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libvirt-glib release 5.0.0

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2023

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0, is now available from

https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/

The packages are GPG signed with [...]


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