GUESTFS-TOOLS-RELEASE-NOTES-1.52(1)

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💖 guestfs-tools-release-notes — guestfs tools release notes 💖

okay bestie, so this is the guestfs-tools-release-notes page, and it's basically the group chat recap of everything that popped off in guestfs tools 💅 (the manual lives up in the virtualization-support corner of the universe, and today we're reading the 1.52 era notes, iykyk).

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guestfs-tools-release-notes — guestfs tools release Notes ✨

🎀 RELEASE NOTES FOR GUESTFS TOOLS 1.52 🎀

So here's the tea: these are the release notes for guestfs tools stable release 1.52, and they describe the major changes since 1.50. Not a glow-up, a whole era.

Guestfs tools 1.52.0 was released on 5 January 2024. Mark your calendars, bestie 🗓️✨

💀 virt-dib was removed 💀

okay so this one's a little sad: virt-dib, the tool that built disk images using diskimage-builder descriptions, has been removed. Why? It only supported an older version of the diskimage-builder metadata. Gone but not forgotten 😭

See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039

🦋 virt-builder 🦋

virt-builder(1) now prints better error messages when a specific URL cannot be downloaded. No more cryptic "something broke" energy — it actually tells you what's up 🫶

🧚 virt-builder-repository 🧚

Fix GPG repository signing (thanks Allard Berends). Slay, thank you Allard 👑

🌸 virt-customize 🌸

New virt-customize(1) --chown and --tar-in options. (Also available in virt-builder and virt-sysprep.) We love a shared feature moment, honestly iconic ✨

⭐ virt-diff ⭐

virt-diff(1) no longer considers st_dev and st_ino fields, which means that guests where a file has moved across a mountpoint but is otherwise identical (size, path, etc) will not show up as a difference. Lowkey a peace treaty between you and your diff output 💅

🔥 virt-drivers 🔥

virt-drivers(1), a tool which looks at the device drivers needed by a guest, can now look up vendor and device names using the PCI and USB IDs databases. It's giving "glow up, but for driver info" 🌈

🫶 Common changes 🫶

  • The common --key option now recognizes LVM names like /dev/mapper/rhel_bootp--73--75--123-root (Laszlo Ersek).
  • The --key option also supports a new --key all:... selector to try the same key on all devices. One key, every device, no cap 🔑

🛠️ Build changes 🛠️

  • Support for OCaml 5, and OCaml ≥ 4.07 is now the minimum (thanks Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni, Jerry James, Josh Berdine, Jürgen Hötzel, Vincent Laviron).
  • Fix compatibility issues with libxml2 2.12.

🧠 Internals 🧠

Fix an off-by-one error which caused very rare crashes in some of the virt tools. The classic off-by-one, caught in the wild 😭💀

🐛 Bugs fixed 🐛

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

http://libguestfs.org/

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Jürgen Hötzel Laszlo Ersek Richard W.M. Jones

Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc.

📜 LICENSE 📜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

🐞 BUGS 🐞

To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

  • The version of libguestfs.
  • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
  • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
  • Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.
bestie please actually include all of that, the maintainers can't debug a vibe alone 😭🫶

and that's the whole page, fr fr 💜 this came from guestfs-tools-1.57.3, dated 2026-09-16 — mwah, go fix some bugs, ily 🎀✨

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