[Libvir] Release of libvirt-0.4.1

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 15:13:12 UTC 2008


  It was really time for a new release, quite a lot of patches had accumulated
since the previous one ! Available at 
    ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt

* New features:
 - build on MacOSX (Richard Jones)
 - storage management (Daniel Berrange)
 - Xenner - Xen on KVM - support (Daniel Berrange)
* Documentation:
 - Fix of various typos (Atsushi SAKAI)
 - memory and vcpu settings details (Richard Jones)
 - ethernet bridging typo (Maxwell Bottiger)
 - add storage APIs documentation (Daniel Berrange)
* Bug fixes:
 - OpenVZ code compilation (Mikhail Pokidko)
 - crash in policykit auth handling (Daniel Berrange)
 - large config files (Daniel Berrange)
 - cpumap hypercall size (Saori Fukuta)
 - crash in remote auth (Daniel Berrange)
 - ssh args error (Daniel Berrange)
 - preserve vif order from config files (Hiroyuki Kaguchi)
 - invalid pointer access (Jim Meyering)
 - virDomainGetXMLDesc flag handling
 - device name conversion on stats (Daniel Berrange)
 - double mutex lock (Daniel Berrange)
 - config file reading crashes (Guido Guenther)
 - xenUnifiedDomainSuspend bug (Marcus Meissner)
 - do not crash if /sys/hypervisor/capabilities is missing (Mark McLoughlin)
 - virHashRemoveSet bug (Hiroyuki Kaguchi)
 - close-on-exec flag for qemud signal pipe (Daniel Berrange)
 - double free in OpenVZ (Anton Protopopov)
 - handle mac without addresses (Shigeki Sakamoto)
 - MAC addresses checks (Shigeki Sakamoto and Richard Jones)
* Improvements:
 - Windows build (Richard Jones)
 - KVM/QEmu shutdown (Guido Guenther)
 - catch virExec output on debug (Mark McLoughlin)
 - integration of iptables and lokkit (Mark McLoughlin)
 - keymap parameter for VNC servers (Daniel Hokka Zakrisson)
 - enable debug by default using VIR_DEBUG (Daniel Berrange)
 - xen 3.2 fixes (Daniel Berrange)
 - Python bindings for VCPU and scheduling (Daniel Berrange)
 - framework for automatic code syntax checks (Jim Meyering)
 - allow kernel+initrd setup in Xen PV (Daniel Berrange)
 - allow change of Disk/NIC of an inactive domains (Shigeki Sakamoto)
 - virsh commands to manipulate and create storage(Daniel Berrange)
 - update use of PolicyKit APIs
 - better detection of fedault hypervisor
 - block device statistics for QEmu/KVM (Richard Jones)
 - various improvements for Xenner (Daniel Berrange)
* Code cleanups:
 - avoid warnings (Daniel Berrange)
 - virRun helper function (Dan Berrange)
 - iptable code fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
 - static and const cleanups (Jim Meyering)
 - malloc and python cleanups (Jim Meyering)
 - xstrtol_ull and xstrtol_ll functions (Daniel Berrange)
 - remove no-op networking from OpenVZ (Daniel Berrange)
 - python generator cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
 - cleanup ref counting (Daniel Berrange)
 - remove uninitialized warnings (Jim Meyering)
 - cleanup configure for RHEL4 (Daniel Berrange)
 - CR/LF cleanups (Richard Jones)
 - various automatic code check and associated cleanups (Jim Meyering)
 - various memory leaks (Jim Meyering)
 - fix compilation when building without Xen (Guido Guenther)
 - mark translatables strings (Jim Meyering)
 - use virBufferAddLit for constant strings (Jim Meyering)
 - fix make distcheck (Jim Meyering)
 - return values for python bindings (Cole Robinson)
 - trailing blanks fixes (Jim Meyering)
 - gcc-4.3.0 fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
 - use safe read and write routines (Jim Meyering)
 - refactoring of code dealing with hypervisor capabilities (Daniel Berrange)
 - qemudReportError to use virErrorMsg (Cole Robinson)
 - intemediate library and Makefiles for compiling static and coverage rule support (Jim Meyering)
 - cleanup of various leaks (Jim Meyering)

  Thanks to everybody who helped by providing code, patches or reporting
 problems !

Daniel

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