Libvirt release notes (virsh)
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https://libvirt.org/news.html ~ monthly releases
Libvirt release notes, including virsh
utilility
2020
- v6.5.0 (2020-07-03)
- qemu: Add support for migratable
host-passthrough
CPU, available since QEMU 2.12
- qemu: Add support for migratable
- v6.4.0 (2020-06-02)
virsh capabilities
will now include information about the host CPU when run on ARM machines
- v6.3.0 (2020-05-05)
- Lease time option included for network DHCP settings
- v6.2.0 (2020-04-02)
- admin: Support reloading TLS certificates without restarting libvirt by using
virt-adminserver-update-tls
- admin: Support reloading TLS certificates without restarting libvirt by using
- v6.0.0 (2020-01-15) (Included in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
- Support reporting memory bandwidth usage stats:
virsh domstats --memory
- Support reporting memory bandwidth usage stats:
2019
- v5.10.0 (2019-12-02)
- v5.9.0 2019-11-05
- v5.8.0 (2019-10-05)
- qemu: Support use of precreated tap/macvtap devices by unprivileged libvirtd
- v5.7.0 2019-09-03
- v5.6.0 2019-08-05
- qemu: Allow XML validation for snapshot creation
- Add flag VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_VALIDATE to validate snapshot input XML. For virsh, users can use it as
virsh snapshot-create --validate
. (See alsovirsh snapshot-create-as
)
- v5.5.0 (2019-07-02)
virt-xml-validate
: Allow input to be read from stdin- Security: api: Prevent access to several APIs over read-only connections
- Certain APIs give root-equivalent access to the host, and as such should be limited to privileged users. CVE-2019-10161, CVE-2019-10166, CVE-2019-10167, CVE-2019-10168.
- v5.4.0 (2019-06-03)
- Security: Restrict user access to virt-admin, virtlogd and virtlockd, The intended users for these facilities are the root user and the libvirtd service respectively, but these restrictions were not enforced correctly. CVE-2019-10132.
- v5.3.0 (2019-05-04)
- vbox: Drop support for VirtualBox 4.x releases
- v5.2.0 (2019-04-03)
- Add Storage Pool Capabilities output
- snapshots: Add support for topological listings
- v5.1.0 2019-03-04
- External snapshot metadata redefinition is fixed
- Attempting to use VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REDEFINE to reinstate the metadata describing an external snapshot :created earlier for an offline domain no longer fails.
- v5.0.0 2019-01-15
- qemu: Report whether KVM nesting is available
2018
- v4.10.0 (2018-12-03)
- v4.9.0 2018-11-04
- util: Add cgroup v2 support
- v4.8.0 2018-10-01
- v4.4.0 2018-06-04
- qemu: Add support for migration of VMs with non-shared storage over TLS
- Introduce SCSI persistent reservations support
- v4.2.0 2018-04-01
- qemu: use arp table of host to get the IP address of guests
- v4.1.0 2018-03-05
- qemu: unlink memory backing file on domain shutdown
- Depending on the filesystem where domain memory is stored, some files might have been left behind. This is not a :problem on hugetlbfs, but it is a problem on regular filesystems like ext4.
- qemu: If multiple domains were being shut down in parallel, libvirtd might have deadlocked.
- v4.0.0 2018-01-19 (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
2017
- v3.3.0 (2017-05-05)
- libxl: Add support for nested HVM domains
- v3.1.0 2017-03-03
- storage: Add Virtuozzo storage backend storage pool
2016
- v2.5.0 2016-12-04
- The new libssh transport allows to connect to a running libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example: qemu+libssh://server/system
2015
- v1.2.19
virsh domrename
2014
- v1.2.9 (2014-10-01) No release notes
2012
- 1.0.0 (2012-11-02)
- 03/2012
virsh blockresize
See also
- libvirtd:
systemctl status libvirtd
,systemctl status libvirt-guests
, Libvirt release notes, logs,libvirtd.conf
,/etc/libvirt/
,/var/log/libvirt/
- KVM, Installation, QEMU,
virsh
,virtinst
,libguestfs-tools
, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM - Software changelogs,
git log
, GA, EoL, EOS, release cycle,apt changelog
,docker-compose changelog
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