[PATCH] NEWS: Mention fix for exec-restart of virtlo(g|ck)d and 'object_add' improvements

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 08:32:24 UTC 2021


Mention that libvirt-7.2 will be needed to do stuff that executes
'object-add'/'object-del' QMP commands with the upcoming qemu-6.0 and
that exec-restart of virtlockd and virtlogd was fixed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2142cbd21e..1c4186917e 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -35,8 +35,20 @@ v7.2.0 (unreleased)

 * **Improvements**

+  * qemu: Compatibility with ``qemu-6.0`` for certain hot-(un)-plug operations
+
+    Libvirt ``7.2.0`` is required for compatibility with the upcoming
+    ``qemu-6.0`` release for hotplug and hotunplug of certain devices and
+    helpers, such as iothreads, chardevs, RNG devices, disks with secret, ...
+
 * **Bug fixes**

+  * virtlogd|virtlockd: Fixed crash when upgrading the daemons in-place
+
+    A bug preventing the in-place upgrade of ``virtlogd`` and ``virtlockd``
+    daemons was fixed, so they can again be upgraded without dropping the log
+    file descriptors or locks on files.
+

 v7.1.0 (2021-03-01)
 ===================
-- 
2.29.2




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