Release of libvirt-9.7.0

The 9.7.0 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: basic support for use of "VFIO variant" drivers A VFIO variant driver is a device-specific driver that can be used in place of the generic vfio-pci driver, and provides extra functionality to support things like live migration of guests with vfio-assigned devices. It can currently be used by: 1) setting ``managed='no'`` in the XML configuration for the device 2) pre-binding the variant driver using the ``--driver`` option of ``virsh nodedev-detach``. * Bug fixes * qemu: Various fixes to firmware selection The changes made to firmware selection in libvirt 9.2.0 have unfortunately introduced a number of regressions. All known issues in this area have now been resolved. Enjoy. Jirka