systemd System and Service Manager
+CHANGES WITH 226:
+
+ * The DHCP implementation of systemd-networkd gained a set of
+ new features:
+
+ - The DHCP server now supports emitting DNS and NTP
+ information. It may be enabled and configured via
+ EmitDNS=, DNS=, EmitNTP=, and NTP=. If transmission of DNS
+ and NTP information is enabled, but no servers are
+ configured, the corresponding uplink information (if there
+ is any) is propagated.
+
+ - Server and client now support transmission and reception
+ of timezone information. It can be configured via the
+ newly introduced network options UseTimezone=,
+ EmitTimezone=, and Timezone=. Transmission of timezone
+ information is enabled between host and containers by
+ default now: the container will change its local timezone
+ to what the host has set.
+
+ - Lease timeouts can now be configured via
+ MaxLeaseTimeSec= and DefaultLeaseTimeSec=.
+
+ - The DHCP server improved on the stability of
+ leases. Clients are more likely to get the same lease
+ information back, even if the server loses state.
+
+ - The DHCP server supports two new configuration options to
+ control the lease address pool metrics, PoolOffset= and
+ PoolSize=.
+
+ * The encapsulation limit of tunnels in systemd-networkd may
+ now be configured via 'EncapsulationLimit='. It allows
+ modifying the maximum additional levels of encapsulation
+ that are permitted to be prepended to a packet.
+
+ * systemd now supports the concept of user buses replacing
+ session buses, if used with dbus-1.10 (and enabled via dbus
+ --enable-user-session). It previously only supported this on
+ kdbus-enabled systems, and this release expands this to
+ 'dbus-daemon' systems.
+
+ * systemd-networkd now supports predictable interface names
+ for virtio devices.
+
+ * systemd now optionally supports the new Linux kernel
+ "unified" control group hierarchy. If enabled via the kernel
+ command-line option 'systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1',
+ systemd will try to mount the unified cgroup hierarchy
+ directly on /sys/fs/cgroup. If not enabled, or not
+ available, systemd will fall back to the legacy cgroup
+ hierarchy setup, as before. Host system and containers can
+ mix and match legacy and unified hierarchies as they
+ wish. nspawn understands the $UNIFIED_CROUP_HIERARCHY
+ environment variable to individually select the hierarchy to
+ use for executed containers. By default, nspawn will use the
+ unified hierarchy for the containers if the host uses the
+ unified hierarchy, and the legacy hierarchy otherwise.
+ Please note that at this point the unified hierarchy is an
+ experimental kernel feature and is likely to change in one
+ of the next kernel releases. Therefore, it should not be
+ enabled by default in downstream distributions yet. The
+ minimum required kernel version for the unified hierarchy to
+ work is 4.2. Note that when the unified hierarchy is used
+ for the first time delegated access to controllers is
+ safe. Because of this systemd-nspawn containers will get
+ access to controllers now, as will systemd user
+ sessions. This means containers and user sessions may now
+ manage their own resources, partitioning up what the system
+ grants them.
+
+ * A new special scope unit "init.scope" has been introduced
+ that encapsulates PID 1 of the system. It may be used to
+ determine resource usage and enforce resource limits on PID
+ 1 itself. PID 1 hence moved out of the root of the control
+ group tree.
+
+ * The cgtop tool gained support for filtering out kernel
+ threads when counting tasks in a control group. Also, the
+ count of processes is now recursively summed up by
+ default. Two options -k and --recursive= have been added to
+ revert to old behaviour. The tool has also been updated to
+ work correctly in containers now.
+
+ * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --bind-ro= options have been
+ extended to allow creation of non-recursive bind mounts.
+
+ * libsystemd gained two new calls sd_pid_get_cgroup() and
+ sd_peer_get_cgroup() which return the control group path of
+ a process or peer of a connected AF_UNIX socket. This
+ function call is particularly useful when implementing
+ delegated subtrees support in the control group hierarchy.
+
+ * The "sd-event" event loop API of libsystemd now supports
+ correct dequeuing of real-time signals, without losing
+ signal events.
+
+ * When systemd requests a PolicyKit decision when managing
+ units it will now add additional fields to the request,
+ including unit name and desired operation. This enables more
+ powerful PolicyKit policies, that make decisions depending
+ on these parameters.
+
+ * nspawn learnt support for .nspawn settings files, that may
+ accompany the image files or directories of containers, and
+ may contain additional settings for the container. This is
+ an alternative to configuring container parameters via the
+ nspawn command line.
+
+ Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, David
+ Herrmann, Eugene Yakubovich, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe
+ Brandenburger, Hans de Goede, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan
+ Synacek, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mangix, Marcel
+ Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michal
+ Sekletar, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, reverendhomer, Robin
+ Hack, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Pasche, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel
+ Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø
+
+ -- Berlin, 2015-09-08
+
+CHANGES WITH 225:
+
+ * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh
+ shell on the target container or the host. It is similar to
+ the existing 'login' command of machinectl, but spawns the
+ shell directly without prompting for username or
+ password. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local
+ host and is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can
+ be used as replacement for 'su -' which spawns a session as
+ a fresh systemd unit in a way that is fully isolated from
+ the originating session.
+
+ * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP
+ options and allows other programs to query the values.
+
+ * SELinux access control when enabling/disabling units is no
+ longer enforced with this release. The previous
+ implementation was incorrect, and a new corrected
+ implementation is not yet available. As unit file operations
+ are still protected via PolicyKit and D-Bus policy this is
+ not a security problem. Yet, distributions which care about
+ optimal SELinux support should probably not stabilize on
+ this release.
+
+ * sd-bus gained support for matches of type "arg0has=", that
+ test for membership of strings in string arrays sent in bus
+ messages.
+
+ * systemd-resolved now dumps the contents of its DNS and LLMNR
+ caches to the logs on reception of the SIGUSR1 signal. This
+ is useful to debug DNS behaviour.
+
+ * The coredumpctl tool gained a new --directory= option to
+ operate on journal files in a specific directory.
+
+ * "systemctl reboot" and related commands gained a new
+ "--message=" option which may be used to set a free-text
+ wall message when shutting down or rebooting the
+ system. This message is also logged, which is useful for
+ figuring out the reason for a reboot or shutdown a
+ posteriori.
+
+ * The "systemd-resolve-host" tool's -i switch now takes
+ network interface numbers as alternative to interface names.
+
+ * A new unit file setting for services has been introduced:
+ UtmpMode= allows configuration of how precisely systemd
+ handles utmp and wtmp entries for the service if this is
+ enabled. This allows writing services that appear similar to
+ user sessions in the output of the "w", "who", "last" and
+ "lastlog" tools.
+
+ * systemd-resolved will now locally synthesize DNS resource
+ records for the "localhost" and "gateway" domains as well as
+ the local hostname. This should ensure that clients querying
+ RRs via resolved will get similar results as those going via
+ NSS, if nss-myhostname is enabled.
+
+ Contributions from: Alastair Hughes, Alex Crawford, Daniel
+ Mack, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Kostrowski,
+ Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, HATAYAMA Daisuke, Jan
+ Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Johnny Robeson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers,
+ Kefeng Wang, Lennart Poettering, Major Hayden, Marcel
+ Holtmann, Markus Elfring, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Matt
+ Turner, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Namhyung Kim,
+ Nicolas Cornu, Owen W. Taylor, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer,
+ reverendhomer, Richard Maw, Ronny Chevalier, Seth Jennings,
+ Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe
+ Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Meyer, Tom Gundersen, Vincent Batts,
+ WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2015-08-27
+
+CHANGES WITH 224:
+
+ * The systemd-efi-boot-generator functionality was merged into
+ systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
+
+ * systemd-networkd now supports Group Policy for vxlan
+ devices. It can be enabled via the new boolean configuration
+ option called 'GroupPolicyExtension='.
+
+ Contributions from: Andreas Kempf, Christian Hesse, Daniel Mack, David
+ Herrmann, Herman Fries, Johannes Nixdorf, Kay Sievers, Lennart
+ Poettering, Peter Hutterer, Susant Sahani, Tom Gundersen
+
+ -- Berlin, 2015-07-31
+
+CHANGES WITH 223:
+
+ * The python-systemd code has been removed from the systemd repository.
+ A new repository has been created which accommodates the code from
+ now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a separate package
+ for this: https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd
+
+ * The systemd daemon will now reload its main configuration
+ (/etc/systemd/system.conf) on daemon-reload.
+
+ * sd-dhcp now exposes vendor specific extensions via
+ sd_dhcp_lease_get_vendor_specific().
+
+ * systemd-networkd gained a number of new configuration options.
+
+ - A new boolean configuration option for TAP devices called
+ 'VNetHeader='. If set, the IFF_VNET_HDR flag is set for the
+ device, thus allowing to send and receive GSO packets.
+
+ - A new tunnel configuration option called 'CopyDSCP='.
+ If enabled, the DSCP field of ip6 tunnels is copied into the
+ decapsulated packet.
+
+ - A set of boolean bridge configuration options were added.
+ 'UseBPDU=', 'HairPin=', 'FastLeave=', 'AllowPortToBeRoot=',
+ and 'UnicastFlood=' are now parsed by networkd and applied to the
+ respective bridge link device via the respective IFLA_BRPORT_*
+ netlink attribute.
+
+ - A new string configuration option to override the hostname sent
+ to a DHCP server, called 'Hostname='. If set and 'SendHostname='
+ is true, networkd will use the configured hostname instead of the
+ system hostname when sending DHCP requests.
+
+ - A new tunnel configuration option called 'IPv6FlowLabel='. If set,
+ networkd will configure the IPv6 flow-label of the tunnel device
+ according to RFC2460.
+
+ - The 'macvtap' virtual network devices are now supported, similar to
+ the already supported 'macvlan' devices.
+
+ * systemd-resolved now implements RFC5452 to improve resilience against
+ cache poisoning. Additionally, source port randomization is enabled
+ by default to further protect against DNS spoofing attacks.
+
+ * nss-mymachines now supports translating UIDs and GIDs of running
+ containers with user-namespaces enabled. If a container 'foo'
+ translates a host uid 'UID' to the container uid 'TUID', then
+ nss-mymachines will also map uid 'UID' to/from username 'vu-foo-TUID'
+ (with 'foo' and 'TUID' replaced accordingly). Similarly, groups are
+ mapped as 'vg-foo-TGID'.
+
+ Contributions from: Beniamino Galvani, cee1, Christian Hesse, Daniel
+ Buch, Daniel Mack, daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov,
+ HATAYAMA Daisuke, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig),
+ Johan Ouwerkerk, Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers,
+ Lennart Poettering, Lidong Zhong, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael
+ Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Namhyung Kim,
+ Nick Owens, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, Steven Allen, Sungbae Yoo,
+ Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom
+ Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo,
+ Vivenzio Pagliari, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2015-07-29
+
+CHANGES WITH 222:
+
+ * udev does not longer support the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS= key in udev rules.
+ There are no known issues with current sysfs, and udev does not need
+ or should be used to work around such bugs.
+
+ * udev does no longer enable USB HID power management. Several reports
+ indicate, that some devices cannot handle that setting.
+
+ * The udev accelerometer helper was removed. The functionality
+ is now fully included in iio-sensor-proxy. But this means,
+ older iio-sensor-proxy versions will no longer provide
+ accelerometer/orientation data with this systemd version.
+ Please upgrade iio-sensor-proxy to version 1.0.
+
+ * networkd gained a new configuration option IPv6PrivacyExtensions=
+ which enables IPv6 privacy extensions (RFC 4941, "Privacy Extensions
+ for Stateless Address") on selected networks.
+
+ * For the sake of fewer build-time dependencies and less code in the
+ main repository, the python bindings are about to be removed in the
+ next release. A new repository has been created which accommodates
+ the code from now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a
+ separate package for this. The removal will take place in v223.
+
+ https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd
+
+ Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Andrew Eikum, Bastien Nocera,
+ Cédric Delmas, Christian Hesse, Christos Trochalakis, Daniel Mack,
+ daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Biggers, Eric
+ Cook, Felipe Sateler, Geert Jansen, Gerd Hoffmann, Gianpaolo Macario,
+ Greg Kroah-Hartman, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Alexander Steffens
+ (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jay Strict, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering,
+ Markus Knetschke, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michal
+ Sekletar, Miguel Bernal Marin, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, rinrinne,
+ Susant Sahani, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein
+ Husebø, Vedran Miletić, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2015-07-07
+
CHANGES WITH 221:
* The sd-bus.h and sd-event.h APIs have now been declared
decompress bz2, xz, gzip compressed downloads if necessary,
and restore sparse files on disk. The daemon uses privilege
separation to ensure the actual download logic runs with
- fewer privileges than the deamon itself. machinectl has
+ fewer privileges than the daemon itself. machinectl has
gained new commands "pull-tar", "pull-raw" and "pull-dkr" to
make the functionality of importd available to the
user. With this in place the Fedora and Ubuntu "Cloud"
* systemd now provides a way to store file descriptors
per-service in PID 1.This is useful for daemons to ensure
that fds they require are not lost during a daemon
- restart. The fds are passed to the deamon on the next
+ restart. The fds are passed to the daemon on the next
invocation in the same way socket activation fds are
passed. This is now used by journald to ensure that the
various sockets connected to all the system's stdout/stderr
* When querying unit file enablement status (for example via
"systemctl is-enabled"), a new state "indirect" is now known
which indicates that a unit might not be enabled itself, but
- another unit listed in its Alias= setting might be.
+ another unit listed in its Also= setting might be.
* Similar to the various existing ConditionXYZ= settings for
units there are now matching AssertXYZ= settings. While
~ianmdlvl / elogind.git / blobdiff