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@@ -22,11 +22,22 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously
           supported, but is under the control of the user.
 
-        * A timeout for the bootup of the whole system can now be
-          configured. The system can be configured to reboot or
-          poweroff if the basic system default target is not reached
-          before the timeout (new StartTimeoutSec=,
-          StartTimeoutAction=, StartTimeoutRebootArgument= options).
+        * Job timeouts (i.e. time-outs on the time a job that is
+          queued stays in the run queue) can now optionally result in
+          immediate reboot or power-off actions (JobTimeoutAction= and
+          JobTimeoutRebootArgument=). This is useful on ".target"
+          units, to limit the maximum time a target remains
+          undispatched in the run queue, and to trigger an emergency
+          operation in such a case. This is now used by default to
+          turn off the system if boot-up (as defined by everything in
+          basic.target) hangs and does not complete for at least
+          15min. Also, if power-off or reboot hang for at least 30min
+          an immediate power-off/reboot operation is triggered. This
+          functionality is particularly useful to increase reliability
+          on embedded devices, but also on laptops which might
+          accidentally get powered on when carried in a backpack and
+          whose boot stays stuck in a hard disk encryption passphrase
+          question.
 
         * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch
           events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays
@@ -40,12 +51,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
         * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been
           added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a
           single terminal on each session of the user marked as
-          Desktop=SYSTEMD-CONSOLE.
+          Desktop=systemd-console.
 
         * 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).
 
@@ -73,7 +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.
 
@@ -81,8 +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
@@ -118,7 +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.
 
@@ -131,6 +142,63 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least
           v2.25 when updating systemd to v217.
 
+        * The "multi-seat-x" tool has been removed from systemd, as
+          its functionality has been integrated into X servers 1.16,
+          and the tool is hence redundant. It is recommended to update
+          display managers invoking this tool to simply invoke X
+          directly from now on, again.
+
+        * Support for the new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION D-Bus
+          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 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,
+        Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David
+        Herrmann, David Sommerseth, David Strauss, Emil Renner
+        Berthing, Eric Cook, Evangelos Foutras, Filipe Brandenburger,
+        Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo
+        Venev, Hugo Grostabussiat, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Janssen, Jan
+        Synacek, Jonathan Liu, Juho Son, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Klaus
+        Purer, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz
+        Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann,
+        Marius Tessmann, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl,
+        Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, Michal
+        Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miroslav Lichvar, Patrik Flykt,
+        Philippe De Swert, Piotr Drąg, Rahul Sundaram, Richard
+        Weinberger, Robert Milasan, Ronny Chevalier, Ruben Kerkhof,
+        Santiago Vila, Sergey Ptashnick, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd
+        Simons, Stefan Brüns, Steven Allen, Steven Noonan, Susant
+        Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen,
+        Timofey Titovets, Tobias Hunger, Tom Gundersen, Torstein
+        Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew
+        Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
+
+        -- Berlin, 2014-10-28
+
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         * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from