May 2017 - Announce - libvirt List Archives

[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-3.4.0
by Daniel Veillard 30 May '17

30 May '17

So as planned I tagged the release candidate 1 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Everything seems to work fine for me with RC1 on my limited testing but as usual please give it some attention to find out issues and check portability on the various platforms. If everything woks well, I will push the RC2 on Tuesday and then we can roll out 3.4.0 and get out of the freeze next Thursday, but in the meantime, please give it a try ! Thanks, 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/

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 1.3.3.3 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 11 May '17

11 May '17

libvirt 1.3.3.3 is now available. This is a maintenance release of libvirt 1.3.3 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-1.3.3.3.tar.gz Changes in this version: * virtlogd: Don't stop or restart along with libvirtd * virtlogd.socket: Tie lifecycle to libvirtd.service * schema: Don't validate paths * maint: fix syntax-check sc_prohibit_int_ijk exclude rule * util: bitmap: clarify virBitmapLastSetBit() behavior for empty bitmaps * Fix building with -Og * qemu: Only use memory-backend-file with NUMA if needed For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 2.2.1 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 11 May '17

11 May '17

libvirt 2.2.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release of libvirt 2.2 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-2.2.1.tar.xz Changes in this version: * spec: Avoid RPM verification errors on nwfilter XMLs * qemu_process: spice: don't release used port * qemu: Fix crash during qemuStateCleanup * daemon: Fix crash during daemon cleanup * Fix crash on usb-serial hotplug * qemuBuildMemoryBackendStr: Don't crash if no hugetlbfs is mounted * util: fix crash in virClassIsDerivedFrom for CloseCallbacks objects * storage: driver: Remove unavailable transient pools after restart * storage: driver: Split out code fixing pool state after deactivation * qemu: Don't assume secret provided for LUKS encryption * conf: do not steal pointers from the pool source * schema: do not require name for certain pool types * virtlogd: Don't stop or restart along with libvirtd * virtlogd.socket: Tie lifecycle to libvirtd.service * spec: Update version check for maint Source URL * qemu: capabilities: Don't partially reprope caps on process reconnect * network: fix endless loop when starting network with multiple IPs and no dhcp * qemu: allow 32 slots on pcie-expander-bus, not just 1 * qemu: Only use memory-backend-file with NUMA if needed For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 3.2.1 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 11 May '17

11 May '17

libvirt 3.2.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release of libvirt 3.2 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-3.2.1.tar.xz Changes in this version: * spec: Update version check for maint Source URL * mdev: Cleanup code after commits @daf5081b and @2739a983 * Don't use ceph-devel on Fedora * mdev: Fix mingw build by adding a check for non-NULL pointer * client: Report proper close reason * qemu: Fix persistent migration of transient domains * Fix padding of encrypted data * network: better log message when network is inactive during reconnect * qemu: don't kill qemu process on restart if networkNotify fails * conf: format only relevant attributes for graphics based on listen type * qemu: Move freeing of PCI address list to qemuProcessStop * qemu: process: Clean up priv->migTLSAlias * qemu: process: Don't leak priv->usbaddrs after VM restart * qemu: process: Clean automatic NUMA/cpu pinning information on shutdown * qemu: Remove extra messages for vhost-scsi hotplug * qemu: Remove extra messages from virtio-scsi hotplug * qemu: Check return code from qemuHostdevPrepareSCSIDevices * qemu: numa: Don't return automatic nodeset for inactive domain * qemu: Ignore missing query-migrate-parameters * daemon: Fix domain name leak in error path * qemu: fix argument of virDomainNetGetActualDirectMode * rpc: fix keep alive timer segfault * util: allow ignoring SIOCSIFHWADDR when errno is EPERM * util: check ifa_addr pointer before accessing its elements * Increase default task limit for libvirtd * Fix error reporting when poll returns POLLHUP/POLLERR * spec: Avoid RPM verification errors on nwfilter XMLs * xenconfig: avoid double free on OOM testing * xenFormatXLDomainDisks: avoid double free on OOM testing * virConfSaveValue: protect against a NULL pointer reference * conf: Add check for non scsi_host parent during vport delete * util: Fix resource leak * test: Remove unused variate @maxcpu in testDomainGetVcpus * esx: Fix memory leak * esx: Fix incorrect memory compare size in esxStoragePoolLookupByUUID * qemu: snapshot: Skip empty drives with internal snapshots * qemu: do not crash on USB address with no port and invalid bus * man: Align vol-resize arguments with the output of help * qemu: conf: Don't leak snapshot image format conf variable * qemu: Fix mdev checking for VFIO support * util: systemd: Don't strlen a possibly NULL string * interface: Fix resource leak in netcfConnectListAllInterfaces error path * virsh: don't leak @cpumap in virshVcpuPinQuery * tests: fix some resource leaks * rpc: fix resource leak * src: fix multiple resource leaks in loops * conf/domain_capabilities: fix resource leak * qemu: Fix two use-after-free situations * disk: Force usage of parted when checking disk format for "bsd" * disk: Resolve issues with disk partition build/start checks * conf: create new RemovalFailed event using correct class * qemu: fix memory leak and check mdevPath * qemu: Properly reset TLS in qemuProcessRecoverMigrationIn * Properly ignore files in build-aux directory * conf: Fix possible memleak in capabilities * Split out -Wframe-larger-than warning from WARN_CLFAGS * virISCSIGetSession: Don't leak memory * virStorageSourceClear: Don't leave dangling pointers behind * qemu: Break endless loop if qemuMigrationResetTLS fails * storage: gluster: Implement 'checkPool' method so that state is restored * docs: Document limitation of maximum vcpu count used with <topology> * qemu: Fix resource leak in qemuDomainAddChardevTLSObjects error path * qemu: Initialize 'data' argument * storage: util: Pass pool type to virStorageBackendFindGlusterPoolSources * util: ignore -Wcast-align in virNetlinkDumpCommand * qemu: hotplug: Clear vcpu ordering for coldplug of vcpus * qemu: hotplug: Fix formatting strings in qemuDomainFilterHotplugVcpuEntities * qemu: hotplug: Iterate over vcpu 0 in individual vcpu hotplug code * qemu: Add device id for mediated devices on qemu command line * storage: Fix capacity value for LUKS encrypted volumes * virNetDevIPCheckIPv6ForwardingCallback fixes * storage: driver: Remove unavailable transient pools after restart * storage: driver: Split out code fixing pool state after deactivation * storage: backend: Use correct stringifier for pool type * mdev: Fix daemon crash on domain shutdown after reconnect * util: mdev: Use a local variable instead of a direct pointer access * qemu: Fix regression when hyperv/vendor_id feature is used * vz: fix typo that breaks build For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-php-0.5.3
by Michal Privoznik 11 May '17

11 May '17

I just did the release of libvirt-php-0.5.3. You can download it here: http://libvirt.org/sources/php/libvirt-php-0.5.3.tar.gz There are 77 patches in this release (nearly 2x as much as in the previous release). There were several bug fixes, style conversions, etc. New features include: - New APIs - examples enhancement - build system improvements and many others. Thanks anybody who contributed! Michal

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-3.3.0
by Daniel Veillard 06 May '17

06 May '17

I did the release yesterday evening, just sending this mail now. The release has been tagged in git, I have pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place at : ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also pushed version 3.3.0 of the python bindings, same tagged in git and signed tarball and rpms should be in their respective place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ this is a balanced release with a fair amount of both new features and improvements, in addition to a set of bug fixes: * New features - net: Add support for coalesce settings Enabling data batching through these settings can improve network performance for guests. - qemu: Add support for guest CPU cache specification This features allows fine-grained control of the cache behavior of the guest CPU. - qemu: Add support for the qemu-xhci USB controller * Improvements - hyperv: Support Hyper-V 2012 and newer Starting with Hyper-V 2012 the API has changed causing the existing driver to be unable to send and process requests properly. This has been resolved by adding abstractions to handle the differences and ease handling such breaks if they happen in the future. - libxl: Add support for nested HVM domains Xen has supported nested HVM domains since version 4.4. The libvirt libxl driver now supports nested HVM domains by specifying the host-passthrough CPU mode when defining a domain. - qemu: Implement ACPI support for aarch64 guests Up until this point, ACPI support was only advertised for x86_64 guests and disabling it for aarch64 guests was not possible at all. - vz: Add support for changing the number of vCPUs - qemu: Automatically choose the best USB controller for guests The recently introduced qemu-xhci USB controller is the best choice for both ppc64 and aarch64 guests, so use it by default on those architectures if available. - daemon: Increase default task limit for libvirtd The default number of tasks for the pids cgroup controller is 512, which libvirtd can quickly bump into when starting lots of guests. Raise the limit to a more reasonable 32768. - docs: Include man pages describing key code names and values - virsh: Report initialization errors Sometimes virsh might be unable to start: when that happens, report useful diagnostics instead of failing silently. * Bug fixes - nss: Don't require a network restart for libvirt_guest Previously, the libvirt_guest NSS module would only work properly after the corresponding network had been restarted; now newly started guests will be reported correctly right away. - storage: Remove unavailable transient pools after restart Solve an issue where transient storage pools would be stuck in an unmanageable state if the source disappeared and libvirtd was subsequently restarted. - storage: Fix capacity value for LUKS encrypted volumes The 'capacity' value (e.g. guest logical size) for a LUKS volume is smaller than the 'physical' value of the file in the file system, so we need to account for that. - qemu: Fix regression when hyperv/vendor_id feature is used Guests using the feature would not be started at all; it is now possible to start them as expected. - qemu: Do not crash on USB address with no port and invalid bus - crypto: Always pad data before encrypting it If this step is not performed, when the data length matches the chunk size the decryption routines will misinterpret the last byte of data as the padding length and fail to decode it correctly. Thanks everybody for your help toward this release, be it with patches, documentation, bug reports, reviews ideas, etc ... Enjoy ! 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/

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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-3.3.0
by Daniel Veillard 04 May '17

04 May '17

As planned, I tagged RC1 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Seems to work in my limited testing, https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ seems mostly clean and happy, but please give it some testing ! Assuming things go well, I think I will make RC2 on Tuesday (Monday being closed in most of Europe we should have one day of worktime to test) and that would imply a release on Thursday 3rd, assuming nothing critical is found, thanks in advance for your testing and reports :-) 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/

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