Releases

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 CVS version or snapshot, contact the mailing list and check the ChangeLog to gauge progresses.

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