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 libvirt releases
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+# v3.1.0 (unreleased)
+
+  * New features
+
+    - storage: Add Virtuozzo storage backend storage pool
+        Add new storage backend to support pool and volume management within
+        the Virtuozzo Storage environment. Virtuozzo Storage is a highly
+        available distributed software defined storage with built-in
+        replication and disaster recovery.
+
+    - qemu: Add support for memory backing with file source
+        Add support in numa topology for file source inside memory backing
+        (hugepages are not needed) Three new elements <source/>,<access/> and
+        <allocation/> were added to <memoryBacking/> element. Also new
+        configuration parameter memory_backing_dir was added to qemu.conf.
+
+    - network: make openvswitch call timeout configurable
+        Adding the ability to specify the timeout value in seconds for
+        openvswitch calls in the libvirtd configuration file.
+
+    - bhyve: add e1000 NIC support
+        Add support for e1000 NIC. Previously, the only available option was
+        virtio-net.
+
+    - libxl: add tunneled migration support
+        Add tunneled migration to libxl driver, which is always capable of
+        strong encryption and doesn't require any extra network connection
+        other than what's required for remote access of libvirtd.
+
+    - qemu: add rendernode argument
+        Add a new attribute 'rendernode' to <gl> spice element.
+
+    - nodedev: add drm capability
+        Add a new 'drm' capability for Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) devices,
+        providing device type information.
+
+    - Add API for individual/specific vCPU hotplug
+        The new API allows selecting specific vCPUs to be added/removed from
+        the VM. The existing APIs allowed only adding/removing from the end
+        which did not play well with NUMA.
+
+  * Improvements
+
+    - virsh: pool-list: allow both --uuid and --name in one command
+        Adjust the virsh-pool command to support the --uuid and/or --name
+        options in order to print just the --name and/or --uuid of pools.
+
+    - Introduce MTU to domain <interface/> and <network>
+        Allow setting MTU size for some types of domain interface and network.
+
+    - libxl: improve support for <timer> configurations
+        Add support for multiple timers. Extend the tsc timer to support the
+        emulate mode. Improve conversion of timer XML to/from xl.cfg.
+
+    - storage: modularize the storage driver
+        Split up the storage driver backends into loadable modules so that
+        binary distributions don't have to compromise on shipping the storage
+        driver with all backends which may pull in too many dependencies.
+
+  * Bug fixes
+
+    - nodedev: Fabric name must not be required for fc_host capability
+        fabric_name is one of many fc_host attributes in Linux that is optional
+        and left to the low-level driver to decide if it is implemented. For
+        example the zfcp device driver does not provide a fabric name for an
+        fcp host. The requirement for the existence of a fabric name has been
+        removed by making it optional.
+
+    - bhyve: change address allocation schema for SATA disks
+        Previously, the bhyve driver assigned PCI addresses to SATA disks
+        directly rather than assigning that to a controller and using SATA
+        addresses for disks. It was implemented this way because bhyve has no
+        notion of an explicit SATA controller. However, as this doesn't match
+        libvirt's understanding of disk addresses, the bhyve driver was changed
+        to follow the common schema and have PCI addresses for SATA controllers
+        and SATA addresses for disks. If you're having issues because of this,
+        it's recommended to edit the domain's XML and remove <address
+        type='pci'> from the <disk> elements with <target bus='sata'/> and let
+        libvirt regenerate it properly.
+
+    - libxl: maximum memory fixes
+        Fix reporting of domain maximum memory. Fix setting dom0 maximum
+        memory.
+
+    - libxl: fix disk detach when <driver> not specified
+
+    - libxl: fix dom0 autoballooning with Xen 4.8
+
+    - qemu: Allow empty script path to <interface/>
+        Historically, this was always allowed. Unfortunately, due to some
+        rework done for 1.3.2 release a bug was dragged in which suddenly stop
+        allowing domain with such configuration to start.
+
 # v3.0.0 (2017-01-17)
 
   * New features
@@ -137,6 +230,10 @@ libvirt releases
         get an i686 environment. pae should always be enabled for x86_64 HVM
         domains.
 
+    - qemu: Fix XML dump of autogenerated websocket
+        As a result autogenerated websocket port is regenerated on domain
+        restore, migration and such as it should be.
+
 # v2.5.0 (2016-12-04)
 
   * New features