diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 9483172335..dbc72c7c66 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -85,6 +85,29 @@ option to qemu.conf to override the system default. + + + Remember original owners and SELinux labels of files + + + When a domain is starting up libvirt changes DAC and + SELinux labels so that domain can access it. However, + it never remembered the original labels and therefore + the file was returned back to root:root. + With this release, the original labels are remembered + and restored properly. + + + + + network: Allow passing arbitrary options to dnsmasq + + + This works similarly to the existing support for passing arbitary + options to QEMU, and just like that feature it comes with no + support guarantees. + +
@@ -119,8 +142,59 @@ TPM device. + + + test driver: Expand API coverage + + + Additional APIs have been implemented in the test driver. + + + + + Implement per-driver locking + + + Drivers now acquire a lock when they're loaded, ensuring that there + can never be two instances of the same driver active at a time. + + + + + nss: Report newer addresses first + + + In some cases, a guest might be assigned a new IP address by DHCP + before the previous lease has expired, in which case the NSS plugin + will correctly report both addresses; many applications, however, + ignore all addresses but the first, and may thus end up trying to + connect using a stale address. To prevent that from happening, the + NSS plugin will now always report the newest address first. + + + + + util: Optimize mass closing of FDs when spawning child processes + + + When the limit on the number of FDs is very high, closing all + unwanted FDs after calling fork() can take a lot of + time and delay the start of the child process. libvirt will now + use an optimized algorithm that minimizes such delays. + +
+ + + logging: Ensure virtlogd rollover takes priority over logrotate + + + virtlogd implements its own rollover mechanism, but until now + logrotate could end up acting on the logs before virtlogd had a + chance to do so itself. + +