docs: update news.xml for firewalld zone changes

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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Laine Stump 2019-01-30 13:18:09 -05:00
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configuration.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
network: support setting a firewalld "zone" for virtual network bridges
</summary>
<description>
All libvirt virtual networks with bridges managed by libvirt
(i.e. those with forward mode of "nat", "route", "open", or
no forward mode) will now be placed in a special firewalld
zone called "libvirt" by default. The zone of any network
bridge can be changed using the <code>zone</code> attribute
of the network's <code>bridge</code> element.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Improvements">
</section>
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fully functional.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
network: fix virtual networks on systems using firewalld+nftables
</summary>
<description>
Because of the transitional state of firewalld's new support
for nftables, not all iptables features required by libvirt
are yet available, so libvirt must continue to use iptables
for its own packet filtering rules even when the firewalld
backend is set to use nftables. However, due to the way
iptables support is implemented in kernels using nftables
(iptables rules are converted to nftables rules and
processed in a separate hook from the native nftables
rules), guest networking was broken on hosts with firewalld
configured to use nftables as the backend. This has been
fixed by putting libvirt-managed bridges in their own
firewalld zone, so that guest traffic can be forwarded
beyond the host and host services can be exposed to guests
on the virtual network without opening up those same
services to the rest of the physical network. This means
that host access from virtual machines is no longer
controlled by the firewalld default zone (usually "public"),
but rather by the new firewalld zone called "libvirt"
(unless configured otherwise using the new zone
attribute of the network bridge element).
</description>
</change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v5.0.0" date="2019-01-15">