[PATCH] NEWS: Mention bump to qemu-6.2, vhost-user shmem check and stats params discoverabilty

From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 18d45656b8..2855ec77e4 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) * **Removed features** + * Remove support for qemu-6.1 and older + + Libvirt now requires *qemu-6.2* or newer based on our platform support + policy. + * **New features** * qemu: Add new 'image_format' parameter to virDomainSaveParams @@ -87,6 +92,21 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) The new error codes are ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT`` and ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_FAILED``. + * qemu: Use common check for shared memory use for ``vhost-user`` network devices + + Historically libvirt printed only a warning if the ``vhost-user`` network + was misconfigured. Since we enforce proper configuration for other device + types using ``vhost-user`` it is now enforced also for network devices and + prints an actual error on misconfiguration. + + + * Introduce constants for discoverability of entries in bulk stats APIs + + Libvirt introduced constants exposed by our API description XML which allows + discoverability of new entries in typed parameter names returned by + ``virConnectGetAllDomainStats``, ``virDomainListGetStats``, and + ``virDomainGetGuestInfo``. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: attach virtio-mem with CCW address -- 2.49.0

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 10:16:35AM +0100, Peter Krempa via Devel wrote:
From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 18d45656b8..2855ec77e4 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased)
* **Removed features**
+ * Remove support for qemu-6.1 and older + + Libvirt now requires *qemu-6.2* or newer based on our platform support + policy. + * **New features**
* qemu: Add new 'image_format' parameter to virDomainSaveParams @@ -87,6 +92,21 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) The new error codes are ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT`` and ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_FAILED``.
+ * qemu: Use common check for shared memory use for ``vhost-user`` network devices + + Historically libvirt printed only a warning if the ``vhost-user`` network + was misconfigured. Since we enforce proper configuration for other device + types using ``vhost-user`` it is now enforced also for network devices and + prints an actual error on misconfiguration. + +
Remove the extra empty line.
+ * Introduce constants for discoverability of entries in bulk stats APIs + + Libvirt introduced constants exposed by our API description XML which allows + discoverability of new entries in typed parameter names returned by + ``virConnectGetAllDomainStats``, ``virDomainListGetStats``, and + ``virDomainGetGuestInfo``. + * **Bug fixes**
* qemu: attach virtio-mem with CCW address
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
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