[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.4 beta 1 released

Fri Aug 23 21:10:58 CEST 2013

Hi,

I've just uploaded the tar-ball[0] and debian package for the Beta 1
release of Xen-Tools 4.4 to the xen-tools.org website[1] as well to
Debian Unstable[2] as well as pushed to the git repositories[3].

  [0] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.4beta1.tar.gz
  [1] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/releases.html
  [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools.html
      http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools/news/20130823T184913Z.html
  [3] https://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools
      https://github.com/xtaran/xen-tools

Checksums for the tar ball at [0]:

  MD5:    60a11bfd3d437c9f95884395ff9cd080
  SHA1:   9c60058c99daabb41982abe339f0f12ee52c1efe
  SHA256: 9ef3ca478f552885ba5911cfdedc4765
  	  370f652ccf74b79ccc6729b0b5c77302
  SHA512: c7bf0aa3cc248e9ea4c7756ba3ecb647
  	  e04d2a8ddc5b4d3b58eefccafb3d72e9
	  b7313141eccfacc6006d65880b5a4c0e
	  875de6accc3af53685d4a25663ec4bb0

There's still not everything fixed which I want to have in the next
release, hence the beta label. Known issues to be fixed until 4.4:

  * --password option currently doesn't work as expected.

See also TODO.markdown[4] and KNOWN_BUGS.markdown[5] in the source code as
well as the bug reports in Debian's Bug Tracking System[6].

  [4] https://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools/blobs/master/TODO.markdown
  [5] https://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools/blobs/master/KNOWN_BUGS.markdown
  [6] http://bugs.debian.org/src:xen-tools

Feel free to report any further issues in this beta release either to
xen-tools-dev at xen-tools.org or (in case of using the Debian package)
via the Debian Bug Tracking System, e.g. with "reportbug xen-tools".
I'm especially keen to know about any regressions compared to the
previous stable release (4.3.1).

Changes:

  * Code deduplication to unify the xen-*-image scripts

  * Moves /usr/lib/xen-tools/ to /usr/share/xen-tools/

  * Use http.debian.net as default Debian mirror if no mirror is
    given and xt-guess-suite-and-mirror is not used.

  * Fix symbolic link hooks/centos-6/15-setup-arch (Closes: #690299)

  * Execute END block not on --version/--help/--manual (Closes:
    #684346)

  * Move code for --boot feature to END block. Fixes missing SSH
    fingerprint display if --boot was used. (Closes: #679183)

  * Correctly handle aborts in END block. (Closes: #704882)

  * Use local parameter instead of global variable in unMountImage.

  * Also recognize "M" and "G" instead of "MB" and "GB" as size unit
    for --memory. (Closes: #691320) Document the recognized units.

  * Default DomUs to use the noop scheduler (Closes: #693131)

  * Overwork TLS disabling on Debian and Ubuntu

  * xen-list-images now also outputs the file name of the config file.

  * xen-list-images and xen-delete-image now understand --extension.

  * Fixes "--extension=" with empty parameter.

  * Sarge amd64 case handle properly

  * Remove CVS revisions from --version output

  * Support for Debian Jessie, Ubuntu Raring and preliminary support
    for Ubuntu Saucy (debootstrap doesn't have support for Saucy at
    the time of writing)

  * Preliminary support for xl toolstack

  * xen-create-image: Consistently use runCommand() instead of system()

  * xt-install-image: Don't bail out if only cdebootstrap is
    installed but not debootstrap (Thanks Elmar Heeb!)

  * Makefile accepts DESTDIR=…

  * Move examples from debian/examples to examples.

  * Uses File::Which exclusively (no more findBinary, no more `which`)

  * Knows about module-init-tools → kmod transition in
    wheezy/raring.

  * Adds default mount options for ext4, identical to ext2/ext3.

  * Ships /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xen-tools for generating Dom0
    initrds also suitable for DomU usage. Trigger update-initramfs.

  * By default install linux-image-virtual instead of
    linux-image-server on Ubuntu Intrepid and newer (Hopefully closes:
    #640099, LP #839492)

  * Installs a legacy grub in all pygrub based Debian/Ubuntu DomUs
    to be able to update the menu.list automatically.

  * hooks/common.sh: installDebianPackage no more installs recommends.

  * hooks/common.sh: Rename installCentOS4Package to installRPMPackage.
    Add installCentOS4Package wrapper for backward compatibility.

  * Fix filesystem tools installation in 91-install-fs-tools (which
    was broken since 4.3~rc1-1) by merging 91-install-fs-tools back
    into 90-make-fstab. (Closes: #715340) Also supports RPM-based
    distributions now.

  * Fixes export of environment variables. Previously they could
    contain dashes and then were only accessible from within Perl, but
    not from within Bash. This may break some exotic setups.

  * Fixes creation of "ARRAY(0x…).log" named log files.

  * Makes some options (like --pygrub) negatable.

  * Uses Test::NoTabs instead of running a self-written check for tabs

  * Removes unused Perl modules Xen::Tools and Xen::Tools::Log from
    source code. Also removes the according tests from the test suite.
    → No more needs Moose to build.

  * Better documents and checks requirements for the --apt_proxy
    value. (See #623443 for the corresponding apt issue.) Needs
    Data::Validate::URI.

  * Use Data::Validate::{Domain,IP} for IP addresses and hostname
    checks.

  * Fixes broken quoting in list of required binaries

  * Declares POD encoding. Fixes building with Perl 5.18. (Closes:
    #720519)

(Bug numbers are Debian bug numbers unless prefixed with "LP" in which
case they're Launchpad bug numbers.)

		Kind regards, Axel
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