From: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:30:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: news: document my changes for 10.0.0
X-Git-Tag: v10.1.0-rc1~224
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8581ec7e68d5d656d7121cf77206b47dc6b261c4;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

news: document my changes for 10.0.0

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index e5df8224e9..4c799999fe 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ v10.0.0 (2024-01-15)
     change in a future release and can be customized with the
     nbdkit_config_default build option.
 
+  * qemu: add ID mapping support for virtiofsd
+
+    New ``<idmap>`` element was added for virtiofsd-based ``<filesystem>``
+    devices. It can be used to set up UID and GID mapping between host
+    and guest, making running virtiofsd unprivileged much more useful.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * qemu: Improve migration XML use when persisting VM on destination
@@ -94,6 +100,11 @@ v10.0.0 (2024-01-15)
 
     The test driver now supports basic hotplug and hotunplug of PCI devices.
 
+  * qemu: allow virtiofsd to run unprivileged
+
+    Nowadays virtiofsd no longer requires to run with root privileges, so the
+    restriction to always run as root is now removed from libvirt too.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
   * qemu: Various migration bug fixes and debuggability improvement