From nobody Thu Nov 21 18:08:29 2024 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zohomail.com: domain of lists.libvirt.org designates 8.43.85.245 as permitted sender) client-ip=8.43.85.245; envelope-from=devel-bounces@lists.libvirt.org; helo=lists.libvirt.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; dkim=fail; spf=pass (zohomail.com: domain of lists.libvirt.org designates 8.43.85.245 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=devel-bounces@lists.libvirt.org; dmarc=fail(p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from lists.libvirt.org (lists.libvirt.org [8.43.85.245]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1716519505048522.5643676645119; Thu, 23 May 2024 19:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix, from userid 996) id CE801199F; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.libvirt.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE45D1819; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:57:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix, from userid 996) id 16AF5172E; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 926A31750 for ; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-122-lL3j-SsDOAytSbZwaDeIrw-1; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:57:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.7]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6F6685A58C for ; Fri, 24 May 2024 02:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhost3.router.laine.org (unknown [10.22.8.35]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05611C09480 for ; Fri, 24 May 2024 02:57:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on lists.libvirt.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1716519465; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SJUdj5J8cq7DT5IMUmeOz0+tB8sC/CVqTOUWI+SvhJs=; b=Sl+nACLH/AfxGGtJrUOMP1qJrgMSglOGMiqLdt8KBTvXZGM5ZDvySpuGKoUNyTG7VHe7Ac ZR762TbPH6jijsXQfqJq6oeNUCyxacZR/yhpKFgUM+QBYyyH7lIiSTUg5OYnL1hJ/zZqSB k/acE9d9mgqw0mlddkydC5QLZPq1oms= X-MC-Unique: lL3j-SsDOAytSbZwaDeIrw-1 From: Laine Stump To: devel@lists.libvirt.org Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: document nftables support in network driver Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 22:57:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20240524025742.299208-1-laine@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.11.54.7 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: 43KDGZMC3DIGZMFDY4QDCCM42KJIB4XQ X-Message-ID-Hash: 43KDGZMC3DIGZMFDY4QDCCM42KJIB4XQ X-MailFrom: laine@redhat.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-config-1; header-match-config-2; header-match-config-3; header-match-devel.lists.libvirt.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1716519506359100001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; x-default="true" Signed-off-by: Laine Stump Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark --- NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 42b0f88128..14505116b1 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ v10.4.0 (unreleased) ````. This model is available from QEMU 8.2.0 onwards. =20 + * network: use nftables to setup virtual network firewall rules + + The network driver can now use nftables rules for the virtual + network firewalls, rather than iptables. With the standard build + options, nftables is preferred over iptables (with fallback to + iptables if nftables isn't installed), but this can be modified at + build time, or at runtime via the firewall_backend setting in + network.conf. (NB: the nwfilter driver still uses + ebtables/iptables). + * **Improvements** =20 * **Bug fixes** --=20 2.45.0