[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 4.7.0 release

Andrea Bolognani posted 1 patch 5 years, 6 months ago
Failed in applying to current master (apply log)
docs/news.xml | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 4.7.0 release
Posted by Andrea Bolognani 5 years, 6 months ago
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
---
 docs/news.xml | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 2b6d08dc02..3233796f32 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -71,8 +71,51 @@
           Support the vhost-vsock-ccw device on S390.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Make default machine type independent of QEMU
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          We can't control whether or not QEMU will change its default
+          machine type in the future, or whether downstream distributions
+          will decide to compile out some machine types, so our only option
+          to provide a predictable behavior is taking care of the default
+          ourselves; management applications and users are encouraged to
+          explicitly pick a machine type when creating new guests.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          apparmor: Various improvements
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Rules have been added to deal with a number of scenarios that
+          didn't work correctly.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          esx: Truncate CPU model name
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Some CPU model names are too long to be stored into the
+          corresponding property, and should be explicitly truncated to
+          avoid unexpected behavior.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          utils: Remove arbitrary limit on socket_id/core_id
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Both values were assumed to be smaller than 4096, but in fact
+          they are entirely hardware-dependent and there have been reports
+          of machines presenting much bigger values, preventing libvirt from
+          working correctly; all such limits have now been removed.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
   </release>
   <release version="v4.6.0" date="2018-08-06">
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Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 4.7.0 release
Posted by Martin Kletzander 5 years, 6 months ago
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 01:55:55PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
>---
> docs/news.xml | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
>index 2b6d08dc02..3233796f32 100644
>--- a/docs/news.xml
>+++ b/docs/news.xml
>@@ -71,8 +71,51 @@
>           Support the vhost-vsock-ccw device on S390.
>         </description>
>       </change>
>+      <change>
>+        <summary>
>+          qemu: Make default machine type independent of QEMU
>+        </summary>
>+        <description>
>+          We can't control whether or not QEMU will change its default
>+          machine type in the future, or whether downstream distributions
>+          will decide to compile out some machine types, so our only option
>+          to provide a predictable behavior is taking care of the default
>+          ourselves; management applications and users are encouraged to
>+          explicitly pick a machine type when creating new guests.
>+        </description>
>+      </change>
>+      <change>
>+        <summary>
>+          apparmor: Various improvements
>+        </summary>
>+        <description>
>+          Rules have been added to deal with a number of scenarios that
>+          didn't work correctly.
>+        </description>
>+      </change>
>     </section>
>     <section title="Bug fixes">
>+      <change>
>+        <summary>
>+          esx: Truncate CPU model name
>+        </summary>
>+        <description>
>+          Some CPU model names are too long to be stored into the
>+          corresponding property, and should be explicitly truncated to
>+          avoid unexpected behavior.

In case you are referring to 242b7c2d38afc88692065314f73c151f8bc345b2 (which I
believe you are), then I'd suggest mentioning this happens in the output of
virNodeGetInfo (or virsh nodeinfo).

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>

>+        </description>
>+      </change>
>+      <change>
>+        <summary>
>+          utils: Remove arbitrary limit on socket_id/core_id
>+        </summary>
>+        <description>
>+          Both values were assumed to be smaller than 4096, but in fact
>+          they are entirely hardware-dependent and there have been reports
>+          of machines presenting much bigger values, preventing libvirt from
>+          working correctly; all such limits have now been removed.
>+        </description>
>+      </change>
>     </section>
>   </release>
>   <release version="v4.6.0" date="2018-08-06">
>-- 
>2.17.1
>
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