I have just tagged v6.10.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed
tarballs and source RPMs to https://libvirt.org/sources/
Please give the release candidate some testing and in case you find a
serious issue which should have a fix in the upcoming release, feel
free to reply to this thread to make sure the issue is more visible.
If you have not done so yet, please update NEWS.rst to document any
significant change you made since the last release.
Thanks,
Jirka
The 6.9.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at
https://libvirt.org/sources/https://libvirt.org/sources/python/
Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing any other feedback. Your work is
greatly appreciated.
* New features
* nodedev: Add support for channel subsystem (CSS) devices on S390
A CSS device is represented as a parent device of a CCW device.
This support allows to create vfio-ccw mediated devices with
``virNodeDeviceCreateXML()``.
* qemu: Implement memory failure event
New event is implemented that is emitted whenever a guest encounters a
memory failure.
* qemu: Implement support for ``<transient/>`` disks
VMs based on the QEMU hypervisor now can use ``<transient/>`` option for
local file-backed disks to configure a disk which discards changes made to
it while the VM was active.
* hyperv: implement new APIs
The ``virConnectGetCapabilities()``, ``virConnectGetMaxVcpus()``,
``virConnectGetVersion()``, ``virDomainGetAutostart()``,
``virDomainSetAutostart()``, ``virNodeGetFreeMemory()``,
``virDomainReboot()``, ``virDomainReset()``, ``virDomainShutdown()``, and
``virDomainShutdownFlags()`` APIs have been implemented in the Hyper-V
driver.
* bhyve: implement virtio-9p filesystem support
Implement virito-9p shared filesystem using the ``<filesystem/>`` element.
* qemu: Add support for vDPA network devices.
VMs using the QEMU hypervisor can now specify vDPA network devices
using ``<interface type='vdpa'>``. The node device APIs also now
list and provide XML descriptions for vDPA devices.
* Improvements
* Bug fixes
* hyperv: ensure WQL queries work in all locales
Relying on the "Description" field caused queries to fail on non-"en-US"
systems. The queries have been updated to avoid using localized strings.
* rpc: Fix ``virt-ssh-helper`` detection
libvirt 6.8.0 failed to correctly detect the availability of the new
``virt-ssh-helper`` command on the remote host, and thus always used the
fallback instead; this has now been fixed.
Enjoy.
Jirka
