guestfs-release-notes-1.44(1)

NAME
guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.44

  Language bindings
Python 2 support has been dropped. The minimum version of Python required is 3.6.

Python bindings no longer use deprecated "PyEval_ThreadsInitialized".

Python bindings now include type hints (Sam Eiderman).

Erlang bindings now use libei instead of liberl_interface (Sergei Golovan).

  Tools
virt-get-kernel(1) can now find uncompressed kernels (Pino Toscano).

virt-sysprep(1) now regenerates the guest certificate store when a certificate is removed from the guest (Pino Toscano).

virt-sysprep(1) can now remove IPA enrollment files and Kerberos keytabs (Pino Toscano, Christian Heimes and François Cami).

  API
New APIs

"cryptsetup-open" and "cryptsetup-close" replace "luks-open", luks-open-ro and luks-close. The new APIs add support for BitLocker encryption.

Other API changes

"lvm-canonical-lv" no longer produces a noisy error message when called with a non-LV parameter.

  Build changes
C programs using libguestfs can now be compiled against the build directory:

 ../libguestfs/run ./configure
 ../libguestfs/run make

OCaml components are now linked correctly when building in a different directory from the source (Geoff Toole).

GCC LTO is now supported.

Weblate is now used for localization instead of Zanata (Pino Toscano).

The dependencies for guestfsd are no longer hard-coded but are now generated from the built binary, ensuring that they shouldn't get out of synch in future (Hilko Bengen).

  Internals
lib/guestfs.h was moved to include/guestfs.h in the source. This is not an externally visible change but affected a lot of places inside the build system.

  Bugs fixed

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1811539
    The virt-diff command doesn't work on windows 2019 image

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1384241
    The tar-in command does not allow restoring file capabilities

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

•   Andrey Shinkevich

•   Dmitry Tantsur

•   Geoff Toole

•   Hilko Bengen

•   Pino Toscano

•   Richard W.M. Jones

•   Sam Eiderman

•   Sergei Golovan

•   Thierry Vignaud

•   Yuri Chornoivan

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

•   The version of libguestfs.

•   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

•   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

•   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.