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+ <h1 >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 progress.</p>
+ <h3>0.4.2: Apr 8 2008</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New features: memory operation for QEmu/KVM driver (Cole Robinson),
+ new routed networking schemas (Mads Olesen)</li>
+ <li>Documentation: storage documentation fixes (Atsushi Sakai), many
+ typo cleanups (Atsushi Sakai), string fixes (Francesco Tombolini)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: pointer errors in qemu (Jim Meyering), iSCSI login fix
+ (Chris Lalancette), well formedness error in test driver capabilities
+ (Cole Robinson), fixes cleanup code when daemon exits (Daniel Berrange),
+ CD Rom change on live QEmu/KVM domains (Cole Robinson), setting scheduler
+ parameter is forbidden for read-only (Saori Fukuta)i, fixes for TAP
+ devices (Daniel Berrange), assorted storage driver fixes (Daniel
+ Berrange), Makefile fixes (Jim Meyering), Xen-3.2 hypercall fix,
+ fix iptables rules to avoid blocking traffic within virtual network
+ (Daniel Berrange), XML output fix for directory pools (Daniel Berrange),
+ remove dandling domain/net/conn pointers from error data, do not
+ ask polkit auth when root (Daniel Berrange), handling of fork and
+ pipe errors when starting the daemon (Richard Jones)</li>
+ <li>Improvements: better validation of MAC addresses (Jim Meyering and
+ Hiroyuki Kaguchi),
+ virsh vcpupin error report (Shigeki Sakamoto), keep boot tag on
+ HVM domains (Cole Robinson), virsh non-root should not be limited to read
+ only anymore (Daniel Berrange), switch to polkit-auth from polkit-grant
+ (Daniel Berrange), better handling of missing SElinux data (Daniel
+ Berrange and Jim Meyering), cleanup of the connection opening logic
+ (Daniel Berrange), first bits of Linux Containers support (Dave Leskovec),
+ scheduler API support via xend (Saori Fukuta), improvement of the
+ testing framework and first tests (Jim Meyering), missing error
+ messages from virsh parameters validation (Shigeki Sakamoto),
+ improve support of older iscsiadm command (Chris Lalancette),
+ move linux container support in the daemon (Dan Berrange), older
+ awk implementation support (Mike Gerdts), NUMA support in test
+ driver (Cole Robinson), xen and hvm added to test driver capabilities
+ (Cole Robinson)</li>
+ <li>Code cleanup: remove unused getopt header (Jim Meyering), mark more
+ strings as translatable (Guido G&#xFC;nther and Jim Meyering), convert
+ error strings to something meaningful and translatable (Jim Meyering),
+ Linux Containers code cleanup, last error initializer (Guido G&#xFC;nther)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.4.1: Mar 3 2008</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New features: build on MacOSX (Richard Jones), storage management
+ (Daniel Berrange), Xenner - Xen on KVM - support (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>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)</li>
+ <li>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),
+ allow to read non-seekable files (Jim Meyering)</li>
+ <li>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)</li>
+ <li>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)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.4.0: Dec 18 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New features: Compilation on Windows cygwin/mingw (Richard Jones),
+ Ruby bindings (David Lutterkort), SASL based authentication for
+ libvirt remote support (Daniel Berrange), PolicyKit authentication
+ (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Documentation: example files for QEMU and libvirtd configuations
+ (Daniel Berrange), english cleanups (Jim Paris), CIM and OpenVZ
+ references, document &lt;shareable/&gt;, daemon startup when using
+ QEMU/KVM, document HV support for new NUMA calls (Richard Jones),
+ various english fixes (Bruce Montague), OCaml docs links (Richard Jones),
+ describe the various bindings add Ruby link, Windows support page
+ (Richard Jones), authentication documentation updates (Daniel Berrange)
+ </li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: NUMA topology error handling (Beth Kon), NUMA topology
+ cells without CPU (Beth Kon), XML to/from XM bridge config (Daniel
+ Berrange), XM processing of vnc parameters (Daniel Berrange), Reset
+ migration source after failure (Jim Paris), negative integer in config
+ (Tatsuro Enokura), zero terminating string buffer, detect integer
+ overflow (Jim Meyering), QEmu command line ending fixes (Daniel Berrange),
+ recursion problem in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), HVM domain with CDRom
+ (Masayuki Sunou), off by one error in NUMA cpu count (Beth Kon),
+ avoid xend errors when adding disks (Masayuki Sunou), compile error
+ (Chris Lalancette), transposed fwrite args (Jim Meyering), compile
+ without xen and on solaris (Jim Paris), parsing of interface names
+ (Richard Jones), overflow for starts on 32bits (Daniel Berrange),
+ fix problems in error reporting (Saori Fukuta), wrong call to
+ brSetForwardDelay changed to brSetEnableSTP (Richard Jones),
+ allow shareable disk in old Xen, fix wrong certificate file (Jim
+ Meyering), avoid some startup error when non-root, off-by-1 buffer
+ NULL termination (Daniel Berrange), various string allocation fixes
+ (Daniel Berrange), avoid problems with vnetXXX interfaces in domain dumps
+ (Daniel Berrange), build fixes for RHEL (Daniel Berrange), virsh prompt
+ should not depend on uid (Richard Jones), fix scaping of '&lt;' (Richard
+ Jones), fix detach-disk on Xen tap devices (Saori Fukuta), CPU
+ parameter setting in XM config (Saori Fukuta), credential handling
+ fixes (Daniel Berrange), fix compatibility with Xen 3.2.0 (Daniel
+ Berrange)
+ </li>
+ <li>Improvements: /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration for QEMU driver
+ (Daniel Berrange), NUMA cpu pinning in config files (DV and Saori Fukuta),
+ CDRom media change in KVM/QEMU (Daniel Berrange), tests for
+ &lt;shareable/&gt; in configs, pinning inactive domains for Xen 3.0.3
+ (Saori Fukuta), use gnulib for portability enhancement (Jim Meyering),
+ --without-libvirtd config option (Richard Jones), Python bindings for
+ NUMA, add extra utility functions to buffer (Richard Jones),
+ separate qparams module for handling query parameters (Richard Jones)
+ </li>
+ <li>Code cleanups: remove virDomainRestart from API as it was never used
+ (Richard Jones), constify params for attach/detach APIs (Daniel Berrange),
+ gcc printf attribute checkings (Jim Meyering), refactoring of device
+ parsing code and shell escaping (Daniel Berrange), virsh schedinfo
+ parameters validation (Masayuki Sunou), Avoid risk of format string abuse
+ (Jim Meyering), integer parsing cleanups (Jim Meyering), build out
+ of the source tree (Jim Meyering), URI parsing refactoring (Richard
+ Jones), failed strdup/malloc handling (Jim Meyering), Make "make
+ distcheck" work (Jim Meyering), improve xen internall error reports
+ (Richard Jones), cleanup of the daemon remote code (Daniel Berrange),
+ rename error VIR_FROM_LINUX to VIR_FROM_STATS_LINUX (Richard Jones),
+ don't compile the proxy if without Xen (Richard Jones), fix paths when
+ configuring for /usr prefix, improve error reporting code (Jim Meyering),
+ detect heap allocation failure (Jim Meyering), disable xen sexpr parsing
+ code if Xen is disabled (Daniel Berrange), cleanup of the GetType
+ entry point for Xen drivers, move some QEmu path handling to generic
+ module (Daniel Berrange), many code cleanups related to the Windows
+ port (Richard Jones), disable the proxy if using PolicyKit, readline
+ availability detection, test libvirtd's config-processing code (Jim
+ Meyering), use a variable name as sizeof argument (Jim Meyering)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.3.3: Sep 30 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New features: Avahi mDNS daemon export (Daniel Berrange),
+ NUMA support (Beth Kan) </li>
+ <li>Documentation: cleanups (Toth Istvan), typos (Eduardo Pereira), </li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: memory corruption on large dumps (Masayuki Sunou), fix
+ virsh vncdisplay command exit (Masayuki Sunou), Fix network stats
+ TX/RX result (Richard Jones), warning on Xen 3.0.3 (Richard Jones),
+ missing buffer check in virDomainXMLDevID (Hugh Brock), avoid zombies
+ when using remote (Daniel Berrange), xend connection error message
+ (Richard Jones), avoid ssh tty prompt (Daniel Berrange), username
+ handling for remote URIs (Fabian Deutsch), fix potential crash
+ on multiple input XML tags (Daniel Berrange), Solaris Xen hypercalls
+ fixup (Mark Johnson)</li>
+ <li>Improvements: OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain and Anoop Cyriac),
+ CD-Rom reload on XEn (Hugh Brock), PXE boot got QEmu/KVM (Daniel
+ Berrange), QEmu socket permissions customization (Daniel Berrange),
+ more QEmu support (Richard Jones), better path detection for qemu and
+ dnsmasq (Richard Jones), QEmu flags are per-Domain (Daniel Berrange),
+ virsh freecell command, Solaris portability fixes (Mark Johnson),
+ default bootloader support (Daniel Berrange), new virNodeGetFreeMemory
+ API, vncpasswd extraction in configuration files if secure (Mark
+ Johnson and Daniel Berrange), Python bindings for block and interface
+ statistics</li>
+ <li>Code cleanups: virDrvOpenRemoteFlags definition (Richard Jones),
+ configure tests and output (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.3.2: Aug 21 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New features: KVM migration and save/restore (Jim Paris),
+ added API for migration (Richard Jones), added APIs for block device and
+ interface statistic (Richard Jones).</li>
+ <li>Documentation: examples for XML network APIs,
+ fix typo and schedinfo synopsis in man page (Atsushi SAKAI),
+ hypervisor support page update (Richard Jones).</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: remove a couple of leaks in QEmu/KVM backend(Daniel berrange),
+ fix GnuTLS 1.0 compatibility (Richard Jones), --config/-f option
+ mistake for libvirtd (Richard Jones), remove leak in QEmu backend
+ (Jim Paris), fix some QEmu communication bugs (Jim Paris), UUID
+ lookup though proxy fix, setvcpus checking bugs (with Atsushi SAKAI),
+ int checking in virsh parameters (with Masayuki Sunou), deny devices
+ attach/detach for &lt; Xen 3.0.4 (Masayuki Sunou), XenStore query
+ memory leak (Masayuki Sunou), virsh schedinfo cleanup (Saori Fukuta).</li>
+ <li>Improvement: virsh new ttyconsole command, networking API implementation
+ for test driver (Daniel berrange), qemu/kvm feature reporting of
+ ACPI/APIC (David Lutterkort), checking of QEmu architectures (Daniel
+ berrange), improve devices XML errors reporting (Masayuki Sunou),
+ speedup of domain queries on Xen (Daniel berrange), augment XML dumps
+ with interface devices names (Richard Jones), internal API to query
+ drivers for features (Richard Jones).
+ </li>
+ <li>Cleanups: Improve virNodeGetInfo implentation (Daniel berrange),
+ general UUID code cleanup (Daniel berrange), fix API generator
+ file selection. </li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.3.1: Jul 24 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Documentation: index to remote page, script to test certificates,
+ IPv6 remote support docs (Daniel Berrange), document
+ VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI in virsh man page (David Lutterkort),
+ Relax-NG early grammar for the network XML (David Lutterkort)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: leaks in disk XML parsing (Masayuki Sunou), hypervisor
+ alignment call problems on PPC64 (Christian Ehrhardt), dead client
+ registration in daemon event loop (Daniel Berrange), double free
+ in error handling (Daniel Berrange), close on exec for log file
+ descriptors in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), avoid caching problem
+ in remote daemon (Daniel Berrange), avoid crash after QEmu domain
+ failure (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Improvements: checks of x509 certificates and keys (Daniel Berrange),
+ error reports in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), checking of Ethernet MAC
+ addresses in XML configs (Masayuki Sunou), support for a new
+ clock switch between UTC and localtime (Daniel Berrange), early
+ version of OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain), support for input devices
+ on PS/2 and USB buses (Daniel Berrange), more tests especially
+ the QEmu support (Daniel Berrange), range check in credit scheduler
+ (with Saori Fukuta and Atsushi Sakai), add support for listen VNC
+ parameter un QEmu and fix command line arg (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Cleanups: debug tracing (Richard Jones), removal of --with-qemud-pid-file
+ (Richard Jones), remove unused virDeviceMode, new util module for
+ code shared between drivers (Shuveb Hussain), xen header location
+ detection (Richard Jones)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.3.0: Jul 9 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Secure Remote support (Richard Jones).
+ See <a href="http://libvirt.org/remote.html">the remote page</a>
+ of the documentation
+ </li>
+ <li>Documentation: remote support (Richard Jones), description of
+ the URI connection strings (Richard Jones), update of virsh man
+ page, matrix of libvirt API/hypervisor support with version
+ information (Richard Jones)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: examples Makefile.am generation (Richard Jones),
+ SetMem fix (Mark Johnson), URI handling and ordering of
+ drivers (Daniel Berrange), fix virsh help without hypervisor (Richard
+ Jones), id marshalling fix (Daniel Berrange), fix virConnectGetMaxVcpus
+ on remote (Richard Jones), avoid a realloc leak (Jim Meyering), scheduler
+ parameters handling for Xen (Richard Jones), various early remote
+ bug fixes (Richard Jones), remove virsh leaks of domains references
+ (Masayuki Sunou), configCache refill bug (Richard Jones), fix
+ XML serialization bugs</li>
+ <li>Improvements: QEmu switch to XDR-based protocol (Dan Berrange),
+ device attach/detach commands (Masayuki Sunou), OCaml bindings
+ (Richard Jones), new entry points virDomainGetConnect and
+ virNetworkGetConnect useful for bindings (Richard Jones),
+ reunitifaction of remote and qemu daemon under a single libvirtd
+ with a config file (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Cleanups: parsing of connection URIs (Richard Jones), messages
+ from virsh (Saori Fukuta), Coverage files (Daniel Berrange),
+ Solaris fixes (Mark Johnson), avoid [r]index calls (Richard Jones),
+ release information in Xen backend, virsh cpupin command cleanups
+ (Masayuki Sunou), xen:/// suppport as standard Xen URI (Richard Jones and
+ Daniel Berrange), improve driver selection/decline mechanism (Richard
+ Jones), error reporting on XML dump (Richard Jones), Remove unused
+ virDomainKernel structure (Richard Jones), daemon event loop event
+ handling (Daniel Berrange), various unifications cleanup in the daemon
+ merging (Daniel Berrange), internal file and timer monitoring API
+ (Daniel Berrange), remove libsysfs dependancy, call brctl program
+ directly (Daniel Berrange), virBuffer functions cleanups (Richard Jones),
+ make init script LSB compliant, error handling on lookup functions
+ (Richard Jones), remove internal virGetDomainByID (Richard Jones),
+ revamp of xen subdrivers interfaces (Richard Jones)</li>
+ <li>Localization updates</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.2.3: Jun 8 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Documentation: documentation for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones),
+ virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains doc (Jan Michael), virsh help messages
+ for dumpxml and net-dumpxml (Chris Wright), </li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: RelaxNG schemas regexp fix (Robin Green), RelaxNG arch bug
+ (Mark McLoughlin), large buffers bug fixes (Shigeki Sakamoto), error
+ on out of memory condition (Shigeki Sakamoto), virshStrdup fix, non-root
+ driver when using Xen bug (Richard Jones), use --strict-order when
+ running dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange), virbr0 weirdness on restart (Mark
+ McLoughlin), keep connection error messages (Richard Jones), increase
+ QEmu read buffer on help (Daniel Berrange), rpm dependance on
+ dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange), fix XML boot device syntax (Daniel Berrange),
+ QEmu memory bug (Daniel Berrange), memory leak fix (Masayuki Sunou),
+ fix compiler flags (Richard Jones), remove type ioemu on recent Xen
+ HVM for paravirt drivers (Saori Fukuta), uninitialized string bug
+ (Masayuki Sunou), allow init even if the daemon is not running,
+ XML to config fix (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Improvements: add a special error class for the test module (Richard
+ Jones), virConnectGetCapabilities on proxy (Richard Jones), allow
+ network driver to decline usage (Richard Jones), extend error messages
+ for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones), on_reboot support for QEmu
+ (Daniel Berrange), save daemon output in a log file (Daniel Berrange),
+ xenXMDomainDefineXML can override guest config (Hugh Brock),
+ add attach-device and detach-device commands to virsh (Masayuki Sunou
+ and Mark McLoughlin and Richard Jones), make virGetVersion case
+ insensitive and Python bindings (Richard Jones), new scheduler API
+ (Atsushi SAKAI), localizations updates, add logging option for virsh
+ (Nobuhiro Itou), allow arguments to be passed to bootloader (Hugh Brock),
+ increase the test suite (Daniel Berrange and Hugh Brock)</li>
+ <li>Cleanups: Remove VIR_DRV_OPEN_QUIET (Richard Jones), disable xm_internal.c
+ for Xen &gt; 3.0.3 (Daniel Berrange), unused fields in _virDomain (Richard
+ Jones), export __virGetDomain and __virGetNetwork for libvirtd only
+ (Richard Jones), ignore old VNC config for HVM on recent Xen (Daniel
+ Berrange), various code cleanups, -Werror cleanup (Hugh Brock)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.2.2: Apr 17 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Documentation: fix errors due to Amaya (with Simon Hernandez),
+ virsh uses kB not bytes (Atsushi SAKAI), add command line help to
+ qemud (Richard Jones), xenUnifiedRegister docs (Atsushi SAKAI),
+ strings typos (Nikolay Sivov), ilocalization probalem raised by
+ Thomas Canniot</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: virsh memory values test (Masayuki Sunou), operations without
+ libvirt_qemud (Atsushi SAKAI), fix spec file (Florian La Roche, Jeremy
+ Katz, Michael Schwendt),
+ direct hypervisor call (Atsushi SAKAI), buffer overflow on qemu
+ networking command (Daniel Berrange), buffer overflow in quemud (Daniel
+ Berrange), virsh vcpupin bug (Masayuki Sunou), host PAE detections
+ and strcuctures size (Richard Jones), Xen PAE flag handling (Daniel
+ Berrange), bridged config configuration (Daniel Berrange), erroneous
+ XEN_V2_OP_SETMAXMEM value (Masayuki Sunou), memory free error (Mark
+ McLoughlin), set VIR_CONNECT_RO on read-only connections (S.Sakamoto),
+ avoid memory explosion bug (Daniel Berrange), integer overflow
+ for qemu CPU time (Daniel Berrange), QEMU binary path check (Daniel
+ Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Cleanups: remove some global variables (Jim Meyering), printf-style
+ functions checks (Jim Meyering), better virsh error messages, increase
+ compiler checkings and security (Daniel Berrange), virBufferGrow usage
+ and docs, use calloc instead of malloc/memset, replace all sprintf by
+ snprintf, avoid configure clobbering user's CTAGS (Jim Meyering),
+ signal handler error cleanup (Richard Jones), iptables internal code
+ claenup (Mark McLoughlin), unified Xen driver (Richard Jones),
+ cleanup XPath libxml2 calls, IPTables rules tightening (Daniel
+ Berrange), </li>
+ <li>Improvements: more regression tests on XML (Daniel Berrange), Python
+ bindings now generate exception in error cases (Richard Jones),
+ Python bindings for vir*GetAutoStart (Daniel Berrange),
+ handling of CD-Rom device without device name (Nobuhiro Itou),
+ fix hypervisor call to work with Xen 3.0.5 (Daniel Berrange),
+ DomainGetOSType for inactive domains (Daniel Berrange), multiple boot
+ devices for HVM (Daniel Berrange),
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.2.1: Mar 16 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Various internal cleanups (Richard Jones,Daniel Berrange,Mark McLoughlin)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: libvirt_qemud daemon path (Daniel Berrange), libvirt
+ config directory (Daniel Berrange and Mark McLoughlin), memory leak
+ in qemud (Mark), various fixes on network support (Mark), avoid Xen
+ domain zombies on device hotplug errors (Daniel Berrange), various
+ fixes on qemud (Mark), args parsing (Richard Jones), virsh -t argument
+ (Saori Fukuta), avoid virsh crash on TAB key (Daniel Berrange), detect
+ xend operation failures (Kazuki Mizushima), don't listen on null socket
+ (Rich Jones), read-only socket cleanup (Rich Jones), use of vnc port 5900
+ (Nobuhiro Itou), assorted networking fixes (Daniel Berrange), shutoff and
+ shutdown mismatches (Kazuki Mizushima), unlimited memory handling
+ (Atsushi SAKAI), python binding fixes (Tatsuro Enokura)</li>
+ <li>Build and portability fixes: IA64 fixes (Atsushi SAKAI), dependancies
+ and build (Daniel Berrange), fix xend port detection (Daniel
+ Berrange), icompile time warnings (Mark), avoid const related
+ compiler warnings (Daniel Berrange), automated builds (Daniel
+ Berrange), pointer/int mismatch (Richard Jones), configure time
+ selection of drivers, libvirt spec hacking (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Add support for network autostart and init scripts (Mark McLoughlin)</li>
+ <li>New API virConnectGetCapabilities() to detect the virtualization
+ capabilities of a host (Richard Jones)</li>
+ <li>Minor improvements: qemud signal handling (Mark), don't shutdown or reboot
+ domain0 (Kazuki Mizushima), QEmu version autodetection (Daniel Berrange),
+ network UUIDs (Mark), speed up UUID domain lookups (Tatsuro Enokura and
+ Daniel Berrange), support for paused QEmu CPU (Daniel Berrange), keymap
+ VNC attribute support (Takahashi Tomohiro and Daniel Berrange), maximum
+ number of virtual CPU (Masayuki Sunou), virtsh --readonly option (Rich
+ Jones), python bindings for new functions (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Documentation updates especially on the XML formats</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.2.0: Feb 14 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Various internal cleanups (Mark McLoughlin, Richard Jones,
+ Daniel Berrange, Karel Zak)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: avoid a crash in connect (Daniel Berrange), virsh args
+ parsing (Richard Jones)</li>
+ <li>Add support for QEmu and KVM virtualization (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Add support for network configuration (Mark McLoughlin)</li>
+ <li>Minor improvements: regression testing (Daniel Berrange),
+ localization string updates</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.1.11: Jan 22 2007</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Finish XML &lt;-&gt; XM config files support</li>
+ <li>Remove memory leak when freeing virConf objects</li>
+ <li>Finishing inactive domain support (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>Added a Relax-NG schemas to check XML instances</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.1.10: Dec 20 2006</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>more localizations</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: VCPU info breakages on xen 3.0.3, xenDaemonListDomains buffer overflow (Daniel Berrange), reference count bug when creating Xen domains (Daniel Berrange).</li>
+ <li>improvements: support graphic framebuffer for Xen paravirt (Daniel Berrange), VNC listen IP range support (Daniel Berrange), support for default Xen config files and inactive domains of 3.0.4 (Daniel Berrange).</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>0.1.9: Nov 29 2006</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>don't raise HTTP error when looking information for a domain</li>
+ <li>some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points</li>
+ <li>better error reporting (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>fix OS reporting when running as non-root</li>
+ <li>provide XML parsing errors</li>
+ <li>extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>fix the reconnect regression test</li>
+ <li>python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage collection and disconnect</li>
+ <li>separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level</li>
+ <li>Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>add support for shareable drives</li>
+ <li>add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests(Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch</li>
+ <li>hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch</li>
+ <li>added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li>add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend)</li>
+ <li>pygrub bootloader information take over &lt;os&gt; information</li>
+ <li>updated the localization strings</li>
+ </ul>
+ <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 information from xend (Daniel Berrange)</li>
+ <li> fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen changeset
+ 86d26e6ec89b when getting domain information (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 information
+ 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 unprivileged 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>
+ </ul>
+ </body>
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