[PATCH] NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix

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Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 NEWS.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 8358cbd369..66ce95d7cb 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)

 * **New features**

+  * qemu: Add support for hotplugging ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    The disk hotplug code in the qemu driver now can handle hotplug of disks
+    with automatically added overlay.
+
+  * qemu: Add support for sharing base image of ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    Users can use ``<transient shareBacking='yes'/>`` to tell the qemu driver to
+    never open the base image in write mode thus multiple VMs can share the
+    same image. Note that the disk will be hotplugged during startup.
+
 * **Improvements**

   * Add win-dmp crashdump format
@@ -29,6 +40,10 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)

 * **Bug fixes**

+  * Allow 0 offset in XML schema for ``<slice type='storage' offset='0' size='321'/>``
+
+    Having a 0 offset so that the size of the image can be limited is a
+    valid configuration so it was allowd in the XML schema.

 v7.3.0 (2021-05-03)
 ===================
-- 
2.31.1




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