[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.7.0

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/