[PATCH] NEWS: add blurbs about a couple of bugs I fixed this month

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index beea8221e1..617af915b3 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ v10.8.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * network: make networks with <forward mode='open'/> more useful + + It is now permissable to have a <forward mode='open'> network that + has no IP address assigned to the host's port of the bridge. This + is the only way to create a libvirt network where guests are + unreachable from the host (and vice versa) and also 0 firewall + rules are added on the host. + + It is now also possible for a <forward mode='open'/> network to + use the "zone" attribute of <bridge> to set the firewalld zone of + the bridge interface (normally it would not be set, as is done + with other forward modes). + * **Bug fixes** * virsh: Fix script-friedly output of ``virsh list --uuid`` @@ -32,6 +45,18 @@ v10.8.0 (unreleased) Note that this also broke the ``libvirt-guests`` script. The bug was introduced in `v10.7.0 (2024-09-02)`_. + * network/qemu: fix some cases where device-update of a network + interface was failing: + + * If the interface was connected to a libvirt network that was + providing a pool of VFs to be used with macvtap passthrough + mode, then *any* update to the interface would fail, even + changing the link state. Updating (the updateable parts of) a + macvtap passthrough interface will now succeed. + + * It previously was not possible to move an interface from a Linux + host bridge to an OVS bridge. This (and the opposite direction) + now works. v10.7.0 (2024-09-02) ==================== -- 2.46.1

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 16:04:12 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> ---
NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 16:04:12 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> ---
NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index beea8221e1..617af915b3 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ v10.8.0 (unreleased)
* **Improvements**
+ * network: make networks with <forward mode='open'/> more useful
Please put the XML element in double-backticks ``<asdf>`` to make them monospace/code in the output in the few instances below.
+ + It is now permissable to have a <forward mode='open'> network that + has no IP address assigned to the host's port of the bridge. This + is the only way to create a libvirt network where guests are + unreachable from the host (and vice versa) and also 0 firewall + rules are added on the host. + + It is now also possible for a <forward mode='open'/> network to + use the "zone" attribute of <bridge> to set the firewalld zone of + the bridge interface (normally it would not be set, as is done + with other forward modes).

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 09:05:33 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 16:04:12 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> ---
NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index beea8221e1..617af915b3 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ v10.8.0 (unreleased)
* **Improvements**
+ * network: make networks with <forward mode='open'/> more useful
Please put the XML element in double-backticks ``<asdf>`` to make them monospace/code in the output in the few instances below.
FYI I've done these changes and pushed your patch as others are waiting to get news in.

On 9/30/24 8:22 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 09:05:33 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 16:04:12 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> ---
NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index beea8221e1..617af915b3 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ v10.8.0 (unreleased)
* **Improvements**
+ * network: make networks with <forward mode='open'/> more useful
Please put the XML element in double-backticks ``<asdf>`` to make them monospace/code in the output in the few instances below.
FYI I've done these changes and pushed your patch as others are waiting to get news in.
Thanks! I remember thinking "don't I have to do something extra for < and >?" as I was writing it, but then had forgotten within a few seconds :-/
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