[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update release notes

[Peter Krempa]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 14:08:29 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Signed-off-by: --help <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Hmm.

> ---
>  docs/news.xml | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 102 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> index 86a0c8d18..53bf9a49c 100644
> --- a/docs/news.xml
> +++ b/docs/news.xml
> @@ -44,6 +44,28 @@
>            using the <code>cachetune</code> element in <code>cputune</code>.
>          </description>
>        </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          Allow opening secondary drivers
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          Up until now it was possible to connect to only hypervisor drivers
> +          (e.g. qemu:///system, lxc:///, vbox:///system, and so on). The
> +          internal drivers (like network driver, node device driver, etc.) were
> +          hidden from users and users could use them only indirectly. Starting
> +          with this release new connection URIs are accepted. For instance
> +          network:///system, storage:///system and so on.
> +        </description>

Isn't this an internal change not really used for consumption of
clients?

> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          virtlogd, virtlockd: Add support for admin protocol
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          These two daemons now support admin protocol through which some admin
> +          info can be gathered or some configuration tweaked on the fly.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
>      </section>
>      <section title="Improvements">
>        <change>
> @@ -82,8 +104,88 @@
>            libxl: add support for setting clock offset and adjustment
>          </summary>
>        </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          Make port allocator global
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          Up until now each driver had their own port allocator module. This
> +          meant that info on port usage was not shared. Starting with this
> +          release, the port allocator module is made global and therefore
> +          drivers allocate ports from global pool.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          src: Enable building with GCC 8.0
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          GCC 8.0 added more warnings which found some genuine problems with our code.
> +        </description>

I'm not sure whether that improved anything. Also wasn't that gcc 7?

> +      </change>
>      </section>
>      <section title="Bug fixes">
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: Check for unsafe migration more thoroughly
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          If a domain disk is stored on local filesystem (e.g. ext4) but is
> +          not being migrated it is very likely that domain is not able to
> +          run on destination. Regardless of share/cache mode.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: Fix updating device with boot order
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          Starting with 3.7.0 release updating any device with boot order would
> +          fail with 'boot order X is already used by another device' while in
> +          fact it was the very same device.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          virlog: determine the hostname on startup CVE-2018-6764
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          At later point it might not be possible or even safe to use
> +          getaddrinfo(). It can in turn result in a load of NSS module which
> +          can even be loaded from unsage guest filesystem and thus escape the
> +          confinment of its container.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: Rework vCPU statistics fetching
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          Fetching vCPU statistics was very expensive because it lead to waking
> +          up vCPU threads in QEMU and thus it degraded performance. The code
> +          was reworked so that fetching statistics does not wake up halted
> +          vCPUs.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: unlink memory backing file on domain shutdown
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          Depending on the filesystem where domain memory is stored, some files
> +          might have been left behind. This is not a problem on hugetlbfs, but
> +          it is a problem on regular filesystems like ext4.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: Fix shutting down domains in parallel
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          If multiple domains were being shut down in parallel, libvirtd might
> +          have deadlocked.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
>      </section>
>    </release>
>    <release version="v4.0.0" date="2018-01-19">
> -- 
> 2.16.1
> 
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