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oVirt 4.3.6 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the 4.3.6 release as of September 26, 2019.

oVirt is a free open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible.

This release is available now for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 and CentOS Linux 7.7 (or similar).

If you’d like to try oVirt as quickly as possible, follow the instructions on the Download page.

For complete installation, administration, and usage instructions, see the oVirt Documentation.

For a general overview of oVirt, read the About oVirt page.

To learn about features introduced before 4.3.6, see the release notes for previous versions.

oVirt 4.3.6 Release Notes
1. What’s New in 4.3.6?

What’s New in 4.3.6?

Release has been updated on October 8th providing additional fixes.

Release Note

oVirt Engine WildFly

BZ 1732499 Require WildFly 17.0.1 for oVirt Engine 4.3
oVirt engine 4.3.6 now depends on WildFly 17.0.1.FINAL

oVirt Engine

BZ 1732499 Require WildFly 17.0.1 for oVirt Engine 4.3
oVirt engine 4.3.6 now depends on WildFly 17.0.1.FINAL

Enhancements

VDSM

BZ 1753116 require updated kernel for CVE-2019-14835
vdsm now requires a host kernel with fix for CVE-2019-14835

oVirt Engine

BZ 1741152 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] [RFE] - Creating an NFS storage domain the engine should let the user specify exact NFS version v4.0 and not just v4
BZ 1680498 [RFE] Implement priorities for soft affinity groups
A new text field has been added to the affinity group dialog to set priority. It can contain any real number, not just integers. Priority can also be set using a new parameter in the REST API.
When a Virtual Machine is started or migrated, a host is selected, with the broken affinity groups having the lowest priority.
If not all affinity groups can be satisfied, the groups with lower priority are broken first.

imgbased

BZ 1744027 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] [RFE] Warn if SELinux is disabled when upgrading RHV-H

IOProcess

BZ 1753901 ioprocess - Implement block size detection compatible with Gluster storage
The current release provides an API to probe the block size of the underlying filesystem. The vdsm package needs this API to support 4k storage on gluster.

Bug Fixes

VDSM

BZ 1748395 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Can’t import guest from export domain to data domain on rhv4.3 due to error “Invalid parameter: ‘DiskType=1’”
BZ 1744572 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] VDSM command Get Host Statistics failed: Internal JSON-RPC error: {‘reason’: ‘[Errno 19] vnet<x> is not present in the system’}
BZ 1746718 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Typo and exception due to non-iterable object on gluster fencing testing
BZ 1660451 Executor queue can get full if vm.destroy takes some time to complete
BZ 1740498 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Remove nwfilter configuration from the vdsmd service start
BZ 1691760 [SR-IOV] cannot enable VF on broadcom network card

oVirt image transfer daemon and proxy

BZ 1637809 ovirt-imageio-proxy should use apache’s pki

oVirt Engine

BZ 1753168 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] teardownImage attempts to deactivate in-use LV’s rendering the VM disk image/volumes in locked state.
BZ 1751142 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] host activation causes RHHI nodes to lose the quorum
BZ 1709201 Change md5 checksum used in GlusterHooks calls
BZ 1734671 [scale] updatevmdynamic broken if too many users logged in - psql ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255)
BZ 1733438 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] engine-setup fails to upgrade to 4.3 with Unicode characters in CA subject

oVirt Engine Metrics

BZ 1723453 Install failed on timeout during “Wait for resize”

Other

VDSM

BZ 1740774 Pad memory volumes to 4096 bytes to support 4K storage
BZ 1726834 ioprocess readfile(direct=True) does not use direct I/O

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

BZ 1704500 auditd logs full of sudo events from vdsm

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1713304 Fail to deploy hosted-engine with –6 on a dual-stack host

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1737353 he-invalid-engine-fqdn-err “Unable to resolve address” is missing in cockpit UI
BZ 1711672 hosted-engine-setup fails if LANGUAGE set to some local language

oVirt Engine

BZ 1758052 Create VM rollback fails with NPE leaving VM locked - Exception in invoking callback of command AddVmFromTemplate- Exception: javax.ejb.EJBTransactionRolledbackException
BZ 1757782 Deleting a Single snapshot disk live merge ‘REDUCE_IMAGE’ step fails with NPE and snapshot disk remains in illegal state
BZ 1755869 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] RHV 4.3 throws an exception when trying to access VMs which have snapshots from unsupported compatibility levels
BZ 1680499 [RFE] Allowing use of labels in affinity groups
BZ 1748387 [downstream clone - 4.3.7] NPE in DestroyImage endAction during live merge leaving a task in DB for hours causing operations depending on host clean tasks to fail as Deactivate host/StopSPM/deactivate SD
BZ 1745491 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Unable to start guests in our Power9 cluster without running in headless mode.
BZ 1715435 Failed to run check-update of host
BZ 1741893 uploading raw image to cow disk fails on verify volume
BZ 1731245 Wrong disk size of managed block device disk shown when virtual machine: Bytes instead of gigabytes
BZ 1741155 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] a new size of the direct LUN not updated in Admin Portal
BZ 1739134 Error creating local storage domain: Internal Engine Error.
BZ 1744571 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] VMs will fail to start if the vnic profile attached is having port mirroring enabled and have name greater than 15 characters
BZ 1639577 [UI] - Tasks - Synchronizing networks on cluster <UNKNOWN>
BZ 1720994 sync all cluster networks - all sync host events are numbered ‘1/1’ in events tab\engine.log
BZ 1619011 “sync all cluster networks” - do not attempt to sync hosts which are already in sync
BZ 1734429 Support device block size of 4096 bytes for file based storage domains
BZ 1720487 [REST] Unable to set ‘Unlimited’ QOS for vNIC profile using RESTAPI
BZ 1686717 UI Dialog for moving disks between Storagedomains is less useful
BZ 1720908 Remove host fails when host is in maintenance as it’s lock due to DisconnectHostFromStoragePoolServersCommand - host in maintenance should not be locked
BZ 1679867 UI exception seen in RHV-M (models.vms.UnitVmModel.$validate)
BZ 1533160 Webadmin-manage domain window - it’s possible to insert a number bigger than storage domain size
BZ 1744510 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Disk migration progress bar not clearly visible and unusable.
BZ 1749202 - [downstream clone - 4.3.7] “Field ‘foo’ can not be updated when status is ‘Up’” in engine.log when listing ‘NEXT_RUN’ configuration snapshot VMs

oVirt Engine Appliance

BZ 1737555 pam_pkcs11 error trying to login to the graphical console of the hosted-engine VM
When trying to log in to a Self-Hosted Engine virtual machine using a VNC or SPICE console, an error regarding smart card authorization is displayed.
With this release, the log in process completes without errors.

oVirt Engine Data Warehouse

BZ 1727550 Install DWH on separate machine failed - problem with execute stage ‘Misc configuration’

ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc

BZ 1713195 ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc doesn’t build on Fedora 29

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1746728 Day 2 [Expand Volume]: Logical size is incorrect while providing the LV size
BZ 1746452 lvcache should be the same as input from user
BZ 1745565 Remove the default arbiter check for vmstore volume
BZ 1745503 VDO with LVM thinpool needs correct entry in inventory file in cockpit based deployment.
BZ 1745501 Deployment wizard has overlapped buttons, for the scenario of reusing existing configuration
BZ 1739881 Rename lifecycle methods to support React 17.x
BZ 1715959 Single node RHHI-V deployment, results in the host added twice to the cluster, one with backend and other with frontend FQDN
BZ 1712714 Provide option for user to attach LVM Cache to specific thinpool
BZ 1693149 [Day 2] With expand cluster, newly added nodes are not added in to the existing gluster cluster
BZ 1690741 Cockpit Day 2 - RFE - Support for expanding volume/creating bricks
BZ 1692793 [Day 2] While creating new volume or expanding the volume using day2, option to add brick should be removed
BZ 1690801 Disk count and stripe size are missing in the deployment wizard, when changing disktype from JBOD to RAID
BZ 1715461 Changing the name from FQDN to additional hosts in cockpit
BZ 1738019 Update LV cache related variables in generated vars file
BZ 1738502 LVM cache feature not possible with ansible-2.8
BZ 1721371 Provide a way to cleanup gluster deployment from cockpit
BZ 1693657 Enable LV thinpool on VDO devices
BZ 1724035 Move the preflight check in to ansible pre-task for automated CLI deployment
BZ 1713935 [RFE] Add Log verbosity flag to Cockpit installer

oVirt Engine UI Extensions

BZ 1751144 [UI] cluster upgrade dialog big margin

oVirt Host Deploy

BZ 1747787 Failed to deploy hosted engine with Failed to execute stage ‘Misc configuration’: expected string or buffer
BZ 1737926 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Setting FIPS parameter from the engine will make the host unable to reboot if /boot resides on a separate partition (as in RHV-H case)

No Doc Update

VDSM

BZ 1755271 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Make block size detection compatible with Gluster storage
BZ 1719789 dynamic_ownership enabled breaks file ownership after virtual machine migration and shutdown for disk images on Gluster SD when libgfapi is enabled

oVirt Engine

BZ 1718694 Fix message about removing iptables support in 4.3
BZ 1746730 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Engine deletes the leaf volume when SnapshotVDSCommand timed out without checking if the volume is still used by the VM
BZ 1737612 [CodeChange][i18n] oVirt 4.3 webadmin - translation update
BZ 1733089 engine-setup role fails if ovn password is not supplied in vault
BZ 1743246 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Move/Copy disk are blocked if there is less space in source SD than the size of the disk
BZ 1726758 [Cinderlib] - Error connecting to ceph cluster when starting VM with Ceph MBD disk
BZ 1613702 [RFE][UI] - Add out-of-sync icon indication for the cluster entity
BZ 1744507 [downstream clone - 4.3.6] Snapshot creation was successful, but snapshot remains locked
BZ 1734360 When vdsm spice CA file checking may fail if spice ca directory don’t exists
BZ 1715478 Trying to move disk using REST-API during LSM, at RemoveSnapshot phase, leaves the disk in a status where it can’t be moved again

ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap

BZ 1733111 [ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap-setup] dig command usage does not allow for tcp fallback

oVirt Engine UI Extensions

BZ 1750669 Cluster upgrade dialogue closes unexpectedly with Minified React error #130

Contributors

58 people contributed to this release:

Ahmad Khiet
Ales Musil
Andrej Krejcir
Bell Levin
Benny Zlotnik
Bohdan Iakymets
Charles Thao
Daniel Erez
Denis Chaplygin
Divan Santana
Dominik Holler
Eitan Raviv
Eyal Edri
Eyal Shenitzky
Fedor Gavrilov
Gal Zaidman
Gobinda Das
Greg Sheremeta
Ido Rosenzwig
Jan Zmeskal
Joey
Kaustav Majumder
Lev Veyde
Liran Rotenberg
Lucia Jelinkova
Marcin Sobczyk
Martin Necas
Martin Nečas
Martin Perina
Michal Skrivanek
Milan Zamazal
Nir Soffer
Ondra Machacek
Ori_Liel
Pavel Bar
Sahina Bose
Sandro Bonazzola
Scott Dickerson
Scott J Dickerson
Shani Leviim
Sharon Gratch
Shirly Radco
Simone Tiraboschi
Steven Rosenberg
Tomasz Baranski
Tomáš Golembiovský
Vojtech Juranek
Yedidyah Bar David
Yotam Fromm
Yuval Turgeman
bond95
godas
imjoey
jenkins CI
jirimacku
michalskrivanek
parthdhanjal
thaorell