From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- v2: - moved the entry about $PATH lookup under "packaging changes" - added a note that it fixes libvirt on distros which merged /sbin to /bin but only on new installs NEWS.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index fd577021b3..d1bb19c8db 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased) Support for the recently released IBM POWER11 processor was added. +* **Packaging changes** + + * All helper programs are now detected from ``$PATH`` during runtime + + All of the code was now converted to dynamically look up helper programs + in ``$PATH`` rather than doing the lookup at build time and then compiling + in the result. + + Programs ``mount``, ``umount``, ``mkfs``, ``modprobe``, ``rmmod``, + ``numad``, ``dmidecode``, ``ip``, ``tc``, ``mdevctl``, ``mm-ctl``, + ``iscsiadm``, ``ovs-vsctl``, ``pkttyagent``, ``bhyveload``, ``bhyvectl``, + ``bhyve``, ``ifconfig``, ``vzlist``, ``vzctl``, ``vzmigrate``, and the + tools from the lvm suite (``vgchange``, ``lvcreate``, etc..) are now not + needed during build and will still work properly if placed in ``$PATH``. + + This also ensures that libvirt works correctly on distros that are + transitioning ``/sbin`` into ``/bin`` and upgraded installations have + a different layout from fresh installations. + * **Improvements** * virsh: Add option ``--no-pkttyagent`` @@ -35,6 +54,11 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased) <nvram/> </os> + * qemu: Improve accuracy of FDC/floppy device support statement in capabilities XML + + The data is now based on the presence of the controller in qemu rather than + just a denylist of machine types where floppies not work. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: Fix failure when reverting to internal snapshots @@ -52,6 +76,13 @@ v11.4.0 (unreleased) destination host to crash when trying to resume failed post-copy migration. + * qemu: Treat the ``queues`` configuration of ``virtio-net`` as guest ABI + + The queue count itself isn't a device frontend property but libvirt uses + it to calculate ``vectors`` option of the device which is a guest OS visible + property, thus ``queues`` must not change during migration. The ABI stability + check now handles this properly. + v11.3.0 (2025-05-02) ==================== -- 2.49.0