Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Mention notable changes

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > Add entries for deprecation_behavior, improving of errors from > virsh's > snapshot helpers and other bugfixes. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > NEWS.rst | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst > index 5f8b0ae02d..4a5e2c9fd4 100644 > --- a/NEWS.rst > +++ b/NEWS.rst > @@ -18,10 +18,58 @@ v7.3.0 (unreleased) > The xen driver now supports domains with more than 4TB of memory > with > xen >= 4.13. > > + * qemu: Allow use of qemu's ``-compat`` option > + > + Curious developers or testers now can enable certain ``-compat`` > modes which > + allow to notice use of deprecated commands and options as qemu > will use the > + selected method to notify the user. The new behaviour can be > requested using > + either the ``deprecation_behavior`` option in ``qemu.conf`` for > all VMs or > + using ``<qemu:deprecation behavior='...'/>`` in the VM XML. > + > * **Improvements** > > + * virsh: Improve errors with ``virsh snapshot-create-as`` > + > + The XML constructed by virsh was forced through RNG schema > validation which I initially read that as "Random Number Generator schema validation" and was a bit confused. Just FYI.

> + yielded unintelligible error messages in cases such as when the > path to > + the new image was not starting with a slash. Perhaps change "was not starting with" to "did not start with" > XMLs are no longer validated Personal nit: XMLs technically expands to Extensible Markup Languages, which sounds a bit off to my ears. I prefer something like "XML files"