LXC 2.0.7 release announcement¶
23rd of January 2017
This is the seventh bugfix release for LXC 2.0.
The main bugfixes in this release are:
- attach: Close lsm label file descriptor
- attach: Non-functional changes
- attach: Simplify lsm_openat()
- caps: Add lxc_cap_is_set()
- conf: attach: Save errno across call to close
- conf: Clearly report to either use drop or keep
- conf: criu: Add make_anonymous_mount_file()
- conf: Fix suggest_default_idmap()
- configure: Add --enable-gnutls option
- configure: Check for memfd_create()
- configure: Check whether gettid() is declared
- configure: Do not allow variable length arrays
- configure: Remove -Werror=vla
- configure: Use AC_HEADER_MAJOR to detect major()/minor()/makedev()
- conf: Non-functional changes
- conf: Remove thread-unsafe strsignal + improve log
- init: Add cgroupfs-mount to Should-Start/Stop sysvinit LSB headers
- log: Add lxc_unix_epoch_to_utc()
- log: Annotate lxc_unix_epoch_to_utc()
- log: Drop all timezone conversion functions
- log: Make sure that date is correctly formatted
- log: Use lxc_unix_epoch_to_utc()
- log: Use N/A if getpid() != gettid() when threaded
- log: Use thread-safe localtime_r()
- lvm: Suppress warnings about leaked files
- lxccontainer: Log failure to send sig to init pid
- monitor: Add more logging
- monitor: Close mainloop on exit if we opened it
- monitor: Improve log + set log level to DEBUG
- monitor: Log which pipe fd is currently used
- monitor: Make lxc-monitord async signal safe
- monitor: Non-functional changes
- python3-lxc: Fix api_test.py on s390x
- start: Check for CAP_SETGID before setgroups()
- start: Fix execute and improve setgroups() calls
- state: Use async signal safe fun in lxc_wait()
- templates: lxc-debian: Don't try to get stuff from /usr/lib/systemd on the host
- templates: lxc-debian: Fix getty service startup
- templates: lxc-debian: Fix typo in calling dpkg with --print-foreign-architectures option
- templates: lxc-debian: Handle ppc hostarch -> powerpc
- templates: lxc-opensuse: Change openSUSE default release to Leap 42.2
- templates: lxc-opensuse: Remove libgcc_s1
- templates: lxc-opensuse: Remove poweroff.target -> sigpwr.target copy
- templates: lxc-opensuse: Set to be unconfined by AppArmor
- templates: lxc-opensuse: Update for Leap 42.2
- tests; Don't cause test failures on cleanup errors
- tests: Skip unpriv tests on broken overlay module
- tools: Improve logging
- tools: lxc-start: Remove c->is_defined(c) check
- tools: lxc-start: Set configfile after load_config
- tools: Only check for O_RDONLY
- tree-wide: Random macro cleanups
- tree-wide: Remove any variable length arrays
- tree-wide: Sic semper assertis!
- utils: Add macro __LXC_NUMSTRLEN
- utils: Add uid, gid, group convenience wrappers
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 2.0.7.
Should you be interested in individual changes or just looking at the detailed development history,
our stable branch is on GitHub.
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