[PATCH for 5.1.0] news: Update for 5.1.0 release

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Not exhaustive list of new features, improvements and bugfixes.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/news.xml | 201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 201 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 9c5ae7e8a3..813f1a93e3 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -69,8 +69,104 @@
           Model Specific Registers (MSRs) reads and writes.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: add support for encrypted VNC TLS keys
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Use the password stored in the secret driver under the uuid
+          specified by the vnc_tls_x509_secret_uuid option in qemu.conf.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Add storage pool namespace options
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Allow for adjustment of RBD configuration options via Storage
+          Pool XML Namespace adjustments.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Add support for setting post-copy migration bandwidth
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Users can now limit the bandwidth of post-copy migration, e.g.
+          via <code>virsh migrate --postcopy-bandwidth</code>.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Create private chains for virtual network firewall rules
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Historically firewall rules for virtual networks were added
+          straight into the base chains. This works but has a number of
+          bugs and design limitations. To address them, libvirt now puts
+          firewall rules into its own chains.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Detect CEPH and GPFS as shared FS
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          When starting a migration libvirt does some sanity checks to
+          make sure domain will be able to run on destination. One of
+          requirements is that disk has to either be migrated too or
+          live on network filesystem. CEPH and GPFS weren't detected as
+          a network filesystem.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Advertise network MTU via DHCP when specified
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          If network MTU is set and the network has DHCP enabled,
+          advertise the MTU in DHCP transaction too so that clients can
+          adjust their link accordingly.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Allocate qemu memory at the configured NUMA nodes from start
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Libvirt used to just start qemu, let it allocate memory for
+          the guest and then use CGroups to move the memory to
+          configured NUMA nodes. This is suboptimal as huge chunks of
+          memory have to be moved. Moreover, this relies on ability to
+          move memory later which is not always true. Set process
+          affinity corretly from the start so that memory is allocated
+          on the configured nodes from the beginning.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Support for newer wireshark
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Wireshark supports out of tree builds of dissectors since its
+          2.5.0 release. Adapt libvirt to that. This affects minimal
+          required version then too.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          More use of VIR_AUTOFREE() and friends
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Usuaully, this would be viewed as an internal change that
+          should not concern users. However, since libvirt is written in
+          memory unsafe language some memory leaks might have been
+          actually fixed by using VIR_AUTOFREE(). It is definitely step
+          towards defensive programming.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
       <change>
@@ -133,6 +229,111 @@
           attribute of the network bridge element).
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Refresh block jobs on daemon restart
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          In case the daemon is restarted it now fetches new state of
+          blockjobs. This means that libvirt does not lose track of
+          block jobs anymore.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Fix i6300esb watchdog hotplug on Q35
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Due to a bug libvirt was not allocating PCI address for
+          watchdog device nor it was telling it to qemu. This lead qemu
+          to chose one (the lowest one) which might not be hotpluggable.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          lxc: Don't reboot host on virDomainReboot
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          If the container is really a simple one (init is just bash and
+          the whole root is passed through) then virDomainReboot and
+          virDomainShutdown would reboot or shutdown the host. The
+          solution is to use different method to reboot or shutdown the
+          container in that case (e.g. signal).
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          rpc: Various stream fixes
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          One particular race was fixed, one locking problem and error
+          reporting from streams was made better.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Fix guestfwd hotplug/hotunplug
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Unaware to libvirt developers whether somebody actually uses
+          guestfwd, it's hotplug and hotunplug was fixed. Libvirt used
+          to use incorrect monitor command.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Forbid cdroms on virtio bus
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Attempting to create an empty virtio-blk drive or attempting
+          to eject it results into an error.  Forbid configurations
+          where users would attempt to use cdroms in virtio bus.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Use 'raw' for 'volume' disks without format
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Storage pools might want to specify format of the image when
+          translating the volume thus libvirt can't add any default
+          format when parsing the XML. Add an explicit format when
+          starting the VM and format is not present neither by user
+          specifying it nor by the storage pool translation function.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: domain: Assume 'raw' default storage format also for network storage
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Post parse callback adds the 'raw' type only for local files.
+          Remote files can also have backing store (even local) so we
+          should do this also for network backed storage.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Fix block job progress reporting and advocate for READY event
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          In some cases qemu can get to 100% and still not reach the
+          synchronised phase. Initiating a pivot in that case will fail.
+          Therefore it is strongly adviced to wait for
+          VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_READY event which does not suffer from
+          this problem.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Don't format image properties for empty -drive
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          If a -drive has no image, using image properties makes qemu
+          whine that they should not be used. Stop formatting attributes
+          like cache/readonly/... in that case.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
   </release>
   <release version="v5.0.0" date="2019-01-15">
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