3 nbdkit-release-notes-1.4 - release notes for nbdkit 1.4
7 These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.4.
8 This describes the major changes since 1.2.
10 nbdkit 1.4.0 was released on 6th July 2018.
18 You can write plugins in Tcl, see
19 L<nbdkit-tcl-plugin(3)>.
25 L<nbdkit-random-plugin(1)>,
26 L<nbdkit-zero-plugin(1)>.
31 L<nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1)>,
32 L<nbdkit-fua-filter(1)>,
33 L<nbdkit-log-filter(1)>,
34 L<nbdkit-nozero-filter(1)>.
38 Bash tab completion of nbdkit commands.
42 TLS Pre-Shared Keys (PSK) authentication.
46 We now default to the newstyle protocol, use -o to select oldstyle.
50 On-demand ramping of thread pool.
54 TRIM support in the file plugin.
58 Reworked error handling.
62 New C<can_zero>, C<can_fua> methods and better handling of FUA.
66 New C<nbdkit_realpath> function.
70 C<nbdkit_parse_size> rewritten.
74 Better handling of shutdown path to ensure plugins can do long cleanups.
78 New C<PKG_CHECK_VAR> variables.
82 Regression test for IPv6 connections.
86 Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements.
90 =head2 Acknowledgements
92 Thanks in particular to Eric Blake and Pino Toscano.
97 L<https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-July/msg00023.html>.
107 Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat Inc.