docs/news.xml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
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">
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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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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 :) > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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 [...] > 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> -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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-- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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-- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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