[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 4.5.0 release
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below, both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes themselves next time :) docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 468d34093a..65c23e51b6 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ Support specifying extended TSEG size for SMM in QEMU. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for SEV guests + </summary> + <description> + SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) is a feature available on AMD + CPUs that encrypts the guest memory and makes it inaccessible even + to the host OS. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change> @@ -76,6 +86,24 @@ secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Make GnuTLS mandatory + </summary> + <description> + Building without GnuTLS is no longer possible. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Remove allow_disk_format_probing configuration option + </summary> + <description> + The option represented a security risk when used with malicious + disk images, so users were recommended against enabling it; with + this release, it's been removed altogether. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> <change> @@ -130,6 +158,41 @@ or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for vsock hot (un)plug and cold (un)plug + </summary> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS + </summary> + <description> + Securely accessing NBD volumes no longer requires tunnelling over + SSH or another secure protocol: the native TLS support can now be + used instead. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Implement FD passing for Unix sockets + </summary> + <description> + Instead of having QEMU open the socket and then connecting to it, + which is inherently racy, starting with QEMU 2.12 we can open the + socket ourselves and pass it to QEMU, avoiding race conditions. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + virsh: Introduce --nowait option for domstat command + </summary> + <description> + When this option is specified, virsh will try to fetch the guest + stats but abort instead of stalling if they can't be retrieved right + away. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> @@ -143,6 +206,26 @@ us getting to the worker pool initialization. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Fix domain resume after failed migration + </summary> + <description> + Recent versions of QEMU activate block devices before the guest CPU + has been started, which makes it impossible to roll back a failed + migration. Use the <code>late-block-activate</code> migration + capability if supported to avoid the issue. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs + </summary> + <description> + This was forbidden in the past, but current versions of ESX can + deal with a guest configured as such. + </description> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v4.4.0" date="2018-06-04"> -- 2.17.1
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 16:47:00 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below, both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes themselves next time :)
docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 468d34093a..65c23e51b6 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml
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or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for vsock hot (un)plug and cold (un)plug + </summary> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS + </summary> + <description> + Securely accessing NBD volumes no longer requires tunnelling over + SSH or another secure protocol: the native TLS support can now be + used instead.
The part about "SSH or other secure protocol" does not make any sense and also would be impossible with libvirt.
+ </description> + </change> + <change>
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 16:51 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
+ <summary> + qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS + </summary> + <description> + Securely accessing NBD volumes no longer requires tunnelling over + SSH or another secure protocol: the native TLS support can now be + used instead.
The part about "SSH or other secure protocol" does not make any sense and also would be impossible with libvirt.
Would you mind providing an alternative wording to be used there? -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:47:00PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below,
See: https://libvirt.org/hacking.html As a rule, patches should be sent to the mailing list only: all developers are subscribed to libvir-list and read it regularly, so please don't CC individual developers unless they've explicitly asked you to. Jano
both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes themselves next time :)
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 16:53 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:47:00PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below,
See: https://libvirt.org/hacking.html
As a rule, patches should be sent to the mailing list only: all developers are subscribed to libvir-list and read it regularly, so please don't CC individual developers unless they've explicitly asked you to.
Considering the fact that 4.5.0 is going to be released in just a few hours, I felt like bending the rules a bit was appropriate. If you want to make sure this never happens again to you, just update the release notes as you introduce changes to libvirt ;) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
On Monday, 2 July 2018 16:47:00 CEST Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- [...] + <change> + <summary> + vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs + </summary> + <description> + This was forbidden in the past, but current versions of ESX can
Maybe something like: "An odd number of guests greater than 1 was forbidden in the past, and current versions of ESXi support this." -- Pino Toscano
On Monday, 2 July 2018 16:57:26 CEST Pino Toscano wrote:
On Monday, 2 July 2018 16:47:00 CEST Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- [...] + <change> + <summary> + vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs + </summary> + <description> + This was forbidden in the past, but current versions of ESX can
Maybe something like:
"An odd number of guests greater than 1 was forbidden in the past, and current versions of ESXi support this."
Err, typos aside: "An odd number of vCPUs greater than 1 was forbidden in the past, and current versions of ESXi support this configuration, so the restriction was lifted." -- Pino Toscano
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 16:47 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below, both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes themselves next time :)
docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
Pushed, after addressing the comments, under the "you've had an hour to say something and the release is coming really soon" rule :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:47:00PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- I've CC'd all those who introduced the changes mentioned below, both to give them a chance to point out any mistake I might have made and to possibly annoy them into updating the release notes themselves next time :)
docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 468d34093a..65c23e51b6 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ Support specifying extended TSEG size for SMM in QEMU. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Add support for SEV guests + </summary> + <description> + SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) is a feature available on AMD + CPUs that encrypts the guest memory and makes it inaccessible even + to the host OS. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Removed features"> <change>
Damn it, I remember sending a patch for ^this which you RB'd and then I clearly never pushed it, sigh...thanks anyway Erik
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