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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: Peter Krempa via Devel Reply-To: Peter Krempa X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1774958586663158500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Peter Krempa Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: J=C3=A1n Tomko Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik --- NEWS.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 9d490ebbca..b66badf598 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -15,8 +15,20 @@ v12.2.0 (unreleased) * **Removed features** + * qemu: Stop advertising support for ``handle`` backend of p9 filesystems + + QEMU removed the feature in the 4.0 release, but our capability XML + still reported it. + * **New features** + * qemu: Add support for declaring that storage was zeroed for storage co= py APIs + + The qemu driver now can skip zeroing of the storage during + ``virDomainBlockCopy`` or migration with non-shared storage with the + appropriate flags. This can be used for storage technologies which lack + efficient zeroing support. + * **Improvements** * conf: support more than 255 vCPUs with amd-iommu @@ -26,6 +38,11 @@ v12.2.0 (unreleased) so that XTSup is required there. Additionally, it is automatically ena= bled if needed. + * qemu: Add statistics for ```` storage + + The bulk statistics (``virsh domstats --block --backing``) now report = also + information about the ```` if given disk uses this feature. + * **Bug fixes** --=20 2.53.0