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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="libvirt.css" /><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/32favicon.png" /><title>Releases</title></head><body><div id="container"><div id="intro"><div id="adjustments"></div><div id="pageHeader"></div><div id="content2"><h1 class="style1">Releases</h1><p>Here is the list of official releases, however since it is early on in the
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development of libvirt, it is preferable when possible to just use the <a href="downloads.html">CVS version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
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and check the <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> to gauge progresses.</p><h3>0.1.1: Jun 21 2006</h3><ul><li> building fixes: ncurses fallback (Jim Fehlig), VPATH builds (Daniel P.
       Berrange)
  </li><li> driver cleanups: new entry points, cleanup of libvirt.c (with Daniel P.
       Berrange)
  </li><li> Cope with API change introduced in Xen changeset 10277
  </li><li> new test driver for regression checks (Daniel P. Berrange)
  </li><li> improvements: added UUID to XML serialization, buffer usage (Karel Zak),
       --connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange), 
  </li><li> bug fixes: uninitialized memory access in error reporting, S-Expr
       parsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz), virConnectOpen bug, remove a TODO
       in xs_internal.c
  </li><li> documentation: Python examples (David Lutterkort), new Perl binding URL,
       man page update (Karel Zak)
       
</li></ul><h3>0.1.0: Apr 10 2006</h3><ul><li>building fixes: --with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner), out of tree
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    build and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)</li>
  <li>enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David Lutterkort
    and Jim Fehlig)</li>
  <li>new APIs: for Node information and Reboot</li>
  <li>internal code cleanup: refactoring internals into a driver model, more
    error handling, structure sharing, thread safety and ref counting</li>
  <li>bug fixes: error message (Jim Meyering), error allocation in virsh (Jim
    Meyering), virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig), </li>
  <li>documentation: updates on architecture, and format, typo fix (Jim
    Meyering)</li>
  <li>bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering), perl ones out
    of tree (Daniel Berrange)</li>
  <li>virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak), renaming of some
    options (Karel Zak), use stderr only for errors (Karel Zak), man page
    (Andrew Puch)</li>
</ul><h3>0.0.6: Feb 28 2006</h3><ul><li>add UUID lookup and extract API</li>
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  <li>add error handling APIs both synchronous and asynchronous</li>
  <li>added minimal hook for error handling at the python level, improved the
    python bindings</li>
  <li>augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling</li>
</ul><h3>0.0.5: Feb 23 2006</h3><ul><li>Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented the
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    creation API virDomainCreateLinux()</li>
  <li>new APIs to lookup and name domain by UUID</li>
  <li>fixed the XML dump when using the Xend access</li>
  <li>Fixed a few more problem related to the name change</li>
  <li>Adding regression tests in python and examples in C</li>
  <li>web site improvement, extended the documentation to cover the XML
    format and Python API</li>
  <li>Added devhelp help for Gnome/Gtk programmers</li>
</ul><h3>0.0.4: Feb 10 2006</h3><ul><li>Fix various bugs introduced in the name change</li>
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</ul><h3>0.0.3: Feb 9 2006</h3><ul><li>Switch name from from 'libvir' to libvirt</li>
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  <li>Starting infrastructure to add code examples</li>
  <li>Update of python bindings for completeness</li>
</ul><h3>0.0.2: Jan 29 2006</h3><ul><li>Update of the documentation, web site redesign (Diana Fong)</li>
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  <li>integration of HTTP xend RPC based on libxend by Anthony Liquori for
    most operations</li>
  <li>Adding Save and Restore APIs</li>
  <li>extended the virsh command line tool (Karel Zak)</li>
  <li>remove xenstore transactions (Anthony Liguori)</li>
  <li>fix the Python bindings bug when domain and connections where freed</li>
</ul><h3>0.0.1: Dec 19 2005</h3><ul><li>First release</li>
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  <li>Basic management of existing Xen domains</li>
  <li>Minimal autogenerated Python bindings</li>
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