Hi, folks! The last time we incremented versions for libvirt and QEMU was for "Wallaby" release[1]. It'Although we advertized NEXT_MIN_{LIBVIRT,QEMU} versions to be libvirt 7, 0, 0 and QEMU 5.2.0, we actually didn't bump. So, for "Bobcat", we'll bump the MIN libvirt and QEMU versions to: MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION = (7, 0, 0) MIN_QEMU_VERSION = (5, 2, 0) For the upcoming "C" release (2024), we annouce the NEXT_MIN_{LIBVIRT,QEMU} to be the following: NEXT_MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION = (8, 0, 0) NEXT_MIN_QEMU_VERSION = (6, 2, 0) Hope that sounds fine. If anyone has concerns or further comments, please raise them on this thread or add 'em in the patch below: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/886825 Pick next min libvirt / QEMU versions for "C" (2024) release Rationale --------- We picked the above NEXT_MIN version based on Ubuntu "Jammy" (22.04). It is the lowest common denominotor among Debian 11 ("Bullseye"), Ubuntu 22.04 ("Jammy"), and CentOS 9 Stream. - Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy): - libvirt-daemon: 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.5 - qemu-system-x86: 6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 - Debian 11 (Bullseye): - libvirt: 7.0.0-3+deb11u2 - qemu: 5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 - CentOS Stream 9: - libvirt-daemon-kvm-9.3.0-2.el9.x86_64.rpm - qemu-kvm-8.0.0-4.el9.x86_64.rpm [1] https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/commit/95724bbaef6 -- libvirt: Bump MIN_{LIBVIRT,QEMU}_VERSION and NEXT_MIN_{LIBVIRT,QEMU}_VERSION, 2020-09-28) -- /kashyap