systemd System and Service Manager
+CHANGES WITH 196:
+
+ * udev gained support for loading additional device properties
+ from an indexed database that is keyed by vendor/product IDs
+ and similar device identifiers. For the beginning this
+ "hwdb" is populated with data from the well-known PCI and
+ USB database, but also includes PNP, ACPI and OID data. In
+ the longer run this indexed database shall grow into
+ becoming the one central database for non-essential
+ userspace device metadata. Previously, data from the PCI/USB
+ database was only attached to select devices, since the
+ lookup was a relatively expensive operation due to O(n) time
+ complexity (with n being the number of entries in the
+ database). Since this is now O(1), we decided to add in this
+ data for all devices where this is available, by
+ default. Note that the indexed database needs to be rebuilt
+ when new data files are installed. To achieve this you need
+ to update your packaging scripts to invoke "udevadm hwdb
+ --update" after installation of hwdb data files. For
+ RPM-based distributions we introduced the new
+ %udev_hwdb_update macro for this purpose.
+
+ * The Journal gained support for the "Message Catalog", an
+ indexed database to link up additional information with
+ journal entries. For further details please check:
+
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog
+
+ The indexed message catalog database also needs to be
+ rebuilt after installation of message catalog files. Use
+ "journalctl --update-catalog" for this. For RPM-based
+ distributions we introduced the %journal_catalog_update
+ macro for this purpose.
+
+ * The Python Journal bindings gained support for the standard
+ Python logging framework.
+
+ * The Journal API gained new functions for checking whether
+ the underlying file system of a journal file is capable of
+ properly reporting file change notifications, or whether
+ applications that want to reflect journal changes "live"
+ need to recheck journal files continously in appropriate
+ time intervals.
+
+ * It is now possible to set the "age" field for tmpfiles
+ entries to 0, indicating that files matching this entry
+ shall always be removed when the directories are cleaned up.
+
+ * coredumpctl gained a new "gdb" verb which invokes gdb
+ right-away on the selected coredump.
+
+ * There's now support for "hybrid sleep" on kernels that
+ support this, in addition to "suspend" and "hibernate". Use
+ "systemctl hybrid-sleep" to make use of this.
+
+ * logind's HandleSuspendKey= setting (and related settings)
+ now gained support for a new "lock" setting to simply
+ request the screen lock on all local sessions, instead of
+ actually executing a suspend or hibernation.
+
+ * systemd will now mount the EFI variables file system by
+ default.
+
+ * Socket units now gained support for configuration of the
+ SMACK security label.
+
+ * timedatectl will now output the time of the last and next
+ daylight saving change.
+
+ * We dropped support for various legacy and distro-specific
+ concepts, such as insserv, early-boot SysV services
+ (i.e. those for non-standard runlevels such as 'b' or 'S')
+ or ArchLinux /etc/rc.conf support. We recommend the
+ distributions who still need support this to either continue
+ to maintain the necessary patches downstream, or find a
+ different solution. (Talk to us if you have questions!)
+
+ * Various systemd components will now bypass PolicyKit checks
+ for root and otherwise handle properly if PolicyKit is not
+ found to be around. This should fix most issues for
+ PolicyKit-less systems. Quite frankly this should have been
+ this way since day one. It is absolutely our intention to
+ make systemd work fine on PolicyKit-less systems, and we
+ consider it a bug if something doesn't work as it should if
+ PolicyKit is not around.
+
+ * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and
+ systemd without blkid and/or kmod support.
+
+ * "systemctl switch-root" is now capable of switching root
+ more than once. I.e. in addition to transitions from the
+ initrd to the host OS it is now possible to transition to
+ further OS images from the host. This is useful to implement
+ offline updating tools.
+
+ * Various other additions have been made to the RPM macros
+ shipped with systemd. Use %udev_rules_update() after
+ installing new udev rules files. %_udevhwdbdir,
+ %_udevrulesdir, %_journalcatalogdir, %_tmpfilesdir,
+ %_sysctldir are now available which resolve to the right
+ directories for packages to place various data files in.
+
+ * journalctl gained the new --full switch (in addition to
+ --all, to disable ellipsation for long messages.
+
+ Contributions from: Anders Olofsson, Auke Kok, Ben Boeckel,
+ Colin Walters, Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner,
+ Eelco Dolstra, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers,
+ Chun-Yi Lee, Lekensteyn, Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas,
+ Marti Raudsepp, Martin Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Michael Biebl,
+ Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nis Martensen,
+ Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Thomas
+ Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tony
+ Camuso, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+CHANGES WITH 195:
+
+ * journalctl gained new --since= and --until= switches to
+ filter by time. It also now supports nice filtering for
+ units via --unit=/-u.
+
+ * Type=oneshot services may use ExecReload= and do the
+ right thing.
+
+ * The journal daemon now supports time-based rotation and
+ vacuuming, in addition to the usual disk-space based
+ rotation.
+
+ * The journal will now index the available field values for
+ each field name. This enables clients to show pretty drop
+ downs of available match values when filtering. The bash
+ completion of journalctl has been updated
+ accordingly. journalctl gained a new switch -F to list all
+ values a certain field takes in the journal database.
+
+ * More service events are now written as structured messages
+ to the journal, and made recognizable via message IDs.
+
+ * The timedated, localed and hostnamed mini-services which
+ previously only provided support for changing time, locale
+ and hostname settings from graphical DEs such as GNOME now
+ also have a minimal (but very useful) text-based client
+ utility each. This is probably the nicest way to changing
+ these settings from the command line now, especially since
+ it lists available options and is fully integrated with bash
+ completion.
+
+ * There's now a new tool "systemd-coredumpctl" to list and
+ extract coredumps from the journal.
+
+ * We now install a README each in /var/log/ and
+ /etc/rc.d/init.d explaining where the system logs and init
+ scripts went. This hopefully should help folks who go to
+ that dirs and look into the otherwise now empty void and
+ scratch their heads.
+
+ * When user-services are invoked (by systemd --user) the
+ $MANAGERPID env var is set to the PID of systemd.
+
+ * SIGRTMIN+24 when sent to a --user instance will now result
+ in immediate termination of systemd.
+
+ * gatewayd received numerous feature additions such as a
+ "follow" mode, for live syncing and filtering.
+
+ * browse.html now allows filtering and showing detailed
+ information on specific entries. Keyboard navigation and
+ mouse screen support has been added.
+
+ * gatewayd/journalctl now supports HTML5/JSON
+ Server-Sent-Events as output.
+
+ * The SysV init script compatibility logic will now
+ heuristically determine whether a script supports the
+ "reload" verb, and only then make this available as
+ "systemctl reload".
+
+ * "systemctl status --follow" has been removed, use "journalctl
+ -u" instead.
+
+ * journald.conf's RuntimeMinSize=, PersistentMinSize= settings
+ have been removed since they are hardly useful to be
+ configured.
+
+ * And I'd like to take the opportunity to specifically mention
+ Zbigniew for his great contributions. Zbigniew, you rock!
+
+ Contributions from: Andrew Eikum, Christian Hesse, Colin
+ Guthrie, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, Eelco Dolstra, Ferenc
+ Wágner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas
+ Mikulėnas, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Michael Olbrich,
+ Michael Stapelberg, Michal Schmidt, Sebastian Ott, Thomas
+ Bächler, Umut Tezduyar, Will Woods, Wulf C. Krueger, Zbigniew
+ Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Сковорода Никита Андреевич
+
+CHANGES WITH 194:
+
+ * If /etc/vconsole.conf is non-existent or empty we will no
+ longer load any console font or key map at boot by
+ default. Instead the kernel defaults will be left
+ intact. This is definitely the right thing to do, as no
+ configuration should mean no configuration, and hard-coding
+ font names that are different on all archs is probably a bad
+ idea. Also, the kernel default key map and font should be
+ good enough for most cases anyway, and mostly identical to
+ the userspace fonts/key maps we previously overloaded them
+ with. If distributions want to continue to default to a
+ non-kernel font or key map they should ship a default
+ /etc/vconsole.conf with the appropriate contents.
+
+ Contributions from: Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave
+ Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Tollef
+ Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+CHANGES WITH 193:
+
+ * journalctl gained a new --cursor= switch to show entries
+ starting from the specified location in the journal.
+
+ * We now enforce a size limit on journal entry fields exported
+ with "-o json" in journalctl. Fields larger than 4K will be
+ assigned null. This can be turned off with --all.
+
+ * An (optional) journal gateway daemon is now available as
+ "systemd-journal-gatewayd.service". This service provides
+ access to the journal via HTTP and JSON. This functionality
+ will be used to implement live log synchronization in both
+ pull and push modes, but has various other users too, such
+ as easy log access for debugging of embedded devices. Right
+ now it is already useful to retrieve the journal via HTTP:
+
+ # systemctl start systemd-journal-gatewayd.service
+ # wget http://localhost:19531/entries
+
+ This will download the journal contents in a
+ /var/log/messages compatible format. The same as JSON:
+
+ # curl -H"Accept: application/json" http://localhost:19531/entries
+
+ This service is also accessible via a web browser where a
+ single static HTML5 app is served that uses the JSON logic
+ to enable the user to do some basic browsing of the
+ journal. This will be extended later on. Here's an example
+ screenshot of this app in its current state:
+
+ http://0pointer.de/public/journal-gatewayd
+
+ Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Robert
+ Milasan, Tom Gundersen
+
+CHANGES WITH 192:
+
+ * The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl
+ too.
+
+ * We don't mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with
+ "cpu" and "cpuacct", as "cpuset" groups generally cannot be
+ started if no parameters are assigned to it. "cpuset" hence
+ broke code that assumed it it could create "cpu" groups and
+ just start them.
+
+ * journalctl -f will now subscribe to terminal size changes,
+ and line break accordingly.
+
+ Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart
+ Poettering, Lukas Nykrynm, Mirco Tischler, Václav Pavlín
+
CHANGES WITH 191:
* nspawn will now create a symlink /etc/localtime in the
take up on disk. This is particularly useful if the default
built-in logic of determining this parameter from the file
system size is used. Use "systemctl status
- systemd-journald.service" to see this information
+ systemd-journald.service" to see this information.
* The multi-seat X wrapper tool has been stripped down. As X
is now capable of enumerating graphics devices via udev in a
anymore. A stripped down temporary stop-gap is still shipped
until the upstream display managers have been updated to
fully support the new X logic. Expect this wrapper to be
- removed entirely in one the next releases.
+ removed entirely in one of the next releases.
* HandleSleepKey= in logind.conf has been split up into
HandleSuspendKey= and HandleHibernateKey=. The old setting
- is not available anymore. The kernel and X11 is
+ is not available anymore. X11 and the kernel are
distuingishing between these keys and we should too. This
also means the inhibition lock for these keys has been split
into two.
- Changes from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart Poettering,
- Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín
+ Contributions from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart
+ Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín
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