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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-4.10.0
by Daniel Veillard 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

As planned I just tagged the RC1 in git and pushed the signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Seems to work fine in my limited testing, https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ seems mostly green so far things looks good, but as usual we need more testing especially on other OSes and architectures. If everything goes fine, I will push the RC2 on Thursday for a final release over the week-end or next Monday. In the meantime please give it some testing ! Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.9.0
by Daniel Veillard 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

Except an update to the news file no change was pushed to the tree since RC! so that looks like stable enough for release and so I did. It's tagged in git and signed tarball and rpms are available from the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also tagged and pushed python bindings 4.9.0 release which can be found at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This release is a mix, with one important new feature, the new cgroup v2 and one important security bug for libvirt sockets, users are invited to upgrade: New features: - util: Add cgroup v2 support cgroup v2 support has been implemented in libvirt, with both "unified" (v2 only) and "hybrid" (v2 + v1) setups being usable; existing "legacy" (v1 only) setups will keep working. - qemu: Add vfio AP support The QEMU driver now has support to passthrough adjunct processors into QEMU guests on S390. Improvements: - rpc: Make 'genprotocol' output reproducible This is another step towards making libvirt builds fully reproducible. Bug fixes: - security: Fix permissions for UNIX sockets Since 4.5.0, libvirt is using FD passing to hand sockets over to QEMU, which in theory removes the need for them to be accessible by the user under which the QEMU process is running; however, other processes such as vdsm need to access the sockets as well, which means adjusting permissions is still necessary. - cpu_map: Add Icelake model definitions These CPU models will be available in the upcoming 3.1.0 QEMU release. - util: Properly parse URIs with missing trailing slash Some storage URIs were not parsed correctly, in which case libvirt ended up emitting XML that it would then refuse to parse back. Thanks everybody for your contributions to this release whatever form that took (ideas, bug reports, patches, reviews, docs ...), enjoy ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt 4.9.0
by Daniel Veillard 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

with a bit of delay today, I finally just tagged the release candidate 1 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Looks fine in my minimal testing, and most of CI seems to be green except for 3 tests https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ . I will likely push RC2 mid-day on thursday and if everything goes well the final release on the week-end. Please give the RC1 some testing especially on other architectures or oses, thanks in advance, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-snmp-0.0.4
by Michal Prívozník 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

It's out. After 6 years we have a new libvirt-snmp release. Yay. You can obtain it from the usual sources: https://libvirt.org/sources/snmp/ I've pushed it into git and tagged. Thanks everybody who participated in any form. Changelog: - Replace placeholder org OID with libvirt OID - Fix object OIDs for SNMP traps - Send sysUptime in traps - Modernize spec file - Cleaned up some old code and rewritten it to use new Libvirt APIs - Fixed build with newer net-snmp package - Some bug fixes Michal

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.8.0
by Daniel Veillard 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

It is out, as planned, tagged in git, the signed tarball and rpms are at the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also make a python binding release which include event testing updates, you can find those at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This is a relatively large release considering the number of patches going in please note the Removed Feature section below: New features: - Xen: Support PM Suspend and Wakeup The libxl driver now supports the virDomainPMSuspendForDuration and virDomainPMWakeup APIs. Removed features: - Xen: Drop support for Xen 4.4 and 4.5 Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported by the Xen community. Drop support for these older versions and require Xen >= 4.6. - nwfilter: Disallow binding creation in session mode Ensure that a filter binding creation is not attempted in session mode and generates a proper error message. Improvements: - qemu: Retrieve guest hostname through QEMU Guest Agent command QEMU is now able to retrieve the guest hostname using a new QEMU-GA command called 'guest-get-host-name'. Virsh users can execute 'domhostname' for QEMU driver for domains configured to use the Guest Agent. - virsh: Implement vsh-table in virsh and virsh-admin The new API fixes problems with table-alignment, making the tables more readable and deals with unicode. Bug fixes: - storage: Allow inputvol to be encrypted When creating a storage volume based on another volume, the base input volume is allowed to be encrypted. - virsh: Require explicit --domain for domxml-to-native The --domain option for domxml-to-native virsh command has always been documented as required, but commit v4.3.0-127-gd86531daf2 accidentally made it optional. - lxc_monitor: Avoid AB / BA lock race A deadlock situation could occur when autostarting a LXC domain 'guest' due to two threads attempting to take opposing locks while holding opposing locks (AB BA problem). Thanks everybody for your help with this release. Enjoy ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-4.8.0
by Daniel Veillard 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

As planned I tagged the release in git and pushed the signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Seems to work for me in my limited testing, but there is some red in CI https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ apparently around building. That said it worked fine for me so that could be a temporary error. The plan is to put an rc2 around Friday morning, and then if everything is fine push final verion on Oct 1st next Monday. I will keep an eye on the point raised. Please give it a try to ensure a stable and portable release ! thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.7.0
by Daniel Veillard 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

I didn't do this this week-end, that gave time to Andrea to update the release notes :-) it's now tagged in git and signed tarball and rpms are pushed to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also pushed a release 4.7.0 for the python bindings but they are virtually equivalent to 4.6.0 ones, you can find them at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This seems a reasonably large release, many commits, not that many people were in vacations last month ! The resulting is a balanced release with new features, improvements, and obviously the usual amount of bug fixes ! New features: - storage: add storage pool iscsi-direct Introduce a new storage pool backend that uses libiscsi instead of iscsiadm. It support basic pool operations: checkPool and refreshPool. - Add support for MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation technology) Domain vCPU threads can now have allocated some parts of host memory bandwidth by using the memorytune element in cputune. - qemu: Add support for RISC-V guests riscv32 and riscv64 guest architectures are now supported. Improvements: - qemu: Add ccw support for vhost-vsock Support the vhost-vsock-ccw device on S390. - qemu: Make default machine type independent of QEMU We can't control whether or not QEMU will change its default machine type in the future, or whether downstream distributions will decide to compile out some machine types, so our only option to provide a predictable behavior is taking care of the default ourselves; management applications and users are encouraged to explicitly pick a machine type when creating new guests. - apparmor: Various improvements Rules have been added to deal with a number of scenarios that didn't work correctly. Bug fixes: - esx: Truncate CPU model name Some CPU model names are too long to be stored into the corresponding property, and should be explicitly truncated to avoid unexpected behavior in users of the virNodeGetInfo() API such as virsh nodeinfo. - utils: Remove arbitrary limit on socket_id/core_id Both values were assumed to be smaller than 4096, but in fact they are entirely hardware-dependent and there have been reports of machines presenting much bigger values, preventing libvirt from working correctly; all such limits have now been removed. Thanks everybody for your help with this release be it with code, bug reports, patch reviews, documentation, ... Enjoy ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-4.7.0
by Daniel Veillard 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Sorry I forgot to announce it but we are the last week of the month, so it's about time, I tagged RC1 in git and pushed the signed tarball and rpms to the usual place earlier today: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ this seems to work well in my limited testing but as usual we need more review and check on other platforms or OSes before the release. In general https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ is green except for glib bindings and for the master build (weird!) I will likely push the rc2 Thursday morning, but I mwill be travelling at the end of the week so that may depends on conditions, and hopefully the release during this w.e. thanks for giving it a try ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.6.0
by Daniel Veillard 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Okay it took a bit longer than usual but the relrase is out, it's tagged in git and signed tarball and rpms have been pushed to the usual place, but there was quite a few bug fixes going in after RC2 was cut. ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also made libvirt-python 4.6.0 bindings release in a similar fashion available at : ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ So though the release note don't list any bug fixes we know there is a batch of those in, otherwise this is mainly features and improvement targetting QEmu and virsh users: New features: - qemu: Implement the HTM pSeries feature Users can now decide whether HTM (Hardware Transactional Memory) support should be available to the guest. - qemu: Enable VNC console for mediated devices Host devices now support a new atribute 'display' which can be used to turn on frame buffer rendering on a vgpu mediated device instead of on an emulated GPU, like QXL. Improvements: - qemu: Introduce a new video model of type 'none' Introduce a new video model type that disables the automatic addition of a video device to domains with 'graphics' specified in their XML. This can be useful with GPU mediated devices which can serve as the only rendering devices within the guest. - virsh: Add --alias to attach-disk and attach-interface commands Add option --alias to set customized device alias name when using attach-disk or attach-interface commands. - virsh: Support usb and sata address to attach-disk Usb or sata address could be used when attach-disk with --address. For example, use usb address as usb:<bus>.<port>, use sata address as <controller>.<bus>.<unit>. Thanks everybody for your help with this release, hopefully the next one beginning of Sept will be more timely ! Enjoy, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-4.6.0
by Daniel Veillard 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

As suggested yesterday, I have just tagged the release candidate 1 in git, and pushed signed tarbal and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ seems to work fine with my limited testing, and https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt/ is all green (except for virt-viewer-master-rpm ?) so things looks pretty good for me but please try it out on different systems and OSes. If everything goes well I will push rc2 on Tuesday targetting Thursday for the final release (or Friday if I get stuck in travels). thanks in advance for trying it out ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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