Re: [PATCH] CHANGELOG: Note about oxenstored being deprecated

[Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/10/25 5:44 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: David Scott <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Edwin Török <edwin.torok@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rob Hoes <Rob.Hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pau Ruiz Safont <pau.safont@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrii Sultanov <andriy.sultanov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'd like to add a --with-system-oxenstored= but I don't have time.  That will
> have to wait for 4.22.
>     
It would be nice to introduce "--with-system-oxenstored=", but, at the moment,
I can agree that it is enough to announce that oxenstored is deprecated and
will be removed in a future version of Xen:
 Release-Acked-By: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

~ Oleksii
> ---
>  CHANGELOG.md | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
> index fc4f6d7c8a09..080305ef456f 100644
> --- a/CHANGELOG.md
> +++ b/CHANGELOG.md
> @@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
>  
>   - Support of qemu-traditional has been removed.
>  
> + - The in-tree oxenstored is deprecated and will be removed in a future
> +   version of Xen.  It is moving into the Xapi project
> +   https://github.com/xapi-project/oxenstored so it can be maintained in line
> +   with the other Ocaml projects in the Xen ecosystem.
> +
>  ## [4.20.0](https://xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=RELEASE-4.20.0) - 2025-03-05
>  
>  ### Changed
>
> base-commit: 343e01fd1d31dc6867473599c2c49039386bdf79
>