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@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 Bugfixes:
+* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready:
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5
+
+* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
+
 * enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
   the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
     $ systemctl enable getty@.service
@@ -14,10 +19,10 @@ Bugfixes:
 
   Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
 
-* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
+* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety".
+  See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more..
 
 External:
-
 * Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
 
@@ -27,21 +32,67 @@ External:
 
 Features:
 
-* make /run/user/$UID/ a tmpfs
+* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
 
-* Imply DevicePolicy=closed when PrivateDevices= is used
+* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
 
-* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it
+* machined/machinectl: sort IP addresses we return by scope and protocol
+* machined: write NSS module for looking up IP addresses for machines
+
+* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
+
+* timesyncd:
+  - hookup with networkd: NTP servers from dhcp
+
+* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
+
+* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
+
+* add a kernel command line option to enable the debug shell
+
+* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
+
+* set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes
+
+* drop parsing of chkconfig header lines from service.c
+
+* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
+
+* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
+
+* Add RPM macros for registering/unregistering binfmt drop-ins
+
+* Add timeout to early-boot, and shut down the system if it is hit. Solves the laptop-in-bag problem and is useful for embedded cases
+
+* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
+
+* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
+
+* add "M" as recursive version of "m" to tmpfiles, then use it for
+  chowning /run/log/journal (but not /var/log/journal), so that we
+  adjust the perms of journal files created before tmpfiles ran.
+
+* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
+
+* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
+
+* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
+
+* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
+
+* gpt-auto-generator:
+  - Support LUKS for root devices
+  - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
+  - Make /home automount rather than mount?
+
+* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
+  lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
+  do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
+  the most common operations.
 
-* libsystemd-login: implement getpeer_unit(), get_peer_slice(), ...
+* support transient mount units
 
-* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager
-  interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and
-  GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a
-  machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins
-  the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl
-  status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic
-  name resolution for containers.
+* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it
 
 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
   CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
@@ -52,26 +103,10 @@ Features:
 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
   /proc/$PID/exe
 
-* systemctl (and possibly related tools): support a new switch that
-  allows enumerating units in local containers recursively. "systemctl
-  list-units -R" or so should not only lists on the host, but also the
-  services in all containers in a pretty way, to give an overview of
-  the entire system. Also, maybe add "systemctl list-machines" which
-  works like "machinectl list" but includes information about the
-  health status of each registered machine. For that we should
-  probably implement something that encodes the system health status
-  in a single enum state, i.e. something like a system-wide state
-  starting → running → failed → stopping, that is based on the current
-  job queue and a check for failed services. Maybe then change
-  "systemctl status" without args to output this state along with a
-  selection of other data, such as the uptime or so.
-
 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
   service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
   for ReusePort=
 
-* add a timelimit to generator invocation
-
 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
   opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
   a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
@@ -88,8 +123,6 @@ Features:
   on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
 
 * completions:
- - busctl zsh completion is outdated
- - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh
  - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
 
 * cgroups:
@@ -120,8 +153,6 @@ Features:
 
 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
 
-* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
-
 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
 
 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
@@ -138,46 +169,35 @@ Features:
 
 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
 
-* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
+* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
 
 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
 
 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
 
-* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
-  maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
-  entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
-  Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
-  check for that and suppress event handling.
-
-* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
-
 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
   ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
 
 * sd-bus:
-  - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
-  - implement monitor logic
+  - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
+  - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
+  - allow updating attach flags during runtime
+  - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
+  - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
+  - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
   - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
   - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
-  - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
-  - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
+  - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
   - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
   - longer term: priority inheritance
-  - check sender of response messages
   - dbus spec updates:
        - kdbus mapping
        - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
        - GVariant
        - "const" properties (posted)
-  - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
+       - path escaping
   - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
-  - allow updating attach flags during runtime
-  - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
   - test bloom filter generation indexes
-  - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
-  - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
-  - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
 
 * sd-event
   - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
@@ -214,7 +234,7 @@ Features:
   file.
 
 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
-  destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
+  destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
   /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
   destination.
 
@@ -226,10 +246,10 @@ Features:
 * after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
   need manual exponential loops after all
 
-* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
-  kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
-  installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
-  whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
+* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
+  that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
+  how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
+  is installed.
 
 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
   the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
@@ -240,7 +260,7 @@ Features:
 
 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
 
-* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
+* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
 
 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
 
@@ -257,7 +277,6 @@ Features:
 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
 
 * EFI:
-  - write man page for efi boot generator
   - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
   - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
   - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
@@ -279,9 +298,7 @@ Features:
   - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
   - Add pretty name for seats in logind
   - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
-  - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
   - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
-  - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
   - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
   - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
   - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
@@ -298,7 +315,7 @@ Features:
   - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
   - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
   - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
-  - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
+  - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
   - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
   - journal: reuse XZ context
   - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
@@ -334,7 +351,7 @@ Features:
   - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
   - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
     boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
-    so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
+    so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
     hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
 
 * document:
@@ -362,14 +379,12 @@ Features:
   - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
   - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
   - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
-  - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
+  - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
   - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
   - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
   - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
-  - rework wait filter to not require match callback
   - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
   - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
-  - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
 
 * unit install:
   - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
@@ -380,20 +395,16 @@ Features:
   - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
   - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
 
-* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
-
 * deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
 
 * timer units:
-  - timer events with system resume
   - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
     o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
     o DST changes
   - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
   - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
-  - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
+  - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
   - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
-  - anacron-like feature
 
 * update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
 
@@ -404,10 +415,6 @@ Features:
   mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
   user did not request anything like it.
 
-* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
-  output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
-  surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
-
 * libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
   the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
   unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
@@ -420,7 +427,7 @@ Features:
 * If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
 
 * fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
-* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
+* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
 * fedup: generator
 
 * timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
@@ -429,7 +436,7 @@ Features:
 
 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
 
-* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
+* add "factory" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
     - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
     - superset of tmpfiles model
     - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
@@ -441,19 +448,13 @@ Features:
 
 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
 
-* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
+* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
 
 * nspawn:
-  - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
-  - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
   - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
   - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters
   - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
   - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
-  - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
-  - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
-  - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine
-    name and machine-id of host (?)
 
 * cryptsetup:
   - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
@@ -485,13 +486,11 @@ Features:
 
 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
 
-* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
-
 * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
   currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
-  can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
+  cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
   being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
-  when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
+  when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
   but much rather a disconnect on success.
 
 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
@@ -504,10 +503,8 @@ Features:
 
 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
 
-* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
-
 * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
-  verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
+  verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
 
 * introduce Type=pid-file
 
@@ -539,8 +536,6 @@ Features:
 
 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
 
-* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
-
 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
 
 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
@@ -551,7 +546,7 @@ Features:
 
 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
 
-* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
+* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
 
 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
   needs to be auto-respawned?
@@ -562,9 +557,9 @@ Features:
   - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
   - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
 
-* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
+* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
 
-* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
+* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
 
 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
 
@@ -586,8 +581,6 @@ Features:
   when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
   assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
 
-* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
-
 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
   the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
 
@@ -641,8 +634,6 @@ Features:
 
 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
 
-* io priority during initialization
-
 * drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
 
 * systemd-python:
@@ -660,16 +651,34 @@ Features:
    - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
      network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
      on Path= matching
+   - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
 
 * sd-rtnl:
-   - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
    - add support for more attribute types
+   - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
 
 * networkd:
    - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
    - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
+   - send hostname to DHCP server
    - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
    - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
+   - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
+   - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
+   - set lifetime on the address acquired from dhcp
+   - patch kernel to support module alias for tunnel device (ipip/sit/gre),
+     then remove remove libkmod dependency and CAP_SYS_MODULE
+   - add veth netdev support (c.f. http://shorewall.net/bridge-Shorewall-perl.html#veth)
+   - add tun/tap netdev support
+   - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
+
+* networkd-wait-online:
+   - make operstates to wait for configurable?
+
+* dhcp:
+   - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
+   - export timezone information
+   - FORCERENEW
 
 External:
 
@@ -683,17 +692,11 @@ External:
 
 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
 
-* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
-  in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
-  to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
-  we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
-  the RTC to sync up.
-
 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
 
 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
 
-* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
+* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
 
 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
 
@@ -709,6 +712,8 @@ External:
 
 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
 
+* register catalog database signature as file magic
+
 Regularly:
 
 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
@@ -719,7 +724,7 @@ Regularly:
 
 * pahole
 
-* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
+* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
 
 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate