From: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/news.xml | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 468d340..7348838 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 +158,39 @@
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>
+ NBD volumes can now be accessed securely.
+ </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 +204,26 @@
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>
+ An odd number of vCPUs greater than 1 was forbidden in the past,
+ but current versions of ESXi have lifted that restriction.
+ </description>
+ </change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v4.4.0" date="2018-06-04">
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1.8.3.1
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