[PATCH for 6.6.0] NEWS: Document changes for upcoming release
Neal Gompa
ngompa13 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 13:48:51 UTC 2020
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:53 AM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> In contrast with other releases, this time NEWS is pretty much
> updated. I've identified only a couple of features/bug fixes
> worth mentioning that were not mentioned yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
> NEWS.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 1314f3e698..d97ca501dc 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ v6.6.0 (unreleased)
> MAC addresses that would generate a new one if they were in its OUI
> (00:0c:29).
>
> + * conf: add control over COW for storage pool directories
> +
> + The storage pool code now attempts to disable COW by default on btrfs, but
> + management applications may wish to override this behaviour. This is now
> + possible via new ``cow`` element.
> +
> * **Improvements**
>
> * esx: Change the NIC limit for recent virtualHW versions
> @@ -41,6 +47,14 @@ v6.6.0 (unreleased)
> The event can now be used also for block copy destinations by using the
> index of the ``<mirror>`` image.
>
> + * qemu: consider available CPUs in ``vcpupin/emulatorpin`` output
> +
> + This patch changes the default bitmap of ``vcpupin`` and ``emulatorpin``,
> + in the case of domains with static vcpu placement, all available CPUs
> + instead of all possible CPUs are returned making these APIs consistent with
> + the behavior of ``vcpuinfo``.
> +
> +
> * **Bug fixes**
>
> * virdevmapper: Don't use libdevmapper to obtain dependencies
> @@ -61,6 +75,24 @@ v6.6.0 (unreleased)
> Starting from libvirt-6.5 an active layer block commit or a block copy could
> fail if the same destination was used more than once.
>
> + * qemu: Don't change ownership of restore file
> +
> + When restoring a domain from a file, Libvirt no longer changes its ownership.
> +
> + * qemu: Set SPAPR TPM default to 2.0 and prevent 1.2 choice
> +
> + The firmware (SLOF) on QEMU for ppc64 does not support TPM 1.2, so prevent
> + the choice of TPM 1.2 when the SPAPR device model is chosen and use a
> + default of '2.0' (TPM 2) for the backend.
> +
> + * qemu: Do not set ``//cpu/@migratable`` for running domains
> +
> + Libvirt release of 6.4.0 started to fill the default value for
> + ``//cpu/@migratable`` attribute according to QEMU support. However, active
> + domains either have the migratable attribute already set or they were
> + started with older Libvirt which doesn't support the attribute.
> +
> +
> v6.5.0 (2020-07-03)
> ===================
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
Looks great! Thank you for doing this. :)
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>
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