While we have CI testing coverage for many platforms, we don't test any non-glibc based Linux and there are other non-Linux platforms we don't officially target, both of which might hit regressions. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 5aa9d081a7..13812a1234 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -97,6 +97,25 @@ </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> </section> + <section title="Packaging changes"> + <change> + <summary> + use of gnulib has been completely eliminated + </summary> + <description> + Historically libvirt has embedded gnulib to provide fixes for + various platform portability problems. This usage has now been + eliminated and alternative approaches for platform portability + problems adopted where required. This has been validated on the + set of platforms covered by automated CI build testing. Other + modern Linux distros using glibc are expected to work. Linux + distros using non-glibc packages, and other non-Linux platforms + may encounter regressions when building this release. Please + report any build problems encountered back to the project + maintainers for evaluation. + </description> + </change> + </section> </release> <release version="v6.0.0" date="2020-01-15"> <section title="Packaging changes"> -- 2.24.1