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Entering freeze for libvirt-7.7.0
by Jiri Denemark 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

I have just tagged v7.7.0-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

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Release of libvirt-7.6.0
by Jiri Denemark 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

The 7.6.0 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. * Security * storage: Unlock pool objects on ACL check failures in ``storagePoolLookupByTargetPath`` (CVE-2021-3667) A logic bug in ``storagePoolLookupByTargetPath`` where the storage pool object was left locked after a failure of the ACL check could potentially deprive legitimate users access to a storage pool object by users who don't have access. * New features * qemu: Incremental backup support via ``virDomainBackupBegin`` libvirt-7.6 along with the unreleased qemu-6.1 will fully support the change block tracking features (block-dirty-bitmaps) to be able to do incremental backups and management of the checkpoint states via the appropriate APIs. * qemu: Add support for launch security type s390-pv Specifying s390-pv as launch security type in an s390 domain prepares for running the guest in protected virtualization secure mode, also known as IBM Secure Execution. This simplifies the definition and reduces the risk of an incorrect definition, e.g. by forgetting to specify ``iommu=on`` on all virtio devices. * domstats: Add haltpolling time statistic interface Domstats now provide the data of cpu haltpolling time. This feature relies on statistics available after kernel version 5.8. This will allow the user to get more accurate CPU usage information if needed. * Bug fixes * qemu: Fix migration with ``VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_INC`` libvirt 7.3.0 introduced a bug where ``VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_INC`` would not actually migrate the contents of the disk due to broken logic and at the same time could trigger migration of storage when ``VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED`` is requested. This release fixes the bug. * qemu: Don't emit ``VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_ID_BLOCK_THRESHOLD`` twice when registered with index When registering the threshold event with the index notation (e.g. ``vda[3]``) libvirt would emit the event also for ``vda`` if the image is in the top layer. The intention was to emit two events only when the original registration was done without the index. * qemu: Pass discard requests for disks with ``copy_on_read='on'`` When a disk using the ``copy_on_read='on'`` option is configured also with ``discard='unmap'`` the discard requests will now be passed to the underlying image freeing up the space. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-7.6.0
by Pavel Hrdina 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

I have just tagged v7.6.0-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, Pavel

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Release of libvirt-7.5.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

The 7.5.0 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. * Security * svirt: fix MCS label generation (CVE-2021-3631) A flaw in the way MCS labels were generated could result in a VM's resource not being fully protected from access by another VM were it to be compromised. https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/153 * Removed features * xen: Remove support for Xen < 4.9 In accordance with our platform support policy, the oldest supported Xen version is now bumped from 4.6 to 4.9. * Improvements * docs: Document disk serial truncation status quo Disk ``<serial>`` is being truncated by QEMU before passed to the guest. Since it's impossible to fix it without running into further regressions the documentation was improved to document the intricacies. * Bug fixes * qemu: Fixed validation of disk ``iothread`` configuration The validation of ``iothread`` config was previously moved to a place where it caused bogus errors when address wasn't allocated when hotplugging a disk. The check is now removed as it wasn't actually necessary at all. Enjoy. Jirka

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libvirt-dbus 1.4.1 released
by Pavel Hrdina 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

I'm happy to announce the release of libvirt-dbus 1.4.1. libvirt-dbus wraps libvirt API to provide high-level object-oriented API better suited for dbus-based applications. https://libvirt.org/sources/dbus/libvirt-dbus-1.4.1.tar.xz * Improvements - Generate systemd unit files * Bug fixes - Fix double free in domain snapshot API - Handle APIs with unsigned long correctly * Build-system improvements - Honour meson ``warning_level`` setting - Add ``git_werror`` option and only set if ``-Dwerror`` is not set Thanks everybody who contributed! Pavel

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Entering freeze for libvirt-7.5.0
by Jiri Denemark 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

I have just tagged v7.5.0-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

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Release of libvirt-7.4.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

The 7.4.0 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. * Removed features * qemu: Remove support for QEMU < 2.11 In accordance with our platform support policy, the oldest supported QEMU version is now bumped from 1.5 to 2.11. * New features * qemu: Add support for hotplugging ``<transient/>`` disks The disk hotplug code in the qemu driver now can handle hotplug of disks with automatically added overlay. * qemu: Add support for sharing base image of ``<transient/>`` disks Users can use ``<transient shareBacking='yes'/>`` to tell the qemu driver to never open the base image in write mode thus multiple VMs can share the same image. Note that the disk will be hotplugged during startup. * Improvements * Add win-dmp crashdump format New ``win-dmp`` format for ``virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat`` API and/or virsh ``dump --format`` was introduced. * Bug fixes * Allow 0 offset in XML schema for ``<slice type='storage' offset='0' size='321'/>`` Having a 0 offset so that the size of the image can be limited is a valid configuration so it was allowed in the XML schema. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-7.4.0
by Jiri Denemark 27 May '21

27 May '21

I have just tagged v7.4.0-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

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Release of libvirt-7.3.0
by Jiri Denemark 03 May '21

03 May '21

The 7.3.0 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 * xen: Support domains with more than 4TB The xen driver now supports domains with more than 4TB of memory with xen >= 4.13. * qemu: add socket for virtiofs filesystems Libvirt now supports ``filesystem`` devices that connect to a ``virtiofsd`` daemon launched outside of libvirtd, via the ``socket`` attribute of the ``source`` element. * nodedev: Add ability to manage persistent mediated devices Persistent mediated devices can now be managed with libvirt. ``virNodeDeviceDefineXML()`` defines a new device, ``virNodeDeviceUndefine()`` removes an existing definition, and ``virNodeDeviceCreate()`` starts a device definition that is currently inactive. Corresponding virsh commands ``nodedev-define``, ``nodedev-undefine``, and ``nodedev-start`` were also added. ``nodedev-list`` only lists active devices by default. Inactive device definitions can be shown with the new ``--inactive`` and ``--all`` flags. * qemu: Allow use of qemu's ``-compat`` option Curious developers or testers now can enable certain ``-compat`` modes which allow to notice use of deprecated commands and options as qemu will use the selected method to notify the user. The new behaviour can be requested using either the ``deprecation_behavior`` option in ``qemu.conf`` for all VMs or using ``<qemu:deprecation behavior='...'/>`` in the VM XML. * Improvements * virsh: Improve errors with ``virsh snapshot-create-as`` The XML document constructed by virsh was forced through XML schema validation which yielded unintelligible error messages in cases such as when the path to the new image did not start with a slash. XML documents are no longer validated as the XML parser actually has better error messages which allow users to figure the problem out quickly. * qemu: Terminate backing store when doing a full-chain block pull When pulling everything into the overlay image the chain can be terminated since we know that it won't depend on any backing image and thus can prevent attempts to probe the backing chain. * qemu: Expose disk serial in virDomainGetGuestInfo() The ``virDomainGetGuestInfo()`` reports disk serial number among with other disk information. * Bug fixes * qemu: Fix crash of libvirt on full block pull of a disk When the persistent definition contains a compatible disk (meaning the definition of the running and persistent config match) a block pull job would leave a dangling pointer in the config definition which resulted in a crash. * qemu: Use proper job cancelling command Libvirt's API contract for aborting a block copy job in 'ready' state declares that the destination image of the copy will contain a consistent image of the disk from the time when the block job was aborted. This requires that libvirt uses the proper cancelling qemu command to ensure that the data is consistent which was not the case. * qemu: Don't attempt storage migration when there are no migratable disks Due to a logic bug introduced in the previous release libvirt would attempt to migrate disks in case when no disks are selected/eligible for migration. * qemu: Fix very rare race when two block job 'ready' events are delivered In certain high-load scenarios, qemu might deliver the 'ready' event twice and if it's delivered when pivoting to the destination during a block copy job, libvirt would get confused and execute the code as if the job were aborted. * lxc: Fix container destroy with CGroupsV2 When an LXC container was started and the host used CGroupsV2 it might have had created nested controllers under the container's scope. Libvirt was unaware and thus destroying the container failed with a cryptic error: ``failed to get cgroup backend for 'pathOfController'``. The CGroup removal code was reworked and is now capable of dealing with such scenario. * bash-completion: Fix argument passing to $1 Due to a bug in bash completion script, the auto completion did not work properly when a connection URI or read only flag were specified on ``virsh`` or ``virt-admin`` command line. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-7.3.0
by Jiri Denemark 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

I have just tagged v7.3.0-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

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