nbdkit-release-notes-1.10 - release notes for nbdkit 1.10
These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.10. This
describes the major changes since 1.8.
nbdkit 1.10.0 was released on 18th January 2019.
- Implemented "NBD_FLAG_CAN_MULTI_CONN"
which greatly improves performance for clients that support it.
- Implemented "NBD_OPT_INFO" (Eric
Blake).
- nbdkit-data-plugin(1) and nbdkit-memory-plugin(1): By adding
fine-grained locking, these plugins now use the fully parallel thread
model.
- nbdkit-cache-filter(1): The size of the cache can now be limited,
and the cache reclaims space using an LRU algorithm. It has also been
enhanced to support cache-on-read mode. The filter now uses a fully
parallel thread model.
- nbdkit-cow-filter(1): Use a fully parallel thread model.
- nbdkit-sh-plugin(1): Inline scripts:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/nbdkit-inline-scripts/
- nbdkit-sh-plugin(1): Full API version 2 is now supported.
- nbdkit-ocaml-plugin(3): Full API version 2 is now supported.
- nbdkit-delay-filter(1) allows you to specify the read, write, zero
and trim delays individually.
- nbdkit-curl-plugin(1): Add support for connecting to servers over
Unix domain sockets.
- Bash tab completion has been improved: Partial plugin names are expanded
correctly, and plugin parameters containing
"-" work.
- Public header files can now be consumed by ISO C90 compilers (but GCC or
Clang is still required to compile nbdkit itself).
- A better non-cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator
(xoshiro256** 1.0) is now used on all platforms, replacing previous uses
of random(3).
- Fuzzing using American Fuzzy Lop is now supported, and was carried out,
resulting in one error being found in the server (not security
related).
- New nbdkit-xz-filter(1): This replaces nbdkit-xz-plugin which will
be removed in nbdkit 1.12.
- New nbdkit-loop(1) man page documenting how to use nbdkit for loop
mounts. See also: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/nbdkit/
- New nbdkit-full-plugin(1): Returns
"ENOSPC" on every request.
- "attribute((format))",
"attribute((nonnull))" and
"attribute((sentinel))" are used in
internal header files to improve code quality.
- Logging using %m now works on all platforms, not
just on Linux with glibc (Eric Blake).
- VPATH builds partially supported (Eric Blake).
nbdkit(1),
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-January/msg00135.html.
Eric Blake
Richard W.M. Jones
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