nbdkit-release-notes-1.4(1)

NAME
nbdkit-release-notes-1.4 - release notes for nbdkit 1.4

DESCRIPTION
These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.4. This describes the major changes since 1.2.

nbdkit 1.4.0 was released on 6th July 2018.

  New features

•   You can write plugins in Tcl, see nbdkit-tcl-plugin(3).

•   Other new plugins: nbdkit-ext2-plugin, nbdkit-random-plugin(1), nbdkit-zero-plugin(1).

•   New filters: nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1), nbdkit-fua-filter(1), nbdkit-log-filter(1), nbdkit-nozero-filter(1).

•   Bash tab completion of nbdkit commands.

•   TLS Pre-Shared Keys (PSK) authentication.

•   We now default to the newstyle protocol, use -o to select oldstyle.

•   On-demand ramping of thread pool.

•   TRIM support in the file plugin.

•   Reworked error handling.

•   New "can_zero", "can_fua" methods and better handling of FUA.

•   New "nbdkit_realpath" function.

•   "nbdkit_parse_size" rewritten.

•   Better handling of shutdown path to ensure plugins can do long cleanups.

•   New "PKG_CHECK_VAR" variables.

•   Regression test for IPv6 connections.

•   Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements.

  Acknowledgements
Thanks in particular to Eric Blake and Pino Toscano.

SEE ALSO
nbdkit(1), https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-July/msg00023.html.

AUTHORS
Eric Blake

Richard W.M. Jones

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat Inc.

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