danpb kicked off a rawhide build this morning, should show up in virt-preview tomorrow.
- Cole
-------- Original Message -------- As planned the release of libvirt 1.2.5 is out, it is tagged in git and available as tarballs and rpms at the usual place:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
This is a relatively small release in the number of commits, around 150, but includes a security fix (which happened to be my fault !) and 2 new set of APIs. There is also some interesting refactoring work and the usual flow of bug fixes, so people are really invited to update:
Security: - LSN-2014-0003: Don't expand entities when parsing XML (Daniel P. Berrange)
Features: - Introduce virDomain{Get,Set}Time APIs (Michal Privoznik) - Introduce virDomainFSFreeze() and virDomainFSThaw() public API (Tomoki Sekiyama)
Portability: - build: avoid compiler warning on 32-bit platform (Eric Blake) - build: fix build with libselinux 2.3 (Cédric Bosdonnat) - qemu: Fix specifying char devs for PPC (Olivia Yin) - change machine name ppce500v2 to ppce500 (Olivia Yin) - tests: avoid dlsym mocking on mingw (Eric Blake) - avoid 'sync' as variable name (Pavel Hrdina) - Fix build wihout macvtap or virtualport (Ján Tomko)
Bug Fixes: - util: fix DST end date in virtimetest timezones (Laine Stump) - qemu: snapshot: Improve detection of mixed snapshots (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Reject internal active snapshot without memory state (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Fix crash of libvirtd on network backed guest block-pull (Peter Krempa) - util: fix virTimeLocalOffsetFromUTC DST processing (Laine Stump) - qemu: managedsave: Don't spam logs with warnings about corrupted image (Peter Krempa) - utils: storage: Canonicalize paths only for local filesystems (Peter Krempa) - qemu: reject rather than hang on blockcommit of active layer (Eric Blake) - Clean up chardev sockets on QEMU shutdown (Ján Tomko) - qemu: fix <clock offset='variable' basis='localtime'/> (Laine Stump) - qemu: fix RTC_CHANGE event for <clock offset='variable' basis='utc'/> (Laine Stump) - qemu: Properly abort migration to a file (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Send migrate_cancel when aborting migration (Jiri Denemark) - Fix error message when TUNNELLED flag is used in non-p2p migration (Jiri Denemark) - conf: fix backing store parse off-by-one (Eric Blake) - Fix crash in DAC driver with no seclabels (Ján Tomko) - util: fix memory leak in failure path of virCgroupKillRecursiveInternal (Chen Hanxiao) - qemu: Avoid leak in qemuDomainCheckRemoveOptionalDisk (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Ignore temporary job errors when checking migration status (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: snapshot: Terminate job when memory compression program isn't found (Peter Krempa) - sanlock: avoid leak in acquire() (Martin Kletzander) - virsh: domain: Fix output of the VNC display number for domdisplay (Peter Krempa) - sanlock: don't fail with unregistered domains (Martin Kletzander) - storage: Resolve issues in failure path (John Ferlan) - spec: Don't install nonexistent test_libvirt_lockd.aug (Jiri Denemark) - spec: sanlock is x86_64 only on RHEL (Jiri Denemark) - Fix vlan ID detection in udev interface driver (Ján Tomko)
Documentation: - bhyve driver documentation improvements (Roman Bogorodskiy) - virsh: fix typos in virsh man page (Eric Blake) - maint: fix typo in previous patch (Eric Blake) - fix documentation of virDomainSet(Get)Metadata (Dan Kenigsberg) - Fix an extra ' in a translated string (Daniel Veillard) - add a serial device with a seclabel example (Ján Tomko) - maint: fix typos related to disk name resolution (Eric Blake) - maint: fix typos related to 'frozen' (Eric Blake) - mention vagrant-libvirt in apps.html (James Shubin) - update documentation of <interface type='hostdev'> (Chunyan Liu) - update README-hacking (Chen Hanxiao) - virerror: Fix an error message typo (Cole Robinson) - fix a typo in formatdomain (Chen Hanxiao) - typos: fix s/it/is/ where applicable (Martin Kletzander) - datatypes: Fix comment of secret uuid (Li Yang)
Improvements: - maint: cleanup detection of const'ness of selinux ctx (Jim Fehlig) - storage: fs: Drop-in replace use of virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf (Peter Krempa) - storage: Return backing format from virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD (Peter Krempa) - util: new function virTimeLocalOffsetFromUTC (Laine Stump) - storage: Add storage file API to read file headers (Peter Krempa) - storage: Add support for access to files using provided uid/gid (Peter Krempa) - storage: Add NONE protocol type for network disks (Peter Krempa) - conf: Fix domain disk path iterator to work with networked storage (Peter Krempa) - storage: Rework debugging of storage file access through storage driver (Peter Krempa) - storage: Store gluster volume name separately (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Make qemuDomainPrepareDiskChainElement aware of remote storage (Peter Krempa) - qemu: process: Refresh backing chain info when reconnecting to qemu (Peter Krempa) - Don't log an internal error when the guest hasn't updated balloon stats (Ján Tomko) - qemuSetupCgroupForVcpu: s/virProcessInfoSetAffinity/virProcessSetAffinity/ (Michal Privoznik) - bhyve: fix virObjectUnlock() usage (Roman Bogorodskiy) - virdbus: Show method name in error message (Cole Robinson) - virdbus: Remove redundant error macro (Cole Robinson) - qemu: snapshot: Fix return value of external checkpoint with no disks (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Forbid empty snapshots (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Forbid partial internal snapshots (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Use typecasted switch in qemuDomainSnapshotPrepare() (Peter Krempa) - bhyve: domain events support (Roman Bogorodskiy) - migration: add support for migrateURI configuration (Chen Fan) - util: refactor virNetlinkCommand to fix several bugs / style problems (Laine Stump) - build: nuke more uses of 'sync' (Eric Blake) - Return error when updating cdrom device (Pavel Hrdina) - Revert "maint: prefer enum over int for virstoragefile structs" (Eric Blake) - parallels: create VMs in the default place (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: add disks correctly (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: set file format in virDomainDef (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format (Dmitry Guryanov) - conf: fix seclabels for chardevs (Ján Tomko) - Rename virDomainDiskSourceDefFormatSeclabel (Ján Tomko) - security_dac: honor relabel='no' in chardev config (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: avoid relabeling hostdevs when relabel='no' (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: honor relabel='no' in disk config (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: avoid relabeling when relabel='no' (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: rework callback parameter passing (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: cleanup use of enum types (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: annotate some functions with ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL (Jim Fehlig) - maint: prefer enum over int for virstoragefile structs (Eric Blake) - maint: shorten 'TypeType' function names (Eric Blake) - maint: use enum typedef for virstorageencryption.h (Eric Blake) - vbox: fix stale comment about vdi storage type (Eric Blake) - qemu: Implement virDomain{Get,Set}Time (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: Expose virDomain{Get,Set}Time (Michal Privoznik) - security_dac: Fix indentation (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: Remove unnecessary curly braces (Jim Fehlig) - security_dac: Remove unnecessary ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED (Jim Fehlig) - virsh: reject undefine --wipe-storage without also naming storage (Li Yang) - conf: use typedefs for enums in "src/conf/snapshot_conf.h" (Julio Faracco) - conf: use typedefs for enums in "src/conf/storage_conf.h" (Julio Faracco) - conf: use typedefs for enums in "src/conf/nwfilter_conf.h" (Julio Faracco) - qemu: Make qemuProcess{Start,Stop}CPUs easier to follow (Jiri Denemark) - qemuDomainObjBeginNestedJob: Return -2 for temporary failures (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Make qemuDomainObjBeginNestedJob static (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: extract common PCI handling functions (Roman Bogorodskiy) - qemu: extract PCI handling structs (Roman Bogorodskiy) - qemu: Adjust size for qcow2/qed if not on sector boundary (John Ferlan) - sanlock: code movement in virLockManagerSanlockAcquire (Martin Kletzander) - apibuild: Disallow 'returns' return description (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Support mountpoints option of guest-fsfreeze-freeze (Tomoki Sekiyama) - virsh: Expose new virDomainFSFreeze and virDomainFSThaw API (Tomoki Sekiyama) - qemu: Implement virDomainFSFreeze and virDomainFSThaw (Tomoki Sekiyama) - conf: use typedefs for enums in node_device_conf, nwfilter_params (Julio Faracco) - libxl: fix support for <interface type="hostdev"> syntax (Chunyan Liu) - maint: use $(SED) instead of sed for syntax-check (Roman Bogorodskiy) - bhyve: implement connectGetSysinfo (Roman Bogorodskiy) - qemu: Implement a stub cpuArchDriver.compare() handler for arm and aarch64 (Oleg Strikov) - ESX: add virStorageVolGetInfo in iSCSI backend. (Dawid Zamirski) - parallels: add a set of trivial functions (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: don't add domain to the list twice (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: don't enable VNC when we define a new domain (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: fix virDomainDef.features comparison (Dmitry Guryanov) - Add support for timestamping QEMU logs (Ján Tomko) - qemu: track quiesced status in qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze (Tomoki Sekiyama) - remote: Implement virDomainFSFreeze and virDomainFSThaw (Tomoki Sekiyama) - udev: consider the device a CDROM when ID_CDROM=1 (Giuseppe Scrivano) - virdbus: Make virDBusCall static (Cole Robinson) - qemu: specify domain in host-side PCI addresses when needed/supported (Laine Stump) - qemu: add host-pci-multidomain capability (Laine Stump) - storageVolCreateXMLFrom: Allow multiple accesses to origvol (Michal Privoznik) - conf: use typedefs for enums in "src/conf/{network,interface}_conf.h" (Julio Faracco) - conf: use typedefs for enums in "src/conf/cpu_conf.h" (Julio Faracco) - util: use typedefs for enums in "src/util/" directory (Julio Faracco) - virsh: Replace list element to defined variable (Li Yang) - libxl: support PARAVIRT reboot flag (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: support PARAVIRT and ACPI shutdown flags (Jim Fehlig) - Introduce a new flag for controlling shutdown/reboot (Jim Fehlig) - conf: drop extra storage probe (Eric Blake) - bhyve: report cpuTime in bhyveDomainGetInfo (Roman Bogorodskiy) - bhyve: implement connectDomainXMLToNative (Roman Bogorodskiy) - bhyve: improve bhyve_command.c testability (Roman Bogorodskiy)
Cleanup: - virSecurityDACRestoreSecurityHostdevLabel: Unmark @def as unused (Michal Privoznik)
Thanks everybody who contributed in one way or anither to this release with bug reports, fixes, documentation and patch reviews !
Daniel