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NEWS file for libvirt
Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
http://libvirt.org/news.html
Releases
0.1.3: Jul 11 2006:
- bugfixes: build as non-root, fix xend access when root, handling of
empty XML elements (Mark McLoughlin), XML serialization and parsing fixes
(Mark McLoughlin), allow to create domains without disk (Mark
McLoughlin),
- 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 (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