NEWS

open-vm-tools 9.0.0 changes:
	* Release of open-vm-tools matching vSphere 5.1.

	* Branch was cut from commit id e611d054aa26d88f92 (tagged as
	2011.11.20-535097).

open-vm-tools 2011.11.20 changes:
	* Updates for new Linux kernel releases.

	* Better Unity and DnD compatibility with newer Linux distros.

	* Other minor fixes and cleanups.

open-vm-tools 2011.10.26 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes.

	* Code can now compile with uClibc, with some caveats.

open-vm-tools 2011.09.23 changes:
	* open-vm-tools now can use the built in Linux freeze / thaw
	support for block devices, making the vmsync driver unnecessary
	in kernels supporting that feature.

	* The VMCI driver has been simplified, removing VM-to-VM
	communication support (which is being removed from VMware products).

	* The Unity team decided to remove the Unity plugin from open-vm-tools,
	given its partial brokenness due to reliance on internally-modified
	version of GNOME libraries, among other reasons.

	* Other bug fixes and code cleanup.

open-vm-tools 2011.08.21 changes:
	* Enabled several VIX APIs on FreeBSD.

	* Minor bug fixes and code cleanup.

open-vm-tools 2011.07.19 changes:
	* Fix an issue in the HGFS driver that could lead to a kernel
	  panic.

	* Update some code to support new compiler and kernel versions.

	* Minor bug fixes and code cleanup.

open-vm-tools 2011.06.27 changes:
	* A few enhancements to Unity: XFCE support, better interaction
	  with "the other" (Ubuntu's) Unity and compositing window
	  managers, better X error handling, and a few bug fixes.

	* A few bug fixes in HGFS, and minor bug fixes in other components.

	* Otherwise, mostly code cleanup.

open-vm-tools 2011.05.27 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and a few bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2011.04.25 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and small bug fixes in this release.

	* Logging is enabled by default in vmtoolsd, writing to syslog.
	  The default log level is not chatty, so few messages should
	  make it to syslog during normal operation.

	* The GUI version of the toolbox was removed.

open-vm-tools 2011.03.28 changes:
	* HGFS mounter and vmusr's suid wrapper were changed to avoid
	  issues with symlink attacks. A new mount utility for vmblock on
	  Solaris and FreeBSD was added.
  
	* The VMCI driver was thoroughly reworked so that it can serve as
	  both the host and guest VMCI driver. This is mostly targeted at
	  supporting nested VMs.
  
	* vmusr got better integration with X's session manager, including
	  proper cleanup during session teardown.
  
	* Unity has been enhanced to better handle some desktop environments.

	* Many small bug fixes in other areas, including updates for newer
	  Linux kernels.

open-vm-tools 2011.02.23 changes:
	* Some copy & paste issues with KDE were fixed.

	* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes, with a few build enhancements.

open-vm-tools 2011.01.24 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes.

	* Install code fixed to handle translation catalogs correctly.

open-vm-tools 2010.12.19 changes:
	* New version of DnD code lands in open-vm-tools. The host part
	of the new DnD protocol is not available yet in VMware products,
	though.

	* vmtoolsd gets some new functionality to support new features
	being developed internally.

	* vmxnet driver for FreeBSD fixed to allow changing the MAC address.

	* lots of bug fixes and other cleanups in various areas.

open-vm-tools 2010.11.17 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes.

	* vmxnet3 on Solaris now supports jumbo frames.

open-vm-tools 2010.10.18 changes:
	* The unity plugin has received some refactoring work, and the
	menu gathering code has been enhanced to be more DE-agnostic and
	support the new app icon code. It now needs glib 2.24 to compile.

	* Several bug fixes and enhancements to the VIX plugin.

	* Bug fixes to the guest info plugin so that it better supports
	VMs with several network interfaces.

	* Other minor enhancements and bug fixes in several areas, including
	vsock, vmmemctl and copy & paste.

open-vm-tools 2010.09.19 changes:
	* Mostly cleanups and minor bug fixes.

	* VIX plugin has been updated with lots of new commands being added
	to the next VIX API release.

open-vm-tools 2010.08.24 changes:
	* HGFS and VMCI kernel module bug fixes, and updates to compile
	in newer Linux kernels.

	* HGFS server interface refactoring was finished, now supports
	the transport abstraction available for the kernel interface.

	* VIX operations are now properly implemented on Solaris, plus
	new operations added to support features under development.

	* Other minor cleanups and bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2010.07.25 changes:
	* Features previously provided by vmware-user are now provided
	as vmtoolsd plugins. vmware-user has been removed and code that
	interacted with it changed to start the correct vmtoolsd instance.

	* Lots of cleanup: removed old compatibility headers not needed
	anymore, removed dead code, consolidated logging code.

	* Time synchronization now works more like NTP.

	* New code for features not yet exposed by VMware host software
	is being added.

open-vm-tools 2010.06.16 changes:
	* VMCI moves towards unifying the guest and host driver APIs,
	and gets support for MSI/MSI-X.

	* More work on new VMCI-backed HGFS protocol.

	* vmmemctl: Linux driver removed (it's now upstream), plus
	cleanup and simplification of the FreeBSD and Solaris drivers.

	* some Linux kernel compatibility fixes.

	* Cleanup of old kernel support code.

	* Some cleanup of old VIX features.

	* toolbox-cmd was updated to use newer APIs, and got some i18n
	enhancements.

	* some bug fixes and enhancements to the logging code.

	* update detection and use of some needed libraries.

	* More progress in making libraries thread-safe.

open-vm-tools 2010.04.25 changes:
	* VMCI and HGFS get some initial work for new features.

	* vmbackup support has been extended to more systems, allowing its
	use even if the system lacks a proper "sync" implementation.

	* A few bug fixes in different areas: Unity/X11, vmware-user startup
	on upstart-based systems, and other minor fixes / thread safety fixes.

	* The pvscsi driver was removed from the open-vm-tools distribution (it
	is upstream as of Linux 2.6.33).

	* The vmmemctl driver will be upstream as of Linux 2.6.34, at which
	point it will be removed from open-vm-tools.

open-vm-tools 2010.03.20 changes:
	* New i18n support for Tools; it is based on VMware's internal tools
	(instead of gettext).

	* Logging infrastructure has been enhanced and now supports rotation
	(without the need for logrotate) and syslog.

	* Bug fixes in several areas (DnD, backup support, thread safety).

	* Updates in Linux kernel modules for compatibility with newer kernels.

	* New functionality in the Unity support code.

open-vm-tools 2010.02.23 changes:
	* Mostly bug fixes, cleanups and code refactoring.

open-vm-tools 2010.01.19 changes:
	* Linux modules have been updated to compile on newer kernels.

	* Solaris modules now should compile on OpenSolaris (tested on 2009.06).

	* Other than those, mostly bug fixes and minor refactoring.

open-vm-tools 2009.12.16 changes:
	* Some improvements to vmtoolsd, base libraries and and the plugin
	interface.
	
	* Some library refactoring: use new lock library, changes to support
	compilation of some code on ARM.
	
	* some fixes in configure.ac to try to correctly support newer distros.
	
	* vsock/vmci improvements.
	
	* bug fixes in the vmxnet / vmxnet3 drivers, and FreeBSD's vmblock driver.
	
	* vmxnet3 for Linux is now upstream (as of Linux 2.6.32), and will be
	removed from later releases of open-vm-tools.
	
	* pvscsi will be available upstream starting with Linux 2.6.33 and at that
	time will be removed from open-vm-tools.

open-vm-tools 2009.11.16 changes:
	* Lots of refactoring and cleanup in the code, mainly targeting the
	definition of a set of public APIs.

	* vmblock-fuse can now replace the vmblock kernel module for DnD
	operations.

	* Fix some memory leaks in the guestInfo module. Users of the 2009.10.15
	release are recommended to upgrade, or at least crossport cid 6a8d4279.

open-vm-tools 2009.10.15 changes:
	* The HGFS module got some performance enhancements.

	* Minor enhancements to vmtoolsd and the logging system.

	* Fix for a few issues reported on the sourceforge bug tracker.

	* Lots of code refactoring, and a few bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2009.09.18 changes:
	* Mostly bug fixes and minor enhancements.

	* The pvscsi code was re-factored in preparation for upstreaming. The
	driver has been sent to the LKML for inclusion in the main Linux tree,
	and might be removed from open-vm-tools once it's accepted.

open-vm-tools 2009.08.24 changes:
	* Remove support for Linux kernels < 2.6.9.

	* The vsock now implements a new notification protocol that has better
	performance than the previous.

	* New infrastructure for sending more network config-related information
	about the virtual machine to the host.

	* Other bug fixes and minor improvements to the code.

open-vm-tools 2009.07.22 changes:
	* Better support for dkms by means of a script to help create a dkms tree.

	* "make install" now also installs header files for public libraries, plus
	a few fixes to incorrect install behavior.

	* Lots of improvements to the new DnD code.

	* This will be the last release with support for Linux kernels < 2.6.9.

open-vm-tools 2009.06.18 changes:
	* Mostly a bug fix release.

	* vmhgfs now is able to use vsock as a transport (although backend support
	for HGFS over vsock is not yet released in VMware products).

open-vm-tools 2009.05.22 changes:
	* Mostly a cleanup and bug fix release.

	* Fix a build issue where a symlink attack could cause the open-vm-tools
	build to overwrite data (by placing a symlink in /tmp).

	* Second (and last?) batch of changes to clean up duplicate files
	in the source tree, including Solaris and FreeBSD kernel modules and
	other module-specific shared files.

	* Plugins now are properly built using plugins_LTLIBRARIES so that
	"-rpath" doesn't need to be used (this would cause an RPATH entry to
	be added to the final binary, which some tools didn't like). Thanks to
	Dominique Leuenberger for the suggestion.

	* open-vm-tools now properly detects PAM and enables PAM support in the
	code.

open-vm-tools 2009.04.23 changes:
	* Implemented copy & paste support for RTF data and file contents.

	* guestd has been removed from open-vm-tools; vmtoolsd is now the only
	option for the main tools service.

	* Added vmblock and vmmemctl modules for Solaris (under the CDDL).

	* vmware-user can now work with both vmblock-fuse and vmblock.

	* Linux HGFS now has a stream-based (TCP, vsock) transport, still under
	development.

	* First batch of changes to cleanup duplicated files in the source tree.
	Most duplicated files in the Linux kernel modules have been cleaned up.

open-vm-tools 2009.03.18 changes:
	* Mostly a bug fix release.

	* Solaris vmxnet3 driver was added; open-vm-tools now should also compile on
	OpenSolaris (tested on 08.11), as long as the --without-gtkmm option is used.

	* The new DnD V3 protocol is now available in open-vm-tools.

	* Added "rpctool", a simple, stand-alone tool to send RPC commands to the
	host software.

	* vmtoolsd is now preferred in lieu of vmware-guestd; vmware-guestd will
	most probably be completely removed in the next release.

open-vm-tools 2009.02.18 changes:
	* open-vm-tools now depend on glib 2.6.0 as a minimum requirement.

	* Added vmxnet module for Solaris, and reworked the HGFS module so it
	works without help from vmware-guestd.

	* Added implementation of new DnD protocol, which adds a dependency on
	a C++ compiler and the gtkmm library to vmware-user.

	* The code from the "core services" has been added to open-vm-tools,
	including a few tests. vmtoolsd + plugins are now capable of replacing
	vmware-guestd (vmware-user still needs to have some features ported
	over), but this code is still not to be considered as stable as the
	legacy services, so vmware-guestd is still included.

	* A few fixes for compatibility with non-GNU toolchains, newer Linux
	kernels and old gcc compilers.

open-vm-tools 2009.01.21 changes:
	* First open source release of the HGFS module for Solaris, under the CDDL.
	Other modules are expected to be added in the upcoming releases.

	* Added an implementation of vmblock on top of FUSE; vmware-user still
	doesn't use this module even if it is available, though.

	* Linux modules now add the "supported" tag used by Novell in their
	SLES 10 SP2 release when loading modules.

	* Fix compilation of modules in newer Linux kernels which don't include
	$(LINUXINCLUDE) in the compiler flags anymore.

open-vm-tools 2008.12.23 changes:
	* Lots of makefile cleanup with the switch to using libtool archives.

	* Automatically disable Unity if multimon support is disabled.

	* Actually build the pvscsi modules.

	* First bits of the "Core Service" project are starting to show up; the
	base "vmtools" library was added to the package. It currently is mostly
	a collection of the existing libraries already shipped with open-vm-tools,
	plus some extra functionality build on top of glib. Currently no other
	code in open-vm-tools uses it, so it's optional.

	* The HGFS driver was fixed for the Linux 2.6.28 kernel.

open-vm-tools 2009.11.18 changes:
	* The pvscsi Linux kernel module has been added (for kernels >= 2.6.8).
	It provides access to VMware's new paravirtualized SCSI device.

	* The HGFS driver and user-level code has seen a lot of refactoring to
	enable more consistent name escaping. The FreeBSD driver now supports
	symlinks.

	* The Linux module makefiles now support exporting symbol version files,
	allowing modules with dependencies (such as vsock, which depends on vmci)
	to correctly build and load on Linux >= 2.6.26 with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.

	* Rudimentary support for dkms.

	* Assortment of bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2009.10.13 changes:
	* The vmxnet3 Linux kernel module has been added. This module provides
	better network performance for the guest. The corresponding virtual
	hardware is available beginning with Workstation 6.5, though
	performance benefits are unlikely to be realized until a later VMware
	product release. The module should work for all kernels beginning with
	2.6.

	* The open-vm-tools no longer depend on libproc-dev. Several people
	reported this issue (Sourceforge bug 1960947).

	* Added a command line argument to skip privileged operations during
	make install (--without-root-privileges).

	* Guestd now supports backwards time synchronization, though the
	corresponding hypervisor-side changes are not yet part of any shipping
	VMware products.
	
	* Assortment of bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2009.09.03 changes:
	* Fixed an issue where open-vm-tools fails to configure when using
	--without-icu. Thanks to Timo Gurr for reporting the issue (Sourceforge
	bug 2046262).

	* Fixed failed build on Ubuntu Intrepid and Fedora 9. Thanks to Nathan
	Charles for reporting the issue (Sourceforge bug 2048423).

	* Fixed kernel module build issues on 2.6.27 pre-release kernels.
	Thanks to Dominique Leuenberger for reporting the issue (Sourceforge
	bug 2071170).

	* ...and other bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.08.08 changes:
	* Unity for X11 guests has been added. Unity is implemented within
	vmware-user and requires no additional setup beyond setting up the
	vmware-user application itself. Unity should work with Fusion 1.x
	releases as well as with the upcoming Workstation 6.5 release. Our
	in-house testing was with Linux guests, and they should mostly work.
	There is very little standing in the way of FreeBSD/Solaris support,
	though we've never built or tested Unity for those platforms.

	* The VMCI Linux kernel module has been added. This module provides
	high-speed datagram and socket interfaces for guest<->guest and
	host<->guest communication. It should work for all kernels beginning
	with 2.4, and for VMware products beginning with Workstation 6.5.

	* The VMCI sockets Linux kernel module has been added. It provides
	both datagram and stream socket interfaces to userlevel for use with
	VMCI. As with VMCI, it should work for kernels 2.4 or later, and for
	VMware products beginning with Workstation 6.5.

	* The command-line Toolbox has been added. This application provides
	the same functionality as the GTK Toolbox, but with a scriptable
	command-line interface. It also has some statistic retrieval commands
	that aren't found in the GTK Toolbox.

	* Fixed compilation of vmsync and vmmemctl Linux kernel modules on
	2.6.26. Thanks to Pavol Rusnak for the report (Sourceforge bug 2032683).

	* Fixed an issue with guestd's nicInfo updating mechanism. Thanks to
	Jason Lunz for the patch (not tracked on Sourceforge).

	* Fixed handling of $(DESTDIR) in automake. Thanks to Mike Auty for
	the patch (Sourceforge bug 2018802).

	* Fixed build of vmware-user using gtk 1.2. Thanks to Stephen Duncan
	for the report (Sourceforge bug 2014338).

	* Fixed compilation of lib/guestApp when using --without-x. Thanks to
	Martin Preishuber for the report (Sourceforge bug 2013568).

	* As usual, other bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.07.01 changes:
	* Fixed a backwards time synchronization issue (not tracked on
	Sourceforge). Thanks to Eric Castan for reporting it.

	* Fixed an issue where open-vm-tools configured via --without-x didn't
	compile (not tracked on Sourceforge). Thanks to Mark Foster for
	reporting the bug.

	* Other bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.06.20 changes:
	* Fixed Sourceforge bug 1847750 (FreeBSD 7 & 8 builds) and Sourceforge
	bug 1981632 (build failure on Solaris). This should get open-vm-tools
	building and running on FreeBSD 7 & 8 and Solaris. Thanks to Martin
	Blapp for all the FreeBSD patches, and Jonathan Keatley for reporting
	the Solaris bug.

	* Fixed Sourceforge bug 1968416 (packet counting in FreeBSD vmxnet).
	Thanks to Shunsuke SHINOMIYA for reporting this bug.

	* Fixed Sourceforge bug 1983375 (Cannot specify kernel constraints).
	You can now pass --without-kernel-modules, --with-kernel-release, and
	--with-linuxdir to the ./configure script. Thanks to Craig Phillips for
	reporting this bug.

	* Other bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.06.03 changes:
	* Added the vmware-user-suid-wrapper application, with implementations
	for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. This app is needed to make correct use
	of vmware-user with the vmblock kernel module. It should have been in
	the previous code refresh, but we accidentally overlooked it.

	* Fixed Sourceforge bug 1924246: vmhgfs on Linux properly reports the
	available space on the host. Thanks to Mikhail Krivtsov for reporting
	the bug.

	* Fixed Sourceforge bug 1839981: we now have rudimentary `make install`
	support. On any platform, it should copy files and kernel modules to
	the location specified at build-time, and on Linux, it will additionally
	run `depmod -a` to make the kernel modules accessible to modprobe. This
	change also adds a "--with-pam-prefix" argument to the configure
	script, which controls the location of guestd's pam files.
	
	* Other bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.05.15 changes:
	* guestd no longer starts vmware-user. Packagers will need to use
	the XDG autostart spec, Xsession drop-in scripts, or other appropriate
	mechanisms to make sure that vmware-user is started as part of
	X session initialization. Please see
	http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging for more details.

	* Bug fixes as usual.

open-vm-tools 2008.05.02 changes:
	* Continued Unicode support.

	* open-vm-tools now depends on libicu for codeset conversions. If you
	wish to build open-vm-tools without libicu, pass "--without--icu" when
	configuring the package. Without libicu, codeset conversions will be
	done as before, via calls to iconv.
	
	* A few more bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.04.14 changes:
	* Update the license stamp on all LGPL files.

	* Continued Unicode support.

	* Handle libdumbnet on Debian.

	* More bug fixes, including a security fix in guestd.

open-vm-tools 2008.03.19 changes:
	* Continued Unicode support.

	* A few bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.03.03 changes:
	* Bug fixes (including the ability to specify custom LDFLAGS
	at build time, thanks to Mike Auty).

	* First cut of HGFSv3 implementation.

	* Beginnings of DnDv3 implementation.

	* Add Unicode support all over the code base.

open-vm-tools 2008.02.13 changes:
	* Some bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2008.01.23 changes:

	* The Linux HGFS kernel module now supports writeback caching, which
	should yield better performance.

	* Added a generic Unicode-aware library to ease i18n and l10n work.

	* A bunch of bug fixes.

open-vm-tools 2007.11.15 "Bandsaw" changes:

	* Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to
	FreeBSD.

	* Add the vmsync driver on Linux to make VM snapshots consistent.

	* Added the xferlogs utility, the *-vm-default scripts, and the
	vm-support script.

	* Build on a wider variety of systems.

	* Lots of smaller bug fixes throughout the code.

open-vm-tools 2007.09.04 "Axe" changes:
	* Initial release of open-vm-tools.