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+---
+features:
+  - |
+    New ``[glance]/enable_rbd_download`` config option was introduced.
+    The option allows for the configuration of direct downloads
+    of Ceph hosted glance images into the libvirt image cache via rbd when
+    ``[glance]/enable_rbd_download= True`` and ``[glance]/rbd_user``,
+    ``[glance]/rbd_pool``, ``[glance]/rbd_connect_timeout``,
+    ``[glance]/rbd_ceph_conf`` are correctly configured.