[libvirt] [PATCH] Add some news items for the 3.4.0 release

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- I could not be bothered to split the patches. Also, please review whatever you know about as this is just a compilation of stuff from the git log. docs/news.xml | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 165 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 649350a904d3..d34e8beae4c0 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -45,6 +45,38 @@ sparseness. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + I/O APIC type can be specified for QEMU/KVM domains + </summary> + <description> + The <code>ioapic</code> tag was added to domain + <code>features</code>, so the type of the I/O APIC can now + be specified (e.g. putting it in userspace for KVM domains). + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Repository now has new README.md file + </summary> + <description> + The new file uses markdown syntax, so it looks better on + github and possibly other web pages, but it has also more + useful information. The old README is now symlink to the + new file. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + The reason for VM shutdown is reported, if known + </summary> + <description> + QEMU 2.10 will be able to report the reason for shutting + down (whether that was caused by the guest or not), and + libvirt is prepared for that and reports that information in + its shutdown event as well, if it is known. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> <change> @@ -67,10 +99,142 @@ is for CCW devices, most common on the S390 architecture. The second is for fibre channel-backed SCSI devices and exposes the fc_remote_port sub-capability to SCSI target devices. - </description> + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Node devices now report Mediated device capabilities + </summary> + <description> + Endpoint devices support new <code>mdev</code> capability + and their parents now report the supported types in new + <code>mdev_types</mdev> capability. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Capabilities now report information about host caches + </summary> + <description> + If supported in the kernel, host capabilities will now list + L3 caches. The code for other levels was added as well, but + only L3 caches are reported currently. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + POWER9 CPU model was added + </summary> + <description> + It is now properly reported in host capabilities. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + libxl: NUMA sibling distances are now reported in host capabilities + </summary> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Support for VMDK files with version 3 + </summary> + <description> + VMDK version 3 files are now properly detected. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Interrupt remapping and Extended interrupt mode for IOMMU devices + </summary> + <description> + These two new features can now be controlled with new + <code>&lt;driver intremap='on/off' eim='on/off'/&gt;</code> + tag for <code>iommu</code> devices. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Graphics in libxl domains now have default addresses + </summary> + <description> + Even though there were default addresses before this change, + they were not saved in the XML. It is now possible to see + and control the listen addresses properly. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Default USB controllers are now added for devices in libxl domains + </summary> + <description> + Even though they were added automatically when USB device + was attached, they could've been missing in some other + cases. The logic is now fixed so there are always USB + controllers, even if there was none of them in the specified + XML. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Limits for RPC messages were increased + </summary> + <description> + Hitting the RPC limits we have is easier every day, so they + were increased once again and some guessing logic was + improved as well. It is now possible to get more stats than + ever using the <code>virConnectGetAllDomainStats()</code> + call and push through even bigger requests and replies for + all APIs. + </description> </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> + <change> + <summary> + PCIe 4.0 cards now report proper link speeds + </summary> + <description> + It could happen that the link speed for PCIe devices was not + properly reported or the nodedev-dumpxml just failed. That + was due to mistake in the field width, but should now work + properly. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Do not report errors on shutdown + </summary> + <description> + For some users, in some rare cases, it could happen that + there was an error message "internal error: End of file from + qemu monitor" in the logs even though no problem happened. + The detection of these false positives was improved and such + errors should not show any more. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + User-specified UNIX socket paths for virtio channels should not be reset + </summary> + <description> + It could happen, in some cases, that libvirt would mistake a + user-specified path for its own generated one and thus + remove it from the XML. The detection of such addresses was + improved now. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Fix address reservation during RNG hot-plug + </summary> + <description> + When error occurred in a specific point in time during the + hot-plug of an RNG device, it could happen that an address + was released even though another device was already using + it, making it possible to hot-plug another device with that + address, effectively having duplicated addresses in the XML. + </description> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v3.3.0" date="2017-05-05"> -- 2.13.0