From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 11:23:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: Update news for the 9.3.0 release
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NEWS: Update news for the 9.3.0 release

Update the news file mentioning important changes such as the change of
translatable strings or the fix of inactive snapshots of VMs using uefi.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2a844ce40c..8b0b9f4b1f 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ v9.3.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * qemu: Introduce support for ``igb`` network interface model
+
+    ``igb`` is a successor to the ``e1000e`` network device using PCIe interface.
+    It was introduced in QEMU 8.0
+
+  * qemu: Improve handling of maximum physical address configuration
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * qemu: Change default machine type for ARM and RISC-V
@@ -25,8 +32,53 @@ v9.3.0 (unreleased)
     The previous defaults were nearly unusable and had to be overridden in most
     cases.
 
+  * Improve translatable strings format substitutions
+
+    All translatable error messages with substitution strings were converted to
+    use positional modifiers to allow translators to shuffle around words in
+    the translation. The translations in Weblate were also updated to match.
+
+  * qemu: Improve validation of ``watchdog`` devices
+
+    Certain invalid configurations of ``watchdog`` device are now properly
+    detected:
+
+     - hotplug of always-present platform watchdogs is forbidden
+     - ``iTCO`` watchdog can be configured only once
+     - ``ib700`` watchdog is allowed only on ``i440fx`` machines
+
+  * Improved output of ``virt-host-validate`` on ARM
+
+    Our validation tool now parses the ``IORT`` data on ARM to properly detect
+    presence of SMMU and other features.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
+  * qemu: Fix inactive internal snapshots of VM with UEFI firmware
+
+    Recent changes to UEFI firmware handling resulted into breaking support
+    for inactive internal snapshots of VMs with UEFI which historically worked.
+    (Although the intention was to disallow them together with active ones, but
+    the check did not work properly.)
+
+    Preserve existing functionality by allowing such snapshots explicitly.
+
+  * qemu: Properly configure locked memory limit for VMs with ``<disk type='nvme'``
+
+    The NVMe driver in qemu requires some memory to be locked. This was not
+    taken into account in the code which calculates the memory limits based
+    on devices present in the configuration
+
+  * Fix native build on win32
+
+    Various improvements to the build system now allow users to build the client
+    library of libvirt on win32 natively.
+
+  * qemu: Properly detect tray of hotplugged CD-ROM devices
+
+    Media in a CD-ROM device which was hotplugged could not be changed as the
+    presence of the tray was not detected properly on hotplug.
+
 
 v9.2.0 (2023-04-01)
 ===================