Libvirt release notes (virsh)

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2020[edit]

  • v6.4.0 (2020-06-02)
  • 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
  • v6.1.0 (2020-03-03)
    • qemu: Support "dies" in CPU topology to complement "socket" and "core"

2019[edit]

  • 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
  • v5.6.0 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 also virsh 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)
  • 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

2018[edit]

  • 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.

2017[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]


2014[edit]

  • v1.2.9 (2014-10-01) No release notes

2012[edit]

  • 1.0.0 (2012-11-02)




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