I'm happy to announce the release of libguestfs 1.60. Libguestfs is a comprehensive library and set of tools for creating and manipulating disk images and virtual machine disks and similar files. This release is largely a maintenance release, but I'd like to highlight the contributions from Rafael Fontenelle and other translators in getting the translations (from the Fedora Weblate project) back up and working again. Release notes are attached below, or can be found online here: https://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes-1.60.1.html Tarballs from: https://download.libguestfs.org/1.60-stable/ It'll be available in Linux distros soon. Rich. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Libguestfs 1.60.0 was released on 9 July 2026. Inspection Add support for Kylin, NeoKylin and Anolis Linux distributions (grass lu). Guests using Veritas partition tables (reusing the Sun partition type) can now be inspected. Windows Defender (antivirus) is now detected if present in Windows guests (Susant Sahani). API New "guestfs_xfs_info2" API. This is similar to the existing "guestfs_xfs_info" API but returns a flexible hashtable allowing more fields to be added to the output in future. "guestfs_get_hv" now returns the default hypervisor. "guestfs_tar_in" adds a new option "keepdirlink" which controls the tar --keep-directory-symlink flag (Anders Roxell). "guestfs_xfs_repair" "maxmem" option now produces better error messages if maxmem is too small. All functions that take LUKS key parameters may now use either "text:..." or "base64:..." prefixes, allowing binary keys to be encoded as base64 and passed to these APIs. guestfish(1) and other tools taking a key file now allow a binary file to be used. "guestfs_command*" and "guestfs_sh*" now use a bind mount to override "/etc/resolv.conf" inside the guest, allowing these commands to work even when this file is marked as immutable, a common change that system admin‐ istrators make (Srihari Parimi). Tools New guestfish(1) "not" subcommand, which negates the status of a command. Language bindings GObject and Vala bindings were removed. They were previously deprecated in libguestfs 1.56 (Cole Robinson). Documentation All information related to firstboot scripts was moved to and consolidated in "FIRSTBOOT" in virt-customize(1) (Srihari Parimi). Fix documentation of "guestfs_copy_out" API. Build changes Fix Weblate (i18n) web hooks (Rafael Fontenelle). Fix build when libselinux is not available (David Runge). Github CI is now used more comprehensively (Cole Robinson). Fix "make dist" command when certain language bindings are disabled (Cole Robinson). "./configure --with-qemu" was removed. "CFLAGS" is now prepended to the default, allowing default flags to be overridden. In addition -fPIC is added to the default flags (Cole Robin‐ son). Some bash completion scripts that were no longer used by libguestfs (they moved to guestfs-tools) were removed. Also new "./configure --with-bash-completion" and "./configure --with-bash-completion-dir" op‐ tions were added (Christopher Byrne). No longer over-link Lua bindings with libxml2 and libvirt (David Runge). Internals Simplify qemu property testing. Most of the code was eliminated com‐ pletely, and also we no longer start up an empty guest when detecting if KVM is available (thanks Daniel Berrange). Also we now print stderr if qemu fails to start during detection (Hilko Bengen). Use -cpu max on RISC-V (thanks Apache553). Very minimal support for Apple Filesystem (APFS) was added on Fedora. Many memory and file descriptor leaks found by Claude Code were fixed (shivanayak). In the libguestfs appliance, increase the number of pre-process memory maps. This may allow xfs_repair to work on larger filesystems (Eric Sandeen). Fix DHCP on fast machines by making it wait for an address when networking is enabled. In addition use "dhcpcd --debug" which makes it easier to see if DHCP requests are working (Cole Robinson). Improvements to debug output (Surya Gupta, Srihari Parimi). Fix Fedora bin/sbin symlinking to be less noisy (Cole Robinson). Rewrite xfs_repair and luks_* implementations in the daemon in OCaml. Bugs fixed https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-129145 RFE: Detect Windows Defender antivirus when enabled in default Windows 11 installs https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-143673 Add new xfs_info2 API to expose XFS version information https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-165220 virt-v2v with sun partition table and Veritas storage failed with: parted exited with status 1: Warning: The disk CHS geometry reported by the operating system does not match the geometry stored on the disk label https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-165677 Stop using xfs_repair -m because memory required scales with filesys‐ tem size and has sharp edges https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-170864 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys [virt-v2v] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-171895 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys [libguestfs] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-171896 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys [guestfs-tools] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-178287 virt-v2v fails during migration of RHEL 7 VMs due to XFS filesystem errors, potentially related to RHEL 10.1 xfs_repair running against a RHEL 7 XFS filesystem. https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-178556 Use bind mount to overwrite /sysroot/etc/resolv.conf during "sh" oper‐ ations https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/290 1.58.0: undefined reference to optgroup_selinuxrelabel_available https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/292 guestfs_int_get_cpu_model: use -cpu max for riscv https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/312 switch to po4a https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/336 flaky test network/test-network.sh https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/359 1.58.1: The Lua bindings link against libxml2 but don't seem to use it SEE ALSO guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1), guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1), http://libguestfs.org/ AUTHORS Adolfo Jayme Barrientos Anders Roxell Andi Chandler Arif Budiman Christopher Byrne Cole Robinson Emilio Herrera Ettore Atalan Fco. Javier F. Serrador grimst Hela Basa Hilko Bengen Jan Kuparinen Krascovict Petrov Léane GRASSER Nathan95 Pavel Borecki Piotr Drąg Rafael Fontenelle Richard W.M. Jones Ricky Tigg shivanayak Srihari Parimi Surya Gupta Susant Sahani Temuri Doghonadze Tian Shixiong Yuri Chornoivan zhanchun li -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit