Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio(a)redhat.com&gt; --- I went through the commits since last release and added a few notes which seem to be relevant for the news. In case you notice there's something missing, please, either send me the text to add it (and I'll re-sping this patch) and add the text before merging this one. Changes since v1: - Actually run make-check in order to be sure the changes are fine. Changes since v2: - Fixed and reworded some parts according to John's and Erik's suggestions. - Added, according to Erik's suggestion: - util: Introduce VIR_AUTOCLOSE macro to automatically close files' fds - virsh: Implement vsh-table in virsh and virsh-admin --- docs/news.xml | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 3ed6ff8aeb..36692ba456 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -44,6 +44,18 @@ and virDomainPMWakeup APIs. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + utils: Introduce monitor capability interface + </summary> + <description> + The resource monitor has been introduced and it creates the interface + for getting the host capability of the resource monitor from the system + resource control. + The resource monitor takes the role of RDT monitoring groups and could + be used to monitor the resource consumption information. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change> @@ -55,6 +67,15 @@ Drop support for these older versions and require Xen >= 4.6. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + nwfilter: Disallow binding creation in session mode + </summary> + <description> + Ensure that a filter binding creation is not attempted in session + mode and generates a proper error message. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> <change> @@ -68,8 +89,64 @@ Guest Agent. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + storage: Allow to use any format as input volume for encryption + </summary> + <description> + Libvirt has supported 'raw' input volumes for encryption since 4.5.0. + Now, it's not going to limit the usage to 'raw' only anymore. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + libxl: Add support to set shadow memory for any guest type + </summary> + <description> + PVH guests now can take advantage of using shadow memory. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + util: Introduce VIR_AUTOCLOSE macro to automatically close files' fds + </summary> + <description> + The Macro automatically force closes the fds by calling + <code>virForceCloseHelper</code> when the fd goes out of scope and is + used to eliminate <code>VIR_FORCE_CLOSE</code> in cleanup sections. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + virsh: Implement vsh-table in virsh and virsh-admin + </summary> + <description> + The new API fixes problems with table-alignment, making the tables + more readable and deals with unicode. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> + <change> + <summary> + virsh: Require explicit --domain for domxml-to-native + </summary> + <description> + The --domain option for domxml-to-native virsh command has always + been documented as required, but commit v4.3.0-127-gd86531daf2 + accidentally made it optional. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + lxc_monitor: Avoid AB / BA lock race + </summary> + <description> + A deadlock situation could occur when autostarting a LXC domain + 'guest' due to two threads attempting to take opposing locks while + holding opposing locks (AB BA problem). + </description> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v4.7.0" date="2018-09-03"> -- 2.19.0