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+# v3.10.0 (2017-12-04)
+
+  * New features
+
+    - conf: Support defining distances between virtual NUMA cells
+        A NUMA hardware architecture supports the notion of distances between
+        NUMA cells. This can now be specified using the <distances> element
+        within the NUMA cell configuration. Drivers which support this include
+        Xen and QEMU.
+
+    - Xen: Support defining vNUMA topology
+        Xen now supports defining a virtual NUMA topology for VMs, including
+        specifying distances between NUMA cells.
+
+    - qemu: Add the ability to configure HPT resizing for pSeries guests
+        The user can now decide whether HPT (Hash Page Table) resizing should
+        be enabled, disabled or required instead of leaving it up to hypervisor
+        defaults and negotiation between the guest and the host.
+
+    - qemu: Add vmcoreinfo feature
+        Starting with QEMU 2.11, the guest can save kernel debug details when
+        this feature is enabled and the kernel supports it. It is useful to
+        process kernel dump with KASLR enabled, and also provides various
+        kernel details to crash tools.
+
+    - conf: Move the auth and encryption definitions to disk source
+        Allow parsing and formatting of the auth and encryption sub-elements to
+        be a child of the source element. This will allow adding an auth
+        sub-element to a backingStore or mirror elements as a means to track
+        specific authentication and/or encryption needs.
+
+  * Improvements
+
+    - vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.2 support
+
+    - vbox: Add support for configuring storage controllers
+        The VirtualBox driver now supports the <controller> element in the
+        domain XML for configuring storage controllers in VBOX VMs.
+        Additionally, libvirt's domain XML schema was updated to allow optional
+        model attribute for <controller type='ide'> which is used by the VBOX
+        driver to set the IDE controller model to be one of 'piix4', 'piix4'
+        (default), or 'ich6'. Finally, with this change dumpxml generates
+        <controller> elements that correspond to current VBOX VM storage
+        controller configuration.
+
+    - vbox: Add support for attaching empty removable disks
+        The VirutalBox driver now supports adding CD-ROM and floppy disk
+        devices that do not have the disk source specified. Previously such
+        devices were silently ignored.
+
+    - vbox: Add support for attaching SAS storage controllers
+        In VirtualBox, SCSI and SAS are distinct controller types whereas
+        libvirt does not make such distinction. Therefore, the VBOX driver was
+        updated to allow attaching SAS controllers via <controller type='scsi'
+        model='lsisas1068'> element. If there are both SCSI and SAS controllers
+        present in the VBOX VM, the domain XML can associate the disk device
+        using the <address> element with the controller attribute, and
+        optionally, set the port via unit attribute.
+
+    - qemu: Generate predictable paths for qemu memory backends
+        In some cases management applications need to know paths passed to
+        memory-backend-file objects upfront. Libvirt now generates predictable
+        paths so applications can prepare the files if they need to do so.
+
+    - Shareable disks work properly with recent qemu
+        Recent qemu versions added image locking to avoid potential corruption
+        of disk images. This broke shareable disks with libvirt since the
+        feature was turned on by default in qemu. Libvirt now enables sharing
+        of those disks in qemu so that the image locking is not applied in that
+        case. Additionally libvirt now checks that shareable disks have
+        supported format (raw) to avoid metadata corruption.
+
+    - Improve serial console behavior on non-x86 architectures
+        ppc64, aarch64 and s390x guests were treating the <serial> and
+        <console> elements differently from x86, in some cases presenting
+        misleading information to the user. The behavior is now consistent
+        across all architectures and the information reported is always
+        accurate.
+
+  * Bug fixes
+
+    - vbox: Do not ignore failures to attach disk devices when defining
+        The define now fails and reports an error if any of the controller or
+        disk devices specified in the domain XML fail to attach to the
+        VirtualBox VM.
+
+    - vbox: Fix dumpxml to always output disk devices
+        The VirtualBox driver was ignoring any disk devices in dumpxml output
+        if there was a SAS storage controller attached to the VM.
+
+    - vbox: Fix dumpxml to always generate valid domain XML
+        When a VirtualBox VM has multiple disks attached, each to a different
+        storage controller that uses 'sd' prefix for block device names e.g.
+        one disk attached to SATA and one to SCSI controller, it no longer
+        generates XML where both would have 'sda' device name assigned. Instead
+        it properly assigns 'sda' and 'sdb' to those disks in the order of
+        appearance.
+
+    - Securely pass iSCSI authentication data
+        Rather than supplying the authentication data as part of the iSCSI URL
+        for a disk or host device, utilize the encrypted secret object to
+        securely pass the authentication data.
+
 # v3.9.0 (2017-11-02)
 
   * New features