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@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 systemd System and Service Manager
 
+CHANGES WITH 206:
+
+        * The systemd-sysctl tool does no longer natively read 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.
+
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         * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new
@@ -11,7 +20,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 206:
 
         * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by
           load state, active state and sub state, using the new
-          --type= parameter.
+          --state= parameter.
 
         * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the
           condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of
@@ -30,9 +39,25 @@ CHANGES WITH 206:
         * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration
           of an FSS key.
 
-        * Device ACLs may now be applied to "dead" devices nodes too,
-          i.e. device nodes that are created based on modalias
-          information of unloaded kernel modules.
+        * 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
+          doesn't 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.
@@ -40,8 +65,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 206:
         * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can
           detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML).
 
-        * journald will now log the effective capabilities set of
-          processes in the message metadata.
+        * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities
+          set of processes in the message metadata.
 
         * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes.
 
@@ -53,7 +78,33 @@ CHANGES WITH 206:
           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
 
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