X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ca6245bba9f87181d854bbf91cb94ecf9bec9a12;hp=1914064f9e482c1c8dcd21ddecc2c71e1b334967;hb=9a9bb3ca1eddc8caa2d7aa3e6e27d270e296923f;hpb=4d92e078e9d7e9a9d346065ea5e4afbafbdadb48 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1914064f9..ca6245bba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,127 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +CHANGES WITH 196: + + * udev gained support for loading additional device properties + from an indexed database that is keyed by vendor/product IDs + and similar device identifiers. For the beginning this + "hwdb" is populated with data from the well-known PCI and + USB database, but also includes PNP, ACPI and OID data. In + the longer run this indexed database shall grow into + becoming the one central database for non-essential + userspace device metadata. Previously, data from the PCI/USB + database was only attached to select devices, since the + lookup was a relatively expensive operation due to O(n) time + complexity (with n being the number of entries in the + database). Since this is now O(1), we decided to add in this + data for all devices where this is available, by + default. Note that the indexed database needs to be rebuilt + when new data files are installed. To achieve this you need + to update your packaging scripts to invoke "udevadm hwdb + --update" after installation of hwdb data files. For + RPM-based distributions we introduced the new + %udev_hwdb_update macro for this purpose. + + * The Journal gained support for the "Message Catalog", an + indexed database to link up additional information with + journal entries. For further details please check: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog + + The indexed message catalog database also needs to be + rebuilt after installation of message catalog files. Use + "journalctl --update-catalog" for this. For RPM-based + distributions we introduced the %journal_catalog_update + macro for this purpose. + + * The Python Journal bindings gained support for the standard + Python logging framework. + + * The Journal API gained new functions for checking whether + the underlying file system of a journal file is capable of + properly reporting file change notifications, or whether + applications that want to reflect journal changes "live" + need to recheck journal files continously in appropriate + time intervals. + + * It is now possible to set the "age" field for tmpfiles + entries to 0, indicating that files matching this entry + shall always be removed when the directories are cleaned up. + + * coredumpctl gained a new "gdb" verb which invokes gdb + right-away on the selected coredump. + + * There's now support for "hybrid sleep" on kernels that + support this, in addition to "suspend" and "hibernate". Use + "systemctl hybrid-sleep" to make use of this. + + * logind's HandleSuspendKey= setting (and related settings) + now gained support for a new "lock" setting to simply + request the screen lock on all local sessions, instead of + actually executing a suspend or hibernation. + + * systemd will now mount the EFI variables file system by + default. + + * Socket units now gained support for configuration of the + SMACK security label. + + * timedatectl will now output the time of the last and next + daylight saving change. + + * We dropped support for various legacy and distro-specific + concepts, such as insserv, early-boot SysV services + (i.e. those for non-standard runlevels such as 'b' or 'S') + or ArchLinux /etc/rc.conf support. We recommend the + distributions who still need support this to either continue + to maintain the necessary patches downstream, or find a + different solution. (Talk to us if you have questions!) + + * Various systemd components will now bypass PolicyKit checks + for root and otherwise handle properly if PolicyKit is not + found to be around. This should fix most issues for + PolicyKit-less systems. Quite frankly this should have been + this way since day one. It is absolutely our intention to + make systemd work fine on PolicyKit-less systems, and we + consider it a bug if something doesn't work as it should if + PolicyKit is not around. + + * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and + systemd without blkid and/or kmod support. + + * "systemctl switch-root" is now capable of switching root + more than once. I.e. in addition to transitions from the + initrd to the host OS it is now possible to transition to + further OS images from the host. This is useful to implement + offline updating tools. + + * Various other additions have been made to the RPM macros + shipped with systemd. Use %udev_rules_update() after + installing new udev rules files. %_udevhwdbdir, + %_udevrulesdir, %_journalcatalogdir, %_tmpfilesdir, + %_sysctldir are now available which resolve to the right + directories for packages to place various data files in. + + * journalctl gained the new --full switch (in addition to + --all, to disable ellipsation for long messages. + + Contributions from: Anders Olofsson, Auke Kok, Ben Boeckel, + Colin Walters, Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, + Eelco Dolstra, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, + Chun-Yi Lee, Lekensteyn, Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, + Marti Raudsepp, Martin Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Michael Biebl, + Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nis Martensen, + Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Thomas + Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tony + Camuso, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + CHANGES WITH 195: - * journalctl gained the new --since= and --until= switches to + * 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 not may use ExecReload= and do the + * Type=oneshot services may use ExecReload= and do the right thing. * The journal daemon now supports time-based rotation and @@ -57,12 +172,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 195: * gatewayd/journalctl now supports HTML5/JSON Server-Sent-Events as output. - * The SysV init script compatibility logic will no + * 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 "journal + * "systemctl status --follow" has been removed, use "journalctl -u" instead. * journald.conf's RuntimeMinSize=, PersistentMinSize= settings