X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=006aef5e1e542c21b98c62e5227cd1aaa11db703;hp=5aa0cf6cb6bef5e2a20e868a3256ec97c39abc64;hb=039c931bcd7a6aaf7fb7a8b48b41e2bfb0e6f485;hpb=79849bf9f47f9867c72c7eb76b981bb354d0e30e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5aa0cf6cb..006aef5e1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,5293 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +CHANGES WITH 228: + + * A number of properties previously only settable in unit + files are now also available as properties to set when + creating transient units programmatically via the bus, as it + is exposed with systemd-run's --property= + setting. Specifically, these are: SyslogIdentifier=, + SyslogLevelPrefix=, TimerSlackNSec=, OOMScoreAdjust=, + EnvironmentFile=, ReadWriteDirectories=, + ReadOnlyDirectories=, InaccessibleDirectories=, + ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome=, RuntimeDirectory=. + + * When creating transient services via the bus API it is now + possible to pass in a set of file descriptors to use as + STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR for the invoked process. + + * Slice units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs, + similar to the way service and scope units may already be + created transiently. + + * Wherever systemd expects a calendar timestamp specification + (like in journalctl's --since= and --until= switches) UTC + timestamps are now supported. Timestamps suffixed with "UTC" + are now considered to be in Universal Time Coordinated + instead of the local timezone. Also, timestamps may now + optionally be specified with sub-second accuracy. Both of + these additions also apply to recurring calendar event + specification, such as OnCalendar= in timer units. + + * journalctl gained a new "--sync" switch that asks the + journal daemon to write all so far unwritten log messages to + disk and sync the files, before returning. + + * systemd-tmpfiles learned two new line types "q" and "Q" that + operate like "v", but also set up a basic btrfs quota + hierarchy when used on a btrfs file system with quota + enabled. + + * tmpfiles' "v", "q" and "Q" will now create a plain directory + instead of a subvolume (even on a btrfs file system) if the + root directory is a plain directory, and not a + subvolume. This should simplify things with certain chroot() + environments which are not aware of the concept of btrfs + subvolumes. + + * systemd-detect-virt gained a new --chroot switch to detect + whether execution takes place in a chroot() environment. + + * CPUAffinity= now takes CPU index ranges in addition to + individual indexes. + + * The various memory-related resource limit settings (such as + LimitAS=) now understand the usual K, M, G, ... suffixes to + the base of 1024 (IEC). Similar, the time-related resource + limit settings understand the usual min, h, day, ... + suffixes now. + + * There's a new system.conf setting DefaultTasksMax= to + control the default TasksMax= setting for services and + scopes running on the system. (TasksMax= is the primary + setting that exposes the "pids" cgroup controller on systemd + and was introduced in the previous systemd release.) The + setting now defaults to 512, which means services that are + not explicitly configured otherwise will only be able to + create 512 processes or threads at maximum, from this + version on. Note that this means that thread- or + process-heavy services might need to be reconfigured to set + TasksMax= to a higher value. It is sufficient to set + TasksMax= in these specific unit files to a higher value, or + even "infinity". Similar, there's now a logind.conf setting + UserTasksMax= that defaults to 4096 and limits the total + number of processes or tasks each user may own + concurrently. nspawn containers also have the TasksMax= + value set by default now, to 8192. Note that all of this + only has an effect if the "pids" cgroup controller is + enabled in the kernel. The general benefit of these changes + should be a more robust and safer system, that provides a + certain amount of per-service fork() bomb protection. + + * systemd-nspawn gained the new --network-veth-extra= switch + to define additional and arbitrarily-named virtual Ethernet + links between the host and the container. + + * A new service execution setting PassEnvironment= has been + added that allows importing select environment variables + from PID1's environment block into the environment block of + the service. + + * systemd will now bump the net.unix.max_dgram_qlen to 512 by + default now (the kernel default is 16). This is beneficial + for avoiding blocking on AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM sockets since it + allows substantially larger numbers of queued + datagrams. This should increase the capability of systemd to + parallelize boot-up, as logging and sd_notify() are unlikely + to stall execution anymore. If you need to change the value + from the new defaults, use the usual sysctl.d/ snippets. + + * The compression framing format used by the journal or + coredump processing has changed to be in line with what the + official LZ4 tools generate. LZ4 compression support in + systemd was considered unsupported previously, as the format + was not compatible with the normal tools. With this release + this has changed now, and it is hence safe for downstream + distributions to turn it on. While not compressing as well + as the XZ, LZ4 is substantially faster, which makes + it a good default choice for the compression logic in the + journal and in coredump handling. + + * Any reference to /etc/mtab has been dropped from + systemd. The file has been obsolete since a while, but + systemd refused to work on systems where it was incorrectly + set up (it should be a symlink or non-existent). Please make + sure to update to util-linux 2.27.1 or newer in conjunction + with this systemd release, which also drops any reference to + /etc/mtab. If you maintain a distribution make sure that no + software you package still references it, as this is a + likely source of bugs. There's also a glibc bug pending, + asking for removal of any reference to this obsolete file: + + https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19108 + + * Support for the ".snapshot" unit type has been removed. This + feature turned out to be little useful and little used, and + has now been removed from the core and from systemctl. + + * The dependency types RequiresOverridable= and + RequisiteOverridable= have been removed from systemd. They + have been used only very sparingly to our knowledge and + other options that provide a similar effect (such as + systemctl --mode=ignore-dependencies) are much more useful + and commonly used. Moreover, they were only half-way + implemented as the option to control behaviour regarding + these dependencies was never added to systemctl. By removing + these dependency types the execution engine becomes a bit + simpler. Unit files that use these dependencies should be + changed to use the non-Overridable dependency types + instead. In fact, when parsing unit files with these + options, that's what systemd will automatically convert them + too, but it will also warn, asking users to fix the unit + files accordingly. Removal of these dependency types should + only affect a negligible number of unit files in the wild. + + * Behaviour of networkd's IPForward= option changed + (again). It will no longer maintain a per-interface setting, + but propagate one way from interfaces where this is enabled + to the global kernel setting. The global setting will be + enabled when requested by a network that is set up, but + never be disabled again. This change was made to make sure + IPv4 and IPv6 behaviour regarding packet forwarding is + similar (as the Linux IPv6 stack does not support + per-interface control of this setting) and to minimize + surprises. + + * In unit files the behaviour of %u, %U, %h, %s has + changed. These specifiers will now unconditionally resolve + to the various user database fields of the user that the + systemd instance is running as, instead of the user + configured in the specific unit via User=. Note that this + effectively doesn't change much, as resolving of these + specifiers was already turned off in the --system instance + of systemd, as we cannot do NSS lookups from PID 1. In the + --user instance of systemd these specifiers where correctly + resolved, but hardly made any sense, since the user instance + lacks privileges to do user switches anyway, and User= is + hence useless. Morever, even in the --user instance of + systemd behaviour was awkward as it would only take settings + from User= assignment placed before the specifier into + account. In order to unify and simplify the logic around + this the specifiers will now always resolve to the + credentials of the user invoking the manager (which in case + of PID 1 is the root user). + + Contributions from: Andrew Jones, Beniamino Galvani, Boyuan + Yang, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, David + Reynolds, David Strauss, Dongsu Park, Evgeny Vereshchagin, + Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Hristo + Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan + Synacek, Jesus Ornelas Aguayo, Karel Zak, kayrus, Kay Sievers, + Lennart Poettering, Liu Yuan Yuan, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel + Holtmann, Marcin Bachry, Marcos Alano, Marcos Mello, Mark + Theunissen, Martin Pitt, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, + Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nick Owens, + Nicolas Cornu, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, reverendhomer, + Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Shawn Landden, + Susant Sahani, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, + Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Vito Caputo, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2015-11-18 + +CHANGES WITH 227: + + * systemd now depends on util-linux v2.27. More specifically, + the newly added mount monitor feature in libmount now + replaces systemd's former own implementation. + + * libmount mandates /etc/mtab not to be regular file, and + systemd now enforces this condition at early boot. + /etc/mtab has been deprecated and warned about for a very + long time, so systems running systemd should already have + stopped having this file around as anything else than a + symlink to /proc/self/mounts. + + * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. It + allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and + enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting + TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a + global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. + + * Support for the "net_cls" cgroup controller has been added. + It allows assigning a net class ID to each task in the + cgroup, which can then be used in firewall rules and traffic + shaping configurations. Note that the kernel netfilter net + class code does not currently work reliably for ingress + packets on unestablished sockets. + + This adds a new config directive called NetClass= to CGroup + enabled units. Allowed values are positive numbers for fixed + assignments and "auto" for picking a free value + automatically. + + * 'systemctl is-system-running' now returns 'offline' if the + system is not booted with systemd. This command can now be + used as a substitute for 'systemd-notify --booted'. + + * Watchdog timeouts have been increased to 3 minutes for all + in-tree service files. Apparently, disk IO issues are more + frequent than we hoped, and user reported >1 minute waiting + for disk IO. + + * 'machine-id-commit' functionality has been merged into + 'machine-id-setup --commit'. The separate binary has been + removed. + + * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be set + to the special value '~'. In this case, the working + directory is set to the home directory of the user + configured in User=. + + * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home + directory of the selected user by default. + + * The CrashChVT= configuration file setting is renamed to + CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not + abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still + supported for compat reasons. Also, this directive now takes + an integer value between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The + formerly supported '-1' value for disabling stays around for + compat reasons. + + * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, + NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and + RootDirectory= properties can now be set for transient + units. + + * The systemd-analyze tool gained a new "set-log-target" verb + to change the logging target the system manager logs to + dynamically during runtime. This is similar to how + "systemd-analyze set-log-level" already changes the log + level. + + * In nspawn /sys is now mounted as tmpfs, with only a selected + set of subdirectories mounted in from the real sysfs. This + enhances security slightly, and is useful for ensuring user + namespaces work correctly. + + * Support for USB FunctionFS activation has been added. This + allows implementation of USB gadget services that are + activated as soon as they are requested, so that they don't + have to run continously, similar to classic socket + activation. + + * The "systemctl exit" command now optionally takes an + additional parameter that sets the exit code to return from + the systemd manager when exiting. This is only relevant when + running the systemd user instance, or when running the + system instance in a container. + + * sd-bus gained the new API calls sd_bus_path_encode_many() + and sd_bus_path_decode_many() that allow easy encoding and + decoding of multiple identifier strings inside a D-Bus + object path. Another new call sd_bus_default_flush_close() + has been added to flush and close per-thread default + connections. + + * systemd-cgtop gained support for a -M/--machine= switch to + show the control groups within a certain container only. + + * "systemctl kill" gained support for an optional --fail + switch. If specified the requested operation will fail of no + processes have been killed, because the unit had no + processes attached, or similar. + + * A new systemd.crash_reboot=1 kernel command line option has + been added that triggers a reboot after crashing. This can + also be set through CrashReboot= in systemd.conf. + + * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit + specifiers like %i or %f. + + * A new (still internal) libary API sd-ipv4acd has been added, + that implements address conflict detection for IPv4. It's + based on code from sd-ipv4ll, and will be useful for + detecting DHCP address conflicts. + + * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be + named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to + access the names. The default names may be overridden, + either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName= + parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file + descriptors using sd_notify(). + + * systemd-networkd gained support for: + + - Setting the IPv6 Router Advertisment settings via + IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in .network files. + + - Configuring the HelloTimeSec=, MaxAgeSec= and + ForwardDelaySec= bridge parameters in .netdev files. + + - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in + .network files. + + * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk + passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for + caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is + available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in + a passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock + with the same one. Previously, such password caching was + available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the + caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The + "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname= + switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for + caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for + enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically + unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the + user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if + gdm-autologin is used. + + * When downloading tar or raw images using "machinectl + pull-tar" or "machinectl pull-raw", a matching ".nspawn" + file is now also downloaded, if it is available and stored + next to the image file. + + * Units of type ".socket" gained a new boolean setting + Writable= which is only useful in conjunction with + ListenSpecial=. If true, enables opening the specified + special file in O_RDWR mode rather than O_RDONLY mode. + + * systemd-rfkill has been reworked to become a singleton + service that is activated through /dev/rfkill on each rfkill + state change and saves the settings to disk. This way, + systemd-rfkill is now compatible with devices that exist + only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous + system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. + + * The journal daemon gained support for vacuuming old journal + files controlled by the number of files that shall remain, + in addition to the already existing control by size and by + date. This is useful as journal interleaving performance + degrades with too many seperate journal files, and allows + putting an effective limit on them. The new setting defaults + to 100, but this may be changed by setting SystemMaxFiles= + and RuntimeMaxFiles= in journald.conf. Also, the + "journalctl" tool gained the new --vacuum-files= switch to + manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified + number of files in place. + + * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices + on kernels where that is supported. + + * Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added. + + Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Alban Crequy, Beniamino + Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Branislav Blaskovic, Chen-Han Hsiao + (Stanley), Daniel Buch, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David + Herrmann, David Milburn, doubleodoug, Evgeny Vereshchagin, + Felipe Franciosi, Filipe Brandenburger, Fran Dieguez, Gabriel + de Perthuis, Georg Müller, Hans de Goede, Hendrik Brueckner, + Ivan Shapovalov, Jacob Keller, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, + Jan Synacek, Jens Kuske, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Krzesimir + Nowak, Krzysztof Kotlenga, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, + Marcel Holtmann, Marius Thesing, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, + Michael Gebetsroither, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike + Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, nazgul77, Nicolas Cornu, NoXPhasma, + Olof Johansson, Patrik Flykt, Pawel Szewczyk, reverendhomer, + Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Susant Sahani, + Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Lyon, Viktar Vauchkevich, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић + + -- Berlin, 2015-10-07 + +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 + stable and have been added to the official interface of + libsystemd.so. sd-bus implements an alternative D-Bus client + library, that is relatively easy to use, very efficient and + supports both classic D-Bus as well as kdbus as transport + backend. sd-event is a generic event loop abstraction that + is built around Linux epoll, but adds features such as event + prioritization or efficient timer handling. Both APIs are good + choices for C programs looking for a bus and/or event loop + implementation that is minimal and does not have to be + portable to other kernels. + + * kdbus support is no longer compile-time optional. It is now + always built-in. However, it can still be disabled at + runtime using the kdbus=0 kernel command line setting, and + that setting may be changed to default to off, by specifying + --disable-kdbus at build-time. Note though that the kernel + command line setting has no effect if the kdbus.ko kernel + module is not installed, in which case kdbus is (obviously) + also disabled. We encourage all downstream distributions to + begin testing kdbus by adding it to the kernel images in the + development distributions, and leaving kdbus support in + systemd enabled. + + * The minimal required util-linux version has been bumped to + 2.26. + + * Support for chkconfig (--enable-chkconfig) was removed in + favor of calling an abstraction tool + /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. This needs to be + implemented for your distribution. See "SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS" + in README for details. + + * If there's a systemd unit and a SysV init script for the + same service name, and the user executes "systemctl enable" + for it (or a related call), then this will now enable both + (or execute the related operation on both), not just the + unit. + + * The libudev API documentation has been converted from gtkdoc + into man pages. + + * gudev has been removed from the systemd tree, it is now an + external project. + + * The systemd-cgtop tool learnt a new --raw switch to generate + "raw" (machine parsable) output. + + * networkd's IPForwarding= .network file setting learnt the + new setting "kernel", which ensures that networkd does not + change the IP forwarding sysctl from the default kernel + state. + + * The systemd-logind bus API now exposes a new boolean + property "Docked" that reports whether logind considers the + system "docked", i.e. connected to a docking station or not. + + Contributions from: Alex Crawford, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei + Borzenkov, Charles Duffy, Colin Guthrie, Cristian Rodríguez, + Daniele Medri, Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, + David Mohr, Dimitri John Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, dslul, Ed + Swierk, Eric Cook, Filipe Brandenburger, Gianpaolo Macario, + Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Igor Vuk, Jan Synacek, + Jason Pleau, Jason S. McMullan, Jean Delvare, Jeff Huang, + Jonathan Boulle, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, kloun, Lennart + Poettering, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Mario + Limonciello, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, + Michal Schmidt, Mike Gilbert, Nick Owens, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, + Patrick Donnelly, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Philip + Withnall, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Susant Sahani, + Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein + Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Viktar Vauchkevich, Werner + Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2015-06-19 + +CHANGES WITH 220: + + * The gudev library has been extracted into a separate repository + available at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgudev/ + It is now managed as part of the Gnome project. Distributions + are recommended to pass --disable-gudev to systemd and use + gudev from the Gnome project instead. gudev is still included + in systemd, for now. It will be removed soon, though. Please + also see the announcement-thread on systemd-devel: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032070.html + + * systemd now exposes a CPUUsageNSec= property for each + service unit on the bus, that contains the overall consumed + CPU time of a service (the sum of what each process of the + service consumed). This value is only available if + CPUAccounting= is turned on for a service, and is then shown + in the "systemctl status" output. + + * Support for configuring alternative mappings of the old SysV + runlevels to systemd targets has been removed. They are now + hardcoded in a way that runlevels 2, 3, 4 all map to + multi-user.target and 5 to graphical.target (which + previously was already the default behaviour). + + * The auto-mounter logic gained support for mount point + expiry, using a new TimeoutIdleSec= setting in .automount + units. (Also available as x-systemd.idle-timeout= in /etc/fstab). + + * The EFI System Partition (ESP) as mounted to /boot by + systemd-efi-boot-generator will now be unmounted + automatically after 2 minutes of not being used. This should + minimize the risk of ESP corruptions. + + * New /etc/fstab options x-systemd.requires= and + x-systemd.requires-mounts-for= are now supported to express + additional dependencies for mounts. This is useful for + journalling file systems that support external journal + devices or overlay file systems that require underlying file + systems to be mounted. + + * systemd does not support direct live-upgrades (via systemctl + daemon-reexec) from versions older than v44 anymore. As no + distribution we are aware of shipped such old versions in a + stable release this should not be problematic. + + * When systemd forks off a new per-connection service instance + it will now set the $REMOTE_ADDR environment variable to the + remote IP address, and $REMOTE_PORT environment variable to + the remote IP port. This behaviour is similar to the + corresponding environment variables defined by CGI. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for uplink failure + detection. The BindCarrier= option allows binding interface + configuration dynamically to the link sense of other + interfaces. This is useful to achieve behaviour like in + network switches. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring the DHCP + client identifier to use when requesting leases. + + * systemd-networkd now has a per-network UseNTP= option to + configure whether NTP server information acquired via DHCP + is passed on to services like systemd-timesyncd. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for vti6 tunnels. + + * Note that systemd-networkd manages the sysctl variable + /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/*/forwarding for each interface + it is configured for since v219. The variable controls IP + forwarding, and is a per-interface alternative to the global + /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/ip_forward. This setting is + configurable in the IPForward= option, which defaults to + "no". This means if networkd is used for an interface it is + no longer sufficient to set the global sysctl option to turn + on IP forwarding! Instead, the .network file option + IPForward= needs to be turned on! Note that the + implementation of this behaviour was broken in v219 and has + been fixed in v220. + + * Many bonding and vxlan options are now configurable in + systemd-networkd. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --property= setting to set unit + properties for the container scope. This is useful for + setting resource parameters (e.g "CPUShares=500") on + containers started from the command line. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --private-users= switch to make + use of user namespacing available on recent Linux kernels. + + * systemd-nspawn may now be called as part of a shell pipeline + in which case the pipes used for stdin and stdout are passed + directly to the process invoked in the container, without + indirection via a pseudo tty. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch to control the UNIX + signal to use when killing the init process of the container + when shutting down. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --overlay= switch for mounting + overlay file systems into the container using the new kernel + overlayfs support. + + * When a container image is imported via systemd-importd and + the host file system is not btrfs, a loopback block device + file is created in /var/lib/machines.raw with a btrfs file + system inside. It is then mounted to /var/lib/machines to + enable btrfs features for container management. The loopback + file and btrfs file system is grown as needed when container + images are imported via systemd-importd. + + * systemd-machined/systemd-importd gained support for btrfs + quota, to enforce container disk space limits on disk. This + is exposed in "machinectl set-limit". + + * systemd-importd now can import containers from local .tar, + .raw and .qcow2 images, and export them to .tar and .raw. It + can also import dkr v2 images now from the network (on top + of v1 as before). + + * systemd-importd gained support for verifying downloaded + images with gpg2 (previously only gpg1 was supported). + + * systemd-machined, systemd-logind, systemd: most bus calls + are now accessible to unprivileged processes via + PolicyKit. Also, systemd-logind will now allow users to kill + their own sessions without further privileges or + authorization. + + * systemd-shutdownd has been removed. This service was + previously responsible for implementing scheduled shutdowns + as exposed in /usr/bin/shutdown's time parameter. This + functionality has now been moved into systemd-logind and is + accessible via a bus interface. + + * "systemctl reboot" gained a new switch --firmware-setup that + can be used to reboot into the EFI firmware setup, if that + is available. systemd-logind now exposes an API on the bus + to trigger such reboots, in case graphical desktop UIs want + to cover this functionality. + + * "systemctl enable", "systemctl disable" and "systemctl mask" + now support a new "--now" switch. If specified the units + that are enabled will also be started, and the ones + disabled/masked also stopped. + + * The Gummiboot EFI boot loader tool has been merged into + systemd, and renamed to "systemd-boot". The bootctl tool has been + updated to support systemd-boot. + + * An EFI kernel stub has been added that may be used to create + kernel EFI binaries that contain not only the actual kernel, + but also an initrd, boot splash, command line and OS release + information. This combined binary can then be signed as a + single image, so that the firmware can verify it all in one + step. systemd-boot has special support for EFI binaries created + like this and can extract OS release information from them + and show them in the boot menu. This functionality is useful + to implement cryptographically verified boot schemes. + + * Optional support has been added to systemd-fsck to pass + fsck's progress report to an AF_UNIX socket in the file + system. + + * udev will no longer create device symlinks for all block + devices by default. A blacklist for excluding special block + devices from this logic has been turned into a whitelist + that requires picking block devices explicitly that require + device symlinks. + + * A new (currently still internal) API sd-device.h has been + added to libsystemd. This modernized API is supposed to + replace libudev eventually. In fact, already much of libudev + is now just a wrapper around sd-device.h. + + * A new hwdb database for storing metadata about pointing + stick devices has been added. + + * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for setting file attributes + similar to the "chattr" tool with new 'h' and 'H' lines. + + * systemd-journald will no longer unconditionally set the + btrfs NOCOW flag on new journal files. This is instead done + with tmpfiles snippet using the new 'h' line type. This + allows easy disabling of this logic, by masking the + journal-nocow.conf tmpfiles file. + + * systemd-journald will now translate audit message types to + human readable identifiers when writing them to the + journal. This should improve readability of audit messages. + + * The LUKS logic gained support for the offset= and skip= + options in /etc/crypttab, as previously implemented by + Debian. + + * /usr/lib/os-release gained a new optional field VARIANT= for + distributions that support multiple variants (such as a + desktop edition, a server edition, ...) + + Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Adam Goode, Alban Crequy, + Alberto Fanjul Alonso, Alexander Sverdlin, Alex Puchades, Alin + Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrew Jones, Arend van Spriel, + Benedikt Morbach, Benjamin Franzke, Benjamin Tissoires, Blaž + Tomažič, Chris Morgan, Chris Morin, Colin Walters, Cristian + Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel + Mack, Daniel Mustieles, daurnimator, Davide Bettio, David + Herrmann, David Strauss, Didier Roche, Dimitri John Ledkov, + Eric Cook, Gavin Li, Goffredo Baroncelli, Hannes Reinecke, + Hans de Goede, Hans-Peter Deifel, Harald Hoyer, Iago López + Galeiras, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan + Pazdziora, Jan Synacek, Jasper St. Pierre, Jay Faulkner, John + Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathon Gilbert, Karel Zak, Kay + Sievers, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas + De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Lukas Rusak, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz + Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel + Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Chevrier, Matthew Garrett, + Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal + Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nir Soffer, Patrik + Flykt, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Peter Lemenkov, Peter + Waller, Piotr Drąg, Raul Gutierrez S, Richard Maw, Ronny + Chevalier, Ross Burton, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sergey Ptashnick, + Seth Jennings, Shawn Landden, Simon Farnsworth, Stefan Junker, + Stephen Gallagher, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas + Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tobias Hunger, Tom + Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Will + Woods, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2015-05-22 + +CHANGES WITH 219: + + * Introduce a new API "sd-hwdb.h" for querying the hardware + metadata database. With this minimal interface one can query + and enumerate the udev hwdb, decoupled from the old libudev + library. libudev's interface for this is now only a wrapper + around sd-hwdb. A new tool systemd-hwdb has been added to + interface with and update the database. + + * When any of systemd's tools copies files (for example due to + tmpfiles' C lines) a btrfs reflink will attempted first, + before bytewise copying is done. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --ephemeral switch. When + specified a btrfs snapshot is taken of the container's root + directory, and immediately removed when the container + terminates again. Thus, a container can be started whose + changes never alter the container's root directory, and are + lost on container termination. This switch can also be used + for starting a container off the root file system of the + host without affecting the host OS. This switch is only + available on btrfs file systems. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --template= switch. It takes the + path to a container tree to use as template for the tree + specified via --directory=, should that directory be + missing. This allows instantiating containers dynamically, + on first run. This switch is only available on btrfs file + systems. + + * When a .mount unit refers to a mount point on which multiple + mounts are stacked, and the .mount unit is stopped all of + the stacked mount points will now be unmounted until no + mount point remains. + + * systemd now has an explicit notion of supported and + unsupported unit types. Jobs enqueued for unsupported unit + types will now fail with an "unsupported" error code. More + specifically .swap, .automount and .device units are not + supported in containers, .busname units are not supported on + non-kdbus systems. .swap and .automount are also not + supported if their respective kernel compile time options + are disabled. + + * machinectl gained support for two new "copy-from" and + "copy-to" commands for copying files from a running + container to the host or vice versa. + + * machinectl gained support for a new "bind" command to bind + mount host directories into local containers. This is + currently only supported for nspawn containers. + + * networkd gained support for configuring bridge forwarding + database entries (fdb) from .network files. + + * A new tiny daemon "systemd-importd" has been added that can + download container images in tar, raw, qcow2 or dkr formats, + and make them available locally in /var/lib/machines, so + that they can run as nspawn containers. The daemon can GPG + verify the downloads (not supported for dkr, since it has no + provisions for verifying downloads). It will transparently + 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 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" + images can be downloaded and booted as containers unmodified + (the Fedora images lack the appropriate GPG signature files + currently, so they cannot be verified, but this will change + soon, hopefully). Note that downloading images is currently + only fully supported on btrfs. + + * machinectl is now able to list container images found in + /var/lib/machines, along with some metadata about sizes of + disk and similar. If the directory is located on btrfs and + quota is enabled, this includes quota display. A new command + "image-status" has been added that shows additional + information about images. + + * machinectl is now able to clone container images + efficiently, if the underlying file system (btrfs) supports + it, with the new "machinectl list-images" command. It also + gained commands for renaming and removing images, as well as + marking them read-only or read-write (supported also on + legacy file systems). + + * networkd gained support for collecting LLDP network + announcements, from hardware that supports this. This is + shown in networkctl output. + + * systemd-run gained support for a new -t (--pty) switch for + invoking a binary on a pty whose input and output is + connected to the invoking terminal. This allows executing + processes as system services while interactively + communicating with them via the terminal. Most interestingly + this is supported across container boundaries. Invoking + "systemd-run -t /bin/bash" is an alternative to running a + full login session, the difference being that the former + will not register a session, nor go through the PAM session + setup. + + * tmpfiles gained support for a new "v" line type for creating + btrfs subvolumes. If the underlying file system is a legacy + file system, this automatically degrades to creating a + normal directory. Among others /var/lib/machines is now + created like this at boot, should it be missing. + + * The directory /var/lib/containers/ has been deprecated and + been replaced by /var/lib/machines. The term "machines" has + been used in the systemd context as generic term for both + VMs and containers, and hence appears more appropriate for + this, as the directory can also contain raw images bootable + via qemu/kvm. + + * systemd-nspawn when invoked with -M but without --directory= + or --image= is now capable of searching for the container + root directory, subvolume or disk image automatically, in + /var/lib/machines. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated + to make use of this, thus allowing it to be used for raw + disk images, too. + + * A new machines.target unit has been introduced that is + supposed to group all containers/VMs invoked as services on + the system. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated to + integrate with that. + + * machinectl gained a new "start" command, for invoking a + container as a service. "machinectl start foo" is mostly + equivalent to "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo.service", + but handles escaping in a nicer way. + + * systemd-nspawn will now mount most of the cgroupfs tree + read-only into each container, with the exception of the + container's own subtree in the name=systemd hierarchy. + + * journald now sets the special FS_NOCOW file flag for its + journal files. This should improve performance on btrfs, by + avoiding heavy fragmentation when journald's write-pattern + is used on COW file systems. It degrades btrfs' data + integrity guarantees for the files to the same levels as for + ext3/ext4 however. This should be OK though as journald does + its own data integrity checks and all its objects are + checksummed on disk. Also, journald should handle btrfs disk + full events a lot more gracefully now, by processing SIGBUS + errors, and not relying on fallocate() anymore. + + * When journald detects that journal files it is writing to + have been deleted it will immediately start new journal + files. + + * 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 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 + are not lost when journald is restarted. File descriptors + may be stored in PID 1 via the sd_pid_notify_with_fds() API, + an extension to sd_notify(). Note that a limit is enforced + on the number of fds a service can store in PID 1, and it + defaults to 0, so that no fds may be stored, unless this is + explicitly turned on. + + * The default TERM variable to use for units connected to a + terminal, when no other value is explicitly is set is now + vt220 rather than vt102. This should be fairly safe still, + but allows PgUp/PgDn work. + + * The /etc/crypttab option header= as known from Debian is now + supported. + + * "loginctl user-status" and "loginctl session-status" will + now show the last 10 lines of log messages of the + user/session following the status output. Similar, + "machinectl status" will show the last 10 log lines + associated with a virtual machine or container + service. (Note that this is usually not the log messages + done in the VM/container itself, but simply what the + container manager logs. For nspawn this includes all console + output however.) + + * "loginctl session-status" without further argument will now + show the status of the session of the caller. Similar, + "lock-session", "unlock-session", "activate", + "enable-linger", "disable-linger" may now be called without + session/user parameter in which case they apply to the + caller's session/user. + + * An X11 session scriptlet is now shipped that uploads + $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY into the environment of the systemd + --user daemon if a session begins. This should improve + compatibility with X11 enabled applications run as systemd + user services. + + * Generators are now subject to masking via /etc and /run, the + same way as unit files. + + * networkd .network files gained support for configuring + per-link IPv4/IPv6 packet forwarding as well as IPv4 + masquerading. This is by default turned on for veth links to + containers, as registered by systemd-nspawn. This means that + nspawn containers run with --network-veth will now get + automatic routed access to the host's networks without any + further configuration or setup, as long as networkd runs on + the host. + + * systemd-nspawn gained the --port= (-p) switch to expose TCP + or UDP posts of a container on the host. With this in place + it is possible to run containers with private veth links + (--network-veth), and have their functionality exposed on + the host as if their services were running directly on the + host. + + * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth switch now gained a short + version "-n", since with the changes above it is now truly + useful out-of-the-box. The systemd-nspawn@.service has been + updated to make use of it too by default. + + * systemd-nspawn will now maintain a per-image R/W lock, to + ensure that the same image is not started more than once + writable. (It's OK to run an image multiple times + simultaneously in read-only mode.) + + * systemd-nspawn's --image= option is now capable of + dissecting and booting MBR and GPT disk images that contain + only a single active Linux partition. Previously it + supported only GPT disk images with proper GPT type + IDs. This allows running cloud images from major + distributions directly with systemd-nspawn, without + modification. + + * In addition to collecting mouse dpi data in the udev + hardware database, there's now support for collecting angle + information for mouse scroll wheels. The database is + supposed to guarantee similar scrolling behavior on mice + that it knows about. There's also support for collecting + information about Touchpad types. + + * udev's input_id built-in will now also collect touch screen + dimension data and attach it to probed devices. + + * /etc/os-release gained support for a Distribution Privacy + Policy link field. + + * networkd gained support for creating "ipvlan", "gretap", + "ip6gre", "ip6gretap" and "ip6tnl" network devices. + + * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for "a" lines for setting + ACLs on files. + + * systemd-nspawn will now mount /tmp in the container to + tmpfs, automatically. + + * systemd now exposes the memory.usage_in_bytes cgroup + attribute and shows it for each service in the "systemctl + status" output, if available. + + * When the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7x within 2s an + immediate reboot is triggered. This useful if shutdown is + hung and is unable to complete, to expedite the + operation. Note that this kind of reboot will still unmount + all file systems, and hence should not result in fsck being + run on next reboot. + + * A .device unit for an optical block device will now be + considered active only when a medium is in the drive. Also, + mount units are now bound to their backing devices thus + triggering automatic unmounting when devices become + unavailable. With this in place systemd will now + automatically unmount left-over mounts when a CD-ROM is + ejected or an USB stick is yanked from the system. + + * networkd-wait-online now has support for waiting for + specific interfaces only (with globbing), and for giving up + after a configurable timeout. + + * networkd now exits when idle. It will be automatically + restarted as soon as interfaces show up, are removed or + change state. networkd will stay around as long as there is + at least one DHCP state machine or similar around, that keep + it non-idle. + + * networkd may now configure IPv6 link-local addressing in + addition to IPv4 link-local addressing. + + * The IPv6 "token" for use in SLAAC may now be configured for + each .network interface in networkd. + + * Routes configured with networkd may now be assigned a scope + in .network files. + + * networkd's [Match] sections now support globbing and lists + of multiple space-separated matches per item. + + Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alin Rauta, Andrey Chaser, + Bastien Nocera, Bruno Bottazzini, Carlos Garnacho, Carlos + Morata Castillo, Chris Atkinson, Chris J. Arges, Christian + Kirbach, Christian Seiler, Christoph Brill, Colin Guthrie, + Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, + Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, Erik Auerswald, + Filipe Brandenburger, Frank Theile, Gabor Kelemen, Gabriel de + Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Hui Wang, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan + Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, Jay Faulkner, Johannes Hölzl, Jonas + Ådahl, Jonathan Boulle, Josef Andersson, Kay Sievers, Ken + Werner, Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Märdian, + Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Manuel Mendez, Marcel Holtmann, Marc Schmitzer, Marko + Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, + Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Mindaugas + Baranauskas, Moez Bouhlel, Naveen Kumar, Patrik Flykt, Paul + Martin, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, Philippe De Swert, + Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira, Rami Rosen, Robert Milasan, Ronny + Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Sebastien Bacher, Sergey Ptashnick, + Shawn Landden, Stéphane Graber, Susant Sahani, Sylvain + Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tim JP, Tom + Gundersen, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar + Lindskog, Veres Lajos, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, Wieland + Hoffmann, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2015-02-16 + +CHANGES WITH 218: + + * 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 Also= setting might be. + + * Similar to the various existing ConditionXYZ= settings for + units, there are now matching AssertXYZ= settings. While + failing conditions cause a unit to be skipped, but its job + to succeed, failing assertions declared like this will cause + a unit start operation and its job to fail. + + * hostnamed now knows a new chassis type "embedded". + + * systemctl gained a new "edit" command. When used on a unit + file, this allows extending unit files with .d/ drop-in + configuration snippets or editing the full file (after + copying it from /usr/lib to /etc). This will invoke the + user's editor (as configured with $EDITOR), and reload the + modified configuration after editing. + + * "systemctl status" now shows the suggested enablement state + for a unit, as declared in the (usually vendor-supplied) + system preset files. + + * nss-myhostname will now resolve the single-label host name + "gateway" to the locally configured default IP routing + gateways, ordered by their metrics. This assigns a stable + name to the used gateways, regardless which ones are + currently configured. Note that the name will only be + resolved after all other name sources (if nss-myhostname is + configured properly) and should hence not negatively impact + systems that use the single-label host name "gateway" in + other contexts. + + * systemd-inhibit now allows filtering by mode when listing + inhibitors. + + * Scope and service units gained a new "Delegate" boolean + property, which, when set, allows processes running inside the + unit to further partition resources. This is primarily + useful for systemd user instances as well as container + managers. + + * journald will now pick up audit messages directly from + the kernel, and log them like any other log message. The + audit fields are split up and fully indexed. This means that + journalctl in many ways is now a (nicer!) alternative to + ausearch, the traditional audit client. Note that this + implements only a minimal audit client. If you want the + special audit modes like reboot-on-log-overflow, please use + the traditional auditd instead, which can be used in + parallel to journald. + + * The ConditionSecurity= unit file option now understands the + special string "audit" to check whether auditing is + available. + + * journalctl gained two new commands --vacuum-size= and + --vacuum-time= to delete old journal files until the + remaining ones take up no more than the specified size on disk, + or are not older than the specified time. + + * A new, native PPPoE library has been added to sd-network, + systemd's library of light-weight networking protocols. This + library will be used in a future version of networkd to + enable PPPoE communication without an external pppd daemon. + + * The busctl tool now understands a new "capture" verb that + works similar to "monitor", but writes a packet capture + trace to STDOUT that can be redirected to a file which is + compatible with libcap's capture file format. This can then + be loaded in Wireshark and similar tools to inspect bus + communication. + + * The busctl tool now understands a new "tree" verb that shows + the object trees of a specific service on the bus, or of all + services. + + * The busctl tool now understands a new "introspect" verb that + shows all interfaces and members of objects on the bus, + including their signature and values. This is particularly + useful to get more information about bus objects shown by + the new "busctl tree" command. + + * The busctl tool now understands new verbs "call", + "set-property" and "get-property" for invoking bus method + calls, setting and getting bus object properties in a + friendly way. + + * busctl gained a new --augment-creds= argument that controls + whether the tool shall augment credential information it + gets from the bus with data from /proc, in a possibly + race-ful way. + + * nspawn's --link-journal= switch gained two new values + "try-guest" and "try-host" that work like "guest" and + "host", but do not fail if the host has no persistent + journalling enabled. -j is now equivalent to + --link-journal=try-guest. + + * macvlan network devices created by nspawn will now have + stable MAC addresses. + + * A new SmackProcessLabel= unit setting has been added, which + controls the SMACK security label processes forked off by + the respective unit shall use. + + * If compiled with --enable-xkbcommon, systemd-localed will + verify x11 keymap settings by compiling the given keymap. It + will spew out warnings if the compilation fails. This + requires libxkbcommon to be installed. + + * When a coredump is collected, a larger number of metadata + fields is now collected and included in the journal records + created for it. More specifically, control group membership, + environment variables, memory maps, working directory, + chroot directory, /proc/$PID/status, and a list of open file + descriptors is now stored in the log entry. + + * The udev hwdb now contains DPI information for mice. For + details see: + + http://who-t.blogspot.de/2014/12/building-a-dpi-database-for-mice.html + + * All systemd programs that read standalone configuration + files in /etc now also support a corresponding series of + .conf.d configuration directories in /etc/, /run/, + /usr/local/lib/, /usr/lib/, and (if configured with + --enable-split-usr) /lib/. In particular, the following + configuration files now have corresponding configuration + directories: system.conf user.conf, logind.conf, + journald.conf, sleep.conf, bootchart.conf, coredump.conf, + resolved.conf, timesyncd.conf, journal-remote.conf, and + journal-upload.conf. Note that distributions should use the + configuration directories in /usr/lib/; the directories in + /etc/ are reserved for the system administrator. + + * systemd-rfkill will no longer take the rfkill device name + into account when storing rfkill state on disk, as the name + might be dynamically assigned and not stable. Instead, the + ID_PATH udev variable combined with the rfkill type (wlan, + bluetooth, ...) is used. + + * A new service systemd-machine-id-commit.service has been + added. When used on systems where /etc is read-only during + boot, and /etc/machine-id is not initialized (but an empty + file), this service will copy the temporary machine ID + created as replacement into /etc after the system is fully + booted up. This is useful for systems that are freshly + installed with a non-initialized machine ID, but should get + a fixed machine ID for subsequent boots. + + * networkd's .netdev files now provide a large set of + configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similarly, the + bridge port cost parameter is now configurable in .network + files. There's also new support for configuring IP source + routing. networkd .link files gained support for a new + OriginalName= match that is useful to match against the + original interface name the kernel assigned. .network files + may include MTU= and MACAddress= fields for altering the MTU + and MAC address while being connected to a specific network + interface. + + * The LUKS logic gained supported for configuring + UUID-specific key files. There's also new support for naming + LUKS device from the kernel command line, using the new + luks.name= argument. + + * Timer units may now be transiently created via the bus API + (this was previously already available for scope and service + units). In addition it is now possible to create multiple + transient units at the same time with a single bus call. The + "systemd-run" tool has been updated to make use of this for + running commands on a specified time, in at(1)-style. + + * tmpfiles gained support for "t" lines, for assigning + extended attributes to files. Among other uses this may be + used to assign SMACK labels to files. + + Contributions from: Alin Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrej + Manduch, Bastien Nocera, Chris Atkinson, Chris Leech, Chris + Mayo, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, + Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dan Winship, Dave + Reisner, David Herrmann, Didier Roche, Felipe Sateler, Gavin + Li, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Ivan + Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Joe + Lawrence, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, + Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, Mantas + Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Maurizio Lombardi, + Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Marineau, Michal + Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, Peter + Hutterer, Przemyslaw Kedzierski, Rami Rosen, Ray Strode, + Richard Schütz, Richard W.M. Jones, Ronny Chevalier, Ross + Lagerwall, Sean Young, Stanisław Pitucha, Susant Sahani, + Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, + Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vicente Olivert + Riera, WaLyong Cho, Wesley Dawson, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-12-10 + +CHANGES WITH 217: + + * journalctl gained the new options -t/--identifier= to match + on the syslog identifier (aka "tag"), as well as --utc to + show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also + accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager. + + * journalctl gained a new switch, --flush, that synchronously + flushes logs from /run/log/journal to /var/log/journal if + persistent storage is enabled. systemd-journal-flush.service + now waits until the operation is complete. + + * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload + (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending + STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the + internal state of daemons and closes a race condition when + the process is still running but has closed its D-Bus + connection. + + * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any ExecStart + commands anymore. + + * User units are now loaded also from + $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the + /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously + supported, but is under the control of the user. + + * Job timeouts (i.e. time-outs on the time a job that is + queued stays in the run queue) can now optionally result in + immediate reboot or power-off actions (JobTimeoutAction= and + JobTimeoutRebootArgument=). This is useful on ".target" + units, to limit the maximum time a target remains + undispatched in the run queue, and to trigger an emergency + operation in such a case. This is now used by default to + turn off the system if boot-up (as defined by everything in + basic.target) hangs and does not complete for at least + 15min. Also, if power-off or reboot hang for at least 30min + an immediate power-off/reboot operation is triggered. This + functionality is particularly useful to increase reliability + on embedded devices, but also on laptops which might + accidentally get powered on when carried in a backpack and + whose boot stays stuck in a hard disk encryption passphrase + question. + + * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch + events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays + are attached (HandleLidSwitchDocked= option). + + * A helper binary and a service have been added which can be + used to resume from hibernation in the initramfs. A + generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel + command line to trigger resume. + + * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been + added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a + single terminal on each session of the user marked as + Desktop=systemd-console. + + * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by + systemd-networkd. + + * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set + from the information provided by the networking stack + (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). + + * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and + the minimum supported kernel version is thus bumped to 3.7. + + * Timeout for udev workers has been increased from 1 to 3 + minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to + help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load. + + * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar". + + * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many + circumstances it didn't give expected benefits even for + rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the + age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using + rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively + maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed. + + * Swap units can use Options= to specify discard options. + Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now + respected. + + * Docker containers are now detected as a separate type of + virtualization. + + * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where + the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names. + systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that + on. + + * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set: + + net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel + + This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default + queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps + fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be + a good default with no tuning required for most workloads. + Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit + servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better. + Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast". + + * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is + available for service units, that allows locking all service + processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit + access to various bus services, or even hide most of them + from the service's view entirely. + + * networkctl will now show the .network and .link file + networkd has applied to a specific interface. + + * sd-login gained a new API call sd_session_get_desktop() to + query which desktop environment has been selected for a + session. + + * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support + legacy-free systems. + + * systemctl gained two new commands "add-wants" and + "add-requires" for pulling in units from specific targets + easily. + + * If the word "rescue" is specified on the kernel command line + the system will now boot into rescue mode (aka + rescue.target), which was previously available only by + specifying "1" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target" on the kernel + command line. This new kernel command line option nicely + mirrors the already existing "emergency" kernel command line + option. + + * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, + mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, + rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to + /usr. + + * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processes of + services, not only the main process. + + * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This + means at least version v2.25 of util-linux is required for + operation, otherwise dead-locks on device nodes may + occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least + v2.25 when updating systemd to v217. + + * The "multi-seat-x" tool has been removed from systemd, as + its functionality has been integrated into X servers 1.16, + and the tool is hence redundant. It is recommended to update + display managers invoking this tool to simply invoke X + directly from now on, again. + + * Support for the new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION D-Bus + message flag has been added for all of systemd's PolicyKit + authenticated method calls has been added. In particular + this now allows optional interactive authorization via + PolicyKit for many of PID1's privileged operations such as + unit file enabling and disabling. + + * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for + placing the rebuilt hardware database in /usr instead of + /etc. When used only hardware database entries stored in + /usr will be used, and any user database entries in /etc are + ignored. This functionality is useful for vendors to ship a + pre-built database on systems where local configuration is + unnecessary or unlikely. + + * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also + understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and + "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting + "anually", "hourly", ...). + + * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev + at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is + recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!' + and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not + overwritten at runtime. + + * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=) + and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be + terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order + to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is + generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in + similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a + segmentation fault. + + Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov, + Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L. + Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, + Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David + Herrmann, David Sommerseth, David Strauss, Emil Renner + Berthing, Eric Cook, Evangelos Foutras, Filipe Brandenburger, + Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo + Venev, Hugo Grostabussiat, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Janssen, Jan + Synacek, Jonathan Liu, Juho Son, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Klaus + Purer, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz + Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, + Marius Tessmann, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, + Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, Michal + Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miroslav Lichvar, Patrik Flykt, + Philippe De Swert, Piotr Drąg, Rahul Sundaram, Richard + Weinberger, Robert Milasan, Ronny Chevalier, Ruben Kerkhof, + Santiago Vila, Sergey Ptashnick, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd + Simons, Stefan Brüns, Steven Allen, Steven Noonan, Susant + Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, + Timofey Titovets, Tobias Hunger, Tom Gundersen, Torstein + Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-10-28 + +CHANGES WITH 216: + + * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from + /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP + implementations should add a + + Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service + + to their unit files to take over and replace systemd's NTP + default functionality. + + * systemd-sysusers gained a new line type "r" for configuring + which UID/GID ranges to allocate system users/groups + from. Lines of type "u" may now add an additional column + that specifies the home directory for the system user to be + created. Also, systemd-sysusers may now optionally read user + information from STDIN instead of a file. This is useful for + invoking it from RPM preinst scriptlets that need to create + users before the first RPM file is installed since these + files might need to be owned by them. A new + %sysusers_create_inline RPM macro has been introduced to do + just that. systemd-sysusers now updates the shadow files as + well as the user/group databases, which should enhance + compatibility with certain tools like grpck. + + * A number of bus APIs of PID 1 now optionally consult + PolicyKit to permit access for otherwise unprivileged + clients under certain conditions. Note that this currently + doesn't support interactive authentication yet, but this is + expected to be added eventually, too. + + * /etc/machine-info now has new fields for configuring the + deployment environment of the machine, as well as the + location of the machine. hostnamectl has been updated with + new command to update these fields. + + * systemd-timesyncd has been updated to automatically acquire + NTP server information from systemd-networkd, which might + have been discovered via DHCP. + + * systemd-resolved now includes a caching DNS stub resolver + and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation. A new + NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which can be used + instead of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via + systemd-resolved. Hostnames, addresses and arbitrary RRs may + be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to + the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of + multi-homed system, and keeps DNS server and caches separate + and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneously on all + interfaces that have DNS servers configured, in order to + properly handle VPNs and local LANs which might resolve + separate sets of domain names. systemd-resolved may acquire + DNS server information from systemd-networkd automatically, + which in turn might have discovered them via DHCP. A tool + "systemd-resolve-host" has been added that may be used to + query the DNS logic in resolved. systemd-resolved implements + IDNA and automatically uses IDNA or UTF-8 encoding depending + on whether classic DNS or LLMNR is used as transport. In the + next releases we intend to add a DNSSEC and mDNS/DNS-SD + implementation to systemd-resolved. + + * A new NSS module nss-mymachines has been added, that + automatically resolves the names of all local registered + containers to their respective IP addresses. + + * A new client tool "networkctl" for systemd-networkd has been + added. It currently is entirely passive and will query + networking configuration from udev, rtnetlink and networkd, + and present it to the user in a very friendly + way. Eventually, we hope to extend it to become a full + control utility for networkd. + + * .socket units gained a new DeferAcceptSec= setting that + controls the kernels' TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopt for + TCP. Similarly, support for controlling TCP keep-alive + settings has been added (KeepAliveTimeSec=, + KeepAliveIntervalSec=, KeepAliveProbes=). Also, support for + turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added + (NoDelay=). + + * logind learned a new session type "web", for use in projects + like Cockpit which register web clients as PAM sessions. + + * timer units with at least one OnCalendar= setting will now + be started only after timer-sync.target has been + reached. This way they will not elapse before the system + clock has been corrected by a local NTP client or + similar. This is particular useful on RTC-less embedded + machines, that come up with an invalid system clock. + + * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth= switch should now result in + stable MAC addresses for both the outer and the inner side + of the link. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --volatile= switch for running + container instances with /etc or /var unpopulated. + + * The kdbus client code has been updated to use the new Linux + 3.17 memfd subsystem instead of the old kdbus-specific one. + + * systemd-networkd's DHCP client and server now support + FORCERENEW. There are also new configuration options to + configure the vendor client identifier and broadcast mode + for DHCP. + + * systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current + timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the + kernel has no understanding of DST and similar + concepts. This hence means FAT timestamps will be always + considered UTC, similar to what Android is already + doing. Also, when the RTC is configured to the local time + (rather than UTC) systemd will never synchronize back to it, + as this might confuse Windows at a later boot. + + * systemd-analyze gained a new command "verify" for offline + validation of unit files. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for a couple of additional + settings for bonding networking setups. Also, the metric for + statically configured routes may now be configured. For + network interfaces where this is appropriate the peer IP + address may now be configured. + + * systemd-networkd's DHCP client will no longer request + broadcasting by default, as this tripped up some networks. + For hardware where broadcast is required the feature should + be switched back on using RequestBroadcast=yes. + + * systemd-networkd will now set up IPv4LL addresses (when + enabled) even if DHCP is configured successfully. + + * udev will now default to respect network device names given + by the kernel when the kernel indicates that these are + predictable. This behavior can be tweaked by changing + NamePolicy= in the relevant .link file. + + * A new library systemd-terminal has been added that + implements full TTY stream parsing and rendering. This + library is supposed to be used later on for implementing a + full userspace VT subsystem, replacing the current kernel + implementation. + + * A new tool systemd-journal-upload has been added to push + journal data to a remote system running + systemd-journal-remote. + + * journald will no longer forward all local data to another + running syslog daemon. This change has been made because + rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog + implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and + instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since + forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is + more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this + off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog + version, you have to turn this option on again + (ForwardToSyslog= in journald.conf). + + * journald now optionally supports the LZ4 compressor for + larger journal fields. This compressor should perform much + better than XZ which was the previous default. + + * machinectl now shows the IP addresses of local containers, + if it knows them, plus the interface name of the container. + + * A new tool "systemd-escape" has been added that makes it + easy to escape strings to build unit names and similar. + + * sd_notify() messages may now include a new ERRNO= field + which is parsed and collected by systemd and shown among the + "systemctl status" output for a service. + + * A new component "systemd-firstboot" has been added that + queries the most basic systemd information (timezone, + hostname, root password) interactively on first + boot. Alternatively it may also be used to provision these + things offline on OS images installed into directories. + + * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set + + net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries=1 + + This has the benefit of no flushing secondary IP addresses + when primary addresses are removed. + + Contributions from: Ansgar Burchardt, Bastien Nocera, Colin + Walters, Dan Dedrick, Daniel Buch, Daniel Korostil, Daniel + Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Denis + Kenzior, Eelco Dolstra, Eric Cook, Hannes Reinecke, Harald + Hoyer, Hong Shick Pak, Hui Wang, Jean-André Santoni, Jóhann + B. Guðmundsson, Jon Severinsson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kevin + Wells, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael + Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, + Miguel Angel Ajo, Mike Gilbert, Olivier Brunel, Robert + Schiele, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd Simons, Stef + Walter, Steven Noonan, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas + Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Timofey Titovets, + Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, Umut + Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-08-19 + +CHANGES WITH 215: + + * A new tool systemd-sysusers has been added. This tool + creates system users and groups in /etc/passwd and + /etc/group, based on static declarative system user/group + definitions in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/. This is useful to + enable factory resets and volatile systems that boot up with + an empty /etc directory, and thus need system users and + groups created during early boot. systemd now also ships + with two default sysusers.d/ files for the most basic + users and groups systemd and the core operating system + require. + + * A new tmpfiles snippet has been added that rebuilds the + essential files in /etc on boot, should they be missing. + + * A directive for ensuring automatic clean-up of + /var/cache/man/ has been removed from the default + configuration. This line should now be shipped by the man + implementation. The necessary change has been made to the + man-db implementation. Note that you need to update your man + implementation to one that ships this line, otherwise no + automatic clean-up of /var/cache/man will take place. + + * A new condition ConditionNeedsUpdate= has been added that + may conditionalize services to only run when /etc or /var + are "older" than the vendor operating system resources in + /usr. This is useful for reconstructing or updating /etc + after an offline update of /usr or a factory reset, on the + next reboot. Services that want to run once after such an + update or reset should use this condition and order + themselves before the new systemd-update-done.service, which + will mark the two directories as fully updated. A number of + service files have been added making use of this, to rebuild + the udev hardware database, the journald message catalog and + dynamic loader cache (ldconfig). The systemd-sysusers tool + described above also makes use of this now. With this in + place it is now possible to start up a minimal operating + system with /etc empty cleanly. For more information on the + concepts involved see this recent blog story: + + http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html + + * A new system group "input" has been introduced, and all + input device nodes get this group assigned. This is useful + for system-level software to get access to input devices. It + complements what is already done for "audio" and "video". + + * systemd-networkd learnt minimal DHCPv4 server support in + addition to the existing DHCPv4 client support. It also + learnt DHCPv6 client and IPv6 Router Solicitation client + support. The DHCPv4 client gained support for static routes + passed in from the server. Note that the [DHCPv4] section + known in older systemd-networkd versions has been renamed to + [DHCP] and is now also used by the DHCPv6 client. Existing + .network files using settings of this section should be + updated, though compatibility is maintained. Optionally, the + client hostname may now be sent to the DHCP server. + + * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks as well + as tun/tap and dummy devices. + + * networkd gained support for automatic allocation of address + ranges for interfaces from a system-wide pool of + addresses. This is useful for dynamically managing a large + number of interfaces with a single network configuration + file. In particular this is useful to easily assign + appropriate IP addresses to the veth links of a large number + of nspawn instances. + + * RPM macros for processing sysusers, sysctl and binfmt + drop-in snippets at package installation time have been + added. + + * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in + /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically + created as symlink. /usr/lib is the more appropriate + location of this file, since it shall actually describe the + vendor operating system shipped in /usr, and not the + configuration stored in /etc. + + * .mount units gained a new boolean SloppyOptions= setting + that maps to mount(8)'s -s option which enables permissive + parsing of unknown mount options. + + * tmpfiles learnt a new "L+" directive which creates a symlink + but (unlike "L") deletes a pre-existing file first, should + it already exist and not already be the correct + symlink. Similarly, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been + added as well, which create block and character devices, as + well as fifos in the filesystem, possibly removing any + pre-existing files of different types. + + * For tmpfiles' "L", "L+", "C" and "C+" directives the final + 'argument' field (which so far specified the source to + symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If omitted the + same file os copied from /usr/share/factory/ suffixed by the + full destination path. This is useful for populating /etc + with essential files, by copying them from vendor defaults + shipped in /usr/share/factory/etc. + + * A new command "systemctl preset-all" has been added that + applies the service preset settings to all installed unit + files. A new switch --preset-mode= has been added that + controls whether only enable or only disable operations + shall be executed. + + * A new command "systemctl is-system-running" has been added + that allows checking the overall state of the system, for + example whether it is fully up and running. + + * When the system boots up with an empty /etc, the equivalent + to "systemctl preset-all" is executed during early boot, to + make sure all default services are enabled after a factory + reset. + + * systemd now contains a minimal preset file that enables the + most basic services systemd ships by default. + + * Unit files' [Install] section gained a new DefaultInstance= + field for defining the default instance to create if a + template unit is enabled with no instance specified. + + * A new passive target cryptsetup-pre.target has been added + that may be used by services that need to make they run and + finish before the first LUKS cryptographic device is set up. + + * The /dev/loop-control and /dev/btrfs-control device nodes + are now owned by the "disk" group by default, opening up + access to this group. + + * systemd-coredump will now automatically generate a + stack trace of all core dumps taking place on the system, + based on elfutils' libdw library. This stack trace is logged + to the journal. + + * systemd-coredump may now optionally store coredumps directly + on disk (in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, possibly compressed), + instead of storing them unconditionally in the journal. This + mode is the new default. A new configuration file + /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been added to configure this + and other parameters of systemd-coredump. + + * coredumpctl gained a new "info" verb to show details about a + specific coredump. A new switch "-1" has also been added + that makes sure to only show information about the most + recent entry instead of all entries. Also, as the tool is + generally useful now the "systemd-" prefix of the binary + name has been removed. Distributions that want to maintain + compatibility with the old name should add a symlink from + the old name to the new name. + + * journald's SplitMode= now defaults to "uid". This makes sure + that unprivileged users can access their own coredumps with + coredumpctl without restrictions. + + * New kernel command line options "systemd.wants=" (for + pulling an additional unit during boot), "systemd.mask=" + (for masking a specific unit for the boot), and + "systemd.debug-shell" (for enabling the debug shell on tty9) + have been added. This is implemented in the new generator + "systemd-debug-generator". + + * systemd-nspawn will now by default filter a couple of + syscalls for containers, among them those required for + kernel module loading, direct x86 IO port access, swap + management, and kexec. Most importantly though + open_by_handle_at() is now prohibited for containers, + closing a hole similar to a recently discussed vulnerability + in docker regarding access to files on file hierarchies the + container should normally not have access to. Note that, for + nspawn, we generally make no security claims anyway (and + this is explicitly documented in the man page), so this is + just a fix for one of the most obvious problems. + + * A new man page file-hierarchy(7) has been added that + contains a minimized, modernized version of the file system + layout systemd expects, similar in style to the FHS + specification or hier(5). A new tool systemd-path(1) has + been added to query many of these paths for the local + machine and user. + + * Automatic time-based clean-up of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no + longer done. Since the directory now has a per-user size + limit, and is cleaned on logout this appears unnecessary, + in particular since this now brings the lifecycle of this + directory closer in line with how IPC objects are handled. + + * systemd.pc now exports a number of additional directories, + including $libdir (which is useful to identify the library + path for the primary architecture of the system), and a + couple of drop-in directories. + + * udev's predictable network interface names now use the dev_port + sysfs attribute, introduced in linux 3.15 instead of dev_id to + distinguish between ports of the same PCI function. dev_id should + only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need + for dev_port. + + * machined has been updated to export the OS version of a + container (read from /etc/os-release and + /usr/lib/os-release) on the bus. This is now shown in + "machinectl status" for a machine. + + * A new service setting RestartForceExitStatus= has been + added. If configured to a set of exit signals or process + return values, the service will be restarted when the main + daemon process exits with any of them, regardless of the + Restart= setting. + + * systemctl's -H switch for connecting to remote systemd + machines has been extended so that it may be used to + directly connect to a specific container on the + host. "systemctl -H root@foobar:waldi" will now connect as + user "root" to host "foobar", and then proceed directly to + the container named "waldi". Note that currently you have to + authenticate as user "root" for this to work, as entering + containers is a privileged operation. + + Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Benjamin Steinwender, + Carl Schaefer, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian King, Cristian + Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Eugene + Yakubovich, Filipe Brandenburger, Frederic Crozat, Hristo + Venev, Jan Engelhardt, Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine + Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, + Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Sekletar, Patrik Flykt, Ronan Le + Martret, Ronny Chevalier, Ruediger Oertel, Steven Noonan, + Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Hindoe + Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Hirst, Umut Tezduyar + Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-07-03 + +CHANGES WITH 214: + + * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the + disk device node (flock(LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB)) while it + executes events for the disk or any of its partitions. + Applications like partitioning programs can lock the + disk device node (flock(LOCK_EX)) and claim temporary + device ownership that way; udev will entirely skip all event + handling for this disk and its partitions. If the disk + was opened for writing, the close will trigger a partition + table rescan in udev's "watch" facility, and if needed + synthesize "change" events for the disk and all its partitions. + This is now unconditionally enabled, and if it turns out to + cause major problems, we might turn it on only for specific + devices, or might need to disable it entirely. Device Mapper + devices are excluded from this logic. + + * We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations, + since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux + upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, + and we will readd "-l" as soon as util-linux with this + change has been released. + + * The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long + time, the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and + libattr is thus unnecessary. + + * Virtualization detection works without priviliges now. This + means the systemd-detect-virt binary no longer requires + CAP_SYS_PTRACE file capabilities, and our daemons can run + with fewer privileges. + + * systemd-networkd now runs under its own "systemd-network" + user. It retains the CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, + CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but + loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way. + + * Similarly, systemd-resolved now runs under its own + "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining. + + * Similarly, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own + "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth" + virtual Ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well + as GRE and VTI tunnels. + + * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to + manually load kernel modules necessary for certain tunnel + transports. Instead, it is assumed the kernel loads them + automatically when required. This only works correctly on + very new kernels. On older kernels, please consider adding + the kernel modules to /etc/modules-load.d/ as a work-around. + + * The resolv.conf file systemd-resolved generates has been + moved to /run/systemd/resolve/. If you have a symlink from + /etc/resolv.conf, it might be necessary to correct it. + + * Two new service settings, ProtectHome= and ProtectSystem=, + have been added. When enabled, they will make the user data + (such as /home) inaccessible or read-only and the system + (such as /usr) read-only, for specific services. This allows + very light-weight per-service sandboxing to avoid + modifications of user data or system files from + services. These two new switches have been enabled for all + of systemd's long-running services, where appropriate. + + * Socket units gained new SocketUser= and SocketGroup= + settings to set the owner user and group of AF_UNIX sockets + and FIFOs in the file system. + + * Socket units gained a new RemoveOnStop= setting. If enabled, + all FIFOS and sockets in the file system will be removed + when the specific socket unit is stopped. + + * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list + of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs + created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to + manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same life-cycle as + the socket itself. + + * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to + /run, and have been replaced by symlinks. This allows + connecting to these facilities even if PrivateDevices=yes is + used for a service (which makes /dev/log itself unavailable, + but /run is left). This also has the benefit of ensuring + that /dev only contains device nodes, directories and + symlinks, and nothing else. + + * sd-daemon gained two new calls sd_pid_notify() and + sd_pid_notifyf(). They are similar to sd_notify() and + sd_notifyf(), but allow overriding of the source PID of + notification messages if permissions permit this. This is + useful to send notify messages on behalf of a different + process (for example, the parent process). The + systemd-notify tool has been updated to make use of this + when sending messages (so that notification messages now + originate from the shell script invoking systemd-notify and + not the systemd-notify process itself. This should minimize + a race where systemd fails to associate notification + messages to services when the originating process already + vanished. + + * A new "on-abnormal" setting for Restart= has been added. If + set, it will result in automatic restarts on all "abnormal" + reasons for a process to exit, which includes unclean + signals, core dumps, timeouts and watchdog timeouts, but + does not include clean and unclean exit codes or clean + signals. Restart=on-abnormal is an alternative for + Restart=on-failure for services that shall be able to + terminate and avoid restarts on certain errors, by + indicating so with an unclean exit code. Restart=on-failure + or Restart=on-abnormal is now the recommended setting for + all long-running services. + + * If the InaccessibleDirectories= service setting points to a + mount point (or if there are any submounts contained within + it), it is now attempted to completely unmount it, to make + the file systems truly unavailable for the respective + service. + + * The ReadOnlyDirectories= service setting and + systemd-nspawn's --read-only parameter are now recursively + applied to all submounts, too. + + * Mount units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs. + + * The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed + from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now + implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units + from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a + substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the + fact that many distributions only ship a very small number + of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays. + + * Privileged Xen (dom0) domains are not considered + virtualization anymore by the virtualization detection + logic. After all, they generally have unrestricted access to + the hardware and usually are used to manage the unprivileged + (domU) domains. + + * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new "C" line type, for copying + files or entire directories. + + * systemd-tmpfiles "m" lines are now fully equivalent to "z" + lines. So far, they have been non-globbing versions of the + latter, and have thus been redundant. In future, it is + recommended to only use "z". "m" has hence been removed + from the documentation, even though it stays supported. + + * A tmpfiles snippet to recreate the most basic structure in + /var has been added. This is enough to create the /var/run → + /run symlink and create a couple of structural + directories. This allows systems to boot up with an empty or + volatile /var. Of course, while with this change, the core OS + now is capable with dealing with a volatile /var, not all + user services are ready for it. However, we hope that sooner + or later, many service daemons will be changed upstream so + that they are able to automatically create their necessary + directories in /var at boot, should they be missing. This is + the first step to allow state-less systems that only require + the vendor image for /usr to boot. + + * systemd-nspawn has gained a new --tmpfs= switch to mount an + empty tmpfs instance to a specific directory. This is + particularly useful for making use of the automatic + reconstruction of /var (see above), by passing --tmpfs=/var. + + * Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be + prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked + by whether the existing file or directory is currently + writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified, + the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all + non-directories. + + * A new passive target unit "network-pre.target" has been + added which is useful for services that shall run before any + network is configured, for example firewall scripts. + + * The "floppy" group that previously owned the /dev/fd* + devices is no longer used. The "disk" group is now used + instead. Distributions should probably deprecate usage of + this group. + + Contributions from: Camilo Aguilar, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian + King, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, David + Strauss, Denis Tikhomirov, John, Jonathan Liu, Kay Sievers, + Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mark Eichin, Ronny + Chevalier, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-06-11 + +CHANGES WITH 213: + + * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for + synchronizing the system clock across the network. It + implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP + implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server, + this only implements a client side, and does not bother with + the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from + one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to + it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or + want to connect to local hardware clocks, this simple NTP + client should be more than appropriate for most + installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and + has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when + network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the + current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been + acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock + early at bootup, in order to accommodate for systems that + lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, + and to make sure that time monotonically progresses on these + systems, even if it is not always correct. To make use of + this daemon, a new system user and group "systemd-timesync" + needs to be created on installation of systemd. + + * The queue "seqnum" interface of libudev has been disabled, as + it was generally incompatible with device namespacing as + sequence numbers of devices go "missing" if the devices are + part of a different namespace. + + * "systemctl list-timers" and "systemctl list-sockets" gained + a --recursive switch for showing units of these types also + for all local containers, similar in style to the already + supported --recursive switch for "systemctl list-units". + + * A new RebootArgument= setting has been added for service + units, which may be used to specify a kernel reboot argument + to use when triggering reboots with StartLimitAction=. + + * A new FailureAction= setting has been added for service + units which may be used to specify an operation to trigger + when a service fails. This works similarly to + StartLimitAction=, but unlike it, controls what is done + immediately rather than only after several attempts to + restart the service in question. + + * hostnamed got updated to also expose the kernel name, + release, and version on the bus. This is useful for + executing commands like hostnamectl with the -H switch. + systemd-analyze makes use of this to properly display + details when running non-locally. + + * The bootchart tool can now show cgroup information in the + graphs it generates. + + * The CFS CPU quota cgroup attribute is now exposed for + services. The new CPUQuota= switch has been added for this + which takes a percentage value. Setting this will have the + result that a service may never get more CPU time than the + specified percentage, even if the machine is otherwise idle. + + * systemd-networkd learned IPIP and SIT tunnel support. + + * LSB init scripts exposing a dependency on $network will now + get a dependency on network-online.target rather than simply + network.target. This should bring LSB handling closer to + what it was on SysV systems. + + * A new fsck.repair= kernel option has been added to control + how fsck shall deal with unclean file systems at boot. + + * The (.ini) configuration file parser will now silently + ignore sections whose name begins with "X-". This may be + used to maintain application-specific extension sections in unit + files. + + * machined gained a new API to query the IP addresses of + registered containers. "machinectl status" has been updated + to show these addresses in its output. + + * A new call sd_uid_get_display() has been added to the + sd-login APIs for querying the "primary" session of a + user. The "primary" session of the user is elected from the + user's sessions and generally a graphical session is + preferred over a text one. + + * A minimal systemd-resolved daemon has been added. It + currently simply acts as a companion to systemd-networkd and + manages resolv.conf based on per-interface DNS + configuration, possibly supplied via DHCP. In the long run + we hope to extend this into a local DNSSEC enabled DNS and + mDNS cache. + + * The systemd-networkd-wait-online tool is now enabled by + default. It will delay network-online.target until a network + connection has been configured. The tool primarily integrates + with networkd, but will also make a best effort to make sense + of network configuration performed in some other way. + + * Two new service options StartupCPUShares= and + StartupBlockIOWeight= have been added that work similarly to + CPUShares= and BlockIOWeight= however only apply during + system startup. This is useful to prioritize certain services + differently during bootup than during normal runtime. + + * hostnamed has been changed to prefer the statically + configured hostname in /etc/hostname (unless set to + 'localhost' or empty) over any dynamic one supplied by + dhcp. With this change, the rules for picking the hostname + match more closely the rules of other configuration settings + where the local administrator's configuration in /etc always + overrides any other settings. + + Contributions fron: Ali H. Caliskan, Alison Chaiken, Bas van + den Berg, Brandon Philips, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, + Dan Kilman, Dave Reisner, David Härdeman, David Herrmann, + David Strauss, Dimitris Spingos, Djalal Harouni, Eelco + Dolstra, Evan Nemerson, Florian Albrechtskirchinger, Greg + Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan + Engelhardt, Jani Nikula, Jason St. John, Jeffrey Clark, + Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas + Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael + Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Nis + Martensen, Patrik Flykt, Philip Lorenz, poma, Ray Strode, + Reyad Attiyat, Robert Milasan, Scott Thrasher, Stef Walter, + Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas Bächler, + Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar + Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Will Woods, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Beijing, 2014-05-28 + +CHANGES WITH 212: + + * When restoring the screen brightness at boot, stay away from + the darkest setting or from the lowest 5% of the available + range, depending on which is the larger value of both. This + should effectively protect the user from rebooting into a + black screen, should the brightness have been set to minimum + by accident. + + * sd-login gained a new sd_machine_get_class() call to + determine the class ("vm" or "container") of a machine + registered with machined. + + * sd-login gained new calls + sd_peer_get_{session,owner_uid,unit,user_unit,slice,machine_name}(), + to query the identity of the peer of a local AF_UNIX + connection. They operate similarly to their sd_pid_get_xyz() + counterparts. + + * PID 1 will now maintain a system-wide system state engine + with the states "starting", "running", "degraded", + "maintenance", "stopping". These states are bound to system + startup, normal runtime, runtime with at least one failed + service, rescue/emergency mode and system shutdown. This + state is shown in the "systemctl status" output when no unit + name is passed. It is useful to determine system state, in + particularly when doing so for many systems or containers at + once. + + * A new command "list-machines" has been added to "systemctl" + that lists all local OS containers and shows their system + state (see above), if systemd runs inside of them. + + * systemctl gained a new "-r" switch to recursively enumerate + units on all local containers, when used with the + "list-unit" command (which is the default one that is + executed when no parameters are specified). + + * The GPT automatic partition discovery logic will now honour + two GPT partition flags: one may be set on a partition to + cause it to be mounted read-only, and the other may be set + on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery. + + * Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root + partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not + particularly useful for discovering the root directory on + these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is + not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of + ARM disk images in nspawn with the -i option. + + * MAC addresses of interfaces created with nspawn's + --network-interface= switch will now be generated from the + machine name, and thus be stable between multiple invocations + of the container. + + * logind will now automatically remove all IPC objects owned + by a user if she or he fully logs out. This makes sure that + users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC + resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message + queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message + queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle + limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may + be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. + + * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a + --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, + instead of /. + + * journald can now forward logged messages to the TTYs of all + logged in users ("wall"). This is the default for all + emergency messages now. + + * A new tool systemd-journal-remote has been added to stream + journal log messages across the network. + + * /sys/fs/cgroup/ is now mounted read-only after all cgroup + controller trees are mounted into it. Note that the + directories mounted beneath it are not read-only. This is a + security measure and is particularly useful because glibc + actually includes a search logic to pick any tmpfs it can + find to implement shm_open() if /dev/shm is not available + (which it might very well be in namespaced setups). + + * machinectl gained a new "poweroff" command to cleanly power + down a local OS container. + + * The PrivateDevices= unit file setting will now also drop the + CAP_MKNOD capability from the capability bound set, and + imply DevicePolicy=closed. + + * PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork= and PrivateTmp= is now used + comprehensively on all long-running systemd services where + this is appropriate. + + * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount + namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to + pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. + + * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into + the kernel. sd-bus gained support for creating "monitoring" + connections that can eavesdrop into all bus communication + for debugging purposes. + + * Timestamps may now be specified in seconds since the UNIX + epoch Jan 1st, 1970 by specifying "@" followed by the value + in seconds. + + * Native tcpwrap support in systemd has been removed. tcpwrap + is old code, not really maintained anymore and has serious + shortcomings, and better options such as firewalls + exist. For setups that require tcpwrap usage, please + consider invoking your socket-activated service via tcpd, + like on traditional inetd. + + * A new system.conf configuration option + DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the + default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. + + * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, + timers configured this way will cause the system to resume + from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most + do these days). + + * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, + timers configured this way will save to disk when they have + been last triggered. This information is then used on next + reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that + could not take place because the system was powered off. + This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. + + * systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a + timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time + it will be triggered. + + * systemd-networkd will now assign predictable IPv4LL + addresses to its local interfaces. + + Contributions from: Brandon Philips, Daniel Buch, Daniel Mack, + Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gerd Hoffmann, Greg + Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Jason St. John, Josh + Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marc-Antoine + Perennou, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Miklos Vajna, + Patrik Flykt, poma, Sebastian Thorarensen, Thomas Bächler, + Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, + Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Wieland Hoffmann, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-03-25 + +CHANGES WITH 211: + + * A new unit file setting RestrictAddressFamilies= has been + added to restrict which socket address families unit + processes gain access to. This takes address family names + like "AF_INET" or "AF_UNIX", and is useful to minimize the + attack surface of services via exotic protocol stacks. This + is built on seccomp system call filters. + + * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and + RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to + manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is + an alternative for setting up directory permissions with + tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime + directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that + the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This + is particularly useful when writing services that drop + privileges using the User= or Group= setting. + + * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports globbing for + matching against device group names. + + * The systemd configuration file system.conf gained new + settings DefaultCPUAccounting=, DefaultBlockIOAccounting=, + DefaultMemoryAccounting= to globally turn on/off accounting + for specific resources (cgroups) for all units. These + settings may still be overridden individually in each unit + though. + + * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and + root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It + also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in + place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following + the Discoverable Partitions Specification + (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) + is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without + /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on + systems prepared appropriately. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows + booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block + device that follow the Discoverable Partitions Specification + (see above). This means that installations made with + appropriately updated installers may now be started and + deployed using container managers, completely + unmodified. (We hope that libvirt-lxc will add support for + this feature soon, too.) + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-macvlan= setting to + set up a private macvlan interface for the + container. Similarly, systemd-networkd gained a new + Kind=macvlan setting in .netdev files. + + * systemd-networkd now supports configuring local addresses + using IPv4LL. + + * A new tool systemd-network-wait-online has been added to + synchronously wait for network connectivity using + systemd-networkd. + + * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for + tracking the life-cycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is + still not a public API though (unless you specify + --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however + voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee). + + * The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runtime directories for each user are + now individual tmpfs instances, which has the benefit of + introducing separate pools for each user, with individual + size limits, and thus making sure that unprivileged clients + can no longer negatively impact the system or other users by + filling up their $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. A new logind.conf setting + RuntimeDirectorySize= has been introduced that allows + controlling the default size limit for all users. It + defaults to 10% of the available physical memory. This is no + replacement for quotas on tmpfs though (which the kernel + still does not support), as /dev/shm and /tmp are still + shared resources used by both the system and unprivileged + users. + + * logind will now automatically turn off automatic suspending + on laptop lid close when more than one display is + connected. This was previously expected to be implemented + individually in desktop environments (such as GNOME), + however has been added to logind now, in order to fix a + boot-time race where a desktop environment might not have + been started yet and thus not been able to take an inhibitor + lock at the time where logind already suspends the system + due to a closed lid. + + * logind will now wait at least 30s after each system + suspend/resume cycle, and 3min after system boot before + suspending the system due to a closed laptop lid. This + should give USB docking stations and similar enough time to + be probed and configured after system resume and boot in + order to then act as suspend blocker. + + * systemd-run gained a new --property= setting which allows + initialization of resource control properties (and others) + for the created scope or service unit. Example: "systemd-run + --property=BlockIOWeight=10 updatedb" may be used to run + updatedb at a low block IO scheduling weight. + + * systemd-run's --uid=, --gid=, --setenv=, --setenv= switches + now also work in --scope mode. + + * When systemd is compiled with kdbus support, basic support + for enforced policies is now in place. (Note that enabling + kdbus still voids your warranty and no API compatibility + promises are made.) + + Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Ansgar Burchardt, Armin + K., Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, + Harald Hoyer, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jasper St. Pierre, Kay + Sievers, Kieran Clancy, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, + Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Mark Oteiza, Martin Pitt, + Mike Gilbert, Peter Rajnoha, poma, Samuli Suominen, Stef + Walter, Susant Sahani, Tero Roponen, Thomas Andersen, Thomas + Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom + Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zachary Cook, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-03-12 + +CHANGES WITH 210: + + * systemd will now relabel /dev after loading the SMACK policy + according to SMACK rules. + + * A new unit file option AppArmorProfile= has been added to + set the AppArmor profile for the processes of a unit. + + * A new condition check ConditionArchitecture= has been added + to conditionalize units based on the system architecture, as + reported by uname()'s "machine" field. + + * systemd-networkd now supports matching on the system + virtualization, architecture, kernel command line, host name + and machine ID. + + * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the + machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only + on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid + status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the + power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can + be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo + Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately + re-suspend the machine if the power button has been + accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a + backpack or similar. + + * logind will now watch SW_DOCK switches and inhibit reaction + to the lid switch if it is pressed. This means that logind + will not suspend the machine anymore if the lid is closed + and the system is docked, if the laptop supports SW_DOCK + notifications via the input layer. Note that ACPI docking + stations do not generate this currently. Also note that this + logic is usually not fully sufficient and Desktop + Environments should take a lid switch inhibitor lock when an + external display is connected, as systemd will not watch + this on its own. + + * nspawn will now make use of the devices cgroup controller by + default, and only permit creation of and access to the usual + API device nodes like /dev/null or /dev/random, as well as + access to (but not creation of) the pty devices. + + * We will now ship a default .network file for + systemd-networkd that automatically configures DHCP for + network interfaces created by nspawn's --network-veth or + --network-bridge= switches. + + * systemd will now understand the usual M, K, G, T suffixes + according to SI conventions (i.e. to the base 1000) when + referring to throughput and hardware metrics. It will stay + with IEC conventions (i.e. to the base 1024) for software + metrics, according to what is customary according to + Wikipedia. We explicitly document which base applies for + each configuration option. + + * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax + to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, + based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the + string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all + current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. + + * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of + this type are triggered by the dispatching of any event + source of a type that is not "post". This is useful for + implementing clean-up and check event sources that are + triggered by other work being done in the program. + + * systemd-networkd is no longer statically enabled, but uses + the usual [Install] sections so that it can be + enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by + default however. + + * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the + host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if + --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth + is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on + the host, for example to apply different configuration to + them with systemd-networkd. + + * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, + libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and + libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC + anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times + under these alternative names. This means that the footprint + is drastically increased, but given that these are + transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter + much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM + platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM + toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain + for other architectures like x86 and does not support + IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only + during a transitional period! + + Contributions from: Andreas Fuchs, Armin K., Colin Walters, + Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, + Holger Schurig, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason St. John, Jasper + St. Pierre, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Łukasz Stelmach, + Marcel Holtmann, Michael Scherer, Michal Sekletar, Mike + Gilbert, Samuli Suominen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe + Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-02-24 + +CHANGES WITH 209: + + * A new component "systemd-networkd" has been added that can + be used to configure local network interfaces statically or + via DHCP. It is capable of bringing up bridges, VLANs, and + bonding. Currently, no hook-ups for interactive network + configuration are provided. Use this for your initrd, + container, embedded, or server setup if you need a simple, + yet powerful, network configuration solution. This + configuration subsystem is quite nifty, as it allows wildcard + hotplug matching in interfaces. For example, with a single + configuration snippet, you can configure that all Ethernet + interfaces showing up are automatically added to a bridge, + or similar. It supports link-sensing and more. + + * A new tool "systemd-socket-proxyd" has been added which can + act as a bidirectional proxy for TCP sockets. This is + useful for adding socket activation support to services that + do not actually support socket activation, including virtual + machines and the like. + + * Add a new tool to save/restore rfkill state on + shutdown/boot. + + * Save/restore state of keyboard backlights in addition to + display backlights on shutdown/boot. + + * udev learned a new SECLABEL{} construct to label device + nodes with a specific security label when they appear. For + now, only SECLABEL{selinux} is supported, but the syntax is + prepared for additional security frameworks. + + * udev gained a new scheme to configure link-level attributes + from files in /etc/systemd/network/*.link. These files can + match against MAC address, device path, driver name and type, + and will apply attributes like the naming policy, link speed, + MTU, duplex settings, Wake-on-LAN settings, MAC address, MAC + address assignment policy (randomized, ...). + + * The configuration of network interface naming rules for + "permanent interface names" has changed: a new NamePolicy= + setting in the [Link] section of .link files determines the + priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, MAC, + path). The default value of this setting is determined by + /usr/lib/net/links/99-default.link. Old + 80-net-name-slot.rules udev configuration file has been + removed, so local configuration overriding this file should + be adapated to override 99-default.link instead. + + * When the User= switch is used in a unit file, also + initialize $SHELL= based on the user database entry. + + * systemd no longer depends on libdbus. All communication is + now done with sd-bus, systemd's low-level bus library + implementation. + + * kdbus support has been added to PID 1 itself. When kdbus is + enabled, this causes PID 1 to set up the system bus and + enable support for a new ".busname" unit type that + encapsulates bus name activation on kdbus. It works a little + bit like ".socket" units, except for bus names. A new + generator has been added that converts classic dbus1 service + activation files automatically into native systemd .busname + and .service units. + + * sd-bus: add a light-weight vtable implementation that allows + defining objects on the bus with a simple static const + vtable array of its methods, signals and properties. + + * systemd will not generate or install static dbus + introspection data anymore to /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces, + as the precise format of these files is unclear, and + nothing makes use of it. + + * A proxy daemon is now provided to proxy clients connecting + via classic D-Bus AF_UNIX sockets to kdbus, to provide full + compatibility with classic D-Bus. + + * A bus driver implementation has been added that supports the + classic D-Bus bus driver calls on kdbus, also for + compatibility purposes. + + * A new API "sd-event.h" has been added that implements a + minimal event loop API built around epoll. It provides a + couple of features that direct epoll usage is lacking: + prioritization of events, scales to large numbers of timer + events, per-event timer slack (accuracy), system-wide + coalescing of timer events, exit handlers, watchdog + supervision support using systemd's sd_notify() API, child + process handling. + + * A new API "sd-rntl.h" has been added that provides an API + around the route netlink interface of the kernel, similar in + style to "sd-bus.h". + + * A new API "sd-dhcp-client.h" has been added that provides a + small DHCPv4 client-side implementation. This is used by + "systemd-networkd". + + * There is a new kernel command line option + "systemd.restore_state=0|1". When set to "0", none of the + systemd tools will restore saved runtime state to hardware + devices. More specifically, the rfkill and backlight states + are not restored. + + * The FsckPassNo= compatibility option in mount/service units + has been removed. The fstab generator will now add the + necessary dependencies automatically, and does not require + PID1's support for that anymore. + + * journalctl gained a new switch, --list-boots, that lists + recent boots with their times and boot IDs. + + * The various tools like systemctl, loginctl, timedatectl, + busctl, systemd-run, ... have gained a new switch "-M" to + connect to a specific, local OS container (as direct + connection, without requiring SSH). This works on any + container that is registered with machined, such as those + created by libvirt-lxc or nspawn. + + * systemd-run and systemd-analyze also gained support for "-H" + to connect to remote hosts via SSH. This is particularly + useful for systemd-run because it enables queuing of jobs + onto remote systems. + + * machinectl gained a new command "login" to open a getty + login in any local container. This works with any container + that is registered with machined (such as those created by + libvirt-lxc or nspawn), and which runs systemd inside. + + * machinectl gained a new "reboot" command that may be used to + trigger a reboot on a specific container that is registered + with machined. This works on any container that runs an init + system of some kind. + + * systemctl gained a new "list-timers" command to print a nice + listing of installed timer units with the times they elapse + next. + + * Alternative reboot() parameters may now be specified on the + "systemctl reboot" command line and are passed to the + reboot() system call. + + * systemctl gained a new --job-mode= switch to configure the + mode to queue a job with. This is a more generic version of + --fail, --irreversible, and --ignore-dependencies, which are + still available but not advertised anymore. + + * /etc/systemd/system.conf gained new settings to configure + various default timeouts of units, as well as the default + start limit interval and burst. These may still be overridden + within each Unit. + + * PID1 will now export on the bus profile data of the security + policy upload process (such as the SELinux policy upload to + the kernel). + + * journald: when forwarding logs to the console, include + timestamps (following the setting in + /sys/module/printk/parameters/time). + + * OnCalendar= in timer units now understands the special + strings "yearly" and "annually". (Both are equivalent) + + * The accuracy of timer units is now configurable with the new + AccuracySec= setting. It defaults to 1min. + + * A new dependency type JoinsNamespaceOf= has been added that + allows running two services within the same /tmp and network + namespace, if PrivateNetwork= or PrivateTmp= are used. + + * A new command "cat" has been added to systemctl. It outputs + the original unit file of a unit, and concatenates the + contents of additional "drop-in" unit file snippets, so that + the full configuration is shown. + + * systemctl now supports globbing on the various "list-xyz" + commands, like "list-units" or "list-sockets", as well as on + those commands which take multiple unit names. + + * journalctl's --unit= switch gained support for globbing. + + * All systemd daemons now make use of the watchdog logic so + that systemd automatically notices when they hang. + + * If the $container_ttys environment variable is set, + getty-generator will automatically spawn a getty for each + listed tty. This is useful for container managers to request + login gettys to be spawned on as many ttys as needed. + + * %h, %s, %U specifier support is not available anymore when + used in unit files for PID 1. This is because NSS calls are + not safe from PID 1. They stay available for --user + instances of systemd, and as special case for the root user. + + * loginctl gained a new "--no-legend" switch to turn off output + of the legend text. + + * The "sd-login.h" API gained three new calls: + sd_session_is_remote(), sd_session_get_remote_user(), + sd_session_get_remote_host() to query information about + remote sessions. + + * The udev hardware database now also carries vendor/product + information of SDIO devices. + + * The "sd-daemon.h" API gained a new sd_watchdog_enabled() to + determine whether watchdog notifications are requested by + the system manager. + + * Socket-activated per-connection services now include a + short description of the connection parameters in the + description. + + * tmpfiles gained a new "--boot" option. When this is not used, + only lines where the command character is not suffixed with + "!" are executed. When this option is specified, those + options are executed too. This partitions tmpfiles + directives into those that can be safely executed at any + time, and those which should be run only at boot (for + example, a line that creates /run/nologin). + + * A new API "sd-resolve.h" has been added which provides a simple + asynchronous wrapper around glibc NSS host name resolution + calls, such as getaddrinfo(). In contrast to glibc's + getaddrinfo_a(), it does not use signals. In contrast to most + other asynchronous name resolution libraries, this one does + not reimplement DNS, but reuses NSS, so that alternate + host name resolution systems continue to work, such as mDNS, + LDAP, etc. This API is based on libasyncns, but it has been + cleaned up for inclusion in systemd. + + * The APIs "sd-journal.h", "sd-login.h", "sd-id128.h", + "sd-daemon.h" are no longer found in individual libraries + libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-login.so, + libsystemd-id128.so, libsystemd-daemon.so. Instead, we have + merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which + provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic + dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's + symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking + a copy of a good part of our code into each of these + libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain + things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it + substantially increases footprint. With this change, there + is only one library for the basic APIs systemd + provides. Also, "sd-bus.h", "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", + "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", "sd-utf8.h" are found in this + library as well, however are subject to the --enable-kdbus + switch (see below). Note that "sd-dhcp-client.h" is not part + of this library (this is because it only consumes, never + provides, services of/to other APIs). To make the transition + easy from the separate libraries to the unified one, we + provide the --enable-compat-libs compile-time switch which + will generate stub libraries that are compatible with the + old ones but redirect all calls to the new one. + + * All of the kdbus logic and the new APIs "sd-bus.h", + "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", + and "sd-utf8.h" are compile-time optional via the + "--enable-kdbus" switch, and they are not compiled in by + default. To make use of kdbus, you have to explicitly enable + the switch. Note however, that neither the kernel nor the + userspace API for all of this is considered stable yet. We + want to maintain the freedom to still change the APIs for + now. By specifying this build-time switch, you acknowledge + that you are aware of the instability of the current + APIs. + + * Also, note that while kdbus is pretty much complete, + it lacks one thing: proper policy support. This means you + can build a fully working system with all features; however, + it will be highly insecure. Policy support will be added in + one of the next releases, at the same time that we will + declare the APIs stable. + + * When the kernel command line argument "kdbus" is specified, + systemd will automatically load the kdbus.ko kernel module. At + this stage of development, it is only useful for testing kdbus + and should not be used in production. Note: if "--enable-kdbus" + is specified, and the kdbus.ko kernel module is available, and + "kdbus" is added to the kernel command line, the entire system + runs with kdbus instead of dbus-daemon, with the above mentioned + problem of missing the system policy enforcement. Also a future + version of kdbus.ko or a newer systemd will not be compatible with + each other, and will unlikely be able to boot the machine if only + one of them is updated. + + * systemctl gained a new "import-environment" command which + uploads the caller's environment (or parts thereof) into the + service manager so that it is inherited by services started + by the manager. This is useful to upload variables like + $DISPLAY into the user service manager. + + * A new PrivateDevices= switch has been added to service units + which allows running a service with a namespaced /dev + directory that does not contain any device nodes for + physical devices. More specifically, it only includes devices + such as /dev/null, /dev/urandom, and /dev/zero which are API + entry points. + + * logind has been extended to support behaviour like VT + switching on seats that do not support a VT. This makes + multi-session available on seats that are not the first seat + (seat0), and on systems where kernel support for VTs has + been disabled at compile-time. + + * If a process holds a delay lock for system sleep or shutdown + and fails to release it in time, we will now log its + identity. This makes it easier to identify processes that + cause slow suspends or power-offs. + + * When parsing /etc/crypttab, support for a new key-slot= + option as supported by Debian is added. It allows indicating + which LUKS slot to use on disk, speeding up key loading. + + * The sd_journald_sendv() API call has been checked and + officially declared to be async-signal-safe so that it may + be invoked from signal handlers for logging purposes. + + * Boot-time status output is now enabled automatically after a + short timeout if boot does not progress, in order to give + the user an indication what she or he is waiting for. + + * The boot-time output has been improved to show how much time + remains until jobs expire. + + * The KillMode= switch in service units gained a new possible + value "mixed". If set, and the unit is shut down, then the + initial SIGTERM signal is sent only to the main daemon + process, while the following SIGKILL signal is sent to + all remaining processes of the service. + + * When a scope unit is registered, a new property "Controller" + may be set. If set to a valid bus name, systemd will send a + RequestStop() signal to this name when it would like to shut + down the scope. This may be used to hook manager logic into + the shutdown logic of scope units. Also, scope units may now + be put in a special "abandoned" state, in which case the + manager process which created them takes no further + responsibilities for it. + + * When reading unit files, systemd will now verify + the access mode of these files, and warn about certain + suspicious combinations. This has been added to make it + easier to track down packaging bugs where unit files are + marked executable or world-writable. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new "--setenv=" switch to set + container-wide environment variables. The similar option in + systemd-activate was renamed from "--environment=" to + "--setenv=" for consistency. + + * systemd-nspawn has been updated to create a new kdbus domain + for each container that is invoked, thus allowing each + container to have its own set of system and user buses, + independent of the host. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --drop-capability= switch to run + the container with less capabilities than the default. Both + --drop-capability= and --capability= now take the special + string "all" for dropping or keeping all capabilities. + + * systemd-nspawn gained new switches for executing containers + with specific SELinux labels set. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --quiet switch to not generate + any additional output but the container's own console + output. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --share-system switch to run a + container without PID namespacing enabled. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --register= switch to control + whether the container is registered with systemd-machined or + not. This is useful for containers that do not run full + OS images, but only specific apps. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --keep-unit which may be used + when invoked as the only program from a service unit, and + results in registration of the unit service itself in + systemd-machined, instead of a newly opened scope unit. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-interface= switch for + moving arbitrary interfaces to the container. The new + --network-veth switch creates a virtual Ethernet connection + between host and container. The new --network-bridge= + switch then allows assigning the host side of this virtual + Ethernet connection to a bridge device. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for + setting the kernel personality for the container. This is + useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A + similar option Personality= is now also available for service + units to use. + + * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each + session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is + useful for desktop environments that want to identify + multiple running sessions of itself easily. + + * A new SELinuxContext= setting for service units has been + added that allows setting a specific SELinux execution + context for a service. + + * Most systemd client tools will now honour $SYSTEMD_LESS for + settings of the "less" pager. By default, these tools will + override $LESS to allow certain operations to work, such as + jump-to-the-end. With $SYSTEMD_LESS, it is possible to + influence this logic. + + * systemd's "seccomp" hook-up has been changed to make use of + the libseccomp library instead of using its own + implementation. This has benefits for portability among + other things. + + * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new + SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that + allows configuration of a system error number to be returned + on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the + process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to + limit access to system calls of a particular architecture + (in order to turn off support for unused secondary + architectures). There is also a global + SystemCallArchitectures= setting in system.conf now to turn + off support for non-native system calls system-wide. + + * systemd requires a kernel with a working name_to_handle_at(), + please see the kernel config requirements in the README file. + + Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alex Jia, Anatol Pomozov, + Ansgar Burchardt, AppleBloom, Auke Kok, Bastien Nocera, + Chengwei Yang, Christian Seiler, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, + Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniele Medri, Daniel J + Walsh, Daniel Mack, Dan McGee, Dave Reisner, David Coppa, + David Herrmann, David Strauss, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry Pisklov, + Elia Pinto, Florian Weimer, George McCollister, Goffredo + Baroncelli, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Igor + Zhbanov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason A. Donenfeld, + Jason St. John, Jasper St. Pierre, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson, Jose + Ignacio Naranjo, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kristian Høgsberg, + Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz + Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Felipe Rasia de + Mello, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael + Marineau, Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, + Michele Curti, Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, + Pavel Holica, Raudi, Richard Marko, Ronny Chevalier, Sébastien + Luttringer, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, + Stefan Beller, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefeve, Sylvia Else, + Tero Roponen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, + Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Unai Uribarri, Václav + Pavlín, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, William Giokas, Yang + Zhiyong, Yin Kangkai, Yuxuan Shui, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-02-20 + +CHANGES WITH 208: + + * logind has gained support for facilitating privileged input + and drm device access for unprivileged clients. This work is + useful to allow Wayland display servers (and similar + programs, such as kmscon) to run under the user's ID and + access input and drm devices which are normally + protected. When this is used (and the kernel is new enough) + logind will "mute" IO on the file descriptors passed to + Wayland as long as it is in the background and "unmute" it + if it returns into the foreground. This allows secure + session switching without allowing background sessions to + eavesdrop on input and display data. This also introduces + session switching support if VT support is turned off in the + kernel, and on seats that are not seat0. + + * A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood + now which allows specifying LUKS options for usage for LUKS + encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=. + + * tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in + path names. More specifically %m, %b, %H, %v, are now + replaced by the local machine id, boot id, hostname, and + kernel version number. + + * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which + may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file + or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not. + + * This release removes high-level support for the + MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel + cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly + designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its + current form, hence we should not expose it for now. + + * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for + all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup + hierarchy. This option is likely to be come the built-in + default in the kernel anyway, and the non-hierarchical mode + never made much sense in the intrinsically hierarchical + cgroup system. + + * A new field _SYSTEMD_SLICE= is logged along with all journal + messages containing the slice a message was generated + from. This is useful to allow easy per-customer filtering of + logs among other things. + + * systemd-journald will no longer adjust the group of journal + files it creates to the "systemd-journal" group. Instead we + rely on the journal directory to be owned by the + "systemd-journal" group, and its setgid bit set, so that the + kernel file system layer will automatically enforce that + journal files inherit this group assignment. The reason for + this change is that we cannot allow NSS look-ups from + journald which would be necessary to resolve + "systemd-journal" to a numeric GID, because this might + create deadlocks if NSS involves synchronous queries to + other daemons (such as nscd, or sssd) which in turn are + logging clients of journald and might block on it, which + would then dead lock. A tmpfiles.d(5) snippet included in + systemd will make sure the setgid bit and group are + properly set on the journal directory if it exists on every + boot. However, we recommend adjusting it manually after + upgrades too (or from RPM scriptlets), so that the change is + not delayed until next reboot. + + * Backlight and random seed files in /var/lib/ have moved into + the /var/lib/systemd/ directory, in order to centralize all + systemd generated files in one directory. + + * Boot time performance measurements (as displayed by + "systemd-analyze" for example) will now read ACPI 5.0 FPDT + performance information if that's available to determine how + much time BIOS and boot loader initialization required. With + a sufficiently new BIOS you hence no longer need to boot + with Gummiboot to get access to such information. + + Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Chen Jie, Colin Walters, + Cristian Rodríguez, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David + Mackey, David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Evan Callicoat, Gao + feng, Harald Hoyer, Jimmie Tauriainen, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, + Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Mike Gilbert, Patrick McCarty, + Sebastian Ott, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2013-10-02 + +CHANGES WITH 207: + + * The Restart= option for services now understands a new + on-watchdog setting, which will restart the service + automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep + alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=). + + * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a + getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only + start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all + others, too. This makes the order in which console= is + specified on the kernel command line less important. + + * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to + retrieve the VT number of a session. + + * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab + its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any + maximum number of tries. + + * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID + file will now be removed automatically if it still exists + afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files. + + * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names + for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths. + + * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take + paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that + it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist. + + * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new + output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but + shows timestamps with usec accuracy. + + * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now + synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact, + "discard" is preferred now (since it is easier to remember + and type). + + * Some licensing clean-ups were made, so that more code is now + LGPL-2.1 licensed than before. + + * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight + brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the + backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown, and + restore it as early as possible during reboot. + + * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap + partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place + /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can + discover certain partitions located on the root disk + automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their + GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap + partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID + 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f. + + * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel + or initrd to system services. If you want to set an + environment for all services, do so via the kernel command + line systemd.setenv= assignment. + + * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file + /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked + from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing + legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it + also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the + different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a + pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!) + + * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands + have been moved to systemd-analyze. + + * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch, + which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up + automatically after the process terminated. + + * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude + certain paths from operation. + + * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk + as soon as a message at the log level CRIT, ALERT or EMERG + is received. + + Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian + Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal, + Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George + McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, + Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, + Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering, + Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel + Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, + Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał + Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn + Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe + Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao, + William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2013-09-13 + +CHANGES WITH 206: + + * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new + concepts introduced with 205. + + * Unit files now understand the new %v specifier which + resolves to the kernel version string as returned by "uname + -r". + + * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by + load state, active state and sub state, using the new + --state= parameter. + + * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the + condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of + the last start attempts of the unit. They are also logged to + the journal. + + * "journalctl -b" may now be used to look for boot output of a + specific boot. Try "journalctl -b -1" for the previous boot, + but the syntax is substantially more powerful. + + * "journalctl --show-cursor" has been added which prints the + cursor string the last shown log line. This may then be used + with the new "journalctl --after-cursor=" switch to continue + browsing logs from that point on. + + * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration + of an FSS key. + + * Creation of "dead" device nodes has been moved from udev + into kmod and tmpfiles. Previously, udev would read the kmod + databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta + information contained in kernel modules, so that these would + be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this + does not really have much to do with the exposing actual + kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly + alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod + will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the + module meta information and it now is tmpfiles' job to the + create the nodes. This also allows overriding access and + other parameters for the nodes using the usual tmpfiles + facilities. As side effect this allows us to remove the + CAP_SYS_MKNOD capability bit from udevd entirely. + + * logind's device ACLs may now be applied to these "dead" + devices nodes too, thus finally allowing managed access to + devices such as /dev/snd/sequencer whithout loading the + backing module right-away. + + * A new RPM macro has been added that may be used to apply + tmpfiles configuration during package installation. + + * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can + detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML). + + * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities + set of processes in the message metadata. + + * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes. + + * The initrd interface has been simplified (more specifically, + support for passing performance data via environment + variables and fsck results via files in /run has been + removed). These features were non-essential, and are + nowadays available in a much nicer way by having systemd in + the initrd serialize its state and have the hosts systemd + deserialize it again. + + * The udev "keymap" data files and tools to apply keyboard + specific mappings of scan to key codes, and force-release + scan code lists have been entirely replaced by a udev + "keyboard" builtin and a hwdb data file. + + * systemd will now honour the kernel's "quiet" command line + argument also during late shutdown, resulting in a + completely silent shutdown when used. + + * There's now an option to control the SO_REUSEPORT socket + option in .socket units. + + * Instance units will now automatically get a per-template + subslice of system.slice unless something else is explicitly + configured. For example, instances of sshd@.service will now + implicitly be placed in system-sshd.slice rather than + system.slice as before. + + * Test coverage support may now be enabled at build time. + + Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Harald + Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, Jan + Janssen, Jason St. John, Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Martin Pitt, Michael + Olbrich, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Ross Lagerwall, Shawn Landden, + Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William + Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2013-07-23 + +CHANGES WITH 205: + + * Two new unit types have been introduced: + + Scope units are very similar to service units, however, are + created out of pre-existing processes -- instead of PID 1 + forking off the processes. By using scope units it is + possible for system services and applications to group their + own child processes (worker processes) in a powerful way + which then maybe used to organize them, or kill them + together, or apply resource limits on them. + + Slice units may be used to partition system resources in an + hierarchical fashion and then assign other units to them. By + default there are now three slices: system.slice (for all + system services), user.slice (for all user sessions), + machine.slice (for VMs and containers). + + Slices and scopes have been introduced primarily in + context of the work to move cgroup handling to a + single-writer scheme, where only PID 1 + creates/removes/manages cgroups. + + * There's a new concept of "transient" units. In contrast to + normal units these units are created via an API at runtime, + not from configuration from disk. More specifically this + means it is now possible to run arbitrary programs as + independent services, with all execution parameters passed + in via bus APIs rather than read from disk. Transient units + make systemd substantially more dynamic then it ever was, + and useful as a general batch manager. + + * logind has been updated to make use of scope and slice units + for managing user sessions. As a user logs in he will get + his own private slice unit, to which all sessions are added + as scope units. We also added support for automatically + adding an instance of user@.service for the user into the + slice. Effectively logind will no longer create cgroup + hierarchies on its own now, it will defer entirely to PID 1 + for this by means of scope, service and slice units. Since + user sessions this way become entities managed by PID 1 + the output of "systemctl" is now a lot more comprehensive. + + * A new mini-daemon "systemd-machined" has been added which + may be used by virtualization managers to register local + VMs/containers. nspawn has been updated accordingly, and + libvirt will be updated shortly. machined will collect a bit + of meta information about the VMs/containers, and assign + them their own scope unit (see above). The collected + meta-data is then made available via the "machinectl" tool, + and exposed in "ps" and similar tools. machined/machinectl + is compile-time optional. + + * As discussed earlier, the low-level cgroup configuration + options ControlGroup=, ControlGroupModify=, + ControlGroupPersistent=, ControlGroupAttribute= have been + removed. Please use high-level attribute settings instead as + well as slice units. + + * A new bus call SetUnitProperties() has been added to alter + various runtime parameters of a unit. This is primarily + useful to alter cgroup parameters dynamically in a nice way, + but will be extended later on to make more properties + modifiable at runtime. systemctl gained a new set-properties + command that wraps this call. + + * A new tool "systemd-run" has been added which can be used to + run arbitrary command lines as transient services or scopes, + while configuring a number of settings via the command + line. This tool is currently very basic, however already + very useful. We plan to extend this tool to even allow + queuing of execution jobs with time triggers from the + command line, similar in fashion to "at". + + * nspawn will now inform the user explicitly that kernels with + audit enabled break containers, and suggest the user to turn + off audit. + + * Support for detecting the IMA and AppArmor security + frameworks with ConditionSecurity= has been added. + + * journalctl gained a new "-k" switch for showing only kernel + messages, mimicking dmesg output; in addition to "--user" + and "--system" switches for showing only user's own logs + and system logs. + + * systemd-delta can now show information about drop-in + snippets extending unit files. + + * libsystemd-bus has been substantially updated but is still + not available as public API. + + * systemd will now look for the "debug" argument on the kernel + command line and enable debug logging, similar to what + "systemd.log_level=debug" already did before. + + * "systemctl set-default", "systemctl get-default" has been + added to configure the default.target symlink, which + controls what to boot into by default. + + * "systemctl set-log-level" has been added as a convenient + way to raise and lower systemd logging threshold. + + * "systemd-analyze plot" will now show the time the various + generators needed for execution, as well as information + about the unit file loading. + + * libsystemd-journal gained a new sd_journal_open_files() call + for opening specific journal files. journactl also gained a + new switch to expose this new functionality. Previously we + only supported opening all files from a directory, or all + files from the system, as opening individual files only is + racy due to journal file rotation. + + * systemd gained the new DefaultEnvironment= setting in + /etc/systemd/system.conf to set environment variables for + all services. + + * If a privileged process logs a journal message with the + OBJECT_PID= field set, then journald will automatically + augment this with additional OBJECT_UID=, OBJECT_GID=, + OBJECT_COMM=, OBJECT_EXE=, ... fields. This is useful if + system services want to log events about specific client + processes. journactl/systemctl has been updated to make use + of this information if all log messages regarding a specific + unit is requested. + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Chengwei Yang, Colin Walters, + Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Albers, Daniel Wallace, Dave + Reisner, David Coppa, David King, David Strauss, Eelco + Dolstra, Gabriel de Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander + Steffens, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason St. John, Johan + Heikkilä, Karel Zak, Karol Lewandowski, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marius Vollmer, + Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Tremer, + Michal Schmidt, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Nirbheek Chauhan, + Pierre Neidhardt, Ross Burton, Ross Lagerwall, Sean McGovern, + Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, + Václav Pavlín, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, + Łukasz Stelmach, 장동준 + +CHANGES WITH 204: + + * The Python bindings gained some minimal support for the APIs + exposed by libsystemd-logind. + + * ConditionSecurity= gained support for detecting SMACK. Since + this condition already supports SELinux and AppArmor we only + miss IMA for this. Patches welcome! + + Contributions from: Karol Lewandowski, Lennart Poettering, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 203: + + * systemd-nspawn will now create /etc/resolv.conf if + necessary, before bind-mounting the host's file onto it. + + * systemd-nspawn will now store meta information about a + container on the container's cgroup as extended attribute + fields, including the root directory. + + * The cgroup hierarchy has been reworked in many ways. All + objects any of the components systemd creates in the cgroup + tree are now suffixed. More specifically, user sessions are + now placed in cgroups suffixed with ".session", users in + cgroups suffixed with ".user", and nspawn containers in + cgroups suffixed with ".nspawn". Furthermore, all cgroup + names are now escaped in a simple scheme to avoid collision + of userspace object names with kernel filenames. This work + is preparation for making these objects relocatable in the + cgroup tree, in order to allow easy resource partitioning of + these objects without causing naming conflicts. + + * systemctl list-dependencies gained the new switches + --plain, --reverse, --after and --before. + + * systemd-inhibit now shows the process name of processes that + have taken an inhibitor lock. + + * nss-myhostname will now also resolve "localhost" + implicitly. This makes /etc/hosts an optional file and + nicely handles that on IPv6 ::1 maps to both "localhost" and + the local hostname. + + * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call + sd_get_machine_names() to enumerate running containers and + VMs (currently only supported by very new libvirt and + nspawn). sd_login_monitor can now be used to watch + VMs/containers coming and going. + + * .include is not allowed recursively anymore, and only in + unit files. Usually it is better to use drop-in snippets in + .d/*.conf anyway, as introduced with systemd 198. + + * systemd-analyze gained a new "critical-chain" command that + determines the slowest chain of units run during system + boot-up. It is very useful for tracking down where + optimizing boot time is the most beneficial. + + * systemd will no longer allow manipulating service paths in + the name=systemd:/system cgroup tree using ControlGroup= in + units. (But is still fine with it in all other dirs.) + + * There's a new systemd-nspawn@.service service file that may + be used to easily run nspawn containers as system + services. With the container's root directory in + /var/lib/container/foobar it is now sufficient to run + "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foobar.service" to boot it. + + * systemd-cgls gained a new parameter "--machine" to list only + the processes within a certain container. + + * ConditionSecurity= now can check for "apparmor". We still + are lacking checks for SMACK and IMA for this condition + check though. Patches welcome! + + * A new configuration file /etc/systemd/sleep.conf has been + added that may be used to configure which kernel operation + systemd is supposed to execute when "suspend", "hibernate" + or "hybrid-sleep" is requested. This makes the new kernel + "freeze" state accessible to the user. + + * ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules will now implicitly escape + the passed argument if applicable. + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, + Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, + Evangelos Foutras, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Josh + Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, + MUNEDA Takahiro, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel + Chen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ronny Chevalier, Ross Lagerwall, Tom + Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 202: + + * The output of 'systemctl list-jobs' got some polishing. The + '--type=' argument may now be passed more than once. A new + command 'systemctl list-sockets' has been added which shows + a list of kernel sockets systemd is listening on with the + socket units they belong to, plus the units these socket + units activate. + + * The experimental libsystemd-bus library got substantial + updates to work in conjunction with the (also experimental) + kdbus kernel project. It works well enough to exchange + messages with some sophistication. Note that kdbus is not + ready yet, and the library is mostly an elaborate test case + for now, and not installable. + + * systemd gained a new unit 'systemd-static-nodes.service' + that generates static device nodes earlier during boot, and + can run in conjunction with udev. + + * libsystemd-login gained a new call sd_pid_get_user_unit() + to retrieve the user systemd unit a process is running + in. This is useful for systems where systemd is used as + session manager. + + * systemd-nspawn now places all containers in the new /machine + top-level cgroup directory in the name=systemd + hierarchy. libvirt will soon do the same, so that we get a + uniform separation of /system, /user and /machine for system + services, user processes and containers/virtual + machines. This new cgroup hierarchy is also useful to stick + stable names to specific container instances, which can be + recognized later this way (this name may be controlled + via systemd-nspawn's new -M switch). libsystemd-login also + gained a new call sd_pid_get_machine_name() to retrieve the + name of the container/VM a specific process belongs to. + + * bootchart can now store its data in the journal. + + * libsystemd-journal gained a new call + sd_journal_add_conjunction() for AND expressions to the + matching logic. This can be used to express more complex + logical expressions. + + * journactl can now take multiple --unit= and --user-unit= + switches. + + * The cryptsetup logic now understands the "luks.key=" kernel + command line switch for specifying a file to read the + decryption key from. Also, if a configured key file is not + found the tool will now automatically fall back to prompting + the user. + + * Python systemd.journal module was updated to wrap recently + added functions from libsystemd-journal. The interface was + changed to bring the low level interface in s.j._Reader + closer to the C API, and the high level interface in + s.j.Reader was updated to wrap and convert all data about + an entry. + + Contributions from: Anatol Pomozov, Auke Kok, Harald Hoyer, + Henrik Grindal Bakken, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas Marius Vollmer, + Martin Jansa, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, + Mirco Tischler, Pali Rohar, Simon Peeters, Steven Hiscocks, + Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 201: + + * journalctl --update-catalog now understands a new --root= + option to operate on catalogs found in a different root + directory. + + * During shutdown after systemd has terminated all running + services a final killing loop kills all remaining left-over + processes. We will now print the name of these processes + when we send SIGKILL to them, since this usually indicates a + problem. + + * If /etc/crypttab refers to password files stored on + configured mount points automatic dependencies will now be + generated to ensure the specific mount is established first + before the key file is attempted to be read. + + * 'systemctl status' will now show information about the + network sockets a socket unit is listening on. + + * 'systemctl status' will also shown information about any + drop-in configuration file for units. (Drop-In configuration + files in this context are files such as + /etc/systemd/systemd/foobar.service.d/*.conf) + + * systemd-cgtop now optionally shows summed up CPU times of + cgroups. Press '%' while running cgtop to switch between + percentage and absolute mode. This is useful to determine + which cgroups use up the most CPU time over the entire + runtime of the system. systemd-cgtop has also been updated + to be 'pipeable' for processing with further shell tools. + + * 'hostnamectl set-hostname' will now allow setting of FQDN + hostnames. + + * The formatting and parsing of time span values has been + changed. The parser now understands fractional expressions + such as "5.5h". The formatter will now output fractional + expressions for all time spans under 1min, i.e. "5.123456s" + rather than "5s 123ms 456us". For time spans under 1s + millisecond values are shown, for those under 1ms + microsecond values are shown. This should greatly improve + all time-related output of systemd. + + * libsystemd-login and libsystemd-journal gained new + functions for querying the poll() events mask and poll() + timeout value for integration into arbitrary event + loops. + + * localectl gained the ability to list available X11 keymaps + (models, layouts, variants, options). + + * 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for + specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller, + more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple + graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or + of all units that Avahi has dependencies with. + + Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck, + Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, Kelly + Anderson, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Maksim Melnikau, + Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marius Vollmer, Martin Pitt, Michal + Schmidt, Oleksii Shevchuk, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, + Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Weißschuh, Umut Tezduyar, Václav + Pavlín, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Łukasz Stelmach + +CHANGES WITH 200: + + * The boot-time readahead implementation for rotating media + will now read the read-ahead data in multiple passes which + consist of all read requests made in equidistant time + intervals. This means instead of strictly reading read-ahead + data in its physical order on disk we now try to find a + middle ground between physical and access time order. + + * /etc/os-release files gained a new BUILD_ID= field for usage + on operating systems that provide continuous builds of OS + images. + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, + Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin Pitt, Václav Pavlín + William Douglas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 199: + + * systemd-python gained an API exposing libsystemd-daemon. + + * The SMACK setup logic gained support for uploading CIPSO + security policy. + + * Behaviour of PrivateTmp=, ReadWriteDirectories=, + ReadOnlyDirectories= and InaccessibleDirectories= has + changed. The private /tmp and /var/tmp directories are now + shared by all processes of a service (which means + ExecStartPre= may now leave data in /tmp that ExecStart= of + the same service can still access). When a service is + stopped its temporary directories are immediately deleted + (normal clean-up with tmpfiles is still done in addition to + this though). + + * By default, systemd will now set a couple of sysctl + variables in the kernel: the safe sysrq options are turned + on, IP route verification is turned on, and source routing + disabled. The recently added hardlink and softlink + protection of the kernel is turned on. These settings should + be reasonably safe, and good defaults for all new systems. + + * The predictable network naming logic may now be turned off + with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0. + + * A new libsystemd-bus module has been added that implements a + pretty complete D-Bus client library. For details see: + + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html + + * journald will now explicitly flush the journal files to disk + at the latest 5min after each write. The file will then also + be marked offline until the next write. This should increase + reliability in case of a crash. The synchronization delay + can be configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf. + + * There's a new remote-fs-setup.target unit that can be used + to pull in specific services when at least one remote file + system is to be mounted. + + * There are new targets timers.target and paths.target as + canonical targets to pull user timer and path units in + from. This complements sockets.target with a similar + purpose for socket units. + + * libudev gained a new call udev_device_set_attribute_value() + to set sysfs attributes of a device. + + * The udev daemon now sets the default number of worker + processes executed in parallel based on the number of available + CPUs instead of the amount of available RAM. This is supposed + to provide a more reliable default and limit a too aggressive + paralellism for setups with 1000s of devices connected. + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Walters, Cristian + Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Hannes + Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan + Engelhardt, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, + Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Bridon, Michael Biebl, + Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nathaniel Chen, + Oleksii Shevchuk, Ozan Çağlayan, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 198: + + * Configuration of unit files may now be extended via drop-in + files without having to edit/override the unit files + themselves. More specifically, if the administrator wants to + change one value for a service file foobar.service he can + now do so by dropping in a configuration snippet into + /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/*.conf. The unit logic + will load all these snippets and apply them on top of the + main unit configuration file, possibly extending or + overriding its settings. Using these drop-in snippets is + generally nicer than the two earlier options for changing + unit files locally: copying the files from + /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to /etc/systemd/system/ and editing + them there; or creating a new file in /etc/systemd/system/ + that incorporates the original one via ".include". Drop-in + snippets into these .d/ directories can be placed in any + directory systemd looks for units in, and the usual + overriding semantics between /usr/lib, /etc and /run apply + for them too. + + * Most unit file settings which take lists of items can now be + reset by assigning the empty string to them. For example, + normally, settings such as Environment=FOO=BAR append a new + environment variable assignment to the environment block, + each time they are used. By assigning Environment= the empty + string the environment block can be reset to empty. This is + particularly useful with the .d/*.conf drop-in snippets + mentioned above, since this adds the ability to reset list + settings from vendor unit files via these drop-ins. + + * systemctl gained a new "list-dependencies" command for + listing the dependencies of a unit recursively. + + * Inhibitors are now honored and listed by "systemctl + suspend", "systemctl poweroff" (and similar) too, not only + GNOME. These commands will also list active sessions by + other users. + + * Resource limits (as exposed by the various control group + controllers) can now be controlled dynamically at runtime + for all units. More specifically, you can now use a command + like "systemctl set-cgroup-attr foobar.service cpu.shares + 2000" to alter the CPU shares a specific service gets. These + settings are stored persistently on disk, and thus allow the + administrator to easily adjust the resource usage of + services with a few simple commands. This dynamic resource + management logic is also available to other programs via the + bus. Almost any kernel cgroup attribute and controller is + supported. + + * systemd-vconsole-setup will now copy all font settings to + all allocated VTs, where it previously applied them only to + the foreground VT. + + * libsystemd-login gained the new sd_session_get_tty() API + call. + + * This release drops support for a few legacy or + distribution-specific LSB facility names when parsing init + scripts: $x-display-manager, $mail-transfer-agent, + $mail-transport-agent, $mail-transfer-agent, $smtp, + $null. Also, the mail-transfer-agent.target unit backing + this has been removed. Distributions which want to retain + compatibility with this should carry the burden for + supporting this themselves and patch support for these back + in, if they really need to. Also, the facilities $syslog and + $local_fs are now ignored, since systemd does not support + early-boot LSB init scripts anymore, and these facilities + are implied anyway for normal services. syslog.target has + also been removed. + + * There are new bus calls on PID1's Manager object for + cancelling jobs, and removing snapshot units. Previously, + both calls were only available on the Job and Snapshot + objects themselves. + + * systemd-journal-gatewayd gained SSL support. + + * The various "environment" files, such as /etc/locale.conf + now support continuation lines with a backslash ("\") as + last character in the line, similarly in style (but different) + to how this is supported in shells. + + * For normal user processes the _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field is + now implicitly appended to every log entry logged. systemctl + has been updated to filter by this field when operating on a + user systemd instance. + + * nspawn will now implicitly add the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and + CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities to the capabilities set for + the container. This makes it easier to boot unmodified + Fedora systems in a container, which however still requires + audit=0 to be passed on the kernel command line. Auditing in + kernel and userspace is unfortunately still too broken in + context of containers, hence we recommend compiling it out + of the kernel or using audit=0. Hopefully this will be fixed + one day for good in the kernel. + + * nspawn gained the new --bind= and --bind-ro= parameters to + bind mount specific directories from the host into the + container. + + * nspawn will now mount its own devpts file system instance + into the container, in order not to leak pty devices from + the host into the container. + + * systemd will now read the firmware boot time performance + information from the EFI variables, if the used boot loader + supports this, and takes it into account for boot performance + analysis via "systemd-analyze". This is currently supported + only in conjunction with Gummiboot, but could be supported + by other boot loaders too. For details see: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface + + * A new generator has been added that automatically mounts the + EFI System Partition (ESP) to /boot, if that directory + exists, is empty, and no other file system has been + configured to be mounted there. + + * logind will now send out PrepareForSleep(false) out + unconditionally, after coming back from suspend. This may be + used by applications as asynchronous notification for + system resume events. + + * "systemctl unlock-sessions" has been added, that allows + unlocking the screens of all user sessions at once, similar + to how "systemctl lock-sessions" already locked all users + sessions. This is backed by a new D-Bus call UnlockSessions(). + + * "loginctl seat-status" will now show the master device of a + seat. (i.e. the device of a seat that needs to be around for + the seat to be considered available, usually the graphics + card). + + * tmpfiles gained a new "X" line type, that allows + configuration of files and directories (with wildcards) that + shall be excluded from automatic cleanup ("aging"). + + * udev default rules set the device node permissions now only + at "add" events, and do not change them any longer with a + later "change" event. + + * The log messages for lid events and power/sleep keypresses + now carry a message ID. + + * We now have a substantially larger unit test suite, but this + continues to be work in progress. + + * udevadm hwdb gained a new --root= parameter to change the + root directory to operate relative to. + + * logind will now issue a background sync() request to the kernel + early at shutdown, so that dirty buffers are flushed to disk early + instead of at the last moment, in order to optimize shutdown + times a little. + + * A new bootctl tool has been added that is an interface for + certain boot loader operations. This is currently a preview + and is likely to be extended into a small mechanism daemon + like timedated, localed, hostnamed, and can be used by + graphical UIs to enumerate available boot options, and + request boot into firmware operations. + + * systemd-bootchart has been relicensed to LGPLv2.1+ to match + the rest of the package. It also has been updated to work + correctly in initrds. + + * Policykit previously has been runtime optional, and is now + also compile time optional via a configure switch. + + * systemd-analyze has been reimplemented in C. Also "systemctl + dot" has moved into systemd-analyze. + + * "systemctl status" with no further parameters will now print + the status of all active or failed units. + + * Operations such as "systemctl start" can now be executed + with a new mode "--irreversible" which may be used to queue + operations that cannot accidentally be reversed by a later + job queuing. This is by default used to make shutdown + requests more robust. + + * The Python API of systemd now gained a new module for + reading journal files. + + * A new tool kernel-install has been added that can install + kernel images according to the Boot Loader Specification: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec + + * Boot time console output has been improved to provide + animated boot time output for hanging jobs. + + * A new tool systemd-activate has been added which can be used + to test socket activation with, directly from the command + line. This should make it much easier to test and debug + socket activation in daemons. + + * journalctl gained a new "--reverse" (or -r) option to show + journal output in reverse order (i.e. newest line first). + + * journalctl gained a new "--pager-end" (or -e) option to jump + to immediately jump to the end of the journal in the + pager. This is only supported in conjunction with "less". + + * journalctl gained a new "--user-unit=" option, that works + similarly to "--unit=" but filters for user units rather than + system units. + + * A number of unit files to ease adoption of systemd in + initrds has been added. This moves some minimal logic from + the various initrd implementations into systemd proper. + + * The journal files are now owned by a new group + "systemd-journal", which exists specifically to allow access + to the journal, and nothing else. Previously, we used the + "adm" group for that, which however possibly covers more + than just journal/log file access. This new group is now + already used by systemd-journal-gatewayd to ensure this + daemon gets access to the journal files and as little else + as possible. Note that "make install" will also set FS ACLs + up for /var/log/journal to give "adm" and "wheel" read + access to it, in addition to "systemd-journal" which owns + the journal files. We recommend that packaging scripts also + add read access to "adm" + "wheel" to /var/log/journal, and + all existing/future journal files. To normal users and + administrators little changes, however packagers need to + ensure to create the "systemd-journal" system group at + package installation time. + + * The systemd-journal-gatewayd now runs as unprivileged user + systemd-journal-gateway:systemd-journal-gateway. Packaging + scripts need to create these system user/group at + installation time. + + * timedated now exposes a new boolean property CanNTP that + indicates whether a local NTP service is available or not. + + * systemd-detect-virt will now also detect xen PVs + + * The pstore file system is now mounted by default, if it is + available. + + * In addition to the SELinux and IMA policies we will now also + load SMACK policies at early boot. + + Contributions from: Adel Gadllah, Aleksander Morgado, Auke + Kok, Ayan George, Bastien Nocera, Colin Walters, Daniel Buch, + Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David Strauss, + Eelco Dolstra, Enrico Scholz, Frederic Crozat, Harald Hoyer, + Jan Janssen, Jonathan Callen, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, + Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin + Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Max F. Albrecht, Michael Biebl, Michael + Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michal Vyskocil, + Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel Chen, Nestor + Ovroy, Oleksii Shevchuk, Paul W. Frields, Piotr Drąg, Rob + Clark, Ryan Lortie, Simon McVittie, Simon Peeters, Steven + Hiscocks, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom + Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, William Giokas, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) + +CHANGES WITH 197: + + * Timer units now support calendar time events in addition to + monotonic time events. That means you can now trigger a unit + based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri + 2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first + or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is + a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support + considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on + the supported calendar time specification language see + systemd.time(7). + + * udev now supports a number of different naming policies for + network interfaces for predictable names, and a combination + of these policies is now the default. Please see this wiki + document for details: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames + + * Auke Kok's bootchart implementation has been added to the + systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the + boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart + implementations around and minimal in its code and + dependencies. + + * nss-myhostname has been integrated into the systemd source + tree. nss-myhostname guarantees that the local hostname + always stays resolvable via NSS. It has been a weak + requirement of systemd-hostnamed since a long time, and + since its code is actually trivial we decided to just + include it in systemd's source tree. It can be turned off + with a configure switch. + + * The read-ahead logic is now capable of properly detecting + whether a btrfs file system is on SSD or rotating media, in + order to optimize the read-ahead scheme. Previously, it was + only capable of detecting this on traditional file systems + such as ext4. + + * In udev, additional device properties are now read from the + IAB in addition to the OUI database. Also, Bluetooth company + identities are attached to the devices as well. + + * In service files %U may be used as specifier that is + replaced by the configured user name of the service. + + * nspawn may now be invoked without a controlling TTY. This + makes it suitable for invocation as its own service. This + may be used to set up a simple containerized server system + using only core OS tools. + + * systemd and nspawn can now accept socket file descriptors + when they are started for socket activation. This enables + implementation of socket activated nspawn + containers. i.e. think about autospawning an entire OS image + when the first SSH or HTTP connection is received. We expect + that similar functionality will also be added to libvirt-lxc + eventually. + + * journalctl will now suppress ANSI color codes when + presenting log data. + + * systemctl will no longer show control group information for + a unit if a the control group is empty anyway. + + * logind can now automatically suspend/hibernate/shutdown the + system on idle. + + * /etc/machine-info and hostnamed now also expose the chassis + type of the system. This can be used to determine whether + the local system is a laptop, desktop, handset or + tablet. This information may either be configured by the + user/vendor or is automatically determined from ACPI and DMI + information if possible. + + * A number of PolicyKit actions are now bound together with + "imply" rules. This should simplify creating UIs because + many actions will now authenticate similar ones as well. + + * Unit files learnt a new condition ConditionACPower= which + may be used to conditionalize a unit depending on whether an + AC power source is connected or not, of whether the system + is running on battery power. + + * systemctl gained a new "is-failed" verb that may be used in + shell scripts and suchlike to check whether a specific unit + is in the "failed" state. + + * The EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now supports file + globbing, and can hence be used to easily read a number of + environment files at once. + + * systemd will no longer detect and recognize specific + distributions. All distribution-specific #ifdeffery has been + removed, systemd is now fully generic and + distribution-agnostic. Effectively, not too much is lost as + a lot of the code is still accessible via explicit configure + switches. However, support for some distribution specific + legacy configuration file formats has been dropped. We + recommend distributions to simply adopt the configuration + files everybody else uses now and convert the old + configuration from packaging scripts. Most distributions + already did that. If that's not possible or desirable, + distributions are welcome to forward port the specific + pieces of code locally from the git history. + + * When logging a message about a unit systemd will now always + log the unit name in the message meta data. + + * localectl will now also discover system locale data that is + not stored in locale archives, but directly unpacked. + + * logind will no longer unconditionally use framebuffer + devices as seat masters, i.e. as devices that are required + to be existing before a seat is considered preset. Instead, + it will now look for all devices that are tagged as + "seat-master" in udev. By default, framebuffer devices will + be marked as such, but depending on local systems, other + devices might be marked as well. This may be used to + integrate graphics cards using closed source drivers (such + as NVidia ones) more nicely into logind. Note however, that + we recommend using the open source NVidia drivers instead, + and no udev rules for the closed-source drivers will be + shipped from us upstream. + + Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alessandro Crismani, Auke + Kok, Colin Walters, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David + Herrmann, David Strauss, Dimitrios Apostolou, Eelco Dolstra, + Eric Benoit, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Henrik + Grindal Bakken, Hermann Gausterer, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, + Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael Biebl, Michael Terry, + Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Oleg + Samarin, Pekka Lundstrom, Philip Nilsson, Ramkumar + Ramachandra, Richard Yao, Robert Millan, Sami Kerola, Shawn + Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Jarosch, + Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +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 continuously 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 does not 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 do not 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 + container environment, copying the host's timezone + setting. Previously this has been done via a bind mount, but + since symlinks cannot be bind mounted this has now been + changed to create/update the appropriate symlink. + + * journalctl -n's line number argument is now optional, and + will default to 10 if omitted. + + * journald will now log the maximum size the journal files may + 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. + + * The multi-seat X wrapper tool has been stripped down. As X + is now capable of enumerating graphics devices via udev in a + seat-aware way the wrapper is not strictly necessary + 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 of the next releases. + + * HandleSleepKey= in logind.conf has been split up into + HandleSuspendKey= and HandleHibernateKey=. The old setting + is not available anymore. X11 and the kernel are + distinguishing between these keys and we should too. This + also means the inhibition lock for these keys has been split + into two. + + Contributions from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín + +CHANGES WITH 190: + + * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the + journal and show along the unit's own log output in + "systemctl status". + + * ConditionPathIsMountPoint= can now properly detect bind + mount points too. (Previously, a bind mount of one file + system to another place in the same file system could not be + detected as mount, since they shared struct stat's st_dev + field.) + + * We will now mount the cgroup controllers cpu, cpuacct, + cpuset and the controllers net_cls, net_prio together by + default. + + * nspawn containers will now have a virtualized boot + ID. (i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id is now mounted + over with a randomized ID at container initialization). This + has the effect of making "journalctl -b" do the right thing + in a container. + + * The JSON output journal serialization has been updated not + to generate "endless" list objects anymore, but rather one + JSON object per line. This is more in line how most JSON + parsers expect JSON objects. The new output mode + "json-pretty" has been added to provide similar output, but + neatly aligned for readability by humans. + + * We dropped all explicit sync() invocations in the shutdown + code. The kernel does this implicitly anyway in the kernel + reboot() syscall. halt(8)'s -n option is now a compatibility + no-op. + + * We now support virtualized reboot() in containers, as + supported by newer kernels. We will fall back to exit() if + CAP_SYS_REBOOT is not available to the container. Also, + nspawn makes use of this now and will actually reboot the + container if the containerized OS asks for that. + + * journalctl will only show local log output by default + now. Use --merge (-m) to show remote log output, too. + + * libsystemd-journal gained the new sd_journal_get_usage() + call to determine the current disk usage of all journal + files. This is exposed in the new "journalctl --disk-usage" + command. + + * journald gained a new configuration setting SplitMode= in + journald.conf which may be used to control how user journals + are split off. See journald.conf(5) for details. + + * A new condition type ConditionFileNotEmpty= has been added. + + * tmpfiles' "w" lines now support file globbing, to write + multiple files at once. + + * We added Python bindings for the journal submission + APIs. More Python APIs for a number of selected APIs will + likely follow. Note that we intend to add native bindings + only for the Python language, as we consider it common + enough to deserve bindings shipped within systemd. There are + various projects outside of systemd that provide bindings + for languages such as PHP or Lua. + + * Many conditions will now resolve specifiers such as %i. In + addition, PathChanged= and related directives of .path units + now support specifiers as well. + + * There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset + dir: %_presetdir. + + * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the + syslog daemon because its socket is full. + + * timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone, + except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr + anymore /etc/localtime always being a symlink is now safe, + and hence the information in /etc/timezone is not necessary + anymore. + + * logind will now always reserve one VT for a text getty (VT6 + by default). Previously if more than 6 X sessions where + started they took up all the VTs with auto-spawned gettys, + so that no text gettys were available anymore. + + * udev will now automatically inform the btrfs kernel logic + about btrfs RAID components showing up. This should make + simple hotplug based btrfs RAID assembly work. + + * PID 1 will now increase its RLIMIT_NOFILE to 64K by default + (but not for its children which will stay at the kernel + default). This should allow setups with a lot more listening + sockets. + + * systemd will now always pass the configured timezone to the + kernel at boot. timedated will do the same when the timezone + is changed. + + * logind's inhibition logic has been updated. By default, + logind will now handle the lid switch, the power and sleep + keys all the time, even in graphical sessions. If DEs want + to handle these events on their own they should take the new + handle-power-key, handle-sleep-key and handle-lid-switch + inhibitors during their runtime. A simple way to achieve + that is to invoke the DE wrapped in an invocation of: + + systemd-inhibit --what=handle-power-key:handle-sleep-key:handle-lid-switch ... + + * Access to unit operations is now checked via SELinux taking + the unit file label and client process label into account. + + * systemd will now notify the administrator in the journal + when he over-mounts a non-empty directory. + + * There are new specifiers that are resolved in unit files, + for the host name (%H), the machine ID (%m) and the boot ID + (%b). + + Contributions from: Allin Cottrell, Auke Kok, Brandon Philips, + Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, + Eelco Dolstra, Jan Engelhardt, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Martin Pitt, Matthias Clasen, Michael Olbrich, Pierre Schmitz, + Shawn Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, + Václav Pavlín, Yin Kangkai, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 189: + + * Support for reading structured kernel messages from + /dev/kmsg has now been added and is enabled by default. + + * Support for reading kernel messages from /proc/kmsg has now + been removed. If you want kernel messages in the journal + make sure to run a recent kernel (>= 3.5) that supports + reading structured messages from /dev/kmsg (see + above). /proc/kmsg is now exclusive property of classic + syslog daemons again. + + * The libudev API gained the new + udev_device_new_from_device_id() call. + + * The logic for file system namespace (ReadOnlyDirectory=, + ReadWriteDirectoy=, PrivateTmp=) has been reworked not to + require pivot_root() anymore. This means fewer temporary + directories are created below /tmp for this feature. + + * nspawn containers will now see and receive all submounts + made on the host OS below the root file system of the + container. + + * Forward Secure Sealing is now supported for Journal files, + which provide cryptographical sealing of journal files so + that attackers cannot alter log history anymore without this + being detectable. Lennart will soon post a blog story about + this explaining it in more detail. + + * There are two new service settings RestartPreventExitStatus= + and SuccessExitStatus= which allow configuration of exit + status (exit code or signal) which will be excepted from the + restart logic, resp. consider successful. + + * journalctl gained the new --verify switch that can be used + to check the integrity of the structure of journal files and + (if Forward Secure Sealing is enabled) the contents of + journal files. + + * nspawn containers will now be run with /dev/stdin, /dev/fd/ + and similar symlinks pre-created. This makes running shells + as container init process a lot more fun. + + * The fstab support can now handle PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= + entries. + + * A new ConditionHost= condition has been added to match + against the hostname (with globs) and machine ID. This is + useful for clusters where a single OS image is used to + provision a large number of hosts which shall run slightly + different sets of services. + + * Services which hit the restart limit will now be placed in a + failure state. + + Contributions from: Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang + Hang, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin + Pitt, Simon Peeters, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 188: + + * When running in --user mode systemd will now become a + subreaper (PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER). This should make the ps + tree a lot more organized. + + * A new PartOf= unit dependency type has been introduced that + may be used to group services in a natural way. + + * "systemctl enable" may now be used to enable instances of + services. + + * journalctl now prints error log levels in red, and + warning/notice log levels in bright white. It also supports + filtering by log level now. + + * cgtop gained a new -n switch (similar to top), to configure + the maximum number of iterations to run for. It also gained + -b, to run in batch mode (accepting no input). + + * The suffix ".service" may now be omitted on most systemctl + command lines involving service unit names. + + * There's a new bus call in logind to lock all sessions, as + well as a loginctl verb for it "lock-sessions". + + * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call sd_journal_perror() + that works similar to libc perror() but logs to the journal + and encodes structured information about the error number. + + * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-size= + option. + + * shutdown(8) now can send a (configurable) wall message when + a shutdown is cancelled. + + * The mount propagation mode for the root file system will now + default to "shared", which is useful to make containers work + nicely out-of-the-box so that they receive new mounts from + the host. This can be undone locally by running "mount + --make-rprivate /" if needed. + + * The prefdm.service file has been removed. Distributions + should maintain this unit downstream if they intend to keep + it around. However, we recommend writing normal unit files + for display managers instead. + + * Since systemd is a crucial part of the OS we will now + default to a number of compiler switches that improve + security (hardening) such as read-only relocations, stack + protection, and suchlike. + + * The TimeoutSec= setting for services is now split into + TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec= to allow configuration + of individual time outs for the start and the stop phase of + the service. + + Contributions from: Artur Zaprzala, Arvydas Sidorenko, Auke + Kok, Bryan Kadzban, Dave Reisner, David Strauss, Harald Hoyer, + Jim Meyering, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mantas + Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Peter + Alfredsen, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, Terence Honles, Tom + Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 187: + + * The journal and id128 C APIs are now fully documented as man + pages. + + * Extra safety checks have been added when transitioning from + the initial RAM disk to the main system to avoid accidental + data loss. + + * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-offset= + option. + + * systemctl -t can now be used to filter by unit load state. + + * The journal C API gained the new sd_journal_wait() call to + make writing synchronous journal clients easier. + + * journalctl gained the new -D switch to show journals from a + specific directory. + + * journalctl now displays a special marker between log + messages of two different boots. + + * The journal is now explicitly flushed to /var via a service + systemd-journal-flush.service, rather than implicitly simply + by seeing /var/log/journal to be writable. + + * journalctl (and the journal C APIs) can now match for much + more complex expressions, with alternatives and + disjunctions. + + * When transitioning from the initial RAM disk to the main + system we will now kill all processes in a killing spree to + ensure no processes stay around by accident. + + * Three new specifiers may be used in unit files: %u, %h, %s + resolve to the user name, user home directory resp. user + shell. This is useful for running systemd user instances. + + * We now automatically rotate journal files if their data + object hash table gets a fill level > 75%. We also size the + hash table based on the configured maximum file size. This + together should lower hash collisions drastically and thus + speed things up a bit. + + * journalctl gained the new "--header" switch to introspect + header data of journal files. + + * A new setting SystemCallFilters= has been added to services + which may be used to apply blacklists or whitelists to + system calls. This is based on SECCOMP Mode 2 of Linux 3.5. + + * nspawn gained a new --link-journal= switch (and quicker: -j) + to link the container journal with the host. This makes it + very easy to centralize log viewing on the host for all + guests while still keeping the journal files separated. + + * Many bugfixes and optimizations + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Harald Hoyer, Kay + Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Paul Menzel, Rex + Tsai, Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew + Jędrzejewski-Szmek + +CHANGES WITH 186: + + * Several tools now understand kernel command line arguments, + which are only read when run in an initial RAM disk. They + usually follow closely their normal counterparts, but are + prefixed with rd. + + * There's a new tool to analyze the readahead files that are + automatically generated at boot. Use: + + /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead analyze /.readahead + + * We now provide an early debug shell on tty9 if this enabled. Use: + + systemctl enable debug-shell.service + + * All plymouth related units have been moved into the Plymouth + package. Please make sure to upgrade your Plymouth version + as well. + + * systemd-tmpfiles now supports getting passed the basename of + a configuration file only, in which case it will look for it + in all appropriate directories automatically. + + * udevadm info now takes a /dev or /sys path as argument, and + does the right thing. Example: + + udevadm info /dev/sda + udevadm info /sys/class/block/sda + + * systemctl now prints a warning if a unit is stopped but a + unit that might trigger it continues to run. Example: a + service is stopped but the socket that activates it is left + running. + + * "systemctl status" will now mention if the log output was + shortened due to rotation since a service has been started. + + * The journal API now exposes functions to determine the + "cutoff" times due to rotation. + + * journald now understands SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for triggering + immediately flushing of runtime logs to /var if possible, + resp. for triggering immediate rotation of the journal + files. + + * It is now considered an error if a service is attempted to + be stopped that is not loaded. + + * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR now uses numeric UIDs instead of usernames. + + * systemd-analyze now supports Python 3 + + * tmpfiles now supports cleaning up directories via aging + where the first level dirs are always kept around but + directories beneath it automatically aged. This is enabled + by prefixing the age field with '~'. + + * Seat objects now expose CanGraphical, CanTTY properties + which is required to deal with very fast bootups where the + display manager might be running before the graphics drivers + completed initialization. + + * Seat objects now expose a State property. + + * We now include RPM macros for service enabling/disabling + based on the preset logic. We recommend RPM based + distributions to make use of these macros if possible. This + makes it simpler to reuse RPM spec files across + distributions. + + * We now make sure that the collected systemd unit name is + always valid when services log to the journal via + STDOUT/STDERR. + + * There's a new man page kernel-command-line(7) detailing all + command line options we understand. + + * The fstab generator may now be disabled at boot by passing + fstab=0 on the kernel command line. + + * A new kernel command line option modules-load= is now understood + to load a specific kernel module statically, early at boot. + + * Unit names specified on the systemctl command line are now + automatically escaped as needed. Also, if file system or + device paths are specified they are automatically turned + into the appropriate mount or device unit names. Example: + + systemctl status /home + systemctl status /dev/sda + + * The SysVConsole= configuration option has been removed from + system.conf parsing. + + * The SysV search path is no longer exported on the D-Bus + Manager object. + + * The Names= option is been removed from unit file parsing. + + * There's a new man page bootup(7) detailing the boot process. + + * Every unit and every generator we ship with systemd now + comes with full documentation. The self-explanatory boot is + complete. + + * A couple of services gained "systemd-" prefixes in their + name if they wrap systemd code, rather than only external + code. Among them fsck@.service which is now + systemd-fsck@.service. + + * The HaveWatchdog property has been removed from the D-Bus + Manager object. + + * systemd.confirm_spawn= on the kernel command line should now + work sensibly. + + * There's a new man page crypttab(5) which details all options + we actually understand. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --capability= switch to pass + additional capabilities to the container. + + * timedated will now read known NTP implementation unit names + from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list, + systemd-timedated-ntp.target has been removed. + + * journalctl gained a new switch "-b" that lists log data of + the current boot only. + + * The notify socket is in the abstract namespace again, in + order to support daemons which chroot() at start-up. + + * There is a new Storage= configuration option for journald + which allows configuration of where log data should go. This + also provides a way to disable journal logging entirely, so + that data collected is only forwarded to the console, the + kernel log buffer or another syslog implementation. + + * Many bugfixes and optimizations + + Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Dave Reisner, + David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, + Lukas Nykryn, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Paul Menzel, + Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen + +CHANGES WITH 185: + + * "systemctl help " now shows the man page if one is + available. + + * Several new man pages have been added. + + * MaxLevelStore=, MaxLevelSyslog=, MaxLevelKMsg=, + MaxLevelConsole= can now be specified in + journald.conf. These options allow reducing the amount of + data stored on disk or forwarded by the log level. + + * TimerSlackNSec= can now be specified in system.conf for + PID1. This allows system-wide power savings. + + Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lauri Kasanen, + Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Marc-Antoine Perennou, + Matthias Clasen + +CHANGES WITH 184: + + * logind is now capable of (optionally) handling power and + sleep keys as well as the lid switch. + + * journalctl now understands the syntax "journalctl + /usr/bin/avahi-daemon" to get all log output of a specific + daemon. + + * CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf now also influences + the capability bound set of usermode helpers of the kernel. + + Contributions from: Daniel Drake, Daniel J. Walsh, Gert + Michael Kulyk, Harald Hoyer, Jean Delvare, Kay Sievers, + Lennart Poettering, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Clasen, Paul + Menzel, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Tom Gundersen + CHANGES WITH 183: + * Note that we skipped 139 releases here in order to set the new version to something that is greater than both udev's and systemd's most recent version number. @@ -53,7 +5340,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: to be used as drop-in files. * systemd and logind now handle system sleep states, in - particulary suspending and hibernating. + particular suspending and hibernating. * logind now implements a sleep/shutdown/idle inhibiting logic suitable for a variety of uses. Soonishly Lennart will blog @@ -103,7 +5390,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that - haven't been read by systemd yet. + have not been read by systemd yet. * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has already been updated to make use of this. With this in place @@ -166,7 +5453,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be masked and /etc/fstab can override it. - * Since udisks doesn't make use of /media anymore we are not + * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave @@ -188,6 +5475,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: Gundersen CHANGES WITH 44: + * This is mostly a bugfix release * Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the @@ -197,7 +5485,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 44: * Show /etc/os-release data in systemd-analyze output - * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianess fixes and + * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianness fixes and ensuring that disk space enforcement works * sd-login.h is C++ comptaible again @@ -206,7 +5494,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 44: folks * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration - and unit files. This is done to ensure we don't pass invalid + and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat @@ -217,7 +5505,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 44: * Reorder configuration file lookup order. /etc now always overrides /run in order to allow the administrator to always - and unconditionally override vendor supplied or + and unconditionally override vendor-supplied or automatically generated data. * The various user visible bits of the journal now have man @@ -233,19 +5521,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 44: Reding CHANGES WITH 43: + * This is mostly a bugfix release * systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported. * Various functionality updates to libsystemd-login.so - * Track class of PAM logins to distuingish greeters from + * Track class of PAM logins to distinguish greeters from normal user logins. Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl CHANGES WITH 42: + * This is an important bugfix release for v41. * Building man pages is now optional which should be useful @@ -267,6 +5557,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 42: Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg CHANGES WITH 41: + * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now; An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the package update. @@ -282,7 +5573,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 41: understood to set system wide environment variables dynamically at boot. - * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. + * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. * We now set SIGPIPE to ignore by default, since it only is useful in shell pipelines, and has little use in general @@ -294,6 +5585,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 41: William Douglas CHANGES WITH 40: + * This is mostly a bugfix release * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the @@ -312,6 +5604,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 40: Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode CHANGES WITH 39: + * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many bugfixes. @@ -362,13 +5655,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 39: death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, or fsck. - * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless + * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless requested with new -k switch. Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michal Schmidt CHANGES WITH 38: + * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many bugfixes. @@ -433,7 +5727,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 38: --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and kmod - * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead + * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead of /usr/local by default. * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the @@ -450,7 +5744,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 38: * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind reloading of units together. - Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave + Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel J. Walsh, Dave Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef