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no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; header-match-devel.lists.libvirt.org-0; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Michal Privoznik via Devel Reply-To: Michal Privoznik X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1782807947125158500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; x-default="true" From: Michal Privoznik There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: J=C3=A1n Tomko --- NEWS.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index ed54073758..f78a9d3057 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -38,8 +38,26 @@ v12.5.0 (unreleased) Add support for populating the SMBIOS fields as defined by the ```` section of the domain's XML. =20 + * qemu: Add support for standalone VNC server + + Starting with this release, libvirt might spawn a standalone + qemu-vnc process instead of QEMU's built-in VNC server, for + enhanced security. + * **Improvements** =20 + * Enable hyperv driver on RHEL + + The spec file now enables the Hyper-V driver when building on + Red Hat Enterprise Linux. + + * remote: allow passing argv to the ext transport + + The ext transport not only allows spawning a process (via the + ``command`` attribute), but as of this release also + specifying additional arguments to it, via ``argv`` + attribute. + * **Bug fixes** =20 * Ensure proper shutdown ordering of ``virtlogd`` and ``virtlockd`` --=20 2.53.0