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

RELEASE NOTES FOR GUESTFS TOOLS 1.52

These are the release notes for guestfs tools stable release 1.52. This describes the
major changes since 1.50.

Guestfs tools 1.52.0 was released on 5 January 2024.

virt-dib was removed
virt-dib, a tool that built disk images using diskimage-builder descriptions has been
removed. It only supported an older version of the diskimage-builder metadata. See also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039

virt-builder
virt-builder(1) now prints better error messages when a specific URL cannot be downloaded.

virt-builder-repository
Fix GPG repository signing (thanks Allard Berends).

virt-customize
New virt-customize(1) --chown and --tar-in options. (Also available in virt-builder and
virt-sysprep.)

virt-diff
virt-diff(1) no longer considers "st_dev" and "st_ino" fields, which means that guests
where a file has moved across a mountpoint but is otherwise identical (size, path, etc)
will not show up as a difference.

virt-drivers
virt-drivers(1) a tool which looks at the device drivers needed by a guest, can now look
up vendor and device names using the PCI and USB IDs databases.

Common changes
The common --key option now recognizes LVM names like
/dev/mapper/rhel_bootp--73--75--123-root (Laszlo Ersek).

The --key option also supports a new --key all:... selector to try the same key on all
devices.

Build changes
Support for OCaml 5, and OCaml ≥ 4.07 is now the minimum (thanks Guillaume Munch-
Maccagnoni, Jerry James, Josh Berdine, Jürgen Hötzel, Vincent Laviron).

Fix compatibility issues with libxml2 2.12.

Internals
Fix an off-by-one error which caused very rare crashes in some of the virt tools.

Bugs fixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2175703
virt-v2v failed to inspect RHEL9.2 guest due to kernel-core / kernel-modules-core
subpackage split

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168506
RFE: Virt-v2v should recognize partition names like '/dev/mapper/rhel
boot--73--75--123-root' in related keys option

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039
virt-dib doesn't work with newer diskimage-builder version on RHEL8

AUTHORS

       Jürgen Hötzel
       Laszlo Ersek
       Richard W.M. Jones

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