--- name: "guestfs-release-notes-1.60" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "libguestfs" version: "1.60.1-2" release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/guestfs-release-notes-1.60" --- # guestfs-release-notes-1.60(1) libguestfs Release Notes ## NAME guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes ## RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.60 These are the release notes for libguestfs stable release 1.60. This describes the major changes since 1.58. Libguestfs 1.60.0 was released on **9 July 2026**. ### Inspection Add support for Kylin, NeoKylin and Anolis Linux distributions (grass lu). Guests using Veritas partition tables (reusing the Sun partition type) can now be inspected. Windows Defender (antivirus) is now detected if present in Windows guests (Susant Sahani). ### API New `"guestfs_xfs_info2"` API. This is similar to the existing `"guestfs_xfs_info"` API but returns a flexible hashtable allowing more fields to be added to the output in future. `"guestfs_get_hv"` now returns the default hypervisor. `"guestfs_tar_in"` adds a new option `"keepdirlink"` which controls the tar *--keep-directory-symlink* flag (Anders Roxell). `"guestfs_xfs_repair"` `"maxmem"` option now produces better error messages if maxmem is too small. All functions that take LUKS key parameters may now use either `"text:..."` or `"base64:..."` prefixes, allowing binary keys to be encoded as base64 and passed to these APIs. [**guestfish**(1)](/guestfish/1.md) and other tools taking a key file now allow a binary file to be used. `"guestfs_command*"` and `"guestfs_sh*"` now use a bind mount to override `"/etc/resolv.conf"` inside the guest, allowing these commands to work even when this file is marked as immutable, a common change that system administrators make (Srihari Parimi). ### Tools New [**guestfish**(1)](/guestfish/1.md) `"not"` subcommand, which negates the status of a command. ### Language bindings GObject and Vala bindings were removed. They were previously deprecated in libguestfs 1.56 (Cole Robinson). ### Documentation All information related to firstboot scripts was moved to and consolidated in "FIRSTBOOT" in [**virt-customize**(1)](/virt-customize/1.md) (Srihari Parimi). Fix documentation of `"guestfs_copy_out"` API. ### Build changes Fix Weblate (i18n) web hooks (Rafael Fontenelle). Fix build when libselinux is not available (David Runge). Github CI is now used more comprehensively (Cole Robinson). Fix `"make dist"` command when certain language bindings are disabled (Cole Robinson). `"./configure --with-qemu"` was removed. `"CFLAGS"` is now prepended to the default, allowing default flags to be overridden. In addition *-fPIC* is added to the default flags (Cole Robinson). Some bash completion scripts that were no longer used by libguestfs (they moved to guestfs-tools) were removed. Also new `"./configure` `--with-bash-completion"` and `"./configure --with-bash-completion-dir"` options were added (Christopher Byrne). No longer over-link Lua bindings with libxml2 and libvirt (David Runge). Improve appliance support for Arch (David Runge). ### Internals Simplify qemu property testing. Most of the code was eliminated completely, and also we no longer start up an empty guest when detecting if KVM is available (thanks Daniel Berrange). Also we now print stderr if qemu fails to start during detection (Hilko Bengen). Use *-cpu max* on RISC-V (thanks Apache553). Very minimal support for Apple Filesystem (APFS) was added on Fedora. Many memory and file descriptor leaks found by Claude Code were fixed (shivanayak). In the libguestfs appliance, increase the number of pre-process memory maps. This may allow xfs\_repair to work on larger filesystems (Eric Sandeen). Fix DHCP on fast machines by making it wait for an address when networking is enabled. In addition use `"dhcpcd --debug"` which makes it easier to see if DHCP requests are working (Cole Robinson). Improvements to debug output (Surya Gupta, Srihari Parimi). Fix Fedora bin/sbin symlinking to be less noisy (Cole Robinson). Rewrite xfs\_repair and luks\_\* implementations in the daemon in OCaml. Ensure fds 0, 1 and 2 are open when running subcommands. ### Bugs fixed - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-129145 RFE: Detect Windows Defender antivirus when enabled in default Windows 11 installs - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-143673 Add new xfs\_info2 API to expose XFS version information - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-165220 virt-v2v with sun partition table and Veritas storage failed with: parted exited with status 1: Warning: The disk CHS geometry reported by the operating system does not match the geometry stored on the disk label - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-165677 Stop using xfs\_repair -m because memory required scales with filesystem size and has sharp edges - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-170864 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys \[virt-v2v\] - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-171895 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys \[libguestfs\] - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-171896 virt-v2v failing with binary LUKS keys \[guestfs-tools\] - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-178287 virt-v2v fails during migration of RHEL 7 VMs due to XFS filesystem errors, potentially related to RHEL 10.1 xfs\_repair running against a RHEL 7 XFS filesystem. - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-178556 Use bind mount to overwrite /sysroot/etc/resolv.conf during "sh" operations - https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/290 1\.58.0: undefined reference to optgroup\_selinuxrelabel\_available - https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/292 guestfs\_int\_get\_cpu\_model: use -cpu max for riscv - https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/312 switch to po4a - https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/336 flaky test network/test-network.sh - https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/359 1\.58.1: The Lua bindings link against libxml2 but don't seem to use it ## SEE ALSO **guestfs-examples**(1), [**guestfs-faq**(1)](/guestfs-faq/1.md), [**guestfs-performance**(1)](/guestfs-performance/1.md), [**guestfs-recipes**(1)](/guestfs-recipes/1.md), [**guestfs-testing**(1)](/guestfs-testing/1.md), [**guestfs**(3)](/guestfs/3.md), [**guestfish**(1)](/guestfish/1.md), http://libguestfs.org/ ## AUTHORS - Adolfo Jayme Barrientos - Anders Roxell - Andi Chandler - Arif Budiman - Christopher Byrne - Cole Robinson - David Runge - Emilio Herrera - Ettore Atalan - Fco. Javier F. Serrador - grimst - Hela Basa - Hilko Bengen - Jan Kuparinen - Krascovict Petrov - Léane GRASSER - Nathan95 - Pavel Borecki - Piotr Drąg - Rafael Fontenelle - Richard W.M. Jones - Ricky Tigg - shivanayak - Srihari Parimi - Surya Gupta - Susant Sahani - Temuri Doghonadze - Tian Shixiong - Yuri Chornoivan - zhanchun li ## COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2009-2026 Red Hat Inc. ## LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. ## BUGS To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter\_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools When reporting a bug, please supply: - • The version of libguestfs. - • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc) - • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it. - • Run [**libguestfs-test-tool**(1)](/libguestfs-test-tool/1.md) and paste the **complete, unedited** output into the bug report.