[libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] news: Update for 5.9.0 release
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
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docs/news.xml | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 96 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index e566ed9e57..11f52b81a0 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,36 @@
<libvirt>
<release version="v5.9.0" date="unreleased">
+ <section title="Packaging changes">
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Start linking against GLib and using its features
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Up until now, libvirt has been dealing with platform portability and
+ the lack of certain features in libc by using gnulib and implementing
+ its own functions and data structures respectively; going forward, it
+ will prefer the facilities offered by GLib instead.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Stop distributing generated documentation
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Most downstreams already patch the libvirt source to some extent, so
+ this change will probably not affect them.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Rewrite several Perl scripts in Python
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Phasing out Perl usage is part of the project strategy.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ </section>
<section title="New features">
<change>
<summary>
@@ -71,8 +101,34 @@
using the <code>acpi</code> element.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Support specifying resolution for video devices
+ </summary>
+ </change>
+ </section>
+ <section title="Removed features">
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ logging: Drop support for including stack traces
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ This feature was intended to aid debugging, but in practice it
+ resulted in logs that were too verbose to be useful and also resulted
+ in a significant performance penalty.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
<section title="Improvements">
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Implement CPU comparison/baseline on s390x
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ This functionality has been historically limited to x86_64, but it's
+ now available on s390x too.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
<section title="Bug fixes">
<change>
@@ -90,6 +146,46 @@
This is now fixed.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Properly advertise bochs-display availability
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Support for <code>bochs-display</code> was introduced in libvirt
+ 5.6.0, but until now the model was not listed in the domain
+ capabilities.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ security: Don't remember labels for TPM devices
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Due to the way they're implemented in the kernel, trying to remember
+ labels for TPM devices makes it impossible to use them.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ security: Properly rollback after failure in a stacked driver
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ When multiple security drivers are involved, failure in one of them
+ would result in only the corresponding changes being rolled back,
+ leaving the ones performed by drivers that had been activated earlier
+ in place. All changes are rolled back now.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Fix build with musl libc
+ </summary>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Improve compatibility with non-bash shells
+ </summary>
+ </change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v5.8.0" date="2019-10-05">
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