NAME

       nbdkit-release-notes-1.32 - release notes for nbdkit 1.32

DESCRIPTION

       These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.32.  This describes the major
       changes since 1.30.

       nbdkit 1.32.0 was released on 1 August 2022.

   Security
       There were no security issues found.  All past security issues and information about how
       to report new ones can be found in nbdkit-security(1).

   Plugins
       nbdkit-ssh-plugin(1) has new "create=(true|false)", "create-size" and "create-mode"
       parameters to allow remote files to be created.

       nbdkit-S3-plugin(1) was largely rewritten and should have better performance and
       compatibility.  It also supports splitting/concatenating multiple S3 objects into one
       virtual disk.  (Nikolaus Rath)

   Filters
       New nbdkit-luks-filter(1) allows you to open, read and write LUKSv1 disk images.  It is
       compatible with qemu and dm-crypt.

       New nbdkit-scan-filter(1) which simply scans across the disk issuing prefetches.

       nbdkit-readahead-filter(1) has been completely rewritten so now it uses prefetching from a
       parallel thread.  The old readahead filter was deprecated, but if you are using it you
       should carefully read the new documentation because it may require changes.

       nbdkit-stats-filter(1) now summarises block size and alignment of requests (Nikolaus
       Rath).

       nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1) now handles parallel writes without losing writes because of
       overlapping read-modify-write cycles.  If you are using the blocksize filter it is
       recommended to upgrade.  (Eric Blake)

       nbdkit-rate-filter(1) has a new "burstiness" parameter allowing the bucket capacity to be
       adjusted, which helps with smoothing out large, lumpy client requests.

   Language bindings
       Add "nbdkit.parse_size()" binding for Python (Nikolaus Rath).

       Compatibility with OCaml 4.14.

       Compatibility with Perl 5.36.

   Server
       Add macOS (Darwin) support.  See the relevant section in the top level README.md file.

       kTLS should now work (transparently) when available in the kernel and GnuTLS.  Use of kTLS
       will be indicated in debug output.  (Daiki Ueno, František Krenželok)

   Bug fixes
       nbdkit-sh-plugin(3) now handles inline scripts correctly on non-glibc platforms (Martin
       Kletzander).

       Catch the case where nbdkit ends up linked to OpenSSL (because of a transient dependency
       through GnuTLS) which broke nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1).  For more details see
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2057490.

       Fix memory leak in nbdkit-python-plugin(3) which would lead to large amounts of memory
       being leaked if your plugin implemented "list_exports" or "extents" callbacks (Eric
       Blake).

       The nbdkit-curl-plugin(1) cookie/header scripts feature now generates an error properly if
       the shell script fails.

       Fix further "phone home" messages in nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1) (thanks Ming Xie).

       Improve error message from nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1) when the thumbprint parameter is wrong
       (Laszlo Ersek).

       Fix "NBDKIT_CACHE_EMULATE" and "NBDKIT_ZERO_EMULATE" in filters.  These could cause
       assertion failures before.  (Eric Blake)

       Fix nbdkit-protect-filter(1) test if dependencies are missing (thanks Jim Fehlig).

       Fix a bounds error in nbdkit-checkwrite-filter(1).

       The server will now fail and exit early if the --tls-verify-peer option is used on
       platforms which do not support it.  Previously it would only fail when a client connected
       using TLS.

       Various bugs found by Coverity were analysed and fixed (Eric Blake).

   Documentation
       Document how to write plugins and filters in C++.  This has always been possible, but was
       never documented before.

       Document how to run nbdkit from inetd or xinetd superservers.

       Fix how verbatim paragraphs in the documentation are rendered in HTML.

       Document how to use nbdkit + TLS with nbd-client(1).

   Tests
       Various enhancements to fuzzing including supporting AFL++, AFL++ clang-LTO.  Add
       "./configure --disable-linker-script" which is needed to use ASAN, and document how to use
       ASAN when fuzzing.

       Improve runtime of linuxdisk test (Eric Blake).

       Add interoperability tests with nbd-client(1), the Linux kernel client, including TLS
       support.

   Build
       Add GitLab continuous integration (CI) at https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/pipelines and
       many miscellaneous build fixes (Martin Kletzander).

       There are now "string_vector" and "const_string_vector" defined under common/utils and
       used consistently throughout the code.

       Microsoft Visual Studio Code formatting settings are available (in .vscode/) (Nikolaus
       Rath).

       Remove scripts/vddk-open.sh.  It is now available as a separate project:
       https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/vddk-remote

       "ARRAY_SIZE" macro added to simplify static array sizing (thanks Laszlo Ersek).

SEE ALSO

       nbdkit(1).

AUTHORS

       Authors of nbdkit 1.32:

       Alan Somers
       Eric Blake
       Laszlo Ersek
       Martin Kletzander
       Nikolaus Rath
       Richard W.M. Jones

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