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+0.9.7: Nov 8 2011:
+   -  Features:
+      esx: support vSphere 5.x (Patrice LACHANCE),
+      vbox: support for VirtualBox 4.1 (Matthias Bolte),
+      Introduce the virDomainOpenGraphics API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add AHCI support to qemu driver (Jim Fehlig),
+      snapshot: many improvements and 2 new APIs (Eric Blake),
+      api: Add public api for 'reset' (Xu He Jie),
+
+   -  Documentation:
+      Add <deviceboot> capability. (Philipp Hahn),
+      API: document scheduler parameter names (Eric Blake),
+      improve typed parameter documentation (Eric Blake),
+      fix typo in <disk>/<target> example (Eric Blake),
+      python: Fix documentation of virStream recv (Matthias Bolte),
+      Add documentation about migration. (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Document filesystem type='block' for LXC (Ryota Ozaki),
+      fix incorrect info about routed networks (Laine Stump),
+      document managed=yes of hostdev passthrough (Eric Blake),
+      trivial spelling fix (Philipp Hahn),
+      Fix virt-sanlock-cleanup documentation (Philipp Hahn),
+      Fix two comments related to error handling (Philipp Hahn),
+      fix network XML documentation (Laine Stump),
+      Clarify semantics of virDomainMigrate2 (Jiri Denemark),
+      Update examples for probing with systemtap (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      fix html bug (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: Update the help information for undefine command. (tangchen),
+      Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE (Guido Günther),
+      Document that ff callbacks need to be invoked from a clean stack. (Guido Günther),
+      formatdomain.html.in: fix tickpolicy (Douglas Schilling Landgraf),
+      virsh: describe attach-interface parameter target (Daniel Veillard),
+      virsh: update man page for cpu_shares parameter (Daniel Veillard),
+      document node device XML (Eric Blake),
+      document virsh nodedev-* commands (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: fix man page typos (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: Better document --copy-storage migrate options (Jiri Denemark),
+      virsh: Enhance documentation of commands starting jobs (Jiri Denemark),
+      virsh: Improve virsh manual for virsh memtune command (Peter Krempa)
+
+   -  Portability:
+      build: fix build on platforms without ptsname_r (Eric Blake),
+      build: silence compiler warning on BSD (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix linking on BSD (Eric Blake),
+      remote: fix mingw32 build (Laine Stump),
+      build: fix deep VPATH builds (Eric Blake),
+      Use ENAMETOOLONG if the the socket path is longer than UNIX_PATH_MAX (Guido Günther),
+      build: avoid RHEL 5 build failure on LXC (Eric Blake),
+      build: use gnulib fdatasync (Eric Blake),
+      Fix virFileOpenTty definition on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      compile: fix undefined reference to gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn with gcc-4.6.1 (Xu He Jie),
+      Fix VPATH build (Jiri Denemark),
+      build: fix 'make dist' error (Wen Congyang),
+      Fix syntax problem in mingw32-libvirt.spec.in (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      spec: mingw cleanups (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix mingw build without sasl (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix 'make rpm' (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix 'make distcheck' (Eric Blake),
+      disable xenlight for non-Xen platforms (Dan Horák),
+      build: Fix VPATH build with new probes (Jiri Denemark),
+      build: fix 'make distcheck' with pdwtags installed (Eric Blake),
+      spec: F15 still uses cgconfig, RHEL lacks hyperv (Eric Blake)
+
+   -  Bug Fixes:
+      Fix sending/receiving of FDs when stream returns EAGAIN (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      lxc: avoid use-after-free (Eric Blake),
+      conf: Don't free uninitialized pointer (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fix default console type setting (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix crash formatting virtio console (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix off-by-one printing month in logging code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add missing param initialization in qemuDomainBlockStatsFlags (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      fix crash when starting network (Wen Congyang),
+      Don't overwrite error message during VM cleanup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Correctly handle '*' in /etc/filesystems (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix URI alias prefix matching (Wen Ruo Lv),
+      ServerClient: Flush cached data (Michal Privoznik),
+      Fix storage pool source comparison to avoid comparing with self (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu: plug memory leak (Alex Jia),
+      qemu: Restore the original states of PCI device when restarting daemon (Osier Yang),
+      macvtap: Fix error return value convention/inconsistencies (Roopa Prabhu),
+      pci address conflict when virtio disk with drive type (Xu He Jie),
+      qemu: plug memory leak (Alex Jia),
+      qemu: avoid leaking uninit data from hotplug to dumpxml (Eric Blake),
+      util: Fix virUUIDGeneratePseudoRandomBytes (Ryota Ozaki),
+      lxc: Revert zeroing count of allocated items if VIR_REALLOC_N fails (Peter Krempa),
+      lxc: avoid null deref on lxcSetupLoopDevices failure (Alex Jia),
+      lxc: avoid missing '{' in the function (Alex Jia),
+      storage: avoid null deref on qemu-img failure (Eric Blake),
+      storage: make previous leak less likely to regress (Eric Blake),
+      storage: plug iscsi memory leak (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: avoid leaking uninit data from hotplug to dumpxml (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Do not wait if the PCI device is not managed when reattaching (Osier Yang),
+      Add missing strdup return value check (Roopa Prabhu),
+      macvtap: avoid invalid free (Roopa Prabhu),
+      util: Fix typo in virGetHostname description (Jiri Denemark),
+      macvtap: plug memory leak for 802.1Qbh (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: plug memory leak on migration (Eric Blake),
+      conf: plug memory leak on error (Eric Blake),
+      storage: plug memory leak on error (Eric Blake),
+      util: Make getaddrinfo failure nonfatal in virGetHostname (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: fix text block info parsing (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: avoid text monitor null deref (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: check for json allocation failure (Eric Blake),
+      virFDStream: close also given errfd (fd leak) (Marc-André Lureau),
+      command: avoid fd leak on failure (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Check for domain being active on successful job acquire (Michal Privoznik),
+      xen: Return tap2 for tap2 disks (Philipp Hahn),
+      xen: fix PyGrub boot device order (Philipp Hahn),
+      build: fix 'make check' linkage with dtrace (Eric Blake),
+      Fix deps for probes.o to ensure correct build ordering (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      If receiving a stream error, mark EOF on the stream (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      xen_xs: Guard against set but empty kernel argument (Guido Günther),
+      snapshot: avoid accidental renames with snapshot-edit (Eric Blake),
+      storage: Do not use comma as seperator for lvs output (Osier Yang),
+      qemuDomainAttach: Initialize pidfile variable (Michal Privoznik),
+      lxc: fix logic bug (Eric Blake),
+      Don't send back unknown program errors for async messages (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix deadlock when the RPC program is unknown (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      remote_driver: Avoid double free in EventControl building (Michal Privoznik),
+      xenParseXM: don't dereference NULL pointer when script is empty (Guido Günther),
+      qemu: Fix migration with dname (Jiri Denemark),
+      virsh: do not unlink NULL file (Marc-André Lureau),
+      qemu: Fix error message mentioning VNC instead of SPICE (Peter Krempa),
+      qemu: Check for ejected media during startup and migration (Michal Privoznik),
+      qemu: add return value check (Alex Jia),
+      qemu: Always remove domain object if MigratePrepare fails (Jiri Denemark),
+      fix AppArmor driver for pipe character devices (Jamie Strandboge),
+      daemon: Don't remove pidfiles in init scripts (Peter Krempa),
+      storage: Do not break the whole vol lookup process in the middle (Osier Yang),
+      Fix synchronous reading of stream data (Daniel P. Berrange)
+
+   -  Improvements:
+      Add missing defaultConsoleTargetType callback for AppArmour (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix naming of constant for disk event (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      lxc: use common code for process cleanup (Eric Blake),
+      Set aliases for LXC/UML console devices (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Default console target type with no <target> element (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add support for multiple consoles in LXC (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Rewrite LXC I/O forwarding to use main event loop (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Allow multiple consoles per virtual guest (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virnetsockettest: Use a temporary directory in /tmp (Guido Günther),
+      xen: allow getting < max typed parameters (Eric Blake),
+      lxc: allow getting < max typed parameters (Eric Blake),
+      libxl: allow getting < max typed parameters (Eric Blake),
+      esx: allow getting < max typed parameters (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: allow getting < max typed parameters (Eric Blake),
+      Add support for probing filesystem with libblkid (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix error message when failing to detect filesystem (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Workaround for broken kernel autofs mounts (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Ensure errno is valid when returning from lxcContainerWaitForContinue (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Create /var/lib/libvirt/filesystems for LXC trees (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      esx: Support folders in the path of vpx:// connection URIs (Matthias Bolte),
+      qemu: pass virConnectPtr into Domain{Attach,Detach}* (Sage Weil),
+      vbox: Support shared folders (Matthias Bolte),
+      xenapi: Improve error reporting in xenapiOpen once again (Matthias Bolte),
+      Use a common xml type for ceph secret usage. (Josh Durgin),
+      storage: add auth to virDomainDiskDef (Josh Durgin),
+      secret: add Ceph secret type (Sage Weil),
+      Implement RPC driver support for virDomainOpenGraphics (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Extend RPC server to allow FD passing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add client side support for FD passing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Extend RPC protocol to allow FD passing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add APIs for virNetSocket for sending/receiving file descriptors (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Wire up QEMU implementation for virDomainOpenGraphics (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Extend graphics event to include UNIX socket (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: Fix error message on vol-create-from failure (Ryota Ozaki),
+      bridge: modify for use when sVirt is enabled with qemu (Tyler Coumbes),
+      Use virXMLSaveFile when writing XML config (Jiri Denemark),
+      Introduce virXMLSaveFile as a wrapper for virFileRewrite (Jiri Denemark),
+      Introduce virFileRewrite for safe file rewrite (Jiri Denemark),
+      Add a systemtap script for watching QEMU monitor interactions (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu: simplify use of HAVE_YAJL (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: simplify indentation of disk encryption xml (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: simplify indentation of nwfilter (Eric Blake),
+      Add REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_EVENT_DISK_CHANGE to remote_protocol-structs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      nwfilter: extend schema to support new targets (Stefan Berger),
+      util: Add virFileAccessibleAs to private symbols (Michal Privoznik),
+      startupPolicy: Emit event on disk source dropping (Michal Privoznik),
+      qemu: implement startupPolicy (Michal Privoznik),
+      qemu: Move device alias assigning before command line construction (Michal Privoznik),
+      util: Create virFileAccessibleAs function (Michal Privoznik),
+      conf: Introduce optional startupPolicy attribute for cdrom and floppy (Michal Privoznik),
+      waitpid: improve safety (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: Fix vol-info's 'Type' output (Ryota Ozaki),
+      support continue/return targets in nwfilter (David L Stevens),
+      snapshot: simplify indentation of network xml (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: simplify indentation of cpu features (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: simplify indentation of sysinfo (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: test domainsnapshot indentation (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: indent domain xml when nesting (Eric Blake),
+      virbuf: add auto-indentation support (Eric Blake),
+      virbuf: more detailed error reporting (Eric Blake),
+      virbuf: improve testsuite reporting (Eric Blake),
+      virbuf: fix const-correctness (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: allow json in domxml-to-native (tangchen),
+      support setting bandwidth from virsh attach-interface (Hu Tao),
+      lxc: use hand-rolled code in place of unlockpt and grantpt (Serge E. Hallyn),
+      qemu: Test name-space handling (Philipp Hahn),
+      qemu: Fix name-space handling (Philipp Hahn),
+      Replace virBufferAdd with virBufferAddLit for const string (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add support for autodestroy of guests to the LXC and UML drivers (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Use virBufferEscapeShell in cmdEcho (Guido Günther),
+      qemu: replace qemuMonitorEscapeShell by virBufferEscapeShell (Guido Günther),
+      virBufferEscapeShell: Emit quotes for the empty string (Guido Günther),
+      snapshot: detect when qemu lacks disk-snapshot support (Eric Blake),
+      virBufferEscapeShell: Fix escaping of single quotes. (Guido Günther),
+      compile: Add a missing function 'pciDeviceListFind' to libvirt_private.syms (Xu He Jie),
+      snapshot: implement LIST_LEAVES flag in esx (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Relax -no-shutdown check to [0.14.0, 0.15.0] (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: Honor the orginal PCI dev properties when reattaching (Osier Yang),
+      qemu: Do not reattach PCI device used by other domain when shutdown (Osier Yang),
+      Xen: Fake versions in xencapstest (Philipp Hahn),
+      Xen: move versions to struct (Philipp Hahn),
+      Use virBufferEscapeShell in virNetSocketNewConnectSSH (Guido Günther),
+      Add virBufferEscapeShell (Guido Günther),
+      Autodetect if the remote nc command supports the -q option (Guido Günther),
+      qemu: Make sure BeginJob is always followed by EndJob (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: Log debug messages when changing job (Jiri Denemark),
+      build: add compiler attributes to virUUIDParse (Eric Blake),
+      Fix typo in lxc_controller (Serge E. Hallyn),
+      build: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake),
+      events: Propose a separate lock for event queue (Michal Privoznik),
+      qemu: Implement VIR_DUMP_RESET (Michal Privoznik),
+      virDomainCoreDump: Introduce VIR_DUMP_RESET flag (Michal Privoznik),
+      example: Support debug output and loop switch (Philipp Hahn),
+      example: Redirect --help output to stdout/stderr (Philipp Hahn),
+      example: Fix argument handling (Philipp Hahn),
+      snapshot: implement LIST_LEAVES flag in qemu (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: add API for filtering by leaves (Eric Blake),
+      tests: Add support for skipping tests (Philipp Hahn),
+      Introduce <driver> under <filesystem> to support open-by-handle (Harsh Prateek Bora),
+      buf: implement generic virBufferEscape (Sage Weil),
+      daemon: Always advertise libvirtd service (Osier Yang),
+      snapshot: take advantage of new relations (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: track qemu snapshot relations (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: framework for more efficient relation traversal (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: use correct qmp monitor command (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: virsh shorthand for operating on current snap (Eric Blake),
+      build: ship helper scripts (Eric Blake),
+      Rewrite all the DTrace/SystemTAP probing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix missing lock calls on virNetTLSContextRef (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Refactor TLS to facilitate dynamic probing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add virSocketRef API to facilitate dynamic probing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Make libvirt.so include the RPC server code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      snapshot: implement snapshot children listing in esx (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: implement snapshot children listing in qemu (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: remote protocol for snapshot children (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: virsh fallback for snapshot-list --descendants --from (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: virsh fallback for snapshot-list --from children (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: virsh fallback for snapshot-list --tree --from (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: virsh snapshot-list and children (Eric Blake),
+      xen: add error handling to UUID parsing (Guido Günther),
+      maint: typo fixes (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: sort snapshot-list --tree (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: simplify redefinition of disk snapshot (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: let virsh edit disk snapshots (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: fix virsh error message typo (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: add separate rerror_policy for disk errors (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: leave rerror policy at default when enospace is requested (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: enable multifunction for older qemu (Eric Blake),
+      Make LXC work with new network configuration types (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      init: raise default system aio limits (Eric Blake),
+      maint: fix minor issues in virterror public header (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: enforce REVERT_FORCE on qemu (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: use qemu-img on disks in use at time of snapshot (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: add REVERT_FORCE to API (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: implement snapshot roots listing in vbox (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Don't fail virDomainGetInfo if we can't update balloon info (Jiri Denemark),
+      snapshot: simplify esx snapshot name lookup (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: implement snapshot roots listing in esx (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: correct misspelled 'enospc' option, and only use for werror (Laine Stump),
+      snapshot: better virsh handling of missing current, parent (Eric Blake),
+      Allow passing of command line args to LXC container (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add support for bandwidth filtering on LXC guests (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      network: fill in bandwidth from portgroup for all forward modes (Laine Stump),
+      bridge_driver.c: Fix autoconf setting (Neil Wilson),
+      Set to NULL members that have been freed to prevent crashes (Marc-André Lureau),
+      snapshot: implement getparent for vbox (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: implement getparent for esx (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: make PCI multifunction support more manual (Laine Stump),
+      lvm storage backend: handle command_names=1 in lvm.conf (Serge E. Hallyn),
+      qemu: Check for outstanding async job too (Michal Privoznik),
+      virsh: Add 'reset' command for virsh (Xu He Jie),
+      remote: Implement 'reset' for remote driver (Xu He Jie),
+      qemu: Implement 'reset' for qemu driver (Xu He Jie),
+      logging: Add date to log timestamp (Jiri Denemark),
+      logging: Do not log timestamp through syslog (Jiri Denemark),
+      hyperv: Report an error for acceptable URI schemes with a transport (Matthias Bolte),
+      esx: Report an error for acceptable URI schemes with a transport (Matthias Bolte),
+      snapshot: implement getparent in qemu (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: add virsh snapshot-list --tree (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: refactor virsh snapshot parent computation (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: remote protocol for getparent (Eric Blake),
+      security: properly chown/label bidirectional and unidirectional fifos (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: Preserve fakeReboot flag in domain status (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: Finish domain shutdown on reconnect (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: Check domain status details when reconnecting monitor (Jiri Denemark),
+      virsh: Allow using complete <capabilities> elements with cpu-baseline (Peter Krempa),
+      virsh: Allow using domain and capabilities XMLs with cpu-compare (Peter Krempa),
+      qemu: add ability to set PCI device "rombar" on or off (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: Relax -no-shutdown check to [0.14.0, 0.15.50) (Jiri Denemark),
+      virLockManagerNopInit: Rename flags to unused_flags (Michal Privoznik),
+      debug: Annotate some variables as unused (Michal Privoznik),
+      maint: update authors (Peter Krempa),
+      Add unsafe cache mode support for disk driver (Oskari Saarenmaa),
+      selinux: Correctly report warning if virt_use_nfs not set (Michal Privoznik),
+      virsh: Do not ignore the specified flags for cmdSaveImageDefine (Osier Yang),
+      qemu: Transfer inactive XML among cookie (Michal Privoznik)
+
+   -  Cleanups:
+      Remove translations in socket test case (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      test: drop redundant check (Eric Blake),
+      startupPolicty: Minor cleanups (Michal Privoznik),
+      secret: fix bad patch application (Eric Blake),
+      Remove trailing whitespace from all xfig files (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix typo in virFileAccessibleAs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      snapshot: minor cleanups from reviewing indentation (Eric Blake),
+      build: ignore test executable (Eric Blake),
+      esx: drop dead code to silence Coverity (Eric Blake),
+      snapshot: drop dead parameters (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: silence Coverity false positive (Eric Blake),
+      conf: remove unused VIR_ENUM_DECL (Laine Stump)
+
+
+
 0.9.6: Sep 22 2011:
    -  Portability:
       build: silence warning on 32-bit build (Eric Blake)