Document xz compression improvements, docutils build requirements, and dropped python 2 support. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 43aa96f497..63d57a85ac 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -44,11 +44,48 @@ <libvirt> <release version="v6.0.0" date="unreleased"> <section title="New features"> + <change> + <summary> + docs: the python docutils toolset is now required + </summary> + <description> + The use of rst2html has been introduced for the + website build process since docs are now being + written in the RST as an alternative to HTML. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: xz save image compression is faster + </summary> + <description> + When using the xz format to compressed virtual + machine saved state images, the "-3" compression + level preset is now used. This results in slightly + larger files, but with a massively reduced time + to compress. The xz format offers the best compression + level for saved state images, albeit still with the + slowest running time. For the fastest possible + running time, at cost of the larest compressed size, + lzop should be used. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> </section> + <section title="Removed features"> + <change> + <summary> + support for python2 is removed + </summary> + <description> + Libvirt is no longer able to be built using the + Python 2 binary. Python 3 must be used instead. + </description> + </change> + </section> </release> <release version="v5.10.0" date="2019-12-02"> <section title="New features"> -- 2.21.0