* 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).
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.
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
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.
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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