Thursday·14·October·2010
xen-tools 4.2 released //at 13:55 //by abe
Last night, I released xen-tools 4.2 and also uploaded it to Debian Unstable. It also should become part of the upcoming Debian stable release called Squeeze. (Thanks, Mehdi!)
For those who are missing xen-tools in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx or Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, there’s now a xen-tools PPA containing the current stable package for both Ubuntu releases.
Major changes since the 4.2 release candidate 1:
- Tons of documentation improvements
- Preliminary support for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Debian 7.0 Wheezy (Closes #597521)
- More robustness on exotic combinations of command-line options
Major changes since 4.2 beta 1:
- Uses GeoIP for Debian mirrors: Default Debian mirror is now cdn.debian.net
- Uses
apt-configto parse Dom0’sapt.conf. (Closes #560011) - With
--verbose, the output of commands called by xen-tools (e.g. debootstrap) is not only logged, but also printed toSTDOUT. (Closes #513126) - Adds btrfs support.
New Team Member
I’d also like to welcome Stéphane Jourdois as member of the xen-tools development team who contributed quite a lot of the new code in 4.2. See GitHub’s Impact Graph or Ohloh’s List of Contributors.
Roadmap
If there’s no need for a bug fix release, the next release will be 5.0 and will be the result of some heavy refactoring. Our aim is:
- less code duplication
- more modularity
- more consistency over all included scripts and hooks
We will probably also use Perl::Critic to improve the code consistency and
quality further. (Thanks Renée for the idea!)
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