diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 22f00cc55c7628018231d80bd1bf712036402559..54337f782d57a65a7115c343a9e53c5382661dfa 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -145,6 +145,16 @@
           libxl: fix dom0 autoballooning with Xen 4.8
         </summary>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Allow empty script path to &lt;interface/&gt;
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Historically, this was always allowed. Unfortunately, due to some
+          rework done for 1.3.2 release a bug was dragged in which suddenly
+          stop allowing domain with such configuration to start.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
   </release>
   <release version="v3.0.0" date="2017-01-17">
diff --git a/src/util/virnetdev.c b/src/util/virnetdev.c
index fa695d4a6e23adb6e604571c84db759bb0ccce7d..d123248787cf0cb1b11fed03b281b1147cf097eb 100644
--- a/src/util/virnetdev.c
+++ b/src/util/virnetdev.c
@@ -2615,6 +2615,10 @@ virNetDevRunEthernetScript(const char *ifname, const char *script)
     virCommandPtr cmd;
     int ret;
 
+    /* Not a bug! Previously we did accept script="" as a NO-OP. */
+    if (STREQ(script, ""))
+        return 0;
+
     cmd = virCommandNew(script);
     virCommandAddArgFormat(cmd, "%s", ifname);
     virCommandClearCaps(cmd);