nbdkit-release-notes-1.41
Release notes for nbdkit 1.4
Overview
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
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You can write plugins in Tcl, see nbdkit-tcl-plugin(3).
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Other new plugins: nbdkit-ext2-plugin, nbdkit-random-plugin(1), nbdkit-zero-plugin(1).
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Bash tab completion of nbdkit commands.
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TLS Pre-Shared Keys (PSK) authentication.
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We now default to the newstyle protocol, use -o to select oldstyle.
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On-demand ramping of thread pool.
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TRIM support in the file plugin.
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Reworked error handling.
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New
"can_zero","can_fua"methods and better handling of FUA.
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New
"nbdkit_realpath"function.
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"nbdkit_parse_size"rewritten.
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Better handling of shutdown path to ensure plugins can do long cleanups.
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New
"PKG_CHECK_VAR"variables.
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Regression test for IPv6 connections.
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Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements.
Acknowledgements
Thanks in particular to Eric Blake and Pino Toscano.
Releases
3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.