[Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: nbdkit 1.1.13 - NBD server toolkit with stable API and permissive license

nbdkit is an NBD server toolkit with stable ABI and permissive license. "Non-traditional" disk images can be served to anything that can consume disk images over NBD (qemu, libguestfs, etc.) More information: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit Source download: http://download.libguestfs.org/nbdkit/ I'm pleased to announce the first new release in over a year. New in this version: - Support for running nbdkit using systemd socket activation. - New ‘--dump-plugin’ feature allows you to query plugins. - Full VMware VDDK support including access to remote servers. - Implement NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES. There is a new ‘zero’ callback which plugins may implement (Eric Blake). - Allow plugins to declare whether errno is preserved for more accurate error reporting (Eric Blake). - ‘nbdkit_read_password’ core API to provide a uniform way for plugins to read and parse password. - The ‘file’ plugin can now serve device files. - Support NBD_FLAG_NO_ZEROES which slightly optimizes the NBD feature negotiation stage (Eric Blake). - Fix Perl module so that Perl extensions written in C can be imported into plugins (Eric Blake). - Fix build on RHEL 5 (Eric Blake). - Build fails hard if there are POD errors in the documentation (Eric Blake). - Multiple fixes for Python 3 support. - Multiple memory optimizations for Python (hailfinger). - Allow tests to be run under valgrind and fix memory leaks. - Fix C++ support. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top