I have just tagged v11.9.0-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.
Jirka
The 11.8.0 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: Disk hotplug Support
Users can now attach and detach disks of Cloud Hypervisor domains at
runtime.
* qemu: Add support for NUMA affinity of PCI devices
To support NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) configurations, libvirt now
handles QEMU's acpi-generic-initiator device internally. MIG enables
partitioning a physical GPU into multiple isolated instances, each
associated with one or more virtual NUMA nodes.
On the XML side, the existing ``<acpi>`` element has been extended with a
``nodeset`` attribute to specify the NUMA node affinity of a PCI device.
* Improvements
* ch: Events emitting
The CH driver not only emits more domain lifecycle events but also
implements ``virConnectDomainEventRegister()`` and
``virConnectDomainEventDeregister()`` APIs for management applications to
listen on those events.
* Bug fixes
* qemu: Fix selection of stateless/combined firmware
A stateless firmware will now be correctly chosen when appropriate,
e.g. for domains configured to use SEV-SNP.
* ch: Make sure the cloud-hypervisor process is killed in ``virCHProcessStop()``
Due to wrong assumptions in the CH driver, calling ``virDomainDestroy()``
did not kill the corresponding cloud-hypervisor process. Domains can be now
destroyed reliably.
Enjoy.
Jirka
