A few hours ago I tagged the release in git and pushed the signed tarball and source rpm to the usual place: https://libvirt.org/sources/ I also tagged a release of the python bindings which you can find at https://libvirt.org/sources/python/ This is a balanced release with new features, improvements and bug fixes, also note some deprecation for KVM assignment support and for build with older versions of libxml2. New features: - qemu: Support Direct Mode for Hyper-V Synthetic timers The QEMU driver now supports Direct Mode for Hyper-V Synthetic timers for Hyper-V guests. - lib: Add virDomainGetGuestInfo() This API is intended to aggregate several guest agent information queries and is inspired by stats API virDomainListGetStats(). It is anticipated that this information will be provided by a guest agent running within the domain. It's exposed as virsh guestinfo. - Split libvirtd into separate daemons The big monolithic libvirtd daemon can now be replaced by smaller per-driver daemons. Distributions can chose if they want the former or the latter. The libvirtd is still kept around for backwards compatibility. Removed features: - Remove KVM assignment support The KVM style of PCI device assignment was removed from the kernel in version 4.12.0 after being deprecated since 4.2.0. Libvirt defaults to VFIO for a long time. Remove support for KVM device assignment from libvirt too. - libxml: min required libxml is now 2.9.1 Support for building with libxml versions older than 2.9.1 has been dropped. Improvements: - virsh: Support setting bandwidth in migrate subcommand In addition to postcopy bandwidth, the virsh migrate subcommand now supports specifying precopy bandwidth with the --bandwidth parameter. - libxl: Implement domain metadata getter/setter The libxl driver now supports virDomainGetMetadata() and virDomainSetMetadata() APIs. - test driver: Expand API coverage Additional APIs have been implemented in the test driver. - Report RNG device in domain capabilities XML Libvirt now reports if RNG devices are supported by the underlying hypervisor in the domain capabilities XML. - Stop linking virt-login-shell and NSS plugins with libvirt.so In order to allow libvirt to abort on out of memory, we need to stop linking libvirt.so to virt-login-shell or the NSS plugins where we don't want to abort. This change also resulted in smaller binaries and libraries. - qemu: Allow migration with disk cache on When QEMU supports flushing caches at the end of migration, we can safely allow migration even if disk/driver/@cache is neither none nor directsync. Bug fixes: - Various security label remembering fixes In the previous release libvirt introduced remembering of original owners and SELinux labels on files. However, the feature did not work properly with snapshots, on migrations or on network filesystems. This is now fixed. - Allow greater PCI domain numbers Libvirt used to require PCI domain number to be not greater than 0xFFFF. The code was changed to allow 32 bits long numbers. - Various D-Bus fixes When D-Bus is not available, libvirt was reporting random errors. These are now gone. - Prefer read-only opening of PCI config files When enumerating PCI bus, libvirt opens config files under sysfs mount and parses them to learn various aspects of the device (e.g. its capabilities). Only in a very limited number of cases it is actually writing into the file. However, it used to open the file also for writing even if it was only reading from it. - Fix AppArmor profile Since the 5.6.0 release, libvirt uses procfs to learn the list of opened file descriptors when spawning a command. However, our AppArmor profile was not allowing such access. - Don't block storage driver when starting or building a pool Starting or building a storage pool can take a long time to finish. During this time the storage driver was blocked and thus no other API involving the storage driver could run. This is now fixed. Thanks everybody who helped for this release, be it with patches, reviews, bug reports, docs, etc... Enjoy the release ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
