Update the news file mentioning important changes such as the change of
translatable strings or the fix of inactive snapshots of VMs using uefi.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
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NEWS.rst | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2a844ce40c..d0d78e2127 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ v9.3.0 (unreleased)
* **New features**
+ * qemu: Introduce support for ``igb`` network interface model
+
+ ``igb`` is a successor to the ``e1000e`` network device using PCIe interface.
+ It was introduced in QEMU 8.0
+
+ * qemu: Improve handling of maximum physical address configuration
+
* **Improvements**
* qemu: Change default machine type for ARM and RISC-V
@@ -25,8 +32,54 @@ v9.3.0 (unreleased)
The previous defaults were nearly unusable and had to be overridden in most
cases.
+ * Improve translatable strings format substitutions
+
+ All translatable error message with substitution strings were converted to
+ use positional modifiers to allow translators to shuffle around the
+ translated message. The translations pulled from Weblate were also updated to
+ match.
+
+ * qemu: Improve validation of ``watchdog`` devices
+
+ Certain invalid configurations of ``watchdog`` device are now properly
+ detected:
+
+ - hotplug of always-present platform watchdogs is forbidden
+ - ``iTCO`` watchdog can be configured only once
+ - ``ib700`` watchdog is allowed only on ``i440fx`` machines
+
+ * Improved output of ``virt-host-validate`` on ARM
+
+ Our validation tool now parses the ``IORT`` data on ARM to properly detect
+ presence of SMMU and other features.
+
* **Bug fixes**
+ * qemu: Fix inactive internal snapshots of VM with UEFI firmware
+
+ Recent changes to UEFI firmware handling resulted into breaking support
+ for inactive internal snapshots of VMs with UEFI which historically worked.
+ (Although the intention was to disallow them together with active ones, but
+ the check did not work properly.)
+
+ Preserve existing functionality by allowing such snapshots explicitly.
+
+ * qemu: Properly configure locked memory limit for VMs with ``<disk type='nvme'``
+
+ The NVMe driver in qemu requires some memory to be locked. This was not
+ taken into account in the code which calculates the memory limits based
+ on devices present in the configuration
+
+ * Fix native build on win32
+
+ Various improvements to the build system now allow users to build the client
+ library of libvirt on win32 natively.
+
+ * qemu: Properly detect tray of hotplugged CD-ROM devices
+
+ Media in a CD-ROM device which was hotplugged could not be changed as the
+ presence of the tray was not detected properly on hotplug.
+
v9.2.0 (2023-04-01)
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2.40.0
