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 * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald.
21 Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart
22 Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen,
26 * This is mostly a bugfix release
28 * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the
29 "Result" D-Bus property.
31 * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over
32 the next few releases.)
34 * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will
35 now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process
36 it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window
37 with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful
39 Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay
40 Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt,
41 Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode
44 * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
47 * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their
50 * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If
51 disabled, support tracking device access for active logins
52 goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user
53 journals by the respective users.
55 * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
56 owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access
57 to the system journal as well as all user journals.
59 * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging
60 client for all entries.
62 * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers
64 * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text
65 messages, without any meta data like date or time.
67 * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to
68 teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display
69 managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg
70 learned native udev hotplugging for display devices.
72 * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs
73 with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as
74 BSD logger replacement, and does so by default.
76 * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the
77 journal along with meta data.
79 * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for
80 writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for
81 creating symlinks, character and block device nodes.
83 * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups
84 persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in
85 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups
87 * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way
89 * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on
90 rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to
91 death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
94 * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
95 requested with new -k switch.
97 Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
98 Poettering, Michal Schmidt
101 * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
104 * The git repository moved to:
105 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
106 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
108 * First release with the journal
109 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html
111 * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and
112 systemd-stdout-bridge.
114 * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind
116 * Many systemadm clean-ups
118 * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all
119 remote mounts and may be used to start services before all
122 * Added Mageia support
124 * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl
126 * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in
127 the parent process before having finished writing the PID
128 file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be
129 fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the
130 parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them.
132 * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output
133 of existing distributions.
135 * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for
136 compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage.
138 * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and
139 thus will no longer act as synchronization point during
142 * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=.
144 * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for
145 relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is
146 useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys,
149 * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console
150 and the journal by default, not only just the console.
152 * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login.
154 * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a
155 lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically
156 select the components of systemd they are interested in.
158 * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is
161 * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to
162 --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
165 * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
166 of /usr/local by default.
168 * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
169 final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained
171 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons
173 * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter
174 the START or START_PRE states are now killed with
175 SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn
176 background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never
177 supported anyway, and bad style).
179 * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind
180 reloading of units together.
182 Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave
183 Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay
184 Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt,
185 Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef
186 Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek