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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>
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