I have just tagged v10.2.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed
tarballs 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 10.1.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs 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.
* Security
* ``CVE-2024-1441``: Fix off-by-one error leading to a crash
In libvirt-1.0.0 there were couple of interface listing APIs
introduced which had an off-by-one error. That error could lead to a
very rare crash if an array was passed to those functions which did
not fit all the interfaces.
In libvirt-5.10 a check for non-NULL arrays has been adjusted to
allow for NULL arrays with size 0 instead of rejecting all NULL
arrays. However that made the above issue significantly worse since
that off-by-one error now did not write beyond an array, but
dereferenced said NULL pointer making the crash certain in a
specific scenario in which a NULL array of size 0 was passed to the
aforementioned functions.
* New features
* nodedev: Support updating mdevs
The node device driver has been extended to allow updating mediated node
devices. Options are available to target the update against the persistent,
active or both configurations of a mediated device.
Note: The support is only available with at least mdevctl v1.3.0 installed.
* qemu: Add support for /dev/userfaultfd
On hosts with new enough kernel which supports /dev/userfaultfd libvirt will
now automatically grant QEMU access to this device. It's no longer needed to
set vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd sysctl.
* qemu: Support clusters in CPU topology
It is now possible to configure the guest CPU topology to use clusters.
Additionally, if CPU clusters are present in the host topology, they will
be reported as part of the capabilities XML.
* network: Make virtual domains resolvable from the host
When starting a virtual network with a new ``register='yes'`` attribute
in the ``<domain>`` element, libvirt will configure ``systemd-resolved``
to resolve names of the connected guests using the name server started
for this network.
* qemu: Introduce dynamicMemslots attribute for virtio-mem
QEMU now allows setting ``.dynamic-memslots`` attribute for virtio-mem-pci
devices. When turned on, it allows memory exposed to guest to be split into
multiple memory slots and thus smaller memory footprint (see the original
commit for detailed explanation).
* Improvements
* nodedev: Add ability to update persistent mediated devices by defining them
Existing persistent mediated devices can now also be updated by
``virNodeDeviceDefineXML()`` as long as parent and UUID remain unchanged.
* ch: Enable ``ethernet`` interface mode support
``<interface type='ethernet'/>`` can now be used for CH domains.
* viraccessdriverpolkit: Add missing vtpm case
Secrets with ``<usage type='vtpm'>`` were left unable to be checked for in
the access driver, i.e. in ACL rules. Missing code was provided.
* virt-admin: Notify users to use explicit URI if connection fails
``virt-admin`` doesn't try to guess the URI of the daemon to manage so a
failure to connect may be confusing for users if modular daemons are used.
Add a hint to use the URI of the dameon to manage.
* Bug fixes
* qemu_process: Skip over non-virtio non-TAP NIC models when refreshing rx-filter
If ``trustGuestRxFilters`` is enabled for a vNIC that doesn't support it,
libvirt may throw an error when such domain is being started, loaded from a
saved state, migrated, etc. These errors are now silenced, but make sure to
fix such configurations (after previous release it is even possible to
change ``trustGuestRxFilters`` value on live domains via
``virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags()`` or ``virsh device-update``).
* domain: Fix check for overlapping ``<memory/>`` devices
A bug was identified which caused libvirt to report two NVDIMMs as
overlapping even though they weren't. This now fixed.
* vmx: Accept empty fileName for cdrom-image
Turns out, ``fileName`` attribute (which contains path to CDROM image) can
be set to an empty string (``""``) to denote a state in which the CDROM has
no medium in it. Libvirt used to reject such configuration file, but not
anymore.
* qemu_hotplug: Don't lose 'created' flag in qemuDomainChangeNet()
When starting a domain, libvirt tracks what resources it created for it and
which were pre-existing and uses this information to preserve pre-existing
resources when cleaning up after said domain is shut off. But for macvtaps
this information was lost after the macvtap device was changed (e.g. via
``virsh update-device``).
* Fix virStream hole handling
When a client sent multiple holes into a virStream it may have caused
daemon hangup as the daemon stopped processing RPC from the client
temporarily. This is now fixed.
* nodedev: Don't generate broken XML with certain hardware
A broken node device XML would be generated in a rare case when a hardware
device had certain characters in the VPD fields.
* qemu: Fix reservation of manually specified port for disk migration
A manually specified port would not be relased after disk migration making
it impossible to use it again.
Enjoy.
Jirka
