[Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.0.78 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.78. Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Home page: http://libguestfs.org/ Source: http://libguestfs.org/download/ Binaries: http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries A Fedora build is available in Koji here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 (These release notes cover all the significant changes since the last announcement which was for 1.0.67, 2 months ago). New features: - FUSE support so you can mount guest filesystems in the host: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/browsing-guests-using-fuse/ - Support for btrfs, gfs, gfs2, hfs, hfs+, nilfs2, jfs, reiserfs, xfs: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/ - Support for huge (multi-exabyte) sparse virtual disks: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/petabytes-exabytes-why-not/ http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commit;h=5ce72e039ca332ba19b... - New partitioning API, supports GPT and more: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_part_add http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commit;h=b1e1ca2f74a921b3f78... - New tool: virt-ls http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-ls/ - New tool: virt-tar http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-tar/ - New tool: virt-edit http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/virt-edit/ - New tool: virt-rescue http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/virt-rescue/ - Windows Registry support, tools and library: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-regi... http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extra... - OCaml bindings for virt-inspector - RELAX NG schema for virt-inspector - New APIs: utimens, vfs_type, truncate, truncate_size, lchown, lstatlist, lxattrlist, readlinklist, case_sensitive_path, find0, mkfs_b, mke2journal, and more ... - New program: OCaml viewer http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/graphical-virt-df/ - Allow stdout to be redirected when running guestfish remotely (Matt Booth). - Remove requirement for vmchannel support in qemu (horray!) and the tricky main loop code. Bug fixes: (Too many to list here, see: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=log) Thanks to: Jim Meyering, Matt Booth and Charles Duffy for lots of bugfixes, patches and testing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html