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+0.7.7: Mar 5 2010:
+   - Features:
+      Introduce public API for domain async job handling (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      macvtap support (Stefan Berger),
+      Add QEMU support for virtio channel (Matthew Booth),
+      Add persistence of PCI addresses to QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Functions for computing baseline CPU from a set of host CPUs (Jiri Denemark),
+      Public API for virDomain{Attach,Detach}DeviceFlags (Jim Fehlig)
+
+   - Documentation:
+      web docs -- macvtap mode explanation (Stefan Berger),
+      Expand docs about clock modes (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      docs: Fix syntax warnings from recent changes. (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: network: Document <domain> element (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: network: Document STP and delay attributes (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: domain: Document <description> element (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: storage: Document multipath pools (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: storage: Document SCSI pools (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: storage: Fix backingStore <format> docs (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: storage: <volume><key> is always generated. (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: storage: Document capacity/alloc 'unit' (Cole Robinson),
+      docs: add 3 missing spaces (Dan Kenigsberg),
+      Fix typo in comment (Matthew Booth),
+      libvirt: Update docs for hotplug only commands (Cole Robinson),
+      Fix up a misspelled comment. (Chris Lalancette),
+      doc: restrict virDomain{Attach,Detach}Device to active domains (Jim Fehlig),
+      docs: Refer to virReportOOMError in the HACKING file (Matthias Bolte),
+      docs: Emphasize that devices have to be inside the <devices> element (Matthias Bolte)
+
+   - Portability:
+      build: vbox: avoid build failure when linking with --no-add-needed (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      build: avoid dlopen-related link failure on rawhide/F13 (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      Add a define for NFS_SUPER_MAGIC (Chris Lalancette),
+      Fix compliation of AppArmor related code (Matthias Bolte)
+
+   - Bug Fixes:
+      Fix USB passthrough based on product/vendor (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Misc fixes for LXC cgroups setup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Change default for storage uid/gid from getuid()/getgid() to -1/-1 (Laine Stump),
+      Fix parser checking of storage pool device (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add missing device type check in QEMU PCI hotunplug (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Make domain save work on root-squash NFS (Laine Stump),
+      Fix domain restore for files on root-squash NFS (Laine Stump),
+      Fix USB/PCI device address aliases in QEMU hotplug driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix detection of errors in QEMU device_add command (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      uml: avoid crash on partial read (Eric Blake),
+      Fix QEMU domain state after a save attempt fails (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix error messages when parsing USB devices in QEMU (Rolf Eike Beer),
+      Fix USB hotplug device string in QEMU driver (Rolf Eike Beer),
+      phypUUIDTable_Push: do not corrupt output stream upon partial write (Jim Meyering),
+      qemu: avoid null dereference on failed migration (Eric Blake),
+      Free the macvtap mode string (Stefan Berger),
+      libvirtd: do not ignore failure to set group ID in privileged mode (Jim Meyering),
+      Ignore SIGWINCH in remote client call to poll(2) (RHBZ#567931). (Richard Jones),
+      storage: conf: Correctly calculate exabyte unit (Cole Robinson),
+      virsh.c: avoid all leaks in OOM path in cmdCPUBaseline (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fixed reference count in virsh pool-build command (David Allan),
+      Fix daemon-conf invalid failures (David Allan),
+      virBufferVSprintf: do not omit va_end(argptr) call (Jim Meyering),
+      xend_internal.c: don't dereference NULL for unexpected input (Jim Meyering),
+      virsh: be careful to return "FALSE" upon OOM (Jim Meyering),
+      virBufferStrcat: do not skip va_end (Jim Meyering),
+      qparams.c: do not skip va_end, twice (Jim Meyering),
+      get_virtual_functions_linux: would mistakenly always return zero (Jim Meyering),
+      network: bridge: Fix IsActive, IsPersistent (Cole Robinson),
+      qemuMonitorTextAddUSBDisk: avoid unconditional leak (Jim Meyering),
+      tests: avoid NULL deref upon OOM failure (Jim Meyering),
+      qemuInitPasswords: avoid unconditional leak (Jim Meyering),
+      qemuMonitorTextAddDevice: avoid unconditional leak (Jim Meyering),
+      libvirt-override.c: avoid a leak upon call with invalid argument (Jim Meyering),
+      vboxDomainDumpXML: avoid a leak on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+      virNodeDevCapScsiHostParseXML: avoid an unconditional leak (Jim Meyering),
+      uml_driver.c: avoid leak upon failure (Jim Meyering),
+      vbox_tmpl.c: avoid an unconditional leak (Jim Meyering),
+      openvz (openvzFreeDriver): avoid leaks (Jim Meyering),
+      Fix crash in LXC driver open method when URI has no path (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix USB device path formatting mixup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu_driver.c: honor dname parameter once again (Jim Meyering),
+      plug four virStoragePoolSourceFree-related leaks (Jim Meyering),
+      remote_driver.c: avoid leak on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+      qemu: Increase guest startup timeout to 30 seconds (Cole Robinson),
+      Fix security driver configuration (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Escape strings serialized in XML (Daniel Veillard),
+      absolutePathFromBaseFile: don't leak when first arg contains no "/" (Jim Meyering),
+      sexpr_string: avoid leak on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+      virDomainChrDefParseXML: don't leak upon invalid input (Jim Meyering),
+      virExecWithHook: avoid leak on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+      cgroup.c: don't leak mem+FD upon OOM (Jim Meyering),
+      cgroup.c: avoid unconditional leaks (Jim Meyering),
+      virt-pki-validate contains unexpanded SYSCONFDIR variable (Doug Goldstein)
+
+   - Improvements:
+      Convert QEMU driver all hotunplug code from pci_del to device_del (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support hot-unplug for USB devices in QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Tweak container initialization to make upstart/init happier (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Avoid creating top level cgroups if just querying for existance (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support VCPU hotplug in QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix mis-leading error message in pool delete API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix typo in QEMU migration command name (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Don't raise error message from cgroups if QEMU fails to start (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      esx: don't ignore failure on close (Eric Blake),
+      Fix safezero() (Jiri Denemark),
+      Support job cancellation in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remote driver implementation for the virDomainAbortJob APi (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Wire up internal entry points for virDomainAbortJob API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Introduce public API for cancelling async domain jobs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add QEMU driver support for job info on migration ops (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remote driver implmentation of job info API (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Stub out internal driver entry points for job processing (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Use device_del to remove SCSI controllers (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+      Fix PCI address handling when controllers are deleted (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+      Fix data structure handling when controllers are attached (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+      Allow configurable timezones with QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Allow a timezone to be specified instead of sync to host timezone (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Support variable clock offset mode in QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add new clock mode allowing variable adjustments (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Change the internal domain conf representation of localtime/utc (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Use standard spacing for user/pass prompt (Cole Robinson),
+      libvirtd: Better initscript error reporting (Cole Robinson),
+      qemu: Report binary path if error parsing -help (Cole Robinson),
+      remote: Improve daemon startup error reporting (Cole Robinson),
+      virsh: Show errors reported by nonAPI functions (Cole Robinson),
+      remote: Improve error message when libvirtd isn't running (Cole Robinson),
+      build: make git submodule checking more reliable (Jim Meyering),
+      Add descriptions for macvtap direct type interfaces (Stefan Berger),
+      maint: import modern bootstrap (Eric Blake),
+      maint: start factoring bootstrap (Eric Blake),
+      build: update gnulib submodule to latest (Jim Meyering),
+      Create raw storage files with O_DSYNC (again) (Jiri Denemark),
+      Use virFileOperation hook function in virStorageBackendFileSystemVolBuild (Laine Stump),
+      Rename virFileCreate to virFileOperation, add hook function (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: Check for IA64 kvm (Dustin Xiong),
+      remote: Print ssh stderr on connection failure (Cole Robinson),
+      fix multiple veth problem for OpenVZ (Yuji NISHIDA),
+      Better error reporting for failed migration (Chris Lalancette),
+      Make an error message in PCI util code clearer (Chris Lalancette),
+      macvtap mac_filter support (Stefan Berger),
+      macvtap IFF_VNET_HDR configuration (Stefan Berger),
+      Use virFork() in __virExec(), virFileCreate() and virDirCreate() (Laine Stump),
+      Add virFork() function to utils (Laine Stump),
+      Add domain support for virtio channel (Matthew Booth),
+      qemu: Explicitly error if guest virtual network is inactive (Cole Robinson),
+      virterror: Make SetError work if no previous error was set (Cole Robinson),
+      macvtap teardown rework (Stefan Berger),
+      Update QEMU JSON balloon command handling (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      python: Actually add virConnectGetVersion to generated bindings (Cole Robinson),
+      build: inform libtool of m4 directory (Eric Blake),
+      Adds a cpu-baseline command for virsh (Jiri Denemark),
+      qemu: Make SetVcpu command hotplug only (Cole Robinson),
+      qemu: Make Set*Mem commands hotplug only (Cole Robinson),
+      Treat missing QEMU 'thread_id' as non-fatal in JSON monitor (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix check for primary IDE controller in QEMU PCI slot assignment (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Make error reporting for QEMU JSON mode more friendly (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Run 'qmp_capabilities' command at QEMU monitor startup (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      macvtap support for libvirt -- schema extensions (Stefan Berger),
+      macvtap support for libvirt -- qemu support (Stefan Berger),
+      macvtap support for libvirt -- helper code (Stefan Berger),
+      macvtap support for libvirt -- parse new interface XML (Stefan Berger),
+      interface: Use proper return codes in the open function (Matthias Bolte),
+      Support 'block_passwd' command for QEMU disk encryption (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Implement cpuBaseline in remote and qemu drivers (Jiri Denemark),
+      Wire protocol format and dispatcher for virConnectBaselineCPU (Jiri Denemark),
+      virConnectBaselineCPU public API implementation (Jiri Denemark),
+      Internal driver API for virConnectBaselineCPU (Jiri Denemark),
+      virConnectBaselineCPU public API (Jiri Denemark),
+      Implement cpuArchBaseline in x86 CPU driver (Jiri Denemark),
+      Implement cpuArchBaseline in generic CPU driver (Jiri Denemark),
+      Mark all error messages for translation (Jiri Denemark),
+      Add cpu_generic.c to the list of translated files (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fix <cpu> element in domain XML schema (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fix disk stats retrieval with QEMU >= 0.12 (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      qemu: Properly report a startup timeout error (Cole Robinson),
+      test: Fake security driver support in capabilities (Cole Robinson),
+      Annotate some virConnectPtr as mandatory non-null (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Convert qemu command line flags to 64-bit int (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Create raw storage files with O_DSYNC (Jiri Denemark),
+      Re-generate remote protocol files for new APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Modify virsh commands (Jim Fehlig),
+      domain{Attach,Detach}DeviceFlags handler for drivers (Jim Fehlig),
+      Server side dispatcher (Jim Fehlig),
+      Remote driver (Jim Fehlig),
+      Wire protocol format (Jim Fehlig),
+      Public API Implementation (Jim Fehlig)
+
+   - Cleanups:
+      virsh: silence compiler warning (Eric Blake),
+      build: silence coverity warning in node_device (Eric Blake),
+      Tiny spelling fix (Wolfgang Mauerer),
+      libvirtd: avoid false-positive NULL-deref warning from clang (Eric Blake),
+      x86Decode: avoid NULL-dereference upon questionable input (Jim Meyering),
+      openvzDomainDefineCmd: remove useless increment (Jim Meyering),
+      maint: disallow TAB-in-indentation also in *.rng files (Jim Meyering),
+      maint: convert leading TABs in *.rng files to equivalent spaces (Jim Meyering),
+      udevEnumerateDevices: remove dead code (Jim Meyering),
+      qemudNetworkIfaceConnect: remove dead store (Jim Meyering),
+      cmdPoolDiscoverSources: initialize earlier to avoid FP from clang (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid warning about return-with-value in void function (Jim Meyering),
+      Only build virDomainObjFormat if not building proxy. (Chris Lalancette),
+      openvzGetVEID: don't leak (memory + file descriptor) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid warning about unused variables (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid "make rpm" failure in docs/ (Jim Meyering),
+      build: teach apibuild.py to work in a non-srcdir build (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid non-srcdir "make distcheck" failures (CLEANFILES) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid non-srcdir "make distcheck" failures (srcdir vs wildcard) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid non-srcdir "make distcheck" failure (test_conf.sh) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid non-srcdir installation failure (sitemap.html.in) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: avoid non-srcdir installation failure (apibuild.py) (Jim Meyering),
+      build: fix typos in makefile variable names (Jim Meyering),
+      build: ensure that MKINSTALLDIRS is AC_SUBST-defined (Jim Meyering),
+      maint: relax git minimum version (Eric Blake),
+      maint: sort .gitignore (Eric Blake),
+      maint: fix quoting in autogen.sh (Eric Blake),
+      virFork: placate static analyzers: ignore pthread_sigmask return value (Jim Meyering),
+      virsh.c: avoid leak on OOM error path (Jim Meyering),
+      Make virDomainObjFormat static (Chris Lalancette),
+      xenDaemonDomainSetAutostart: avoid appearance of impropriety (Jim Meyering),
+      Remove unused functions from domain_conf (Matthew Booth),
+      Fix whitespace in domain.rng (Matthew Booth),
+      openvzLoadDomains: don't ignore failing virUUIDFormat (Jim Meyering),
+      vshCommandParse: placate coverity (Jim Meyering),
+      virStorageBackendIsMultipath: avoid dead store (Jim Meyering),
+      Convert virSecurityReportError into a macro (Matthias Bolte),
+      Swap position of nmodels and models parameters in cpuDecode() (Jiri Denemark),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from secret XML APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from interface XML APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from CPU XML APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from storage APIs & driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from all node device XML APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from network XML APis (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from USB/PCI device iterators (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix generation of floppy disk arg for QEMU's -global arg (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix compile error in Xen proxy from virConnectPtr changes (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove use of virConnectPtr from security driver APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from all domain XML parsing/formatting APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove virConnectPtr from LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove passing of virConnectPtr throughout QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virAsprintf: remove its warn_unused_result attribute (Jim Meyering),
+      absolutePathFromBaseFile: avoid an unnecessary use of assert (Jim Meyering),
+      Remove conn parameter from USB functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from JSON error macro (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from PCI functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from Linux stats functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from storage file functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from util functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from virXPath* functions (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from virReportSystemError (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remove conn parameter from virReportOOMError (Matthias Bolte),
+      website: Add a 1em right margin (Matthias Bolte),
+      storage: Replace storageLog with VIR_ERROR (Matthias Bolte),
+      opennebula: Remove unnecessary casts (Matthias Bolte),
+      esx: Remove unnecessary casts (Matthias Bolte),
+      cpu conf: Use virBufferFreeAndReset instead of virBufferContentAndReset and VIR_FREE (Matthias Bolte),
+      esx: Cleanup preprocessing structure in esxVI_EnsureSession (Matthias Bolte)
+
+
+
 0.7.6: Feb 3 2010:
    - Features:
       Implement support for multi IQN (David Allan),