1 systemd System and Service Manager
4 * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now;
5 An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the
8 * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke
9 libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not
10 support systems with module-init-tools anymore.
12 * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not
15 * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is
16 understood to set system wide environment variables
19 Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart
20 Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen,
24 * This is mostly a bugfix release
26 * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the
27 "Result" D-Bus property.
29 * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over
30 the next few releases.)
32 * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will
33 now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process
34 it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window
35 with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful
37 Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay
38 Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt,
39 Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode
42 * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
45 * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their
48 * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If
49 disabled, support tracking device access for active logins
50 goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user
51 journals by the respective users.
53 * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
54 owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access
55 to the system journal as well as all user journals.
57 * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging
58 client for all entries.
60 * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers
62 * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text
63 messages, without any meta data like date or time.
65 * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to
66 teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display
67 managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg
68 learned native udev hotplugging for display devices.
70 * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs
71 with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as
72 BSD logger replacement, and does so by default.
74 * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the
75 journal along with meta data.
77 * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for
78 writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for
79 creating symlinks, character and block device nodes.
81 * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups
82 persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in
83 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups
85 * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way
87 * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on
88 rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to
89 death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
92 * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
93 requested with new -k switch.
95 Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
96 Poettering, Michal Schmidt
99 * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
102 * The git repository moved to:
103 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
104 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
106 * First release with the journal
107 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html
109 * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and
110 systemd-stdout-bridge.
112 * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind
114 * Many systemadm clean-ups
116 * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all
117 remote mounts and may be used to start services before all
120 * Added Mageia support
122 * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl
124 * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in
125 the parent process before having finished writing the PID
126 file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be
127 fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the
128 parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them.
130 * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output
131 of existing distributions.
133 * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for
134 compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage.
136 * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and
137 thus will no longer act as synchronization point during
140 * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=.
142 * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for
143 relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is
144 useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys,
147 * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console
148 and the journal by default, not only just the console.
150 * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login.
152 * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a
153 lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically
154 select the components of systemd they are interested in.
156 * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is
159 * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to
160 --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
163 * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
164 of /usr/local by default.
166 * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
167 final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained
169 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons
171 * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter
172 the START or START_PRE states are now killed with
173 SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn
174 background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never
175 supported anyway, and bad style).
177 * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind
178 reloading of units together.
180 Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave
181 Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay
182 Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt,
183 Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef
184 Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek