[Libvirt-announce] RElease of libvirt-5.3.0

A bit late, sorry I was in vacations, but the release is now tagged in git and I pushed the signed tarball and rpms to the normal place: https://libvirt.org/sources/ Please note that following discussion on last release the FTP server will soon be shutdown. I also pushed the related libvirt-python release that you can find in git and at https://libvirt.org/sources/python/ This is a balanced release, one thing to note is the removal of the support for the old 4.x VirtualBox releases New feature: - qemu: Add support for setting the emulator scheduler parameters I/O threads and vCPU threads already support setting schedulers, but until now it was impossible to do so for the main QEMU thread (emulator thread in the libvirt naming). This is, however, requested for some very specific scenarios, for example when vCPU threads are running at such priority that could starve the main thread. Removed feature: - vbox: Drop support for VirtualBox 4.x releases Support for all the 4.x releases was ended by VirtualBox maintainers in December 2015. Therefore, libvirt support for these releases is dropped. Improvements: - qemu: Use PCI by default for RISC-V guests PCI support for RISC-V guests was already available in libvirt 5.1.0, but it required the user to opt-in by manually assigning PCI addresses: with this release, RISC-V guests will use PCI automatically when running against a recent enough (4.0.0+) QEMU release. - qemu: Advertise firmware autoselection in domain capabilities The firmware autoselection feature is now exposed in domain capabilities and management applications can query for accepted values, i.e. values that are accepted and for which libvirt found firmware descriptor files. Firmware Secure Boot support is also advertised. - Drop YAJL 1 support YAJL 2 is widely adopted and maintaining side by side support for two versions is unnecessary. Bug fixes: - rpc: cleanup in virNetTLSContextNew Failed new gnutls context allocations in virNetTLSContextNew function results in double free and segfault. Occasional memory leaks may also occur. - virsh: various completers fixes There were some possible crashers, memory leaks, etc. which are now fixed. - qemu: Make hugepages work with memfd backend Due to a bug in command line generation libvirt did not honor hugepages setting with memfd backend. - Enforce ACL write permission for getting guest time & hostname Getting the guest time and hostname both require use of guest agent commands. These must not be allowed for read-only users, so the permissions check must validate "write" permission not "read". Thanks everybody for your help bringing this release up, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/