[libvirt] [PATCH v2] news: Prepare for 3.7.0 release

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Sat Sep 2 09:09:56 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 11:45 -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> > Documents some changes that have slipped through the cracks
> > during the development cycle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Changes from [v1]:
> > 
> >   * rebase on top of master
> >   * remove the part about guests no longer disappearing if the
> >     QEMU binary is missing, since Peter already documented that
> > 
> > [v1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-September/msg00030.html
> > 
> >  docs/news.xml | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
> 
> Hrmph... Guess we have to get better at remembering this when we do
> reviews as the last few release cycles there's been a need to update
> news.xml appropriately at the last moment...

Yeah, we haven't gotten as good at this as I hoped we would have
by now. Even I forgot to update the release notes once during
this development cycle! .-.

> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          qemu: Implement editing guest configuration for managed save files
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          New <code>managedsave-define</code>, <code>managedsave-edit</code>
> > +          and <code>managedsave-dumpxml</code> commands have been added to
> > +          <code>virsh</code> to allow editing the guest configuration for
> > +          managed save files just like it was already possible for unmanaged
> > +          save files.
> > +        </description>
> > +      </change>
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-August/msg00953.html
> 
> No one ACK'd it yet...  The 1/2 of the v2 series was pushed from the v1
> posting, but v2 looks lost in the volume ;-(
> 
> IDC how you decide to "handle" that - either apply Kothapally's change
> or go with yours...

I've dropped this hunk and pushed the author's version.

> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          apparmor: Update for QEMU 2.10 compatibility
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          Starting with version 2.10, QEMU locks disk images and NVRAM files
> 
> The way this reads it seems it could be libvirt 2.10...  I'd go with
> "QEMU 2.10" (although some will point out it's possible to backport
> things into earlier versions)...

I don't think there's much room for confusion, but there's also
no harm in being explicit :)

> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          daemon: Fix <code>--verbose</code> option
> 
> Should we state for all the daemon's fixed? Looks very strange naked
> like this unless you know "daemon" means more than one place.

Fair enough, I hadn't realized that myself :)

I changed the structure quite a bit, hopefully it's not a complete
trainwreck.

> Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>

Pushed now, thanks for the review.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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