-udev 158
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-All distribution specific rules are removed from the udev source tree,
-most of them are no longer needed. The Gentoo rules which allow to support
-older kernel versions, which are not covered by the default rules anymore
-has moved to rules/misc/30-kernel-compat.rules.
-
-udev 157
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The option --debug-trace and the environemnt variable UDEVD_MAX_CHILDS=
-was removed from udevd.
-
-Udevd now checks the kernel commandline for the following variables:
- udev.log-priority=<syslog priority>
- udev.children-max=<maximum number of workers>
- udev.exec-delay=<seconds to delay the execution of RUN=>
-to help debuging coldplug setups where the loading of a kernel
-module crashes the system.
-
-The subdirectory in the source tree rules/packages has been renamed to
-rules/arch, anc contains only architecture specific rules now.
-
-udev 156
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-udev 155
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup:
- - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev
- - create the standard symlinks like /dev/std{in,out,err},
- /dev/core, /dev/fd, ...
- - use static node information provided by kernel modules
- and creates these nodes to allow module on-demand loading
- - possibly apply permissions to all ststic nodes from udev
- rules which are annotated to match a static node
-
-The default mode for a device node is 0600 now to match the kernel
-created devtmpfs defaults. If GROUP= is specified and no MODE= is
-given the default will be 0660.
-
-udev 154
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Udev now gradually starts to pass control over the primary device nodes
-and their names to the kernel, and will in the end only manage the
-permissions of the node, and possibly create additional symlinks.
-As a first step NAME="" will be ignored, and NAME= setings with names
-other than the kernel provided name will result in a logged warning.
-Kernels that don't provide device names, or devtmpfs is not used, will
-still work as they did before, but it is strongly recommended to use
-only the same names for the primary device node as the recent kernel
-provides for all devices.
-
-udev 153
-========
-Fix broken firmware loader search path.
-
-udev 152
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now instead of "add"
-events. The "udev boot script" might need to add "--action=add" to
-the trigger command if not already there, in case the initial coldplug
-events are expected as "add" events.
-
-The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be
-needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions
-about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no
-longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option.
-
-The option "ignore_remove" was removed from udev. With devtmpfs
-udev passed control over device nodes to the kernel. This option
-should not be needed, or can not work as advertised. Neither
-udev nor the kernel will remove device nodes which are copied from
-the /lib/udev/devices/ directory.
-
-All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and
-in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks
-and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now.
-
-The modem modeswitch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch
-program should be used instead.
-
-New and fixed keymaps.
-
-udev 151
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-udev 150
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while. Many users
-depend on the current sysfs layout and the information not available in the
-deprecated layout. All remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is
-removed now.
-
-udev 149
-========
-Fix for a possible endless loop in the new input_id program.
-
-udev 148
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The option "ignore_device" does no longer exist. There is no way to
-ignore an event, as libudev events can not be suppressed by rules.
-It only prevented RUN keys from being executed, which results in an
-inconsistent behavior in current setups.
-
-BUS=, SYSFS{}=, ID= are long deprecated and should be SUBSYSTEM(S)=,
-ATTR(S){}=, KERNEL(S)=. It will cause a warning once for every rule
-file from now on.
-
-The support for the deprecated IDE devices has been removed from the
-default set of rules. Distros who still care about non-libata drivers
-need to add the rules to the compat rules file.
-
-The ID_CLASS property on input devices has been replaced by the more accurate
-set of flags ID_INPUT_{KEYBOARD,KEY,MOUSE,TOUCHPAD,TABLET,JOYSTICK}. These are
-determined by the new "input_id" prober now. Some devices, such as touchpads,
-can have several classes. So if you previously had custom udev rules which e. g.
-checked for ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", you need to replace this with
-ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="?*".
-
-udev 147
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the
-private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the
-private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it.
-Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev
-is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without
-prior notice.
-
-Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks
-only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported.
-This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly.
-
-NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous.
-It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed
-from all rules.
-
-Most NAME= instructions got removed. Kernel 2.6.31 supplies the needed names
-if they are not the default. To support older kernels, the NAME= rules need to
-be added to the compat rules file.
-
-Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to
-the udevadm commands.
-
-The udev-acl tool got adopted to changes in ConsoleKit. Version 0.4.1 is
-required now.
-
-The option "last_rule" does no longer exist. Its use breaks too many
-things which expect to be run from independent later rules, and is an idication
-that something needs to be fixed properly instead.
-
-The gudev API is no longer marked as experimental,
-G_UDEV_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE is no longer needed. The gudev introspection
-is enabled by default now. Various projects already depend on introspection
-information to bind dynamic languages to the gudev interfaces.
-
-udev 146
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite
-a while by "--type=failed" is removed.
-
-The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN
-option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the
-default is not to track any failing RUN executions.
-
-New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated.
-
-udev 145
-========
-Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are
-changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules.
-
-udev 144
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the
-name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be
-exported with the event.
-
-Firmware files are looked up in:
- /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r)
- /lib/firmware/updates
- /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)
- /lib/firmware"
-now.
-
-ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata.
-ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices.
-
-udev 143
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The configure options have changed because another library needs to be
-installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix,
-libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in
-the README file.
-
-Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
-the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
-cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
-After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
-future events, all others get cleaned up.
-
-To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
-Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev.
-
-The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
-no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
-accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
-
-Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
-incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
-
-To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
-build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
-is available here:
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
-
-The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main
-udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and
-they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.
-
-udev 142
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the
-repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng
-package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the
-util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid
-can not be used with udev.
-
-Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages
-to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be
-installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters
-match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device.
- This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current
-users over to directly use libudev.
- Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might
-eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported
-interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen
-soon.
-
-A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
-is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at
-startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system
-services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs
-format will fail to work correctly.
-
-DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels
-need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat
-rules file.
-
-udev 141
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev
-provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace
-the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are
-upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these
-events.
-
-udev 140
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for,
-instead of waiting for "all" events.
-
-udev 139
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed
-during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev
-rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished
-event handling the watch is restored.
-
-udev 138
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch".
-If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur.
-/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated.
-
-udev 137
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks
-are always updated with a test run now.
-
-The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user
-and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to
-lookup user and groups every time events are handled.
-
-udev 136
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules,
-and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding
-device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup,
-we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with
-glibc's getgrnam():
- disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
-LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at
-bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available.
-
-Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need
-to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal,
-compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the
-various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors.
-
-In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member
-of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs,
-which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and
-session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups,
-and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation.
-A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get
-access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong
-to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with
-any ssh-session established from the other side of the world.
-
-/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
-which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
-devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real
-USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same
-name in the by-id/ directory.
-Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/
-and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices
-specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the
-USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name.
-
-To support some advanced features, Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported
-version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED is no longer
-supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices nodes should be
-reliably created, but some rules and libudev will not work correctly because
-the old kernels do not provide the expected information or interfaces.
-
-udev 135
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Fix for a possible segfault while swapping network interface names in udev
-versions 131-134.
-
-udev 134
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The group "video" is part of the default rules now.
-
-udev 133
-========
-Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent
-block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore,
-and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If
-this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel,
-it should be disabled in the kernel config.
-
-Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links
-are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always
-create /dev/{block,char}/ links.
-
-The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer
-contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the
-new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of
-a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev
-version 130.
-
-The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default
-rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script
-modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_
-modalias support and take care of the same functionality.
-Installations which support old kernels, but install current default
-udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file.
-
-Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not
-stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe",
-and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id
-will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent
-mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier
-file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order
-in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows
-to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place.
-This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting
-it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is,
-the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the
-volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible
-auto-mounting.
-
-udev 132
-========
-Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get
-compiled out and uses variables which are not available.
-
-udev 131
-========
-Bugfixes. (And maybe new bugs. :))
-
-The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token
-array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full
-featured distros with thousends of udev rules from 1.2MB to 0.12 MB.
-Limits like 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and one single instance for most
-other keys per rule are gone.
-
-The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign
-a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual
-for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final
-assignment with NAME:="<value>".
-
-All udev code now uses libudev, which is also exported. The library
-is still under development, marked as experimental, and its interface
-may change as long as the DeviceKit integration is not finished.
-
-Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for his continuous help, and finding and
-optimizing some of the computing expensive parts.
-
-udev 130
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in
-/sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the
-kernel device directory can be found by looking up:
- /sys/dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min>
-and the device node of the same device by looking up:
- /dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min>
-
-udev 129
-========
-Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large
-file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end
-of a volume.
-
-Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links.
-Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links,
-so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now.
-
-More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev
-now.
-
-udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events
-for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option
---retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page.
-
-udev 128
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use
-the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export
-option which is not affected.
-
-The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed, if
-these symlinks are used, a warning is printed.
-
-udev 127
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Optical drive's media is no longer probed for raid signatures,
-reading the end of the device causes some devices to malfunction.
-Also the offset of the last session found is used now to probe
-for the filesystem.
-
-The volume_id library got a major version number update to 1,
-some deprecated functions are removed.
-
-A shared library "libudev" gets installed now to provide access
-to udev device information. DeviceKit, the successor of HAL, will
-need this library to access the udev database and search sysfs for
-devices.
-The library is currently in an experimental state, also the API is
-expected to change, as long as the DeviceKit integration is not
-finished.
-
-udev 126
-========
-We use ./configure now. See INSTALL for details. Current
-options are:
- --prefix=
- "/usr" - prefix for man pages, include files
- --exec-prefix=
- "" - the root filesystem, prefix for libs and binaries
- --sysconfdir=
- "/etc"
- --with-libdir-name=
- "lib" - directory name for libraries, not a path name
- multilib 64bit systems may use "lib64" instead of "lib"
- --enable-debug
- compile-in verbose debug messages
- --disable-logging
- disable all logging and compile-out all log strings
- --with-selinux
- link against SELInux libraries, to set the expected context
- for created files
-
-In the default rules, the group "disk" gets permissions 0660 instead
-of 0640. One small step closer to unify distro rules. Some day, all
-distros hopefully end up with the same set of rules.
-
-No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if they are still needed,
-they should be provided by the package.
-
-udev 125
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should
-be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to
-the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule
-files from:
- /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules
- /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules
- /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup
-It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted
-in lexical order.
-
-To help creating /dev/root, we have now:
- $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/
- ROOT_MAJOR=8
- ROOT_MINOR=5
-In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to
-the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old
-format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the
-sysfs 'dev' file.
-
-udev 124
-========
-Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media.
-
-udev 123
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape
-nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open().
-
-udev 122
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by
-the Makefile.
-
-The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak
-SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device
-data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where
-we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device.
-
-udev 121
-========
-Many bugfixes.
-
-The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can
-detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted
-media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into
-udev (and the kernel).
-
-udev 120
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules.
-
-The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and
-udevtest are no longer created.
-
-The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are
-no longer created.
-
-Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@<path>" rules,
-should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a
-real file.
-
-udev 119
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-udev 118
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for
-a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle.
-
-udev 117
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm.
-The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now.
-Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide
-the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also
-only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools.
-
-Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include
-udevadm in the list of files.
-
-udev 116
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-udev 115
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic
-udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge
-of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific
-rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which
-are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific
-architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are
-in etc/udev/packages/.
-
-udev 114
-========
-Bugfixes.
-
-Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger
-actions by dynamically created rules.
-
-SYMLINK=="<value>" matches agains the entries in the list of
-currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the
-filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched.
+systemd System and Service Manager
+
+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, similar 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
+ 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
+ similar 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's an optional component that can graph the
+ boot in quite some detail. It's 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 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 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 don't 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
+ distuingishing 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'll 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 can't foward a message to the
+ syslog daemon because it's 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 achiveve
+ 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.