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news: Update for 4.5.0 release

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Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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Support specifying extended TSEG size for SMM in QEMU.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Add support for SEV guests
</summary>
<description>
SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) is a feature available on AMD
CPUs that encrypts the guest memory and makes it inaccessible even
to the host OS.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Removed features">
<change>
@ -76,6 +86,24 @@
secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
Make GnuTLS mandatory
</summary>
<description>
Building without GnuTLS is no longer possible.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Remove allow_disk_format_probing configuration option
</summary>
<description>
The option represented a security risk when used with malicious
disk images, so users were recommended against enabling it; with
this release, it's been removed altogether.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Improvements">
<change>
@ -130,6 +158,39 @@
or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Add support for vsock hot (un)plug and cold (un)plug
</summary>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS
</summary>
<description>
NBD volumes can now be accessed securely.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Implement FD passing for Unix sockets
</summary>
<description>
Instead of having QEMU open the socket and then connecting to it,
which is inherently racy, starting with QEMU 2.12 we can open the
socket ourselves and pass it to QEMU, avoiding race conditions.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
virsh: Introduce --nowait option for domstat command
</summary>
<description>
When this option is specified, virsh will try to fetch the guest
stats but abort instead of stalling if they can't be retrieved right
away.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Bug fixes">
<change>
@ -143,6 +204,26 @@
us getting to the worker pool initialization.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Fix domain resume after failed migration
</summary>
<description>
Recent versions of QEMU activate block devices before the guest CPU
has been started, which makes it impossible to roll back a failed
migration. Use the <code>late-block-activate</code> migration
capability if supported to avoid the issue.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs
</summary>
<description>
An odd number of vCPUs greater than 1 was forbidden in the past,
but current versions of ESXi have lifted that restriction.
</description>
</change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v4.4.0" date="2018-06-04">