I have just tagged v10.3.0-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 10.2.0 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.
* New features
* ch: Basic save and restore support for ch driver
The ch driver now supports basic save and restore operations. This is
functional on domains without any network, host device config defined.
The `path` parameter for save and restore should be a directory.
* qemu: Support for driver type ``mtp`` in ``<filesystem/>`` devices
The ``mtp`` driver type exposes the ``usb-mtp`` device in QEMU. The
guest can access files on this driver through the Media Transfer
Protocol (MTP).
* qemu: Added support for the loongarch64 architecture
It is now possible for libvirt to run loongarch64 guests, including on
other architectures via TCG. For the best results, it is recommended to
use the upcoming QEMU 9.0.0 release together with the development version
of edk2.
* qemu: Introduce virDomainGraphicsReload API
Reloading the graphics display is now supported for QEMU guests using
VNC. This is useful to make QEMU reload the TLS certificates without
restarting the guest. Available via the ``virDomainGraphicsReload`` API
and the ``domdisplay-reload`` virsh command.
* Bug fixes
* qemu: Fix migration from libvirt older than 9.10.0 when vmx is enabled
A domain with vmx feature enabled (which may be even done automatically
with ``mode='host-model'``) started by libvirt 9.9.0 or older cannot be
migrated to libvirt 9.10.0, 10.0.0, and 10.1.0 as the target host would
complain about a lot of extra ``vmx-*`` features. Migration of similar
domains started by the affected releases to libvirt 9.9.0 and older
does not work either. Since libvirt 10.2.0 migration works again with
libvirt 9.9.0 and older in both directions. Migration from the affected
releases to 10.2.0 works as well, but the other direction remains broken
unless the fix is backported.
* node_device: Don't report spurious errors from PCI VPD parsing
In last release the PCI Vital Product Data parser was enhanced to report
errors but that effort failed as some kernels have the file but don't allow
reading it causing logs to be spammed with::
libvirtd[21055]: operation failed: failed to read the PCI VPD data
Since the data is used only in the node device XML and errors are ignored if
the parsing failed, this release removes all the error reporting.
* qemu: set correct SELinux label for unprivileged virtiofsd
It is now possible to use virtiofsd-based ``<filesystem>`` shares even
if the guest is confined using SELinux.
* qemu: fix a crash on unprivileged virtiofsd hotplug
Hotplugging virtiofsd-based filesystems works now.
* virt-admin: Fix segfault when libvirtd dies
``virt-admin`` no longer crashes when ``libvirtd`` unexpectedly closes
the connection.
Enjoy.
Jirka
