From 998a55c49ab4606c5558071af6ea63dfc0e406ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Privoznik Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:40:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] news: Update for 5.3.0 release Some basic features/bugfixes/removed features. Of course we've done a lot more than recoded here. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- docs/news.xml | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index e0cab23c49..375ef4e401 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ +
+ + + vbox: Drop support for VirtualBox 4.x releases + + + Support for all the 4.x releases was ended by + VirtualBox maintainers in December 2015. Therefore, + libvirt support for these releases is dropped. + + +
@@ -73,6 +85,15 @@ Firmware Secure Boot support is also advertised. + + + Drop YAJL 1 support + + + YAJL 2 is widely adopted and maintaining side by side + support for two versions is unnecessary. + +
@@ -85,6 +106,35 @@ leaks may also occur. + + + virsh: various completers fixes + + + There were some possible crashers, memory leaks, etc. + which are now fixed. + + + + + qemu: Make hugepages work with memfd backend + + + Due to a bug in command line generation libvirt did not + honor hugepages setting with memfd backend. + + + + + Enforce ACL write permission for getting guest time & hostname + + + Getting the guest time and hostname both require use of + guest agent commands. These must not be allowed for + read-only users, so the permissions check must validate + "write" permission not "read". + +