Releases (2006)

Here is the list of official releases made during the year 2006. A similar list for 2005 is also available.

It is also possible to just use the GIT version or snapshot, contact the mailing list and check the GIT log to gauge progress.

0.1.10: Dec 20 2006

• Bug Fixes:
  VCPU info breakages on xen 3.0.3,
  xenDaemonListDomains buffer overflow (Daniel Berrange),
  reference count bug when creating Xen domains (Daniel Berrange)
  
• Improvements:
  more localizations,
  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)
  

0.1.9: Nov 29 2006

• Features:
  separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level,
  add support for shareable drives,
  add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests (Daniel Berrange),
  new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch,
  hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch,
  added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange),
  special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange),
  add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend),
  pygrub bootloader information take over <os> information
  
• Bug Fixes:
  fix OS reporting when running as non-root,
  fix the reconnect regression test,
  Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange),
  python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)
  
• Improvements:
  python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange),
  don't raise HTTP error when looking information for a domain,
  better error reporting (Daniel Berrange),
  provide XML parsing errors,
  extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange),
  python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage collection and disconnect,
  updated the localization strings
  
• Cleanups:
  some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points
  

0.1.8: Oct 16 2006

• Documentation:
  fix virsh man page (Noriko Mizumoto)
  
• Bug Fixes:
  Bug for system with page size != 4k,
  memory leak fixes (xend interface and XML parsing) (Daniel Berrange),
  compile fix,
  mlock/munlock size fixes (Daniel Berrange),
  don't label crashed domains as shut off (Peter Vetere)
  
• Improvements:
  vcpu number initialization (Philippe Berthault),
  blktapdd support for alternate drivers like blktap (Daniel Berrange),
  improve error reporting
  

0.1.7: Sep 29 2006

• Bug Fixes:
  fix a memory bug on getting vcpu information from xend (Daniel Berrange),
  fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b when getting domain information (Daniel Berrange)
  

0.1.6: Sep 22 2006

• Features:
  Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange),
  Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel Berrange),
  Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with new xend config files (Daniel Berrange)
  
• Bug Fixes:
  Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig),
  Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend
  

0.1.5: Sep 05 2006

• Features:
  Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b
  
• Bug Fixes:
  virParseUUID() was wrong,
  networking for paravirt guests (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)
  
• Improvements:
  test suite for SEXPR <-> 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)
  

0.1.4: Aug 16 2006

• Documentation:
  spelling (Daniel Berrange),
  test driver examples
  
• 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)
  
• 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),
  extension 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)
  

0.1.3: Jul 11 2006

• Documentation:
  augmented to cover hvm domains
  
• Bug Fixes:
  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)
  
• Improvements:
  xenDaemonLookupByID from O(n^2) to O(n) (Daniel Berrange),
  support for fully virtualized guest (Jim Fehlig, DV, Mark McLoughlin)
  

0.1.2: Jul 03 2006

• Features:
  proxy mechanism for unprivileged read-only access by http
  
• Bug Fixes:
  headers include paths fixup
  

0.1.1: Jun 21 2006

• Features:
  Cope with API change introduced in Xen changeset 10277,
  new test driver for regression checks (Daniel P. Berrange)
  
• Documentation:
  Python examples (David Lutterkort),
  new Perl binding URL,
  man page update (Karel Zak)
  
• Portability:
  ncurses fallback (Jim Fehlig),
  VPATH builds (Daniel P. Berrange)
  
• Bug Fixes:
  uninitialized memory access in error reporting,
  S-Expr parsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz),
  virConnectOpen bug,
  remove a TODO in xs_internal.c
  
• Improvements:
  added UUID to XML serialization,
  buffer usage (Karel Zak),
  --connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange)
  
• Cleanups:
  new entry points,
  cleanup of libvirt.c (with Daniel P. Berrange)
  

0.1.0: Apr 10 2006

• Features:
  new APIs for Node information and Reboot
  
• Documentation:
  updates on architecture and format,
  typo fix (Jim Meyering),
  virsh: man page (Andrew Puch)
  
• Portability:
  --with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner),
  out of tree build and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)
  
• Bug Fixes:
  error message (Jim Meyering),
  error allocation in virsh (Jim Meyering),
  virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig)
  
• Improvements:
  enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David Lutterkort and Jim Fehlig),
  virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak),
  virsh: renaming of some options (Karel Zak),
  virsh: use stderr only for errors (Karel Zak),
  bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering),
  bindings: perl ones out of tree (Daniel Berrange)
  
• Cleanups:
  refactoring internals into a driver model,
  more error handling,
  structure sharing,
  thread safety and ref counting
  

0.0.6: Feb 28 2006

• Features:
  add UUID lookup and extract API,
  add error handling APIs both synchronous and asynchronous,
  added minimal hook for error handling at the python level
  
• Documentation:
  augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling
  
• Improvements:
  improved the python bindings
  

0.0.5: Feb 23 2006

• Features:
  Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented the creation API virDomainCreateLinux(),
  new APIs to lookup and name domain by UUID,
  Adding regression tests in python and examples in C,
  Added devhelp help for Gnome/Gtk programmers,
  
• Documentation:
  web site improvement, extended the documentation to cover the XML format and Python API
  
• Bug Fixes:
  fixed the XML dump when using the Xend access,
  Fixed a few more problem related to the name change
  

0.0.4: Feb 10 2006

• Bug Fixes:
  Fix various bugs introduced in the name change
  

0.0.3: Feb 09 2006

• Features:
  Switch name from 'libvir' to libvirt,
  Starting infrastructure to add code examples
  
• Improvements:
  Update of python bindings for completeness
  

0.0.2: Jan 29 2006

• Features:
  integration of HTTP xend RPC based on libxend by Anthony Liquori for most operations,
  Adding Save and Restore APIs
  
• Documentation:
  Update of the documentation, web site redesign (Diana Fong)
  
• Bug Fixes:
  fix the Python bindings bug when domain and connections where freed
  
• Improvements:
  extended the virsh command line tool (Karel Zak),
  remove xenstore transactions (Anthony Liguori)