X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=71017fa32477a07db9d87613dd3f98cdc151c36c;hp=f87234b8060621ee579896d8ed080ea3b213f8b7;hb=6992efee44d3affd17dd9174e8673ae63ba01ec7;hpb=3058e017fced6d5c8712e10c8c1477421bc1e960 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f87234b80..71017fa32 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +CHANGES WITH 216: + * timedated does no longer read NTP unit names from + /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP + implementations should add a: + Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service + to take over and replace systemd's NTP functionality. + CHANGES WITH 215: * A new tool systemd-sysusers has been added. This tool @@ -38,7 +45,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: dynamic loader cache (ldconfig). The systemd-sysusers tool described above also makes use of this now. With this in place it is now possible to start up a minimal operating - system with /etc empty cleanly. Fore more information on the + system with /etc empty cleanly. For more information on the concepts involved see this recent blog story: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html @@ -55,10 +62,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: passed in from the server. Note that the [DHCPv4] section known in older systemd-networkd versions has been renamed to [DHCP] and is now also used by the DHCPv6 client. Existing - .network files using settings of this section need to be - updated. + .network files using settings of this section should be + updated, though compatibility is maintained. Optionally, the + client hostname may now be sent to the DHCP server. - * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks. + * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks as well + as tun/tap and dummy devices. * networkd gained support for automatic allocation of address ranges for interfaces from a system-wide pool of @@ -93,7 +102,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: * For tmpfiles' "L", "L+", "C" and "C+" directives the final 'argument' field (which so far specified the source to - symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If ommited the + symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If omitted the same file os copied from /usr/share/factory/ suffixed by the full destination path. This is useful for populating /etc with essential files, by copying them from vendor defaults @@ -107,7 +116,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: * A new command "systemctl is-system-running" has been added that allows checking the overall state of the system, for - example whether it is fully up an running. + example whether it is fully up and running. * When the system boots up with an empty /etc, the equivalent to "systemctl preset-all" is executed during early boot, to @@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: the old name to the new name. * journald's SplitMode= now defaults to "uid". This makes sure - that unpriviliged users can access their own coredumps with + that unprivileged users can access their own coredumps with coredumpctl without restrictions. * New kernel command line options "systemd.wants=" (for @@ -176,7 +185,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: * A new man page file-hierarchy(7) has been added that contains a minimized, modernized version of the file system layout systemd expects, similar in style to the FHS - specification or hier(5). + specification or hier(5). A new tool systemd-path(1) has + been added to query many of these paths for the local + machine and user. * Automatic time-based clean-up of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no longer done. Since the directory now has a per-user size @@ -195,6 +206,41 @@ CHANGES WITH 215: only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need for dev_port. + * machined has been updated to export the OS version of a + container (read from /etc/os-release and + /usr/lib/os-release) on the bus. This is now shown in + "machinectl status" for a machine. + + * A new service setting RestartForceExitStatus= has been + added. If configured to a set of exit signals or process + return values, the service will be restarted when the main + daemon process exits with any of them, regardless of the + Restart= setting. + + * systemctl's -H switch for connecting to remote systemd + machines has been extended so that it may be used to + directly connect to a specific container on the + host. "systemctl -H root@foobar:waldi" will now connect as + user "root" to host "foobar", and then proceed directly to + the container named "waldi". Note that currently you have to + authenticate as user "root" for this to work, as entering + containers is a privileged operation. + + Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Benjamin Steinwender, + Carl Schaefer, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian King, Cristian + Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Eugene + Yakubovich, Filipe Brandenburger, Frederic Crozat, Hristo + Venev, Jan Engelhardt, Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart + Poettering, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine + Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, + Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Sekletar, Patrik Flykt, Ronan Le + Martret, Ronny Chevalier, Ruediger Oertel, Steven Noonan, + Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Hindoe + Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Hirst, Umut Tezduyar + Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2014-07-03 + CHANGES WITH 214: * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the