<p>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 <a href="downloads.html">GIT version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
and check the <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> to gauge progress.</p>
+ <h3>0.7.5: Dec 23 2009</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Features:
+ Add new API virDomainMemoryStats to header and drivers (Adam Litke),
+ Public API and domain extension for CPU flags (Jiri Denemark),
+ expose SR IOV physical/virtual function relationships (Dave Allan),
+ Support for JSON mode monitor [deactivated] (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Support for interface model='netfront' (Jiri Denemark),
+ vbox: Add support for version 3.1 (Pritesh Kothari),
+ Support QEMU's virtual FAT block device driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Documentation:
+ Document the dommemstat command in the virsh man page (Adam Litke),
+ esx: Add more links to external documentation (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Extend documentation about 'vcenter' and add some about 'auto_answer' (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix and improve domain xml video element description (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix owner and group in example volume XML (Matthew Booth),
+ add missing doc for device <shareable/> option (Daniel Veillard),
+ add AppArmor test and examples to dist (Jamie Strandboge),
+ Update location of C# bindings. (Richard Jones),
+ Fix typo in QEMU driver webpage (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Clarify documentation for private symbols (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+ Fix news.html validation (Dan Kenigsberg)
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Portability:
+ Define ATTRIBUTE_SENTINEL for GCC < 4.0 too (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix compilation with configure --disable-nls (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix configure check for SASL (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix GnuTLS pkg-config check (Matthias Bolte),
+ Report an error if no XDR library can be found (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix compilation with gcrypt < 1.4.2 (Matthias Bolte),
+ Don't mix LDFLAGS and LIBS in the configure script (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+ Don't make it possible to define HAVE_HAL but not enable it in automake (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+ Fix install location for Python bindings (Matthias Bolte),
+ Use AM_PATH_PYTHON and python-config to detect Python configuration (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix a compilation failure if yajl not avail (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix compilation for configure --disable-nls (Matthias Bolte)
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Bug fixes:
+ cpu: Fix memory leaks in x86FeatureLoad and x86ModelLoad (Matthias Bolte),
+ Make Xen VT-d PCI attach/detach work (Chris Lalancette),
+ Fix detection of JSON when restarting libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix reporting of TLS connection errors (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix typo in qemudDomainAttachHostPciDevice() (Daniel Veillard),
+ esx: Destroy virtual machine on a vCenter if available (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Undefine virtual machine on a vCenter if available (Matthias Bolte),
+ Initialize gcrypt threading (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix bug in storage driver accessing wrong private data (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ esx_vi.c: do not call through NULL function pointer (Jim Meyering),
+ esx_util.c: avoid NULL deref for invalid inputs (Jim Meyering),
+ esx: Don't goto failure for invalid arguments in VMX code (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix memory leak in qemudBuildCommandLine (Matthias Bolte),
+ avoid malfunction when virFileResolveLink is applied to non-POSIX FS (Jim Meyering),
+ libvirt.c: don't let a NULL "cpumaps" argument provoke a NULL-deref (Jim Meyering),
+ qemu migration: avoid NULL-deref given an invalid input (Jim Meyering),
+ qemu_driver.c: don't unlink(NULL) on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+ remote_driver.c: also zero out ->saslDecodedOffset member (Jim Meyering),
+ qemu_driver.c: avoid double free on error path (Jim Meyering),
+ libvirtd: avoid a NULL dereference on error path (Jim Meyering),
+ virsh: avoid double-free (Jim Meyering),
+ node_device_driver.c: don't write beyond EOB for 4K-byte symlink (Jim Meyering),
+ Eliminate failure to delete empty storage pools (Laine Stump),
+ Fix use of virEventAddHandleImpl() (Jiri Denemark),
+ Fix possible NULL pointer dereference (Paolo Bonzini),
+ fix various breakages in qemu Dump command (Paolo Bonzini),
+ Fix reference leak in remoteDispatchStorageVolCreateXmlFrom (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix memory leak in virStorageBackendCopyToFD (Matthias Bolte),
+ retrieve paused/running state at migration start (Paolo Bonzini),
+ fix migration of paused vms upon failure (Paolo Bonzini),
+ qemu driver: Fix segfault in libvirt/libvirtd when uri->path is NULL. (Richard Jones),
+ Fix a wellformedness problem in secret.rng (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+ Fix virDomainObj ref handling in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Pull code to start CPUs executing out of qemudInitCpuAffinity() (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix migration cancellation for QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix crash when deleting monitor while a command is in progress (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ udev_device_get_devpath might return NULL (Guido Günther),
+ Fix some locking issues (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix event test timer checks on kernels with HZ=100 (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix threading problems in python bindings (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Supress annoying libcap-ng errors from valgrind (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix two leaks in test driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Free cgroup device ACL list on driver shutdown (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ xen: Fix unconditional freeing in xenDaemonListDefinedDomains() (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix default disk type when parsing QEMU argv (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ remove port filter when network device is detached (Gerhard Stenzel)
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Improvements:
+ convert missing server entry points into unsupported errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ fix some error report when on remote access (Olivier Fourdan),
+ Disable JSON mode monitor until QEMU is more mature (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Only probe for CPU models if required (Jiri Denemark),
+ Add cpu_map.xml to libvirt.spec (Jiri Denemark),
+ Install cpu_map.xml (Jiri Denemark),
+ esx: Don't warn about '/' paths (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Extend vCenter query parameter (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Improve domain lookup by UUID (Matthias Bolte),
+ build: update gnulib submodule to latest (Jim Meyering),
+ Relax the allowed values for machine type in schema (Daniel Veillard),
+ Implement --pool option for virsh vol-path (Dave Allan),
+ nodedev: Add removable storage 'media_label' prop (Cole Robinson),
+ add --live support to "virsh dump" (Paolo Bonzini),
+ add --crash support to "virsh dump" (Paolo Bonzini),
+ Get QEMU pty paths from the monitor (Matthew Booth),
+ Extract the assigned pty device for QEmu channels (Matthew Booth),
+ Make QEMU driver use -chardev everywhere if available (Matthew Booth),
+ add virsh --suspend arg to migrate command (Paolo Bonzini),
+ reload iptables rules on libvirtd restart (Mark McLoughlin),
+ reload iptables rules simply by re-adding them (Mark McLoughlin),
+ Plumb domain description tag in xend backend (Jim Fehlig),
+ Make QEMU text monitor parsing more robust (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Hook up JSON monitor to emit basic lifecycle events (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Add QEMU monitor callbacks for basic lifecycle events (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Switch over to passing a callback table to QEMU monitor (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Introduce callbacks for serializing domain object private data to XML (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Switch LXC driver to use a private data blob for virDomainObj state (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Switch UML driver to use a private data blob for virDomainObj state (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Add a 'format' arg to qemuMonitorChangeMedia() since JSON will support it (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Introduce a simple API for handling JSON data (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Add --system flag to autogen.sh to make it easy to build with right prefix (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Export all symbols from xml.h for internal use (Jiri Denemark),
+ vbox: Use virIndexToDiskName() in vboxGenerateMediumName() (Matthias Bolte),
+ Tests for interface type/model configuration (Jiri Denemark),
+ Add virIndexToDiskName and fix mapping gap (Matthias Bolte),
+ Add another SENTINEL attribute (Paolo Bonzini),
+ Fix help message (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+ Alternate CPU affinity impl to cope with NR_CPUS > 1024 (Daniel P. Berrange)
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Cleanups:
+ The secret driver is stateful, link it directly to libvirtd (Matthias Bolte),
+ Remove undefined symbols from libvirt_private.syms (Matthias Bolte),
+ boolean shadows a typedef in rpcndr.h when compiled with MinGW (Matthias Bolte),
+ Rename DATADIR to PKGDATADIR to fix win32 build (Jiri Denemark),
+ Move cpu_map.xml to -client RPM (Jiri Denemark),
+ Fix undefined reference to 'close_used_without_including_unistd_h' (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix argument type of virProcessInfoSetAffinity dummy function (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Use occurrence enum to specify expected result of a SOAP call (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Fix occurence typo (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Removed unused inttypes.h include (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Replace libxml1 'xmlChildrenNode' with libxml2 'children' (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Use more suitable error code in esxVI_LookupVirtualMachineByUuid() (Matthias Bolte),
+ esx: Add automatic question handling (Matthias Bolte),
+ avoid calling exit with a constant; use EXIT_* instead (Jim Meyering),
+ maint: remove from VC two gnulib-provided files (Jim Meyering),
+ xm_internal.c: remove misleading dead code (Jim Meyering),
+ Cleanup temporary #define after use (Matthew Booth),
+ Suppress cgroup error message on sucess startup (Ryota Ozaki),
+ Small change of RNG syntax for domain (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+ remove iptablesReloadRules() and related code (Mark McLoughlin),
+ remove all traces of lokkit support (Mark McLoughlin),
+ Add virBufferFreeAndReset() and replace free() (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix the news file non-ascii characters (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add missing commas to the 0.7.4 news section (Matthias Bolte),
+ Change generated HTML to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid an type-punned pointer aliasing pbm (Daniel Veillard),
+ Move qemuMonitorEscape + migrate status enum into shared monitor code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ vbox: Update IIDs from version 3.1-beta2 to 3.1-final (Matthias Bolte),
+ Fix ReprotError vs ReportError typo in JSON code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Fix inverted conditional test in configure.ac check for yajl (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Pull schedular affinity code out into a separate module (Daniel P. Berrange),
+ Ignore docs/ directory for strcmp() syntax check (Daniel P. Berrange)
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
<h3>0.7.4: Nov 20 2009</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:
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