xen-tools.xen-tools/NEWS.markdown

xen-tools 4.6 (released 20 Jul 2015)

New Features and Major Changes

• Drop all occurrences of apt's --force-yes parameter. It only forces the installation of untrusted packages and that's unwanted. (Closes Debian bug report #776487)
• Support passing commandline options with --debootstrap-cmd.
• Use MD5 as default hash method again, to be able to properly set passwords in older releases. Does not affect passwords changed later inside the DomU.
• Split off hardcoded release code names list and default mirrors in xen-create-image into separate configuration file which are parsed before the default settings or command-line options are set.
• Report all SSH fingerprints of the created DomU, not only RSA ones.
• Support VLANs with Open vSwitch (GH-2). Thanks to Félix Barbeira for the patch.

New Options

• --keyring (xen-create-image, xt-install-image)
• --vlan (xen-create-image)

Distribution Releases Changes

• Debian 9 Stretch (preliminary support)
• Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf (preliminary support; not yet suported by debootstrap, see Debian bug report #787117)
• Ubuntu 12.04 Lucid Lynx is now EoL.
• Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn is now EoL.

Improvements

• Make test suite support as-installed-testing.
• Multiple release workflow improvements (target release in Makefile).
• Supports unstable, oldstable and oldoldstable as distribution names, too. (oldoldstable is not yet supported by debootstrap, see Debian feature request #792734 in debootstrap.)

Bug Fixes

• Fix usage of nonexistent variable in removeDebianPackage (Closes Debian bug report #774936) Thanks Lukas Schwaighofer!

• Allows # within configuration file comments. (Closes Debian bug report #783060; thanks Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère for the bug report and patch!)

• Use -o APT::Install-Recommends=false instead of --no-install-recommends for backwards compatibility with older APT versions which don't know either (but accept any Foo=Bar parameter to -o). Allows one to install earlier Debian releases (e.g. Etch) with the default configuration again.

• Pass --yes to lvcreate only if LVM version is 2.02.99 or higher. Fixes regression introduced with 4.5 by the fix for Debian bug report #754517.

Other Changes

• Change all occurrences of http.debian.net to httpredir.debian.org.
• Installs bash completion into /usr/share/bash-completion/ (fixes lintian warning package-install-into-obsolete-dir)
• Testsuite: Optimize and clean up modules.sh.
• Split up test suite in functionality/compatibility tests (t) and author/release tests (xt).
• New example script helpful for release testing.

xen-tools 4.5 (released 25 Oct 2014)

New Features and Major Changes

• Apply patch by Adrian C. (anrxc) to allow to override hooks in /usr/share/xen-tools/*.d/ with hooks in /etc/xen-tools/hooks.d/.

Distribution Releases Changes

• Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn.
• Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet (preliminary support)
• Mark Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander as EoL

Improvements

• Use 686-pae kernels instead of 686 kernels on Debian Wheezy and later. Thanks to Daniel Lintott! (Closes Debian bug report #742778)
• Pass -y option ("assume yes") to yum (Closes Debian bug report #735675) Thanks Lionel FÉLICITÉ!

Bug Fixes

• Fix always empty gateway on Debian DomUs (Thanks Joan! LP: #1328794)
• Fix lvcreate awaiting user input when creating swap LV (Closes Debian bug report #754517) Thanks Eric Engstrom!
• Fix missing quoting in shell function assert in hooks/common.sh.
• Fix initial configuration summary in cases where pygrub is used.
• Fix corner cases where not the latest kernel would have been checked.
• --password overrides --genpass. (Closes Debian bug report #764143) Based on patch by Santiago Vila.
• Fix unaligned maxmem output of xen-create-image. (Closes Debian bug report #764126; Patch by Santiago Vila)
• Fix copy & paste errors in comments in typos in roles/puppet (Closes Debian bug report #764134; Patch by Santiago Vila)
• Fix typos in POD of xen-create-image (Closes Debian bug report #764153; Patch by Santiago Vila)

Other Changes

• Drop all xend related sanity checks, they cause more havoc nowadays than they help. Thanks Ian Campbell! (Closes Debian bug report #732456)
• pygrub detection: Prefer /usr/lib/xen-default over /usr/lib/xen-x.y.
• Add password length sanity check with fallback to default length.
• Raise default password length from 8 to 23.
• Flush output after each line in runCommand().
• Makefile: Clean up coverage data in multiple targets.

xen-tools 4.4 (released 11 Dec 2013)

Listing includes changes of according beta releases.

New Features and Major Changes

• Preliminary support for xl toolstack
• Ships /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xen-tools for generating Dom0 initrds also suitable for DomU usage. Trigger update-initramfs.
• Installs a legacy grub in all pygrub based Debian/Ubuntu DomUs to be able to update the menu.list automatically.
• hooks/common.sh: installDebianPackage no more installs recommends, use installDebianPackageAndRecommends for that from now on.
• hooks/common.sh: Rename installCentOS4Package to installRPMPackage. Add installCentOS4Package wrapper for backward compatibility.
• Better documents and checks requirements for the --apt_proxy value. (See #623443 for the corresponding apt issue.) Requires now Data::Validate::URI.
• Uses now Data::Validate::Domain and Data::Validate::IP for IP addresses and hostname checks.

Newly Supported Distribution Releases

• Debian 8 Jessie
• Ubuntu 13.04 Raring
• Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy (preliminary support; debootstrap doesn't have support for Saucy at the time of writing)

Improvements

• Also recognize "M" and "G" instead of "MB" and "GB" as size unit for --memory. Also document the recognized units. (Closes Debian bug report #691320)
• xen-list-images now also outputs the file name of the config file.
• xen-list-images and xen-delete-image now understand --extension.
• Makefile accepts DESTDIR=…
• Move examples from debian/examples to examples.
• Adds default mount options for ext4, identical to ext2/ext3.
• By default install linux-image-virtual instead of linux-image-server on Ubuntu Intrepid and newer (Hopefully closes: #640099, LP #839492)
• Makes some options (like --pygrub) negatable.
• Rework "minimal" role to be less based on personal preferences:
  • No more installs sudo, vim, syslog-ng, etc.
  • Fixes usage together with pygrub.

Bug Fixes

• Fix symbolic link hooks/centos-6/15-setup-arch (Closes Debian bug report #690299)
• Execute END block not on --version/--help/--manual (Closes Debian bug #684346)
• Move code for --boot feature to END block. Fixes missing SSH fingerprint display if --boot was used. (Closes Debian bug report #679183)
• Correctly handle aborts in END block. (Closes Debian bug report #704882)
• Fixes --extension= with empty parameter.
• Sarge amd64 case handle properly
• xt-install-image: Don't bail out if only cdebootstrap is installed but not debootstrap (Thanks Elmar Heeb!)
• Fix filesystem tools installation in 91-install-fs-tools (which was broken since 4.3~rc1-1) by merging 91-install-fs-tools back into 90-make-fstab. (Closes Debian bug report #715340) Also supports RPM-based distributions now.
• Fixes creation of ARRAY(0x#).log named log files.

Other Changes

• Code deduplication to unify the xen-*-image scripts
• Moves /usr/lib/xen-tools/ to /usr/share/xen-tools/
• Use http.debian.net as default Debian mirror if no mirror is given and xt-guess-suite-and-mirror is not used.
• Default DomUs to use the noop scheduler (Closes Debian bug report #693131)
• Fixes export of environment variables. Previously they could contain dashes and then were only accessible from within Perl, but not from within Bash.
• Uses Test::NoTabs instead of its own test for that.
• Removes unused Perl modules Xen::Tools and Xen::Tools::Log from source code. Also removes the according tests from the test suite. No more needs Moose.

xen-tools 4.3.1 (released 30-Jun-2012)

Bugfix Release only

xen-tools 4.3 (released 26-Jun-2012)

Listing includes changes of according beta releases.

New Features and Major Changes

• Massive code deduplication in hooks directory

New Options

• --dontformat (xen-create-image)
• --finalrole (xen-create-image)
• --apt_proxy (xen-create-image)

Newly Supported Distribution Releases

• Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric
• Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
• Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal
• CentOS 6

Bug Fixes

• Fix several testuite failures depending on the build host's installation.

Other Changes

• Remove most Mercurial traces

xen-tools 4.2.1 (released 17 Mar 2011)

Bugfix Release only

xen-tools 4.2 (released 05 Oct 2010)

First final release of the new Xen-Tools Team.

Supports Ubuntu up to 11.04 (Natty) and Debian up to 7.0 (Wheezy).

New Options

--debootstrap-cmd (xen-create-image and xt-install-image)

New Features and Major Changes

• Uses hvc0 and xvda devices by default
• Also supports cdebootstrap
• Preliminary btrfs support.
• Uses GeoIP for Debian mirrors: Default Debian mirror is now cdn.debian.net, see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror for details.
• New helper program xt-guess-suite-and-mirror, used to find the default mirror and suite.