systemd System and Service Manager
+CHANGES WITH 207:
+
+ * The Restart= option for services now understands a new
+ on-watchdog setting, which will restart the service
+ automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep
+ alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=).
+
+ * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a
+ getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only
+ start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all
+ others, too. This makes the order in which console= is
+ specified on the kernel command line less important.
+
+ * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to
+ retrieve the VT number of a session.
+
+ * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab
+ its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any
+ maximum number of tries.
+
+ * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID
+ file will now be removed automatically if it still exists
+ afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files.
+
+ * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names
+ for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths.
+
+ * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take
+ paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that
+ it should not be considered a failure if they don't exist.
+
+ * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new
+ output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but
+ shows timestamps with usec accuracy.
+
+ * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now
+ synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact,
+ "discard" is preferred now (since it is easier to remember
+ and type).
+
+ * Some licensing clean-ups were made, so that more code is now
+ LGPL-2.1 licensed than before.
+
+ * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight
+ brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the
+ backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown, and
+ restore it as early as possible during reboot.
+
+ * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap
+ partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place
+ /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can
+ discover certain partitions located on the root disk
+ automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their
+ GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap
+ partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID
+ 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f.
+
+ * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel
+ or initrd to system services. If you want to set an
+ environment for all services, do so via the kernel command
+ line systemd.setenv= assignment.
+
+ * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file
+ /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked
+ from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing
+ legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it
+ also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the
+ different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a
+ pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!)
+
+ * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands
+ have been moved to systemd-analyze.
+
+ * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch,
+ which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up
+ automatically after the process terminated.
+
+ * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude
+ certain paths from operation.
+
+ * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk
+ as soon as a message of the log priorities CRIT, ALERT or
+ EMERG is received.
+
+ Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian
+ Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal,
+ Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George
+ McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer,
+ Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt,
+ Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering,
+ Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel
+ Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau,
+ Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał
+ Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn
+ Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe
+ Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao,
+ William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2013-09-13
+
+CHANGES WITH 206:
+
+ * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new
+ concepts introduced with 205.
+
+ * Unit files now understand the new %v specifier which
+ resolves to the kernel version string as returned by "uname
+ -r".
+
+ * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by
+ load state, active state and sub state, using the new
+ --state= parameter.
+
+ * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the
+ condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of
+ the last start attempts of the unit. They are also logged to
+ the journal.
+
+ * "journalctl -b" may now be used to look for boot output of a
+ specific boot. Try "journalctl -b -1" for the previous boot,
+ but the syntax is substantially more powerful.
+
+ * "journalctl --show-cursor" has been added which prints the
+ cursor string the last shown log line. This may then be used
+ with the new "journalctl --after-cursor=" switch to continue
+ browsing logs from that point on.
+
+ * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration
+ of an FSS key.
+
+ * Creation of "dead" device nodes has been moved from udev
+ into kmod and tmpfiles. Previously, udev would read the kmod
+ databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta
+ information contained in kernel modules, so that these would
+ be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this
+ doesn't really have much to do with the exposing actual
+ kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly
+ alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod
+ will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the
+ module meta information and it now is tmpfiles' job to the
+ create the nodes. This also allows overriding access and
+ other parameters for the nodes using the usual tmpfiles
+ facilities. As side effect this allows us to remove the
+ CAP_SYS_MKNOD capability bit from udevd entirely.
+
+ * logind's device ACLs may now be applied to these "dead"
+ devices nodes too, thus finally allowing managed access to
+ devices such as /dev/snd/sequencer whithout loading the
+ backing module right-away.
+
+ * A new RPM macro has been added that may be used to apply
+ tmpfiles configuration during package installation.
+
+ * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can
+ detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML).
+
+ * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities
+ set of processes in the message metadata.
+
+ * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes.
+
+ * The initrd interface has been simplified (more specifically,
+ support for passing performance data via environment
+ variables and fsck results via files in /run has been
+ removed). These features were non-essential, and are
+ nowadays available in a much nicer way by having systemd in
+ the initrd serialize its state and have the hosts systemd
+ deserialize it again.
+
+ * The udev "keymap" data files and tools to apply keyboard
+ specific mappings of scan to key codes, and force-release
+ scan code lists have been entirely replaced by a udev
+ "keyboard" builtin and a hwdb data file.
+
+ * systemd will now honour the kernel's "quiet" command line
+ argument also during late shutdown, resulting in a
+ completely silent shutdown when used.
+
+ * There's now an option to control the SO_REUSEPORT socket
+ option in .socket units.
+
+ * Instance units will now automatically get a per-template
+ subslice of system.slice unless something else is explicitly
+ configured. For example, instances of sshd@.service will now
+ implicitly be placed in system-sshd.slice rather than
+ system.slice as before.
+
+ * Test coverage support may now be enabled at build time.
+
+ Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Harald
+ Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, Jan
+ Janssen, Jason St. John, Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Lennart
+ Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Martin Pitt, Michael
+ Olbrich, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Ross Lagerwall, Shawn Landden,
+ Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William
+ Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2013-07-23
+
CHANGES WITH 205:
* Two new unit types have been introduced:
generators needed for execution, as well as information
about the unit file loading.
- * journalctl gained new "--user" and "--system" switches to
- only show user/system logs.
-
* libsystemd-journal gained a new sd_journal_open_files() call
for opening specific journal files. journactl also gained a
new switch to expose this new functionality. Previously we
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