It's out, a bit late but the signed tarball and rpms are at the usual place and it's tagged in git: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also pushed the python bindings, with only a single patch since 5.1.0 at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ Note that it's a release with rather large changes, new features and removal of some deprecated init scripts, and as usual a large amount of improvement and bug fixes: New features: - Add Storage Pool Capabilities output Add support to list an enumerated list of supported Storage Pools via the virConnectGetCapabilities API when connected via a Storage Driver. Add support to get a more detailed list XML output Storage Pool Capabilities vis the virConnectGetStoragePoolCapabilites API. - qemu: Support virtio-{non-}transitional device models virtio-transitional and virtio-non-transitional model values were added to the QEMU driver for the following devices: disk, interface, filesystem, rng, vsock, memballoon, controller type scsi, controller type virtio-serial, input bus virtio type passthrough, hostdev type scsi_host. These new models can be used to give fine grained control over what virtio device version is presented to the guest. - qemu: Enable firmware autoselection Libvirt allows users to provide loader path for some time now. However, this puts some burden on users because they need to know what firmware meets their requirements. Now that QEMU ships firmware description files this burden can be moved onto libvirt. It is as easy as setting the firmware attribute in the os element (accepted values are bios and efi). Moreover, libvirt automatically enables domain features needed for firmware it chooses. - snapshots: Add support for topological listings A new flag VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_TOPOLOGICAL is available for the various snapshot listing APIs such as virDomainListAllSnapshots(). For drivers that support the flag, the listed snapshots are guaranteed to be sorted such that parents occur before children. - Xen: Add support for max grant frames setting Add support for Xen's max_grant_frames setting by adding a new xenbus controller type with a maxGrantFrames attribute. E.g. <controller type='xenbus' maxGrantFrames='64'/> - qemu: Add support for parallel migration With QEMU 4.0.0 libvirt can enable parallel migration which causes the memory pages to be processed in parallel by several threads and sent to the destination host using several connections at the same time. This may increase migration speed in case a single thread is unable to saturate the network link. Removed features: - Drop support for Upstart and "Red Hat" init scripts Not a single one of the platforms we target still uses Upstart, and the Upstart project itself has been abandoned for several years now; the same is true for the "Red Hat" (really System V) init scripts, since RHEL 7 and later releases use systemd. Improvements: - Report class information for PCI node device capability. - Split setup of IPv4 and IPv6 top level chain The requirement resulting from private chains improvement done in v5.1.0 was refined so that only tables from corresponding IP version are required. This means that if a network doesn't have IPv6 enabled then those tables are not required. - Don't default to building the QEMU driver Historically, the QEMU driver has been special in that it was enabled by default, with the option to explicitly opt-out of it; starting now, we're enabling it opportunistically if we detect that all requirements are available, just like we do with other drivers. Bug fixes: - virt-host-validate: Fix IOMMU check on s390x - qemu: Allow creating pSeries guests with graphics and no USB mouse It's now possible to prevent libvirt from automatically adding a USB mouse to pSeries guests by including a USB tablet in the input XML: doing so is desiderable as using a tablet results in a much better user experience when working with GUIs. - qemu: Set $HOME and XGD variables for qemu:///system guests This avoids files being accidentally created under / or the guests not being able to start because they lack the necessary permissions to write to that location. Thanks everybody for your contributions for this release, be it with bug reports, patches, reviews, documentation, 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/