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+0.7.1: Sep 15 2009:
+   - New features:
+        Add support for encrypted (qcow) volume creation. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation public API (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Multipath storage support module (Dave Allan),
+        VBox add Storage Volume support (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Support configuration of huge pages in guests (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Support new PolicyKit 1.0 API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Compressed save image format for Qemu (Chris Lalancette, Charles Duffy
+        and Jim Meyering),
+        QEmu add host PCI device hotplug support (Mark McLoughlin)
+
+   - Documentation:
+        Minor comment changes (Laine Stump),
+        Fix up virNodeGetCellsFreeMemory (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix some typos and remove unhelpful acronyms in QEMU docs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Add documentation about the QEMU driver security features (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Remove 'the-the' typo in docs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix some URLs in virsh manpage (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Add link to AbiCloud web management system (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Update logging documentation (Amy Griffis)
+
+   - Portability:
+        Fix win32 platform build (Daniel P. Berrange)
+
+   - Bug fixes:
+        VBox bug when starting machine from old versions (Pritesh Kothari),
+        ESX avoid potential leaks (Matthias Bolte),
+        Fix more OOM handling bugs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix logging buffer overrun read (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix misc thread locking bugs / bogus warnings (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix regression from "Avoid polling on FDs with no events" (Chris Lalancette),
+        Close logfile fd after spawning qemu (Ryota Ozaki),
+        Check for libssh2 >= 1.0 for phy driver (Maximilian Wilhelm),
+        Avoid another leak in src/xend_internal.c (Matthias Bolte),
+        Avoid a leak in xenDaemonLookupByID (Matthias Bolte),
+        VBox fix minor bugs in display and added OOM checks (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Some close/fclose/closedir calls are missing (Matthias Bolte),
+        lxc_container.c: avoid a leak on error paths (Jim Meyering),
+        Fix several memory leaks (Ryota Ozaki),
+        Fix a memory leak in virsh (Laine Stump),
+        Fix ID field in virDomainPtr after starting Xen VM (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix memory leak of monitor character device (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Automatically set correct ownership of QEMU state directories (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Avoid polling on FDs with no events enabled (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        esx_vi: return -1 upon failure, as intended (Matthias Bolte),
+        python: let libvirt_virConnectDomainEventCallback indicate success (Jim Meyering),
+        uml_conf.c: don't return an uninitialized pointer (Jim Meyering),
+        storage_backend.c: assure clang that inputvol can't be NULL (Jim Meyering),
+        libvir.c: avoid NULL dereference in virStoragePoolSetAutostart (Jim Meyering),
+        lxc: avoid NULL dereference upon getmntent failure (Jim Meyering),
+        storage_backend_fs: avoid NULL dereference on opendir failure (Jim Meyering),
+        Fix bugs in virDomainMigrate v2 code. (Chris Lalancette),
+        VMware ESX: Don't warn on some query parameter (Matthias Bolte),
+        Don't blindly reorder disk drives (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix sexpr2string() to handle empty list. (Jim Fehlig),
+        Fix driver entry table for UML numa APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix crash in virsh vol-key command (Pritesh Kothari),
+        517157 fix selinux problem with images on NFS (Darryl L. Pierce),
+        Fix phypOpen() escape_specialcharacters (Mattias Bolte),
+        Power Hypervisor: fix potential segfault (Mattias Bolte),
+        Fix bridge/tap system error reporting (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Reset PCI host devices after hot-unplug (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Reset unmanaged PCI host devices before hotplug (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Fix up connection reference counting. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix LXC driver crash when kernel doesn't support clone (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Make LXC / UML drivers robust against NUMA topology brokenness (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Run 'cont' on successful migration finish. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix QEMU domain status after restore. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Handle kernels with no ipv6 support (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Set perms on /var/lib/libvirt/boot to 0711 (Mark McLoughlin),
+        chown kernel/initrd before spawning qemu (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Several fixes to libvirtd's log setup (Amy Griffis),
+        Fix memleak if esxOpen fails (Matthias Bolte)
+
+   - Improvement:
+        support lzop save compression for qemu (Charles Duffy),
+        VBox 3.0.6 API change support (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Add UUID definition required by storage encryption import (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Make secrets RNG more strict (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fill in secret UUID for qcow encryption (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Add usage type/id as a public API property of virSecret (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Fix UUID handling in secrets/storage encryption APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Save vcpuinfo in status file (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Restart libvirtd upon RPM upgrade (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Add support for qcow encrypted volumes to qemu. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Provide missing passphrase when creating a volume. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Add virsh commands for secrets APIs (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Local file implementation of secret driver API (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Mask out flags used internally for virSecretGetValue (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Add <usage> to <secret> docs (Miloslav Trmač),
+        also allow use of XZ for Qemu image compression (Jim Meyering),
+        Support relabelling of USB and PCI devices (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Add helper APIs for iterating over PCI device resource files (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Add helper module for dealing with USB host devices (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Test that domain-specific qemu machine types are used correctly (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Probe machine types from kvm binary too (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Look up machine types from all domains in qemudGetOldMachines() (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Test qemu machine aliases (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Add qemu -help test data for qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc2 (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Add a more featureful qemu capabilities test data (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Add arm arch to capabilities schema (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Update capabilities schema to allow multiple machines per domain (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Add esx and tcp migration uri transports to capabilities schema (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Reintroduce support for lzop compression (Charles Duffy),
+        build: update gnulib submodule to latest (Jim Meyering),
+        Add flags and requires for Multipath storage (Daniel Veillard),
+        ESX raise error if UUID parse failed (Matthias Bolte),
+        ESX add domain undefine based on esxVI_UnregisterVM (Matthias Bolte),
+        ESX add esxGetCapabilities() with basic defaults (Matthias Bolte),
+        Switch Power Hypervisor to libssh2 (Eduardo Otubo),
+        Allow libvirtd to RPC to external libvirtd (Chris Lalancette),
+        Add support for setting disk drive serial numbers (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        VBox support for defining/dumping video devices (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Generic parsing support for video acceleration (Pritesh Kothari),
+        VMware ESX: Allow ethernet address type 'vpx' (Matthias Bolte),
+        Support for getting/setting number of cpus in VBox (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Make handling of monitor prompts more general. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Attach encryption information to virDomainDiskDef. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Recognize encryption format of qcow volumes. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Attach encryption information to virStorageVolDef. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Add volume encryption information handling. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation API docs refresh and wire up python generator (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation remote client (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation libvirtd wire protocol and remote dispatcher (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation public API implementation (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Secret manipulation internal API (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Add test for recently fixed crash with latest XenD (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Don't expose 'vnet%d' to the user (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Maintain a list of active PCI hostdevs and use it in pciResetDevice() (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Simplify PCI hostdev prepare/re-attach using a pciDeviceList type (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Use pci_addr=auto with QEMU's pci_add monitor command (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Check active domain hostdevs before allowing PCI reset (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Allow pciResetDevice() to reset multiple devices (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Improve PCI host device reset error message (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Reset and re-attach PCI host devices on guest shutdown (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Allow PM reset on multi-function PCI devices (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Detect KVM's PCI device assignment support (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Split virDomainMigrate into functions. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Consolidate code for parsing the logging env (Amy Griffis)
+
+   - Cleanups:
+        Remove accidentally added UUID re-definition in storage schema (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        ESX cleanup of CPU model strings (Matthias Bolte),
+        Fix use of dlopen modules (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Consolidate "cont" into qemudMonitorSendCont() (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Cleanup sec driver error reporting to use virReportSystemError (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Port QEMU driver to use USB/PCI device helpers (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Simplify and fix qemudCanonicalizeMachine() (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Split up qemudGetOldMachines() (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Re-factor qemu test machine allocation code (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Canonicalize the qemu machine type in qemuxml2argvtest (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Dump qemu driver capabilities if test debugging enabled (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Fix formatting of machine types in capabilities XML (Mark McLoughlin),
+        qemu_driver.c: factor out more duplication (Jim Meyering),
+        Deprecate lzma and lzop in favor of xz, add dep (Daniel Veillard),
+        qemu_driver.c: factor out duplication in compression-type handling (Jim Meyering),
+        openvz_conf.c: remove dead store to "p"; use strchrnul (Jim Meyering),
+        Remove some tabs used for indent (Daniel Veillard),
+        Updated a number of localizations and regenerated (Daniel Veillard),
+        Add a missing comment (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Fix a pasto in storage_encryption_conf.c (Miloslav Trmač),
+        xm_internal.c: remove four useless comparisons after strchr (Jim Meyering),
+        xm_internal.c: remove dead increment of "data" (Jim Meyering),
+        network_driver.c: remove dead store to "err" (Jim Meyering),
+        iptables.c: remove dead store to "s" (Jim Meyering),
+        util.c: avoid dead store to "flag" (Jim Meyering),
+        domain_conf.c: remove two dead stores (Jim Meyering),
+        xm_internal.c: remove two ret=... dead stores (Jim Meyering),
+        xm_internal.c: remove dead stores of local, "type" (Jim Meyering),
+        network_conf.c: remove dead store to "err" (Jim Meyering),
+        openvz_driver.c: avoid dead store to "err" (Jim Meyering),
+        xend_internal.c: Remove two dead stores to "ret" (Jim Meyering),
+        storage_driver.c: remove two dead stores to "backend" (Jim Meyering),
+        qemu_conf.c: add a comment suggesting why we leave a dead-store (Jim Meyering),
+        hash.c: remove a dead store (Jim Meyering),
+        interface_conf.c: remove a dead-store and declaration (Jim Meyering),
+        eventtest.c: detect write failure and avoid dead stores (Jim Meyering),
+        openvz_conf.c: Remove dead store to copy_fd (Jim Meyering),
+        storage_backend_logical.c: appease clang: remove useless increment (Jim Meyering),
+        ESX simplify SOAP request and response handling (Matthias Bolte),
+        ESX use virXPathNode*() to simplify XPath handling (Matthias Bolte),
+        ESX: make esxVI_GetVirtualMachineIdentity() robust (Matthias Bolte),
+        ESX: Fix VMX path parsing and URL encoding (Matthias Bolte),
+        VBox driver cleanups (Pritesh Kothari),
+        PHYP driver cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
+        Move QEMU monitor socket in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        xen_internal.c: remove two unused local variables (Jim Meyering),
+        mdns.c: remove dead initialization (Jim Meyering),
+        node_device_conf.c: remove dead initialization (Jim Meyering),
+        openvz_conf.c: don't use undefined local, "net" (Jim Meyering),
+        test.c: don't use undefined local, "def" (Jim Meyering),
+        remote_internal.c: appease clang (Jim Meyering),
+        infra: define ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL to mark non-NULL parameters (Jim Meyering),
+        lxc: don't unlink(NULL) in main (Jim Meyering),
+        storage_conf.c: avoid overflow upon use of "z" or "Z" (zebi) suffix (Jim Meyering),
+        VBox cleanup and update of networking shutdown (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Box cleanup and update of networking XML functions (Pritesh Kothari),
+        Fix misc OOM bugs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Misc fixes to secrets API code (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Only add glusterfs dep for Fedora >= 11 (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Remove redundant base64 include file (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        Don't assume buffered output echoes the command. (Miloslav Trmač),
+        Update chinese, polish and spanish localizations (Daniel Veillard),
+        OpenVZ: accept NULL as type for GetMaxVCPUs. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Remove use of strncpy in qemudExtractMonitorPath. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Refactor policycode auth code to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel P. Berrange),
+        spec file: add URL to Source tag (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Small fixes for qemu save compression. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix thinko in PCI hostdev detach (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Revert changes to allow pciResetDevice() reset multiple devices (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Fix list updating after disk/network/hostdev hot-unplug (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Re-name remote_internal.c:driver to remote_driver (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Cosmetic change to 'virsh nodedev-list --tree' output (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Re-factor hostdev hotplug (Mark McLoughlin),
+        Remove a duplicated assignment in Xen PCI parsing. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix up a few minor indentation issues. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix phyp escape_specialcharacters. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Make openvzGetVPSUUID take a len. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Minor cleanup of error path for c_oneVmInfo. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix up a whitespace in comments in src/console.c (Chris Lalancette),
+        Fix up a stray whitespace in virHashGrow. (Chris Lalancette),
+        Remove unsafe strncpy from esx_vmx.c (Chris Lalancette),
+        Cleanup VIR_LOG_DEBUG parsing in eventtest (Amy Griffis),
+        Tighten libvirt's parsing of logging env (Amy Griffis),
+        Cleanup structure name naming (Matthias Bolte),
+        Add proper OOM reporting for esxDomainGetOSType (Matthias Bolte)
+
+
+
 0.7.0: Aug  5 2009:
    - New features: Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump,
       Daniel Veillard), Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana),