guestfs-tools-release-notes-1.52(1)

NAME
guestfs-tools-release-notes - guestfs tools release Notes

RELEASE NOTES FOR GUESTFS TOOLS 1.52
These are the release notes for guestfs tools stable release 1.52. This describes the major changes since 1.50.

Guestfs tools 1.52.0 was released on 5 January 2024.

  virt-dib was removed
virt-dib, a tool that built disk images using diskimage-builder descriptions has been removed. It only supported an older version of the diskimage-builder metadata. See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039

  virt-builder
virt-builder(1) now prints better error messages when a specific URL cannot be downloaded.

  virt-builder-repository
Fix GPG repository signing (thanks Allard Berends).

  virt-customize
New virt-customize(1) --chown and --tar-in options. (Also available in virt-builder and virt-sysprep.)

  virt-diff
virt-diff(1) no longer considers "st_dev" and "st_ino" fields, which means that guests where a file has moved across a mountpoint but is otherwise identical (size, path, etc) will not show up as a difference.

  virt-drivers
virt-drivers(1) a tool which looks at the device drivers needed by a guest, can now look up vendor and device names using the PCI and USB IDs databases.

  Common changes
The common --key option now recognizes LVM names like /dev/mapper/rhel_bootp--73--75--123-root (Laszlo Ersek).

The --key option also supports a new --key all:... selector to try the same key on all devices.

  Build changes
Support for OCaml 5, and OCaml ≥ 4.07 is now the minimum (thanks Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni, Jerry James, Josh Berdine, Jürgen Hötzel, Vincent Laviron).

Fix compatibility issues with libxml2 2.12.

  Internals
Fix an off-by-one error which caused very rare crashes in some of the virt tools.

  Bugs fixed

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2175703
    virt-v2v failed to inspect RHEL9.2 guest due to kernel-core / kernel-modules-core subpackage split

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168506
    RFE: Virt-v2v should recognize partition names like '/dev/mapper/rhel boot--73--75--123-root' in related keys option

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039
    virt-dib doesn't work with newer diskimage-builder version on RHEL8

SEE ALSO
http://libguestfs.org/

AUTHORS

Jürgen Hötzel
Laszlo Ersek
Richard W.M. Jones

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

•   The version of libguestfs.

•   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

•   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

•   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.