From abe at deuxchevaux.org Tue Feb 12 02:07:22 2019 From: abe at deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:07:22 +0100 Subject: [xen-tools-dev] xen-tools 4.8 released; could need a better maintainer Message-ID: <20190212010721.GK18595@sym.noone.org> Hi, the past weekend, I published the xen-tools release 4.8 and uploaded the signed[0] tar-ball[1] to the xen-tools.org website as well as GitHub[2] and the Debian package to Debian Unstable[3]. In the meanwhile it has migrated to Debian Testing[4] as well. [0] https://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.8.tar.gz.asc [1] https://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.8.tar.gz [2] https://github.com/xen-tools/xen-tools/releases [3] https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools/news/20190209T015029Z.html https://tracker.debian.org/news/1028802/ [4] https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools/news/20190211T043928Z.html https://tracker.debian.org/news/1029640/ Checksums for the tar ball at [1] and [2]: MD5: add3c66752d211a4f5616c8e7f4212a0 SHA1: 093b27a695bc86970c5b82d977afdcbbc0815ee6 SHA256: 8adbca004292bb622256f8b9a91f12d2 7e4c1bc9a02833379faa9eebf585fa5a SHA512: c76e8dd6a9967eeded8ad3e0eb84189c c396e0fbb4d158fb8332c5c9ba5bd2d2 df2dddea673c7349765e6f525996694c c63f49664da566c45e184f7863a1414e Changes from 4.7 to 4.8 ======================= xen-tools 4.8 is primarily a maintenance release which adds support for more recent Debian and Ubuntu releases as DomU as well as Dom0. It though also adds a bunch of additions like ZFS and LVM Thin Provisioning support contributed by multiple 3rd party contributors via pull requests. (Thanks!) New Features ------------ * Support for ZFS volumes (by Marc Bigler, GH #50) * Support for LVM thin provisioning (by Nico Boehr, GH #47) * Support for really random MAC addresses upon every xen-create-image invocation by using the new option --randommac. (by Pietro St?heli, closes Debian bug report #855703) * distributions.conf now supports arbitrary keyring files in /usr/share/keyrings/. (Needed for some EoL Ubuntu releases.) * Support for netplan.io network configuration as used in recent Ubuntu releases. (Hook by Arno and Peter, GH #51) Bug Fixes --------- * Minor documentation fixes. * Eliminate progress reporting which is useless in logs. (Yuri Sakhno, GH #42) * Drop pygrub path detection from xm.tmpl, Xen prefers a path-less bootloader='pygrub'. Distribution Releases Changes ----------------------------- * Support for + Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark + Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver (LTS) (GH #51) + Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish * Preliminary support for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo * Knows about code name for Debian 12 (Bookworm). * Considers Ubuntu Yakkety, Zesty and Artful being EoL. * Set Ubuntu fallback suite to the latest LTS, i.e. 18.04 Bionic. Other Changes ------------- * Change all occurrences of httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org except those for the debian-archive. The latter now point to archive.debian.org directly. * Many improvements for the release-testing script. * Only run xen-toolstack helper script if both, xm and xl are present. Avoids warning about deprecated helper script. A bunch of proposed changes didn't make it into the release ----------------------------------------------------------- Due to the Debian Freeze being quite close, I didn't manage to get everything I wanted into 4.8. A few improvements suggested on the mailing list like support for recognizing different mirror paths, etc. might go into a 4.8.1, but I don't want to promise it. xen-tools needs a more appropriate maintainer --------------------------------------------- This release was long overdue and showed me, that not needing xen-tools that often anymore(*) causes me to let the xen-tools maintenance slide: There was no release for two years and the current release was prompted by the Debian freeze as the previous release was. Short said: xen-tools needs a new maintainer, best someone who uses it on a regular basis. So xen-tools is basically up for adoption, upstream as well as the Debian package. I will still contribute and help, but obviously I am not the most appropriate maintainer for it anymore. Contact me, if you're interested. (*) 2.5 years ago I changed to a different team at work where I no more maintain any hosting infrastructure. So the only place where I still need and use xen-tools are on one server at home and one for voluntary work in an association. But in both cases new DomUs are rather seldom, i.e. only every other year or so. I even had to misuse my only server hardware running Debian Testing on real hardware for xen-tools release testing, because I no more had a server where I can easily test booting and tear down of DomUs. Kind regards, Axel -- PGP: 2FF9CD59612616B5 /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign, http://arc.pasp.de/ Mail: abe at deuxchevaux.org \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and Usenet Mail+Jabber: abe at noone.org X https://axel.beckert.ch/ / \ I love long mails: https://email.is-not-s.ms/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: