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.IX Title "guestfs-release-notes-1.44 1"
.TH guestfs-release-notes-1.44 1 2024-01-05 libguestfs-1.52.0 "Virtualization Support"
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.SH NAME
guestfs\-release\-notes \- libguestfs Release Notes
.SH "RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.44"
.IX Header "RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.44"
.SS "Language bindings"
.IX Subsection "Language bindings"
Python 2 support has been dropped.  The minimum version of Python
required is 3.6.
.PP
Python bindings no longer use deprecated \f(CW\*(C`PyEval_ThreadsInitialized\*(C'\fR.
.PP
Python bindings now include type hints (Sam Eiderman).
.PP
Erlang bindings now use libei instead of liberl_interface
(Sergei Golovan).
.SS Tools
.IX Subsection "Tools"
\&\fBvirt\-get\-kernel\fR\|(1) can now find uncompressed kernels
(Pino Toscano).
.PP
\&\fBvirt\-sysprep\fR\|(1) now regenerates the guest certificate store when a
certificate is removed from the guest (Pino Toscano).
.PP
\&\fBvirt\-sysprep\fR\|(1) can now remove IPA enrollment files and Kerberos
keytabs (Pino Toscano, Christian Heimes and François Cami).
.SS API
.IX Subsection "API"
\fINew APIs\fR
.IX Subsection "New APIs"
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`cryptsetup\-open\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`cryptsetup\-close\*(C'\fR replace \f(CW\*(C`luks\-open\*(C'\fR,
luks-open-ro and luks-close.  The new APIs add support for
BitLocker encryption.
.PP
\fIOther API changes\fR
.IX Subsection "Other API changes"
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`lvm\-canonical\-lv\*(C'\fR no longer produces a noisy error message when
called with a non-LV parameter.
.SS "Build changes"
.IX Subsection "Build changes"
C programs using libguestfs can now be compiled against the build
directory:
.PP
.Vb 2
\& ../libguestfs/run ./configure
\& ../libguestfs/run make
.Ve
.PP
OCaml components are now linked correctly when building in a different
directory from the source (Geoff Toole).
.PP
GCC LTO is now supported.
.PP
Weblate is now used for localization instead of Zanata
(Pino Toscano).
.PP
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).
.SS Internals
.IX Subsection "Internals"
\&\fIlib/guestfs.h\fR was moved to \fIinclude/guestfs.h\fR in the source.
This is not an externally visible change but affected a lot of places
inside the build system.
.SS "Bugs fixed"
.IX Subsection "Bugs fixed"
.IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1811539 4
.IX Item "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1811539"
The virt-diff command doesn't work on windows 2019 image
.IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1384241 4
.IX Item "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1384241"
The tar-in command does not allow restoring file capabilities
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBguestfs\-examples\fR\|(1),
\&\fBguestfs\-faq\fR\|(1),
\&\fBguestfs\-performance\fR\|(1),
\&\fBguestfs\-recipes\fR\|(1),
\&\fBguestfs\-testing\fR\|(1),
\&\fBguestfs\fR\|(3),
\&\fBguestfish\fR\|(1),
http://libguestfs.org/
.SH AUTHORS
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP \(bu 4
Andrey Shinkevich
.IP \(bu 4
Dmitry Tantsur
.IP \(bu 4
Geoff Toole
.IP \(bu 4
Hilko Bengen
.IP \(bu 4
Pino Toscano
.IP \(bu 4
Richard W.M. Jones
.IP \(bu 4
Sam Eiderman
.IP \(bu 4
Sergei Golovan
.IP \(bu 4
Thierry Vignaud
.IP \(bu 4
Yuri Chornoivan
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2009\-2023 Red Hat Inc.
.SH LICENSE
.IX Header "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.
.PP
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.
.PP
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.
.SH BUGS
.IX Header "BUGS"
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
.PP
To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
.PP
When reporting a bug, please supply:
.IP \(bu 4
The version of libguestfs.
.IP \(bu 4
Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
.IP \(bu 4
Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
.IP \(bu 4
Run \fBlibguestfs\-test\-tool\fR\|(1) and paste the \fBcomplete, unedited\fR
output into the bug report.