systemd System and Service Manager
+CHANGES WITH 217:
+
+ * journalctl gained option -t/--identifier to match on the
+ syslog identifier and --utc option to show timestamps in UTC
+ timezone. journalctl now also accepts -n/--lines=all to
+ disable line cap under a pager.
+
+ * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload
+ (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending
+ STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to show the
+ internal state of daemons and closes a race condition
+ when the process is still running but has closed its
+ d-bus connection.
+
+ * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any
+ ExecStart commands.
+
+ * User units are now loaded also from
+ $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the
+ /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously
+ supported, but is under the control of the user.
+
+ * A timeout for the start of the system can 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).
+
+ * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch
+ events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays
+ are attached (HandleLidSwitchDocked= option).
+
+ * A helper binary and a service have been added which can be
+ used to resume from hibernation in the initramfs. A
+ generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel
+ command-line to trigger resume.
+
+ * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been added. It is
+ a preview, and will so far open a single terminal on each
+ session of the user marked as Desktop=SYSTEMD-CONSOLE.
+
+ * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by
+ systemd-networkd.
+
+ * SELinux context of socket-actived services can be set from
+ the information provided by the remote peer
+ (SELinuxContextFromNet= option).
+
+ * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and
+ the minimum supported kernel version is thus bumped to 3.7.
+
+ * Timeout for udev workers has been increased from 1 to 3
+ minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to
+ help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load.
+
+ * Udev rules can now remove tags with TAG-="foobar".
+
+ * Readhead implementation has been removed. In many
+ circumstatances it didn't give expected benefits even for
+ rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the
+ age of SSDs.
+
+ * Swap units can use Discard= to specify discard options.
+ Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now
+ respected.
+
+ * Docker containers are now detected as a separate type of
+ virtualization.
+
+ * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where
+ the user input is shown, useful e.g. for usernames.
+ systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn
+ that on.
+
+ * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set:
+
+ net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
+
+ This selects Fair Queueing Controlled Delay as the default
+ queueing 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
+ servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better.
+ Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast".
+
CHANGES WITH 216:
* timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from
* systemd-resolved now includes a caching DNS stub resolver
and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation. A new
- NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which make be used
- of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via
+ NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which can be used
+ instead of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via
systemd-resolved. Hostnames, addresses and arbitrary RRs may
be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to
the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of
3.17 memfd subsystem instead of the old kdbus-specific one.
* systemd-networkd's DHCP client and server now support
- FORCERENEW.
+ FORCERENEW. There are also new configuration options to
+ configure the vendor client identifier and broadcast mode
+ for DHCP.
* systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current
timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the
network interfaces where this is appropriate the peer IP
address may now be configured.
+ * systemd-networkd's DHCP client will no longer request
+ broadcasting by default, as this tripped up some networks.
+ For hardware where broadcast is required the feature should
+ be switched back on using RequestBroadcast=yes.
+
+ * systemd-networkd will now set up IPv4LL addresses (when
+ enabled) even if DHCP is configured successfully.
+
+ * udev will now default to respect network device names given
+ by the kernel when the kernel indicates that these are
+ predictable. This behavior can be tweaked by changing
+ NamePolicy= in the relevant .link file.
+
* A new library systemd-terminal has been added that
implements full TTY stream parsing and rendering. This
library is supposed to be used later on for implementing a
boot. Alternatively it may also be used to provision these
things offline on OS images installed into directories.
+ * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set
+
+ net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries=1
+
+ This has the benefit of no flushing secondary IP addresses
+ when primary addresses are removed.
+
Contributions from: Ansgar Burchardt, Bastien Nocera, Colin
Walters, Dan Dedrick, Daniel Buch, Daniel Korostil, Daniel
Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Denis
* Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be
prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked
- by whether the existing file or directly is currently
+ by whether the existing file or directory is currently
writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified,
the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all
non-directories.
kernel, and on seats that are not seat0.
* A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood
- now which allows specifiying LUKS options for usage for LUKS
+ now which allows specifying LUKS options for usage for LUKS
encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=.
* tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in
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