June 2018 - Announce - libvirt List Archives

[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-4.5.0
by Daniel Veillard 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

As planned I just tagged it in the git and pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Seems to work fine in my very limited testing, but there seems to be a few things weird on the ci: https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ though it look hard to pinpoint a single culprit, different oses ... Please give it some testing this week it, if everything is fine I will push an RC2 on Friday with hopefully an final release next Monday, 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-dbus 1.1.0 released
by Pavel Hrdina 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

I'm happy to announce the release of libvirt-dbus 1.1.0. libvirt-dbus wraps libvirt API to provide high-level object-oriented API better suited for dbus-based applications. You can download it here: https://libvirt.org/sources/dbus/libvirt-dbus-1.1.0.tar.gz * New features - Support for all relevant nwfilter APIs up to libvirt 3.0.0 - Support for all relevant storage volume APIs up to libvirt 3.0.0 - Support for all relevant node device APIs up to libvirt 3.0.0 * Bug fixes - Don't report error for GetAll on properties if some property is not accessible Thanks everybody who contributed! Pavel

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: Libvirt TCK release v1.0.0
by Daniel P. Berrangé 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

It has been 9 years since the first release of Libvirt TCK, so I'm happy to annonunce a second ever release, with countless accumulated bug fixes and features, is now available from https://libvirt.org/sources/tck/Sys-Virt-TCK-v1.0.0.tar.gz The GPG signature: https://libvirt.org/sources/tck/Sys-Virt-TCK-v1.0.0.tar.gz.asc Is created with my key with a fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) All historical releases are available from: https://libvirt.org/sources/tck/ Changes in this release are: - So many that it is not useful to list them all, please see the GIT history. It is expected to have a 100% pass rate when used with the QEMU driver from current libvirt GIT master, and with 4.4.0 release it should pass everything except some nwfilter tests. The state of the tests wrt other hypervisor drivers is currently an unknown. The intention is that it would work with other drivers, but it has not been tested anytime in recent history. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new release. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: Libvirt Sandbox release "Gobi" v0.8.0
by Daniel P. Berrangé 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

I'm happy to annonunce a new release of libvirt sandbox with many accumulated bug fixes and a few features, is now available from https://libvirt.org/sources/sandbox/libvirt-sandbox-0.8.0.tar.gz The GPG signature: https://libvirt.org/sources/sandbox/libvirt-sandbox-0.8.0.tar.gz.asc Is created with my key with a fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) All historical releases are available from: https://libvirt.org/sources/sandbox/ Changes in this release are: - Deleted the virt-sandbox-service tool as it is a failed experiment - Require libvirt-glib >= 0.2.2 - Add af_packet kmod nedeed by dhcp clients - Add ext4 kmod needed by common filesystems - Add fscrypto kmod needed as a dep of other mods - Show dhcp client output in debug mode - Add /dev/fd symlink for /proc/self/fd - Sync and cleanly unmount filesystems during shutdown - Fix handling of strace debug option - Avoid exiting too early on shutdown so we see all debug messages and cleanly sync/unmount - Allow setting custom env variables - Ensure static versions of zlib and lzma are checked for - Guest host image format from file extension if not given - Allow switching to a specific user ID - Improve docs on command line arg passing - Fix bogus lib listed in pkgconfig file - Fix misc goject introspection annotations - Improve error message for unsupported libvirt URIs - Search in $PATH for user specified binary - Use squash security mode for non-root QEMU sandbox mounts - Search for libtirpc standalone XDR library - Avoid triggering some new compiler warnings Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new release. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.4.0
by Daniel Veillard 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

It's finally out, tagged in git, with signed tarball and rpms at the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also made a 4.4.0 release for the python bindings that one can find at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ There is apparently more new features than improvements, and no bug fix in this release, I would just guess that people don't feel like updating news.xml on bug fixes, rather than no bug needing fixes for a full month. It may still be a good idea to update to this release and not just for the fun of testing new features ! New features: bhyve: Support locking guest memory Bhyve's guest memory may be wired using the <memoryBacking><locked/></memoryBacking> element. qemu: Provide VFIO channel I/O passthrough support Support passthrough devices that use channel I/O based mechanism in a QEMU virtual machine. qemu: Add support for migration of VMs with non-shared storage over TLS It's now possible to use the VIR_MIGRATE_TLS flag together with VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_DISK. The connection is then secured using the TLS environment which is setup for the migration connection. Add support for VM Generation ID The VM Generatation ID exposes a 128-bit, cryptographically random, integer value identifier, referred to as a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) to the guest in order to notify the guest operating system when the virtual machine is executed with a different configuration. Add a new domain XML processing and a domain capabilities feature. Introduce virDomainDetachDeviceAlias This new API enables users to detach device using only its alias. Introduce new virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU and virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU APIs Unlike the old virConnectCompareCPU and virConnectBaselineCPU APIs, both new APIs consider capabilities of a specific hypervisor. Introduce SCSI persistent reservations support The QEMU driver gained support for qemu-pr-helper which enables guests to issue SCSI commands for persistent reservation. qemu: Implement multiple screen support for virDomainScreenshot While the virDomainScreenshot API supported multihead video cards, the implementation was missing. But now that QEMU implemented it libvirt has done as well. qemu: add support for vhost-vsock-device A new vsock device was introduced, allowing communication between the guest and the host via the AF_VSOCK family. Improvements: qemu: Add suport for OpenGL rendering with SDL Domains using SDL as a graphics backend will now be able to use OpenGL accelerated rendering. qemu: Add support for 'output' audio codec Support QEMU's 'hda-output' codec advertising only a line-out for ich6 and ich9 sound devices. virsh: Enhance event name completion Implement event name completion for some commands (e.g. event, secret-event, pool-event and nodedev-event) Thanks for everybody who contributed to that feature rich release, be it with code, ideas, reviews etc ... Hopefully it won't crash and burn, Enjoy and Banzai ! 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-4.4.0
by Daniel Veillard 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

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 -- 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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