From nobody Thu Sep 19 01:00:48 2024 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zohomail.com: domain of lists.libvirt.org designates 8.43.85.245 as permitted sender) client-ip=8.43.85.245; envelope-from=devel-bounces@lists.libvirt.org; helo=lists.libvirt.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; dkim=fail; spf=pass (zohomail.com: domain of lists.libvirt.org designates 8.43.85.245 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=devel-bounces@lists.libvirt.org; dmarc=fail(p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from lists.libvirt.org (lists.libvirt.org [8.43.85.245]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1722314804795512.6010625270294; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:46:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix, from userid 996) id 94C5D1305; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:46:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.libvirt.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740A512DE; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix, from userid 996) id 13A0F12CC; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.libvirt.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A209912C3 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:46:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-534-yyP05Ng4PZiU0s0EgLEh4Q-1; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:46:21 -0400 Received: from mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4F291955D45 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.45.242.9]) by mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CC0300018D for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:46:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on lists.libvirt.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1722314783; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NGUI4jGbAnf/NaopKtXIZWTPrfsfCNrWvEPFFTnB5II=; b=OdsZ/OphCSWRZKGrleXzDirxTWaT+jZJFGCRcy925V2spI8ntvPeZTq03ARQ6daGCGc6NU T/pvkJYdAmHwZoUJQ1EXTDHSzbOq6JqUZjSyUIAvmibY/x4tXs3Mmt7bFOWnJpJjS8Uk5s +Bhao/7AlonwkinlpKf/t8sVB7vnA1g= X-MC-Unique: yyP05Ng4PZiU0s0EgLEh4Q-1 From: Michal Privoznik To: devel@lists.libvirt.org Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Document features/improvements/bug fixes I've participated in Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:46:14 +0200 Message-ID: <998f3e79bb9f7b40af0ae8f46f2f3d2d2b09abb1.1722314774.git.mprivozn@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.4 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: SO2MRMV27SZWUO2QCKA6K7RTNBKAZW6Y X-Message-ID-Hash: SO2MRMV27SZWUO2QCKA6K7RTNBKAZW6Y X-MailFrom: mprivozn@redhat.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-config-1; header-match-config-2; header-match-config-3; header-match-devel.lists.libvirt.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1722314806046116600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; x-default="true" 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: Boris Fiuczynski Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa --- NEWS.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 17335b3f6e..1a320c5442 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -28,8 +28,42 @@ v10.6.0 (unreleased) =20 * **Improvements** =20 + * qemu: Set 'passt' net backend if 'default' is unsupported + + If QEMU is compiled without SLIRP support, and if domain XML allows it, + starting from this release libvirt will use passt as the default backe= nd + instead. Also, supported backends are now reported in the domain + capabilities XML. + + * qemu: Require QEMU-5.2.0 or newer + + The minimal required version of QEMU was bumped to 5.2.0. + + * qemu: add a monitor to /proc/$pid when killing times out + + In cases when a QEMU process takes longer to be killed, libvirt might = have + skipped cleaning up after it. But now a /proc/$pid watch is installed = so + this does not happen ever again. + * **Bug fixes** =20 + * virt-aa-helper: Allow RO access to /usr/share/edk2-ovmf + + When binary version of edk2 is distributed, the files reside under + /usr/share/edk2-ovmf. Allow virt-aa-helper to generate paths under that + directory. + + * virt-host-validate: Allow longer list of CPU flags + + During its run, virt-host-validate parses /proc/cpuinfo to learn about= CPU + flags. But due to a bug it parsed only the first 1024 bytes worth of C= PU + flags leading to unexpected results. The file is now parsed properly. + + * capabilities: Be more forgiving when decoding OEM strings + + On some systems, OEM strings are scattered in multiple sections. This + confused libvirt when generating capabilities XML. Not anymore. + =20 v10.5.0 (2024-07-01) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 2.44.2