[libvirt] [PATCH v3 10/10] docs: Add news article for volume encryption modifications

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 23:01:19 UTC 2018


Include both the domain and storage modifications in a "Removed
features" section as well as describing the improvement to allow
using a raw input volume to create the luks encrypted volume.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
---
 docs/news.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 08e5dcbda3..b97c7beb86 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@
         </description>
       </change>
     </section>
+    <section title="Removed features">
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Remove support for qcow/default encrypted volumes
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Disallow using a qcow encrypted volume for the guest and
+          disallow creation of the qcow or default encrypted volume
+          from the storage driver. Support for qcow encrypted volumes
+          has been phasing out since QEMU 2.3 and by QEMU 2.9 creation
+          of a qcow encrypted volume via qemu-img required usage of
+          secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt.
+        </description>
+      </change>
+    </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
       <change>
         <summary>
@@ -71,6 +86,16 @@
           Capabilities XML now provide information about host IOMMU support.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          Add support to use an raw input volume for encryption
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          It is now possible to provide a raw input volume as input for
+          to generate a luks encrypted volume via either virsh vol-create-from
+          or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
       <change>
-- 
2.14.4




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