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changelog: Add notes about CET and Migration changes
authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:35:27 +0000 (15:35 +0100)
committerAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:34:02 +0000 (16:34 +0100)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Release-acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
CHANGELOG.md

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@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
  - New 'domid_policy', allowing domain-ids to be randomly chosen.
  - Option to preserve domain-id across migrate or save+restore.
  - Support in kdd for initial KD protocol handshake for Win 7, 8 and 10 (64 bit).
+ - Tech preview support for Control-flow Execution Technology, with Xen using
+   Supervisor Shadow Stacks for its own protection.
+
+### Changed
+ - The CPUID data seen by a guest on boot is now moved in the migration
+   stream.  A guest migrating between non-identical hardware will now no
+   longer observe details such as Family/Model/Stepping, Cache, etc changing.
+   An administrator still needs to take care to ensure the features visible to
+   the guest at boot are compatible with anywhere it might migrate.
 
 ## [4.13.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=RELEASE-4.13.0) - 2019-12-17