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NEWS: Mention bug with incorrect format recorded for qcow2+luks overlays
authorPeter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:50:07 +0000 (11:50 +0200)
committerJiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:37:13 +0000 (15:37 +0200)
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
NEWS.rst

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--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ v7.7.0 (unreleased)
     pool when built without numactl. This is now fixed and the pool can be
     allocated/reported on properly.
 
+  * qemu: Record proper ``backing`` format for overlays of qcow2+luks images
+
+    Libvirt would record ``luks`` instead of ``qcow2`` into the metadata. In
+    practice this is a problem only when inspecting images manually via
+    ``qemu-img`` as with libvirt users must use full specification of the
+    backing chain in the domain XML which supersedes information recorded in
+    the image metadata.
+
 
 v7.6.0 (2021-08-02)
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