ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer 6.0 release

Posted: August 15th, 2017 | Filed under: Fedora, libvirt, Virt Tools | Tags: , | No Comments »

I am happy to announce a new bugfix release of virt-viewer 6.0 (gpg), including experimental Windows installers for Win x86 MSI (gpg) and Win x64 MSI (gpg). The virsh and virt-viewer binaries in the Windows builds should now successfully connect to libvirtd, following fixes to libvirt’s mingw port.

Signatures are created with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)

All historical releases are available from:

http://virt-manager.org/download/

Changes in this release include:

  • Mention use of ssh-agent in man page
  • Display connection issue warnings in main window
  • Switch to GTask API
  • Add support changing CD ISO with oVirt foreign menu
  • Update various outdated links in README
  • Avoid printing password in debug logs
  • Pass hostname to authentication dialog
  • Fix example URLs in man page
  • Add args to virt-viewer to specify whether to resolve VM based on ID, UUID or name
  • Fix misc runtime warnings
  • Improve support for extracting listening info from XML
  • Enable connecting to SPICE over UNIX socket
  • Fix warnings with newer GCCs
  • Allow controlling zoom level with keypad
  • Don’t close app during seemless migration
  • Don’t show toolbar in kiosk mode
  • Re-show auth dialog in kiosk mode
  • Don’t show error when cancelling auth
  • Change default screenshot name to ‘Screenshot.png’
  • Report errors when saving screenshot
  • Fix build with latest glib-mkenums

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release.

ANNOUNCE: libosinfo 1.1.0 release

Posted: August 15th, 2017 | Filed under: Fedora, libvirt, OpenStack, Virt Tools | Tags: , | No Comments »

I am happy to announce a new release of libosinfo version 1.1.0 is now available, signed with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R). All historical releases are available from the project download page.

Changes in this release include:

  • Force UTF-8 locale for new glib-mkenums
  • Avoid python warnings in example program
  • Misc test suite updates
  • Fix typo in error messages
  • Remove ISO header string padding
  • Disable bogus gcc warning about unsafe loop optimizations
  • Remove reference to fedorahosted.org
  • Don’t hardcode /usr/bin/perl, use /usr/bin/env
  • Support eject-after-install parameter in OsinfoMedia
  • Fix misc warnings in docs
  • Fix error propagation when loading DB
  • Add usb.ids / pci.ids locations for FreeBSD
  • Don’t include private headers in gir/vapi generation

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release.