From: Peter Krempa Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:12:06 +0000 (+0100) Subject: NEWS: Mention bump to qemu-6.2, vhost-user shmem check and stats params discoverabilty X-Git-Tag: v11.2.0-rc2^0 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d84b2495775f697e4bdcde5abb74536d241a33c9;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git NEWS: Mention bump to qemu-6.2, vhost-user shmem check and stats params discoverabilty Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 18d45656b8..5ad7fb8929 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) * **Removed features** + * Remove support for qemu-6.1 and older + + Libvirt now requires *qemu-6.2* or newer based on our platform support + policy. + * **New features** * qemu: Add new 'image_format' parameter to virDomainSaveParams @@ -87,6 +92,20 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) The new error codes are ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT`` and ``VIR_ERR_AGENT_COMMAND_FAILED``. + * qemu: Use common check for shared memory use for ``vhost-user`` network devices + + Historically libvirt printed only a warning if the ``vhost-user`` network + was misconfigured. Since we enforce proper configuration for other device + types using ``vhost-user`` it is now enforced also for network devices and + prints an actual error on misconfiguration. + + * Introduce constants for discoverability of entries in bulk stats APIs + + Libvirt introduced constants exposed by our API description XML which allows + discoverability of new entries in typed parameter names returned by + ``virConnectGetAllDomainStats``, ``virDomainListGetStats``, and + ``virDomainGetGuestInfo``. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: attach virtio-mem with CCW address