From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index bba5c66dac..f1353ac698 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ v12.9.0 (unreleased) event on the source host. The event includes the newly added VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_UNDEFINED_MIGRATED detail. + * qemu: report guest reboot as shutdown detail for on_reboot=destroy + + Libvirt now reports the reason of shutdown event properly. + + * qemu: Consider vhost net for MSHV accelerator + + This release enables vhost networking for both KVM and MSHV accelerators. + * **Bug fixes** * bhyve: fix shutdown handling on arm64 @@ -64,6 +72,34 @@ v12.9.0 (unreleased) Signal-based shutdown now correctly handles bhyve terminating directly on arm64, preventing stopped domains from remaining reported as running. + * virpci: fix handling newline in PCI device class + + This releases fixes a regression introduced in ``v12.2.0`` release which + kept libvirt unable to parse PCI related files from a sysfs mount, if they + contained a newline character. + + * security: Check if R/O or shared disk is not directory + + Starting a domain with a read only disk (e.g. cdrom), or attaching one to + an already running domain might have resulted in mangled permissions, if a + directory was given as the disk source. + + * esx: Avoid integer overflow in esxDomainGetInfo() + + The ESX driver implementation for ``virDomainGetInfo()`` API fetches domain + memory size and domain max memory size in MiB and then multiplies both + values by factor of 1024, since the API reports those sizes in KiB. But + these multiplications can overflow and thus report invalid values. An error + is reported instead. + + * conf: Deny negative vcpu count + + If a negative value was specified for the number of vCPUs in domain XML, + libvirt would try to allocate absurdly large amounts of memory which would + trigger OOM killer and kill the daemon. Non-positive values are forbidden + now. + + v12.8.0 (2026-10-01) ==================== -- 2.56.0