Current releases
virt-manager 3.2.0 Saturday November 14, 2020
- Slim down filesystem device editor UI
- Fix TOCTTOU virt-install bugs (Martin Pitt)
- Several other bug fixes
virt-viewer 10.0 (gpg) Tuesday April 20th, 2021 Win x86 MSI (gpg) Win x64 MSI (gpg)
Virt-viewer releases are GPG signed with a key having the fingerprint:
DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)
This same fingerprint is listed at time of the release announcements mails on the mailing list
- Switch to use Meson for build system instead of autotools
- Require libvirt >= 1.2.8
- Redesign UI to use title bar widget instead of menu bar
- Request use of dark theme by default, if available
- Don’t filter out oVirt DATA storage domains for ISO image sharing
- Add –keymap arg to allow keys to be remapped
- Display error message if no extension is present for screenshot filename
- Fix misc memory leaks
- Use nicer error message if not ISOs are available
- Use more explicit accelerator hint to distinguish left and right ctrl/alt keys
- Report detailed file transfer errors
- Use standard about diaglog
- Refresh and improve translations
- Install appstream data file in preferred location
- Refresh appstream data file contents
- Display VM title when listing VMs, if available
- Display VM description as tooltop, if available
- Sort VM names when listing
- Enable ASLR and NX for Windows builds
- Add –shared arg to request a shared session for VNC
- Disable all accels when not grabbed in kiosk mode
- Allow num keypad to be used for zoom changes
- Disable grab sequence in kiosk mode to prevent escape
- Allow zoom hotkeys to be set on the command line / vv file
- Display error message if VNC connection fails
- Fix warnings about atomics with new GLib
- Remove use of deprecated GTK APIs
- Document cursor ungrab sequence in man pages
- Honour Ctrl-C when auth dialog is active
- Minor UI tweaks to auth dialog
- Support VM power control actions with VNC
- Add –cursor arg to control whether a local pointer is rendered with VNC
- Add –auto-resize arg and menu to control whether to resize the remote framebuffer to math local window size
- Add support for remote framebuffer resize with VNC
- Handle case sensitivity when parsing accelerator mappings
virt-bootstrap 1.1.1 (gpg) Tuesday Jul 9th, 2019
- Don’t expose the root password via command line
- Set SElinux file context of destination folder
- Use absolute destination path
- safe-untar: Inherit SElinux context
- don’t allow overwriting of the root partition
Previous releases
- virt-manager: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-viewer: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-bootstrap: Sources and Changelogs
Verifying gpg signatures
As a quick guide, to import a key from the key servers and verify downloads use.
$ gpg --recv-key 0xBE86EBB415104FDF $ gpg --fingerprint 0xBE86EBB415104FDF ...check it matches fingerprint above... $ gpg --verify SIGNATURE-FILE SOURCE-FILE