[PATCH] NEWS: Document virDomainFDAssociate and NULL dereference in virXMLPropStringRequired

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Fri Jan 13 09:25:41 UTC 2023


Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 8482c49b3c..9baf10b8e9 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ v9.0.0 (unreleased)
     Connecting the VM to a swtpm daemon started outside of libvirt
     is now possible.

+  * QEMU: Support for passing FDs instead of opening files for `<disk>`
+
+    A new API `virDomainFDAssociate` gives the users the option to pass FDs
+    to libvirt and then use them when starting a VM. Currently the FDs can
+    be used instead of directly opening files as `<disk>` backend.
+
 * **Improvements**

   * qemu: Prefer PNG for domain screenshots
@@ -46,6 +52,11 @@ v9.0.0 (unreleased)

 * **Bug fixes**

+  * Fix NULL-pointer dereference `virXMLPropStringRequired`
+
+    Fix a bug where when parsing a XML property which is required to be present
+    by using `virXMLPropStringRequired` the parser will crash instead of
+    reporting an error.

 v8.10.0 (2022-12-01)
 ====================
-- 
2.38.1



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