The "Security" section has been used in the past, so we're only documenting existing behavior; the "Packaging changes" will be used in the next commit, as well as in future releases when we make more changes that are relevant to packagers, such as the switch to Meson. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 79255de011..e566ed9e57 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -30,10 +30,13 @@ </section> </release> - If relevant for a given release, add a section for removed - features too + If relevant for a given release, add a section for these too: + <section title="Packaging changes"> + </section> <section title="Removed features"> + </section> + <section title="Security"> </section> --> -- 2.21.0

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- docs/news.xml | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index e566ed9e57..11f52b81a0 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -43,6 +43,36 @@ <libvirt> <release version="v5.9.0" date="unreleased"> + <section title="Packaging changes"> + <change> + <summary> + Start linking against GLib and using its features + </summary> + <description> + Up until now, libvirt has been dealing with platform portability and + the lack of certain features in libc by using gnulib and implementing + its own functions and data structures respectively; going forward, it + will prefer the facilities offered by GLib instead. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Stop distributing generated documentation + </summary> + <description> + Most downstreams already patch the libvirt source to some extent, so + this change will probably not affect them. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Rewrite several Perl scripts in Python + </summary> + <description> + Phasing out Perl usage is part of the project strategy. + </description> + </change> + </section> <section title="New features"> <change> <summary> @@ -71,8 +101,34 @@ using the <code>acpi</code> element. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Support specifying resolution for video devices + </summary> + </change> + </section> + <section title="Removed features"> + <change> + <summary> + logging: Drop support for including stack traces + </summary> + <description> + This feature was intended to aid debugging, but in practice it + resulted in logs that were too verbose to be useful and also resulted + in a significant performance penalty. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Implement CPU comparison/baseline on s390x + </summary> + <description> + This functionality has been historically limited to x86_64, but it's + now available on s390x too. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> @@ -90,6 +146,46 @@ This is now fixed. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + qemu: Properly advertise bochs-display availability + </summary> + <description> + Support for <code>bochs-display</code> was introduced in libvirt + 5.6.0, but until now the model was not listed in the domain + capabilities. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + security: Don't remember labels for TPM devices + </summary> + <description> + Due to the way they're implemented in the kernel, trying to remember + labels for TPM devices makes it impossible to use them. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + security: Properly rollback after failure in a stacked driver + </summary> + <description> + When multiple security drivers are involved, failure in one of them + would result in only the corresponding changes being rolled back, + leaving the ones performed by drivers that had been activated earlier + in place. All changes are rolled back now. + </description> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Fix build with musl libc + </summary> + </change> + <change> + <summary> + Improve compatibility with non-bash shells + </summary> + </change> </section> </release> <release version="v5.8.0" date="2019-10-05"> -- 2.21.0