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           compatibility with certain tools like grpck.
 
         * A number of bus APIs of PID 1 now optionally consult
-          PolicyKit to permit access for otherwise unpriviliged
+          PolicyKit to permit access for otherwise unprivileged
           clients under certain conditions. Note that this currently
           doesn't support interactive authentication yet, but this is
           expected to be added eventually, too.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
           be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to
           the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of
           multi-homed system, and keeps DNS server and caches separate
-          and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneous on all
+          and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneously on all
           interfaces that have DNS servers configured, in order to
           properly handle VPNs and local LANs which might resolve
           separate sets of domain names. systemd-resolved may acquire
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
         * A new client tool "networkctl" for systemd-networkd has been
           added. It currently is entirely passive and will query
           networking configuration from udev, rtnetlink and networkd,
-          and present it to the user in a very friendy
+          and present it to the user in a very friendly
           way. Eventually, we hope to extend it to become a full
           control utility for networkd.
 
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
           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
@@ -121,6 +123,19 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
           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
@@ -136,7 +151,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
           rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog
           implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and
           instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since
-          forwarding the messages to a non-existant syslog server is
+          forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is
           more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this
           off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog
           version, you have to turn this option on again
@@ -162,6 +177,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
           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