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.
* 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
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
- DNS server information from systemd-resolved automatically,
+ DNS server information from systemd-networkd automatically,
which in turn might have discovered them via DHCP. A tool
"systemd-resolve-host" has been added that may be used to
query the DNS logic in resolved. systemd-resolved implements
* 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.
turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added
(NoDelay=).
- * logind learnt a new session type "web", for use in projects
+ * logind learned a new session type "web", for use in projects
like Cockpit which register web clients as PAM sessions.
* timer units with at least one OnCalendar= setting will now
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
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
* A new component "systemd-firstboot" has been added that
queries the most basic systemd information (timezone,
- hostname, root password) inertactively on first
+ hostname, root password) interactively on first
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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