diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 852746eb2a..f2f395b74e 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ For a more fine-grained view, use the `git log`_. v6.7.0 (unreleased) =================== +* **Packaging changes** + + * Libvirt switch to Meson build system + + Libvirt abandoned autotools and switched to Meson build system. + * **New features** * qemu: Add support for initiator IQN configuration for iSCSI hostdevs @@ -58,6 +64,36 @@ v6.7.0 (unreleased) either don't have device mapper enabled or where the dm-mod module is not loaded yet. This is now fixed. + * resctrl: Use exclusive lock for /sys/fs/resctrl + + When two or more domains were attempted to start at once, due to a bug in + implementation, resctrl was not locked properly and thus threads did not + mutually exclude with each other resulting in not setting requested + limitations. + + * mdev: Fix daemon crash when reattaching mdevs on assignment conflict + + If there's a list of mdevs to be assigned to a domain, but one of them (NOT + the first) is already assigned to a different domain then libvirtd would + crash. This is now fixed. + + * Fix logic in setting COW flag on btrfs + + When COW is not explicitly requested to be disabled or enabled, then + libvirt should do nothing on non-BTRFS file systems. + + * Avoid crash due to race in glib event loop code + + Libvirt switched to glib event loop in 6.1.0 but it was also tickling a bug + in glib code leading to the daemon crash. Libvirt way of calling glib was + changed so the daemon crashes no more. + + * virdevmapper: Handle kernel without device-mapper support + + In the previous release, Libvirt dropped libdevmapper in favor of its own + implementation. But the implementation did not handle kernels without + device-mapper support. This is now fixed. + v6.6.0 (2020-08-02) ===================