Highlights:

After many months in a very difficult year for everyone, we are proud to present a new release of the libvirt provider.

Native Linux rpm and deb packages are available here.

Networking:

• Make static IP addresses permanent across reboots (#763)
• Correctly handle destruction of inactive networks (#742)
• Workaround race condition with bridges names when creating bridges in parallel (#789)
• Implement network detection for static IPs (#766)
• Trim the bridge name to 15 characters (#769)
• increase timeout/delay for qemu-guest-agent (#732)
• Adjust generated DHCP to match libvirt limitation of 65535 addresses (#753)
• Enable DHCP for isolated networks (#767)

Domains:

• Lookup machine type correctly so that it works after Terraform destroy (#726)

Multi-arch support

• Skip display setup for aarch64 as well ( #743)

Misc

• Ensure pts devices exist during tests by creating them dynamically (#724)
• Log useful error message if xsltproc cannot be executed (#729)
• Fix test failure of TestAccLibvirtVolume_RepeatedName (#733)
• Cleanup: Remove unused function and variables (#761)

Contributors:

@itwars @dancysoft @Xachman @dirkmueller @MalloZup @johscheuer @mrostecki @pablochacin @vmorris @mrostecki @ngyuki @dmacvicar

Outlook

The focus for the next release will be to attempt to get the provider in the Terraform registry.