Releases

Here is the list of official releases, however since it is early on in the development of libvirt, it is preferable when possible to just use the CVS version or snapshot, contact the mailing list and check the ChangeLog to gauge progresses.

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