[libvirt] Recommendations for Libvirt LTS release

[Cole Robinson]

On 10/01/2016 05:15 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> Debian is about to enter it's freeze for the Stretch release in November
> and we will support the libvirt version that is in Stretch for at least
> 5 years.
> 
> The upstream version of libvirt at this point will likely be 2.4.0.  Are
> any other distros about to pick a version around that time so we can
> possibly join forces? Are there any recommendations to rather pick
> another version due to planned features/fixes/refactorings that haven't
> made it to the list yet?
> 
> As with previous versions I will feed back patches to the -maint branch
> and hope to cut point releases as were currently doing with 0.9.12 but
> if other distros (apart from Debians downstreams) would use the same
> version this would be a plus.

Unfortunately libvirt 2.4.0 came in too late in Fedora 25 cycle, so we will be
sticking with libvirt 2.3.0

- Cole