X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f90d7f840c5f58645a7fc0efec93e3cd740592da;hp=0d7376c475982cdae6d6958a56c62b2f7936dbbe;hb=574634bcacb01efe15ca2742effd461a5b7afb5f;hpb=51c61cda1a542c9e999bfdc6aab4a029c0ae7f5a diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d7376c47..f90d7f840 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery. * Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root - partition discovery, for 32bit and 64bit ARM. This is not + partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not particularly useful for discovering the root directory on these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message - queues. Traditionally SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle - limits, with this functionality this is corrected. This may - be turned off using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. + queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle + limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may + be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: this is appropriate. * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount - namespace. To mount directories from udev rules make sure to + namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into @@ -118,17 +118,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. - * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled + * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, timers configured this way will cause the system to resume from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most do these days). - * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled + * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, timers configured this way will save to disk when they have been last triggered. This information is then used on next reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that - couldn't take place because the system was powered off. This - enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. + could not take place because the system was powered off. + This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. * systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time @@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 211: * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in - place automatic discovery of partitions to mount following + place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following the Discoverable Partitions Specification (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on - appropriately prepared systems. + systems prepared appropriately. * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block @@ -291,11 +291,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only - on the lid close action it will continuously watch the lid + on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo - Yoga). On those machines logind will now immediately + Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately re-suspend the machine if the power button has been accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a backpack or similar. @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the - string "char-pts" it is now possible to whitelist all + string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of @@ -346,23 +346,23 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by default however. - * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn the + * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth - is used. This way it is easy to distinguish these cases on + is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on the host, for example to apply different configuration to them with systemd-networkd. * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC - anymore. Instead we now build libsystemd.so multiple times + anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times under these alternative names. This means that the footprint is drastically increased, but given that these are - transitional compatibility libraries this shouldn't matter + transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM - toolchain isn't really at the same level as the toolchain + toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain for other architectures like x86 and does not support IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only during a transitional period! @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 209: merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's - symbols. So far, we've managed to workaround that by linking + symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking a copy of a good part of our code into each of these libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it @@ -769,9 +769,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 209: * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for setting the kernel personality for the container. This is - useful when running a 32bit container on a 64bit host. A - similar option Personality= is now also available in service - units. + useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A + similar option Personality= is now also available for service + units to use. * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is @@ -795,8 +795,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 209: * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that - allows configuration of a system error number to return on - filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the + allows configuration of a system error number to be returned + on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to limit access to system calls of a particular architecture (in order to turn off support for unused secondary @@ -861,13 +861,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 208: * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file - or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it doesn't. + or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not. * This release removes high-level support for the MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its - current form, hence we shouldn't expose it for now. + current form, hence we should not expose it for now. * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 207: * 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. + it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist. * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 206: 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 + does not 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 @@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 201: * 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller, - more useful graphs. I.e. it's now possible to create simple + more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or of all units that Avahi has dependencies with. @@ -1854,8 +1854,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 197: 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 + systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the + boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart implementations around and minimal in its code and dependencies. @@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 196: 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 + consider it a bug if something does not work as it should if PolicyKit is not around. * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and @@ -2228,7 +2228,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 192: * The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl too. - * We don't mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with + * We do not 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 @@ -2277,7 +2277,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 191: CHANGES WITH 190: - * Whenever a unit changes state we'll now log this to the + * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the journal and show along the unit's own log output in "systemctl status". @@ -2347,8 +2347,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 190: * There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset dir: %_presetdir. - * journald will now warn if it can't forward a message to the - syslog daemon because it's socket is full. + * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the + syslog daemon because its socket is full. * timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone, except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr @@ -2876,7 +2876,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that - haven't been read by systemd yet. + have not been read by systemd yet. * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has already been updated to make use of this. With this in place @@ -2939,7 +2939,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 183: * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be masked and /etc/fstab can override it. - * Since udisks doesn't make use of /media anymore we are not + * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave @@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 44: folks * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration - and unit files. This is done to ensure we don't pass invalid + and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat @@ -3141,7 +3141,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 39: death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, or fsck. - * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless + * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless requested with new -k switch. Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart @@ -3213,7 +3213,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 38: --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and kmod - * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead + * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead of /usr/local by default. * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the