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 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) system are printed. A user may specify ``--all`` to also print models which are not supported on the host. + * qemu: Introduce os/shim element + + For secure boot environments where ``<loader/>`` is signed, it may be + unfeasible to keep the binary up to date (esp. when revoking certificates + contained within). To address that, new ``<shim/>`` element is introduced + which allows hypervisor to side load another UEFI binary, which can then + contain new certification authorities and/or list of revocations. + + * ch: Enable SEV SNP support + + Cloud Hypervisor guests can be now started with SEV SNP enabled. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Improved guest agent corner case error reporting @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) The new error codes are ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT`` and ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_FAILED``. + * qemu: Reflect MAC address change in live domain XML + + When a guest changes MAC address on one of its vNICs the new MAC address is + now visible in the live XML under ``currentAddress`` attribute of + ``<mac/>`` element. At the same time, + ``VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_ID_NIC_MAC_CHANGE`` event is emitted so that management + applications can update their internal state. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: attach virtio-mem with CCW address @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) default type CCW address assigned. A specified CCW address is now used for the virtio-mem device instead of getting overwritten by a PCI address. + * ch: Various memory leak fixes + + There were some memory leaks identified in the Cloud Hypervisor driver. + They are fixed now. + v11.1.0 (2025-03-03) ==================== -- 2.48.1 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