Libosinfo 0.3.0

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Libosinfo 0.3.0 is out!

 

Changes since 0.2.12:

 

- Ditch custom udev rule since udev/blkid already expose ISO9660 properties.

- New layout for database to facilitate local admin customization. Refer to

docs/database-layout.txt for full details.

- Many build-related fixes.

- Plug many memory leaks.

- Drop redundant information on PCI devices.

- Fix the URI format for install scripts.

- Memory corruption fixes.

- Massive refactoring/cleanup of database.

- Fixes to tests.

- osinfo_loader_process_*() now expect a directory argument. Regular files are

still supported but this support is deprecated.

- Ensure Linux install scripts install qemu-guest-agent. This allows

applications to do things like resyncing the clock of guest with that of host.

- Add/improve/fix data on:

- Alt Linux

- CentOS

- Debian

- Fedora

- FreeBSD

- GNOME

- KVM

- Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10 and Server 2012

- Novell Netware

- OpenBSD

- openSUSE

- PCI and PS/2 devices

- Qemu

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux

- Red Hat Linux

- Solaris

- Ubuntu

- Xen

- Many internal cleanups.

 

Dependencies changed:

 

Require libsoup >= 2.42

 

Release tarball available here for download:

http://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/libosinfo/libosinfo-0.3.0.tar.gz

sha256 checksum:

538a3468792e919edf5364fe102d751353ae600a92ad3a24f024424a182cefbc

 

What is libosinfo?

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libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about

operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can

support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs

to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a

hypervisor. Via the magic of GObject Introspection, the API is available in all

common programming languages with demos for javascript (GJS/Seed) and python

(PyGObject). Also provided are Vala bindings.

 

libosinfo is Free Software and licenced under LGPLv2+.

 

Dependencies

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- Required:

- gobject-2.0

- gio-2.0

- libxml-2.0

 

- Optional:

- gobject-introspection

- Vala (build-time only)

 

For further information about libosinfo please consult the project homepage

 

http://libosinfo.org/

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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