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LXC 2.0.5 release announcement

05.10.2016
This is the fifth bugfix release for LXC 2.0.

The main bugfixes in this release are:

  • Fix .gitignore after /tools/ split
  • Add lxc-test-utils to .gitignore
  • bdev: use correct overlay module name
  • cleanup: tools: remove --name from lxc-top usage message
  • cleanup: whitespaces in option alignment for lxc-execute
  • Use full GPG fingerprint instead of long IDs.
  • tools: move --rcfile to the common options list
  • tools: set configfile after load_config
  • doc: add --rcfile to common opts
  • doc: Update Korean lxc-attach(1)
  • doc: Add --rcfile to Korean common opts
  • doc: Add --rcfile to Japanese common opts
  • tools: use exit(EXIT_*) everywhere
  • tools: unify exit() calls outside of main()
  • utils: Add mips signalfd syscall numbers
  • seccomp: Implement MIPS seccomp handling
  • seccomp: Add mips and mips64 entries to lxc_config_parse_arch
  • seccomp: fix strerror()
  • confile: add more archs to lxc_config_parse_arch()
  • seccomp: add support for s390x
  • seccomp: remove double include and order includes
  • seccomp: non functional changes
  • templates: use fd 9 instead of 200
  • templates: fedora requires openssl binary
  • tools: use boolean for ret in lxc_device.c
  • c/r: use /proc/self/tid/children instead of pidfile
  • c/r: Fix pid_t on some arches
  • templates: Add mips hostarch detection to debian
  • cleanup: replace tabs with spaces in usage strings
  • remove extra 'ret'
  • c/r: write status only after trying to parse the pid
  • set FULL_PATH_NAMES=NO in doc/api/Doxyfile
  • templates: rm halt.target -> sigpwr.target symlink
  • templates: remove creation of bogus directory
  • console: use correct log name
  • configure: add --disable-werror
  • tests: fix get_item tests
  • templates: use correct cron version in alpine template
  • c/r: zero a smaller than known migrate_opts struct
  • lxczfs: small fixes
  • c/r: free valid_opts if necessary
  • make rsync deal with sparse files efficiently
  • lxc-create -t debian fails on ppc64el arch
  • c/r: fix typo in comment
  • cgroup: add new functions for interacting with hierarchies
  • utils: add lxc_deslashify
  • c/r: pass --cgroup-roots on checkpoint
  • cgroup: get rid of weird hack in cgfsng_escape
  • cgroup: drop cgroup_canonical_path
  • c/r: check that cgroup_num_hierarchies > 0
  • tools: do not add trailing spaces on lxc-ls -1
  • conf: retrieve mtu from netdev->link
  • conf: try to retrieve mtu from veth
  • c/r: detach from controlling tty on restore
  • Fix null dereference if attach is called without access to any tty
  • utils: fix lxc_string_split()
  • tools: lxc_deslashify() handle special cases
  • tests: add unit tests for lxc_deslashify()
  • Fix for ALTLinux container creation in all branches
  • utils: lxc_deslashify() free memory
  • Fix spelling of CentOS in the templates
  • Define LXC_DEVEL to detect development releases
  • tools: lxc-checkconfig conditionalize devpts check

Downloads

The release tarballs may be found on our download page and we expect most distributions
will very soon ship a packaged version of LXC 2.0.5.

Should you be interested in individual changes or just looking at the detailed development history,
our stable branch is on GitHub.