[PATCH] NEWS: Mention 3 user-visible regressions fixed in this release

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Wed Jun 29 15:06:41 UTC 2022


Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 7597abcf7e..2e29c57ffc 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,24 @@ v8.5.0 (unreleased)
     an ``<interface/>`` might have resulted in closing of a random FD and thus
     sudden disconnect of a client or other random failures.

+  * qemu: Fix hotplug of network interfaces
+
+    A logic bug introduced in a recent refactor was fixed. The bug caused a
+    problem when hot-adding a network interface, which failed with the
+    following error::
+
+      error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'netdev_add': File descriptor named '(null)' has not been found
+
+  * Fix ``startupPolicy`` validation for ``block`` disks
+
+    Setting of ``startupPolicy`` for a block disk would result in an error due
+    to a logic bug in a recent refactor.
+
+  * qemu: Fix crash when overriding device properties via ``<qemu:override>`` element
+
+    Adding an override for a device property would result in a crash of the qemu
+    driver.
+

 v8.4.0 (2022-06-01)
 ===================
-- 
2.36.1



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