systemd System and Service Manager
+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
* ConditionPathIsMountPoint= can now properly detect bind
mount points too. (Previously, a bind mount of one file
- system to another place in the file system could not be
+ system to another place in the same file system could not be
detected as mount, since they shared struct stat's st_dev
field.)
various projects outside of systemd that provide bindings
for languages such as PHP or Lua.
- * Many conditions will not resolve specifiers such as %i. They
- are also available in PathChanged= and related directives of
- .path units.
+ * 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.
and hence the information in /etc/timezone is not necessary
anymore.
- * logind will now always resolve one VT for a text getty (VT6
+ * 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.
for the host name (%H), the machine ID (%m) and the boot ID
(%b).
- Contributions from Allin Cottrell, Auke Kok, Brandon Philips,
+ 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,
* Services which hit the restart limit will now be placed in a
failure state.
- Contributions from Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang
+ Contributions from: Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang
Hang, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin
Pitt, Simon Peeters, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen
CHANGES WITH 185:
+
* "systemctl help <unit>" now shows the man page if one is
available.
Matthias Clasen
CHANGES WITH 184:
+
* logind is now capable of (optionally) handling power and
sleep keys as well as the lid switch.
Menzel, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Tom Gundersen
CHANGES WITH 183:
+
* Note that we skipped 139 releases here in order to set the
new version to something that is greater than both udev's
and systemd's most recent version number.
Gundersen
CHANGES WITH 44:
+
* This is mostly a bugfix release
* Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the
Reding
CHANGES WITH 43:
+
* This is mostly a bugfix release
* systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported.
Biebl
CHANGES WITH 42:
+
* This is an important bugfix release for v41.
* Building man pages is now optional which should be useful
Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg
CHANGES WITH 41:
+
* The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now;
An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the
package update.
William Douglas
CHANGES WITH 40:
+
* This is mostly a bugfix release
* We now expose the reason why a service failed in the
Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode
CHANGES WITH 39:
+
* This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
bugfixes.
Poettering, Michal Schmidt
CHANGES WITH 38:
+
* This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
bugfixes.
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