ANNOUNCE: libvirt-glib release 5.0.0

Posted: November 30th, 2023 | Filed under: Fedora, libvirt, Virt Tools | Tags: | No Comments »

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0, is now available from

https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/

The packages are GPG signed with

Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)

Changes in this release:

  • Fix compatiblity with libxml2 >= 2.12.0
  • Bump min libvirt version to 2.3.0
  • Bump min meson to 0.56.0
  • Require use of GCC >= 4.8 / CLang > 3.4 / XCode CLang > 5.1
  • Mark USB disks as removable by default
  • Add support for audio device backend config
  • Add support for DBus graphics backend config
  • Add support for controlling firmware feature flags
  • Improve compiler flag handling in meson
  • Extend library version script handling to FreeBSD
  • Fix pointer sign issue in capabilities config API
  • Fix compat with gnome.mkenums() in Meson 0.60.0
  • Avoid compiler warnings from gi-ir-scanner generated code by not setting glib version constraints
  • Be more robust about NULL GError parameters
  • Disable unimportant cast alignment compiler warnings
  • Use ‘pragma once’ in all header files
  • Updated translations

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new release.

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