Editing Libvirt release notes (virsh)

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~ monthly releases

== 2020 ==

* v6.5.0 (2020-07-03)
** qemu: Add support for migratable <code>[[host-passthrough]]</code> CPU, available since [[QEMU 2.12]]

* v6.4.0 (2020-06-02)
** <code>[[virsh capabilities]]</code> 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 <code>virt-adminserver-update-tls</code>

* v6.1.0 (2020-03-03)
** qemu: Support "dies" in [[CPU]] topology to complement "[[socket]]" and "[[core]]"

* v6.0.0 (2020-01-15) (Included in [[Ubuntu 20.04 LTS]])
** Support reporting memory bandwidth usage stats: <code>[[virsh domstats]] --memory</code>

== 2019 ==
* v5.10.0 (2019-12-02) 
** support for [[ARM]] [[CPU]] features. [[SVE]] vector lengths, which were introduced in [[QEMU]] 4.2.0.

* 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
** <code>[[virsh guestinfo]]</code>

* 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 <code>[[virsh snapshot-create]] --validate</code>. (See also <code>[[virsh snapshot-create-as]]</code>)

* 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
:[[kVM/qemu|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.
:[[kVM/qemu|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 <code>[[virsh domrename]]</code>



== 2012 ==
* 1.0.0 (2012-11-02)


* 03/2012 <code>[[virsh blockresize]]</code>

== See also ==
* {{libvirtd}}
* {{KVM}}
* {{changelogs}}

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