[PATCH] NEWS: Announcing Network Metadata APIs
Peter Krempa
pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 11:29:46 UTC 2023
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 21:09:27 +0530, K Shiva Kiran wrote:
> Ref to patchset implementing the above:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2023-August/241250.html
>
> Signed-off-by: K Shiva Kiran <shiva_kr at riseup.net>
> ---
> NEWS.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 73571f0019..01df22ef03 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,32 @@ v9.7.0 (unreleased)
>
> * **New features**
>
> + * network: Support for `<title>` and `<metadata>` fields in Network XML
> +
> + The `<title>` attribute can hold a short title defined by the user
> + and cannot contain newlines.
> + The `<description>` attribute holds any documentation that the user
> + wants to store.
> +
> + * network: Support to view and modify User defined metadata
> +
> + Two new APIs `virNetworkGetMetadata()` and `virNetworkSetMetadata()`
> + have been introduced. These allow users to view and modify the
> + contents of `<title>`, `<description>` and `<metadata>`.
> +
> + * virsh: Introduces new commands `net-desc` and `net-metadata`
> +
> + `net-desc` can be used to view and modify the Network's title and
> + description attributes.
> + `net-metadata` can be used to define or modify the custom metadata
> + attribute of the Network object.
> +
> + * virsh: Adds `--title` option to the `net-list` command
> +
> + This option prints the <title> attribute of the network in
> + an extra column. This option is usable only with the default
> + `--table` output.
All of the above are really about a single feature. I don't have a
problem mentioning all the changed things although it can be shortened a
bit, but you don't need 4 setions in the NEWS file for all of it.
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