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. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org