Xen Project 4.6 Release Notes
Overview
Xen Project 4.6.0 was released on January 15, 2015.
Xen Project 4.6.0 is the work of 8.7 months of development, with 2247 changesets.
Also see Xen Project 4.6 Acknowledgements
New Feature Highlights
The list of new features can be found on the following page: Xen Project 4.6 Feature List
You can also see an evolution of features on Xen Project Release Features
Documentation is available on Xen Project 4.6 Man Pages
Build Requirements
The default installation prefix has been changed to /usr/local. Previously the default installation prefix was /usr To restore the previous behaviour, specify --prefix=/usr when running ./configure, e.g.:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
If you choose to accept the new default then be sure to cleanup any residual bits of the old installation in the old prefix, especially libraries and tools which you might pick up by mistake.
Due to this change it may also now be necessary to run /sbin/ldconfig as root after installing Xen.
Note also that Xen now requires gcc v4.1 or greater.
Known issues
While we did the utmost to get a release out, there are certain fixes which were not complete on time. As such please reference this +section if you are running into trouble.