From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:20:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: Document features/improvements/bug fixes I've participated in
X-Git-Tag: v12.0.0~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b84e6d1b311da2f6496343dde94228ecdf3ae5f9;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: Document features/improvements/bug fixes I've participated in

There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either
contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming
release.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index ce55445695..9fff3173ec 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased)
     Notably, issues that were preventing the use of firmware designed for
     confidential VMs on aarch64 have been addressed.
 
+  * network: Introduce port for DNS forwarder
+
+    In the ``<dns/>`` section of network configuration users can set up
+    forwarding of DNS requests to custom DNS servers. These are specified using
+    ``addr`` attribute. But configuring port wasn't possible, until now. New
+    ``port`` attribute is introduced, which allows overriding the default DNS
+    port for given address.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
   * qemu: Fix startup of VMs with more than ~25 external snapshots
@@ -66,6 +74,28 @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased)
     on a shared filesystem on the destination but on the source it's either
     on a different NFS or unshared completely.
 
+  * qemu: Treat memory device source nodemask as strict NUMA policy
+
+    Until now, the NUMA policy for ``<memory/>`` devices was taken either from
+    the guest NUMA node or ``<numatune/>``. But this may lead to discrepancies,
+    where the memory device is configured to bind to a set of host NUMA nodes,
+    but the guest NUMA node is to bind to a disjoint set of host NUMA nodes. To
+    resolve this, specifying ``<nodemask/>`` for a memory device implies
+    ``strict`` policy.
+
+  * qemu: Relax validation of some hyperv features
+
+    Since 11.9.0 release, libvirt performs dependency checks for hyperv
+    features, for instance ``stimer`` requires ``synic``. But as it turned out,
+    for some ancient machine types (e.g. 'pc-i440fx-3.0' or 'pc-q35-3.0') some
+    dependencies are not true. Corresponding checks were removed.
+
+  * esx: URI encode inventory objects twice
+
+    Formatting domain XML for domains on an ESX server might fail if
+    corresponding datacenter or datastore contained special characters (e.g.
+    '+'). This is now fixed.
+
 
 v11.10.0 (2025-12-01)
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