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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: 1768375407532158501 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: Jiri Denemark --- NEWS.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index ce55445695..9fff3173ec 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased) Notably, issues that were preventing the use of firmware designed for confidential VMs on aarch64 have been addressed. =20 + * network: Introduce port for DNS forwarder + + In the ```` 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. N= ew + ``port`` attribute is introduced, which allows overriding the default = DNS + port for given address. + * **Bug fixes** =20 * qemu: Fix startup of VMs with more than ~25 external snapshots @@ -66,6 +74,28 @@ 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. =20 + * qemu: Treat memory device source nodemask as strict NUMA policy + + Until now, the NUMA policy for ```` devices was taken either = from + the guest NUMA node or ````. But this may lead to discrepan= cies, + where the memory device is configured to bind to a set of host NUMA no= des, + but the guest NUMA node is to bind to a disjoint set of host NUMA node= s. To + resolve this, specifying ```` 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. + =20 v11.10.0 (2025-12-01) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 2.52.0