[Announce] vzctl 4.0

[Kir Kolyshkin]

OpenVZ project has released a new major vzctl version.
Read below for more information. Everybody is advised to upgrade.

Changes
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(since 3.3)

New features:
* Ability to work with non-openvz kernel (experimental;
   see http://wiki.openvz.org/Vzctl_for_upstream_kernel

* vzlist: add JSON output format (--json flag)
* vzctl compact: implement (to compact ploop image)
* vzctl snapshot: store/restore CT config on snapshot create/switch
* vzctl set: add --mount_opts to set mount options for ploop
* Implement dynamic loading of ploop library
* Implement ability to build w/o ploop headers (./configure --without-ploop)
* Split into vzctl-core and vzctl packages, removed vzctl-lib
* Scripts moved from /usr/lib[64]/vzctl/scripts to /usr/libexec/vzctl
* Added dists/scripts support for Alpine Linux

Bug fixes:
* postcreate.sh: create /etc/resolv.conf with correct owner and perms 
(#2290)
* vzctl --help: add snapshot* and compact commands
* vzctl set --capability: improve cap setting code, eliminate kernel warning
* vzctl set --quotaugidlimit: fix working for ploop after restart
* vzctl start|enter|exec: eliminate race condition when checking CT's 
/sbin/init
* vzlist, vzctl set --save: avoid extra delimiter in features list
* vzlist: return default to always print CTID (use -n for names) (#2308)
* vzmigrate: fix for offline migration of ploop CT (#2316, #2356)
* vzctl.spec: add wget requirement (for vps-download)
* osrelease.conf: add ubuntu-12.04 (#2343)
* init.d/vz-redhat: fix errorneous lockfile removal (#2342)
* suse-add_ip.sh: do not set default route on venet0 when no IPs (#1941)
* arch-del_ip.sh: fixed for /etc/rc.conf case (#2367)
* arch-{add,del}_ip.sh: updated to deal with new Arch netcfg (#2280)
* postcreate.sh: check if file exists before setting fattr (#2363)
* configure.ac: on an x86_64, install libraries to lib64
* Build system: fix massively parallel build (e.g. make -j88)

Improvements:
* init.d/vz*: stop CTs in the in the reverse order of start (#2330)
* init.d/vz-redhat: add /vz to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf
* bash-completion: add remote completion for --ostemplate
* bash_completion: complete ploop commands only if supported by the kernel
* vzctl: call set_personality32() for 32-bit CTs on all architectures
* vzctl console: speed up by using buffering
* vzctl chkpnt: fsync dump file
* vzctl mount,destroy,snapshot-list: error out for too many arguments
* vzctl set --diskinodes: warn it's ignored on ploop
* vzctl set --hostname: put ::1 below 127.0.0.1 in CT's /etc/hosts (#2290)
* vzctl set: remove --noatime (obsolete now when relatime is used)
* vzctl snapshot: added check for snapshot guid dup
* vzctl snapshot-delete: fix error code
* vzctl start/stop: print error for non-applicable options
* vzctl status: do not show 'mounted' if stat() on root/private fails
* vzctl status: do not show 'suspended' for running container
* vzctl stop: various minor improvements
* vzlist: add the following new fields: nameserver, searchdomain, vswap, 
disabled, origin_sample, mount_opts
* vzlist, vzctl status: speed up querying mounted status
* vzlist: faster ploop diskspace info for unmounted case
* vzmigrate: rename --online to --live
* vzmigrate: do not use pv unless -v is specified
* vzmigrate: do not lose ACLs and XATTRS (#2056)
* vzmigrate: dump/restore first-level quota
* switch to new ploop_read_disk_descr()
* is_ploop_supported(): reimplement using /proc/vz/ploop_minor
* Code refactoring, moving vz- and upstream-specific stuff to 
hooks_{vz,ct}.c
* Various code cleanups and other minor fixes

See full changelog here:
http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=shortlog;h=vzctl-4.0


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.0


Bug reporting
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Please report all bugs found to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/


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Regards,
   OpenVZ team.