From f55ea9f7eaf96ab85588248dc940f18754939f3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:36:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina --- NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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**