[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-5.5.0

It's there, only one day late :-) tagged in git as with signed tarball and source rpms uploaded to the usual place: https://libvirt.org/sources/ I also released the python bindings that you can find at: https://libvirt.org/sources/python/ This is a rich release with security fixes, new APIs, some deprecated features and as usual improvements and bug fixes ! Security: - api: Prevent access to several APIs over read-only connections Certain APIs give root-equivalent access to the host, and as such should be limited to privileged users. CVE-2019-10161, CVE-2019-10166, CVE-2019-10167, CVE-2019-10168. New features: - qemu: Support SMMUv3 IOMMU SMMUv3 is an IOMMU implementation for ARM virt guests. - network: Introduce the network port API This new public API can be used by virtualization drivers to manage network resources associated with guests, and is a further step towards splitting libvirtd into multiple daemons. Removed features: - qemu: Remove support for virDomainQemuAttach and virConnectDomainXMLFromNative APIs The qemu implementations for the APIs mentioned above were removed and the APIs now return an error. The implementation was stale for a long time and did not work with modern QEMU command lines, generated from libvirt or otherwise. - Stop supporting migration of config files from pre-XDG layout The new layout was introduced with libvirt 0.9.13 (Jul 2012). - Remove Avahi mDNS support This feature was never used outside of virt-manager, which has itself stopped using it a while ago. Improvements: - sysinfo: Report SMBIOS information on aarch64 While SMBIOS support has historically been limited to x86_64, modern aarch64 machines often offer access to the same information as well, and libvirt now exposes it to the user when that's the case. - test driver: Expand API coverage Even more APIs that were missing from the test driver have now been implemented. - virt-xml-validate: Allow input to be read from stdin - qemu: Validate spapr-vio addresses as 32-bit libvirt has always considered these addresses (used for pSeries guests) as 64-bit, but the sPAPR specification says that they're 32-bit instead. Bug fixes: - qemu: Set process affinity correctly when using <numatune> libvirt would mistakenly interpret the nodeset attribute as a list of CPUs instead of as a list of NUMA node, and the process affinity would be set incorrectly as a result; this has now been fixed. Thanks everybody for your help with this release, be that with bugs, fixes, reviews, documentation, localisation, etc ... Enjoy the release, 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/