Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/news.xml | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index cada389092..c6cc27faae 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ <libvirt> <release version="v5.5.0" date="unreleased"> + <section title="Security"> + <change> + <summary> + api: Prevent access to several APIs over read-only connections + </summary> + <description> + 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. + </description> + </change> + </section> <section title="New features"> <change> <summary> @@ -49,6 +61,16 @@ SMMUv3 is an IOMMU implementation for ARM virt guests. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + network: Introduce the network port API + </summary> + <description> + 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. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change> @@ -62,10 +84,72 @@ from libvirt or otherwise. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Stop supporting migration of config files from pre-XDG layout + </summary> + <description> + The new layout was introduced with libvirt 0.9.13 (Jul 2012). + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Remove Avahi mDNS support + </summary> + <description> + This feature was never used outside of virt-manager, which has + itself stopped using it a while ago. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> + <change> + <summary> + sysinfo: Report SMBIOS information on aarch64 + </summary> + <description> + 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. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + test driver: Expand API coverage + </summary> + <description> + Even more APIs that were missing from the test driver have now been + implemented. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + virt-xml-validate: Allow input to be read from stdin + </summary> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Validate spapr-vio addresses as 32-bit + </summary> + <description> + libvirt has always considered these addresses (used for pSeries + guests) as 64-bit, but the sPAPR specification says that they're + 32-bit instead. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Set process affinity correctly when using &lt;numatune&gt; + </summary> + <description> + libvirt would mistakenly interpret the <code>nodeset</code> + 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. + </description> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v5.4.0" date="2019-06-03"> -- 2.21.0