I have just tagged v9.4.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed
tarballs and source RPMs to https://download.libvirt.org/
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 9.3.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at
https://download.libvirt.org/https://download.libvirt.org/python/
Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing feedback. Your work is greatly
appreciated.
* New features
* qemu: Introduce support for ``igb`` network interface model
``igb`` is a successor to the ``e1000e`` network device using PCIe interface.
It was introduced in QEMU 8.0
* qemu: Improve handling of maximum physical address configuration
* Improvements
* qemu: Change default machine type for ARM and RISC-V
ARM and RISC-V architectures now use the ``virt`` machine type by default.
The previous defaults were nearly unusable and had to be overridden in most
cases.
* Improve translatable strings format substitutions
All translatable error messages with substitution strings were converted to
use positional modifiers to allow translators to shuffle around words in
the translation. The translations in Weblate were also updated to match.
* qemu: Improve validation of ``watchdog`` devices
Certain invalid configurations of ``watchdog`` device are now properly
detected:
- hotplug of always-present platform watchdogs is forbidden
- ``iTCO`` watchdog can be configured only once
- ``ib700`` watchdog is allowed only on ``i440fx`` machines
* Improved output of ``virt-host-validate`` on ARM
Our validation tool now parses the ``IORT`` data on ARM to properly detect
presence of SMMU and other features.
* Bug fixes
* qemu: Fix inactive internal snapshots of VM with UEFI firmware
Recent changes to UEFI firmware handling resulted into breaking support
for inactive internal snapshots of VMs with UEFI which historically worked.
(Although the intention was to disallow them together with active ones, but
the check did not work properly.)
Preserve existing functionality by allowing such snapshots explicitly.
* qemu: Properly configure locked memory limit for VMs with ``<disk type='nvme'``
The NVMe driver in qemu requires some memory to be locked. This was not
taken into account in the code which calculates the memory limits based
on devices present in the configuration
* Fix native build on win32
Various improvements to the build system now allow users to build the client
library of libvirt on win32 natively.
* qemu: Properly detect tray of hotplugged CD-ROM devices
Media in a CD-ROM device which was hotplugged could not be changed as the
presence of the tray was not detected properly on hotplug.
Enjoy.
Jirka
