[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status July 2013
Hi all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for July.
Fedora 20
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The 'Change' submission deadline came and went, and 3 virt changes
were accepted:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ACLs
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_Manager_Snapshots
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ARM_on_x86
Here's the remaining schedule:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule
Aug 06: Change freeze, must be functional
Aug 20: Alpha deadline
Sep 03: Alpha release
Sep 24: Beta deadline
Oct 08: Beta release
Nov 12: GA release
The change freeze next week is also when F20 branches off from
rawhide, so F20 will start to get some differentiation.
Fedora 17 EOL
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Fedora 17 is End-of-Life now, which means no more updates are being
shipped. If you're still on Fedora 17, now's a good time make the
jump to F19!
libvirt 1.1.0 and 1.1.1
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Two libvirt releases this month: 1.1.0 on July 1st 2013 and 1.1.1 on
July 30th 2013. Highlights:
1.1.0:
* Extensible migration APIs (Jiri Denemark)
* Add a policy kit access control driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
* various improvements in the Xen driver (Jim Fehlig and Marek
Marczykowski-Górecki)
* improve networking support on BSD (Roman Bogorodskiy)
* agent based vCPU hotplug support (Peter Krempa)
1.1.1:
* Adding device removal or deletion events (Jiri Denemark),
* Introduce new domain create APIs to pass pre-opened FDs to LXC (Daniel P.
Berrange),
* Add interface versions for Xen 4.3 (Stefan Bader),
* Add new public API virDomainSetMemoryStatsPeriod (John Ferlan),
* Various LXC improvements (Daniel P. Berrange and Gao feng)
seabios 1.7.3
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seabios 1.7.3 was released on July 7th and is currently in rawhide and
virt-preview.
- Initial support for using SeaBIOS as a UEFI CSM
- Support for detecting and using ACPI reboot ports.
- Non-standard floppy sizes now work again with recent QEMU versions.
- Several bug fixes and code cleanups
Bug stats
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Bug count on Jul 1 2013 : 266
Bug count on Aug 1 2013 : 218
Quite the substantial drop this month, but that's largely due to the
F17 EOL mass closings, and some housekeeping keeping throughout the
month in anticipation of the mass closing.
By release:
* Fedora 18 : 86
* Fedora 19 : 102
* Fedora rawhide : 30
By package:
* gnome-boxes : 33
* ipxe : 2
* libguestfs : 8
* libosinfo : 7
* libvirt : 38
* libvirt-sandbox : 21
* netcf : 7
* qemu : 34
* seabios : 1
* spice-gtk : 2
* spice-vdagent : 1
* usbredir : 1
* virt-dmesg : 1
* virt-manager : 29
* virt-viewer : 7
* virt-what : 3
* virtio-win : 3
* xen : 4
* xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 4
* xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 12
By status:
* ASSIGNED : 18
* MODIFIED : 2
* NEW : 188
* POST : 10
Bugs of note
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980254
Host crash when shutting down KVM VMs
A bad patch for 880035 was causing pretty reliable host crashes when
shutting down VMs. At least F18 and F19 were affected.
- Cole