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 | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.1.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * Introduce granule attribute for virtio-iommu + + In case when guest page size doesn't match the host page size (typically + aarch64) the ``virtio-iommu`` needs to know the guest page size so it can + allocate memory aligned to guest page size. + + * hyperv: Implement virDomainInterfaceAddresses() + + Libvirt can now report IP address of domains running under Hyper-V + hypervisor. + + * Parse hyperv features even for host-model + + Two releases ago, in v11.9.0 new ``host-model`` mode for Hyper-V + enlightenments was introduced. Starting with this release, users can + additionally override the defaults that are picked when domain is started + and features are expanded. + * **Bug fixes** + * Fix build with remote driver disabled + + Some parts of code were wrongly annotated as depended on remote driver. + But they were used even from client side drivers. This is now fixed and + libvirt builds properly even with remote driver disabled. + + * Various fixes to libvirt-guests.sh + + Firstly, the exit code of various commands was ignored (which may lead the + script to wrongly determine persistent/transient domain state, for + instance). Secondly, due to logical error, the script might have + incorrectly asses state a domain is in. + + * AppArmor: Ask for no deny rule for readonly disk elements + + For read only disks, libvirt created an AppArmor profile which disallowed + any future write rules. But when doing a blockcommit, libvirt needs to + allow hypervisor to write to even readonly disks. The rule in the profile + was changed so that future write rules can be added, temporarily. + + * esx: Allow connecting to IPv6 server + + Due to a bug in our code, if an IPv6 address was provided in connection + URI, libvirt would fail to connect to VMWare server. This is now fixed. + + * qemu: Use device alias if interface has no name + + The ``virDomainInterfaceAddresses()`` API (or ``virsh domifaddr``) returns + an array interfaces among with their addresses. But some interface names + might be unknown, for instance if the API is told to parse host's ARP table + then PCI assigned NICs or slirp/passt lack interface name. If that's the + case, let the API return domain's ``<interface/>`` alias. + + * bhyve: hyperv: Various memory leak fixes + v12.0.0 (2026-01-15) ==================== -- 2.52.0