[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.4 RC1 released

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded the tar-ball[0] and debian package for the release
candidate 1 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-4.4rc1.tar.gz
  [1] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/releases.html
  [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools.html
      TODO
  [3] https://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools
      https://github.com/xtaran/xen-tools

Checksums for the tar ball at [0]:

  MD5:    9e5573a41b6a3d42e23563db4cdfb0a0
  SHA1:   176c134dda9228c6a1e094a4fab42f84c4800289
  SHA256: dbff5610cb8a17fe501ad958fdf9ffad
	  ff36297896f30b12347e45308bdafc1d
  SHA512: 337acea97756bf5b1a4ab9c5e6d3ced6
	  491bf006a3e549491f70fa44122ae4bc
	  ef2c4ec56458f85d4d07cde6fdafad35
	  26ded73fb5acb95b777fd466200b0bd2

I hope I managed to fix all recently brought up isses. There are still
some Perl 5.19 comptaibility issues in the dependencies of the Debian
package, but that shouldn't be a big issue.

Feel free to report any further issues in this release candidate
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:

  * Also switch from cdn.debian.net to http.debian.net in
    xen-tools.conf

  * Do not run "passwd" via runCommand as that one captures STDOUT for
    logging. Makes --passwd usable again. Thanks Christian Herzog!

  * Loop around calling "passwd" to get a second chance to change the
    password. (Closes: #703159) Thanks to Joan <aseques at gmail.com> for a
    bug fix in this new code.

  * Declares one more POD encoding and recode Xen::Tools::Common to
    UTF-8. Fixes build-failures with Perl 5.18. (Finally closes:
    #720519)

  * Apply patch by Philipp Erbelding to fix overzealous line matching
    in xen-list-images. (Gitorious merge request #5)

  * xen-list-images now displays a unit after the memory size

  * Drop support for memory size in kilobytes in xen-create-image,
    neither xt-create-xen-config nor xm support it.

  * Refactoring: Replace all occurrences of "! -z" by "-n" in hooks
    and bash completion.

  * Handle potentially empty gateway setting properly in
    hooks/common/40-setup-networking-deb. Thanks Simone Caruso!

  * Reformat hooks/common/40-setup-networking-deb so that the result
    neither has trailing whitespace nor broken indentation.

  * Also display MAC address after the DomU has been created.

  * Preliminary support for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.

  * Added --maxmem flag to set a maximum value for dynamic memory
    ballooning. Thanks to Joan <aseques at gmail.com> for the patch!

  * Added fix by Patryk Ściborek againsat disableStartStopDaemon()
    aborting under some circumstances. (Closes: #725192)

  * Abort early and with proper error message if "xen-delete-image
    --test" is not used with "--dir". (Closes: #704878)

  * xen-delete-image: Exit with return code != 0 in all error cases.

  * Refactoring: xt-create-xen-config: Use s/// to strip trailing MB
    size suffixes.

(Bug numbers are Debian bug numbers unless mentioned otherwise.)

		Kind regards, Axel
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