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<h1>Releases (2007)</h1>
<p>Here is the list of official releases made during the year 2007.
A similar list for <a href="news-2006.html">2006</a> is also available.
</p>
<p>It is also possible to just use
the <a href="downloads.html">GIT version or snapshot</a>,
contact the mailing list and check
the <a href="https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log">GIT log</a>
to gauge progress.
</p>
<h3>0.4.0: Dec 18 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Compilation on Windows cygwin/mingw (Richard Jones),<br/>
Ruby bindings (David Lutterkort),<br/>
SASL based authentication for libvirt remote support (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
PolicyKit authentication (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
example files for QEMU and libvirtd configuations (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
english cleanups (Jim Paris),<br/>
CIM and OpenVZ references,<br/>
document <shareable/>,<br/>
daemon startup when using QEMU/KVM,<br/>
document HV support for new NUMA calls (Richard Jones),<br/>
various english fixes (Bruce Montague),<br/>
OCaml docs links (Richard Jones),<br/>
describe the various bindings add Ruby link,<br/>
Windows support page (Richard Jones),<br/>
authentication documentation updates (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
NUMA topology error handling (Beth Kon),<br/>
NUMA topology cells without CPU (Beth Kon),<br/>
XML to/from XM bridge config (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
XM processing of vnc parameters (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Reset migration source after failure (Jim Paris),<br/>
negative integer in config (Tatsuro Enokura),<br/>
zero terminating string buffer,<br/>
detect integer overflow (Jim Meyering),<br/>
QEmu command line ending fixes (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
recursion problem in the daemon (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
HVM domain with CDRom (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
off by one error in NUMA cpu count (Beth Kon),<br/>
avoid xend errors when adding disks (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
compile error (Chris Lalancette),<br/>
transposed fwrite args (Jim Meyering),<br/>
compile without xen and on solaris (Jim Paris),<br/>
parsing of interface names (Richard Jones),<br/>
overflow for starts on 32bits (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix problems in error reporting (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
wrong call to brSetForwardDelay changed to brSetEnableSTP (Richard Jones),<br/>
allow shareable disk in old Xen,<br/>
fix wrong certificate file (Jim Meyering),<br/>
avoid some startup error when non-root,<br/>
off-by-1 buffer NULL termination (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
various string allocation fixes (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
avoid problems with vnetXXX interfaces in domain dumps (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
build fixes for RHEL (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh prompt should not depend on uid (Richard Jones),<br/>
fix scaping of '<' (Richard Jones),<br/>
fix detach-disk on Xen tap devices (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
CPU parameter setting in XM config (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
credential handling fixes (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix compatibility with Xen 3.2.0 (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration for QEMU driver (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
NUMA cpu pinning in config files (DV and Saori Fukuta),<br/>
CDRom media change in KVM/QEMU (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
tests for <shareable/> in configs,<br/>
pinning inactive domains for Xen 3.0.3 (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
use gnulib for portability enhancement (Jim Meyering),<br/>
--without-libvirtd config option (Richard Jones),<br/>
Python bindings for NUMA,<br/>
add extra utility functions to buffer (Richard Jones),<br/>
separate qparams module for handling query parameters (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
remove virDomainRestart from API as it was never used (Richard Jones),<br/>
constify params for attach/detach APIs (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
gcc printf attribute checkings (Jim Meyering),<br/>
refactoring of device parsing code and shell escaping (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh schedinfo parameters validation (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
Avoid risk of format string abuse (Jim Meyering),<br/>
integer parsing cleanups (Jim Meyering),<br/>
build out of the source tree (Jim Meyering),<br/>
URI parsing refactoring (Richard Jones),<br/>
failed strdup/malloc handling (Jim Meyering),<br/>
Make "make distcheck" work (Jim Meyering),<br/>
improve xen internall error reports (Richard Jones),<br/>
cleanup of the daemon remote code (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
rename error VIR_FROM_LINUX to VIR_FROM_STATS_LINUX (Richard Jones),<br/>
don't compile the proxy if without Xen (Richard Jones),<br/>
fix paths when configuring for /usr prefix,<br/>
improve error reporting code (Jim Meyering),<br/>
detect heap allocation failure (Jim Meyering),<br/>
disable xen sexpr parsing code if Xen is disabled (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
cleanup of the GetType entry point for Xen drivers,<br/>
move some QEmu path handling to generic module (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
many code cleanups related to the Windows port (Richard Jones),<br/>
disable the proxy if using PolicyKit,<br/>
readline availability detection,<br/>
test libvirtd's config-processing code (Jim Meyering),<br/>
use a variable name as sizeof argument (Jim Meyering)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.3.3: Sep 30 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Avahi mDNS daemon export (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
NUMA support (Beth Kan)<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
cleanups (Toth Istvan),<br/>
typos (Eduardo Pereira)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
memory corruption on large dumps (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
fix virsh vncdisplay command exit (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
Fix network stats TX/RX result (Richard Jones),<br/>
warning on Xen 3.0.3 (Richard Jones),<br/>
missing buffer check in virDomainXMLDevID (Hugh Brock),<br/>
avoid zombies when using remote (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
xend connection error message (Richard Jones),<br/>
avoid ssh tty prompt (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
username handling for remote URIs (Fabian Deutsch),<br/>
fix potential crash on multiple input XML tags (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Solaris Xen hypercalls fixup (Mark Johnson)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain and Anoop Cyriac),<br/>
CD-Rom reload on XEn (Hugh Brock),<br/>
PXE boot got QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
QEmu socket permissions customization (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
more QEmu support (Richard Jones),<br/>
better path detection for qemu and dnsmasq (Richard Jones),<br/>
QEmu flags are per-Domain (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh freecell command,<br/>
Solaris portability fixes (Mark Johnson),<br/>
default bootloader support (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
new virNodeGetFreeMemory API,<br/>
vncpasswd extraction in configuration files if secure (Mark Johnson and Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Python bindings for block and interface statistics<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
virDrvOpenRemoteFlags definition (Richard Jones),<br/>
configure tests and output (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.3.2: Aug 21 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
KVM migration and save/restore (Jim Paris),<br/>
added API for migration (Richard Jones),<br/>
added APIs for block device and interface statistic (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
examples for XML network APIs,<br/>
fix typo and schedinfo synopsis in man page (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
hypervisor support page update (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
remove a couple of leaks in QEmu/KVM backend (Daniel berrange),<br/>
fix GnuTLS 1.0 compatibility (Richard Jones),<br/>
--config/-f option mistake for libvirtd (Richard Jones),<br/>
remove leak in QEmu backend (Jim Paris),<br/>
fix some QEmu communication bugs (Jim Paris),<br/>
UUID lookup though proxy fix,<br/>
setvcpus checking bugs (with Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
int checking in virsh parameters (with Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
deny devices attach/detach for < Xen 3.0.4 (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
XenStore query memory leak (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
virsh schedinfo cleanup (Saori Fukuta)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
virsh new ttyconsole command,<br/>
networking API implementation for test driver (Daniel berrange),<br/>
qemu/kvm feature reporting of ACPI/APIC (David Lutterkort),<br/>
checking of QEmu architectures (Daniel berrange),<br/>
improve devices XML errors reporting (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
speedup of domain queries on Xen (Daniel berrange),<br/>
augment XML dumps with interface devices names (Richard Jones),<br/>
internal API to query drivers for features (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
Improve virNodeGetInfo implentation (Daniel berrange),<br/>
general UUID code cleanup (Daniel berrange),<br/>
fix API generator file selection<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.3.1: Jul 24 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
index to remote page,<br/>
script to test certificates,<br/>
IPv6 remote support docs (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
document VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI in virsh man page (David Lutterkort),<br/>
Relax-NG early grammar for the network XML (David Lutterkort)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
leaks in disk XML parsing (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
hypervisor alignment call problems on PPC64 (Christian Ehrhardt),<br/>
dead client registration in daemon event loop (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
double free in error handling (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
close on exec for log file descriptors in the daemon (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
avoid caching problem in remote daemon (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
avoid crash after QEmu domain failure (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
checks of x509 certificates and keys (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
error reports in the daemon (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
checking of Ethernet MAC addresses in XML configs (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
support for a new clock switch between UTC and localtime (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
early version of OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain),<br/>
support for input devices on PS/2 and USB buses (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
more tests especially the QEmu support (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
range check in credit scheduler (with Saori Fukuta and Atsushi Sakai),<br/>
add support for listen VNC parameter un QEmu and fix command line arg (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
debug tracing (Richard Jones),<br/>
removal of --with-qemud-pid-file (Richard Jones),<br/>
remove unused virDeviceMode,<br/>
new util module for code shared between drivers (Shuveb Hussain),<br/>
xen header location detection (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.3.0: Jul 09 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Secure Remote support (Richard Jones).
See <a href="https://libvirt.org/remote.html">the remote page</a> of the documentation<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
remote support (Richard Jones),<br/>
description of the URI connection strings (Richard Jones),<br/>
update of virsh man page,<br/>
matrix of libvirt API/hypervisor support with version information (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
examples Makefile.am generation (Richard Jones),<br/>
SetMem fix (Mark Johnson),<br/>
URI handling and ordering of drivers (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix virsh help without hypervisor (Richard Jones),<br/>
id marshalling fix (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix virConnectGetMaxVcpus on remote (Richard Jones),<br/>
avoid a realloc leak (Jim Meyering),<br/>
scheduler parameters handling for Xen (Richard Jones),<br/>
various early remote bug fixes (Richard Jones),<br/>
remove virsh leaks of domains references (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
configCache refill bug (Richard Jones),<br/>
fix XML serialization bugs<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
QEmu switch to XDR-based protocol (Dan Berrange),<br/>
device attach/detach commands (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
OCaml bindings (Richard Jones),<br/>
new entry points virDomainGetConnect and virNetworkGetConnect useful for bindings (Richard Jones),<br/>
reunitifaction of remote and qemu daemon under a single libvirtd with a config file (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Localization updates<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
parsing of connection URIs (Richard Jones),<br/>
messages from virsh (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
Coverage files (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Solaris fixes (Mark Johnson),<br/>
avoid [r]index calls (Richard Jones),<br/>
release information in Xen backend,<br/>
virsh cpupin command cleanups (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
xen:/// support as standard Xen URI (Richard Jones and Daniel Berrange),<br/>
improve driver selection/decline mechanism (Richard Jones),<br/>
error reporting on XML dump (Richard Jones),<br/>
Remove unused virDomainKernel structure (Richard Jones),<br/>
daemon event loop event handling (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
various unifications cleanup in the daemon merging (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
internal file and timer monitoring API (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
remove libsysfs dependancy,<br/>
call brctl program directly (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virBuffer functions cleanups (Richard Jones),<br/>
make init script LSB compliant,<br/>
error handling on lookup functions (Richard Jones),<br/>
remove internal virGetDomainByID (Richard Jones),<br/>
revamp of xen subdrivers interfaces (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.2.3: Jun 08 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
documentation for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones),<br/>
virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains doc (Jan Michael),<br/>
virsh help messages for dumpxml and net-dumpxml (Chris Wright)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
RelaxNG schemas regexp fix (Robin Green),<br/>
RelaxNG arch bug (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
large buffers bug fixes (Shigeki Sakamoto),<br/>
error on out of memory condition (Shigeki Sakamoto),<br/>
virshStrdup fix,<br/>
non-root driver when using Xen bug (Richard Jones),<br/>
use --strict-order when running dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virbr0 weirdness on restart (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
keep connection error messages (Richard Jones),<br/>
increase QEmu read buffer on help (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
rpm dependance on dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix XML boot device syntax (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
QEmu memory bug (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
memory leak fix (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
fix compiler flags (Richard Jones),<br/>
remove type ioemu on recent Xen HVM for paravirt drivers (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
uninitialized string bug (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
allow init even if the daemon is not running,<br/>
XML to config fix (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
add a special error class for the test module (Richard Jones),<br/>
virConnectGetCapabilities on proxy (Richard Jones),<br/>
allow network driver to decline usage (Richard Jones),<br/>
extend error messages for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones),<br/>
on_reboot support for QEmu (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
save daemon output in a log file (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
xenXMDomainDefineXML can override guest config (Hugh Brock),<br/>
add attach-device and detach-device commands to virsh (Masayuki Sunou and Mark McLoughlin and Richard Jones),<br/>
make virGetVersion case insensitive and Python bindings (Richard Jones),<br/>
new scheduler API (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
localizations updates,<br/>
add logging option for virsh (Nobuhiro Itou),<br/>
allow arguments to be passed to bootloader (Hugh Brock),<br/>
increase the test suite (Daniel Berrange and Hugh Brock)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
Remove VIR_DRV_OPEN_QUIET (Richard Jones),<br/>
disable xm_internal.c for Xen > 3.0.3 (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
unused fields in _virDomain (Richard Jones),<br/>
export __virGetDomain and __virGetNetwork for libvirtd only (Richard Jones),<br/>
ignore old VNC config for HVM on recent Xen (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
various code cleanups,<br/>
-Werror cleanup (Hugh Brock)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.2.2: Apr 17 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
fix errors due to Amaya (with Simon Hernandez),<br/>
virsh uses kB not bytes (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
add command line help to qemud (Richard Jones),<br/>
xenUnifiedRegister docs (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
strings typos (Nikolay Sivov),<br/>
ilocalization problem raised by Thomas Canniot<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
virsh memory values test (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
operations without libvirt_qemud (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
fix spec file (Florian La Roche, Jeremy Katz, Michael Schwendt),<br/>
direct hypervisor call (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
buffer overflow on qemu networking command (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
buffer overflow in quemud (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh vcpupin bug (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
host PAE detections and strcuctures size (Richard Jones),<br/>
Xen PAE flag handling (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
bridged config configuration (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
erroneous XEN_V2_OP_SETMAXMEM value (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
memory free error (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
set VIR_CONNECT_RO on read-only connections (S.Sakamoto),<br/>
avoid memory explosion bug (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
integer overflow for qemu CPU time (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
QEMU binary path check (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
remove some global variables (Jim Meyering),<br/>
printf-style functions checks (Jim Meyering),<br/>
better virsh error messages,<br/>
increase compiler checkings and security (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virBufferGrow usage and docs,<br/>
use calloc instead of malloc/memset,<br/>
replace all sprintf by snprintf,<br/>
avoid configure clobbering user's CTAGS (Jim Meyering),<br/>
signal handler error cleanup (Richard Jones),<br/>
iptables internal code claenup (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
unified Xen driver (Richard Jones),<br/>
cleanup XPath libxml2 calls,<br/>
IPTables rules tightening (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
more regression tests on XML (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Python bindings now generate exception in error cases (Richard Jones),<br/>
Python bindings for vir*GetAutoStart (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
handling of CD-Rom device without device name (Nobuhiro Itou),<br/>
fix hypervisor call to work with Xen 3.0.5 (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
DomainGetOSType for inactive domains (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
multiple boot devices for HVM (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.2.1: Mar 16 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Add support for network autostart and init scripts (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
New API virConnectGetCapabilities() to detect the virtualization capabilities of a host (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
Documentation updates especially on the XML formats<br/>
</li>
<li>Portability:<br/>
IA64 fixes (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
dependancies and build (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix xend port detection (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
icompile time warnings (Mark),<br/>
avoid const related compiler warnings (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
automated builds (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
pointer/int mismatch (Richard Jones),<br/>
configure time selection of drivers,<br/>
libvirt spec hacking (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
libvirt_qemud daemon path (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
libvirt config directory (Daniel Berrange and Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
memory leak in qemud (Mark),<br/>
various fixes on network support (Mark),<br/>
avoid Xen domain zombies on device hotplug errors (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
various fixes on qemud (Mark),<br/>
args parsing (Richard Jones),<br/>
virsh -t argument (Saori Fukuta),<br/>
avoid virsh crash on TAB key (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
detect xend operation failures (Kazuki Mizushima),<br/>
don't listen on null socket (Rich Jones),<br/>
read-only socket cleanup (Rich Jones),<br/>
use of vnc port 5900 (Nobuhiro Itou),<br/>
assorted networking fixes (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
shutoff and shutdown mismatches (Kazuki Mizushima),<br/>
unlimited memory handling (Atsushi SAKAI),<br/>
python binding fixes (Tatsuro Enokura)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
qemud signal handling (Mark),<br/>
don't shutdown or reboot domain0 (Kazuki Mizushima),<br/>
QEmu version autodetection (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
network UUIDs (Mark),<br/>
speed up UUID domain lookups (Tatsuro Enokura and Daniel Berrange),<br/>
support for paused QEmu CPU (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
keymap VNC attribute support (Takahashi Tomohiro and Daniel Berrange),<br/>
maximum number of virtual CPU (Masayuki Sunou),<br/>
virtsh --readonly option (Rich Jones),<br/>
python bindings for new functions (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
Various internal cleanups (Richard Jones, Daniel Berrange, Mark McLoughlin)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.2.0: Feb 14 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Add support for QEmu and KVM virtualization (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Add support for network configuration (Mark McLoughlin)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
avoid a crash in connect (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh args parsing (Richard Jones)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
regression testing (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
localization string updates<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
Various internal cleanups (Mark McLoughlin, Richard Jones, Daniel Berrange, Karel Zak)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.11: Jan 22 2007</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Added a Relax-NG schemas to check XML instances<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
Remove memory leak when freeing virConf objects<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
Finish XML <-> XM config files support,<br/>
Finishing inactive domain support (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
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