The 11.4.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs are available at
https://download.libvirt.org/
https://download.libvirt.org/python/
Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing feedback. Your work is greatly
appreciated.
* New features
* qemu: ppc64 POWER11 processor support
Support for the recently released IBM POWER11 processor was added.
* Packaging changes
* All helper programs are now detected from ``$PATH`` during runtime
All of the code was now converted to dynamically look up helper programs
in ``$PATH`` rather than doing the lookup at build time and then compiling
in the result.
Programs ``mount``, ``umount``, ``mkfs``, ``modprobe``, ``rmmod``,
``numad``, ``dmidecode``, ``ip``, ``tc``, ``mdevctl``, ``mm-ctl``,
``iscsiadm``, ``ovs-vsctl``, ``pkttyagent``, ``bhyveload``, ``bhyvectl``,
``bhyve``, ``ifconfig``, ``vzlist``, ``vzctl``, ``vzmigrate``, and the
tools from the lvm suite (``vgchange``, ``lvcreate``, etc..) are now not
needed during build and will still work properly if placed in ``$PATH``.
This also ensures that libvirt works correctly on distros that are
transitioning ``/sbin`` into ``/bin`` and upgraded installations have
a different layout from fresh installations.
* Improvements
* virsh: Add option ``--no-pkttyagent``
That option suppresses registration of pkttyagent with polkitd.
* bhyve: support NVRAM configuration for UEFI firmwares
The bhyve driver now supports specifying NVRAM store file, such as::
<os firmware='efi'>
<nvram/>
</os>
* qemu: Improve accuracy of FDC/floppy device support statement in
capabilities XML
The data is now based on the presence of the controller in qemu rather than
just a denylist of machine types where floppies not work.
* Bug fixes
* qemu: Fix failure when reverting to internal snapshots
A regression in ``libvirt-11.2`` and ``libvirt-11.3`` prevents reverting to
an internal snapshot. Attempts to revert would produce the following error::
error: operation failed: load of internal snapshot 'foo1' job failed:
Device 'libvirt-1-format' is writable but does not support snapshots
The only workaround is to avoid the broken versions.
* qemu: Fix virtqemud crash when resuming failed post-copy migration
A regression introduced in ``libvirt-11.2.0`` caused virtqemud on the
destination host to crash when trying to resume failed post-copy
migration.
* qemu: Treat the ``queues`` configuration of ``virtio-net`` as guest ABI
The queue count itself isn't a device frontend property but libvirt uses
it to calculate ``vectors`` option of the device which is a guest OS visible
property, thus ``queues`` must not change during migration. The ABI
stability
check now handles this properly.
Enjoy.
Jirka
