: support graphic framebuffer for Xen paravirt (Daniel
    Berrange), VNC listen IP range support (Daniel Berrange), support for
    default Xen config files and inactive domains of 3.0.4 (Daniel
  Berrange).


0.1.9: Nov 29 2006:
   - python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel
    Berrange)
   - don't raise HTTP error when looking informations for a domain
   - some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points
   - better error reporting (Daniel Berrange)
   - fix OS reporting when running as non-root
   - provide XML parsing errors
   - extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange)
   - fix the reconnect regression test
   - python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid
    garbage collection and disconnect
   - separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML
  level
   - Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange)
   - add support for shareable drives
   - add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests(Daniel
    Berrange)
   - python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)
   - new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs
    from scratch
   - hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch
   - added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated
    cleanup (Daniel Berrange)
   - special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange)
   - add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend)
   - pygrub bootloader informations take over <os> informations
   - updated the localization strings


0.1.8: Oct 16 2006:
   - Bug for system with page size != 4k
   - vcpu number initialization (Philippe Berthault)
   - don't label crashed domains as shut off (Peter Vetere)
   - fix virsh man page (Noriko Mizumoto)
   - blktapdd support for alternate drivers like blktap (Daniel
  Berrange)
   - memory leak fixes (xend interface and XML parsing) (Daniel
  Berrange)
   - compile fix
   - mlock/munlock size fixes (Daniel Berrange)
   - improve error reporting


0.1.7: Sep 29 2006:
   - fix a memory bug on getting vcpu informations from xend (Daniel
    Berrange)
   - fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen
    changeset86d26e6ec89b when getting domain informations (Daniel
  Berrange)


0.1.6: Sep 22 2006:
   - Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange)
   - Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel
  Berrange)
   - Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with newxend config
    files (Daniel Berrange)
   - Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig)
   - Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend


0.1.5: Sep 5 2006:
   - Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b
   - bug fixes: virParseUUID() was wrong, netwoking for paravirt
    guestsi(Daniel Berrange), virsh on non-existent domains (Daniel
    Berrange),string cast bug when handling error in python (Pete Vetere),
    HTTP500 xend error code handling (Pete Vetere and Daniel Berrange)
   - improvements: test suite for SEXPR <-> XML format conversions
    (DanielBerrange), virsh output regression suite (Daniel Berrange), new
    environvariable VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for the default URI when
    connecting(Daniel Berrange), graphical console support for paravirt
    guests(Jeremy Katz), parsing of simple Xen config files (with Daniel
    Berrange),early work on defined (not running) domains (Daniel
    Berrange),virsh output improvement (Daniel Berrange


0.1.4: Aug 16 2006:
   - bug fixes: spec file fix (Mark McLoughlin), error report problem
    (withHugh Brock), long integer in Python bindings (with Daniel Berrange),
    XMLgeneration bug for CDRom (Daniel Berrange), bug whem using number()
    XPathfunction (Mark McLoughlin), fix python detection code, remove
    duplicateinitialization errors (Daniel Berrange)
   - improvements: UUID in XML description (Peter Vetere), proxy
    codecleanup, virtual CPU and affinity support + virsh support
    (MichelPonceau, Philippe Berthault, Daniel Berrange), port and tty
    informationsfor console in XML (Daniel Berrange), added XML dump to
    driver and proxysupport (Daniel Berrange), extention of boot options with
    support forfloppy and cdrom (Daniel Berrange), features block in XML to
    report/askPAE, ACPI, APIC for HVM domains (Daniel Berrange), fail
    saide-effectoperations when using read-only connection, large
    improvements to testdriver (Daniel Berrange)
   - documentation: spelling (Daniel Berrange), test driver examples.


0.1.3: Jul 11 2006:
   - bugfixes: build as non-root, fix xend access when root, handling
    ofempty XML elements (Mark McLoughlin), XML serialization and parsing
    fixes(Mark McLoughlin), allow to create domains without disk
    (MarkMcLoughlin),
   - improvement: xenDaemonLookupByID from O(n^2) to O(n) (Daniel
    Berrange),support for fully virtualized guest (Jim Fehlig, DV, Mark
    McLoughlin)
   - documentation: augmented to cover hvm domains


0.1.2: Jul 3 2006:
   - headers include paths fixup
   - proxy mechanism for unpriviledged read-only access by httpu


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 (KarelZak),
    --connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange),
   - bug fixes: uninitialized memory access in error reporting,
    S-Exprparsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz), virConnectOpen bug, remove a
    TODO inxs_internal.c
   - documentation: Python examples (David Lutterkort), new Perl bindingURL,
    man page update (Karel Zak)


0.1.0: Apr 10 2006:
   - building fixes: --with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner), out of
    treebuild and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)
   - enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David
    Lutterkortand Jim Fehlig)
   - new APIs: for Node information and Reboot
   - internal code cleanup: refactoring internals into a driver model,
    moreerror handling, structure sharing, thread safety and ref counting
   - bug fixes: error message (Jim Meyering), error allocation in virsh
    (JimMeyering), virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig),
   - documentation: updates on architecture, and format, typo fix
    (JimMeyering)
   - bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering), perl ones
    outof tree (Daniel Berrange)
   - virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak), renaming of
    someoptions (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
    thepython bindings
   - augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling


0.0.5: Feb 23 2006:
   - Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented
    thecreation 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 XMLformat
    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
    formost 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