Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 950b188a8b..857fef0f6d 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ v9.5.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: Allow configuring the ``discard-no-unref`` feature of ``qcow2`` driver + + The new ``discard_no_unref`` attribute of the ``disk`` ``driver`` element + controls whether the ``qcow2`` driver in qemu unrefs clusters inside the + image on discard requests. Disabling cluster unrefing decreases fragmentation + of the image. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Include maximum physical address size in baseline CPU @@ -26,13 +33,6 @@ v9.5.0 (unreleased) compatible with all hosts even if their supported physical address sizes differ. - * qemu: Allow configuring the ``discard-no-unref`` feature of ``qcow2`` driver - - The new ``discard_no_unref`` attribute of the ``disk`` ``driver`` element - controls whether the ``qcow2`` driver in qemu unrefs clusters inside the - image on discard requests. Disabling cluster unrefing decreases fragmentation - of the image. - * **Bug fixes** -- 2.41.0

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 857fef0f6d..f3e8f9bf8b 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -33,8 +33,47 @@ v9.5.0 (unreleased) compatible with all hosts even if their supported physical address sizes differ. + * conf: Properly handle slots for non-DIMM ``<memory>`` devices + + Memory devices such as ``virtio-mem`` don't need a memory slot as they are + PCI devices. ``libvirt`` now properly accounts the memory slots for such + devices as well as specifying the ``slots`` attribute of the ``<maxMemory>`` + element is no longer needed unless DIMM-like devices are to be used. + + * ``passt`` log and port forwarding improvements + + Libvirt now ensures that the ``passt`` helper process can access the + configured log file even when it's placed in a directory without permissions. + + The ``<portForward>`` element of a passt-backed interface can now omit the + ``address`` attribute as it's enough to specify a ``dev``. + * **Bug fixes** + * lxc: Allow seeking in ``/proc/meminfo`` to resove failure with new ``procps`` package + + New version of the ``free`` command from ``procps`` package seeks into the + ``/proc/meminfo`` file, which was not supported by the instance of the file + exposed via LXC causing a failure. + + * qemu: Fix rare race-condition when detaching a device + + The device removal handler callback function didn't re-check the state of + the unplug operation after a timeout, which could rarely cause that the + device was removed from the VM but not the definition. + + * qemu: Fix NUMA memory allocation logic + + qemu allocates memory via the emulator thread thus that has to be allowed + to access all configured NUMA nodes of the VM rather than just the one where + it's supposed to be pinned. + + + * qemu: Fix setup of ``hostdev`` backed ``<interface>`` + + The proper steps to initialize the host device were skipped for interfaces + due to a logic bug preventing start of VM which used them. + v9.4.0 (2023-06-01) =================== -- 2.41.0