Re: [Libguestfs] Plans for nbdkit 1.26, libnbd 1.8 ?

On 4/27/21 1:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > It's been about 3½ months since stable branches of both projects were > released (synchronously, in early January). Could be time within the > next month or so for a new stable release. Is there anything you'd > like to get in before then, or conversely any large changes that > should wait until after? I'm about to post a series adding a .cleanup callback (counterpart to .after_fork, and called in outer-to-inner order, opposite of .unload called in inner-to-outer order), in order to modify the ext2 filter to allow multiplexed connections. > For me, but none of them are urgent before this release: > > Proposed nbdkit-forward-filter which ensures that we only do forward > reads over the plugin. > > nbdkit-readahead-filter fix/replacement. Requires background threads, > this may be possible already. Not easy without a .cleanup callback (it IS possible to create a background thread, but .unload is too late to clean that thread up gracefully to ensure we close the plugin's handle without accidentally calling into unloaded memory).