Ubuntu Manpage: guestfs-tools-release-notes - guestfs tools release Notes

Provided by: guestfs-tools_1.50.1-4ubuntu1_amd64

NAME

       guestfs-tools-release-notes - guestfs tools release Notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR GUESTFS TOOLS 1.48

These are the release notes for guestfs tools stable release 1.48. This describes the
major changes since 1.46.

Guestfs tools 1.48.0 was released on 14 March 2022.

virt-builder
New templates: "alma-8.5", "centosstream-8", "debian-11", "fedora-34", "fedora-34"
(armv7l), "fedora-35" "fedora-35" (aarch64) (Lars Kaiser, Stef Walter).

New fedora-34 (armv7l) template is built to use UEFI.

virt-customize
The yescrypt password hashing method is now supported (Björn Esser).

virt-inspector
Recognise "kalilinux", "kylin" and "msdos" operating systems / Linux distros (Laszlo
Ersek).

Inspection of LUKS encrypted filesystems placed directly on logical volumes is now
supported, but you will need libguestfs ≥ 1.48 (Laszlo Ersek).

virt-sysprep
Add a new default operation called "net-nmconn" which removes NetworkManager connection
profiles (Laszlo Ersek).

virt-win-reg
"virt-win-reg --version" now prints both the version of guestfs tools and the libguestfs
library that it is linked with.

Common changes
All OCaml tools now suppress line wrapping when output is redirected to a file (to make it
easier to parse logs with external programs). There is a new --wrap option which can be
used to reenable line wrapping to files if needed (Laszlo Ersek).

Build changes
Multiple fixes to make it easier to build against either the system installed libguestfs
or a locally built libguestfs (Laszlo Ersek).

Fix multiple OCaml warnings. Remove some deprecated OCaml features. We now require OCaml
≥ 4.04.

Multiple fixes to valgrind support for glibc 2.35, OCaml 4.13 and libvirt 7.7. "make
check-valgrind" should now work.

Internals
New OCaml "On_exit" module (from libguestfs-common) is used instead of custom on-exit and
signal handling.

Bugs fixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2003706
virt-install armv7 guest on aarch64 host doesn't work, no LPAE support and no PCI
devices

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1995391
RFE: virt-inspector fails to detect the distro and applications on Kylin-Desktop-V10
image

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1980922
virt-sysprep doesn't cleanup NetworkManager connection files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1961160
The version is incorrect when running 'virt-win-reg --version'

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1820221
Log lines wrapping make log parsing difficult

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1658126
Virt-v2v can't convert guest using LUKS-on-LV

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1633328
Armv7 guest fails to boot with qemu-3.0.0-1

AUTHORS

       Björn Esser
       Lars Kaiser
       Laszlo Ersek
       Richard W.M. Jones
       Stef Walter

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
       Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

BUGS