nbdkit-release-notes-1.6(1)

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💖 nbdkit-release-notes-1.6 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NBDKIT manual page for nbdkit-release-notes-1.6 — yes this is a whole manpage just for the tea on one release, and honestly? iconic behavior. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

nbdkit-release-notes-1.6 — the release notes for nbdkit 1.6, aka the glow-up era 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So these are the release notes for the nbdkit stable release 1.6. It's the whole rundown of the major changes since 1.4, no crumbs left behind. 💅

And mark your calendars: nbdkit 1.6.0 was released on 28th August 2018. 🎂

🌈 New features 🌈

okay so THIS is the section, the main character moment, the part we're all here for:

  • You can now write plugins in the Lua scripting language — go check nbdkit-lua-plugin(3) 🧚
  • nbdkit and the common plugins are now "63 bit clean": the maximum disk size supported is 2⁶³-1 bytes, and the core server plus plugins now have extra tests to make sure this actually works — even on 32 bit machines. slay 💪
  • Multiple improvements to the nbdkit-file-plugin(1) so that zeroing and trimming perform better, work correctly with block devices, and work on older Linux kernels — big ups to Nir Soffer and Eric Blake 🫶
  • New nbdkit-pattern-plugin(1) — it generates a simple, fixed test pattern for testing nbdkit filters and NBD clients. cute and useful ✨
  • New nbdkit-truncate-filter(1) which can: truncate or extend the size of plugins, or round the size up or down to the next multiple of a power of 2. Lowkey a lifesaver for NBD clients like qemu that can only handle NBD sizes that are a multiple of 512 bytes 👑
  • New nbdkit-error-filter(1) — use it to inject errors into the protocol, so you can test how clients handle and recover from errors. chaos as a service, but for science 💀
  • New nbdkit-data-plugin(1) lets you specify (small) disk images directly on the command line. tiny disk, big energy 🍓
  • Enhanced error reporting in the Python plugin — full tracebacks from errors are now displayed instead of being lost like before. no more "where did my error go" era 😭
  • "NBD_OPT_GO" is now supported, so we can return errors when negotiating the export name 🔥
  • Support for logging error messages to syslog 📝
  • nbdkit can now be compiled with Clang (as well as GCC) 🌟
  • nbdkit can now be compiled on FreeBSD 🐧
  • nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1) is compiled unconditionally. You no longer need to install the proprietary VDDK to compile it. the way that just works now 🙈
  • Debug messages now include the name of the filter when invoked from a filter context 🔍
  • Debug flags (the -D option) provide lightweight debugging for plugin authors 💜

🎀 Acknowledgements 🎀

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and especially to Nir Soffer and Eric Blake. literal legends, no cap 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

  • Eric Blake
  • Richard W.M. Jones

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📜 LICENSE 📜

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