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@@ -10,16 +10,13 @@ Bugfixes:
 
 * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
 
-* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
-  log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
-
 * shorten the message to sane length:
 
   Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
 
-External:
+* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
 
-* ps should gain colums for slice
+External:
 
 * Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
@@ -30,6 +27,26 @@ External:
 
 Features:
 
+* hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
+
+* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
+  opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
+  a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
+  and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
+  to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
+
+* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
+
+* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
+  $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
+  should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
+  it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
+  desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
+  on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
+
+* machinectl bash completion is missing
+* busctl bash and zsh completions are outdated
+
 * libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last...
 
 * cgroups:
@@ -48,15 +65,12 @@ Features:
   - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
 
 * code cleanup
-  - get rid of readdir_r/dirent_storage stuff, it's unnecessary on Linux
   - we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
 
-* switch to SipHash for hashmaps/sets?
+* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
 
 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
 
-* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
-
 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
 
 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
@@ -67,8 +81,6 @@ Features:
 
 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
 
-* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
-
 * socket-proxyd:Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
 
 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
@@ -89,8 +101,9 @@ Features:
 
 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
 
-* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
-  probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
+* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
+  probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
+  (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
 
 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
 
@@ -106,36 +119,35 @@ Features:
   Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
   check for that and suppress event handling.
 
-* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
-
 * something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
 
 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
   ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
 
-* libsystemd-bus:
+* sd-bus:
   - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
-  - implement translator service
   - implement monitor logic
-  - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
-  - when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed
   - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
-  - support "const" properties as flag
   - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
-  - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
-  - sort out error codes for sd_bus_release_name(), distuingish: successful removal from foreign name, from non-existing name
+  - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
+  - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
   - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
-  - kdbus: we need a way to distuingish messages we got due to monitoring from normal messages, since we want to bind methods only to the latter
-  - kdbus: when we do "systemctl daemon-reexec" the call doesn't get properly cancelled
-  - figure out what to do when fields in the kdbus header and in the payload header do not match
-  - longer term:
-    * priority queues
-    * priority inheritance
-  - fix sd-event hookup when we connect to multiple servers one after the other
+  - longer term: priority inheritance
+  - check sender of response messages
+  - dbus spec updates:
+       - kdbus mapping
+       - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
+       - GVariant
+       - "const" properties (posted)
+  - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
+  - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
+  - allow updating attach flags during runtime
+  - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
+  - test bloom filter generation indexes
+  - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
 
 * sd-event
-  - allow multiple signal handlers per signal
-  - when dispatching an event source then _unref() on it should remove it from the epoll
+  - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
 
 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
   complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
@@ -159,6 +171,8 @@ Features:
 
 * timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
 
+* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
+
 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
 
 * test/:
@@ -297,7 +311,6 @@ Features:
   - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
   - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
   - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
-  - journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
   - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
   - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
   - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
@@ -311,11 +324,9 @@ Features:
     hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
 
 * document:
-  - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
+  - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
     [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
   - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
-  - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
-  - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
   - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
   - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
   - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
@@ -345,7 +356,7 @@ Features:
   - rework wait filter to not require match callback
   - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
   - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
-  - in systemctl list-timers show time trggering units ran last
+  - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
 
 * unit install:
   - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
@@ -428,7 +439,6 @@ Features:
   - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
     lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
     interfaces to the container
-  - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
   - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
   - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
   - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
@@ -436,6 +446,7 @@ Features:
     SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
     makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
     kernel.
+  - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
 
 * cryptsetup:
   - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
@@ -523,12 +534,8 @@ Features:
   - kill scsi_id
   - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
 
-* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
-
 * when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
 
-* support container_ttys=
-
 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
 
 * add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
@@ -662,15 +669,13 @@ Features:
    - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
 
 * sd-rtnl:
-   - replace sd_rtnl_message_append() by type-safe versions
-   - improve container support, and add support for entering containers when reading
+   - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
    - add support for more attribute types
 
 * networkd:
-   - unify and clarify logging, also use proper structured log messages
-   - add [Route] sections
-   - add more keys to [Address] sections
-   - add DHCPv4 support (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
+   - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
+   - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
+   - allow opting out of receiving DNS servers over DHCPv4
    - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
 
 External: