[libvirt] Release of libvirt-5.0.0

Hi all, as planned I just tagged the new release in git, and pushed signed tarball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also pushed the python bindings, identical to 4.10 with just the versioning bump, you can find them at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This release includes new features, but also remove the old apparently unused UML driver support. There is also a rather large set of improvements: New features: - Xen: Add support for openvswitch The libxl driver now supports virtual interfaces that connect to an openvswitch bridge, including interfaces with VLAN tagging and trunking configuration. - qemu: Report whether KVM nesting is available Running nested KVM guests requires specific configuration steps to be performed on the host; libvirt will now report in the host capabilities whether KVM nesting support is available. Removed features: - Drop UML driver The UML driver was unmaintained and not tested for quite some time now. Worse, there is a bug that causes it to deadlock on some very basic operations (e.g. dumping domain XML). These facts make us believe no one uses it. Improvements: - qemu: Add support for ARMv6l guests - Support more NVDIMM configuration options Introduce more configuration options. For the source element, add the 'alignsize' and 'pmem' subelements. For the target element, add the 'readonly' subelement. - cpu: Add support for "stibp" x86_64 feature Add cpu flag stibp (Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors) to prevent indirect branch predictions from being controlled by the sibling Hyperthread. - libxl: Handle external domain destroy Historically, if a domain was destroyed using xl rather than through libvirt APIs, libvirt would not be aware of the fact and keep considering it as running. This is no longer the case. - Start selecting the first available DRI device for OpenGL operations If OpenGL support is needed (either with SPICE gl enabled or with egl-headless), libvirt is now able to pick the first available DRI device for the job. At the same time, this improvement is also a bugfix as it prevents permission-related issues with regards to our mount namespaces and the default DRI render node's permissions which would normally prevent QEMU from accessing such a device. - qemu: Add support for postcopy-requests migration statistics The virDomainJobInfo can get number page requests received from the destination host during post-copy migration. Bug fixes: - lxc: Don't forbid interfaces with type=direct Such interfaces are supported by lxc and should be allowed. - qemu: Fully clean up RNG devices on detach Some RNG device types, such as those using EGD, might need extra clean up on the host in addition to removing the guest-side device. Thanks everybody for your help toward this release, be it with patches reviews, bug description, documentation and localizations ! As a reminder, the next release is scheduled at the end of February, in the meantime, enjoy the new release ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/