news: Update for 5.4.0 release

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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<release version="v5.4.0" date="unreleased">
<section title="New features">
</section>
<section title="Security">
<change>
<summary>
cpu: Introduce support for the md-clear CPUID bit
</summary>
<description>
This bit is set when microcode provides the mechanism to invoke a
flush of various exploitable CPU buffers by invoking the x86
<code>VERW</code> instruction. CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127,
CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
Restrict user access to virt-admin, virtlogd and virtlockd
</summary>
<description>
The intended users for these facilities are the <code>root</code>
user and the <code>libvirtd</code> service respectively, but these
restrictions were not enforced correctly. CVE-2019-10132.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Improvements">
<change>
<summary>
test driver: Expand API coverage
</summary>
<description>
Several APIs that were missing from the test driver have now been
implemented.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
Avoid unnecessary static linking
</summary>
<description>
Most binaries shipped as part of libvirt, for example
<code>virtlogd</code> and <code>libvirt_iohelper</code>, were
embedding parts of the library even though they also linked against
the <code>libvirt.so</code> dynamic library. This is no longer the
case, which results in both the disk and memory footprint being
reduced.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
qemu: Report stat-htlb-pgalloc and stat-htlb-pgfail balloon stats
</summary>
<description>
These stats have been introduced in QEMU 3.0.
</description>
</change>
</section>
<section title="Bug fixes">
<change>
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scheduler for the main thread is set after QEMU starts.
</description>
</change>
<change>
<summary>
apparmor: Allow hotplug of vhost-scsi devices
</summary>
</change>
</section>
</release>
<release version="v5.3.0" date="2019-05-04">