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        http://libvirt.org/news.html
 
 
+0.8.6: Nov 30 2010:
+   -  Features:
+      new API virDomainIsUpdated (Osier Yang),
+      Add support for iSCSI target auto-discovery (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      QED: Basic support for QED images (Adam Litke),
+      Introduce a virDomainOpenConsole API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support for SPICE graphics (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add a sysinfo and SMBIOS support (Daniel Veillard),
+      Implement virsh qemu-monitor-command. (Chris Lalancette)
+
+   -  Documentation:
+      updated c# bindings with arnauds latest changes (Justin Clift),
+      Fix spelling of virBufferVSprintf (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fix broken XML entity for '>' (Philipp Hahn),
+      removed outdated reference to virt-mem (Justin Clift),
+      Add doc for missed options of migrate (Osier Yang),
+      add doc for missed parameters of attach-disk (Osier Yang),
+      update virsh manual (Osier Yang),
+      updated virsh command reference with libvirt.org links (Justin Clift),
+      Generate HACKING from docs/hacking.html.in (Matthias Bolte),
+      Prepare hacking.html.in to generate HACKING from it (Matthias Bolte),
+      updated csharp pages with latest info (Justin Clift),
+      trivial typo fix (Justin Clift),
+      added virsh command reference page. (Justin Clift),
+      rpm: Fix summary wording (Cole Robinson),
+      Augment bug reporting documentation (Daniel Veillard),
+      virsh: fix incorrect help text mentioning non-existent network 'id' (Justin Clift),
+      Fix off-by-1 in todo page generator (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix comment for video tag in domain RNG schema (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      fix typo (Eric Blake)
+
+   -  Portability:
+      remote: Fix TLS transport on Windows (Matthias Bolte),
+      Rename 'remove' param to 'toremove' to avoid clash with stdio.h (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virt-aa-helper: Fix several compile errors (Matthias Bolte),
+      maint: improve i18n on non-Linux (Eric Blake),
+      nwfilter: use /bin/sh rather than requiring bash (Eric Blake),
+      Use python discovered through env instead of hardcoding a path (Matthias Bolte),
+      esx: Avoid warnings about breaking strict-aliasing rules on FreeBSD (Matthias Bolte),
+      Make sure struct sockaddr_in is defined on FreeBSD (Matthias Bolte),
+      configure: Disable FS storage driver if mntent.h is not available (Matthias Bolte),
+      daemon: Include stdlib.h in dispatch.c (Matthias Bolte),
+      xen: work with xen 4.0.1 headers (Eric Blake),
+      Fix build with polkit 0 (Jim Fehlig),
+      xen: work with ia64 MAX_VIRT_CPUS of 64 (Eric Blake),
+      build: cleanup declaration of xen tests. (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      qemu: check compression program availability of virsh save and dump (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki)
+
+   -  Bug Fixes:
+      correct the arguments of migrate_speed (Wen Congyang),
+      Fix memory leaks in audit & VirtualBox code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix host CPU counting on unusual NUMA topologies (Jiri Denemark),
+      security, storage: plug memory leaks for security_context_t (Eric Blake),
+      network: plug memory leak (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: plug memory leak (Eric Blake),
+      Always close drivers when a virConnectPtr is released (Matthias Bolte),
+      libvirtd: fix bug when shrinking number of clients (Eric Blake),
+      Fix 32-bit int truncation in QED header check (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix error handling in virsh when listing storage volumes (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix parsing of port attribute in storage XML configuration (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Don't catch SIGCHLD in libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Ensure logfile isn't truncated by shutdown message. (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      xend: Escape reserved sexpr characters (Cole Robinson),
+      xend: urlencode: Properly escape '&' (Cole Robinson),
+      conf: Fix parsing python style triple quotes (Cole Robinson),
+      nwfilter: re-order lock grabbed by IP addr. learn thread (Stefan Berger),
+      virExec: fix bug in setting up child stderr/out with /dev/null (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix a failure to restore SELinux label for character devices (Daniel Veillard),
+      nwfilter: also purge ip(6)tables rules before detecting IP address (Stefan Berger),
+      Fix ipv4-addr definition in interface.rng (Laine Stump),
+      remote_driver.c: fix non-literal format strings w/o args (Laine Stump),
+      ignore SELinuxSetFilecon error in SELinuxSetSecurityFileLabel if on nfs (Laine Stump),
+      Fix reference counting bug in virsh console (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix busy-wait loop on closed file descriptor (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix LXC container console device setup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      rpm: fix /var/lib/libvirt permissions (Eric Blake),
+      xencapstest: Don't fail when Xen is installed (Matthias Bolte),
+      virsh: fix non-literal string format (Laine Stump),
+      Fix syntax-check error in domain.rng (Matthias Bolte),
+      qemu: Fix non-literal format string (Jiri Denemark),
+      macvtap: libvirtd forgot macvtap dev name when restarted (Stefan Berger),
+      tests: fix daemon-conf testing failure (Osier Yang),
+      Fix virPipeReadUntilEOF on more than 1024 bytes of data (Daniel Veillard),
+      Misc error handling fixes in text mode monitor commands (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Ignore open failures when relabelling disk images (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Treat failure to relabel stdin_path as non-fatal on NFS (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu: add the USB devices to the cgroup whitelist (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      802.1Qbg: use pre-associate state at beginning of inc. migr (Stefan Berger)
+
+   -  Improvements:
+      Log client errors in libvirtd at debug priority,
+      maint: prohibit most uses of xmlGetProp (Eric Blake),
+      maint: ensure syntax check exceptions are distributed (Eric Blake),
+      Implementations of virDomainIsUpdated for drivers except qemu (Osier Yang),
+      implement callback function for qemu driver (Osier Yang),
+      implement the remote protocol (Osier Yang),
+      implement public API virDomainIsUpdated (Osier Yang),
+      define internal driver API (Osier Yang),
+      tests: Fix dispatching internal error reports (Cole Robinson),
+      Improve SCSI volume name generation (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix error codes returned when a storage pool is inactive (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Check whether pools are already active upon libvirtd startup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Allow iSCSI IQN to be set with find-storage-pool-sources-as command (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Switch the virsh XML generation to use virBuffer instead of virAsprintf (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Stop iSCSI targets automatically logging back in after logout (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Refactor iSCSI driver code to facilitate future changes (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Ensure virExec preserves logging environment (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Include a thread identifier in log messages (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu: setvcpus: Save config changes to disk (Cole Robinson),
+      qemu: setvcpus: Simplify altering the persistent config (Cole Robinson),
+      qemu: setvcpus: Fix maxvcpus check (Cole Robinson),
+      conf: domain: Improve vcpus validation reporting (Cole Robinson),
+      Make state driver device hotplug/update actually transient (Cole Robinson),
+      domain_conf: Add virDomainObjSetDefTransient (Cole Robinson),
+      buf: Simplify virBufferEscapeString (Cole Robinson),
+      conf: Convert ParseString to use STRPREFIX (Cole Robinson),
+      schemas: domain: Add more valid file path chars (Cole Robinson),
+      qed: Minor updates to QED support patches (Adam Litke),
+      Support for probing qed image metadata (Adam Litke),
+      storage_file: Add a new flag to mark backing files that are safe to probe (Adam Litke),
+      Allow probing of image formats without version information (Adam Litke),
+      maint: tighten strncmp syntax check (Eric Blake),
+      capabilities, cpu: use new array API (Eric Blake),
+      memory: make it easier to avoid quadratic scaling of arrays (Eric Blake),
+      memory: make it safer to expand arrays (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix autobuild failures on gcov upgrade (Eric Blake),
+      virt-aa-helper: translate error messages (Eric Blake),
+      maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake),
+      deprecate fclose() and introduce VIR_{FORCE_}FCLOSE() (Stefan Berger),
+      qemu: record timestamp in qemu domain log (Osier Yang),
+      virsh: add net-info command (Osier Yang),
+      interface.rng: Make miimon and arpmon optional for bond interfaces (Laine Stump),
+      macvtap: convert send / recv function to use libnl (Stefan Berger),
+      configure: Remove bashism and replace 'test ==' with 'test =' (Matthias Bolte),
+      virsh: Fix compile error in VPATH build (Matthias Bolte),
+      qemu: Remove unnecessary quoting from the process name argument (John Morrissey),
+      phyp: Don't do a flags check in the storage driver (Matthias Bolte),
+      qemu: Add qemu-system-s390x to the emulators list (Matthias Bolte),
+      macvtap: convert nl msg construction to use libnl (Stefan Berger),
+      Do a better job of validating IP and MAC addresses in network.rng (Laine Stump),
+      virt-aa-helper should require uuid in XML (Jamie Strandboge),
+      esx: Support SMBIOS host mode (Matthias Bolte),
+      Wire up virDomainOpenConsole for LXC, Xen and UML (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Re-write virsh console to use streams (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Convert daemon/events.c to use virMutex and virThread (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Introduce portability APIs for creating threads (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support virDomainOpenConsole with QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add a generic internal API for handling any FD based stream (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Lower logging level in remote driver streams (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remote driver client and server for virDomainOpenConsole (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support callbacks on virStream APIs in remote driver client (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: supply long option for -V (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Add flag to force a CDROM eject (Cole Robinson),
+      Allow non-file disk backingStores (Adam Litke),
+      bye to close(), welcome to VIR_(FORCE_)CLOSE() (Stefan Berger),
+      esx: Add support for memtune/min_guarantee (Matthias Bolte),
+      schema: Move timer element inside clock (Jiri Denemark),
+      Misc test case fixes for SPICE (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: Add .xml suffix to tmp files used in *edit commands (Jiri Denemark),
+      Support SPICE channel security options (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support multiple QXL video cards (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Define XML syntax for password expiry (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add SPICE support for QEMU driver configuration file (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support automatic port number allocation for SPICE (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Implement QEMU/KVM QXL video card support in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add a graphics type for SPICE protocol (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add a QXL graphics card type to domain XML schema (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Show compiled in options in virsh -V (Daniel Veillard),
+      lxc: Exit on first error in lxcDomainGetMemoryParameters (Matthias Bolte),
+      Allow virDomainGetMemoryParameters on read-only connections (Matthias Bolte),
+      Add a new test for sysinfo and smbios handling (Daniel Veillard),
+      Add sysinfo/smbios support to the QEmu driver (Daniel Veillard),
+      Read the host sysinfo for the QEmu driver (Daniel Veillard),
+      Add smbios element to schema and configuration to HVM os (Daniel Veillard),
+      Sysinfo parsing and saving to/from configuration files (Daniel Veillard),
+      Sysinfo extension to relax-ng schemas (Daniel Veillard),
+      Change calling conventions in remote driver client internals (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      util: Add helper function to build timestamp string (Osier Yang),
+      misc: encode the Emacs suggstions from HACKING into a .dir-locals.el file (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      add compression support for "virsh dump" (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki),
+      qemu_driver: add virCgroupMounted (Lai Jiangshan),
+      OpenVZ: Fix some overwritten error codes (Guido Günther),
+      OpenVZ: take veid from vmdef-name when defining new domains (Guido Günther)
+
+   -  Cleanups:
+      tests: Fix detection of expected errors (Jiri Denemark),
+      Remove bogus check for Xen in example program (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      build: enforce files.h usage (Eric Blake),
+      maint: sort exports (Eric Blake),
+      Remove bogus port handling code in virsh (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove trailing ':' from timestamp (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Log all errors at level INFO to stop polluting syslog (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      daemon: use safer memory growth macros (Eric Blake),
+      maint: avoid remaining sprintf uses (Eric Blake),
+      maint: use gnulib configmake rather than open-coding things (Eric Blake),
+      replace last instances of close() (Stefan Berger),
+      daemon: fix indention problem in daemon/libvirt.c (Osier Yang),
+      qemu: fix typos in qemu_monitor_text.c (Osier Yang),
+      re-indent network.rng following structural change (Laine Stump),
+      Put network.rng contents inside grammar for uniformity with other RNGs (Laine Stump),
+      maint: Commit .gitignore sorting done by bootstrap (Jiri Denemark),
+      xen-proxy: Remove it entirely and use libvirtd instead (Matthias Bolte),
+      qemu: Remove redundant slash in save directory path (Matthias Bolte),
+      virterror: supply missing spaces (Eric Blake),
+      Fix several warnings about a non-literal format string (Jiri Denemark),
+      build: avoid compiler warning in xen code (Eric Blake)
+
+
+
 0.8.5: Oct 29 2010:
    -  Features:
       Enable JSON and netdev features in QEMU > 0.13 (Daniel P. Berrange),