I have tagged the release candidate 2 for libvirt-1.2.9 in git,
and pushed signed tarballs and rpms to the usual place:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
So unfortuntely this was too early to try to fix Christophe's
reported bug, hopefully we can get it fixed in time. If needed
I can postpone the final release from Wed, but that's still the plan.
Please give it a try,
rc1 already looked good on Debian's buildds and rc2 is doing good as
well: