nbdkit-release-notes-1.8(1)

💖 nbdkit-release-notes-1.8 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the nbdkit manual — specifically nbdkit-release-notes-1.8 — and it's literally just the glow-up diary of nbdkit 1.8. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

nbdkit-release-notes-1.8 — release notes for nbdkit 1.8 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

These are the release notes for nbdkit stable release 1.8. This describes the major changes since 1.6.

nbdkit 1.8.0 was released on 12th November 2018. mark your calendars bestie 📅✨

🦋 New features 🦋

• New plugin: nbdkit-sh-plugin(3) for running shell scripts and other external programs. it's giving "write your own plugin in like 5 lines". See: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/write-nbdkit-plugins-in-shell-script/
• New plugin: nbdkit-partitioning-plugin(1) which creates a partitioned disk from a list of partitions in files. obsessed 💅
• New plugin: nbdkit-iso-plugin(1) which creates an ISO (CD-ROM) image on the fly from a directory of files. See: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/new-in-nbdkit-create-an-iso-image-on-the-fly/
• New plugin: nbdkit-floppy-plugin(1) which creates a virtual FAT-formatted floppy disk from a directory of files. retro queen 👑 https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/new-in-nbdkit-create-a-virtual-floppy-disk/
• Magic config key allows simpler invocation of many plugins, eg:

nbdkit file file=foo

becomes:

nbdkit file foo

not me crying over how clean that is 😭✨

• nbdkit-data-plugin(1): Add disk2data.pl script to generate data parameters.
• nbdkit-data-plugin(1) Use "<file" to inline a file. 🫶
• nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1): Use -D vddk.diskinfo=1 to enable extra debug information.
• tests: Use a helper function to refactor and simplify most tests. (cleanup era 🧹)
• nbdkit-partition-filter(1): Can handle > 128 GPT partitions. no thoughts, just capacity 💀
• nbdkit can be compiled on the Haiku operating system (François Revol). 🌈
• New "nbdkit_parse_bool" API for parsing boolean parameters (Eric Blake).
• nbdkit-log-filter(1): Add "logappend=[true|false]" (Eric Blake).
• nbdkit-ocaml-plugin(3): New "set_error" and "debug" calls.
• Analyze code under AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer and fix bugs (Eric Blake). 🔥
• Analyze code under Coverity and fix bugs.
• Tests now run more quickly. we love a speedy queen ⭐

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• nbdkit(1)
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00111.html

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Eric Blake
• Richard W.M. Jones

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright Red Hat

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🎀 LICENSE 🎀

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• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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and that's a wrap, bestie ✨💖 this whole page came from nbdkit-1.48.1, dated 2026-08-29, and it's the nbdkit-release-notes-1.8(1) manual. slay, go read the real thing, periodt 💅