diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 104668ce98..188e044c8e 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -148,6 +148,19 @@
can prepare the files if they need to do so.
+
+
+ Shareable disks work properly with recent qemu
+
+
+ Recent qemu versions added image locking to avoid potential corruption
+ of disk images. This broke shareable disks with libvirt since the
+ feature was turned on by default in qemu. Libvirt now enables sharing
+ of those disks in qemu so that the image locking is not applied in
+ that case. Additionally libvirt now checks that shareable disks have
+ supported format (raw) to avoid metadata corruption.
+
+