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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: 1772195826729158500 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: J=C3=A1n Tomko --- NEWS.rst | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 71f1f21472..11d0ebf28b 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -43,8 +43,61 @@ v12.1.0 (unreleased) =20 * **Improvements** =20 + * Introduce granule attribute for virtio-iommu + + In case when guest page size doesn't match the host page size (typical= ly + 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 star= ted + and features are expanded. + * **Bug fixes** =20 + * 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 disallo= wed + any future write rules. But when doing a blockcommit, libvirt needs to + allow hypervisor to write to even readonly disks. The rule in the prof= ile + 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``) ret= urns + an array interfaces among with their addresses. But some interface nam= es + 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 t= he + case, let the API return domain's ```` alias. + + * bhyve: hyperv: Various memory leak fixes + =20 v12.0.0 (2026-01-15) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 2.52.0