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Release of libvirt-10.1.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

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

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.1.0
by Jiri Denemark 28 Feb '24

28 Feb '24

I have just tagged v10.1.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed tarballs and source RPMs 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

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Release of libvirt-10.0.0
by Jiri Denemark 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

The 10.0.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and signed tarballs and source RPMs 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 * qemu: Enable ``postcopy-preempt`` migration capability Post-copy migrations are now started with ``postcopy-preempt`` capability enabled as long as it is supported by both sides of migration. This should enable faster migration of memory pages that the destination tries to read before they are migrated from the source. * qemu: Add support for mapping iothreads to virtqueues of ``virtio-blk`` devices QEMU added the possibility to map multiple ``iothreads`` to a single ``virtio-blk`` device and map them even to specific virtqueues. Libvirt adds a ``<iothreads>`` subelement of the ``<disk> <driver>`` element that users can use to configure the mapping. * qemu: Allow automatic resize of block-device-backed disk to full size of the device The new flag ``VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_RESIZE_CAPACITY`` for ``virDomainBlockResize`` allows resizing a block-device backed ``raw`` disk of a VM without the need to specify the full size of the block device. * qemu: automatic selection/binding of VFIO variant drivers When a device is assigned to a guest using VFIO with ``<hostdev managed='yes'>``, libvirt will now search the running kernel's modules.alias file for the most specific match to that device for a VFIO driver, and bind that driver to the device rather than vfio-pci. A specific driver can also be forced, using the ``<driver model='plugh'/>`` attribute. * qemu: add runtime configuration option for nbdkit Since the new nbdkit support requires a recent selinux policy that is not widely available yet, it is now possible to build libvirt with nbdkit support for remote disks but disabled at runtime. This behavior is controlled via the storage_use_nbdkit option of the qemu driver configuration file. The option will default to being disabled, but this may change in a future release and can be customized with the nbdkit_config_default build option. * Improvements * qemu: Improve migration XML use when persisting VM on destination When migrating a VM with a custom migration XML, use it as a base for persisting it on the destination as users could have changed non-ABI breaking facts which would prevent subsequent start if the old XML were used. * qemu: Simplify non-shared storage migration to ``raw`` block devices The phase of copying storage during migration without shared storage requires that both the source and destination image are identical in size. This may not be possible if the destination is backed by a block device and the source image size is not a multiple of the block device block size. Libvirt aleviates this by automatically adding a ``<slice>`` to match the size of the source image rather than failing the migration. * test driver: Support for hotplug/hotunplug of PCI devices The test driver now supports basic hotplug and hotunplug of PCI devices. * Bug fixes * qemu: Various migration bug fixes and debuggability improvement This release fixes multiple bugs in virsh and libvirt in handling of migration arguments and XMLs and modifies error reporting for better debugging. * conf: Restore setting default bus for input devices Because of a regression, starting from 9.3.0 libvirt did not autofill bus for input devices. With this release the regression was identified and fixed. * qemu: Relax check for memory device coldplug Because of a check that was too aggressive, a virtio-mem memory device could not be cold plugged. This is now fixed. * qemu: Be less aggressive when dropping channel source paths Another regression is resolved, (introduced in 9.7.0) when libvirt was too aggressive when dropping parsed paths for <channel/> sources * qemuDomainChangeNet: Reflect trustGuestRxFilters change On device-update, when a user requested change of trustGuestRxFilters for a domain's <interface/> libvirt did nothing. It did not throw an error nor did it reflect the change. Starting with this release, the change is reflected. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.0.0
by Jiri Denemark 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

I have just tagged v10.0.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed tarballs and source RPMs 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

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Release of libvirt-9.10.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

The 9.10.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and signed tarballs and source RPMs 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 * Introduce pipewire audio backend The QEMU hypervisor driver now allows setting ``pipewire`` backend for ``<audio/>`` device. * Improvements * Adapt to qemu's use of protocol drivers in QCOW2 'backing file format' field QEMU allows creating images where the 'backing file format' is actually a protocol name such as 'file'/'host_device'/'nbd'/etc.. Adapt libvirt to properly handle such images and don't assume automatic format probing is necessary, which is in many cases forbidden due to security implications. * Bug fixes * qemu: Fix setup of images on hotplug of disk Internal image metadata was not setup correctly which could cause some disk hotplug configurations (namely those including backing images) to fail. * qemu: Fix qemu crash when reverting an internal snapshot Libvirt attempted to start qemu with wrong arguments when attempting to revert to an internal snapshot causing qemu to crash. * qemu: Fix hotplug of empty cdrom Empty cdrom drive couldn't be hotplugged as libvirt wanted to setup the storage backing it unconditionally. Enjoy. Jirka

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ANNOUNCE: libvirt-glib release 5.0.0
by Daniel P. Berrangé 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0, is now available from https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) Changes in this release: - Fix compatiblity with libxml2 >= 2.12.0 - Bump min libvirt version to 2.3.0 - Bump min meson to 0.56.0 - Require use of GCC >= 4.8 / CLang > 3.4 / XCode CLang > 5.1 - Mark USB disks as removable by default - Add support for audio device backend config - Add support for DBus graphics backend config - Add support for controlling firmware feature flags - Improve compiler flag handling in meson - Extend library version script handling to FreeBSD - Fix pointer sign issue in capabilities config API - Fix compat with gnome.mkenums() in Meson 0.60.0 - Avoid compiler warnings from gi-ir-scanner generated code by not setting glib version constraints - Be more robust about NULL GError parameters - Disable unimportant cast alignment compiler warnings - Use 'pragma once' in all header files - Updated translations Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new release. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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Entering freeze for libvirt-9.10.0
by Jiri Denemark 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

I have just tagged v9.10.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed tarballs and source RPMs 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

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ANNOUNCE: Mailing list move complete
by Daniel P. Berrangé 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

This is an announcement to the effect that the mailing list move is now complete. TL;DR the new list addresses are: * announce(a)lists.libvirt.org (formerly libvirt-announce(a)redhat.com) Low volume, announcements of releases and other important info * users(a)lists.libvirt.org (formerly libvirt-users(a)redhat.com) End user questions and discussions and collaboration * devel(a)lists.libvirt.org (formerly libvir-list(a)redhat.com) Patch submission for development of main project * security(a)lists.libvirt.org (formerly libvir-security(a)redhat.com) Submission of security sensitive bug reports The online archive and membership mgmt interface is https://lists.libvirt.org In my original announcement[1] I mentioned that people would need to manually re-subscribe. Due to a mixup in communications, our IT admins went ahead and migrated across the existing entire subscriber base for all lists. Thus there is NO need to re-subscribe to any of the lists. If you were doing filtering of mail, you may need to update filters for the new list ID matches. With the new list server, HyperKitty is providing the web interface. Thus if you wish to interact with the lists entire via the browser this is now possible. Note that it requires you to register for an account and set a password, even if you are already a list subscriber. If you mistakenly send to the old lists you should receive an auto-reply about the moved destinations. Note, we had some technical issues on Thursday/Friday, so if you sent mails on those two days they probably will not have reached any lists, and so you may wish to re-send them. With regards, Daniel [1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2023-October/000650.ht… -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|

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Release of libvirt-9.9.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

The 9.9.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and signed tarballs and source RPMs 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 * QEMU: implement reverting external snapshots Reverting external snapshots is now possible using the existing API ``virDomainSnapshotRevert()``. Management application can check host capabilities for ``<externalSnapshot/>`` element within the list of guest features to see if the current libvirt supports both deleting and reverting external snapshots. * virsh: add ``console --resume`` support The ``virsh console`` subcommand now accepts a ``--resume`` option. This will resume a paused guest after connecting to the console. * Improvements * virsh: Improve ``virsh start --console`` behavior The ``virsh start --console`` now tries to connect to the guest console before starting the vCPUs. * virsh: Improve ``virsh create --console`` behavior The ``virsh create --console`` now tries to connect to the guest console before starting the vCPUs. Enjoy. Jirka

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libvirt-9.9.0 release candidate 2
by Jiri Denemark 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

I have just tagged v9.9.0-rc2 in the repository and pushed signed tarballs and source RPMs 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

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