[libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.6.5

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Jul 3 15:38:22 UTC 2009


  As scheduled, the new version is available on the server:
    ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/

This is mostly a bug fix release, though it includes some serious
improvements for storage/NPIV and on the OpenNebula driver:

* New features
 - create storage columes on disk backend (Henrik Persson)
 - drop of capabilities based on libcap-ng when possible (Daniel Berrange)
* Portability
 - fix build on non-Linux targets (Daniel Berrange)
* Documentation
 - typo and english fixes (Runa Bhattacharjee and Garry Dolley)
 - Docs on extending APIs (Dave Allan)
 - cleanup of debug and logging documentation (Amy Griffis)
 - add HACKING doc to the website (Daniel Berrange)
 - documentation for OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez Rodriguez)
* Bug fixes
 - forbid autostart on transcient networks
 - xen device removal crash (Daniel Berrange)
 - re-detection of transient VMs after libvirtd restart(Daniel Berrange)
 - bug in virFindFileInPath (Daniel Berrange)
 - handle new availheap sysctl in Xen (Daniel Berrange)
 - allow USB hostdev product 0 (Cole Robinson)
 - cleanup when creating a storage pool fails (Henrik Persson)
 - domain id fix on redefinition in test driver (Cole Robinson)
 - fix raw storage allocation (Cole Robinson)
 - memory reporting for inactive qemu drivers (Cole Robinson)
 - segfault if storage pool has no type attribute (Cole Robinson)
 - OpenNebula compilation issues (Javier Fontan)
 - dominfo command without security driver (Daniel Berrange)
 - domain state problems after migration or destroy (Federico Simoncelli)
 - leak in node device parsing (Dave Allan)
 - storage pool definitions reading at startup (Cole Robinson)
 - bogus WWN in NPIV support (David Allan)
 - avoid a segfault with recent Xen (Sascha)
 - cope with libnuma failures on weird topologies (Dan Berrange)
 - crash in QEMU driver with bad capabilities data (Dan Berrange)
 - trying to re-create a pool should not destroy it (Dave Allan)
 - endless loop in node device XML dump (Cole Robinson)
 - Re-label shared and readonly images (Dan Berrange)
* Improvements
 - create and destroy NPIV support (David Allan)
 - networking in UML driver (Daniel Berrange)
 - HAL driver restart thread safety (Daniel Berrange)
 - capabilities and nodeinfo APIs for LXC (Daniel Berrange)
 - iNUMA API for VBox (Daniel Berrange)
 - dynamically search and use kvm-img qemu-img or qcow-create (Doug Goldstein)
 - fix qemu and kvm version parsing (Mark McLoughlin)
 - serial number for HAL storage (Dave Allan)
 - improve error reporting for virConnectOpen URIs (Daniel Berrange)
 - include OS driver name in device XML (Daniel Berrange)
 - fix qemu command flags fetching (Cole Robinson)
 - check that qemu support -drive format= (Cole Robinson)
 - improve emulator detection (Cole Robinson)
 - changes to config parser to accomodate VMX syntax (Matthias Bolte)
 - update network schemas and driver for missing elements (Satoru SATOH)
 - avoid changing file context if not needed (Tim Waugh)
 - skip labelling if no src path (Cole Robinson)
 - add arm emulation if qemu-system-arm is present (C.J. Adams-Collier)
* Cleanups
 - daemon check logging env variables (Daniel Berrange)
 - User Mode Linux start and stop cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
 - share the NUMA api implementations (Daniel Berrange)
 - storage module dependancies (Dave Allan)
 - refactor storage XML parsing (Cole Robinson)
 - big cleanup of logging code (Amy Griffis)
 - superfluous % on format (Matthias Bolte)
 - cleanups and updates on OpenNebula driver (Daniel Berrange and
   Abel Miguez Rodriguez)

 thanks everybody for report, patches, documentation, etc !

Daniel

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