From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
---
v2:
- moved the entry about $PATH lookup under "packaging changes"
- added a note that it fixes libvirt on distros which merged /sbin to
/bin but only on new installs
NEWS.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index fd577021b3..d1bb19c8db 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased)
Support for the recently released IBM POWER11 processor was added.
+* **Packaging changes**
+
+ * All helper programs are now detected from ``$PATH`` during runtime
+
+ All of the code was now converted to dynamically look up helper programs
+ in ``$PATH`` rather than doing the lookup at build time and then compiling
+ in the result.
+
+ Programs ``mount``, ``umount``, ``mkfs``, ``modprobe``, ``rmmod``,
+ ``numad``, ``dmidecode``, ``ip``, ``tc``, ``mdevctl``, ``mm-ctl``,
+ ``iscsiadm``, ``ovs-vsctl``, ``pkttyagent``, ``bhyveload``, ``bhyvectl``,
+ ``bhyve``, ``ifconfig``, ``vzlist``, ``vzctl``, ``vzmigrate``, and the
+ tools from the lvm suite (``vgchange``, ``lvcreate``, etc..) are now not
+ needed during build and will still work properly if placed in ``$PATH``.
+
+ This also ensures that libvirt works correctly on distros that are
+ transitioning ``/sbin`` into ``/bin`` and upgraded installations have
+ a different layout from fresh installations.
+
* **Improvements**
* virsh: Add option ``--no-pkttyagent``
@@ -35,6 +54,11 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased)
<nvram/>
</os>
+ * qemu: Improve accuracy of FDC/floppy device support statement in capabilities XML
+
+ The data is now based on the presence of the controller in qemu rather than
+ just a denylist of machine types where floppies not work.
+
* **Bug fixes**
* qemu: Fix failure when reverting to internal snapshots
@@ -52,6 +76,13 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased)
destination host to crash when trying to resume failed post-copy
migration.
+ * qemu: Treat the ``queues`` configuration of ``virtio-net`` as guest ABI
+
+ The queue count itself isn't a device frontend property but libvirt uses
+ it to calculate ``vectors`` option of the device which is a guest OS visible
+ property, thus ``queues`` must not change during migration. The ABI stability
+ check now handles this properly.
+
v11.3.0 (2025-05-02)
====================
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