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    <h1>Releases</h1>
    <p>This is the list of official releases for libvirt, along with an
    overview of the changes introduced by each of them.</p>
    <p>For a more fine-grained view, use the
    <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log">git log</a>.
    </p>

    <h3>v2.5.0 (<i>unreleased</i>)</h3>
    <ul>
      <li><strong>New features</strong>
        <ul>
          <li>shmem: Add support for additional models<br/>
          The shmem device can now utilize QEMU's ivshmem-plain and
          ivshmem-doorbell, more modern versions of ivshmem
          </li>
          <li>vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.1 support
          </li>
          <li>libssh: New transport<br/>
          The new libssh transport allows one to connect to a running
          libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example:
          <tt>qemu+libssh://<i>server</i>/system</tt>
          </li>
          <li>vhost-scsi: Add support scsi_host hostdev passthrough<br/>
          Add the capability to pass through a scsi_host HBA and the
          associated LUNs to the guest.
          </li>
          <li>qemu: Users can now enable debug logging for native gluster
          volumes in qemu using the "gluster_debug_level" option in qemu.conf
          </li>
          <li>memory hotplug: Slot numbers for memory devices are now
          automatically allocated and thus persistent. In addition slot numbers
          can be specified without providing a base address, which simplifies
          user configuration
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><strong>Improvements</strong>
        <ul>
          <li>vbox: Address thread safety issues
          </li>
          <li>virsh: Add support for passing an alternative persistent XML
          to migrate command
          </li>
          <li>vhostuser: Allow hotplug of multiqueue devices
          </li>
          <li>NEWS: Switch to an improved format<br/>
          List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better
          high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases
          </li>
          <li>website: Modernize layout and branding<br/>
          The libvirt website looked very cluttered and outdated; it has now
          been completely overhauled, resulting in a design that's better
          organized and more pleasant to look at
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><strong>Bug fixes</strong>
        <ul>
          <li>vz: Fix migration in P2P mode
          </li>
          <li>Forbid newline character in names of some libvirt objects.
          </li>
          <li>Fix compilation on macOS
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>

    <p>Releases earlier than v2.5.0 detailed their changes using a different
    format and as such are excluded from the list above.
    You can read about those older release, starting from those made in
    <a href="news-2016.html">2016</a>.
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Fix multiple formatting problems in HTML docs The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags. There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML doctype to all files forces us to create good XML. This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag problems it exposes. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> 2013-05-03 14:25:37 +00:00			`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`
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Fix the news file non-ascii characters by adding an explicit HTML encoding meta description 2009-12-09 10:16:48 +00:00			`<head>`
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Split website out into one file per page. APply new layout and styling 2008-04-23 17:08:31 +00:00			`<body>`
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`<h1>Releases</h1>`
			`<p>This is the list of official releases for libvirt, along with an`
			`overview of the changes introduced by each of them.</p>`
			`<p>For a more fine-grained view, use the`
			`<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log">git log</a>.`
NEWS: Fix whitespace Mostly missing space between change description and author name or spurious space before section title. Reflow the introductory paragraph as well. 2015-10-13 15:50:57 +00:00			`</p>`
Release of libvirt 0.8.6 - configure.ac libvirt.spec.in: bump version, add a missing systemtap build requirement - docs/news.html.in: add informations about the release - po/*: updated Polish and Dutch localizations, and regenerated - tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c: Fix build problem 2010-11-30 18:52:25 +00:00
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`<h3>v2.5.0 (<i>unreleased</i>)</h3>`
			`<ul>`
NEWS: Update entries All of these changes have already been merged, so document them properly. 2016-11-21 20:35:28 +00:00			`<li><strong>New features</strong>`
			`<ul>`
			`<li>shmem: Add support for additional models<br/>`
			`The shmem device can now utilize QEMU's ivshmem-plain and`
			`ivshmem-doorbell, more modern versions of ivshmem`
			`</li>`
			`<li>vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.1 support`
			`</li>`
NEWS: document the new libssh transport 2016-11-22 14:36:31 +00:00			`<li>libssh: New transport<br/>`
			`The new libssh transport allows one to connect to a running`
			`libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example:`
			`<tt>qemu+libssh://<i>server</i>/system</tt>`
			`</li>`
conf: Wire up the vhost-scsi connection from/to XML With the QEMU components in place, provide the XML parsing to invoke that code when given the following XML snippet: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi_host'> <source protocol='vhost' wwpn='naa.501234567890abcd'/> </hostdev> An optional address element can be specified within the hostdev (pick CCW or PCI as necessary): <address type='ccw' cssid='0xfe' ssid='0x0' devno='0x0625'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> Add basic vhost-scsi tests which were cloned from hostdev-scsi-virtio-scsi in both xml2argv and xml2xml. Added ones for both vhost-scsi-ccw and vhost-scsi-pci since the syntaxes are slightly different between them. Also adjusted the docs to describe the changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 2016-11-22 03:58:20 +00:00			`<li>vhost-scsi: Add support scsi_host hostdev passthrough<br/>`
			`Add the capability to pass through a scsi_host HBA and the`
			`associated LUNs to the guest.`
			`</li>`
docs: NEWS: Mention 'gluster_debug_level' qemu.conf option in the news 2016-11-25 11:06:59 +00:00			`<li>qemu: Users can now enable debug logging for native gluster`
			`volumes in qemu using the "gluster_debug_level" option in qemu.conf`
			`</li>`
docs: NEWS: Mention changes in memory slot number allocation 2016-11-25 11:13:58 +00:00			`<li>memory hotplug: Slot numbers for memory devices are now`
			`automatically allocated and thus persistent. In addition slot numbers`
			`can be specified without providing a base address, which simplifies`
			`user configuration`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update entries All of these changes have already been merged, so document them properly. 2016-11-21 20:35:28 +00:00			`</ul>`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`<li><strong>Improvements</strong>`
			`<ul>`
vbox: get rid of g_pVBoxGlobalData now that we have a new global vboxDriver object, remove the old vboxGlobalData struct and all references to it. 2016-11-23 19:01:11 +00:00			`<li>vbox: Address thread safety issues`
			`</li>`
virsh: Add support for VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_PERSIST_XML Commit v1.3.3-181-gb028e9d7c implmented support for VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_PERSIST_XML migration parameter, but forgot to update virsh. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835300 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com> 2016-11-22 13:06:43 +00:00			`<li>virsh: Add support for passing an alternative persistent XML`
NEWS: Close <li> tag properly Not closing the <li> tag on a separate line causes the plain text version of the file to have no empty line between entries. 2016-11-23 10:59:14 +00:00			`to migrate command`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update entries All of these changes have already been merged, so document them properly. 2016-11-21 20:35:28 +00:00			`<li>vhostuser: Allow hotplug of multiqueue devices`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`<li>NEWS: Switch to an improved format<br/>`
			`List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better`
			`high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Add some missing entries Catch up with changes that have been pushed but didn't include updates to the NEWS file themselves. 2016-11-25 10:13:52 +00:00			`<li>website: Modernize layout and branding<br/>`
			`The libvirt website looked very cluttered and outdated; it has now`
			`been completely overhauled, resulting in a design that's better`
			`organized and more pleasant to look at`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`</ul>`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update entries All of these changes have already been merged, so document them properly. 2016-11-21 20:35:28 +00:00			`<li><strong>Bug fixes</strong>`
			`<ul>`
			`<li>vz: Fix migration in P2P mode`
			`</li>`
Forbid new-line char in name of new storagepool New line character in name of storagepool is now forbidden because it mess virsh output and can be confusing for users. Validation of name is done in driver, after parsing XML to avoid problems with dissappeared pools which was already created with new-line char in name. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> 2016-11-11 09:17:38 +00:00			`<li>Forbid newline character in names of some libvirt objects.`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Add some missing entries Catch up with changes that have been pushed but didn't include updates to the NEWS file themselves. 2016-11-25 10:13:52 +00:00			`<li>Fix compilation on macOS`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update entries All of these changes have already been merged, so document them properly. 2016-11-21 20:35:28 +00:00			`</ul>`
			`</li>`
NEWS: Update XSLT stylesheet The new format requires some tweaks to be translated into a nice plain text output, and the XSLT stylesheet needs to be updated to match. 2016-11-21 20:11:17 +00:00			`</ul>`

			`<p>Releases earlier than v2.5.0 detailed their changes using a different`
			`format and as such are excluded from the list above.`
			`You can read about those older release, starting from those made in`
			`<a href="news-2016.html">2016</a>.`
			`</p>`
NEWS: Start using the improved format This entry is meant to both get the ball rolling on the switch and to provide a blueprint of what NEWS file entries are supposed to look like. 2016-11-18 16:16:47 +00:00
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