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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: 1793286626585154100 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 | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index bba5c66dac..f1353ac698 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ v12.9.0 (unreleased) event on the source host. The event includes the newly added VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_UNDEFINED_MIGRATED detail. =20 + * qemu: report guest reboot as shutdown detail for on_reboot=3Ddestroy + + Libvirt now reports the reason of shutdown event properly. + + * qemu: Consider vhost net for MSHV accelerator + + This release enables vhost networking for both KVM and MSHV accelerato= rs. + * **Bug fixes** =20 * bhyve: fix shutdown handling on arm64 @@ -64,6 +72,34 @@ v12.9.0 (unreleased) Signal-based shutdown now correctly handles bhyve terminating directly on arm64, preventing stopped domains from remaining reported as runnin= g. =20 + * virpci: fix handling newline in PCI device class + + This releases fixes a regression introduced in ``v12.2.0`` release whi= ch + kept libvirt unable to parse PCI related files from a sysfs mount, if = they + contained a newline character. + + * security: Check if R/O or shared disk is not directory + + Starting a domain with a read only disk (e.g. cdrom), or attaching one= to + an already running domain might have resulted in mangled permissions, = if a + directory was given as the disk source. + + * esx: Avoid integer overflow in esxDomainGetInfo() + + The ESX driver implementation for ``virDomainGetInfo()`` API fetches d= omain + memory size and domain max memory size in MiB and then multiplies both + values by factor of 1024, since the API reports those sizes in KiB. But + these multiplications can overflow and thus report invalid values. An = error + is reported instead. + + * conf: Deny negative vcpu count + + If a negative value was specified for the number of vCPUs in domain XM= L, + libvirt would try to allocate absurdly large amounts of memory which w= ould + trigger OOM killer and kill the daemon. Non-positive values are forbid= den + now. + + v12.8.0 (2026-10-01) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 --=20 2.56.0