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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
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
and check the <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> to gauge progresses.</p><h3>0.1.8: Oct 16 2006</h3><ul><li> Bug for system with page size != 4k</li>
<li> vcpu number initialization (Philippe Berthault)</li>
<li> don't label crashed domains as shut off (Peter Vetere)</li>
<li> fix virsh man page (Noriko Mizumoto)</li>
<li> blktapdd support for alternate drivers like blktap (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li> memory leak fixes (xend interface and XML parsing) (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li> compile fix</li>
<li> mlock/munlock size fixes (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li> improve error reporting</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.7: Sep 29 2006</h3><ul><li> fix a memory bug on getting vcpu informations from xend (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li> fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen changeset
86d26e6ec89b when getting domain informations (Daniel Berrange)</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.6: Sep 22 2006</h3><ul><li>Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li>Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li>Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with new
xend config files (Daniel Berrange) </li>
<li>Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig)</li>
<li>Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.5: Sep 5 2006</h3><ul><li>Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b</li>
<li>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), HTTP
500 xend error code handling (Pete Vetere and Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li>improvements: test suite for SEXPR &lt;-&gt; XML format conversions (Daniel
Berrange), virsh output regression suite (Daniel Berrange), new environ
variable 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</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.4: Aug 16 2006</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: spec file fix (Mark McLoughlin), error report problem (with
Hugh Brock), long integer in Python bindings (with Daniel Berrange), XML
generation bug for CDRom (Daniel Berrange), bug whem using number() XPath
function (Mark McLoughlin), fix python detection code, remove duplicate
initialization errors (Daniel Berrange)</li>
<li>improvements: UUID in XML description (Peter Vetere), proxy code
cleanup, virtual CPU and affinity support + virsh support (Michel
Ponceau, Philippe Berthault, Daniel Berrange), port and tty informations
for console in XML (Daniel Berrange), added XML dump to driver and proxy
support (Daniel Berrange), extention of boot options with support for
floppy and cdrom (Daniel Berrange), features block in XML to report/ask
PAE, ACPI, APIC for HVM domains (Daniel Berrange), fail saide-effect
operations when using read-only connection, large improvements to test
driver (Daniel Berrange) </li>
<li>documentation: spelling (Daniel Berrange), test driver examples.</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.3: Jul 11 2006</h3><ul><li>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),</li>
<li>improvement: xenDaemonLookupByID from O(n^2) to O(n) (Daniel Berrange),
support for fully virtualized guest (Jim Fehlig, DV, Mark McLoughlin)</li>
<li>documentation: augmented to cover hvm domains</li>
</ul><h3>0.1.2: Jul 3 2006</h3><ul><li>headers include paths fixup</li>
<li>proxy mechanism for unpriviledged read-only access by httpu</li>
</ul><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
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>
<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
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>
</ul><h3>0.0.3: Feb 9 2006</h3><ul><li>Switch name from from 'libvir' to libvirt</li>
<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>
<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>
<li>Basic management of existing Xen domains</li>
<li>Minimal autogenerated Python bindings</li>
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