guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes

Authors

       Alexey Shabalin
       Andi Chandler
       Antonio Caggiano
       Bella Zhang
       grass-lu
       Jonatan Pålsson
       Jürgen Hötzel
       liuxiang
       Olaf Hering
       Richard W.M. Jones
       Wang Guoquan
       Yuri Chornoivan
       zhanchun li

Bugs

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       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       To      report      a      new       bug       against       libguestfs,       use       this       link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       When reporting a bug, please supply:

       •   The version of libguestfs.

       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete,unedited output into the bug report.

libguestfs-1.54.1                                  2025-02-18                      guestfs-release-notes-1.54(1)

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       guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes

Release Notes For Libguestfs 1.54

These are the release notes for libguestfs stable release 1.54. This describes the major changes since
1.52.

Libguestfs 1.54.0 was released on 8October2024.

Inspection
Add detection of Circle Linux (Bella Zhang).

Add support for LoongArch (liuxiang).

Add detection of Kylin (grass-lu).

Add detection of openEuler (Wang Guoquan).

"PARTUUID" and "PARTLABEL" are now resolved in guest /etc/fstab.

APINewAPIs "findfs_partuuid" and "findfs_partlabel". These can be used to efficiently look up a filesystem
by its GPT partition UUID or label.

Support for the following inactive or infrequently used device types has been removed: Gluster, Sheepdog,
TFTP.

Add GOST R34.11-94 message digest algorithm to checksum APIs (Alexey Shabalin).

Allow "nbd+unix://" URIs (NBD over Unix domain socket) in guestfish and other places.

Various "part_*" (partition) APIs related to GPT have been reimplemented to use util-linux sfdisk instead
of sgdisk. Util-linux is more widely available, so this reduces dependencies in the common case. One
optional API remains that still uses sgdisk. (Thanks Yongkui Guo).

Add "cipher" suboption to "cryptsetup_open" (Jonatan Pålsson).

Because of a bug, the "part_get_gpt_attributes" API could truncate the return value from 64 to 32 bits.
This has been fixed.

Buildchanges
Fix btrfs compatibility with kernel changes in Linux 6.7.

Removed some compatibility code for versions of util-linux (sfdisk) prior to 2014.

Pass CFLAGS through when building the Perl bindings. In particular this means that -g should be passed
through correctly, enabling debugging symbols.

Fix build on macOS (Antonio Caggiano).

Internals
Libguestfs will now no longer recommend using "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct". This was shown previously
when libvirt failed to start the appliance. However it is felt that this now does more harm than good.

Fix generation of virt-customize --chown parameter (Yongkui Guo).

In the appliance, reduce boot time when dhcp isn't needed (Olaf Hering).

A deadlock in the appliance caused by a regression in Linux 6.11 has been worked around. The deadlock
was also fixed in Linux 6.12.

Bugsfixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2303267
Rare hangs while starting the appliance, at 'echo noop' into /sys/block/{h,s,ub,v}d*/queue/scheduler

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-35998
Drop dependency from libguestfs -> gdisk

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-46596
libguestfs inspection does not know about /etc/fstab PARTLABEL=<label>

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/136
1.52.0: btrfs related c_api/tests are failing (unable to create quota group: Invalid argument)

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/138
Python how-to incorrect exception name

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/145
1.52.1: Rust test 410_close_event fails