nbdkit-release-notes-1.4(1)

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💖 nbdkit-release-notes-1.4 💖

okay bestie, so this is nbdkit-release-notes-1.4(1) — a section 1 page from the NBDKIT manual, and it's literally just the glow-up receipts for nbdkit 1.4. sit down, hydrate, let's go ✨

✨ NAME ✨

nbdkit-release-notes-1.4 — the release notes for nbdkit 1.4, no cap 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.4. It spills all the major changes since 1.2, and honestly? it ate.

And the moment we've all been waiting for: nbdkit 1.4.0 was released on 6th July 2018. 🎀 put it in your calendar, frame it, whatever.

🦋 New features 🦋

  • You can write plugins in Tcl now, see nbdkit-tcl-plugin(3). yes really, go off 💜
  • Other new plugins joined the group chat: nbdkit-ext2-plugin, nbdkit-random-plugin(1), nbdkit-zero-plugin(1) 👑
  • New filters too, obsessed: nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1), nbdkit-fua-filter(1), nbdkit-log-filter(1), nbdkit-nozero-filter(1) 🌈
  • Bash tab completion of nbdkit commands. the way that just works… iconic.
  • TLS Pre-Shared Keys (PSK) authentication 🔥
  • We now default to the newstyle protocol, use -o to select oldstyle.
  • On-demand ramping of thread pool 🧚
  • TRIM support in the file plugin 💚
  • Reworked error handling (glow-up era fr fr)
  • New "can_zero", "can_fua" methods and better handling of FUA ⭐
  • New "nbdkit_realpath" function ✨
  • "nbdkit_parse_size" rewritten 🫶
  • Better handling of shutdown path to ensure plugins can do long cleanups 😌
  • New "PKG_CHECK_VAR" variables 🎀
  • Regression test for IPv6 connections 🌐
  • Of course numerous smaller bug fixes and improvements. the little things matter bestie 💖

💜 Acknowledgements 💜

Thanks in particular to Eric Blake and Pino Toscano. legends, both of them 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Eric Blake
  • Richard W.M. Jones

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