libnbd-release-notes-1.14(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

  • libnbd-release-notes-1.14 β€” release notes for libnbd 1.14. also hiii bestie πŸ’– you're reading the LIBNBD manual, specifically the libnbd-release-notes-1.14(1) page, and it is giving stable-release-notes. periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so these are the release notes for libnbd stable release 1.14, and they describe the major changes since 1.12. no cap. πŸ¦‹

libnbd 1.14.0 was released on 1 August 2022 β€” iconic date, mark it down πŸ“…βœ¨

πŸ”’ Security

No security issues were found in this release β€” security ate and left no crumbs, bestie πŸ’…

but if you find a security issue, please read SECURITY in the source (online here: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/blob/master/SECURITY). to find out about previous security issues in libnbd, see libnbd-security(3). 🫢

πŸ†• New APIs

No new APIs were added in this release. literally none. πŸ’€

πŸ’… Enhancements to existing APIs

  • Optimizations to nbd_pread_structured(3) (Eric Blake). πŸ”₯
  • Many performance enhancements in the Python bindings (Eric Blake):
    • nbd.pread now avoids an extra memory allocation and copy. ✨
    • Buffers can now be passed to nbd.Buffer.from_bytearray. πŸŽ€
    • New methods nbd.Buffer.{to,from}_buffer allow control over copying and sharing nbd.Buffer. πŸ¦‹
    • Any buffer-like object can be used in nbd.aio_{pread,pwrite}. πŸ’…
    • len(nbd.Buffer(n)) now works. πŸ‘‘
    • Improve error messages when the wrong types are passed to several APIs. πŸ™ˆ
    • Fix usage of PyGILState. πŸ”§
  • Golang AioBuffer now calls panic on invalid usage (Nir Soffer). πŸ’₯
  • In golang tests, use GOTRACEBACK=crash so we get full core dumps on failures. 🧚
  • kTLS should now work (transparently) when available in the kernel and GnuTLS. Use of kTLS will be indicated in debug output. (Daiki Ueno, FrantiΕ‘ek KrenΕΎelok) 🌈

πŸ›  Tools

  • New nbddump(1) tool with main character energy β€” it can efficiently hexdump the contents of an NBD server. πŸ”₯
  • nbdcopy(1) now obeys the NBD server minimum/preferred block size when copying, which should make it more efficient and avoids issues with some qemu-nbd configurations where the minimum block size must be obeyed for correct operation. πŸ’…

πŸ§ͺ Tests

  • New tests for nbd+vsock:// URI support. ngl, good stuff. πŸ¦‹

πŸ› Other improvements and bug fixes

  • Fixed rare TLS deadlock when reading from slow servers, and support for clean shutdown when connecting to qemu-nbd over TLS (thanks Michael Ablassmeier). 😭
  • The library now uses the GnuTLS flag GNUTLS_NO_SIGNAL (if available) which ensures that TLS connections should not cause the main program to exit with SIGPIPE in certain cases of server failure. (Libnbd has long used MSG_NOSIGNAL on non-TLS connections which has a similar effect.) πŸ’€
  • Various enhancements to fuzzing were made, including support for AFL++ clang-LTO mode, ASAN, allowing seed test cases to be captured, and extended testing of APIs. 🧚
  • Tests were fixed so they should pass on RHEL 7 and FreeBSD. highkey a win. 🌈

πŸ“š Documentation

vibe check: No changes in this release. literally nothing, bestie. πŸ“„

πŸ— Build

  • ARRAY_SIZE macro added to simplify static array sizing (thanks Laszlo Ersek). πŸ› 
  • Various errors found by Coverity were fixed. πŸ”§

πŸ‘€ SEE ALSO

libnbd(3).

πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS

  • Eric Blake
  • Nir Soffer
  • Richard W.M. Jones

Copyright Red Hat

πŸ“œ LICENSE

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

This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.

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

xoxo bestie πŸ’… this page is from the libnbd-1.25.8 source/version, dated 2026-10-13, and it's the libnbd-release-notes-1.14(1) page β€” manual name LIBNBD. mwah 🫢

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