[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-4.8.0

[Daniel Veillard]

  It is out, as planned, tagged in git, the signed tarball and rpms are
at the usual place:

   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/

I also make a python binding release which include event testing updates,
you can find those at

   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/

 This is a relatively large release considering the number of patches going in
please note the Removed Feature section below:

New features:

- Xen: Support PM Suspend and Wakeup
The libxl driver now supports the virDomainPMSuspendForDuration and
virDomainPMWakeup APIs.

Removed features:

- Xen: Drop support for Xen 4.4 and 4.5
Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported by the Xen community. Drop
support for these older versions and require Xen >= 4.6.

- nwfilter: Disallow binding creation in session mode
Ensure that a filter binding creation is not attempted in session mode
and generates a proper error message.

Improvements:

- qemu: Retrieve guest hostname through QEMU Guest Agent command
QEMU is now able to retrieve the guest hostname using a new QEMU-GA
command called 'guest-get-host-name'. Virsh users can execute
'domhostname' for QEMU driver for domains configured to use the Guest
Agent.

- virsh: Implement vsh-table in virsh and virsh-admin
The new API fixes problems with table-alignment, making the tables more
readable and deals with unicode.

Bug fixes:

- storage: Allow inputvol to be encrypted
When creating a storage volume based on another volume, the base input
volume is allowed to be encrypted.

- virsh: Require explicit --domain for domxml-to-native
The --domain option for domxml-to-native virsh command has always been
documented as required, but commit v4.3.0-127-gd86531daf2 accidentally
made it optional.

- lxc_monitor: Avoid AB / BA lock race
A deadlock situation could occur when autostarting a LXC domain 'guest'
due to two threads attempting to take opposing locks while holding
opposing locks (AB BA problem).

  Thanks everybody for your help with this release.

    Enjoy !

Daniel

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