Re: [Libguestfs] [nbdkit] Plan for nbdkit 1.4?
On 07/01/2018 11:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'd like to suggest that we release nbdkit 1.4 (next stable
branch) soon.
The last stable branch was effectively released in January this year
(although I didn't actually implement the stable/development branch
policy until April).
There has been a lot of development since then:
- Switch to defaulting to newstyle protocol.
- On-demand ramping of thread pool.
- TRIM support in the file plugin.
- nbdkit_parse_size rewritten.
- Test IPv6 connections.
- Reworked error handling.
- New log filter.
- New blocksize filter.
- New nozero filter.
- New fua filter.
- New can_zero, can_fua methods and better handling of FUA.
I proposed python plugin implementations of these, but never got around
to testing that they worked in both python 2/3, and never extended my
proposal to cover other languages like perl, so the python patches
remain uncommitted. That should not be the basis for avoiding a stable
release, though.
- New nbdkit_realpath function.
- Better handling of shutdown.
- New ext2 plugin.
- Bash tab completion.
- New zero plugin.
- New random plugin.
- New PKG_CHECK_VAR variables.
- TLS-PSK authentication.
- New Tcl plugin (posted for review).
- Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements.
I'm also going to propose that we try to get 1.4 into RHEL 8, which
means we will need to do this branching fairly quickly, in the next
few weeks.
Let me know what you think.
I'm out the next couple of weeks, which means I won't be able to help
with any final patches/branching/backporting until after July 20, but
again, don't let my schedule be the driving factor.
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