nbdkit-release-notes-1.8 - release notes for nbdkit 1.8
These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.8. This
describes the major changes since 1.6.
nbdkit 1.8.0 was released on 12th November 2018.
- New plugin: nbdkit-sh-plugin(1) for running shell scripts and other
external programs. See:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/write-nbdkit-plugins-in-shell-script/
- New plugin: nbdkit-partitioning-plugin(1) which creates a
partitioned disk from a list of partitions in files.
- New plugin: nbdkit-iso-plugin(1) which creates an ISO (CD-ROM)
image on the fly from a directory of files. See:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/new-in-nbdkit-create-an-iso-image-on-the-fly/
- New plugin: nbdkit-floppy-plugin(1) which creates a virtual
FAT-formatted floppy disk from a directory of files.
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/new-in-nbdkit-create-a-virtual-floppy-disk/
- Magic config key allows simpler invocation of many plugins, eg:
nbdkit file file=foo
becomes:
nbdkit file foo
- nbdkit-data-plugin(1): Add disk2data.pl script to generate
data parameters.
- nbdkit-data-plugin(1) Use
"<file" to inline a file.
- nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1): Use
"-D vddk.diskinfo=1" to enable
extra debug information.
- tests: Use a helper function to refactor and simplify most tests.
- nbdkit-partition-filter(1): Can handle > 128 GPT
partitions.
- nbdkit can be compiled on the Haiku operating system (François
Revol).
- New "nbdkit_parse_bool" API for parsing
boolean parameters (Eric Blake).
- nbdkit-log-filter(1): Add
"logappend=[true|false]" (Eric
Blake).
- nbdkit-ocaml-plugin(3): New
"set_error" and
"debug" calls.
- Analyze code under AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer and fix bugs (Eric
Blake).
- Analyze code under Coverity and fix bugs.
- Tests now run more quickly.
nbdkit(1),
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00111.html.
Eric Blake
Richard W.M. Jones
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