KVM/libvirt/Libvirt Release notes

https://libvirt.org/news.html


 * v5.9.0 2019-11-05


 * 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 also Virsh/virsh snapshot-create-as)


 * 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


 * 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


 * v3.1.0 2017-03-03
 * storage: Add Virtuozzo storage backend storage pool


 * 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