Done, I tagged RC1 in git and pushed shigned tarball and rpms to the usual
place:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
This seems to work fine with my limited testing, as usual before a release it
would be good to get more testing scope, especially with other OSes and
platforms.
ci.centos.org seems to be raising a few issues with bindings, like perl
python and go, so worth a check before the release, RC2 on Thursday and then
a release over the w.e. is the plan if all goes well,
thanks for giving it a try !
Daniel
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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:48:48AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 19:05 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > ci.centos.org seems to be raising a few issues with bindings,
> > like perl python and go
>
> Those issues seem to be caused by new APIs having been introduced
> in libvirt but not in the bindings yet, so they should probably
> not hold up the libvirt release. The bindings will of course need
> to be updated before they have a release of their own.
Okay, let's make sure python bindings at least have ready as I will push
them along this w.e.,
thanks for checking :-)
Daniel
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As planned the release is done, it is tagged into git and I pushed
signed tarball and rpms to the usual place:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
I also pushed a release of the python bindings libvirt-python 4.3.0 at
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python
As usual this release is a balance of features, improvement and bug fixes,
however it is to note that this release also remove the Xen daemon based driver,
hopefully by now nobody uses such very old Xen version:
New features
- qemu: Add support for the pcie-to-pci-bridge controller
Pure PCIe guests such as x86_64/q35 and aarch64/virt will now add this
controller when traditional PCI devices are in use.
- Xen: Support setting CPU features for host-passthrough model
The CPU model presented to Xen HVM domains is equivalent to libvirt's
host-passthrough model, although individual features can be enabled and
disabled via the cpuid setting. The libvirt libxl driver now supports
enabling and disabling individual features of the host-passthrough CPU
model.
Removed features
- Xen: Drop the legacy xend-based driver
The xm/xend toolstack was deprecated in Xen 4.2 and removed from the
Xen sources in the 4.5 development cycle. The libvirt driver based on
xend is now removed from the libvirt sources.
Improvements
- qemu: Support hot plug and hot unplug of mediated devices
Libvirt now allows mediated devices to be hot plugged and hot unplugged
from a guest rather than reporting an error that this isn't supported.
In fact, kernel has been supporting this since 4.10.
Bug fixes
- Improve handling of device mapper targets
When starting a domain with a disk backed by a device mapper volume
libvirt also needs to allow the storage backing the device mapper in
CGroups. In the past kernel did not care, but starting from 4.16
CGroups are consulted on each access to the device mapper target.
thanks everybody for your help on building that release, be it with ideas,
code, patches, reviews, documentation, localization, etc...
Enjoy this month's release,
Daniel
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