X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ef91f81f0afed5f36125dafd1dfcdec9960d7310;hp=6f4afd3d2b5150c8822eaa1d010de2f3a670f982;hb=498261871dfa2a930ec84b13a176e3bdc43aa212;hpb=d1f9edafe7b832c507931640f32069d001916b0e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6f4afd3d2..ef91f81f0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,69 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +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 entrie 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, @@ -81,7 +145,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 186: * The fstab generator may now be disabled at boot by passing fstab=0 on the kernel command line. - * A new kernel command line option driver= is now understood + * 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 @@ -124,7 +188,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 186: additional capabilities to the container. * timedated will now read known NTP implementation unit names - from /usr/share/systemd/ntp-units, + 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 @@ -139,12 +203,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 186: that data collected is only forwarded to the console, the kernel log buffer or another syslog implementation. - * Many bugfixes and optimizations. + * Many bugfixes and optimizations - Contributions from: Auke Kok, Dave Reisner, David Strauss, - Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, - Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Paul Menzel, Shawn Landden, - Tom Gundersen + 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 @@ -233,7 +297,7 @@ 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