Noteworthy changes for xen-guest-agent releases

The format is (loosely) based on Keep a Changelog

0.5.0 - unreleased

new features

in Linux guests, exits early with better diagnostic when not running under Xen
the RPM now enables and starts the service on first install
the RPM now causes xe-guest-utilities to be uninstalled automatically

bugfixes

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux guests are now reported as such, when build against os_info 3.8 or better
the RPM now replaces xe-guest-utilities-latest too, not only xe-guest-utilities

other noteworthy changes

build now requires Rust 1.77
build on FreeBSD does not require to set environment variables any more, now relies on pkg-config (requires "pkgconf" to build)

0.4.0 - 2024-01-29

new features

can be linked statically with libxenstore to distribute a more standalone binary (-F static). Used for official Linux binary.

bugfixes

stale network information in xenstore is now removed on startup

other noteworthy changes

CI pipelines stopped producing binaries for EOL'd FreeBSD 12.4, switched to 13.2
CI now produces an (unofficial) binary for FreeBSD with Netlink support

0.3.0 - 2023-12-15

new features

available and total guest memory are now collected in FreeBSD guests
command-line flags --stderr and --loglevel were added to help troubleshooting

behavior changes

logs are now sent to syslog by default on Unix-like OS

bugfixes

the agent does not require the libxenstore.so symlink typically coming from Xen development package, only the runtime library package is now required
VIF hot(un)plug is now properly handled

other noteworthy changes

executables and packages for supported guest platforms (currently Linux/Glibc and FreeBSD, both for x86_64 guests) are now available from Gitlab CI pipelines
APT repositories (though not signed) are now available from Gitlab CI pipelines
CI pipelines now testbuilds every commit in a merge request

0.2.0 - 2023-10-11

initial public pre-release