Current releases
virt-manager 4.0.0 Wednesday March 02, 2022
- virt-install –os-variant/–osinfo is now a hard requirement for most cases
- Add ‘Enable shared memory’ UI checkbox (Lin Ma)
- add UI preference to default to UEFI for new VMs (Charles Arnold)
- Add virtiofs filesystem driver UI option
- Fill in all –cputune, –cpu, –shmem, –input, and –boot suboptions (Hugues Fafard)
- virt-* mdev improvements (Shalini Chellathurai Saroja)
- bhyve improvments (Roman Bogorodskiy)
- Revive network portgroup UI
- enable a TPM by default when UEFI is used (Daniel P. Berrangé)
- Use cpu host-passthrough by default on qemu x86
- use virtio-gpu video for most modern distros
- Default to extra pcie root ports for q35
- set discard=unmap by default for sparse disks and block devices
- We now require xorissofs for –location ISO
- We now use setuptools rather than just plain distutils
virt-viewer 11.0 (gpg) Friday November 18th, 2021 Win x86 MSI (gpg) Win x64 MSI (gpg)
Virt-viewer releases are GPG signed with a key having the fingerprint:
DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)
This same fingerprint is listed at time of the release announcements mails on the mailing list
- Minimum libgovirt is now 0.3.7
- CentOS 7 is no longer a supported build platform
- Use header bar for oVirt ISO dialog
- Add change CD button to toolbar for oVirt
- Support using ISOs in oVirt DATA storage domains
- Remove clashing -r command line shortcut for ‘resize’ that clashed with existing ‘reconnect’ shortcut
- Support modifier-only hotkeys for cursor release
- Fix smartcard and USB hotkey configuration regression
- Add USB device reset hotkey support
- Fix various mixed up GTK actions for hotkeys
- Release keyboard grab at same time as mouse grab with SPICE
- Fix misc compiler warnings with glib > 2.68
- Fix creation of window when guest uses multiple heads with a single QXL video card
- Updated translations from weblate
- Avoid warnings from GTK from overly strict minimum desktop width/height rules
- Update window action sensitivity to fix regression causing disabled send key menu items
- Fix mixed up action / menu state when user cancels a quit request
- Ensure auth dialog credential fields are cleared
- Fix setting os-id when building RPMs
- Avoid extra hyphen in build ID strings
- Explicitly disable spice/ovirt features when invoking meson for RPM builds
- Fix uninitialized variable for keymaps
virt-bootstrap 1.1.1 (gpg) Tuesday Jul 9th, 2019
- Don’t expose the root password via command line
- Set SElinux file context of destination folder
- Use absolute destination path
- safe-untar: Inherit SElinux context
- don’t allow overwriting of the root partition
Previous releases
- virt-manager: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-viewer: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-bootstrap: Sources and Changelogs
Verifying gpg signatures
As a quick guide, to import a key from the key servers and verify downloads use.
$ gpg --recv-key 0xBE86EBB415104FDF $ gpg --fingerprint 0xBE86EBB415104FDF ...check it matches fingerprint above... $ gpg --verify SIGNATURE-FILE SOURCE-FILE