Releases

This is the list of official releases for libvirt, along with an overview of the changes introduced by each of them.

For a more fine-grained view, use the git log.

v2.5.0 (unreleased)

• New features
  • shmem: Add support for additional models
    The shmem device can now utilize QEMU's ivshmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell, more modern versions of ivshmem
  • vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.1 support
  • libssh: New transport
    The new libssh transport allows one to connect to a running libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example: qemu+libssh://server/system
• Improvements
  • virsh: Add support for passing an alternative persistent XML to migrate command
  • vhostuser: Allow hotplug of multiqueue devices
  • NEWS: Switch to an improved format
    List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases
• Bug fixes
  • vz: Fix migration in P2P mode
  • Forbid newline character in names of some libvirt objects.

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 2016.