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<h1>Releases (2006)</h1>
<p>Here is the list of official releases made during the year 2006.
A similar list for <a href="news-2005.html">2005</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.
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<h3>0.1.10: Dec 20 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
VCPU info breakages on xen 3.0.3,<br/>
xenDaemonListDomains buffer overflow (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
reference count bug when creating Xen domains (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
more localizations,<br/>
support graphic framebuffer for Xen paravirt (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
VNC listen IP range support (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
support for default Xen config files and inactive domains of 3.0.4 (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.9: Nov 29 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level,<br/>
add support for shareable drives,<br/>
add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch,<br/>
hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch,<br/>
added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend),<br/>
pygrub bootloader information take over &lt;os&gt; information<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
fix OS reporting when running as non-root,<br/>
fix the reconnect regression test,<br/>
Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
don't raise HTTP error when looking information for a domain,<br/>
better error reporting (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
provide XML parsing errors,<br/>
extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage collection and disconnect,<br/>
updated the localization strings<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.8: Oct 16 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
fix virsh man page (Noriko Mizumoto)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
Bug for system with page size != 4k,<br/>
memory leak fixes (xend interface and XML parsing) (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
compile fix,<br/>
mlock/munlock size fixes (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
don't label crashed domains as shut off (Peter Vetere)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
vcpu number initialization (Philippe Berthault),<br/>
blktapdd support for alternate drivers like blktap (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
improve error reporting<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.7: Sep 29 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
fix a memory bug on getting vcpu information from xend (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b when getting domain information (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.6: Sep 22 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with new xend config files (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig),<br/>
Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.5: Sep 05 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
virParseUUID() was wrong,<br/>
networking for paravirt guests (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh on non-existent domains (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
string cast bug when handling error in python (Pete Vetere),<br/>
HTTP 500 xend error code handling (Pete Vetere and Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
test suite for SEXPR &lt;-&gt; XML format conversions (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh output regression suite (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
new environ variable VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for the default URI when connecting (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
graphical console support for paravirt guests (Jeremy Katz),<br/>
parsing of simple Xen config files (with Daniel Berrange),<br/>
early work on defined (not running) domains (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
virsh output improvement (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.4: Aug 16 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
spelling (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
test driver examples<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
spec file fix (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
error report problem (with Hugh Brock),<br/>
long integer in Python bindings (with Daniel Berrange),<br/>
XML generation bug for CDRom (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
bug whem using number() XPath function (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
fix python detection code,<br/>
remove duplicate initialization errors (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
UUID in XML description (Peter Vetere),<br/>
proxy code cleanup,<br/>
virtual CPU and affinity support + virsh support (Michel Ponceau, Philippe Berthault, Daniel Berrange),<br/>
port and tty information for console in XML (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
added XML dump to driver and proxy support (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
extension of boot options with support for floppy and cdrom (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
features block in XML to report/ask PAE, ACPI, APIC for HVM domains (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
fail saide-effect operations when using read-only connection,<br/>
large improvements to test driver (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.3: Jul 11 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
augmented to cover hvm domains<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
build as non-root,<br/>
fix xend access when root,<br/>
handling of empty XML elements (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
XML serialization and parsing fixes (Mark McLoughlin),<br/>
allow to create domains without disk (Mark McLoughlin)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
xenDaemonLookupByID from O(n^2) to O(n) (Daniel Berrange),<br/>
support for fully virtualized guest (Jim Fehlig, DV, Mark McLoughlin)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.2: Jul 03 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
proxy mechanism for unprivileged read-only access by http<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
headers include paths fixup<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.1: Jun 21 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Cope with API change introduced in Xen changeset 10277,<br/>
new test driver for regression checks (Daniel P. Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
Python examples (David Lutterkort),<br/>
new Perl binding URL,<br/>
man page update (Karel Zak)<br/>
</li>
<li>Portability:<br/>
ncurses fallback (Jim Fehlig),<br/>
VPATH builds (Daniel P. Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
uninitialized memory access in error reporting,<br/>
S-Expr parsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz),<br/>
virConnectOpen bug,<br/>
remove a TODO in xs_internal.c<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
added UUID to XML serialization,<br/>
buffer usage (Karel Zak),<br/>
--connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
new entry points,<br/>
cleanup of libvirt.c (with Daniel P. Berrange)<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.1.0: Apr 10 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
new APIs for Node information and Reboot<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
updates on architecture and format,<br/>
typo fix (Jim Meyering),<br/>
virsh: man page (Andrew Puch)<br/>
</li>
<li>Portability:<br/>
--with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner),<br/>
out of tree build and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
error message (Jim Meyering),<br/>
error allocation in virsh (Jim Meyering),<br/>
virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig)<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David Lutterkort and Jim Fehlig),<br/>
virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak),<br/>
virsh: renaming of some options (Karel Zak),<br/>
virsh: use stderr only for errors (Karel Zak),<br/>
bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering),<br/>
bindings: perl ones out of tree (Daniel Berrange)<br/>
</li>
<li>Cleanups:<br/>
refactoring internals into a driver model,<br/>
more error handling,<br/>
structure sharing,<br/>
thread safety and ref counting<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.0.6: Feb 28 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
add UUID lookup and extract API,<br/>
add error handling APIs both synchronous and asynchronous,<br/>
added minimal hook for error handling at the python level<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
improved the python bindings<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.0.5: Feb 23 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented the creation API virDomainCreateLinux(),<br/>
new APIs to lookup and name domain by UUID,<br/>
Adding regression tests in python and examples in C,<br/>
Added devhelp help for Gnome/Gtk programmers,<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
web site improvement, extended the documentation to cover the XML format and Python API<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
fixed the XML dump when using the Xend access,<br/>
Fixed a few more problem related to the name change<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.0.4: Feb 10 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
Fix various bugs introduced in the name change<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.0.3: Feb 09 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
Switch name from 'libvir' to libvirt,<br/>
Starting infrastructure to add code examples<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
Update of python bindings for completeness<br/>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>0.0.2: Jan 29 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li>Features:<br/>
integration of HTTP xend RPC based on libxend by Anthony Liquori for most operations,<br/>
Adding Save and Restore APIs<br/>
</li>
<li>Documentation:<br/>
Update of the documentation, web site redesign (Diana Fong)<br/>
</li>
<li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
fix the Python bindings bug when domain and connections where freed<br/>
</li>
<li>Improvements:<br/>
extended the virsh command line tool (Karel Zak),<br/>
remove xenstore transactions (Anthony Liguori)<br/>
</li>
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