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NEWS: Mention enablement of incremental backups
authorPeter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:36:24 +0000 (11:36 +0200)
committerPeter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:25:23 +0000 (20:25 +0200)
Now that 'blockdev-reopen' will be stable in the upcoming qemu versions
we can finally enable incremental backups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
NEWS.rst

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--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ v7.6.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * qemu: Incremental backup support via ``virDomainBackupBegin``
+
+    libvirt-7.6 along with the unreleased qemu-6.1 will fully support the change
+    block tracking features (block-dirty-bitmaps) to be able to do incremental
+    backups and management of the checkpoint states via the appropriate APIs.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**