From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:36:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: Mention enablement of incremental backups
X-Git-Tag: v7.6.0-rc1~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f55ea9f7eaf96ab85588248dc940f18754939f3b;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: Mention enablement of incremental backups

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>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index d95750e776..a7a7022f8d 100644
--- 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**