From 861dd1234f1776e149c9fe5486f7efc07294a655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Privoznik Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:10:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] news: Update for 3.6.0 release I was volunteered to prepare the release notes. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- docs/news.xml | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index ea21cbc3e3..caa0363fe1 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -75,8 +75,77 @@ configurations. + + + Require use of GCC 4.4 or Clang compilers + + + We only ever test libvirt with GCC or Clang (which + provides a GCC compatible compilation environment). + Between them, these compilers cover every supported + operating system platform, including Windows. + + + + + qemu: shared disks with directsync cache should be safe for migration + + + At present shared disks can be migrated with either readonly or + cache=none. But cache=directsync should be + safe for migration, because both cache=directsync and + cache=none don't use the host page cache, and + cache=direct write through qemu block layer cache. + + + + + Handle hotplug change on VLAN configuration using OVS + + + Libvirt was taught to handle VLAN change for running OVS interface. + +
+ + + qemu: Use vCPU 'node-id' property and pass it back to qemu + + + vCPU properties gathered from query-hotpluggable-cpus need to be + passed back to QEMU. As QEMU did not use the node-id property until + now and libvirt forgot to pass it back properly (it was parsed but + not passed around) we did not honor this. + + + + + Miscellaneous stream fixes + + + After introducing sparse stream features there were still some known + bugs left. Those are fixed in this release. + + + + + qemu: Misceleanous domain NS fixes + + + Libvirt starts qemu domains in separate Linux namespaces for a while + now. However, there were still some bugs lingering. For instance + libvirt did not know how to handle file based bind mounts. + + + + + Various CPU driver improvements + + + There were some minor bugs when using 'host-model' CPU. + +