From 4b2799fdaa2df1e0ffca46edba2037420cf10fc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:40:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] news: Document support for QCOW2 format firmware

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 1a763f6223..2ccbf0a62a 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ v9.2.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * qemu: Add support for QCOW2 formatted firmware
+
+    This type of firmware can be picked up either automatically, if the
+    corresponding JSON descriptor has the highest priority, or manually by
+    using ``<loader format='qcow2'/>`` in the domain XML.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * qemu: Make firmware selection persistent