From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased) Notably, issues that were preventing the use of firmware designed for confidential VMs on aarch64 have been addressed. + * network: Introduce port for DNS forwarder + + In the ``<dns/>`` section of network configuration users can set up + forwarding of DNS requests to custom DNS servers. These are specified using + ``addr`` attribute. But configuring port wasn't possible, until now. New + ``port`` attribute is introduced, which allows overriding the default DNS + port for given address. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: Fix startup of VMs with more than ~25 external snapshots @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased) on a shared filesystem on the destination but on the source it's either on a different NFS or unshared completely. + * qemu: Treat memory device source nodemask as strict NUMA policy + + Until now, the NUMA policy for ``<memory/>`` devices was taken either from + the guest NUMA node or ``<numatune/>``. But this may lead to discrepancies, + where the memory device is configured to bind to a set of host NUMA nodes, + but the guest NUMA node is to bind to a disjoint set of host NUMA nodes. To + resolve this, specifying ``<nodemask/>`` for a memory device implies + ``strict`` policy. + + * qemu: Relax validation of some hyperv features + + Since 11.9.0 release, libvirt performs dependency checks for hyperv + features, for instance ``stimer`` requires ``synic``. But as it turned out, + for some ancient machine types (e.g. 'pc-i440fx-3.0' or 'pc-q35-3.0') some + dependencies are not true. Corresponding checks were removed. + + * esx: URI encode inventory objects twice + + Formatting domain XML for domains on an ESX server might fail if + corresponding datacenter or datastore contained special characters (e.g. + '+'). This is now fixed. + v11.10.0 (2025-12-01) ===================== -- 2.52.0 From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.3.0 (unreleased) VM's interfaces (accessible via ``virsh domifaddr``) and the hostname of the VM (``virsh domhostname``). + * hyperv: Implement ``virDomainGetGuestInfo()`` + + The hyperv driver now implements API for fetching guest information + (``virsh guestinfo``). + * **Improvements** + * security: Don't error out on security labels of type='none' + + Previously, libvirt reported an error if a domain with seclabel of + type='none' (meaning do not take this security model into account for this + domain) was being started and the model wasn't available (for instance, in + case of SELinux it was disabled at boot). + * **Bug fixes** + * virnetdevmacvlan: Wait for udev to settle after creating macvtap + + When starting a domain with a macvtap device (or when hotplugging one), + libvirt creates the device and opens its ``/dev`` representation in order + to set it according to the ``<interface/>`` XML (e.g. MAC address, queues, + etc.). But if the system is under heavy load, it might happen that after + the device creation the udev daemon was triggered, but did not have enough + time to set the ``/dev`` representation fully. This may result in various + misconfiguration or even failed ``open()``. Therefore, libvirt waits after + device creation for udev daemon to settle down. + v12.2.0 (2026-04-01) ==================== -- 2.53.0