[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 4.5.0 release
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
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I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below,
both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have
made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes
themselves next time :)
docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 468d34093a..65c23e51b6 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@
Support specifying extended TSEG size for SMM in QEMU.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Add support for SEV guests
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) is a feature available on AMD
+ CPUs that encrypts the guest memory and makes it inaccessible even
+ to the host OS.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
<section title="Removed features">
<change>
@@ -76,6 +86,24 @@
secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ Make GnuTLS mandatory
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Building without GnuTLS is no longer possible.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Remove allow_disk_format_probing configuration option
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ The option represented a security risk when used with malicious
+ disk images, so users were recommended against enabling it; with
+ this release, it's been removed altogether.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
<section title="Improvements">
<change>
@@ -130,6 +158,41 @@
or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Add support for vsock hot (un)plug and cold (un)plug
+ </summary>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Securely accessing NBD volumes no longer requires tunnelling over
+ SSH or another secure protocol: the native TLS support can now be
+ used instead.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Implement FD passing for Unix sockets
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Instead of having QEMU open the socket and then connecting to it,
+ which is inherently racy, starting with QEMU 2.12 we can open the
+ socket ourselves and pass it to QEMU, avoiding race conditions.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ virsh: Introduce --nowait option for domstat command
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ When this option is specified, virsh will try to fetch the guest
+ stats but abort instead of stalling if they can't be retrieved right
+ away.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
<section title="Bug fixes">
<change>
@@ -143,6 +206,26 @@
us getting to the worker pool initialization.
</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Fix domain resume after failed migration
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Recent versions of QEMU activate block devices before the guest CPU
+ has been started, which makes it impossible to roll back a failed
+ migration. Use the <code>late-block-activate</code> migration
+ capability if supported to avoid the issue.
+ </description>
+ </change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ This was forbidden in the past, but current versions of ESX can
+ deal with a guest configured as such.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v4.4.0" date="2018-06-04">
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