X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c5f0db2968cce5a0d49e005342548b1795786382;hb=ba8df74bb643c0f7c343fef78bba3661b0f9c31c;hp=ce0231d918acaeb1d6ba0bdcf6809098d57b381d;hpb=4b08dd87eebb4b634bdd5708ac1ba68dcee205b3;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ce0231d91..c5f0db296 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by systemd-networkd. - * The SELinux context of socket-actived services can be set + * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set from the information provided by the networking stack (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: virtualization. * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where - the user input is shown, useful e.g. for usernames. + the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names. systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that on. @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel - This selects Fair Queueing Controlled Delay as the default - queueing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps + This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default + queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be a good default with no tuning required for most workloads. Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: option. * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, - usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, + mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to /usr. @@ -152,9 +152,28 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: message flag has been added for all of systemd's PolicyKit authenticated method calls has been added. In particular this now allows optional interactive authorization via - PolicyKit for many of PID1's priviliged operations such as + PolicyKit for many of PID1's privileged operations such as unit file enabling and disabling. + * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for + placing the rebuilt hardware database in /usr instead of + /etc. When used only hardware database entries stored in + /usr will be used, and any user database entries in /etc are + ignored. This functionality is useful for vendors to ship a + pre-built database on systems where local configuration is + unnecessary or unlikely. + + * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also + understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and + "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting + "anually", "hourly", ...). + + * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev + at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is + recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!' + and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not + overwritten at runtime. + Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov, Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L. Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch,