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d657c51f | 1 | systemd System and Service Manager |
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32673162 | 3 | CHANGES WITH 240: |
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5 | * NoNewPrivileges=yes has been set for all long-running services |
6 | implemented by systemd. Previously, this was problematic due to | |
7 | SELinux (as this would also prohibit the transition from PID1's label | |
8 | to the service's label). This restriction has since been lifted, but | |
9 | an SELinux policy update is required. | |
10 | (See e.g. https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/234.) | |
11 | ||
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12 | * DynamicUser=yes is dropped from systemd-networkd.service, |
13 | systemd-resolved.service and systemd-timesyncd.service, which was | |
14 | enabled in v239 for systemd-networkd.service and systemd-resolved.service, | |
15 | and since v236 for systemd-timesyncd.service. The users and groups | |
16 | systemd-network, systemd-resolve and systemd-timesync are created | |
17 | by systemd-sysusers again. Distributors or system administrators | |
18 | may need to create these users and groups if they not exist (or need | |
19 | to re-enable DynamicUser= for those units) while upgrading systemd. | |
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20 | Also, the clock file for systemd-timesyncd may need to move from |
21 | /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync/clock to /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock. | |
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23 | * When unit files are loaded from disk, previously systemd would |
24 | sometimes (depending on the unit loading order) load units from the | |
25 | target path of symlinks in .wants/ or .requires/ directories of other | |
26 | units. This meant that unit could be loaded from different paths | |
27 | depending on whether the unit was requested explicitly or as a | |
28 | dependency of another unit, not honouring the priority of directories | |
29 | in search path. It also meant that it was possible to successfully | |
30 | load and start units which are not found in the unit search path, as | |
31 | long as they were requested as a dependency and linked to from | |
32 | .wants/ or .requires/. The target paths of those symlinks are not | |
33 | used for loading units anymore and the unit file must be found in | |
34 | the search path. | |
35 | ||
fcb97512 | 36 | * A new service type has been added: Type=exec. It's very similar to |
421e3b45 | 37 | Type=simple but ensures the service manager will wait for both fork() |
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38 | and execve() of the main service binary to complete before proceeding |
39 | with follow-up units. This is primarily useful so that the manager | |
40 | propagates any errors in the preparation phase of service execution | |
41 | back to the job that requested the unit to be started. For example, | |
42 | consider a service that has ExecStart= set to a file system binary | |
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43 | that doesn't exist. With Type=simple starting the unit would be |
44 | considered instantly successful, as only fork() has to complete | |
45 | successfully and the manager does not wait for execve(), and hence | |
46 | its failure is seen "too late". With the new Type=exec service type | |
47 | starting the unit will fail, as the manager will wait for the | |
48 | execve() and notice its failure, which is then propagated back to the | |
49 | start job. | |
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50 | |
51 | NOTE: with the next release 241 of systemd we intend to change the | |
52 | systemd-run tool to default to Type=exec for transient services | |
53 | started by it. This should be mostly safe, but in specific corner | |
54 | cases might result in problems, as the systemd-run tool will then | |
6b1ab752 | 55 | block on NSS calls (such as user name look-ups due to User=) done |
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56 | between the fork() and execve(), which under specific circumstances |
57 | might cause problems. It is recommended to specify "-p Type=simple" | |
58 | explicitly in the few cases where this applies. For regular, | |
59 | non-transient services (i.e. those defined with unit files on disk) | |
60 | we will continue to default to Type=simple. | |
61 | ||
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62 | * The Linux kernel's current default RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit for |
63 | userspace processes is set to 1024 (soft) and 4096 | |
64 | (hard). Previously, systemd passed this on unmodified to all | |
65 | processes it forked off. With this systemd release the hard limit | |
0abf9492 | 66 | systemd passes on is increased to 512K, overriding the kernel's |
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67 | defaults and substantially increasing the number of simultaneous file |
68 | descriptors unprivileged userspace processes can allocate. Note that | |
69 | the soft limit remains at 1024 for compatibility reasons: the | |
70 | traditional UNIX select() call cannot deal with file descriptors >= | |
71 | 1024 and increasing the soft limit globally might thus result in | |
72 | programs unexpectedly allocating a high file descriptor and thus | |
73 | failing abnormally when attempting to use it with select() (of | |
74 | course, programs shouldn't use select() anymore, and prefer | |
75 | poll()/epoll, but the call unfortunately remains undeservedly popular | |
76 | at this time). This change reflects the fact that file descriptor | |
77 | handling in the Linux kernel has been optimized in more recent | |
78 | kernels and allocating large numbers of them should be much cheaper | |
79 | both in memory and in performance than it used to be. Programs that | |
80 | want to take benefit of the increased limit have to "opt-in" into | |
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81 | high file descriptors explicitly by raising their soft limit. Of |
82 | course, when they do that they must acknowledge that they cannot use | |
83 | select() anymore (and neither can any shared library they use — or | |
84 | any shared library used by any shared library they use and so on). | |
85 | Which default hard limit is most appropriate is of course hard to | |
86 | decide. However, given reports that ~300K file descriptors are used | |
87 | in real-life applications we believe 512K is sufficiently high as new | |
88 | default for now. Note that there are also reports that using very | |
89 | high hard limits (e.g. 1G) is problematic: some software allocates | |
90 | large arrays with one element for each potential file descriptor | |
91 | (Java, …) — a high hard limit thus triggers excessively large memory | |
92 | allocations in these applications. Hopefully, the new default of 512K | |
93 | is a good middle ground: higher than what real-life applications | |
94 | currently need, and low enough for avoid triggering excessively large | |
95 | allocations in problematic software. (And yes, somebody should fix | |
96 | Java.) | |
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98 | * The fs.nr_open and fs.file-max sysctls are now automatically bumped |
99 | to the highest possible values, as separate accounting of file | |
100 | descriptors is no longer necessary, as memcg tracks them correctly as | |
101 | part of the memory accounting anyway. Thus, from the four limits on | |
102 | file descriptors currently enforced (fs.file-max, fs.nr_open, | |
103 | RLIMIT_NOFILE hard, RLIMIT_NOFILE soft) we turn off the first two, | |
104 | and keep only the latter two. A set of build-time options | |
105 | (-Dbump-proc-sys-fs-file-max=no and -Dbump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=no) | |
106 | has been added to revert this change in behaviour, which might be | |
107 | an option for systems that turn off memcg in the kernel. | |
108 | ||
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109 | * When no /etc/locale.conf file exists (and hence no locale settings |
110 | are in place), systemd will now use the "C.UTF-8" locale by default, | |
111 | and set LANG= to it. This locale is supported by various | |
112 | distributions including Fedora, with clear indications that upstream | |
113 | glibc is going to make it available too. This locale enables UTF-8 | |
114 | mode by default, which appears appropriate for 2018. | |
115 | ||
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116 | * The "net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter" sysctl will now be set to 2 by |
117 | default. This effectively switches the RFC3704 Reverse Path filtering | |
118 | from Strict mode to Loose mode. This is more appropriate for hosts | |
119 | that have multiple links with routes to the same networks (e.g. | |
120 | a client with a Wi-Fi and Ethernet both connected to the internet). | |
121 | ||
6b1ab752 | 122 | Consult the kernel documentation for details on this sysctl: |
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123 | https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |
124 | ||
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125 | * CPUAccounting=yes no longer enables the CPU controller when using |
126 | kernel 4.15+ and the unified cgroup hierarchy, as required accounting | |
127 | statistics are now provided independently from the CPU controller. | |
128 | ||
6b1ab752 | 129 | * Support for disabling a particular cgroup controller within a sub-tree |
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130 | has been added through the DisableControllers= directive. |
131 | ||
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132 | * cgroup_no_v1=all on the kernel command line now also implies |
133 | using the unified cgroup hierarchy, unless one explicitly passes | |
134 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 on the kernel command line. | |
135 | ||
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136 | * The new "MemoryMin=" unit file property may now be used to set the |
137 | memory usage protection limit of processes invoked by the unit. This | |
4e1dfa45 | 138 | controls the cgroup v2 memory.min attribute. Similarly, the new |
6b1ab752 | 139 | "IODeviceLatencyTargetSec=" property has been added, wrapping the new |
4e1dfa45 | 140 | cgroup v2 io.latency cgroup property for configuring per-service I/O |
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141 | latency. |
142 | ||
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143 | * systemd now supports the cgroup v2 devices BPF logic, as counterpart |
144 | to the cgroup v1 "devices" cgroup controller. | |
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145 | |
146 | * systemd-escape now is able to combine --unescape with --template. It | |
147 | also learnt a new option --instance for extracting and unescaping the | |
148 | instance part of a unit name. | |
149 | ||
150 | * sd-bus now provides the sd_bus_message_readv() which is similar to | |
151 | sd_bus_message_read() but takes a va_list object. The pair | |
152 | sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout() and sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout() | |
421e3b45 | 153 | has been added for configuring the default method call timeout to |
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154 | use. sd_bus_error_move() may be used to efficiently move the contents |
155 | from one sd_bus_error structure to another, invalidating the | |
156 | source. sd_bus_set_close_on_exit() and sd_bus_get_close_on_exit() may | |
157 | be used to control whether a bus connection object is automatically | |
158 | flushed when an sd-event loop is exited. | |
159 | ||
160 | * When processing classic BSD syslog log messages, journald will now | |
161 | save the original time-stamp string supplied in the new | |
162 | SYSLOG_TIMESTAMP= journal field. This permits consumers to | |
163 | reconstruct the original BSD syslog message more correctly. | |
164 | ||
165 | * StandardOutput=/StandardError= in service files gained support for | |
166 | new "append:…" parameters, for connecting STDOUT/STDERR of a service | |
167 | to a file, and appending to it. | |
168 | ||
169 | * The signal to use as last step of killing of unit processes is now | |
170 | configurable. Previously it was hard-coded to SIGKILL, which may now | |
171 | be overridden with the new KillSignal= setting. Note that this is the | |
46b028f2 | 172 | signal used when regular termination (i.e. SIGTERM) does not suffice. |
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173 | Similarly, the signal used when aborting a program in case of a |
174 | watchdog timeout may now be configured too (WatchdogSignal=). | |
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175 | |
176 | * The XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP environment variable may now be configured in | |
177 | the pam_systemd argument line, using the new desktop= switch. This is | |
178 | useful to initialize it properly from a display manager without | |
179 | having to touch C code. | |
180 | ||
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181 | * Most configuration options that previously accepted percentage values |
182 | now also accept permille values with the '‰' suffix (instead of '%'). | |
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184 | * systemd-resolved may now optionally use OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS for |
185 | DNS-over-TLS. | |
186 | ||
187 | * systemd-resolved's configuration file resolved.conf gained a new | |
188 | option ReadEtcHosts= which may be used to turn off processing and | |
189 | honoring /etc/hosts entries. | |
190 | ||
191 | * The "--wait" switch may now be passed to "systemctl | |
192 | is-system-running", in which case the tool will synchronously wait | |
193 | until the system finished start-up. | |
194 | ||
195 | * hostnamed gained a new bus call to determine the DMI product UUID. | |
196 | ||
197 | * On x86-64 systemd will now prefer using the RDRAND processor | |
198 | instruction over /dev/urandom whenever it requires randomness that | |
199 | neither has to be crypto-grade nor should be reproducible. This | |
200 | should substantially reduce the amount of entropy systemd requests | |
201 | from the kernel during initialization on such systems, though not | |
202 | reduce it to zero. (Why not zero? systemd still needs to allocate | |
203 | UUIDs and such uniquely, which require high-quality randomness.) | |
204 | ||
205 | * networkd gained support for Foo-Over-UDP, ERSPAN and ISATAP | |
206 | tunnels. It also gained a new option ForceDHCPv6PDOtherInformation= | |
207 | for forcing the "Other Information" bit in IPv6 RA messages. The | |
d6131be9 | 208 | bonding logic gained four new options AdActorSystemPriority=, |
6b1ab752 | 209 | AdUserPortKey=, AdActorSystem= for configuring various 802.3ad |
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210 | aspects, and DynamicTransmitLoadBalancing= for enabling dynamic |
211 | shuffling of flows. The tunnel logic gained a new | |
212 | IPv6RapidDeploymentPrefix= option for configuring IPv6 Rapid | |
213 | Deployment. The policy rule logic gained four new options IPProtocol=, | |
214 | SourcePort= and DestinationPort=, InvertRule=. The bridge logic gained | |
215 | support for the MulticastToUnicast= option. networkd also gained | |
216 | support for configuring static IPv4 ARP or IPv6 neighbor entries. | |
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217 | |
218 | * .preset files (as read by 'systemctl preset') may now be used to | |
219 | instantiate services. | |
220 | ||
221 | * /etc/crypttab now understands the sector-size= option to configure | |
222 | the sector size for an encrypted partition. | |
223 | ||
224 | * Key material for encrypted disks may now be placed on a formatted | |
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225 | medium, and referenced from /etc/crypttab by the UUID of the file |
226 | system, followed by "=" suffixed by the path to the key file. | |
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227 | |
228 | * The "collect" udev component has been removed without replacement, as | |
421e3b45 | 229 | it is neither used nor maintained. |
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230 | |
231 | * When the RuntimeDirectory=, StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, | |
232 | LogsDirectory=, ConfigurationDirectory= settings are used in a | |
233 | service the executed processes will now receive a set of environment | |
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234 | variables containing the full paths of these directories. |
235 | Specifically, RUNTIME_DIRECTORY=, STATE_DIRECTORY, CACHE_DIRECTORY, | |
236 | LOGS_DIRECTORY, CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY are now set if these options | |
237 | are used. Note that these options may be used multiple times per | |
238 | service in which case the resulting paths will be concatenated and | |
239 | separated by colons. | |
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240 | |
241 | * Predictable interface naming has been extended to cover InfiniBand | |
242 | NICs. They will be exposed with an "ib" prefix. | |
243 | ||
244 | * tmpfiles.d/ line types may now be suffixed with a '-' character, in | |
245 | which case the respective line failing is ignored. | |
246 | ||
247 | * .link files may now be used to configure the equivalent to the | |
248 | "ethtool advertise" commands. | |
249 | ||
250 | * The sd-device.h and sd-hwdb.h APIs are now exported, as an | |
251 | alternative to libudev.h. Previously, the latter was just an internal | |
252 | wrapper around the former, but now these two APIs are exposed | |
253 | directly. | |
254 | ||
255 | * sd-id128.h gained a new function sd_id128_get_boot_app_specific() | |
256 | which calculates an app-specific boot ID similar to how | |
257 | sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() generates an app-specific machine | |
258 | ID. | |
259 | ||
260 | * A new tool systemd-id128 has been added that can be used to determine | |
261 | and generate various 128bit IDs. | |
262 | ||
263 | * /etc/os-release gained two new standardized fields DOCUMENTATION_URL= | |
264 | and LOGO=. | |
265 | ||
266 | * systemd-hibernate-resume-generator will now honor the "noresume" | |
267 | kernel command line option, in which case it will bypass resuming | |
268 | from any hibernated image. | |
269 | ||
270 | * The systemd-sleep.conf configuration file gained new options | |
271 | AllowSuspend=, AllowHibernation=, AllowSuspendThenHibernate=, | |
272 | AllowHybridSleep= for prohibiting specific sleep modes even if the | |
421e3b45 | 273 | kernel exports them. |
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274 | |
275 | * portablectl is now officially supported and has thus moved to | |
276 | /usr/bin/. | |
277 | ||
278 | * bootctl learnt the two new commands "set-default" and "set-oneshot" | |
279 | for setting the default boot loader item to boot to (either | |
280 | persistently or only for the next boot). This is currently only | |
281 | compatible with sd-boot, but may be implemented on other boot loaders | |
282 | too, that follow the boot loader interface. The updated interface is | |
283 | now documented here: | |
284 | ||
285 | https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE | |
286 | ||
287 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.early_core_pattern= is now | |
288 | understood which may be used to influence the core_pattern PID 1 | |
289 | installs during early boot. | |
290 | ||
291 | * busctl learnt two new options -j and --json= for outputting method | |
292 | call replies, properties and monitoring output in JSON. | |
293 | ||
294 | * journalctl's JSON output now supports simple ANSI coloring as well as | |
295 | a new "json-seq" mode for generating RFC7464 output. | |
296 | ||
297 | * Unit files now support the %g/%G specifiers that resolve to the UNIX | |
298 | group/GID of the service manager runs as, similar to the existing | |
299 | %u/%U specifiers that resolve to the UNIX user/UID. | |
300 | ||
301 | * systemd-logind learnt a new global configuration option | |
302 | UserStopDelaySec= that may be set in logind.conf. It specifies how | |
303 | long the systemd --user instance shall remain started after a user | |
304 | logs out. This is useful to speed up repetitive re-connections of the | |
305 | same user, as it means the user's service manager doesn't have to be | |
306 | stopped/restarted on each iteration, but can be reused between | |
307 | subsequent options. This setting defaults to 10s. systemd-logind also | |
308 | exports two new properties on its Manager D-Bus objects indicating | |
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309 | whether the system's lid is currently closed, and whether the system |
310 | is on AC power. | |
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311 | |
312 | * systemd gained support for a generic boot counting logic, which | |
313 | generically permits automatic reverting to older boot loader entries | |
314 | if newer updated ones don't work. The boot loader side is implemented | |
315 | in sd-boot, but is kept open for other boot loaders too. For details | |
316 | see: | |
317 | ||
318 | https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT | |
319 | ||
320 | * The SuccessAction=/FailureAction= unit file settings now learnt two | |
321 | new parameters: "exit" and "exit-force", which result in immediate | |
322 | exiting of the service manager, and are only useful in systemd --user | |
323 | and container environments. | |
324 | ||
325 | * Unit files gained support for a pair of options | |
326 | FailureActionExitStatus=/SuccessActionExitStatus= for configuring the | |
327 | exit status to use as service manager exit status when | |
328 | SuccessAction=/FailureAction= is set to exit or exit-force. | |
329 | ||
330 | * A pair of LogRateLimitIntervalSec=/LogRateLimitBurst= per-service | |
331 | options may now be used to configure the log rate limiting applied by | |
332 | journald per-service. | |
333 | ||
334 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "timespan" for parsing and | |
335 | normalizing time span values (i.e. strings like "5min 7s 8us"). | |
336 | ||
337 | * systemd-analyze also gained a new verb "security" for analyzing the | |
338 | security and sand-boxing settings of services in order to determine an | |
339 | "exposure level" for them, indicating whether a service would benefit | |
340 | from more sand-boxing options turned on for them. | |
341 | ||
342 | * "systemd-analyze syscall-filter" will now also show system calls | |
343 | supported by the local kernel but not included in any of the defined | |
344 | groups. | |
345 | ||
346 | * .nspawn files now understand the Ephemeral= setting, matching the | |
347 | --ephemeral command line switch. | |
348 | ||
349 | * sd-event gained the new APIs sd_event_source_get_floating() and | |
350 | sd_event_source_set_floating() for controlling whether a specific | |
351 | event source is "floating", i.e. destroyed along with the even loop | |
352 | object itself. | |
353 | ||
354 | * Unit objects on D-Bus gained a new "Refs" property that lists all | |
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355 | clients that currently have a reference on the unit (to ensure it is |
356 | not unloaded). | |
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357 | |
358 | * The JoinControllers= option in system.conf is no longer supported, as | |
359 | it didn't work correctly, is hard to support properly, is legacy (as | |
4e1dfa45 | 360 | the concept only exists on cgroup v1) and apparently wasn't used. |
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361 | |
362 | * Journal messages that are generated whenever a unit enters the failed | |
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363 | state are now tagged with a unique MESSAGE_ID. Similarly, messages |
364 | generated whenever a service process exits are now made recognizable, | |
365 | too. A taged message is also emitted whenever a unit enters the | |
366 | "dead" state on success. | |
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367 | |
368 | * systemd-run gained a new switch --working-directory= for configuring | |
369 | the working directory of the service to start. A shortcut -d is | |
370 | equivalent, setting the working directory of the service to the | |
371 | current working directory of the invoking program. The new --shell | |
372 | (or just -S) option has been added for invoking the $SHELL of the | |
373 | caller as a service, and implies --pty --same-dir --wait --collect | |
421e3b45 | 374 | --service-type=exec. Or in other words, "systemd-run -S" is now the |
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375 | quickest way to quickly get an interactive in a fully clean and |
376 | well-defined system service context. | |
377 | ||
378 | * machinectl gained a new verb "import-fs" for importing an OS tree | |
379 | from a directory. Moreover, when a directory or tarball is imported | |
380 | and single top-level directory found with the OS itself below the OS | |
381 | tree is automatically mangled and moved one level up. | |
382 | ||
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383 | * systemd-importd will no longer set up an implicit btrfs loop-back |
384 | file system on /var/lib/machines. If one is already set up, it will | |
385 | continue to be used. | |
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386 | |
387 | * A new generator "systemd-run-generator" has been added. It will | |
388 | synthesize a unit from one or more program command lines included in | |
389 | the kernel command line. This is very useful in container managers | |
390 | for example: | |
391 | ||
392 | # systemd-nspawn -i someimage.raw -b systemd.run='"some command line"' | |
393 | ||
394 | This will run "systemd-nspawn" on an image, invoke the specified | |
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395 | command line and immediately shut down the container again, returning |
396 | the command line's exit code. | |
6b1ab752 | 397 | |
421e3b45 | 398 | * The block device locking logic is now documented: |
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399 | |
400 | https://systemd.io/BLOCK_DEVICE_LOCKING | |
401 | ||
402 | * loginctl and machinectl now optionally output the various tables in | |
403 | JSON using the --output= switch. It is our intention to add similar | |
404 | support to systemctl and all other commands. | |
405 | ||
406 | * udevadm's query and trigger verb now optionally take a .device unit | |
407 | name as argument. | |
408 | ||
409 | * systemd-udevd's network naming logic now understands a new | |
421e3b45 | 410 | net.naming-scheme= kernel command line switch, which may be used to |
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411 | pick a specific version of the naming scheme. This helps stabilizing |
412 | interface names even as systemd/udev are updated and the naming logic | |
413 | is improved. | |
414 | ||
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415 | * sd-id128.h learnt two new auxiliary helpers: sd_id128_is_allf() and |
416 | SD_ID128_ALLF to test if a 128bit ID is set to all 0xFF bytes, and to | |
417 | initialize one to all 0xFF. | |
418 | ||
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419 | * After loading the SELinux policy systemd will now recursively relabel |
420 | all files and directories listed in | |
421 | /run/systemd/relabel-extra.d/*.relabel (which should be simple | |
422 | newline separated lists of paths) in addition to the ones it already | |
423 | implicitly relabels in /run, /dev and /sys. After the relabelling is | |
424 | completed the *.relabel files (and /run/systemd/relabel-extra.d/) are | |
425 | removed. This is useful to permit initrds (i.e. code running before | |
426 | the SELinux policy is in effect) to generate files in the host | |
427 | filesystem safely and ensure that the correct label is applied during | |
428 | the transition to the host OS. | |
429 | ||
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430 | * KERNEL API BREAKAGE: Linux kernel 4.18 changed behaviour regarding |
431 | mknod() handling in user namespaces. Previously mknod() would always | |
432 | fail with EPERM in user namespaces. Since 4.18 mknod() will succeed | |
433 | but device nodes generated that way cannot be opened, and attempts to | |
434 | open them result in EPERM. This breaks the "graceful fallback" logic | |
435 | in systemd's PrivateDevices= sand-boxing option. This option is | |
436 | implemented defensively, so that when systemd detects it runs in a | |
437 | restricted environment (such as a user namespace, or an environment | |
438 | where mknod() is blocked through seccomp or absence of CAP_SYS_MKNOD) | |
439 | where device nodes cannot be created the effect of PrivateDevices= is | |
440 | bypassed (following the logic that 2nd-level sand-boxing is not | |
441 | essential if the system systemd runs in is itself already sand-boxed | |
442 | as a whole). This logic breaks with 4.18 in container managers where | |
443 | user namespacing is used: suddenly PrivateDevices= succeeds setting | |
444 | up a private /dev/ file system containing devices nodes — but when | |
445 | these are opened they don't work. | |
446 | ||
447 | At this point is is recommended that container managers utilizing | |
448 | user namespaces that intend to run systemd in the payload explicitly | |
449 | block mknod() with seccomp or similar, so that the graceful fallback | |
450 | logic works again. | |
451 | ||
452 | We are very sorry for the breakage and the requirement to change | |
453 | container configurations for newer kernels. It's purely caused by an | |
454 | incompatible kernel change. The relevant kernel developers have been | |
455 | notified about this userspace breakage quickly, but they chose to | |
456 | ignore it. | |
457 | ||
6b1ab752 LP |
458 | Contributions from: afg, Alan Jenkins, Aleksei Timofeyev, Alexander |
459 | Filippov, Alexander Kurtz, Alexey Bogdanenko, Andreas Henriksson, | |
460 | Andrew Jorgensen, Anita Zhang, apnix-uk, Arkan49, Arseny Maslennikov, | |
461 | asavah, Asbjørn Apeland, aszlig, Bastien Nocera, Ben Boeckel, Benedikt | |
c37e2358 LP |
462 | Morbach, Benjamin Berg, Bruce Zhang, Carlo Caione, Cedric Viou, Chen |
463 | Qi, Chris Chiu, Chris Down, Chris Morin, Christian Rebischke, Claudius | |
464 | Ellsel, Colin Guthrie, dana, Daniel, Daniele Medri, Daniel Kahn | |
465 | Gillmor, Daniel Rusek, Daniel van Vugt, Dariusz Gadomski, Dave Reisner, | |
466 | David Anderson, Davide Cavalca, David Leeds, David Malcolm, David | |
1742aae2 ZJS |
467 | Strauss, David Tardon, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitry Torokhov, dj-kaktus, |
468 | Dongsu Park, Elias Probst, Emil Soleyman, Erik Kooistra, Ervin Peters, | |
469 | Evgeni Golov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabrice Fontaine, Faheel Ahmad, | |
470 | Faizal Luthfi, Felix Yan, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Frank | |
471 | Schaefer, Frantisek Sumsal, Gautier Husson, Gianluca Boiano, Giuseppe | |
472 | Scrivano, glitsj16, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Harry Mallon, Harshit | |
473 | Jain, Helmut Grohne, Henry Tung, Hui Yiqun, imayoda, Insun Pyo, Iwan | |
474 | Timmer, Jan Janssen, Jan Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
475 | javitoom, Jérémy Nouhaud, Jeremy Su, Jiuyang Liu, João Paulo Rechi | |
476 | Vita, Joe Hershberger, Joe Rayhawk, Joerg Behrmann, Joerg Steffens, | |
477 | Jonas Dorel, Jon Ringle, Josh Soref, Julian Andres Klode, Jun Bo Bi, | |
478 | Jürg Billeter, Keith Busch, Khem Raj, Kirill Marinushkin, Larry | |
479 | Bernstone, Lennart Poettering, Lion Yang, Li Song, Lorenz | |
480 | Hübschle-Schneider, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas Werkmeister, Ludwin Janvier, | |
481 | Lukáš Nykrýn, Luke Shumaker, mal, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcin | |
482 | Skarbek, Marco Trevisan (Treviño), Marian Cepok, Mario Hros, Marko | |
483 | Myllynen, Markus Grimm, Martin Pitt, Martin Sobotka, Martin Wilck, | |
484 | Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Matthew Leeds, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
485 | Michael 'pbone' Pobega, Michael Scherer, Michal Koutný, Michal | |
486 | Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Mike Gilbert, Mike Palmer, Muhammet Kara, Neal | |
487 | Gompa, Neil Brown, Network Silence, Niklas Tibbling, Nikolas Nyby, | |
488 | Nogisaka Sadata, Oliver Smith, Patrik Flykt, Pavel Hrdina, Paweł | |
489 | Szewczyk, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, Ray Strode, Reinhold Mueller, | |
490 | Renaud Métrich, Roman Gushchin, Ronny Chevalier, Rubén Suárez Alvarez, | |
491 | Ruixin Bao, RussianNeuroMancer, Ryutaroh Matsumoto, Saleem Rashid, Sam | |
492 | Morris, Samuel Morris, Sandy Carter, scootergrisen, Sébastien Bacher, | |
493 | Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shengyao Xue, Shih-Yuan Lee | |
494 | (FourDollars), Silvio Knizek, Sjoerd Simons, Stasiek Michalski, Stephen | |
495 | Gallagher, Steven Allen, Steve Ramage, Susant Sahani, Sven Joachim, | |
496 | Sylvain Plantefève, Tanu Kaskinen, Tejun Heo, Thiago Macieira, Thomas | |
497 | Blume, Thomas Haller, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tim Ruffing, TJ, Tobias | |
498 | Jungel, Todd Walton, Tommi Rantala, Tomsod M, Tony Novak, Tore | |
499 | Anderson, Trevonn, Victor Laskurain, Victor Tapia, Violet Halo, Vojtech | |
500 | Trefny, welaq, William A. Kennington III, William Douglas, Wyatt Ward, | |
501 | Xiang Fan, Xi Ruoyao, Xuanwo, Yann E. Morin, YmrDtnJu, Yu Watanabe, | |
502 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zhang Xianwei, Zsolt Dollenstein | |
503 | ||
504 | — Warsaw, 2018-12-21 | |
6b1ab752 | 505 | |
e8498f82 | 506 | CHANGES WITH 239: |
019cb3ab SH |
507 | |
508 | * NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE NAMING CHANGES: systemd-udevd's "net_id" | |
d69f5282 ZJS |
509 | builtin will name network interfaces differently than in previous |
510 | versions for virtual network interfaces created with SR-IOV and NPAR | |
511 | and for devices where the PCI network controller device does not have | |
512 | a slot number associated. | |
513 | ||
514 | SR-IOV virtual devices are now named based on the name of the parent | |
515 | interface, with a suffix of "v<N>", where <N> is the virtual device | |
516 | number. Previously those virtual devices were named as if completely | |
517 | independent. | |
518 | ||
519 | The ninth and later NPAR virtual devices will be named following the | |
520 | scheme used for the first eight NPAR partitions. Previously those | |
521 | devices were not renamed and the kernel default (eth<n>) was used. | |
522 | ||
523 | "net_id" will also generate names for PCI devices where the PCI | |
524 | network controller device does not have an associated slot number | |
525 | itself, but one of its parents does. Previously those devices were | |
526 | not renamed and the kernel default (eth<n>) was used. | |
019cb3ab | 527 | |
6e2d744b YW |
528 | * AF_INET and AF_INET6 are dropped from RestrictAddressFamilies= in |
529 | systemd-logind.service. Since v235, IPAddressDeny=any has been set to | |
fe903cf4 LP |
530 | the unit. So, it is expected that the default behavior of |
531 | systemd-logind is not changed. However, if distribution packagers or | |
532 | administrators disabled or modified IPAddressDeny= setting by a | |
533 | drop-in config file, then it may be necessary to update the file to | |
534 | re-enable AF_INET and AF_INET6 to support network user name services, | |
535 | e.g. NIS. | |
536 | ||
537 | * When the RestrictNamespaces= unit property is specified multiple | |
538 | times, then the specified types are merged now. Previously, only the | |
539 | last assignment was used. So, if distribution packagers or | |
540 | administrators modified the setting by a drop-in config file, then it | |
541 | may be necessary to update the file. | |
e0eee477 | 542 | |
1fc83d09 LP |
543 | * When OnFailure= is used in combination with Restart= on a service |
544 | unit, then the specified units will no longer be triggered on | |
545 | failures that result in restarting. Previously, the specified units | |
546 | would be activated each time the unit failed, even when the unit was | |
547 | going to be restarted automatically. This behaviour contradicted the | |
548 | documentation. With this release the code is adjusted to match the | |
549 | documentation. | |
550 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
551 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now print a notice whenever it encounters |
552 | tmpfiles.d/ lines referencing the /var/run/ directory. It will | |
553 | recommend reworking them to use the /run/ directory instead (for | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
554 | which /var/run/ is simply a symlinked compatibility alias). This way |
555 | systemd-tmpfiles can properly detect line conflicts and merge lines | |
556 | referencing the same file by two paths, without having to access | |
557 | them. | |
41a4c3ec | 558 | |
ce55bd5e ZJS |
559 | * systemctl disable/unmask/preset/preset-all cannot be used with |
560 | --runtime. Previously this was allowed, but resulted in unintuitive | |
fe903cf4 LP |
561 | behaviour that wasn't useful. systemctl disable/unmask will now undo |
562 | both runtime and persistent enablement/masking, i.e. it will remove | |
563 | any relevant symlinks both in /run and /etc. | |
ce55bd5e | 564 | |
e01d9e21 LP |
565 | * Note that all long-running system services shipped with systemd will |
566 | now default to a system call whitelist (rather than a blacklist, as | |
567 | before). In particular, systemd-udevd will now enforce one too. For | |
568 | most cases this should be safe, however downstream distributions | |
569 | which disabled sandboxing of systemd-udevd (specifically the | |
570 | MountFlags= setting), might want to disable this security feature | |
571 | too, as the default whitelisting will prohibit all mount, swap, | |
572 | reboot and clock changing operations from udev rules. | |
573 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
574 | * sd-boot acquired new loader configuration settings to optionally turn |
575 | off Windows and MacOS boot partition discovery as well as | |
576 | reboot-into-firmware menu items. It is also able to pick a better | |
577 | screen resolution for HiDPI systems, and now provides loader | |
41a4c3ec LP |
578 | configuration settings to change the resolution explicitly. |
579 | ||
c9299be2 IT |
580 | * systemd-resolved now supports DNS-over-TLS. It's still |
581 | turned off by default, use DNSOverTLS=opportunistic to turn it on in | |
c086ce8c LP |
582 | resolved.conf. We intend to make this the default as soon as couple |
583 | of additional techniques for optimizing the initial latency caused by | |
584 | establishing a TLS/TCP connection are implemented. | |
585 | ||
73c718a9 YW |
586 | * systemd-resolved.service and systemd-networkd.service now set |
587 | DynamicUser=yes. The users systemd-resolve and systemd-network are | |
abc291aa LP |
588 | not created by systemd-sysusers anymore. |
589 | ||
590 | NOTE: This has a chance of breaking nss-ldap and similar NSS modules | |
591 | that embedd a network facing module into any process using getpwuid() | |
592 | or related call: the dynamic allocation of the user ID for | |
593 | systemd-resolved.service means the service manager has to check NSS | |
594 | if the user name is already taken when forking off the service. Since | |
595 | the user in the common case won't be defined in /etc/passwd the | |
596 | lookup is likely to trigger nss-ldap which in turn might use NSS to | |
597 | ask systemd-resolved for hostname lookups. This will hence result in | |
598 | a deadlock: a user name lookup in order to start | |
599 | systemd-resolved.service will result in a host name lookup for which | |
600 | systemd-resolved.service needs to be started already. There are | |
601 | multiple ways to work around this problem: pre-allocate the | |
602 | "systemd-resolve" user on such systems, so that nss-ldap won't be | |
603 | triggered; or use a different NSS package that doesn't do networking | |
604 | in-process but provides a local asynchronous name cache; or configure | |
605 | the NSS package to avoid lookups for UIDs in the range `pkg-config | |
606 | systemd --variable=dynamicuidmin` … `pkg-config systemd | |
607 | --variable=dynamicuidmax`, so that it does not consider itself | |
608 | authoritative for the same UID range systemd allocates dynamic users | |
609 | from. | |
73c718a9 | 610 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
611 | * The systemd-resolve tool has been renamed to resolvectl (it also |
612 | remains available under the old name, for compatibility), and its | |
613 | interface is now verb-based, similar in style to the other <xyz>ctl | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
614 | tools, such as systemctl or loginctl. |
615 | ||
75da262a LP |
616 | * The resolvectl/systemd-resolve tool also provides 'resolvconf' |
617 | compatibility. It may be symlinked under the 'resolvconf' name, in | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
618 | which case it will take arguments and input compatible with the |
619 | Debian and FreeBSD resolvconf tool. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
620 | |
621 | * Support for suspend-then-hibernate has been added, i.e. a sleep mode | |
3f9a0a52 | 622 | where the system initially suspends, and after a timeout resumes and |
41a4c3ec LP |
623 | hibernates again. |
624 | ||
625 | * networkd's ClientIdentifier= now accepts a new option "duid-only". If | |
626 | set the client will only send a DUID as client identifier. | |
627 | ||
628 | * The nss-systemd glibc NSS module will now enumerate dynamic users and | |
629 | groups in effect. Previously, it could resolve UIDs/GIDs to user | |
630 | names/groups and vice versa, but did not support enumeration. | |
631 | ||
632 | * journald's Compress= configuration setting now optionally accepts a | |
633 | byte threshold value. All journal objects larger than this threshold | |
634 | will be compressed, smaller ones will not. Previously this threshold | |
635 | was not configurable and set to 512. | |
636 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
637 | * A new system.conf setting NoNewPrivileges= is now available which may |
638 | be used to turn off acquisition of new privileges system-wide | |
639 | (i.e. set Linux' PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS for PID 1 itself, and thus also | |
640 | for all its children). Note that turning this option on means setuid | |
641 | binaries and file system capabilities lose their special powers. | |
642 | While turning on this option is a big step towards a more secure | |
643 | system, doing so is likely to break numerous pre-existing UNIX tools, | |
644 | in particular su and sudo. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
645 | |
646 | * A new service systemd-time-sync-wait.service has been added. If | |
647 | enabled it will delay the time-sync.target unit at boot until time | |
bc99dac5 | 648 | synchronization has been received from the network. This |
41a4c3ec LP |
649 | functionality is useful on systems lacking a local RTC or where it is |
650 | acceptable that the boot process shall be delayed by external network | |
651 | services. | |
652 | ||
653 | * When hibernating, systemd will now inform the kernel of the image | |
654 | write offset, on kernels new enough to support this. This means swap | |
655 | files should work for hibernation now. | |
656 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
657 | * When loading unit files, systemd will now look for drop-in unit files |
658 | extensions in additional places. Previously, for a unit file name | |
41a4c3ec LP |
659 | "foo-bar-baz.service" it would look for dropin files in |
660 | "foo-bar-baz.service.d/*.conf". Now, it will also look in | |
661 | "foo-bar-.service.d/*.conf" and "foo-.service.d/", i.e. at the | |
662 | service name truncated after all inner dashes. This scheme allows | |
663 | writing drop-ins easily that apply to a whole set of unit files at | |
664 | once. It's particularly useful for mount and slice units (as their | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
665 | naming is prefix based), but is also useful for service and other |
666 | units, for packages that install multiple unit files at once, | |
41a4c3ec | 667 | following a strict naming regime of beginning the unit file name with |
5cadf58e ZJS |
668 | the package's name. Two new specifiers are now supported in unit |
669 | files to match this: %j and %J are replaced by the part of the unit | |
670 | name following the last dash. | |
671 | ||
672 | * Unit files and other configuration files that support specifier | |
88099359 | 673 | expansion now understand another three new specifiers: %T and %V will |
5cadf58e | 674 | resolve to /tmp and /var/tmp respectively, or whatever temporary |
88099359 ZJS |
675 | directory has been set for the calling user. %E will expand to either |
676 | /etc (for system units) or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (for user units). | |
41a4c3ec LP |
677 | |
678 | * The ExecStart= lines of unit files are no longer required to | |
679 | reference absolute paths. If non-absolute paths are specified the | |
680 | specified binary name is searched within the service manager's | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
681 | built-in $PATH, which may be queried with 'systemd-path |
682 | search-binaries-default'. It's generally recommended to continue to | |
683 | use absolute paths for all binaries specified in unit files. | |
41a4c3ec | 684 | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
685 | * Units gained a new load state "bad-setting", which is used when a |
686 | unit file was loaded, but contained fatal errors which prevent it | |
ba1dc1a1 LP |
687 | from being started (for example, a service unit has been defined |
688 | lacking both ExecStart= and ExecStop= lines). | |
c7f93e28 | 689 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
690 | * coredumpctl's "gdb" verb has been renamed to "debug", in order to |
691 | support alternative debuggers, for example lldb. The old name | |
692 | continues to be available however, for compatibility reasons. Use the | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
693 | new --debugger= switch or the $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER environment variable |
694 | to pick an alternative debugger instead of the default gdb. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
695 | |
696 | * systemctl and the other tools will now output escape sequences that | |
697 | generate proper clickable hyperlinks in various terminal emulators | |
698 | where useful (for example, in the "systemctl status" output you can | |
699 | now click on the unit file name to quickly open it in the | |
700 | editor/viewer of your choice). Note that not all terminal emulators | |
701 | support this functionality yet, but many do. Unfortunately, the | |
702 | "less" pager doesn't support this yet, hence this functionality is | |
703 | currently automatically turned off when a pager is started (which | |
704 | happens quite often due to auto-paging). We hope to remove this | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
705 | limitation as soon as "less" learns these escape sequences. This new |
706 | behaviour may also be turned off explicitly with the $SYSTEMD_URLIFY | |
707 | environment variable. For details on these escape sequences see: | |
41a4c3ec LP |
708 | https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda |
709 | ||
710 | * networkd's .network files now support a new IPv6MTUBytes= option for | |
711 | setting the MTU used by IPv6 explicitly as well as a new MTUBytes= | |
712 | option in the [Route] section to configure the MTU to use for | |
713 | specific routes. It also gained support for configuration of the DHCP | |
714 | "UserClass" option through the new UserClass= setting. It gained | |
715 | three new options in the new [CAN] section for configuring CAN | |
716 | networks. The MULTICAST and ALLMULTI interface flags may now be | |
717 | controlled explicitly with the new Multicast= and AllMulticast= | |
718 | settings. | |
719 | ||
720 | * networkd will now automatically make use of the kernel's route | |
721 | expiration feature, if it is available. | |
722 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
723 | * udevd's .link files now support setting the number of receive and |
724 | transmit channels, using the RxChannels=, TxChannels=, | |
725 | OtherChannels=, CombinedChannels= settings. | |
726 | ||
727 | * Support for UDPSegmentationOffload= has been removed, given its | |
728 | limited support in hardware, and waning software support. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
729 | |
730 | * networkd's .netdev files now support creating "netdevsim" interfaces. | |
731 | ||
732 | * PID 1 learnt a new bus call GetUnitByControlGroup() which may be used | |
733 | to query the unit belonging to a specific kernel control group. | |
734 | ||
5cadf58e | 735 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "cat-config", which may be used to |
41a4c3ec LP |
736 | dump the contents of any configuration file, with all its matching |
737 | drop-in files added in, and honouring the usual search and masking | |
738 | logic applied to systemd configuration files. For example use | |
739 | "systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system.conf" to get the complete | |
740 | system configuration file of systemd how it would be loaded by PID 1 | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
741 | itself. Similar to this, various tools such as systemd-tmpfiles or |
742 | systemd-sysusers, gained a new option "--cat-config", which does the | |
41a4c3ec LP |
743 | corresponding operation for their own configuration settings. For |
744 | example, "systemd-tmpfiles --cat-config" will now output the full | |
745 | list of tmpfiles.d/ lines in place. | |
746 | ||
704ae536 YW |
747 | * timedatectl gained three new verbs: "show" shows bus properties of |
748 | systemd-timedated, "timesync-status" shows the current NTP | |
749 | synchronization state of systemd-timesyncd, and "show-timesync" | |
750 | shows bus properties of systemd-timesyncd. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
751 | |
752 | * systemd-timesyncd gained a bus interface on which it exposes details | |
753 | about its state. | |
754 | ||
73c718a9 YW |
755 | * A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES is now |
756 | understood by systemd-timedated. It takes a colon-separated list of | |
757 | unit names of NTP client services. The list is used by | |
758 | "timedatectl set-ntp". | |
759 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
760 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --rlimit= switch for setting initial |
761 | resource limits for the container payload. There's a new switch | |
5cadf58e | 762 | --hostname= to explicitly override the container's hostname. A new |
41a4c3ec LP |
763 | --no-new-privileges= switch may be used to control the |
764 | PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag for the container payload. A new | |
765 | --oom-score-adjust= switch controls the OOM scoring adjustment value | |
766 | for the payload. The new --cpu-affinity= switch controls the CPU | |
767 | affinity of the container payload. The new --resolv-conf= switch | |
768 | allows more detailed control of /etc/resolv.conf handling of the | |
5cadf58e | 769 | container. Similarly, the new --timezone= switch allows more detailed |
41a4c3ec LP |
770 | control of /etc/localtime handling of the container. |
771 | ||
5cadf58e | 772 | * systemd-detect-virt gained a new --list switch, which will print a |
41a4c3ec LP |
773 | list of all currently known VM and container environments. |
774 | ||
5cadf58e | 775 | * Support for "Portable Services" has been added, see |
41a4c3ec | 776 | doc/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md for details. Currently, the support is still |
5cadf58e ZJS |
777 | experimental, but this is expected to change soon. Reflecting this |
778 | experimental state, the "portablectl" binary is not installed into | |
41a4c3ec LP |
779 | /usr/bin yet. The binary has to be called with the full path |
780 | /usr/lib/systemd/portablectl instead. | |
781 | ||
782 | * journalctl's and systemctl's -o switch now knows a new log output | |
783 | mode "with-unit". The output it generates is very similar to the | |
784 | regular "short" mode, but displays the unit name instead of the | |
785 | syslog tag for each log line. Also, the date is shown with timezone | |
786 | information. This mode is probably more useful than the classic | |
787 | "short" output mode for most purposes, except where pixel-perfect | |
788 | compatibility with classic /var/log/messages formatting is required. | |
789 | ||
790 | * A new --dump-bus-properties switch has been added to the systemd | |
791 | binary, which may be used to dump all supported D-Bus properties. | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
792 | (Options which are still supported, but are deprecated, are *not* |
793 | shown.) | |
41a4c3ec | 794 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
795 | * sd-bus gained a set of new calls: |
796 | sd_bus_slot_set_floating()/sd_bus_slot_get_floating() may be used to | |
797 | enable/disable the "floating" state of a bus slot object, | |
798 | i.e. whether the slot object pins the bus it is allocated for into | |
799 | memory or if the bus slot object gets disconnected when the bus goes | |
800 | away. sd_bus_open_with_description(), | |
801 | sd_bus_open_user_with_description(), | |
802 | sd_bus_open_system_with_description() may be used to allocate bus | |
803 | objects and set their description string already during allocation. | |
804 | ||
805 | * sd-event gained support for watching inotify events from the event | |
806 | loop, in an efficient way, sharing inotify handles between multiple | |
807 | users. For this a new function sd_event_add_inotify() has been added. | |
808 | ||
809 | * sd-event and sd-bus gained support for calling special user-supplied | |
810 | destructor functions for userdata pointers associated with | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
811 | sd_event_source, sd_bus_slot, and sd_bus_track objects. For this new |
812 | functions sd_bus_slot_set_destroy_callback, | |
813 | sd_bus_slot_get_destroy_callback, sd_bus_track_set_destroy_callback, | |
814 | sd_bus_track_get_destroy_callback, | |
815 | sd_event_source_set_destroy_callback, | |
816 | sd_event_source_get_destroy_callback have been added. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
817 | |
818 | * The "net.ipv4.tcp_ecn" sysctl will now be turned on by default. | |
819 | ||
820 | * PID 1 will now automatically reschedule .timer units whenever the | |
5cadf58e | 821 | local timezone changes. (They previously got rescheduled |
41a4c3ec LP |
822 | automatically when the system clock changed.) |
823 | ||
824 | * New documentation has been added to document cgroups delegation, | |
825 | portable services and the various code quality tools we have set up: | |
826 | ||
a8a27374 SK |
827 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CGROUP_DELEGATION.md |
828 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md | |
829 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CODE_QUALITY.md | |
41a4c3ec | 830 | |
d6906108 LP |
831 | * The Boot Loader Specification has been added to the source tree. |
832 | ||
a8a27374 | 833 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION.md |
d6906108 LP |
834 | |
835 | While moving it into our source tree we have updated it and further | |
836 | changes are now accepted through the usual github PR workflow. | |
837 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
838 | * pam_systemd will now look for PAM userdata fields systemd.memory_max, |
839 | systemd.tasks_max, systemd.cpu_weight, systemd.io_weight set by | |
840 | earlier PAM modules. The data in these fields is used to initialize | |
841 | the session scope's resource properties. Thus external PAM modules | |
842 | may now configure per-session limits, for example sourced from | |
843 | external user databases. | |
844 | ||
845 | * socket units with Accept=yes will now maintain a "refused" counter in | |
846 | addition to the existing "accepted" counter, counting connections | |
847 | refused due to the enforced limits. | |
848 | ||
849 | * The "systemd-path search-binaries-default" command may now be use to | |
850 | query the default, built-in $PATH PID 1 will pass to the services it | |
851 | manages. | |
852 | ||
c49a7cbd LP |
853 | * A new unit file setting PrivateMounts= has been added. It's a boolean |
854 | option. If enabled the unit's processes are invoked in their own file | |
855 | system namespace. Note that this behaviour is also implied if any | |
856 | other file system namespacing options (such as PrivateTmp=, | |
857 | PrivateDevices=, ProtectSystem=, …) are used. This option is hence | |
858 | primarily useful for services that do not use any of the other file | |
859 | system namespacing options. One such service is systemd-udevd.service | |
860 | wher this is now used by default. | |
861 | ||
57ab451e ZJS |
862 | * ConditionSecurity= gained a new value "uefi-secureboot" that is true |
863 | when the system is booted in UEFI "secure mode". | |
864 | ||
c7668c1c LP |
865 | * A new unit "system-update-pre.target" is added, which defines an |
866 | optional synchronization point for offline system updates, as | |
867 | implemented by the pre-existing "system-update.target" unit. It | |
868 | allows ordering services before the service that executes the actual | |
869 | update process in a generic way. | |
870 | ||
41a4c3ec | 871 | Contributions from: Adam Duskett, Alan Jenkins, Alessandro Casale, |
ec53d48c | 872 | Alexander Kurtz, Alex Gartrell, Anssi Hannula, Arnaud Rebillout, Brian |
bb6f071f LP |
873 | J. Murrell, Bruno Vernay, Chris Lamb, Chris Lesiak, Christian Brauner, |
874 | Christian Hesse, Christian Rebischke, Colin Guthrie, Daniel Dao, Daniel | |
875 | Lin, Danylo Korostil, Davide Cavalca, David Tardon, Dimitri John | |
876 | Ledkov, Dmitriy Geels, Douglas Christman, Elia Geretto, emelenas, Emil | |
877 | Velikov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Feng Sun, Filipe | |
878 | Brandenburger, Franck Bui, futpib, Giuseppe Scrivano, Guillem Jover, | |
879 | guixxx, Hannes Reinecke, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Henrique Dante de | |
880 | Almeida, Hiram van Paassen, Ian Miell, Igor Gnatenko, Ivan Shapovalov, | |
881 | Iwan Timmer, James Cowgill, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Jared Kazimir, | |
882 | Jérémy Rosen, João Paulo Rechi Vita, Joost Heitbrink, Jui-Chi Ricky | |
883 | Liang, Jürg Billeter, Kai-Heng Feng, Karol Augustin, Kay Sievers, | |
884 | Krzysztof Nowicki, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lennart Poettering, Leonard König, | |
885 | Long Li, Luca Boccassi, Lucas Werkmeister, Marcel Hoppe, Marc | |
886 | Kleine-Budde, Mario Limonciello, Martin Jansa, Martin Wilck, Mathieu | |
887 | Malaterre, Matteo F. Vescovi, Matthew McGinn, Matthias-Christian Ott, | |
888 | Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Prokop, Michal Koutný, Michal | |
889 | Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Mikhail Kasimov, Milan Broz, Milan Pässler, | |
890 | Mladen Pejaković, Muhammet Kara, Nicolas Boichat, Omer Katz, Paride | |
891 | Legovini, Paul Menzel, Paul Milliken, Pavel Hrdina, Peter A. Bigot, | |
892 | Peter D'Hoye, Peter Hutterer, Peter Jones, Philip Sequeira, Philip | |
61d0025d | 893 | Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Radostin Stoyanov, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo, |
bb6f071f LP |
894 | Ronny Chevalier, Rosen Penev, Rubén Suárez Alvarez, Ryan Gonzalez, |
895 | Salvo Tomaselli, Sebastian Reichel, Sergey Ptashnick, Sergio Lindo | |
896 | Mansilla, Stefan Schweter, Stephen Hemminger, Stuart Hayes, Susant | |
897 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Jungel, | |
898 | Tomasz Torcz, Vito Caputo, Will Dietz, Will Thompson, Wim van Mourik, | |
899 | Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
41a4c3ec | 900 | |
e8498f82 | 901 | — Berlin, 2018-06-22 |
41a4c3ec | 902 | |
c657bff1 | 903 | CHANGES WITH 238: |
e0c46a73 LP |
904 | |
905 | * The MemoryAccounting= unit property now defaults to on. After | |
906 | discussions with the upstream control group maintainers we learnt | |
907 | that the negative impact of cgroup memory accounting on current | |
908 | kernels is finally relatively minimal, so that it should be safe to | |
444d5863 ZJS |
909 | enable this by default without affecting system performance. Besides |
910 | memory accounting only task accounting is turned on by default, all | |
911 | other forms of resource accounting (CPU, IO, IP) remain off for now, | |
912 | because it's not clear yet that their impact is small enough to move | |
913 | from opt-in to opt-out. We recommend downstreams to leave memory | |
07a35e84 | 914 | accounting on by default if kernel 4.14 or higher is primarily |
444d5863 ZJS |
915 | used. On very resource constrained systems or when support for old |
916 | kernels is a necessity, -Dmemory-accounting-default=false can be used | |
917 | to revert this change. | |
e0c46a73 | 918 | |
313c32c3 ZJS |
919 | * rpm scriptlets to update the udev hwdb and rules (%udev_hwdb_update, |
920 | %udev_rules_update) and the journal catalog (%journal_catalog_update) | |
921 | from the upgrade scriptlets of individual packages now do nothing. | |
922 | Transfiletriggers have been added which will perform those updates | |
923 | once at the end of the transaction. | |
924 | ||
925 | Similar transfiletriggers have been added to execute any sysctl.d | |
926 | and binfmt.d rules. Thus, it should be unnecessary to provide any | |
927 | scriptlets to execute this configuration from package installation | |
928 | scripts. | |
929 | ||
930 | * systemd-sysusers gained a mode where the configuration to execute is | |
931 | specified on the command line, but this configuration is not executed | |
932 | directly, but instead it is merged with the configuration on disk, | |
933 | and the result is executed. This is useful for package installation | |
934 | scripts which want to create the user before installing any files on | |
935 | disk (in case some of those files are owned by that user), while | |
936 | still allowing local admin overrides. | |
937 | ||
07a35e84 | 938 | This functionality is exposed to rpm scriptlets through a new |
313c32c3 ZJS |
939 | %sysusers_create_package macro. Old %sysusers_create and |
940 | %sysusers_create_inline macros are deprecated. | |
941 | ||
942 | A transfiletrigger for sysusers.d configuration is now installed, | |
07a35e84 | 943 | which means that it should be unnecessary to call systemd-sysusers from |
313c32c3 ZJS |
944 | package installation scripts, unless the package installs any files |
945 | owned by those newly-created users, in which case | |
946 | %sysusers_create_package should be used. | |
947 | ||
948 | * Analogous change has been done for systemd-tmpfiles: it gained a mode | |
949 | where the command-line configuration is merged with the configuration | |
950 | on disk. This is exposed as the new %tmpfiles_create_package macro, | |
951 | and %tmpfiles_create is deprecated. A transfiletrigger is installed | |
952 | for tmpfiles.d, hence it should be unnecessary to call systemd-tmpfiles | |
953 | from package installation scripts. | |
954 | ||
955 | * sysusers.d configuration for a user may now also specify the group | |
956 | number, in addition to the user number ("u username 123:456"), or | |
957 | without the user number ("u username -:456"). | |
958 | ||
959 | * Configution items for systemd-sysusers can now be specified as | |
960 | positional arguments when the new --inline switch is used. | |
961 | ||
962 | * The login shell of users created through sysusers.d may now be | |
963 | specified (previously, it was always /bin/sh for root and | |
964 | /sbin/nologin for other users). | |
965 | ||
966 | * systemd-analyze gained a new --global switch to look at global user | |
967 | configuration. It also gained a unit-paths verb to list the unit load | |
968 | paths that are compiled into systemd (which can be used with | |
969 | --systemd, --user, or --global). | |
970 | ||
971 | * udevadm trigger gained a new --settle/-w option to wait for any | |
972 | triggered events to finish (but just those, and not any other events | |
973 | which are triggered meanwhile). | |
974 | ||
975 | * The action that systemd-logind takes when the lid is closed and the | |
976 | machine is connected to external power can now be configured using | |
977 | HandleLidSwitchExternalPower= in logind.conf. Previously, this action | |
978 | was determined by HandleLidSwitch=, and, for backwards compatibility, | |
979 | is still is, if HandleLidSwitchExternalPower= is not explicitly set. | |
980 | ||
981 | * journalctl will periodically call sd_journal_process() to make it | |
982 | resilient against inotify queue overruns when journal files are | |
983 | rotated very quickly. | |
984 | ||
985 | * Two new functions in libsystemd — sd_bus_get_n_queued_read and | |
986 | sd_bus_get_n_queued_write — may be used to check the number of | |
987 | pending bus messages. | |
988 | ||
989 | * systemd gained a new | |
990 | org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.AttachProcessesToUnit dbus call | |
991 | which can be used to migrate foreign processes to scope and service | |
992 | units. The primary user for this new API is systemd itself: the | |
993 | systemd --user instance uses this call of the systemd --system | |
994 | instance to migrate processes if it itself gets the request to | |
995 | migrate processes and the kernel refuses this due to access | |
996 | restrictions. Thanks to this "systemd-run --scope --user …" works | |
4e1dfa45 | 997 | again in pure cgroup v2 environments when invoked from the user |
313c32c3 ZJS |
998 | session scope. |
999 | ||
1000 | * A new TemporaryFileSystem= setting can be used to mask out part of | |
1001 | the real file system tree with tmpfs mounts. This may be combined | |
1002 | with BindPaths= and BindReadOnlyPaths= to hide files or directories | |
1003 | not relevant to the unit, while still allowing some paths lower in | |
1004 | the tree to be accessed. | |
1005 | ||
1006 | ProtectHome=tmpfs may now be used to hide user home and runtime | |
1007 | directories from units, in a way that is mostly equivalent to | |
1008 | "TemporaryFileSystem=/home /run/user /root". | |
1009 | ||
1010 | * Non-service units are now started with KeyringMode=shared by default. | |
1011 | This means that mount and swapon and other mount tools have access | |
1012 | to keys in the main keyring. | |
1013 | ||
1014 | * /sys/fs/bpf is now mounted automatically. | |
1015 | ||
1016 | * QNX virtualization is now detected by systemd-detect-virt and may | |
1017 | be used in ConditionVirtualization=. | |
1018 | ||
1019 | * IPAccounting= may now be enabled also for slice units. | |
1020 | ||
1021 | * A new -Dsplit-bin= build configuration switch may be used to specify | |
1022 | whether bin and sbin directories are merged, or if they should be | |
1023 | included separately in $PATH and various listings of executable | |
1024 | directories. The build configuration scripts will try to autodetect | |
1025 | the proper values of -Dsplit-usr= and -Dsplit-bin= based on build | |
1026 | system, but distributions are encouraged to configure this | |
1027 | explicitly. | |
1028 | ||
1029 | * A new -Dok-color= build configuration switch may be used to change | |
1030 | the colour of "OK" status messages. | |
1031 | ||
1032 | * UPGRADE ISSUE: serialization of units using JoinsNamespaceOf= with | |
1033 | PrivateNetwork=yes was buggy in previous versions of systemd. This | |
1034 | means that after the upgrade and daemon-reexec, any such units must | |
1035 | be restarted. | |
1036 | ||
1037 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: as announced in the NEWS for 237, systemd-tmpfiles | |
1038 | will not exclude read-only files owned by root from cleanup. | |
1039 | ||
c657bff1 ZJS |
1040 | Contributions from: Alan Jenkins, Alexander F Rødseth, Alexis Jeandet, |
1041 | Andika Triwidada, Andrei Gherzan, Ansgar Burchardt, antizealot1337, | |
1042 | Batuhan Osman Taşkaya, Beniamino Galvani, Bill Yodlowsky, Caio Marcelo | |
1043 | de Oliveira Filho, CuBiC, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mouritzen, Daniel | |
1044 | Rusek, Davide Cavalca, Dimitri John Ledkov, Douglas Christman, Evgeny | |
1045 | Vereshchagin, Faalagorn, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, futpib, | |
1046 | Giacomo Longo, Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Hans de Goede, Hermann Gausterer, | |
1047 | Iago López Galeiras, Jakub Filak, Jan Synacek, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
1048 | Javier Martinez Canillas, Jérémy Rosen, Lennart Poettering, Lucas | |
1049 | Werkmeister, Mao Huang, Marco Gulino, Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, | |
1050 | MilhouseVH, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ), Oleander Reis, Olof Mogren, | |
1051 | Patrick Uiterwijk, Peter Hutterer, Peter Portante, Piotr Drąg, Robert | |
1052 | Antoni Buj Gelonch, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shuang Liu, Simon | |
1053 | Fowler, SjonHortensius, snorreflorre, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
1054 | Plantefève, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Vito Caputo, Yu Watanabe, | |
1055 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић (Marko M. Kostić) | |
1056 | ||
1057 | — Warsaw, 2018-03-05 | |
1058 | ||
82c8e3e6 | 1059 | CHANGES WITH 237: |
2b0c59ba MP |
1060 | |
1061 | * Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got | |
1062 | mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these | |
1063 | keycodes are not recognized by any major desktop. They now produce | |
1064 | Up/Down key events so that they can be used for scrolling. | |
1065 | ||
49e87292 LP |
1066 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: systemd-tmpfiles' "f" lines changed behaviour |
1067 | slightly: previously, if an argument was specified for lines of this | |
1068 | type (i.e. the right-most column was set) this string was appended to | |
1069 | existing files each time systemd-tmpfiles was run. This behaviour was | |
1070 | different from what the documentation said, and not particularly | |
1071 | useful, as repeated systemd-tmpfiles invocations would not be | |
1072 | idempotent and grow such files without bounds. With this release | |
15c5594b ZJS |
1073 | behaviour has been altered to match what the documentation says: |
1074 | lines of this type only have an effect if the indicated files don't | |
1075 | exist yet, and only then the argument string is written to the file. | |
49e87292 | 1076 | |
82c8e3e6 LP |
1077 | * FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY: In systemd v238 we intend to slightly change |
1078 | systemd-tmpfiles behaviour: previously, read-only files owned by root | |
1079 | were always excluded from the file "aging" algorithm (i.e. the | |
1080 | automatic clean-up of directories like /tmp based on | |
1081 | atime/mtime/ctime). We intend to drop this restriction, and age files | |
1082 | by default even when owned by root and read-only. This behaviour was | |
1083 | inherited from older tools, but there have been requests to remove | |
1084 | it, and it's not obvious why this restriction was made in the first | |
1085 | place. Please speak up now, if you are aware of software that reqires | |
1086 | this behaviour, otherwise we'll remove the restriction in v238. | |
1087 | ||
95894b91 LP |
1088 | * A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_OFFLINE is now understood by |
1089 | systemctl. It takes a boolean argument. If on, systemctl assumes it | |
1090 | operates on an "offline" OS tree, and will not attempt to talk to the | |
1091 | service manager. Previously, this mode was implicitly enabled if a | |
1092 | chroot() environment was detected, and this new environment variable | |
1093 | now provides explicit control. | |
1094 | ||
1a0cd2c7 ZJS |
1095 | * .path and .socket units may now be created transiently, too. |
1096 | Previously only service, mount, automount and timer units were | |
95894b91 LP |
1097 | supported as transient units. The systemd-run tool has been updated |
1098 | to expose this new functionality, you may hence use it now to bind | |
1099 | arbitrary commands to path or socket activation on-the-fly from the | |
1a0cd2c7 ZJS |
1100 | command line. Moreover, almost all properties are now exposed for the |
1101 | unit types that already supported transient operation. | |
95894b91 LP |
1102 | |
1103 | * The systemd-mount command gained support for a new --owner= parameter | |
1104 | which takes a user name, which is then resolved and included in uid= | |
1105 | and gid= mount options string of the file system to mount. | |
1106 | ||
1107 | * A new unit condition ConditionControlGroupController= has been added | |
1108 | that checks whether a specific cgroup controller is available. | |
1109 | ||
1110 | * Unit files, udev's .link files, and systemd-networkd's .netdev and | |
1111 | .network files all gained support for a new condition | |
1112 | ConditionKernelVersion= for checking against specific kernel | |
1113 | versions. | |
1114 | ||
1115 | * In systemd-networkd, the [IPVLAN] section in .netdev files gained | |
6cddc792 | 1116 | support for configuring device flags in the Flags= setting. In the |
95894b91 LP |
1117 | same files, the [Tunnel] section gained support for configuring |
1118 | AllowLocalRemote=. The [Route] section in .network files gained | |
1119 | support for configuring InitialCongestionWindow=, | |
1120 | InitialAdvertisedReceiveWindow= and QuickAck=. The [DHCP] section now | |
1121 | understands RapidCommit=. | |
1122 | ||
1123 | * systemd-networkd's DHCPv6 support gained support for Prefix | |
1124 | Delegation. | |
1125 | ||
1126 | * sd-bus gained support for a new "watch-bind" feature. When this | |
1127 | feature is enabled, an sd_bus connection may be set up to connect to | |
1128 | an AF_UNIX socket in the file system as soon as it is created. This | |
1129 | functionality is useful for writing early-boot services that | |
1130 | automatically connect to the system bus as soon as it is started, | |
1131 | without ugly time-based polling. systemd-networkd and | |
1132 | systemd-resolved have been updated to make use of this | |
1133 | functionality. busctl exposes this functionality in a new | |
1134 | --watch-bind= command line switch. | |
1135 | ||
1136 | * sd-bus will now optionally synthesize a local "Connected" signal as | |
1137 | soon as a D-Bus connection is set up fully. This message mirrors the | |
1138 | already existing "Disconnected" signal which is synthesized when the | |
1139 | connection is terminated. This signal is generally useful but | |
1140 | particularly handy in combination with the "watch-bind" feature | |
1141 | described above. Synthesizing of this message has to be requested | |
1142 | explicitly through the new API call sd_bus_set_connected_signal(). In | |
1143 | addition a new call sd_bus_is_ready() has been added that checks | |
caf2a2d8 | 1144 | whether a connection is fully set up (i.e. between the "Connected" and |
95894b91 LP |
1145 | "Disconnected" signals). |
1146 | ||
1147 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_request_name_async() and | |
1148 | sd_bus_release_name_async() for asynchronously registering bus | |
1149 | names. Similar, there is now sd_bus_add_match_async() for installing | |
1150 | a signal match asynchronously. All of systemd's own services have | |
1151 | been updated to make use of these calls. Doing these operations | |
1152 | asynchronously has two benefits: it reduces the risk of deadlocks in | |
1153 | case of cyclic dependencies between bus services, and it speeds up | |
1154 | service initialization since synchronization points for bus | |
1155 | round-trips are removed. | |
1156 | ||
1157 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_match_signal() and | |
1158 | sd_bus_match_signal_async(), which are similar to sd_bus_add_match() | |
1159 | and sd_bus_add_match_async() but instead of taking a D-Bus match | |
1160 | string take match fields as normal function parameters. | |
1161 | ||
1162 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_set_sender() and | |
1163 | sd_bus_message_set_sender() for setting the sender name of outgoing | |
1164 | messages (either for all outgoing messages or for just one specific | |
1165 | one). These calls are only useful in direct connections as on | |
1166 | brokered connections the broker fills in the sender anyway, | |
1167 | overwriting whatever the client filled in. | |
1168 | ||
1169 | * sd-event gained a new pseudo-handle that may be specified on all API | |
1170 | calls where an "sd_event*" object is expected: SD_EVENT_DEFAULT. When | |
1171 | used this refers to the default event loop object of the calling | |
1172 | thread. Note however that this does not implicitly allocate one — | |
6cddc792 CR |
1173 | which has to be done prior by using sd_event_default(). Similarly |
1174 | sd-bus gained three new pseudo-handles SD_BUS_DEFAULT, | |
95894b91 LP |
1175 | SD_BUS_DEFAULT_USER, SD_BUS_DEFAULT_SYSTEM that may be used to refer |
1176 | to the default bus of the specified type of the calling thread. Here | |
1177 | too this does not implicitly allocate bus connection objects, this | |
1178 | has to be done prior with sd_bus_default() and friends. | |
1179 | ||
1180 | * sd-event gained a new call pair | |
6cddc792 CR |
1181 | sd_event_source_{get|set}_io_fd_own(). This may be used to request |
1182 | automatic closure of the file descriptor an IO event source watches | |
95894b91 LP |
1183 | when the event source is destroyed. |
1184 | ||
1185 | * systemd-networkd gained support for natively configuring WireGuard | |
1186 | connections. | |
1187 | ||
6cddc792 CR |
1188 | * In previous versions systemd synthesized user records both for the |
1189 | "nobody" (UID 65534) and "root" (UID 0) users in nss-systemd and | |
1190 | internally. In order to simplify distribution-wide renames of the | |
95894b91 LP |
1191 | "nobody" user (like it is planned in Fedora: nfsnobody → nobody), a |
1192 | new transitional flag file has been added: if | |
1193 | /etc/systemd/dont-synthesize-nobody exists synthesizing of the 65534 | |
1194 | user and group record within the systemd codebase is disabled. | |
1195 | ||
1196 | * systemd-notify gained a new --uid= option for selecting the source | |
1197 | user/UID to use for notification messages sent to the service | |
1198 | manager. | |
1199 | ||
31751f7e | 1200 | * journalctl gained a new --grep= option to list only entries in which |
e6501af8 ZJS |
1201 | the message matches a certain pattern. By default matching is case |
1202 | insensitive if the pattern is lowercase, and case sensitive | |
1203 | otherwise. Option --case-sensitive=yes|no can be used to override | |
1204 | this an specify case sensitivity or case insensitivity. | |
1205 | ||
56a29112 | 1206 | * There's now a "systemd-analyze service-watchdogs" command for printing |
508058c9 | 1207 | the current state of the service runtime watchdog, and optionally |
56a29112 | 1208 | enabling or disabling the per-service watchdogs system-wide if given a |
508058c9 LP |
1209 | boolean argument (i.e. the concept you configure in WatchdogSec=), for |
1210 | debugging purposes. There's also a kernel command line option | |
56a29112 | 1211 | systemd.service_watchdogs= for controlling the same. |
508058c9 LP |
1212 | |
1213 | * Two new "log-level" and "log-target" options for systemd-analyze were | |
bc99dac5 | 1214 | added that merge the now deprecated get-log-level, set-log-level and |
508058c9 LP |
1215 | get-log-target, set-log-target pairs. The deprecated options are still |
1216 | understood for backwards compatibility. The two new options print the | |
1217 | current value when no arguments are given, and set them when a | |
56a29112 | 1218 | level/target is given as an argument. |
95894b91 | 1219 | |
508058c9 LP |
1220 | * sysusers.d's "u" lines now optionally accept both a UID and a GID |
1221 | specification, separated by a ":" character, in order to create users | |
1222 | where UID and GID do not match. | |
1223 | ||
95894b91 | 1224 | Contributions from: Adam Duskett, Alan Jenkins, Alexander Kuleshov, |
508058c9 LP |
1225 | Alexis Deruelle, Andrew Jeddeloh, Armin Widegreen, Batuhan Osman |
1226 | Taşkaya, Björn Esser, bleep_blop, Bruce A. Johnson, Chris Down, Clinton | |
1227 | Roy, Colin Walters, Daniel Rusek, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitry Rozhkov, | |
1228 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Ewout van Mansom, Felipe Sateler, Franck Bui, | |
1229 | Frantisek Sumsal, George Gaydarov, Gianluca Boiano, Hans-Christian | |
1230 | Noren Egtvedt, Hans de Goede, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jan Alexander | |
1231 | Steffens, Jan Klötzke, Jason A. Donenfeld, jdkbx, Jérémy Rosen, | |
1232 | Jerónimo Borque, John Lin, John Paul Herold, Jonathan Rudenberg, Jörg | |
1233 | Thalheim, Ken (Bitsko) MacLeod, Larry Bernstone, Lennart Poettering, | |
1234 | Lucas Werkmeister, Maciej S. Szmigiero, Marek Čermák, Martin Pitt, | |
1235 | Mathieu Malaterre, Matthew Thode, Matthias-Christian Ott, Max Harmathy, | |
1236 | Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Michał | |
1237 | Szczepański, Mike Gilbert, Nathaniel McCallum, Nicolas Chauvet, Olaf | |
1238 | Hering, Olivier Schwander, Patrik Flykt, Paul Cercueil, Peter Hutterer, | |
1239 | Piotr Drąg, Raphael Vogelgsang, Reverend Homer, Robert Kolchmeyer, | |
1240 | Samuel Dionne-Riel, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Susant Sahani, | |
1241 | Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Thomas Huth, Tomasz | |
1242 | Bachorski, Vladislav Vishnyakov, Wieland Hoffmann, Yu Watanabe, Zachary | |
1243 | Winnerman, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Дамјан Георгиевски, Дилян | |
1244 | Палаузов | |
1245 | ||
1246 | — Brno, 2018-01-28 | |
2b0c59ba | 1247 | |
a1b2c92d | 1248 | CHANGES WITH 236: |
195b943d | 1249 | |
89780840 ZJS |
1250 | * The modprobe.d/ drop-in for the bonding.ko kernel module introduced |
1251 | in v235 has been extended to also set the dummy.ko module option | |
1252 | numdummies=0, preventing the kernel from automatically creating | |
1253 | dummy0. All dummy interfaces must now be explicitly created. | |
195b943d | 1254 | |
3925496a LP |
1255 | * Unknown '%' specifiers in configuration files are now rejected. This |
1256 | applies to units and tmpfiles.d configuration. Any percent characters | |
1257 | that are followed by a letter or digit that are not supposed to be | |
1258 | interpreted as the beginning of a specifier should be escaped by | |
1259 | doubling ("%%"). (So "size=5%" is still accepted, as well as | |
1260 | "size=5%,foo=bar", but not "LABEL=x%y%z" since %y and %z are not | |
1261 | valid specifiers today.) | |
751223fe | 1262 | |
e6b2d948 | 1263 | * systemd-resolved now maintains a new dynamic |
89780840 ZJS |
1264 | /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf compatibility file. It is |
1265 | recommended to make /etc/resolv.conf a symlink to it. This file | |
1266 | points at the systemd-resolved stub DNS 127.0.0.53 resolver and | |
1267 | includes dynamically acquired search domains, achieving more correct | |
1268 | DNS resolution by software that bypasses local DNS APIs such as NSS. | |
e6b2d948 | 1269 | |
67eb5b38 LP |
1270 | * The "uaccess" udev tag has been dropped from /dev/kvm and |
1271 | /dev/dri/renderD*. These devices now have the 0666 permissions by | |
1272 | default (but this may be changed at build-time). /dev/dri/renderD* | |
1273 | will now be owned by the "render" group along with /dev/kfd. | |
1274 | ||
89780840 ZJS |
1275 | * "DynamicUser=yes" has been enabled for systemd-timesyncd.service, |
1276 | systemd-journal-gatewayd.service and | |
1277 | systemd-journal-upload.service. This means "nss-systemd" must be | |
1278 | enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf to ensure the UIDs assigned to these | |
1279 | services are resolved properly. | |
67eb5b38 | 1280 | |
3925496a LP |
1281 | * In /etc/fstab two new mount options are now understood: |
1282 | x-systemd.makefs and x-systemd.growfs. The former has the effect that | |
1283 | the configured file system is formatted before it is mounted, the | |
1284 | latter that the file system is resized to the full block device size | |
1285 | after it is mounted (i.e. if the file system is smaller than the | |
1286 | partition it resides on, it's grown). This is similar to the fsck | |
1287 | logic in /etc/fstab, and pulls in systemd-makefs@.service and | |
1288 | systemd-growfs@.service as necessary, similar to | |
1289 | systemd-fsck@.service. Resizing is currently only supported on ext4 | |
1290 | and btrfs. | |
1291 | ||
67eb5b38 LP |
1292 | * In systemd-networkd, the IPv6 RA logic now optionally may announce |
1293 | DNS server and domain information. | |
1294 | ||
1295 | * Support for the LUKS2 on-disk format for encrypted partitions has | |
1296 | been added. This requires libcryptsetup2 during compilation and | |
1297 | runtime. | |
1298 | ||
89780840 | 1299 | * The systemd --user instance will now signal "readiness" when its |
67eb5b38 LP |
1300 | basic.target unit has been reached, instead of when the run queue ran |
1301 | empty for the first time. | |
1302 | ||
8ea2dcb0 ZJS |
1303 | * Tmpfiles.d with user configuration are now also supported. |
1304 | systemd-tmpfiles gained a new --user switch, and snippets placed in | |
1305 | ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/ and corresponding directories will be | |
1306 | executed by systemd-tmpfiles --user running in the new | |
1307 | systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service and systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service | |
1308 | running in the user session. | |
1309 | ||
1310 | * Unit files and tmpfiles.d snippets learnt three new % specifiers: | |
1311 | %S resolves to the top-level state directory (/var/lib for the system | |
1312 | instance, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for the user instance), %C resolves to the | |
1313 | top-level cache directory (/var/cache for the system instance, | |
1314 | $XDG_CACHE_HOME for the user instance), %L resolves to the top-level | |
1315 | logs directory (/var/log for the system instance, | |
67eb5b38 | 1316 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/log/ for the user instance). This matches the |
8ea2dcb0 | 1317 | existing %t specifier, that resolves to the top-level runtime |
67eb5b38 LP |
1318 | directory (/run for the system instance, and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for the |
1319 | user instance). | |
1320 | ||
1321 | * journalctl learnt a new parameter --output-fields= for limiting the | |
1322 | set of journal fields to output in verbose and JSON output modes. | |
1323 | ||
1324 | * systemd-timesyncd's configuration file gained a new option | |
89780840 ZJS |
1325 | RootDistanceMaxSec= for setting the maximum root distance of servers |
1326 | it'll use, as well as the new options PollIntervalMinSec= and | |
1327 | PollIntervalMaxSec= to tweak the minimum and maximum poll interval. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
1328 | |
1329 | * bootctl gained a new command "list" for listing all available boot | |
89780840 | 1330 | menu items on systems that follow the boot loader specification. |
67eb5b38 LP |
1331 | |
1332 | * systemctl gained a new --dry-run switch that shows what would be done | |
1333 | instead of doing it, and is currently supported by the shutdown and | |
1334 | sleep verbs. | |
1335 | ||
e9ad86d5 | 1336 | * ConditionSecurity= can now detect the TOMOYO security module. |
67eb5b38 LP |
1337 | |
1338 | * Unit file [Install] sections are now also respected in unit drop-in | |
89780840 | 1339 | files. This is intended to be used by drop-ins under /usr/lib/. |
67eb5b38 | 1340 | |
89780840 | 1341 | * systemd-firstboot may now also set the initial keyboard mapping. |
67eb5b38 | 1342 | |
89780840 ZJS |
1343 | * Udev "changed" events for devices which are exposed as systemd |
1344 | .device units are now propagated to units specified in | |
1345 | ReloadPropagatedFrom= as reload requests. | |
67eb5b38 | 1346 | |
89780840 ZJS |
1347 | * If a udev device has a SYSTEMD_WANTS= property containing a systemd |
1348 | unit template name (i.e. a name in the form of 'foobar@.service', | |
1349 | without the instance component between the '@' and - the '.'), then | |
1350 | the escaped sysfs path of the device is automatically used as the | |
1351 | instance. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
1352 | |
1353 | * SystemCallFilter= in unit files has been extended so that an "errno" | |
1354 | can be specified individually for each system call. Example: | |
1355 | SystemCallFilter=~uname:EILSEQ. | |
1356 | ||
1357 | * The cgroup delegation logic has been substantially updated. Delegate= | |
1358 | now optionally takes a list of controllers (instead of a boolean, as | |
1359 | before), which lists the controllers to delegate at least. | |
1360 | ||
89780840 | 1361 | * The networkd DHCPv6 client now implements the FQDN option (RFC 4704). |
67eb5b38 | 1362 | |
89780840 ZJS |
1363 | * A new LogLevelMax= setting configures the maximum log level any |
1364 | process of the service may log at (i.e. anything with a lesser | |
1365 | priority than what is specified is automatically dropped). A new | |
1366 | LogExtraFields= setting allows configuration of additional journal | |
1367 | fields to attach to all log records generated by any of the unit's | |
1368 | processes. | |
67eb5b38 | 1369 | |
89780840 ZJS |
1370 | * New StandardInputData= and StandardInputText= settings along with the |
1371 | new option StandardInput=data may be used to configure textual or | |
1372 | binary data that shall be passed to the executed service process via | |
1373 | standard input, encoded in-line in the unit file. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
1374 | |
1375 | * StandardInput=, StandardOutput= and StandardError= may now be used to | |
1376 | connect stdin/stdout/stderr of executed processes directly with a | |
1377 | file or AF_UNIX socket in the file system, using the new "file:" option. | |
1378 | ||
89780840 ZJS |
1379 | * A new unit file option CollectMode= has been added, that allows |
1380 | tweaking the garbage collection logic for units. It may be used to | |
1381 | tell systemd to garbage collect units that have failed automatically | |
1382 | (normally it only GCs units that exited successfully). systemd-run | |
1383 | and systemd-mount expose this new functionality with a new -G option. | |
1384 | ||
67eb5b38 LP |
1385 | * "machinectl bind" may now be used to bind mount non-directories |
1386 | (i.e. regularfiles, devices, fifos, sockets). | |
1387 | ||
1388 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "calendar" for validating and | |
1389 | testing calendar time specifications to use for OnCalendar= in timer | |
1390 | units. Besides validating the expression it will calculate the next | |
1391 | time the specified expression would elapse. | |
1392 | ||
1393 | * In addition to the pre-existing FailureAction= unit file setting | |
89780840 ZJS |
1394 | there's now SuccessAction=, for configuring a shutdown action to |
1395 | execute when a unit completes successfully. This is useful in | |
1396 | particular inside containers that shall terminate after some workload | |
1397 | has been completed. Also, both options are now supported for all unit | |
1398 | types, not just services. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
1399 | |
1400 | * networkds's IP rule support gained two new options | |
dd014eeb | 1401 | IncomingInterface= and OutgoingInterface= for configuring the incoming |
67eb5b38 LP |
1402 | and outgoing interfaces of configured rules. systemd-networkd also |
1403 | gained support for "vxcan" network devices. | |
1404 | ||
1405 | * networkd gained a new setting RequiredForOnline=, taking a | |
1406 | boolean. If set, systemd-wait-online will take it into consideration | |
1407 | when determining that the system is up, otherwise it will ignore the | |
1408 | interface for this purpose. | |
1409 | ||
1410 | * The sd_notify() protocol gained support for a new operation: with | |
1411 | FDSTOREREMOVE=1 file descriptors may be removed from the per-service | |
1412 | store again, ahead of POLLHUP or POLLERR when they are removed | |
1413 | anyway. | |
1414 | ||
f09eb768 LP |
1415 | * A new document doc/UIDS-GIDS.md has been added to the source tree, |
1416 | that documents the UID/GID range and assignment assumptions and | |
3925496a LP |
1417 | requirements of systemd. |
1418 | ||
1419 | * The watchdog device PID 1 will ping may now be configured through the | |
1420 | WatchdogDevice= configuration file setting, or by setting the | |
1421 | systemd.watchdog_service= kernel commandline option. | |
1422 | ||
1423 | * systemd-resolved's gained support for registering DNS-SD services on | |
1424 | the local network using MulticastDNS. Services may either be | |
1425 | registered by dropping in a .dnssd file in /etc/systemd/dnssd/ (or | |
1426 | the same dir below /run, /usr/lib), or through its D-Bus API. | |
1427 | ||
a327431b DB |
1428 | * The sd_notify() protocol can now with EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC=microsecond |
1429 | extend the effective start, runtime, and stop time. The service must | |
1430 | continue to send EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC within the period specified to | |
1431 | prevent the service manager from making the service as timedout. | |
1432 | ||
ea2a3c9e LP |
1433 | * systemd-resolved's DNSSEC support gained support for RFC 8080 |
1434 | (Ed25519 keys and signatures). | |
1435 | ||
a1b2c92d LP |
1436 | * The systemd-resolve command line tool gained a new set of options |
1437 | --set-dns=, --set-domain=, --set-llmnr=, --set-mdns=, --set-dnssec=, | |
1438 | --set-nta= and --revert to configure per-interface DNS configuration | |
1439 | dynamically during runtime. It's useful for pushing DNS information | |
1440 | into systemd-resolved from DNS hook scripts that various interface | |
1441 | managing software supports (such as pppd). | |
1442 | ||
1443 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-namespace-path= command line | |
1444 | option, which may be used to make a container join an existing | |
1445 | network namespace, by specifying a path to a "netns" file. | |
1446 | ||
3925496a LP |
1447 | Contributions from: Alan Jenkins, Alan Robertson, Alessandro Ghedini, |
1448 | Andrew Jeddeloh, Antonio Rojas, Ari, asavah, bleep_blop, Carsten | |
1449 | Strotmann, Christian Brauner, Christian Hesse, Clinton Roy, Collin | |
ea2a3c9e | 1450 | Eggert, Cong Wang, Daniel Black, Daniel Lockyer, Daniel Rusek, Dimitri |
a1b2c92d LP |
1451 | John Ledkov, Dmitry Rozhkov, Dongsu Park, Edward A. James, Evgeny |
1452 | Vereshchagin, Florian Klink, Franck Bui, Gwendal Grignou, Hans de | |
1453 | Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Ikey Doherty, | |
1454 | Jakub Wilk, Jérémy Rosen, Jiahui Xie, John Lin, José Bollo, Josef | |
1455 | Andersson, juga0, Krzysztof Nowicki, Kyle Walker, Lars Karlitski, Lars | |
1456 | Kellogg-Stedman, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, | |
1457 | Luca Bruno, Lucas Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Lukáš Říha, Lukasz | |
1458 | Rubaszewski, Maciej S. Szmigiero, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcus Folkesson, | |
1459 | Martin Steuer, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Matija Skala, | |
1460 | Matthias-Christian Ott, Max Resch, Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, Michal | |
1461 | Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, Neil Brown, Olaf | |
1462 | Hering, Ondrej Kozina, Patrik Flykt, Patryk Kocielnik, Peter Hutterer, | |
1463 | Piotr Drąg, Razvan Cojocaru, Robin McCorkell, Roland Hieber, Saran | |
1464 | Tunyasuvunakool, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shuang Liu, Simon | |
1465 | Arlott, Simon Peeters, Stanislav Angelovič, Stefan Agner, Susant | |
1466 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Tiago Salem | |
1467 | Herrmann, Tinu Weber, Tom Stellard, Topi Miettinen, Torsten Hilbrich, | |
1468 | Vito Caputo, Vladislav Vishnyakov, WaLyong Cho, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
1469 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeal Jagannatha | |
67eb5b38 | 1470 | |
ea2a3c9e | 1471 | — Berlin, 2017-12-14 |
3754abc5 | 1472 | |
582faeb4 DJL |
1473 | CHANGES WITH 235: |
1474 | ||
2bcbffd6 LP |
1475 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: systemd-logind.service and other long-running |
1476 | services now run inside an IPv4/IPv6 sandbox, prohibiting them any IP | |
1477 | communication with the outside. This generally improves security of | |
1478 | the system, and is in almost all cases a safe and good choice, as | |
23d37367 | 1479 | these services do not and should not provide any network-facing |
2bcbffd6 LP |
1480 | functionality. However, systemd-logind uses the glibc NSS API to |
1481 | query the user database. This creates problems on systems where NSS | |
1482 | is set up to directly consult network services for user database | |
1483 | lookups. In particular, this creates incompatibilities with the | |
1484 | "nss-nis" module, which attempts to directly contact the NIS/YP | |
1485 | network servers it is configured for, and will now consistently | |
1486 | fail. In such cases, it is possible to turn off IP sandboxing for | |
1487 | systemd-logind.service (set IPAddressDeny= in its [Service] section | |
1488 | to the empty string, via a .d/ unit file drop-in). Downstream | |
1489 | distributions might want to update their nss-nis packaging to include | |
1490 | such a drop-in snippet, accordingly, to hide this incompatibility | |
1491 | from the user. Another option is to make use of glibc's nscd service | |
1492 | to proxy such network requests through a privilege-separated, minimal | |
1493 | local caching daemon, or to switch to more modern technologies such | |
1494 | sssd, whose NSS hook-ups generally do not involve direct network | |
1495 | access. In general, we think it's definitely time to question the | |
1496 | implementation choices of nss-nis, i.e. whether it's a good idea | |
1497 | today to embed a network-facing loadable module into all local | |
1498 | processes that need to query the user database, including the most | |
1499 | trivial and benign ones, such as "ls". For more details about | |
1500 | IPAddressDeny= see below. | |
1501 | ||
fccf5419 LP |
1502 | * A new modprobe.d drop-in is now shipped by default that sets the |
1503 | bonding module option max_bonds=0. This overrides the kernel default, | |
1504 | to avoid conflicts and ambiguity as to whether or not bond0 should be | |
1505 | managed by systemd-networkd or not. This resolves multiple issues | |
1506 | with bond0 properties not being applied, when bond0 is configured | |
1507 | with systemd-networkd. Distributors may choose to not package this, | |
1508 | however in that case users will be prevented from correctly managing | |
1509 | bond0 interface using systemd-networkd. | |
582faeb4 | 1510 | |
ef5a8cb1 | 1511 | * systemd-analyze gained new verbs "get-log-level" and "get-log-target" |
21723f53 ZJS |
1512 | which print the logging level and target of the system manager. They |
1513 | complement the existing "set-log-level" and "set-log-target" verbs | |
1514 | used to change those values. | |
ef5a8cb1 | 1515 | |
fccf5419 LP |
1516 | * journald.conf gained a new boolean setting ReadKMsg= which defaults |
1517 | to on. If turned off kernel log messages will not be read by | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1518 | systemd-journald or included in the logs. It also gained a new |
1519 | setting LineMax= for configuring the maximum line length in | |
1520 | STDOUT/STDERR log streams. The new default for this value is 48K, up | |
1521 | from the previous hardcoded 2048. | |
fccf5419 | 1522 | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1523 | * A new unit setting RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= has been added, which |
1524 | allows more detailed control of what to do with a runtime directory | |
1525 | configured with RuntimeDirectory= (i.e. a directory below /run or | |
1526 | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) after a unit is stopped. | |
fccf5419 LP |
1527 | |
1528 | * The RuntimeDirectory= setting for units gained support for creating | |
1529 | deeper subdirectories below /run or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, instead of just | |
1530 | one top-level directory. | |
1531 | ||
1532 | * Units gained new options StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, | |
1533 | LogsDirectory= and ConfigurationDirectory= which are closely related | |
1534 | to RuntimeDirectory= but manage per-service directories below | |
21723f53 | 1535 | /var/lib, /var/cache, /var/log and /etc. By making use of them it is |
fccf5419 LP |
1536 | possible to write unit files which when activated automatically gain |
1537 | properly owned service specific directories in these locations, thus | |
1538 | making unit files self-contained and increasing compatibility with | |
1539 | stateless systems and factory reset where /etc or /var are | |
1540 | unpopulated at boot. Matching these new settings there's also | |
1541 | StateDirectoryMode=, CacheDirectoryMode=, LogsDirectoryMode=, | |
1542 | ConfigurationDirectoryMode= for configuring the access mode of these | |
75dfbbac LP |
1543 | directories. These settings are particularly useful in combination |
1544 | with DynamicUser=yes as they provide secure, properly-owned, | |
1545 | writable, and stateful locations for storage, excluded from the | |
1546 | sandbox that such services live in otherwise. | |
fccf5419 LP |
1547 | |
1548 | * Automake support has been removed from this release. systemd is now | |
1549 | Meson-only. | |
1550 | ||
1551 | * systemd-journald will now aggressively cache client metadata during | |
1552 | runtime, speeding up log write performance under pressure. This comes | |
1553 | at a small price though: as much of the metadata is read | |
1554 | asynchronously from /proc/ (and isn't implicitly attached to log | |
1555 | datagrams by the kernel, like UID/GID/PID/SELinux are) this means the | |
1556 | metadata stored alongside a log entry might be slightly | |
1557 | out-of-date. Previously it could only be slightly newer than the log | |
1558 | message. The time window is small however, and given that the kernel | |
1559 | is unlikely to be improved anytime soon in this regard, this appears | |
1560 | acceptable to us. | |
1561 | ||
1562 | * nss-myhostname/systemd-resolved will now by default synthesize an | |
1563 | A/AAAA resource record for the "_gateway" hostname, pointing to the | |
1564 | current default IP gateway. Previously it did that for the "gateway" | |
1565 | name, hampering adoption, as some distributions wanted to leave that | |
1566 | host name open for local use. The old behaviour may still be | |
1567 | requested at build time. | |
1568 | ||
1569 | * systemd-networkd's [Address] section in .network files gained a new | |
1570 | Scope= setting for configuring the IP address scope. The [Network] | |
1571 | section gained a new boolean setting ConfigureWithoutCarrier= that | |
1572 | tells systemd-networkd to ignore link sensing when configuring the | |
1573 | device. The [DHCP] section gained a new Anonymize= boolean option for | |
1574 | turning on a number of options suggested in RFC 7844. A new | |
1575 | [RoutingPolicyRule] section has been added for configuring the IP | |
1576 | routing policy. The [Route] section has gained support for a new | |
1577 | Type= setting which permits configuring | |
1578 | blackhole/unreachable/prohibit routes. | |
1579 | ||
1580 | * The [VRF] section in .netdev files gained a new Table= setting for | |
1581 | configuring the routing table to use. The [Tunnel] section gained a | |
1582 | new Independent= boolean field for configuring tunnels independent of | |
1583 | an underlying network interface. The [Bridge] section gained a new | |
1584 | GroupForwardMask= option for configuration of propagation of link | |
1585 | local frames between bridge ports. | |
1586 | ||
1587 | * The WakeOnLan= setting in .link files gained support for a number of | |
1588 | new modes. A new TCP6SegmentationOffload= setting has been added for | |
1589 | configuring TCP/IPv6 hardware segmentation offload. | |
1590 | ||
1591 | * The IPv6 RA sender implementation may now optionally send out RDNSS | |
21723f53 | 1592 | and RDNSSL records to supply DNS configuration to peers. |
fccf5419 LP |
1593 | |
1594 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for a new --system-call-filter= command | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1595 | line option for adding and removing entries in the default system |
1596 | call filter it applies. Moreover systemd-nspawn has been changed to | |
fccf5419 LP |
1597 | implement a system call whitelist instead of a blacklist. |
1598 | ||
1599 | * systemd-run gained support for a new --pipe command line option. If | |
1600 | used the STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR file descriptors passed to systemd-run | |
1601 | are directly passed on to the activated transient service | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1602 | executable. This allows invoking arbitrary processes as systemd |
1603 | services (for example to take benefit of dependency management, | |
1604 | accounting management, resource management or log management that is | |
1605 | done automatically for services) — while still allowing them to be | |
fccf5419 LP |
1606 | integrated in a classic UNIX shell pipeline. |
1607 | ||
1608 | * When a service sends RELOAD=1 via sd_notify() and reload propagation | |
1609 | using ReloadPropagationTo= is configured, a reload is now propagated | |
1610 | to configured units. (Previously this was only done on explicitly | |
1611 | requested reloads, using "systemctl reload" or an equivalent | |
1612 | command.) | |
1613 | ||
1614 | * For each service unit a restart counter is now kept: it is increased | |
1615 | each time the service is restarted due to Restart=, and may be | |
1616 | queried using "systemctl show -p NRestarts …". | |
1617 | ||
44898c53 LP |
1618 | * New system call filter groups @aio, @sync, @chown, @setuid, @memlock, |
1619 | @signal and @timer have been added, for usage with SystemCallFilter= | |
fccf5419 LP |
1620 | in unit files and the new --system-call-filter= command line option |
1621 | of systemd-nspawn (see above). | |
1622 | ||
1623 | * ExecStart= lines in unit files gained two new modifiers: when a | |
1624 | command line is prefixed with "!" the command will be executed as | |
1625 | configured, except for the credentials applied by | |
1626 | setuid()/setgid()/setgroups(). It is very similar to the pre-existing | |
1627 | "+", but does still apply namespacing options unlike "+". There's | |
1628 | also "!!" now, which is mostly identical, but becomes a NOP on | |
1629 | systems that support ambient capabilities. This is useful to write | |
1630 | unit files that work with ambient capabilities where possible but | |
1631 | automatically fall back to traditional privilege dropping mechanisms | |
1632 | on systems where this is not supported. | |
1633 | ||
1634 | * ListenNetlink= settings in socket units now support RDMA netlink | |
1635 | sockets. | |
1636 | ||
1637 | * A new unit file setting LockPersonality= has been added which permits | |
1638 | locking down the chosen execution domain ("personality") of a service | |
1639 | during runtime. | |
1640 | ||
1641 | * A new special target "getty-pre.target" has been added, which is | |
1642 | ordered before all text logins, and may be used to order services | |
21723f53 | 1643 | before textual logins acquire access to the console. |
fccf5419 LP |
1644 | |
1645 | * systemd will now attempt to load the virtio-rng.ko kernel module very | |
1646 | early on if a VM environment supporting this is detected. This should | |
1647 | improve entropy during early boot in virtualized environments. | |
1648 | ||
1649 | * A _netdev option is now supported in /etc/crypttab that operates in a | |
1650 | similar way as the same option in /etc/fstab: it permits configuring | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1651 | encrypted devices that need to be ordered after the network is up. |
1652 | Following this logic, two new special targets | |
fccf5419 | 1653 | remote-cryptsetup-pre.target and remote-cryptsetup.target have been |
21723f53 ZJS |
1654 | added that are to cryptsetup.target what remote-fs.target and |
1655 | remote-fs-pre.target are to local-fs.target. | |
fccf5419 LP |
1656 | |
1657 | * Service units gained a new UnsetEnvironment= setting which permits | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1658 | unsetting specific environment variables for services that are |
1659 | normally passed to it (for example in order to mask out locale | |
fccf5419 LP |
1660 | settings for specific services that can't deal with it). |
1661 | ||
1662 | * Units acquired a new boolean option IPAccounting=. When turned on, IP | |
1663 | traffic accounting (packet count as well as byte count) is done for | |
1664 | the service, and shown as part of "systemctl status" or "systemd-run | |
1665 | --wait". | |
1666 | ||
1667 | * Service units acquired two new options IPAddressAllow= and | |
1668 | IPAddressDeny=, taking a list of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and masks, | |
1669 | for configuring a simple IP access control list for all sockets of | |
1670 | the unit. These options are available also on .slice and .socket | |
1671 | units, permitting flexible access list configuration for individual | |
1672 | services as well as groups of services (as defined by a slice unit), | |
1673 | including system-wide. Note that IP ACLs configured this way are | |
1674 | enforced on every single IPv4 and IPv6 socket created by any process | |
1675 | of the service unit, and apply to ingress as well as egress traffic. | |
1676 | ||
21723f53 | 1677 | * If CPUAccounting= or IPAccounting= is turned on for a unit a new |
608f70e6 | 1678 | structured log message is generated each time the unit is stopped, |
fccf5419 LP |
1679 | containing information about the consumed resources of this |
1680 | invocation. | |
1681 | ||
1682 | * A new setting KeyringMode= has been added to unit files, which may be | |
1683 | used to control how the kernel keyring is set up for executed | |
1684 | processes. | |
1685 | ||
e06fafb2 LP |
1686 | * "systemctl poweroff", "systemctl reboot", "systemctl halt", |
1687 | "systemctl kexec" and "systemctl exit" are now always asynchronous in | |
1688 | behaviour (that is: these commands return immediately after the | |
21723f53 ZJS |
1689 | operation was enqueued instead of waiting for the operation to |
1690 | complete). Previously, "systemctl poweroff" and "systemctl reboot" | |
e06fafb2 LP |
1691 | were asynchronous on systems using systemd-logind (i.e. almost |
1692 | always, and like they were on sysvinit), and the other three commands | |
1693 | were unconditionally synchronous. With this release this is cleaned | |
1694 | up, and callers will see the same asynchronous behaviour on all | |
1695 | systems for all five operations. | |
1696 | ||
1697 | * systemd-logind gained new Halt() and CanHalt() bus calls for halting | |
1698 | the system. | |
1699 | ||
fccf5419 LP |
1700 | * .timer units now accept calendar specifications in other timezones |
1701 | than UTC or the local timezone. | |
1702 | ||
f6e64b78 | 1703 | * The tmpfiles snippet var.conf has been changed to create |
21723f53 ZJS |
1704 | /var/log/btmp with access mode 0660 instead of 0600. It was owned by |
1705 | the "utmp" group already, and it appears to be generally understood | |
1706 | that members of "utmp" can modify/flush the utmp/wtmp/lastlog/btmp | |
1707 | databases. Previously this was implemented correctly for all these | |
1708 | databases excepts btmp, which has been opened up like this now | |
1709 | too. Note that while the other databases are world-readable | |
1710 | (i.e. 0644), btmp is not and remains more restrictive. | |
f6e64b78 | 1711 | |
d55b0463 LP |
1712 | * The systemd-resolve tool gained a new --reset-server-features |
1713 | switch. When invoked like this systemd-resolved will forget | |
1714 | everything it learnt about the features supported by the configured | |
1715 | upstream DNS servers, and restarts the feature probing logic on the | |
cf84484a LP |
1716 | next resolver look-up for them at the highest feature level |
1717 | again. | |
1718 | ||
1719 | * The status dump systemd-resolved sends to the logs upon receiving | |
1720 | SIGUSR1 now also includes information about all DNS servers it is | |
1721 | configured to use, and the features levels it probed for them. | |
d55b0463 | 1722 | |
fccf5419 LP |
1723 | Contributions from: Abdó Roig-Maranges, Alan Jenkins, Alexander |
1724 | Kuleshov, Andreas Rammhold, Andrew Jeddeloh, Andrew Soutar, Ansgar | |
76451c1d LP |
1725 | Burchardt, Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin Berg, Benjamin Robin, Charles |
1726 | Huber, Christian Hesse, Daniel Berrange, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Daniel | |
1727 | Mack, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Șerbănescu, Davide Cavalca, Dimitri John | |
1728 | Ledkov, Diogo Pereira, Djalal Harouni, Dmitriy Geels, Dmitry Torokhov, | |
1729 | ettavolt, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabio Kung, Felipe Sateler, Franck Bui, | |
1730 | Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Insun Pyo, Ivan Kurnosov, Ivan Shapovalov, | |
1731 | Jakub Wilk, Jan Synacek, Jason Gunthorpe, Jeremy Bicha, Jérémy Rosen, | |
1732 | John Lin, jonasBoss, Jonathan Lebon, Jonathan Teh, Jon Ringle, Jörg | |
1733 | Thalheim, Jouke Witteveen, juga0, Justin Capella, Justin Michaud, | |
1734 | Kai-Heng Feng, Lennart Poettering, Lion Yang, Luca Bruno, Lucas | |
1735 | Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Marcel Hollerbach, Marcus Lundblad, Martin | |
1736 | Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Grzeschik, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, | |
1737 | Neil Brown, Nicolas Iooss, Patrik Flykt, pEJipE, Piotr Drąg, Russell | |
1738 | Stuart, S. Fan, Shengyao Xue, Stefan Pietsch, Susant Sahani, Tejun Heo, | |
1739 | Thomas Miller, Thomas Sailer, Tobias Hunger, Tomasz Pala, Tom | |
1740 | Gundersen, Tommi Rantala, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, userwithuid, | |
1741 | Vasilis Liaskovitis, Vito Caputo, WaLyong Cho, William Douglas, Xiang | |
1742 | Fan, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
fccf5419 | 1743 | |
c1719d8b | 1744 | — Berlin, 2017-10-06 |
fccf5419 | 1745 | |
4b4da299 LP |
1746 | CHANGES WITH 234: |
1747 | ||
1748 | * Meson is now supported as build system in addition to Automake. It is | |
1749 | our plan to remove Automake in one of our next releases, so that | |
1750 | Meson becomes our exclusive build system. Hence, please start using | |
1751 | the Meson build system in your downstream packaging. There's plenty | |
1752 | of documentation around how to use Meson, the extremely brief | |
1753 | summary: | |
1754 | ||
1755 | ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install | |
1756 | ||
1757 | becomes: | |
1758 | ||
1759 | meson build && ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install | |
1760 | ||
1761 | * Unit files gained support for a new JobRunningTimeoutUSec= setting, | |
1762 | which permits configuring a timeout on the time a job is | |
1763 | running. This is particularly useful for setting timeouts on jobs for | |
1764 | .device units. | |
1765 | ||
1766 | * Unit files gained two new options ConditionUser= and ConditionGroup= | |
1767 | for conditionalizing units based on the identity of the user/group | |
1768 | running a systemd user instance. | |
1769 | ||
1770 | * systemd-networkd now understands a new FlowLabel= setting in the | |
1771 | [VXLAN] section of .network files, as well as a Priority= in | |
1772 | [Bridge], GVRP= + MVRP= + LooseBinding= + ReorderHeader= in [VLAN] | |
1773 | and GatewayOnlink= + IPv6Preference= + Protocol= in [Route]. It also | |
1774 | gained support for configuration of GENEVE links, and IPv6 address | |
1775 | labels. The [Network] section gained the new IPv6ProxyNDP= setting. | |
1776 | ||
9f09a95a | 1777 | * .link files now understand a new Port= setting. |
4b4da299 LP |
1778 | |
1779 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP support gained support for DHCP option 119 | |
1780 | (domain search list). | |
1781 | ||
1782 | * systemd-networkd gained support for serving IPv6 address ranges using | |
bc99dac5 | 1783 | the Router Advertisement protocol. The new .network configuration |
4b4da299 LP |
1784 | section [IPv6Prefix] may be used to configure the ranges to |
1785 | serve. This is implemented based on a new, minimal, native server | |
1786 | implementation of RA. | |
1787 | ||
1788 | * journalctl's --output= switch gained support for a new parameter | |
1789 | "short-iso-precise" for a mode where timestamps are shown as precise | |
1790 | ISO date values. | |
1791 | ||
1792 | * systemd-udevd's "net_id" builtin may now generate stable network | |
1793 | interface names from IBM PowerVM VIO devices as well as ACPI platform | |
1794 | devices. | |
1795 | ||
1796 | * MulticastDNS support in systemd-resolved may now be explicitly | |
1797 | enabled/disabled using the new MulticastDNS= configuration file | |
1798 | option. | |
1799 | ||
1800 | * systemd-resolved may now optionally use libidn2 instead of the libidn | |
7f7ab228 ZJS |
1801 | for processing internationalized domain names. Support for libidn2 |
1802 | should be considered experimental and should not be enabled by | |
1803 | default yet. | |
4b4da299 LP |
1804 | |
1805 | * "machinectl pull-tar" and related call may now do verification of | |
1806 | downloaded images using SUSE-style .sha256 checksum files in addition | |
1807 | to the already existing support for validating using Ubuntu-style | |
1808 | SHA256SUMS files. | |
1809 | ||
1810 | * sd-bus gained support for a new sd_bus_message_appendv() call which | |
1811 | is va_list equivalent of sd_bus_message_append(). | |
1812 | ||
1813 | * sd-boot gained support for validating images using SHIM/MOK. | |
1814 | ||
1815 | * The SMACK code learnt support for "onlycap". | |
1816 | ||
1817 | * systemd-mount --umount is now much smarter in figuring out how to | |
1818 | properly unmount a device given its mount or device path. | |
5486a31d ZJS |
1819 | |
1820 | * The code to call libnss_dns as a fallback from libnss_resolve when | |
1821 | the communication with systemd-resolved fails was removed. This | |
1822 | fallback was redundant and interfered with the [!UNAVAIL=return] | |
1823 | suffix. See nss-resolve(8) for the recommended configuration. | |
1824 | ||
9f09a95a ZJS |
1825 | * systemd-logind may now be restarted without losing state. It stores |
1826 | the file descriptors for devices it manages in the system manager | |
38d93385 | 1827 | using the FDSTORE= mechanism. Please note that further changes in |
9f09a95a ZJS |
1828 | other components may be required to make use of this (for example |
1829 | Xorg has code to listen for stops of systemd-logind and terminate | |
1830 | itself when logind is stopped or restarted, in order to avoid using | |
1831 | stale file descriptors for graphical devices, which is now | |
1832 | counterproductive and must be reverted in order for restarts of | |
1833 | systemd-logind to be safe. See | |
1834 | https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.) | |
1835 | ||
9d8813b3 YW |
1836 | * All kernel install plugins are called with the environment variable |
1837 | KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by | |
1838 | /etc/machine-id. If the file is missing or empty, the variable is | |
1839 | empty and BOOT_DIR_ABS is the path of a temporary directory which is | |
38d93385 | 1840 | removed after all the plugins exit. So, if KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID |
9d8813b3 YW |
1841 | is empty, all plugins should not put anything in BOOT_DIR_ABS. |
1842 | ||
184d2c15 | 1843 | Contributions from: Adrian Heine né Lang, Aggelos Avgerinos, Alexander |
ac172e52 LP |
1844 | Kurtz, Alexandros Frantzis, Alexey Brodkin, Alex Lu, Amir Pakdel, Amir |
1845 | Yalon, Anchor Cat, Anthony Parsons, Bastien Nocera, Benjamin Gilbert, | |
1846 | Benjamin Robin, Boucman, Charles Plessy, Chris Chiu, Chris Lamb, | |
1847 | Christian Brauner, Christian Hesse, Colin Walters, Daniel Drake, | |
184d2c15 LP |
1848 | Danielle Church, Daniel Molkentin, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Wang, Davide |
1849 | Cavalca, David Herrmann, David Michael, Dax Kelson, Dimitri John | |
1850 | Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, Dušan Kazik, Elias Probst, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
1851 | Federico Di Pierro, Felipe Sateler, Felix Zhang, Franck Bui, Gary | |
ac172e52 LP |
1852 | Tierney, George McCollister, Giedrius Statkevičius, Hans de Goede, |
1853 | hecke, Hendrik Westerberg, Hristo Venev, Ian Wienand, Insun Pyo, Ivan | |
1854 | Shapovalov, James Cowgill, James Hemsing, Janne Heß, Jan Synacek, Jason | |
1855 | Reeder, João Paulo Rechi Vita, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jörg | |
1856 | Thalheim, Josef Andersson, Josef Gajdusek, Julian Mehne, Kai Krakow, | |
1857 | Krzysztof Jackiewicz, Lars Karlitski, Lennart Poettering, Lluís Gili, | |
1858 | Lucas Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
1859 | Marcin Bachry, Marcus Cooper, Mark Stosberg, Martin Pitt, Matija Skala, | |
1860 | Matt Clarkson, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Greiner, Matthijs van Duin, | |
1861 | Max Resch, Michael Biebl, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Michal | |
1862 | Soltys, Michal Suchanek, Mike Gilbert, Nate Clark, Nathaniel R. Lewis, | |
1863 | Neil Brown, Nikolai Kondrashov, Pascal S. de Kloe, Pat Riehecky, Patrik | |
1864 | Flykt, Paul Kocialkowski, Peter Hutterer, Philip Withnall, Piotr | |
1865 | Szydełko, Rafael Fontenelle, Ray Strode, Richard Maw, Roelf Wichertjes, | |
1866 | Ronny Chevalier, Sarang S. Dalal, Sjoerd Simons, slodki, Stefan | |
1867 | Schweter, Susant Sahani, Ted Wood, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Thomas | |
184d2c15 LP |
1868 | H. P. Andersen, Timothée Ravier, Tobias Jungel, Tobias Stoeckmann, Tom |
1869 | Gundersen, Tom Yan, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, | |
ac172e52 LP |
1870 | userwithuid, Vito Caputo, Waldemar Brodkorb, WaLyong Cho, Yu, Li-Yu, |
1871 | Yusuke Nojima, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Дамјан | |
1872 | Георгиевски | |
4b4da299 | 1873 | |
ac172e52 | 1874 | — Berlin, 2017-07-12 |
4b4da299 | 1875 | |
a2b53448 | 1876 | CHANGES WITH 233: |
d08ee7cb | 1877 | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1878 | * The "hybrid" control group mode has been modified to improve |
1879 | compatibility with "legacy" cgroups-v1 setups. Specifically, the | |
1880 | "hybrid" setup of /sys/fs/cgroup is now pretty much identical to | |
1881 | "legacy" (including /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd as "name=systemd" named | |
1882 | cgroups-v1 hierarchy), the only externally visible change being that | |
1883 | the cgroups-v2 hierarchy is also mounted, to | |
1884 | /sys/fs/cgroup/unified. This should provide a large degree of | |
1885 | compatibility with "legacy" cgroups-v1, while taking benefit of the | |
1886 | better management capabilities of cgroups-v2. | |
1887 | ||
1888 | * The default control group setup mode may be selected both a boot-time | |
1889 | via a set of kernel command line parameters (specifically: | |
1890 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy= and | |
1891 | systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=), as well as a compile-time | |
1892 | default selected on the configure command line | |
1893 | (--with-default-hierarchy=). The upstream default is "hybrid" | |
1894 | (i.e. the cgroups-v1 + cgroups-v2 mixture discussed above) now, but | |
1895 | this will change in a future systemd version to be "unified" (pure | |
1896 | cgroups-v2 mode). The third option for the compile time option is | |
1897 | "legacy", to enter pure cgroups-v1 mode. We recommend downstream | |
1898 | distributions to default to "hybrid" mode for release distributions, | |
1899 | starting with v233. We recommend "unified" for development | |
1900 | distributions (specifically: distributions such as Fedora's rawhide) | |
1901 | as that's where things are headed in the long run. Use "legacy" for | |
1902 | greatest stability and compatibility only. | |
1903 | ||
1904 | * Note one current limitation of "unified" and "hybrid" control group | |
1905 | setup modes: the kernel currently does not permit the systemd --user | |
1906 | instance (i.e. unprivileged code) to migrate processes between two | |
1907 | disconnected cgroup subtrees, even if both are managed and owned by | |
1908 | the user. This effectively means "systemd-run --user --scope" doesn't | |
1909 | work when invoked from outside of any "systemd --user" service or | |
1910 | scope. Specifically, it is not supported from session scopes. We are | |
1911 | working on fixing this in a future systemd version. (See #3388 for | |
1912 | further details about this.) | |
1913 | ||
fb7c4eff MG |
1914 | * DBus policy files are now installed into /usr rather than /etc. Make |
1915 | sure your system has dbus >= 1.9.18 running before upgrading to this | |
1916 | version, or override the install path with --with-dbuspolicydir= . | |
1917 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1918 | * All python scripts shipped with systemd (specifically: the various |
1919 | tests written in Python) now require Python 3. | |
1920 | ||
d60c5270 | 1921 | * systemd unit tests can now run standalone (without the source or |
4dfe64f8 ZJS |
1922 | build directories), and can be installed into /usr/lib/systemd/tests/ |
1923 | with 'make install-tests'. | |
1924 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1925 | * Note that from this version on, CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH, |
1926 | CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC and CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 need to be enabled in the | |
1927 | kernel. | |
1928 | ||
1929 | * Support for the %c, %r, %R specifiers in unit files has been | |
1930 | removed. Specifiers are not supposed to be dependent on configuration | |
1931 | in the unit file itself (so that they resolve the same regardless | |
1932 | where used in the unit files), but these specifiers were influenced | |
1933 | by the Slice= option. | |
1934 | ||
5cfc0a84 LP |
1935 | * The shell invoked by debug-shell.service now defaults to /bin/sh in |
1936 | all cases. If distributions want to use a different shell for this | |
1937 | purpose (for example Fedora's /sbin/sushell) they need to specify | |
1938 | this explicitly at configure time using --with-debug-shell=. | |
1939 | ||
2bcc3309 FB |
1940 | * The confirmation spawn prompt has been reworked to offer the |
1941 | following choices: | |
1942 | ||
b0eb2944 | 1943 | (c)ontinue, proceed without asking anymore |
dd6f9ac0 | 1944 | (D)ump, show the state of the unit |
2bcc3309 | 1945 | (f)ail, don't execute the command and pretend it failed |
d172b175 | 1946 | (h)elp |
eedf223a | 1947 | (i)nfo, show a short summary of the unit |
56fde33a | 1948 | (j)obs, show jobs that are in progress |
2bcc3309 FB |
1949 | (s)kip, don't execute the command and pretend it succeeded |
1950 | (y)es, execute the command | |
1951 | ||
1952 | The 'n' choice for the confirmation spawn prompt has been removed, | |
1953 | because its meaning was confusing. | |
1954 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
1955 | The prompt may now also be redirected to an alternative console by |
1956 | specifying the console as parameter to systemd.confirm_spawn=. | |
1957 | ||
8e458bfe JW |
1958 | * Services of Type=notify require a READY=1 notification to be sent |
1959 | during startup. If no such message is sent, the service now fails, | |
1960 | even if the main process exited with a successful exit code. | |
1961 | ||
85266f9b LP |
1962 | * Services that fail to start up correctly now always have their |
1963 | ExecStopPost= commands executed. Previously, they'd enter "failed" | |
1964 | state directly, without executing these commands. | |
1965 | ||
baf32786 MP |
1966 | * The option MulticastDNS= of network configuration files has acquired |
1967 | an actual implementation. With MulticastDNS=yes a host can resolve | |
23eb30b3 | 1968 | names of remote hosts and reply to mDNS A and AAAA requests. |
fa8b4499 | 1969 | |
631b676b LP |
1970 | * When units are about to be started an additional check is now done to |
1971 | ensure that all dependencies of type BindsTo= (when used in | |
1972 | combination with After=) have been started. | |
1973 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
1974 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "syscall-filter" which shows which |
1975 | system call groups are defined for the SystemCallFilter= unit file | |
23eb30b3 | 1976 | setting, and which system calls they contain. |
d08ee7cb LP |
1977 | |
1978 | * A new system call filter group "@filesystem" has been added, | |
23eb30b3 | 1979 | consisting of various file system related system calls. Group |
d08ee7cb | 1980 | "@reboot" has been added, covering reboot, kexec and shutdown related |
23eb30b3 | 1981 | calls. Finally, group "@swap" has been added covering swap |
d08ee7cb LP |
1982 | configuration related calls. |
1983 | ||
1984 | * A new unit file option RestrictNamespaces= has been added that may be | |
1985 | used to restrict access to the various process namespace types the | |
1986 | Linux kernel provides. Specifically, it may be used to take away the | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1987 | right for a service unit to create additional file system, network, |
1988 | user, and other namespaces. This sandboxing option is particularly | |
1989 | relevant due to the high amount of recently discovered namespacing | |
1990 | related vulnerabilities in the kernel. | |
d08ee7cb | 1991 | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1992 | * systemd-udev's .link files gained support for a new AutoNegotiation= |
1993 | setting for configuring Ethernet auto-negotiation. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
1994 | |
1995 | * systemd-networkd's .network files gained support for a new | |
1996 | ListenPort= setting in the [DHCP] section to explicitly configure the | |
1997 | UDP client port the DHCP client shall listen on. | |
1998 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
1999 | * .network files gained a new Unmanaged= boolean setting for explicitly |
2000 | excluding one or more interfaces from management by systemd-networkd. | |
2001 | ||
2002 | * The systemd-networkd ProxyARP= option has been renamed to | |
2003 | IPV4ProxyARP=. Similarly, VXLAN-specific option ARPProxy= has been | |
2004 | renamed to ReduceARPProxy=. The old names continue to be available | |
2005 | for compatibility. | |
2006 | ||
2007 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring IPv6 Proxy NDP | |
2008 | addresses via the new IPv6ProxyNDPAddress= .network file setting. | |
2009 | ||
2010 | * systemd-networkd's bonding device support gained support for two new | |
2011 | configuration options ActiveSlave= and PrimarySlave=. | |
2012 | ||
2013 | * The various options in the [Match] section of .network files gained | |
2014 | support for negative matching. | |
2015 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
2016 | * New systemd-specific mount options are now understood in /etc/fstab: |
2017 | ||
2018 | x-systemd.mount-timeout= may be used to configure the maximum | |
2019 | permitted runtime of the mount command. | |
2020 | ||
2021 | x-systemd.device-bound may be set to bind a mount point to its | |
2022 | backing device unit, in order to automatically remove a mount point | |
2023 | if its backing device is unplugged. This option may also be | |
2024 | configured through the new SYSTEMD_MOUNT_DEVICE_BOUND udev property | |
2025 | on the block device, which is now automatically set for all CDROM | |
2026 | drives, so that mounted CDs are automatically unmounted when they are | |
2027 | removed from the drive. | |
2028 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2029 | x-systemd.after= and x-systemd.before= may be used to explicitly |
2030 | order a mount after or before another unit or mount point. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
2031 | |
2032 | * Enqueued start jobs for device units are now automatically garbage | |
2033 | collected if there are no jobs waiting for them anymore. | |
2034 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2035 | * systemctl list-jobs gained two new switches: with --after, for every |
2036 | queued job the jobs it's waiting for are shown; with --before the | |
2037 | jobs which it's blocking are shown. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
2038 | |
2039 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for ephemeral boots from disk images | |
2040 | (or in other words: --ephemeral and --image= may now be | |
2041 | combined). Moreover, ephemeral boots are now supported for normal | |
2042 | directories, even if the backing file system is not btrfs. Of course, | |
baf32786 MP |
2043 | if the file system does not support file system snapshots or |
2044 | reflinks, the initial copy operation will be relatively expensive, but | |
2045 | this should still be suitable for many use cases. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
2046 | |
2047 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now support | |
2048 | specifications relative to the end of a month by using "~" instead of | |
2049 | "-" as separator between month and day. For example, "*-02~03" means | |
23eb30b3 | 2050 | "the third last day in February". In addition a new syntax for |
d08ee7cb LP |
2051 | repeated events has been added using the "/" character. For example, |
2052 | "9..17/2:00" means "every two hours from 9am to 5pm". | |
2053 | ||
2054 | * systemd-socket-proxyd gained a new parameter --connections-max= for | |
2055 | configuring the maximum number of concurrent connections. | |
2056 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2057 | * sd-id128 gained a new API for generating unique IDs for the host in a |
2058 | way that does not leak the machine ID. Specifically, | |
d08ee7cb | 2059 | sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() derives an ID based on the |
baf32786 | 2060 | machine ID a in well-defined, non-reversible, stable way. This is |
d08ee7cb LP |
2061 | useful whenever an identifier for the host is needed but where the |
2062 | identifier shall not be useful to identify the system beyond the | |
2063 | scope of the application itself. (Internally this uses HMAC-SHA256 as | |
2064 | keyed hash function using the machine ID as input.) | |
2065 | ||
2066 | * NotifyAccess= gained a new supported value "exec". When set | |
2067 | notifications are accepted from all processes systemd itself invoked, | |
2068 | including all control processes. | |
2069 | ||
2070 | * .nspawn files gained support for defining overlay mounts using the | |
2071 | Overlay= and OverlayReadOnly= options. Previously this functionality | |
2072 | was only available on the systemd-nspawn command line. | |
2073 | ||
2074 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --overlay= options gained support for | |
2075 | bind/overlay mounts whose source lies within the container tree by | |
2076 | prefixing the source path with "+". | |
2077 | ||
2078 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --overlay= options gained support for | |
2079 | automatically allocating a temporary source directory in /var/tmp | |
2080 | that is removed when the container dies. Specifically, if the source | |
2081 | directory is specified as empty string this mechanism is selected. An | |
2082 | example usage is --overlay=+/var::/var, which creates an overlay | |
2083 | mount based on the original /var contained in the image, overlayed | |
2084 | with a temporary directory in the host's /var/tmp. This way changes | |
2085 | to /var are automatically flushed when the container shuts down. | |
2086 | ||
baf32786 MP |
2087 | * systemd-nspawn --image= option does now permit raw file system block |
2088 | devices (in addition to images containing partition tables, as | |
2089 | before). | |
d08ee7cb LP |
2090 | |
2091 | * The disk image dissection logic in systemd-nspawn gained support for | |
2092 | automatically setting up LUKS encrypted as well as Verity protected | |
2093 | partitions. When a container is booted from an encrypted image the | |
2094 | passphrase is queried at start-up time. When a container with Verity | |
2095 | data is started, the root hash is search in a ".roothash" file | |
2096 | accompanying the disk image (alternatively, pass the root hash via | |
2097 | the new --root-hash= command line option). | |
2098 | ||
2099 | * A new tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-dissect has been added that may | |
2100 | be used to dissect disk images the same way as systemd-nspawn does | |
2101 | it, following the Bootable Partition Specification. It may even be | |
2102 | used to mount disk images with complex partition setups (including | |
2103 | LUKS and Verity partitions) to a local host directory, in order to | |
2104 | inspect them. This tool is not considered public API (yet), and is | |
2105 | thus not installed into /usr/bin. Please do not rely on its | |
3b31c466 | 2106 | existence, since it might go away or be changed in later systemd |
d08ee7cb LP |
2107 | versions. |
2108 | ||
2109 | * A new generator "systemd-verity-generator" has been added, similar in | |
baf32786 | 2110 | style to "systemd-cryptsetup-generator", permitting automatic setup of |
d08ee7cb LP |
2111 | Verity root partitions when systemd boots up. In order to make use of |
2112 | this your partition setup should follow the Discoverable Partitions | |
2113 | Specification, and the GPT partition ID of the root file system | |
2114 | partition should be identical to the upper 128bit of the Verity root | |
2115 | hash. The GPT partition ID of the Verity partition protecting it | |
2116 | should be the lower 128bit of the Verity root hash. If the partition | |
2117 | image follows this model it is sufficient to specify a single | |
2118 | "roothash=" kernel command line argument to both configure which root | |
2119 | image and verity partition to use as well as the root hash for | |
2120 | it. Note that systemd-nspawn's Verity support follows the same | |
2121 | semantics, meaning that disk images with proper Verity data in place | |
2122 | may be booted in containers with systemd-nspawn as well as on | |
2123 | physical systems via the verity generator. Also note that the "mkosi" | |
2124 | tool available at https://github.com/systemd/mkosi has been updated | |
2125 | to generate Verity protected disk images following this scheme. In | |
2126 | fact, it has been updated to generate disk images that optionally | |
2127 | implement a complete UEFI SecureBoot trust chain, involving a signed | |
2128 | kernel and initrd image that incorporates such a root hash as well as | |
2129 | a Verity-enabled root partition. | |
2130 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
2131 | * The hardware database (hwdb) udev supports has been updated to carry |
2132 | accelerometer quirks. | |
2133 | ||
2134 | * All system services are now run with a fresh kernel keyring set up | |
2135 | for them. The invocation ID is stored by default in it, thus | |
2136 | providing a safe, non-overridable way to determine the invocation | |
2137 | ID of each service. | |
2138 | ||
2139 | * Service unit files gained new BindPaths= and BindReadOnlyPaths= | |
2140 | options for bind mounting arbitrary paths in a service-specific | |
2141 | way. When these options are used, arbitrary host or service files and | |
2142 | directories may be mounted to arbitrary locations in the service's | |
2143 | view. | |
2144 | ||
2145 | * Documentation has been added that lists all of systemd's low-level | |
2146 | environment variables: | |
2147 | ||
a8a27374 | 2148 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/ENVIRONMENT.md |
d08ee7cb LP |
2149 | |
2150 | * sd-daemon gained a new API sd_is_socket_sockaddr() for determining | |
2151 | whether a specific socket file descriptor matches a specified socket | |
2152 | address. | |
2153 | ||
2154 | * systemd-firstboot has been updated to check for the | |
2155 | systemd.firstboot= kernel command line option. It accepts a boolean | |
2156 | and when set to false the first boot questions are skipped. | |
2157 | ||
d08ee7cb | 2158 | * systemd-fstab-generator has been updated to check for the |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2159 | systemd.volatile= kernel command line option, which either takes an |
2160 | optional boolean parameter or the special value "state". If used the | |
2161 | system may be booted in a "volatile" boot mode. Specifically, | |
2162 | "systemd.volatile" is used, the root directory will be mounted as | |
d08ee7cb | 2163 | tmpfs, and only /usr is mounted from the actual root file system. If |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2164 | "systemd.volatile=state" is used, the root directory will be mounted |
2165 | as usual, but /var is mounted as tmpfs. This concept provides similar | |
d08ee7cb LP |
2166 | functionality as systemd-nspawn's --volatile= option, but provides it |
2167 | on physical boots. Use this option for implementing stateless | |
2168 | systems, or testing systems with all state and/or configuration reset | |
2169 | to the defaults. (Note though that many distributions are not | |
23eb30b3 | 2170 | prepared to boot up without a populated /etc or /var, though.) |
d08ee7cb LP |
2171 | |
2172 | * systemd-gpt-auto-generator gained support for LUKS encrypted root | |
2173 | partitions. Previously it only supported LUKS encrypted partitions | |
2174 | for all other uses, except for the root partition itself. | |
2175 | ||
2176 | * Socket units gained support for listening on AF_VSOCK sockets for | |
2177 | communication in virtualized QEMU environments. | |
2178 | ||
2179 | * The "configure" script gained a new option --with-fallback-hostname= | |
2180 | for specifying the fallback hostname to use if none is configured in | |
2181 | /etc/hostname. For example, by specifying | |
2182 | --with-fallback-hostname=fedora it is possible to default to a | |
23eb30b3 | 2183 | hostname of "fedora" on pristine installations. |
d08ee7cb LP |
2184 | |
2185 | * systemd-cgls gained support for a new --unit= switch for listing only | |
2186 | the control groups of a specific unit. Similar --user-unit= has been | |
2187 | added for listing only the control groups of a specific user unit. | |
2188 | ||
2189 | * systemd-mount gained a new --umount switch for unmounting a mount or | |
2190 | automount point (and all mount/automount points below it). | |
2191 | ||
2192 | * systemd will now refuse full configuration reloads (via systemctl | |
2193 | daemon-reload and related calls) unless at least 16MiB of free space | |
2194 | are available in /run. This is a safety precaution in order to ensure | |
2195 | that generators can safely operate after the reload completed. | |
2196 | ||
2197 | * A new unit file option RootImage= has been added, which has a similar | |
2198 | effect as RootDirectory= but mounts the service's root directory from | |
2199 | a disk image instead of plain directory. This logic reuses the same | |
2200 | image dissection and mount logic that systemd-nspawn already uses, | |
2201 | and hence supports any disk images systemd-nspawn supports, including | |
2202 | those following the Discoverable Partition Specification, as well as | |
2203 | Verity enabled images. This option enables systemd to run system | |
2204 | services directly off disk images acting as resource bundles, | |
2205 | possibly even including full integrity data. | |
2206 | ||
2207 | * A new MountAPIVFS= unit file option has been added, taking a boolean | |
baf32786 | 2208 | argument. If enabled /proc, /sys and /dev (collectively called the |
d08ee7cb LP |
2209 | "API VFS") will be mounted for the service. This is only relevant if |
2210 | RootDirectory= or RootImage= is used for the service, as these mounts | |
2211 | are of course in place in the host mount namespace anyway. | |
2212 | ||
2213 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for a new --pivot-root= switch. If | |
2214 | specified the root directory within the container image is pivoted to | |
2215 | the specified mount point, while the original root disk is moved to a | |
2216 | different place. This option enables booting of ostree images | |
2217 | directly with systemd-nspawn. | |
2218 | ||
d08ee7cb | 2219 | * The systemd build scripts will no longer complain if the NTP server |
23eb30b3 | 2220 | addresses are not changed from the defaults. Google now supports |
d08ee7cb LP |
2221 | these NTP servers officially. We still recommend downstreams to |
2222 | properly register an NTP pool with the NTP pool project though. | |
2223 | ||
c1ec34d1 | 2224 | * coredumpctl gained a new "--reverse" option for printing the list |
d08ee7cb LP |
2225 | of coredumps in reverse order. |
2226 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2227 | * coredumpctl will now show additional information about truncated and |
2228 | inaccessible coredumps, as well as coredumps that are still being | |
2229 | processed. It also gained a new --quiet switch for suppressing | |
2230 | additional informational message in its output. | |
2231 | ||
2232 | * coredumpctl gained support for only showing coredumps newer and/or | |
2233 | older than specific timestamps, using the new --since= and --until= | |
2234 | options, reminiscent of journalctl's options by the same name. | |
2235 | ||
d08ee7cb | 2236 | * The systemd-coredump logic has been improved so that it may be reused |
23eb30b3 | 2237 | to collect backtraces in non-compiled languages, for example in |
d08ee7cb LP |
2238 | scripting languages such as Python. |
2239 | ||
2240 | * machinectl will now show the UID shift of local containers, if user | |
2241 | namespacing is enabled for them. | |
2242 | ||
baf32786 | 2243 | * systemd will now optionally run "environment generator" binaries at |
d08ee7cb LP |
2244 | configuration load time. They may be used to add environment |
2245 | variables to the environment block passed to services invoked. One | |
baf32786 | 2246 | user environment generator is shipped by default that sets up |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2247 | environment variables based on files dropped into /etc/environment.d |
2248 | and ~/.config/environment.d/. | |
d08ee7cb | 2249 | |
a2b53448 LP |
2250 | * systemd-resolved now includes the new, recently published 2017 DNSSEC |
2251 | root key (KSK). | |
2252 | ||
a2b53448 LP |
2253 | * hostnamed has been updated to report a new chassis type of |
2254 | "convertible" to cover "foldable" laptops that can both act as a | |
2255 | tablet and as a laptop, such as various Lenovo Yoga devices. | |
2256 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
2257 | Contributions from: Adrián López, Alexander Galanin, Alexander |
2258 | Kochetkov, Alexandros Frantzis, Andrey Ulanov, Antoine Eiche, Baruch | |
2259 | Siach, Bastien Nocera, Benjamin Robin, Björn, Brandon Philips, Cédric | |
2260 | Schieli, Charles (Chas) Williams, Christian Hesse, Daniele Medri, | |
2261 | Daniel Drake, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Wagner, Dan Streetman, Dave Reisner, | |
2262 | David Glasser, David Herrmann, David Michael, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry | |
2263 | Khlebnikov, Dmitry Rozhkov, Dongsu Park, Douglas Christman, Earnestly, | |
2264 | Emil Soleyman, Eric Cook, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Fionn | |
2265 | Cleary, Florian Klink, Francesco Brozzu, Franck Bui, Gabriel Rauter, | |
a2b53448 LP |
2266 | Gianluca Boiano, Giedrius Statkevičius, Graeme Lawes, Hans de Goede, |
2267 | Harald Hoyer, Ian Kelling, Ivan Shapovalov, Jakub Wilk, Janne Heß, Jan | |
2268 | Synacek, Jason Reeder, Jonathan Boulle, Jörg Thalheim, Jouke Witteveen, | |
2269 | Karl Kraus, Kees Cook, Keith Busch, Kieran Colford, kilian-k, Lennart | |
2270 | Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas Werkmeister, Lukas Rusak, Maarten de | |
2271 | Vries, Maks Naumov, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Andre Lureau, Marcin Bachry, | |
2272 | Mark Stosberg, Martin Ejdestig, Martin Pitt, Mauricio Faria de | |
2273 | Oliveira, micah, Michael Biebl, Michael Shields, Michal Schmidt, Michal | |
2274 | Sekletar, Michel Kraus, Mike Gilbert, Mikko Ylinen, Mirza Krak, | |
2275 | Namhyung Kim, nikolaof, peoronoob, Peter Hutterer, Peter Körner, Philip | |
2276 | Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Ray Strode, Reverend Homer, Rike-Benjamin | |
2277 | Schuppner, Robert Kreuzer, Ronny Chevalier, Ruslan Bilovol, sammynx, | |
2278 | Sergey Ptashnick, Sergiusz Urbaniak, Stefan Berger, Stefan Hajnoczi, | |
2279 | Stefan Schweter, Stuart McLaren, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, | |
2280 | Taylor Smock, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tibor | |
2281 | Nagy, Tobias Stoeckmann, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Viktar | |
2282 | Vaŭčkievič, Viktor Mihajlovski, Vitaly Sulimov, Waldemar Brodkorb, | |
2283 | Walter Garcia-Fontes, Wim de With, Yassine Imounachen, Yi EungJun, | |
2284 | YunQiang Su, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Александр | |
2285 | Тихонов | |
2286 | ||
2287 | — Berlin, 2017-03-01 | |
d08ee7cb | 2288 | |
54b24597 | 2289 | CHANGES WITH 232: |
76153ad4 | 2290 | |
05f426d2 LP |
2291 | * udev now runs with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=, RestrictRealtime= and |
2292 | RestrictAddressFamilies= enabled. These sandboxing options should | |
2293 | generally be compatible with the various external udev call-out | |
2294 | binaries we are aware of, however there may be exceptions, in | |
2295 | particular when exotic languages for these call-outs are used. In | |
2296 | this case, consider turning off these settings locally. | |
2297 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2298 | * The new RemoveIPC= option can be used to remove IPC objects owned by |
2299 | the user or group of a service when that service exits. | |
2300 | ||
6fa44114 | 2301 | * The new ProtectKernelModules= option can be used to disable explicit |
4c37970d LP |
2302 | load and unload operations of kernel modules by a service. In |
2303 | addition access to /usr/lib/modules is removed if this option is set. | |
6fa44114 | 2304 | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2305 | * ProtectSystem= option gained a new value "strict", which causes the |
2306 | whole file system tree with the exception of /dev, /proc, and /sys, | |
2307 | to be remounted read-only for a service. | |
2308 | ||
e49e2c25 | 2309 | * The new ProtectKernelTunables= option can be used to disable |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2310 | modification of configuration files in /sys and /proc by a service. |
2311 | Various directories and files are remounted read-only, so access is | |
2312 | restricted even if the file permissions would allow it. | |
2313 | ||
6fa44114 | 2314 | * The new ProtectControlGroups= option can be used to disable write |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2315 | access by a service to /sys/fs/cgroup. |
2316 | ||
2317 | * Various systemd services have been hardened with | |
2318 | ProtectKernelTunables=yes, ProtectControlGroups=yes, | |
2319 | RestrictAddressFamilies=. | |
2320 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2321 | * Support for dynamically creating users for the lifetime of a service |
2322 | has been added. If DynamicUser=yes is specified, user and group IDs | |
2323 | will be allocated from the range 61184..65519 for the lifetime of the | |
2324 | service. They can be resolved using the new nss-systemd.so NSS | |
2325 | module. The module must be enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Services | |
2326 | started in this way have PrivateTmp= and RemoveIPC= enabled, so that | |
2327 | any resources allocated by the service will be cleaned up when the | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2328 | service exits. They also have ProtectHome=read-only and |
2329 | ProtectSystem=strict enabled, so they are not able to make any | |
2330 | permanent modifications to the system. | |
4ffe2479 | 2331 | |
171ae2cd | 2332 | * The nss-systemd module also always resolves root and nobody, making |
4ffe2479 | 2333 | it possible to have no /etc/passwd or /etc/group files in minimal |
171ae2cd | 2334 | container or chroot environments. |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2335 | |
2336 | * Services may be started with their own user namespace using the new | |
171ae2cd LP |
2337 | boolean PrivateUsers= option. Only root, nobody, and the uid/gid |
2338 | under which the service is running are mapped. All other users are | |
2339 | mapped to nobody. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2340 | |
2341 | * Support for the cgroup namespace has been added to systemd-nspawn. If | |
2342 | supported by kernel, the container system started by systemd-nspawn | |
2343 | will have its own view of the cgroup hierarchy. This new behaviour | |
2344 | can be disabled using $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_USE_CGNS environment variable. | |
2345 | ||
2346 | * The new MemorySwapMax= option can be used to limit the maximum swap | |
2347 | usage under the unified cgroup hierarchy. | |
2348 | ||
2349 | * Support for the CPU controller in the unified cgroup hierarchy has | |
2350 | been added, via the CPUWeight=, CPUStartupWeight=, CPUAccounting= | |
2351 | options. This controller requires out-of-tree patches for the kernel | |
2352 | and the support is provisional. | |
2353 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
2354 | * Mount and automount units may now be created transiently |
2355 | (i.e. dynamically at runtime via the bus API, instead of requiring | |
2356 | unit files in the file system). | |
2357 | ||
2358 | * systemd-mount is a new tool which may mount file systems – much like | |
2359 | mount(8), optionally pulling in additional dependencies through | |
2360 | transient .mount and .automount units. For example, this tool | |
2361 | automatically runs fsck on a backing block device before mounting, | |
2362 | and allows the automount logic to be used dynamically from the | |
2363 | command line for establishing mount points. This tool is particularly | |
2364 | useful when dealing with removable media, as it will ensure fsck is | |
2365 | run – if necessary – before the first access and that the file system | |
2366 | is quickly unmounted after each access by utilizing the automount | |
2367 | logic. This maximizes the chance that the file system on the | |
2368 | removable media stays in a clean state, and if it isn't in a clean | |
2369 | state is fixed automatically. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2370 | |
2371 | * LazyUnmount=yes option for mount units has been added to expose the | |
2372 | umount --lazy option. Similarly, ForceUnmount=yes exposes the --force | |
2373 | option. | |
2374 | ||
2375 | * /efi will be used as the mount point of the EFI boot partition, if | |
2376 | the directory is present, and the mount point was not configured | |
2377 | through other means (e.g. fstab). If /efi directory does not exist, | |
2378 | /boot will be used as before. This makes it easier to automatically | |
2379 | mount the EFI partition on systems where /boot is used for something | |
2380 | else. | |
2381 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
2382 | * When operating on GPT disk images for containers, systemd-nspawn will |
2383 | now mount the ESP to /boot or /efi according to the same rules as PID | |
2384 | 1 running on a host. This allows tools like "bootctl" to operate | |
2385 | correctly within such containers, in order to make container images | |
2386 | bootable on physical systems. | |
2387 | ||
4a77c53d | 2388 | * disk/by-id and disk/by-path symlinks are now created for NVMe drives. |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2389 | |
2390 | * Two new user session targets have been added to support running | |
2391 | graphical sessions under the systemd --user instance: | |
2392 | graphical-session.target and graphical-session-pre.target. See | |
2393 | systemd.special(7) for a description of how those targets should be | |
2394 | used. | |
2395 | ||
2396 | * The vconsole initialization code has been significantly reworked to | |
d4c08299 | 2397 | use KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET ioctls instead of KD_FONT_OP_COPY and better |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2398 | support unicode keymaps. Font and keymap configuration will now be |
2399 | copied to all allocated virtual consoles. | |
2400 | ||
05ecf467 | 2401 | * FreeBSD's bhyve virtualization is now detected. |
4ffe2479 | 2402 | |
d4c08299 | 2403 | * Information recorded in the journal for core dumps now includes the |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2404 | contents of /proc/mountinfo and the command line of the process at |
2405 | the top of the process hierarchy (which is usually the init process | |
2406 | of the container). | |
2407 | ||
171ae2cd | 2408 | * systemd-journal-gatewayd learned the --directory= option to serve |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2409 | files from the specified location. |
2410 | ||
2411 | * journalctl --root=… can be used to peruse the journal in the | |
2412 | /var/log/ directories inside of a container tree. This is similar to | |
2413 | the existing --machine= option, but does not require the container to | |
2414 | be active. | |
2415 | ||
2416 | * The hardware database has been extended to support | |
2417 | ID_INPUT_TRACKBALL, used in addition to ID_INPUT_MOUSE to identify | |
2418 | trackball devices. | |
2419 | ||
2420 | MOUSE_WHEEL_CLICK_ANGLE_HORIZONTAL hwdb property has been added to | |
2421 | specify the click rate for mice which include a horizontal wheel with | |
2422 | a click rate that is different than the one for the vertical wheel. | |
2423 | ||
2424 | * systemd-run gained a new --wait option that makes service execution | |
171ae2cd LP |
2425 | synchronous. (Specifically, the command will not return until the |
2426 | specified service binary exited.) | |
4ffe2479 | 2427 | |
171ae2cd | 2428 | * systemctl gained a new --wait option that causes the start command to |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2429 | wait until the units being started have terminated again. |
2430 | ||
171ae2cd | 2431 | * A new journal output mode "short-full" has been added which displays |
4ffe2479 | 2432 | timestamps with abbreviated English day names and adds a timezone |
171ae2cd LP |
2433 | suffix. Those timestamps include more information than the default |
2434 | "short" output mode, and can be passed directly to journalctl's | |
2435 | --since= and --until= options. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2436 | |
2437 | * /etc/resolv.conf will be bind-mounted into containers started by | |
2438 | systemd-nspawn, if possible, so any changes to resolv.conf contents | |
2439 | are automatically propagated to the container. | |
2440 | ||
2441 | * The number of instances for socket-activated services originating | |
171ae2cd LP |
2442 | from a single IP address can be limited with |
2443 | MaxConnectionsPerSource=, extending the existing setting of | |
2444 | MaxConnections=. | |
4ffe2479 | 2445 | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2446 | * systemd-networkd gained support for vcan ("Virtual CAN") interface |
2447 | configuration. | |
2448 | ||
2449 | * .netdev and .network configuration can now be extended through | |
2450 | drop-ins. | |
2451 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2452 | * UDP Segmentation Offload, TCP Segmentation Offload, Generic |
2453 | Segmentation Offload, Generic Receive Offload, Large Receive Offload | |
2454 | can be enabled and disabled using the new UDPSegmentationOffload=, | |
2455 | TCPSegmentationOffload=, GenericSegmentationOffload=, | |
2456 | GenericReceiveOffload=, LargeReceiveOffload= options in the | |
2457 | [Link] section of .link files. | |
2458 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
2459 | * The Spanning Tree Protocol, Priority, Aging Time, and the Default |
2460 | Port VLAN ID can be configured for bridge devices using the new STP=, | |
2461 | Priority=, AgeingTimeSec=, and DefaultPVID= settings in the [Bridge] | |
2462 | section of .netdev files. | |
4ffe2479 | 2463 | |
171ae2cd | 2464 | * The route table to which routes received over DHCP or RA should be |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2465 | added can be configured with the new RouteTable= option in the [DHCP] |
2466 | and [IPv6AcceptRA] sections of .network files. | |
2467 | ||
171ae2cd | 2468 | * The Address Resolution Protocol can be disabled on links managed by |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2469 | systemd-networkd using the ARP=no setting in the [Link] section of |
2470 | .network files. | |
2471 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
2472 | * New environment variables $SERVICE_RESULT, $EXIT_CODE and |
2473 | $EXIT_STATUS are set for ExecStop= and ExecStopPost= commands, and | |
2474 | encode information about the result and exit codes of the current | |
2475 | service runtime cycle. | |
4ffe2479 | 2476 | |
4a77c53d | 2477 | * systemd-sysctl will now configure kernel parameters in the order |
1f4f4cf7 | 2478 | they occur in the configuration files. This matches what sysctl |
4a77c53d ZJS |
2479 | has been traditionally doing. |
2480 | ||
2481 | * kernel-install "plugins" that are executed to perform various | |
2482 | tasks after a new kernel is added and before an old one is removed | |
2483 | can now return a special value to terminate the procedure and | |
2484 | prevent any later plugins from running. | |
2485 | ||
76153ad4 | 2486 | * Journald's SplitMode=login setting has been deprecated. It has been |
d4c08299 | 2487 | removed from documentation, and its use is discouraged. In a future |
76153ad4 ZJS |
2488 | release it will be completely removed, and made equivalent to current |
2489 | default of SplitMode=uid. | |
2490 | ||
4a77c53d ZJS |
2491 | * Storage=both option setting in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been |
2492 | removed. With fast LZ4 compression storing the core dump twice is not | |
2493 | useful. | |
2494 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2495 | * The --share-system systemd-nspawn option has been replaced with an |
2496 | (undocumented) variable $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_SYSTEM, but the use of | |
2497 | this functionality is discouraged. In addition the variables | |
2498 | $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_IPC, $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_PID, | |
2499 | $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_UTS may be used to control the unsharing of | |
2500 | individual namespaces. | |
2501 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
2502 | * "machinectl list" now shows the IP address of running containers in |
2503 | the output, as well as OS release information. | |
2504 | ||
2505 | * "loginctl list" now shows the TTY of each session in the output. | |
2506 | ||
2507 | * sd-bus gained new API calls sd_bus_track_set_recursive(), | |
2508 | sd_bus_track_get_recursive(), sd_bus_track_count_name(), | |
2509 | sd_bus_track_count_sender(). They permit usage of sd_bus_track peer | |
2510 | tracking objects in a "recursive" mode, where a single client can be | |
2511 | counted multiple times, if it takes multiple references. | |
2512 | ||
2513 | * sd-bus gained new API calls sd_bus_set_exit_on_disconnect() and | |
bc99dac5 | 2514 | sd_bus_get_exit_on_disconnect(). They may be used to make a |
171ae2cd LP |
2515 | process using sd-bus automatically exit if the bus connection is |
2516 | severed. | |
2517 | ||
2518 | * Bus clients of the service manager may now "pin" loaded units into | |
2519 | memory, by taking an explicit reference on them. This is useful to | |
2520 | ensure the client can retrieve runtime data about the service even | |
2521 | after the service completed execution. Taking such a reference is | |
2522 | available only for privileged clients and should be helpful to watch | |
2523 | running services in a race-free manner, and in particular collect | |
2524 | information about exit statuses and results. | |
2525 | ||
4c37970d LP |
2526 | * The nss-resolve module has been changed to strictly return UNAVAIL |
2527 | when communication via D-Bus with resolved failed, and NOTFOUND when | |
2528 | a lookup completed but was negative. This means it is now possible to | |
2529 | neatly configure fallbacks using nsswitch.conf result checking | |
2530 | expressions. Taking benefit of this, the new recommended | |
2531 | configuration line for the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf is: | |
2532 | ||
2533 | hosts: files mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname | |
2534 | ||
2535 | * A new setting CtrlAltDelBurstAction= has been added to | |
2536 | /etc/systemd/system.conf which may be used to configure the precise | |
2537 | behaviour if the user on the console presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more often | |
2538 | than 7 times in 2s. Previously this would unconditionally result in | |
2539 | an expedited, immediate reboot. With this new setting the precise | |
2540 | operation may be configured in more detail, and also turned off | |
2541 | entirely. | |
2542 | ||
2543 | * In .netdev files two new settings RemoteChecksumTx= and | |
2544 | RemoteChecksumRx= are now understood that permit configuring the | |
2545 | remote checksumming logic for VXLAN networks. | |
2546 | ||
2547 | * The service manager learnt a new "invocation ID" concept for invoked | |
2548 | services. Each runtime cycle of a service will get a new invocation | |
2549 | ID (a 128bit random UUID) assigned that identifies the current | |
2550 | run of the service uniquely and globally. A new invocation ID | |
2551 | is generated each time a service starts up. The journal will store | |
2552 | the invocation ID of a service along with any logged messages, thus | |
2553 | making the invocation ID useful for matching the online runtime of a | |
2554 | service with the offline log data it generated in a safe way without | |
2555 | relying on synchronized timestamps. In many ways this new service | |
2556 | invocation ID concept is similar to the kernel's boot ID concept that | |
2557 | uniquely and globally identifies the runtime of each boot. The | |
2558 | invocation ID of a service is passed to the service itself via an | |
2559 | environment variable ($INVOCATION_ID). A new bus call | |
2560 | GetUnitByInvocationID() has been added that is similar to GetUnit() | |
2561 | but instead of retrieving the bus path for a unit by its name | |
2562 | retrieves it by its invocation ID. The returned path is valid only as | |
2563 | long as the passed invocation ID is current. | |
2564 | ||
2565 | * systemd-resolved gained a new "DNSStubListener" setting in | |
2566 | resolved.conf. It either takes a boolean value or the special values | |
2567 | "udp" and "tcp", and configures whether to enable the stub DNS | |
2568 | listener on 127.0.0.53:53. | |
2569 | ||
2570 | * IP addresses configured via networkd may now carry additional | |
2571 | configuration settings supported by the kernel. New options include: | |
2572 | HomeAddress=, DuplicateAddressDetection=, ManageTemporaryAddress=, | |
2573 | PrefixRoute=, AutoJoin=. | |
2574 | ||
2575 | * The PAM configuration fragment file for "user@.service" shipped with | |
2576 | systemd (i.e. the --user instance of systemd) has been stripped to | |
2577 | the minimum necessary to make the system boot. Previously, it | |
2578 | contained Fedora-specific stanzas that did not apply to other | |
2579 | distributions. It is expected that downstream distributions add | |
2580 | additional configuration lines, matching their needs to this file, | |
2581 | using it only as rough template of what systemd itself needs. Note | |
2582 | that this reduced fragment does not even include an invocation of | |
2583 | pam_limits which most distributions probably want to add, even though | |
2584 | systemd itself does not need it. (There's also the new build time | |
2585 | option --with-pamconfdir=no to disable installation of the PAM | |
2586 | fragment entirely.) | |
2587 | ||
2588 | * If PrivateDevices=yes is set for a service the CAP_SYS_RAWIO | |
2589 | capability is now also dropped from its set (in addition to | |
2590 | CAP_SYS_MKNOD as before). | |
2591 | ||
2592 | * In service unit files it is now possible to connect a specific named | |
2593 | file descriptor with stdin/stdout/stdout of an executed service. The | |
2594 | name may be specified in matching .socket units using the | |
2595 | FileDescriptorName= setting. | |
2596 | ||
2597 | * A number of journal settings may now be configured on the kernel | |
2598 | command line. Specifically, the following options are now understood: | |
2599 | systemd.journald.max_level_console=, | |
2600 | systemd.journald.max_level_store=, | |
2601 | systemd.journald.max_level_syslog=, systemd.journald.max_level_kmsg=, | |
2602 | systemd.journald.max_level_wall=. | |
2603 | ||
2604 | * "systemctl is-enabled --full" will now show by which symlinks a unit | |
2605 | file is enabled in the unit dependency tree. | |
2606 | ||
b4eed568 LP |
2607 | * Support for VeraCrypt encrypted partitions has been added to the |
2608 | "cryptsetup" logic and /etc/crypttab. | |
2609 | ||
2610 | * systemd-detect-virt gained support for a new --private-users switch | |
2611 | that checks whether the invoking processes are running inside a user | |
2612 | namespace. Similar, a new special value "private-users" for the | |
2613 | existing ConditionVirtualization= setting has been added, permitting | |
2614 | skipping of specific units in user namespace environments. | |
2615 | ||
07393b6e LP |
2616 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alexander Kuleshov, Alfie John, |
2617 | Andreas Henriksson, Andrew Jeddeloh, Balázs Úr, Bart Rulon, Benjamin | |
2618 | Richter, Ben Gamari, Ben Harris, Brian J. Murrell, Christian Brauner, | |
2619 | Christian Rebischke, Clinton Roy, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
2620 | Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, Daniel Maixner, Daniel Rusek, Dan Dedrick, | |
2621 | Davide Cavalca, David Herrmann, David Michael, Dennis Wassenberg, | |
2622 | Djalal Harouni, Dongsu Park, Douglas Christman, Elias Probst, Eric | |
2623 | Cook, Erik Karlsson, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Felix Zhang, | |
2624 | Franck Bui, George Hilliard, Giuseppe Scrivano, HATAYAMA Daisuke, | |
2625 | Heikki Kemppainen, Hendrik Brueckner, hi117, Ismo Puustinen, Ivan | |
2626 | Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jakub Wilk, Jan Synacek, Jason Kölker, | |
2627 | Jean-Sébastien Bour, Jiří Pírko, Jonathan Boulle, Jorge Niedbalski, | |
2628 | Keith Busch, kristbaum, Kyle Russell, Lans Zhang, Lennart Poettering, | |
2629 | Leonardo Brondani Schenkel, Lucas Werkmeister, Luca Bruno, Lukáš | |
2630 | Nykrýn, Maciek Borzecki, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
2631 | Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Mello, Martin Ejdestig, Martin Pitt, Matej | |
2632 | Habrnal, Maxime de Roucy, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Hoy, | |
2633 | Michael Olbrich, Michael Pope, Michal Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Mike | |
2634 | Gilbert, Nick Owens, Patrik Flykt, Paweł Szewczyk, Peter Hutterer, | |
2635 | Piotr Drąg, Reid Price, Richard W.M. Jones, Roman Stingler, Ronny | |
2636 | Chevalier, Seraphime Kirkovski, Stefan Schweter, Steve Muir, Susant | |
2637 | Sahani, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tiago Levit, | |
2638 | Tobias Jungel, Tomáš Janoušek, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut | |
2639 | Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo, WaLyong Cho, Wilhelm Schuster, Yann | |
2640 | E. MORIN, Yi EungJun, Yuki Inoguchi, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
2641 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeal Jagannatha | |
2642 | ||
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07393b6e | 2644 | |
5cd118ba MP |
2645 | CHANGES WITH 231: |
2646 | ||
fcd30826 LP |
2647 | * In service units the various ExecXYZ= settings have been extended |
2648 | with an additional special character as first argument of the | |
43eb109a | 2649 | assigned value: if the character '+' is used the specified command |
fcd30826 LP |
2650 | line it will be run with full privileges, regardless of User=, |
2651 | Group=, CapabilityBoundingSet= and similar options. The effect is | |
2652 | similar to the existing PermissionsStartOnly= option, but allows | |
2653 | configuration of this concept for each executed command line | |
2654 | independently. | |
2655 | ||
2656 | * Services may now alter the service watchdog timeout at runtime by | |
2657 | sending a WATCHDOG_USEC= message via sd_notify(). | |
2658 | ||
2659 | * MemoryLimit= and related unit settings now optionally take percentage | |
2660 | specifications. The percentage is taken relative to the amount of | |
2661 | physical memory in the system (or in case of containers, the assigned | |
2662 | amount of memory). This allows scaling service resources neatly with | |
771de3f5 | 2663 | the amount of RAM available on the system. Similarly, systemd-logind's |
fcd30826 LP |
2664 | RuntimeDirectorySize= option now also optionally takes percentage |
2665 | values. | |
2666 | ||
2667 | * In similar fashion TasksMax= takes percentage values now, too. The | |
2668 | value is taken relative to the configured maximum number of processes | |
2669 | on the system. The per-service task maximum has been changed to 15% | |
2670 | using this functionality. (Effectively this is an increase of 512 → | |
2671 | 4915 for service units, given the kernel's default pid_max setting.) | |
2672 | ||
2673 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now understand a ".." | |
2674 | syntax for time ranges. Example: "4..7:10" may now be used for | |
2675 | defining a timer that is triggered at 4:10am, 5:10am, 6:10am and | |
2676 | 7:10am every day. | |
2677 | ||
2678 | * The InaccessableDirectories=, ReadOnlyDirectories= and | |
2679 | ReadWriteDirectories= unit file settings have been renamed to | |
2680 | InaccessablePaths=, ReadOnlyPaths= and ReadWritePaths= and may now be | |
2681 | applied to all kinds of file nodes, and not just directories, with | |
2682 | the exception of symlinks. Specifically these settings may now be | |
2683 | used on block and character device nodes, UNIX sockets and FIFOS as | |
2684 | well as regular files. The old names of these settings remain | |
2685 | available for compatibility. | |
2686 | ||
2687 | * systemd will now log about all service processes it kills forcibly | |
2688 | (using SIGKILL) because they remained after the clean shutdown phase | |
2689 | of the service completed. This should help identifying services that | |
2690 | shut down uncleanly. Moreover if KillUserProcesses= is enabled in | |
2691 | systemd-logind's configuration a similar log message is generated for | |
2692 | processes killed at the end of each session due to this setting. | |
2693 | ||
2694 | * systemd will now set the $JOURNAL_STREAM environment variable for all | |
2695 | services whose stdout/stderr are connected to the Journal (which | |
2696 | effectively means by default: all services). The variable contains | |
2697 | the device and inode number of the file descriptor used for | |
2698 | stdout/stderr. This may be used by invoked programs to detect whether | |
2699 | their stdout/stderr is connected to the Journal, in which case they | |
2700 | can switch over to direct Journal communication, thus being able to | |
2701 | pass extended, structured metadata along with their log messages. As | |
2702 | one example, this is now used by glib's logging primitives. | |
2703 | ||
2704 | * When using systemd's default tmp.mount unit for /tmp, the mount point | |
2705 | will now be established with the "nosuid" and "nodev" options. This | |
2706 | avoids privilege escalation attacks that put traps and exploits into | |
2707 | /tmp. However, this might cause problems if you e. g. put container | |
5cd118ba MP |
2708 | images or overlays into /tmp; if you need this, override tmp.mount's |
2709 | "Options=" with a drop-in, or mount /tmp from /etc/fstab with your | |
2710 | desired options. | |
2711 | ||
fcd30826 | 2712 | * systemd now supports the "memory" cgroup controller also on |
4e1dfa45 | 2713 | cgroup v2. |
fcd30826 LP |
2714 | |
2715 | * The systemd-cgtop tool now optionally takes a control group path as | |
2716 | command line argument. If specified, the control group list shown is | |
2717 | limited to subgroups of that group. | |
2718 | ||
2719 | * The SystemCallFilter= unit file setting gained support for | |
2720 | pre-defined, named system call filter sets. For example | |
2721 | SystemCallFilter=@clock is now an effective way to make all clock | |
771de3f5 | 2722 | changing-related system calls unavailable to a service. A number of |
fcd30826 LP |
2723 | similar pre-defined groups are defined. Writing system call filters |
2724 | for system services is simplified substantially with this new | |
2725 | concept. Accordingly, all of systemd's own, long-running services now | |
2726 | enable system call filtering based on this, by default. | |
2727 | ||
2728 | * A new service setting MemoryDenyWriteExecute= has been added, taking | |
2729 | a boolean value. If turned on, a service may no longer create memory | |
2730 | mappings that are writable and executable at the same time. This | |
2731 | enhances security for services where this is enabled as it becomes | |
2732 | harder to dynamically write and then execute memory in exploited | |
2733 | service processes. This option has been enabled for all of systemd's | |
2734 | own long-running services. | |
2735 | ||
2736 | * A new RestrictRealtime= service setting has been added, taking a | |
2737 | boolean argument. If set the service's processes may no longer | |
2738 | acquire realtime scheduling. This improves security as realtime | |
2739 | scheduling may otherwise be used to easily freeze the system. | |
2740 | ||
2741 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch --notify-ready= taking a boolean | |
2742 | value. This may be used for requesting that the system manager inside | |
2743 | of the container reports start-up completion to nspawn which then | |
2744 | propagates this notification further to the service manager | |
2745 | supervising nspawn itself. A related option NotifyReady= in .nspawn | |
2746 | files has been added too. This functionality allows ordering of the | |
2747 | start-up of multiple containers using the usual systemd ordering | |
2748 | primitives. | |
2749 | ||
2750 | * machinectl gained a new command "stop" that is an alias for | |
2751 | "terminate". | |
2752 | ||
2753 | * systemd-resolved gained support for contacting DNS servers on | |
2754 | link-local IPv6 addresses. | |
2755 | ||
2756 | * If systemd-resolved receives the SIGUSR2 signal it will now flush all | |
2757 | its caches. A method call for requesting the same operation has been | |
2758 | added to the bus API too, and is made available via "systemd-resolve | |
2759 | --flush-caches". | |
2760 | ||
771de3f5 | 2761 | * systemd-resolve gained a new --status switch. If passed a brief |
fcd30826 LP |
2762 | summary of the used DNS configuration with per-interface information |
2763 | is shown. | |
2764 | ||
2765 | * resolved.conf gained a new Cache= boolean option, defaulting to | |
2766 | on. If turned off local DNS caching is disabled. This comes with a | |
2767 | performance penalty in particular when DNSSEC is enabled. Note that | |
771de3f5 | 2768 | resolved disables its internal caching implicitly anyway, when the |
fcd30826 LP |
2769 | configured DNS server is on a host-local IP address such as ::1 or |
2770 | 127.0.0.1, thus automatically avoiding double local caching. | |
2771 | ||
2772 | * systemd-resolved now listens on the local IP address 127.0.0.53:53 | |
2773 | for DNS requests. This improves compatibility with local programs | |
2774 | that do not use the libc NSS or systemd-resolved's bus APIs for name | |
2775 | resolution. This minimal DNS service is only available to local | |
2776 | programs and does not implement the full DNS protocol, but enough to | |
2777 | cover local DNS clients. A new, static resolv.conf file, listing just | |
2778 | this DNS server is now shipped in /usr/lib/systemd/resolv.conf. It is | |
2779 | now recommended to make /etc/resolv.conf a symlink to this file in | |
2780 | order to route all DNS lookups to systemd-resolved, regardless if | |
2781 | done via NSS, the bus API or raw DNS packets. Note that this local | |
2782 | DNS service is not as fully featured as the libc NSS or | |
2783 | systemd-resolved's bus APIs. For example, as unicast DNS cannot be | |
2784 | used to deliver link-local address information (as this implies | |
2785 | sending a local interface index along), LLMNR/mDNS support via this | |
2786 | interface is severely restricted. It is thus strongly recommended for | |
2787 | all applications to use the libc NSS API or native systemd-resolved | |
2788 | bus API instead. | |
2789 | ||
2790 | * systemd-networkd's bridge support learned a new setting | |
2791 | VLANFiltering= for controlling VLAN filtering. Moreover a new section | |
2792 | in .network files has been added for configuring VLAN bridging in | |
2793 | more detail: VLAN=, EgressUntagged=, PVID= in [BridgeVLAN]. | |
2794 | ||
2795 | * systemd-networkd's IPv6 Router Advertisement code now makes use of | |
2796 | the DNSSL and RDNSS options. This means IPv6 DNS configuration may | |
2797 | now be acquired without relying on DHCPv6. Two new options | |
2798 | UseDomains= and UseDNS= have been added to configure this behaviour. | |
2799 | ||
2800 | * systemd-networkd's IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= option has been | |
2801 | renamed IPv6AcceptRA=, without altering its behaviour. The old | |
2802 | setting name remains available for compatibility reasons. | |
2803 | ||
2804 | * The systemd-networkd VTI/VTI6 tunneling support gained new options | |
2805 | Key=, InputKey= and OutputKey=. | |
2806 | ||
2807 | * systemd-networkd gained support for VRF ("Virtual Routing Function") | |
2808 | interface configuration. | |
2809 | ||
2810 | * "systemctl edit" may now be used to create new unit files by | |
2811 | specifying the --force switch. | |
2812 | ||
2813 | * sd-event gained a new function sd_event_get_iteration() for | |
2814 | requesting the current iteration counter of the event loop. It starts | |
2815 | at zero and is increased by one with each event loop iteration. | |
2816 | ||
43a569a1 ZJS |
2817 | * A new rpm macro %systemd_ordering is provided by the macros.systemd |
2818 | file. It can be used in lieu of %systemd_requires in packages which | |
2819 | don't use any systemd functionality and are intended to be installed | |
2820 | in minimal containers without systemd present. This macro provides | |
ce830873 | 2821 | ordering dependencies to ensure that if the package is installed in |
43a569a1 ZJS |
2822 | the same rpm transaction as systemd, systemd will be installed before |
2823 | the scriptlets for the package are executed, allowing unit presets | |
2824 | to be handled. | |
2825 | ||
2826 | New macros %_systemdgeneratordir and %_systemdusergeneratordir have | |
2827 | been added to simplify packaging of generators. | |
2828 | ||
2829 | * The os-release file gained VERSION_CODENAME field for the | |
2830 | distribution nickname (e.g. VERSION_CODENAME=woody). | |
2831 | ||
2832 | * New udev property UDEV_DISABLE_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_RULES_FLAG=1 | |
2833 | can be set to disable parsing of metadata and the creation | |
2834 | of persistent symlinks for that device. | |
2835 | ||
0f1da52b LP |
2836 | * The v230 change to tag framebuffer devices (/dev/fb*) with "uaccess" |
2837 | to make them available to logged-in users has been reverted. | |
2838 | ||
2839 | * Much of the common code of the various systemd components is now | |
2840 | built into an internal shared library libsystemd-shared-231.so | |
2841 | (incorporating the systemd version number in the name, to be updated | |
2842 | with future releases) that the components link to. This should | |
2843 | decrease systemd footprint both in memory during runtime and on | |
2844 | disk. Note that the shared library is not for public use, and is | |
ead6bd25 | 2845 | neither API nor ABI stable, but is likely to change with every new |
1ecbf32f ZJS |
2846 | released update. Packagers need to make sure that binaries |
2847 | linking to libsystemd-shared.so are updated in step with the | |
2848 | library. | |
43a569a1 | 2849 | |
fcd30826 LP |
2850 | * Configuration for "mkosi" is now part of the systemd |
2851 | repository. mkosi is a tool to easily build legacy-free OS images, | |
2852 | and is available on github: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi. If | |
2853 | "mkosi" is invoked in the build tree a new raw OS image is generated | |
2854 | incorporating the systemd sources currently being worked on and a | |
2855 | clean, fresh distribution installation. The generated OS image may be | |
ce830873 | 2856 | booted up with "systemd-nspawn -b -i", qemu-kvm or on any physical |
fcd30826 LP |
2857 | UEFI PC. This functionality is particularly useful to easily test |
2858 | local changes made to systemd in a pristine, defined environment. See | |
f09eb768 | 2859 | doc/HACKING for details. |
ceeddf79 | 2860 | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
2861 | * configure learned the --with-support-url= option to specify the |
2862 | distribution's bugtracker. | |
2863 | ||
38b383d9 LP |
2864 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alessandro Puccetti, Alessio Igor |
2865 | Bogani, Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Kurtz, Alex Gaynor, Andika | |
2866 | Triwidada, Andreas Pokorny, Andreas Rammhold, Andrew Jeddeloh, Ansgar | |
2867 | Burchardt, Atrotors, Benjamin Drung, Brian Boylston, Christian Hesse, | |
2868 | Christian Rebischke, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David | |
2869 | Herrmann, David Michael, Djalal Harouni, Douglas Christman, Elias | |
2870 | Probst, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Federico Mena Quintero, Felipe Sateler, | |
2871 | Franck Bui, Harald Hoyer, Ian Lee, Ivan Shapovalov, Jakub Wilk, Jan | |
2872 | Janssen, Jean-Sébastien Bour, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jouke | |
2873 | Witteveen, Kai Ruhnau, kpengboy, Kyle Walker, Lénaïc Huard, Lennart | |
2874 | Poettering, Luca Bruno, Lukas Lösche, Lukáš Nykrýn, mahkoh, Marcel | |
2875 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Marty Plummer, Matthieu Codron, Max Prokhorov, | |
2876 | Michael Biebl, Michael Karcher, Michael Olbrich, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, | |
2877 | Michal Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Minkyung, Muhammet Kara, mulkieran, | |
2878 | Otto Wallenius, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, Peter Hutterer, Ronny Chevalier, | |
2879 | Rusty Bird, Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas | |
771de3f5 ZJS |
2880 | Haller, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Jungel, Tom Gundersen, Tom Yan, |
2881 | Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Valentin Vidić, Viktar Vaŭčkievič, | |
38b383d9 | 2882 | WaLyong Cho, Weng Xuetian, Werner Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
5cd118ba | 2883 | |
38b383d9 | 2884 | — Berlin, 2016-07-25 |
5cd118ba | 2885 | |
46e40fab | 2886 | CHANGES WITH 230: |
7f6e8043 | 2887 | |
61ecb465 LP |
2888 | * DNSSEC is now turned on by default in systemd-resolved (in |
2889 | "allow-downgrade" mode), but may be turned off during compile time by | |
2890 | passing "--with-default-dnssec=no" to "configure" (and of course, | |
2891 | during runtime with DNSSEC= in resolved.conf). We recommend | |
2892 | downstreams to leave this on at least during development cycles and | |
2893 | report any issues with the DNSSEC logic upstream. We are very | |
2894 | interested in collecting feedback about the DNSSEC validator and its | |
2895 | limitations in the wild. Note however, that DNSSEC support is | |
2896 | probably nothing downstreams should turn on in stable distros just | |
96d49011 | 2897 | yet, as it might create incompatibilities with a few DNS servers and |
61ecb465 LP |
2898 | networks. We tried hard to make sure we downgrade to non-DNSSEC mode |
2899 | automatically whenever we detect such incompatible setups, but there | |
2900 | might be systems we do not cover yet. Hence: please help us testing | |
2901 | the DNSSEC code, leave this on where you can, report back, but then | |
2902 | again don't consider turning this on in your stable, LTS or | |
e40a326c LP |
2903 | production release just yet. (Note that you have to enable |
2904 | nss-resolve in /etc/nsswitch.conf, to actually use systemd-resolved | |
2905 | and its DNSSEC mode for host name resolution from local | |
2906 | applications.) | |
61ecb465 | 2907 | |
96515dbf | 2908 | * systemd-resolve conveniently resolves DANE records with the --tlsa |
e40a326c | 2909 | option and OPENPGPKEY records with the --openpgp option. It also |
e75690c3 | 2910 | supports dumping raw DNS record data via the new --raw= switch. |
96515dbf | 2911 | |
97e5530c ZJS |
2912 | * systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes that are |
2913 | part of the user session scope unit (session-XX.scope) when the user | |
977f2bea | 2914 | logs out. This behavior is controlled by the KillUserProcesses= |
e40a326c LP |
2915 | setting in logind.conf, and the previous default of "no" is now |
2916 | changed to "yes". This means that user sessions will be properly | |
2917 | cleaned up after, but additional steps are necessary to allow | |
2918 | intentionally long-running processes to survive logout. | |
97e5530c ZJS |
2919 | |
2920 | While the user is logged in at least once, user@.service is running, | |
2921 | and any service that should survive the end of any individual login | |
2922 | session can be started at a user service or scope using systemd-run. | |
e40a326c | 2923 | systemd-run(1) man page has been extended with an example which shows |
8951eaec | 2924 | how to run screen in a scope unit underneath user@.service. The same |
e40a326c | 2925 | command works for tmux. |
97e5530c ZJS |
2926 | |
2927 | After the user logs out of all sessions, user@.service will be | |
2928 | terminated too, by default, unless the user has "lingering" enabled. | |
2929 | To effectively allow users to run long-term tasks even if they are | |
152199f2 ZJS |
2930 | logged out, lingering must be enabled for them. See loginctl(1) for |
2931 | details. The default polkit policy was modified to allow users to | |
2932 | set lingering for themselves without authentication. | |
7f6e8043 | 2933 | |
95365a57 | 2934 | Previous defaults can be restored at compile time by the |
e40a326c | 2935 | --without-kill-user-processes option to "configure". |
7f6e8043 | 2936 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
2937 | * systemd-logind gained new configuration settings SessionsMax= and |
2938 | InhibitorsMax=, both with a default of 8192. It will not register new | |
188d3082 | 2939 | user sessions or inhibitors above this limit. |
e75690c3 ZJS |
2940 | |
2941 | * systemd-logind will now reload configuration on SIGHUP. | |
2942 | ||
96515dbf | 2943 | * The unified cgroup hierarchy added in Linux 4.5 is now supported. |
e40a326c | 2944 | Use systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 on the kernel command line to |
25b0e6cb LP |
2945 | enable. Also, support for the "io" cgroup controller in the unified |
2946 | hierarchy has been added, so that the "memory", "pids" and "io" are | |
2947 | now the controllers that are supported on the unified hierarchy. | |
e40a326c | 2948 | |
96515dbf ZJS |
2949 | WARNING: it is not possible to use previous systemd versions with |
2950 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 and the new kernel. Therefore it | |
2951 | is necessary to also update systemd in the initramfs if using the | |
e40a326c | 2952 | unified hierarchy. An updated SELinux policy is also required. |
96515dbf | 2953 | |
e40a326c LP |
2954 | * LLDP support has been extended, and both passive (receive-only) and |
2955 | active (sender) modes are supported. Passive mode ("routers-only") is | |
8951eaec ZJS |
2956 | enabled by default in systemd-networkd. Active LLDP mode is enabled |
2957 | by default for containers on the internal network. The "networkctl | |
e40a326c LP |
2958 | lldp" command may be used to list information gathered. "networkctl |
2959 | status" will also show basic LLDP information on connected peers now. | |
96515dbf | 2960 | |
e40a326c LP |
2961 | * The IAID and DUID unique identifier sent in DHCP requests may now be |
2962 | configured for the system and each .network file managed by | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
2963 | systemd-networkd using the DUIDType=, DUIDRawData=, IAID= options. |
2964 | ||
2965 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring proxy ARP support for | |
2966 | each interface, via the ProxyArp= setting in .network files. It also | |
2967 | gained support for configuring the multicast querier feature of | |
2968 | bridge devices, via the new MulticastQuerier= setting in .netdev | |
2969 | files. Similarly, snooping on the IGMP traffic can be controlled | |
2970 | via the new setting MulticastSnooping=. | |
2971 | ||
2972 | A new setting PreferredLifetime= has been added for addresses | |
2973 | configured in .network file to configure the lifetime intended for an | |
2974 | address. | |
2975 | ||
2976 | The systemd-networkd DHCP server gained the option EmitRouter=, which | |
2977 | defaults to yes, to configure whether the DHCP Option 3 (Router) | |
2978 | should be emitted. | |
96515dbf | 2979 | |
e40a326c | 2980 | * The testing tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-activate is renamed to |
97e5530c ZJS |
2981 | systemd-socket-activate and installed into /usr/bin. It is now fully |
2982 | supported. | |
2983 | ||
e40a326c LP |
2984 | * systemd-journald now uses separate threads to flush changes to disk |
2985 | when closing journal files, thus reducing impact of slow disk I/O on | |
2986 | logging performance. | |
96515dbf | 2987 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
2988 | * The sd-journal API gained two new calls |
2989 | sd_journal_open_directory_fd() and sd_journal_open_files_fd() which | |
2990 | can be used to open journal files using file descriptors instead of | |
2991 | file or directory paths. sd_journal_open_container() has been | |
2992 | deprecated, sd_journal_open_directory_fd() should be used instead | |
2993 | with the flag SD_JOURNAL_OS_ROOT. | |
2994 | ||
2995 | * journalctl learned a new output mode "-o short-unix" that outputs log | |
2996 | lines prefixed by their UNIX time (i.e. seconds since Jan 1st, 1970 | |
2997 | UTC). It also gained support for a new --no-hostname setting to | |
2998 | suppress the hostname column in the family of "short" output modes. | |
2999 | ||
e40a326c LP |
3000 | * systemd-ask-password now optionally skips printing of the password to |
3001 | stdout with --no-output which can be useful in scripts. | |
96515dbf ZJS |
3002 | |
3003 | * Framebuffer devices (/dev/fb*) and 3D printers and scanners | |
3004 | (devices tagged with ID_MAKER_TOOL) are now tagged with | |
3005 | "uaccess" and are available to logged in users. | |
3006 | ||
e75690c3 | 3007 | * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports specifiers (with "%"). |
e40a326c LP |
3008 | |
3009 | * "systemctl show" gained a new --value switch, which allows print a | |
3010 | only the contents of a specific unit property, without also printing | |
8951eaec ZJS |
3011 | the property's name. Similar support was added to "show*" verbs |
3012 | of loginctl and machinectl that output "key=value" lists. | |
e40a326c | 3013 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3014 | * A new unit type "generated" was added for files dynamically generated |
3015 | by generator tools. Similarly, a new unit type "transient" is used | |
3016 | for unit files created using the runtime API. "systemctl enable" will | |
3017 | refuse to operate on such files. | |
3018 | ||
e40a326c LP |
3019 | * A new command "systemctl revert" has been added that may be used to |
3020 | revert to the vendor version of a unit file, in case local changes | |
3021 | have been made by adding drop-ins or overriding the unit file. | |
3022 | ||
3023 | * "machinectl clean" gained a new verb to automatically remove all or | |
3024 | just hidden container images. | |
3025 | ||
e40a326c LP |
3026 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for a new line type "e" for emptying |
3027 | directories, if they exist, without creating them if they don't. | |
3028 | ||
e40a326c LP |
3029 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for automatically patching the UID/GIDs |
3030 | of the owners and the ACLs of all files and directories in a | |
3031 | container tree to match the UID/GID user namespacing range selected | |
3032 | for the container invocation. This mode is enabled via the new | |
24597ee0 ZJS |
3033 | --private-users-chown switch. It also gained support for |
3034 | automatically choosing a free, previously unused UID/GID range when | |
3035 | starting a container, via the new --private-users=pick setting (which | |
3036 | implies --private-users-chown). Together, these options for the first | |
3037 | time make user namespacing for nspawn containers fully automatic and | |
3038 | thus deployable. The systemd-nspawn@.service template unit file has | |
3039 | been changed to use this functionality by default. | |
e40a326c | 3040 | |
25b0e6cb LP |
3041 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-zone= switch, that allows |
3042 | creating ad-hoc virtual Ethernet links between multiple containers, | |
3043 | that only exist as long as at least one container referencing them is | |
3044 | running. This allows easy connecting of multiple containers with a | |
3045 | common link that implements an Ethernet broadcast domain. Each of | |
3046 | these network "zones" may be named relatively freely by the user, and | |
3047 | may be referenced by any number of containers, but each container may | |
3048 | only reference one of these "zones". On the lower level, this is | |
3049 | implemented by an automatically managed bridge network interface for | |
3050 | each zone, that is created when the first container referencing its | |
3051 | zone is created and removed when the last one referencing its zone | |
3052 | terminates. | |
3053 | ||
e40a326c | 3054 | * The default start timeout may now be configured on the kernel command |
8951eaec ZJS |
3055 | line via systemd.default_timeout_start_sec=. It was already |
3056 | configurable via the DefaultTimeoutStartSec= option in | |
3057 | /etc/systemd/system.conf. | |
e40a326c | 3058 | |
030bd839 | 3059 | * Socket units gained a new TriggerLimitIntervalSec= and |
e40a326c LP |
3060 | TriggerLimitBurst= setting to configure a limit on the activation |
3061 | rate of the socket unit. | |
3062 | ||
3063 | * The LimitNICE= setting now optionally takes normal UNIX nice values | |
3064 | in addition to the raw integer limit value. If the specified | |
3065 | parameter is prefixed with "+" or "-" and is in the range -20..19 the | |
3066 | value is understood as UNIX nice value. If not prefixed like this it | |
3067 | is understood as raw RLIMIT_NICE limit. | |
3068 | ||
999a43f8 LP |
3069 | * Note that the effect of the PrivateDevices= unit file setting changed |
3070 | slightly with this release: the per-device /dev file system will be | |
3071 | mounted read-only from this version on, and will have "noexec" | |
188d3082 | 3072 | set. This (minor) change of behavior might cause some (exceptional) |
999a43f8 LP |
3073 | legacy software to break, when PrivateDevices=yes is set for its |
3074 | service. Please leave PrivateDevices= off if you run into problems | |
3075 | with this. | |
3076 | ||
e75690c3 ZJS |
3077 | * systemd-bootchart has been split out to a separate repository: |
3078 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart | |
3079 | ||
3080 | * systemd-bus-proxyd has been removed, as kdbus is unlikely to still be | |
3081 | merged into the kernel in its current form. | |
3082 | ||
3083 | * The compatibility libraries libsystemd-daemon.so, | |
3084 | libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-id128.so, and libsystemd-login.so | |
3085 | which have been deprecated since systemd-209 have been removed along | |
3086 | with the corresponding pkg-config files. All symbols provided by | |
3087 | those libraries are provided by libsystemd.so. | |
3088 | ||
3089 | * The Capabilities= unit file setting has been removed (it is ignored | |
3090 | for backwards compatibility). AmbientCapabilities= and | |
3091 | CapabilityBoundingSet= should be used instead. | |
3092 | ||
4f9020fa DR |
3093 | * A new special target has been added, initrd-root-device.target, |
3094 | which creates a synchronization point for dependencies of the root | |
3095 | device in early userspace. Initramfs builders must ensure that this | |
3096 | target is now included in early userspace. | |
3097 | ||
e75690c3 ZJS |
3098 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Shopov, |
3099 | Alex Crawford, Andre Klärner, Andrew Eikum, Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin | |
3100 | Robin, Biao Lu, Bjørnar Ness, Calvin Owens, Christian Hesse, Clemens | |
3101 | Gruber, Colin Guthrie, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel J Walsh, | |
3102 | Daniel Mack, Dan Nicholson, daurnimator, David Herrmann, David | |
3103 | R. Hedges, Elias Probst, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot, EMOziko, Evgeny | |
3104 | Vereshchagin, Federico, Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck | |
3105 | Bui, frankheckenbach, gdamjan, Georgia Brikis, Harald Hoyer, Hendrik | |
77ff6022 CG |
3106 | Brueckner, Hristo Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Ian Kelling, Ismo |
3107 | Puustinen, Jakub Wilk, Jaroslav Škarvada, Jeff Huang, Joel Holdsworth, | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3108 | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathan Boulle, kayrus, Klearchos |
3109 | Chaloulos, Kyle Russell, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir | |
3110 | Rintel, Lukáš Nykrýn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, | |
77ff6022 CG |
3111 | Michael Biebl, michaelolbrich, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Koutný, |
3112 | Michal Sekletar, Mike Frysinger, Mike Gilbert, Mingcong Bai, Ming Lin, | |
3113 | mulkieran, muzena, Nalin Dahyabhai, Naohiro Aota, Nathan McSween, | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3114 | Nicolas Braud-Santoni, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, |
3115 | Petr Lautrbach, Petros Angelatos, Piotr Drąg, Rabin Vincent, Robert | |
3116 | Węcławski, Ronny Chevalier, Samuel Tardieu, Stefan Saraev, Stefan | |
3117 | Schallenberg aka nafets227, Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
3118 | Plantefève, Taylor Smock, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, | |
3119 | Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Klauser, Tom Gundersen, topimiettinen, | |
46e40fab ZJS |
3120 | Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uwe Kleine-König, Victor Toso, |
3121 | Vinay Kulkarni, Vito Caputo, Vittorio G (VittGam), Vladimir Panteleev, | |
3122 | Wieland Hoffmann, Wouter Verhelst, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
3123 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
e40a326c | 3124 | |
46e40fab | 3125 | — Fairfax, 2016-05-21 |
96515dbf | 3126 | |
61f32bff MP |
3127 | CHANGES WITH 229: |
3128 | ||
d5f8b295 LP |
3129 | * The systemd-resolved DNS resolver service has gained a substantial |
3130 | set of new features, most prominently it may now act as a DNSSEC | |
3131 | validating stub resolver. DNSSEC mode is currently turned off by | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3132 | default, but is expected to be turned on by default in one of the |
3133 | next releases. For now, we invite everybody to test the DNSSEC logic | |
3134 | by setting DNSSEC=allow-downgrade in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. The | |
3135 | service also gained a full set of D-Bus interfaces, including calls | |
3136 | to configure DNS and DNSSEC settings per link (for use by external | |
3137 | network management software). systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd | |
3138 | now distinguish between "search" and "routing" domains. The former | |
3139 | are used to qualify single-label names, the latter are used purely | |
3140 | for routing lookups within certain domains to specific links. | |
3141 | resolved now also synthesizes RRs for all entries from /etc/hosts. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3142 | |
3143 | * The systemd-resolve tool (which is a client utility for | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3144 | systemd-resolved) has been improved considerably and is now fully |
3145 | supported and documented. Hence it has moved from /usr/lib/systemd to | |
3146 | /usr/bin. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3147 | |
3148 | * /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio | |
3149 | devices. | |
3150 | ||
a7c723c0 LP |
3151 | * The coredump collection logic has been reworked: when a coredump is |
3152 | collected it is now written to disk, compressed and processed | |
3153 | (including stacktrace extraction) from a new instantiated service | |
3154 | systemd-coredump@.service, instead of directly from the | |
3155 | /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook we provide. This is beneficial as | |
3156 | processing large coredumps can take up a substantial amount of | |
3157 | resources and time, and this previously happened entirely outside of | |
3158 | systemd's service supervision. With the new logic the core_pattern | |
3159 | hook only does minimal metadata collection before passing off control | |
3160 | to the new instantiated service, which is configured with a time | |
3161 | limit, a nice level and other settings to minimize negative impact on | |
3162 | the rest of the system. Also note that the new logic will honour the | |
3163 | RLIMIT_CORE setting of the crashed process, which now allows users | |
3164 | and processes to turn off coredumping for their processes by setting | |
3165 | this limit. | |
3166 | ||
3167 | * The RLIMIT_CORE resource limit now defaults to "unlimited" for PID 1 | |
3168 | and all forked processes by default. Previously, PID 1 would leave | |
3169 | the setting at "0" for all processes, as set by the kernel. Note that | |
3170 | the resource limit traditionally has no effect on the generated | |
3171 | coredumps on the system if the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook | |
3172 | logic is used. Since the limit is now honoured (see above) its | |
3173 | default has been changed so that the coredumping logic is enabled by | |
3174 | default for all processes, while allowing specific opt-out. | |
3175 | ||
3176 | * When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, this | |
3177 | is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this | |
3178 | potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when | |
3179 | processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID | |
3180 | of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice | |
3181 | that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system user | |
3182 | and group at package installation time. | |
3183 | ||
d5f8b295 LP |
3184 | * The systemd-activate socket activation testing tool gained support |
3185 | for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets using the new --datagram | |
3186 | and --seqpacket switches. It also has been extended to support both | |
3187 | new-style and inetd-style file descriptor passing. Use the new | |
3188 | --inetd switch to request inetd-style file descriptor passing. | |
3189 | ||
8968aea0 MP |
3190 | * Most systemd tools now honor a new $SYSTEMD_COLORS environment |
3191 | variable, which takes a boolean value. If set to false, ANSI color | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3192 | output is disabled in the tools even when run on a terminal that |
3193 | supports it. | |
3194 | ||
3195 | * The VXLAN support in networkd now supports two new settings | |
3196 | DestinationPort= and PortRange=. | |
3197 | ||
3198 | * A new systemd.machine_id= kernel command line switch has been added, | |
3199 | that may be used to set the machine ID in /etc/machine-id if it is | |
3200 | not initialized yet. This command line option has no effect if the | |
3201 | file is already initialized. | |
3202 | ||
3203 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --as-pid2 switch that invokes any | |
3204 | specified command line as PID 2 rather than PID 1 in the | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3205 | container. In this mode PID 1 is a minimal stub init process that |
3206 | implements the special POSIX and Linux semantics of PID 1 regarding | |
3207 | signal and child process management. Note that this stub init process | |
3208 | is implemented in nspawn itself and requires no support from the | |
3209 | container image. This new logic is useful to support running | |
3210 | arbitrary commands in the container, as normal processes are | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3211 | generally not prepared to run as PID 1. |
3212 | ||
3213 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --chdir= switch for setting the current | |
3214 | working directory for the process started in the container. | |
3215 | ||
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3216 | * "journalctl /dev/sda" will now output all kernel log messages for |
3217 | specified device from the current boot, in addition to all devices | |
3218 | that are parents of it. This should make log output about devices | |
3219 | pretty useful, as long as kernel drivers attach enough metadata to | |
3220 | the log messages. (The usual SATA drivers do.) | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3221 | |
3222 | * The sd-journal API gained two new calls | |
3223 | sd_journal_has_runtime_files() and sd_journal_has_persistent_files() | |
3224 | that report whether log data from /run or /var has been found. | |
3225 | ||
3226 | * journalctl gained a new switch "--fields" that prints all journal | |
3227 | record field names currently in use in the journal. This is backed | |
3228 | by two new sd-journal API calls sd_journal_enumerate_fields() and | |
3229 | sd_journal_restart_fields(). | |
3230 | ||
3231 | * Most configurable timeouts in systemd now expect an argument of | |
8968aea0 MP |
3232 | "infinity" to turn them off, instead of "0" as before. The semantics |
3233 | from now on is that a timeout of "0" means "now", and "infinity" | |
3234 | means "never". To maintain backwards compatibility, "0" continues to | |
3235 | turn off previously existing timeout settings. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3236 | |
3237 | * "systemctl reload-or-try-restart" has been renamed to "systemctl | |
8968aea0 MP |
3238 | try-reload-or-restart" to clarify what it actually does: the "try" |
3239 | logic applies to both reloading and restarting, not just restarting. | |
3240 | The old name continues to be accepted for compatibility. | |
3241 | ||
3242 | * On boot-up, when PID 1 detects that the system clock is behind the | |
3243 | release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now set | |
3244 | to the latter. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3245 | to avoid running with clocks set to the various clock epochs such as |
3246 | 1902, 1938 or 1970. With this change the logic is now done in PID 1 | |
3247 | in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced | |
3248 | before the first process is spawned by systemd. Note that the logic | |
3249 | in timesyncd remains, as it is more comprehensive and ensures | |
ed5f8840 | 3250 | clock monotonicity by maintaining a persistent timestamp file in |
d5f8b295 LP |
3251 | /var. Since /var is generally not available in earliest boot or the |
3252 | initrd, this part of the logic remains in timesyncd, and is not done | |
3253 | by PID 1. | |
3254 | ||
50f48ad3 DM |
3255 | * Support for tweaking details in net_cls.class_id through the |
3256 | NetClass= configuration directive has been removed, as the kernel | |
3257 | people have decided to deprecate that controller in cgroup v2. | |
3258 | Userspace tools such as nftables are moving over to setting rules | |
3259 | that are specific to the full cgroup path of a task, which obsoletes | |
3260 | these controllers anyway. The NetClass= directive is kept around for | |
3261 | legacy compatibility reasons. For a more in-depth description of the | |
3262 | kernel change, please refer to the respective upstream commit: | |
3263 | ||
3264 | https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd1060a1d671 | |
3265 | ||
d5f8b295 | 3266 | * A new service setting RuntimeMaxSec= has been added that may be used |
8968aea0 | 3267 | to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit, the |
d5f8b295 LP |
3268 | service is terminated and put into a failure state. |
3269 | ||
8968aea0 MP |
3270 | * A new service setting AmbientCapabilities= has been added. It allows |
3271 | configuration of additional Linux process capabilities that are | |
3272 | passed to the activated processes. This is only available on very | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3273 | recent kernels. |
3274 | ||
3275 | * The process resource limit settings in service units may now be used | |
3276 | to configure hard and soft limits individually. | |
3277 | ||
8968aea0 | 3278 | * The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publicly |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3279 | expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C extension. |
3280 | Specifically, for many object destructor functions alternative | |
3281 | versions have been added that have names suffixed with "p" and take a | |
3282 | pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy, instead of just a | |
3283 | pointer to the object itself. This is useful because these destructor | |
3284 | functions may be used directly as parameters to the cleanup | |
3285 | construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of this GCC | |
3286 | extension for a long time, and with this change similar support is | |
3287 | now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note | |
8968aea0 | 3288 | that by using this extension in your sources compatibility with old |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
3289 | and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, all gcc or |
3290 | LLVM versions of recent years support this extension. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3291 | |
3292 | * Timer units gained support for a new setting RandomizedDelaySec= that | |
8968aea0 MP |
3293 | allows configuring some additional randomized delay to the configured |
3294 | time. This is useful to spread out timer events to avoid load peaks in | |
3295 | clusters or larger setups. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3296 | |
3297 | * Calendar time specifications now support sub-second accuracy. | |
3298 | ||
3299 | * Socket units now support listening on SCTP and UDP-lite protocol | |
3300 | sockets. | |
3301 | ||
3302 | * The sd-event API now comes with a full set of man pages. | |
3303 | ||
3304 | * Older versions of systemd contained experimental support for | |
3305 | compressing journal files and coredumps with the LZ4 compressor that | |
3306 | was not compatible with the lz4 binary (due to API limitations of the | |
3307 | lz4 library). This support has been removed; only support for files | |
3308 | compatible with the lz4 binary remains. This LZ4 logic is now | |
3309 | officially supported and no longer considered experimental. | |
3310 | ||
3311 | * The dkr image import logic has been removed again from importd. dkr's | |
3312 | micro-services focus doesn't fit into the machine image focus of | |
3313 | importd, and quickly got out of date with the upstream dkr API. | |
3314 | ||
3315 | * Creation of the /run/lock/lockdev/ directory was dropped from | |
3316 | tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf. Better locking mechanisms like flock() have | |
61f32bff MP |
3317 | been available for many years. If you still need this, you need to |
3318 | create your own tmpfiles.d config file with: | |
d5f8b295 LP |
3319 | |
3320 | d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock - | |
61f32bff | 3321 | |
dd95b381 LP |
3322 | * The settings StartLimitBurst=, StartLimitInterval=, StartLimitAction= |
3323 | and RebootArgument= have been moved from the [Service] section of | |
3324 | unit files to [Unit], and they are now supported on all unit types, | |
3325 | not just service units. Of course, systemd will continue to | |
3326 | understand these settings also at the old location, in order to | |
3327 | maintain compatibility. | |
3328 | ||
3545ab35 LP |
3329 | Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Alban Crequy, Aleksander |
3330 | Adamowski, Alexander Kuleshov, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei Borzenkov, | |
3331 | Andrew Wilcox, Arthur Clement, Beniamino Galvani, Casey Schaufler, | |
3332 | Chris Atkinson, Chris Mayo, Christian Hesse, Damjan Georgievski, Dan | |
3333 | Dedrick, Daniele Medri, Daniel J Walsh, Daniel Korostil, Daniel Mack, | |
3334 | David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dominik Hannen, Douglas Christman, | |
3335 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Gabor Kelemen, | |
3336 | Harald Hoyer, Hayden Walles, Helmut Grohne, Henrik Kaare Poulsen, | |
3337 | Hristo Venev, Hui Wang, Indrajit Raychaudhuri, Ismo Puustinen, Jakub | |
3338 | Wilk, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, | |
3339 | Joost Bremmer, Jorgen Schaefer, Karel Zak, Klearchos Chaloulos, | |
3340 | lc85446, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
3341 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, | |
3342 | Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, Nicolas Cornu, Nicolas Iooss, Nils | |
3343 | Carlson, nmartensen, nnz1024, Patrick Ohly, Peter Hutterer, Phillip Sz, | |
3344 | Ronny Chevalier, Samu Kallio, Shawn Landden, Stef Walter, Susant | |
3345 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Tadej Janež, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
3346 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito | |
3347 | Caputo, WaLyong Cho, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3348 | ||
ccddd104 | 3349 | — Berlin, 2016-02-11 |
61f32bff | 3350 | |
a11c7ea5 LP |
3351 | CHANGES WITH 228: |
3352 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
3353 | * A number of properties previously only settable in unit |
3354 | files are now also available as properties to set when | |
3355 | creating transient units programmatically via the bus, as it | |
3356 | is exposed with systemd-run's --property= | |
3357 | setting. Specifically, these are: SyslogIdentifier=, | |
3358 | SyslogLevelPrefix=, TimerSlackNSec=, OOMScoreAdjust=, | |
3359 | EnvironmentFile=, ReadWriteDirectories=, | |
3360 | ReadOnlyDirectories=, InaccessibleDirectories=, | |
3361 | ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome=, RuntimeDirectory=. | |
3362 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3363 | * When creating transient services via the bus API it is now |
3364 | possible to pass in a set of file descriptors to use as | |
3365 | STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR for the invoked process. | |
a11c7ea5 | 3366 | |
f1f8a5a5 LP |
3367 | * Slice units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs, |
3368 | similar to the way service and scope units may already be | |
3369 | created transiently. | |
3370 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
3371 | * Wherever systemd expects a calendar timestamp specification |
3372 | (like in journalctl's --since= and --until= switches) UTC | |
3373 | timestamps are now supported. Timestamps suffixed with "UTC" | |
3374 | are now considered to be in Universal Time Coordinated | |
3375 | instead of the local timezone. Also, timestamps may now | |
815bb5bd | 3376 | optionally be specified with sub-second accuracy. Both of |
a11c7ea5 LP |
3377 | these additions also apply to recurring calendar event |
3378 | specification, such as OnCalendar= in timer units. | |
3379 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3380 | * journalctl gained a new "--sync" switch that asks the |
3381 | journal daemon to write all so far unwritten log messages to | |
3382 | disk and sync the files, before returning. | |
3383 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
3384 | * systemd-tmpfiles learned two new line types "q" and "Q" that |
3385 | operate like "v", but also set up a basic btrfs quota | |
3386 | hierarchy when used on a btrfs file system with quota | |
3387 | enabled. | |
3388 | ||
f1f8a5a5 LP |
3389 | * tmpfiles' "v", "q" and "Q" will now create a plain directory |
3390 | instead of a subvolume (even on a btrfs file system) if the | |
3391 | root directory is a plain directory, and not a | |
3392 | subvolume. This should simplify things with certain chroot() | |
3393 | environments which are not aware of the concept of btrfs | |
3394 | subvolumes. | |
3395 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
3396 | * systemd-detect-virt gained a new --chroot switch to detect |
3397 | whether execution takes place in a chroot() environment. | |
3398 | ||
28c85daf | 3399 | * CPUAffinity= now takes CPU index ranges in addition to |
a11c7ea5 LP |
3400 | individual indexes. |
3401 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3402 | * The various memory-related resource limit settings (such as |
3403 | LimitAS=) now understand the usual K, M, G, ... suffixes to | |
3404 | the base of 1024 (IEC). Similar, the time-related resource | |
3405 | limit settings understand the usual min, h, day, ... | |
3406 | suffixes now. | |
3407 | ||
f1f8a5a5 LP |
3408 | * There's a new system.conf setting DefaultTasksMax= to |
3409 | control the default TasksMax= setting for services and | |
3410 | scopes running on the system. (TasksMax= is the primary | |
3411 | setting that exposes the "pids" cgroup controller on systemd | |
3412 | and was introduced in the previous systemd release.) The | |
3413 | setting now defaults to 512, which means services that are | |
3414 | not explicitly configured otherwise will only be able to | |
3415 | create 512 processes or threads at maximum, from this | |
3416 | version on. Note that this means that thread- or | |
3417 | process-heavy services might need to be reconfigured to set | |
3418 | TasksMax= to a higher value. It is sufficient to set | |
3419 | TasksMax= in these specific unit files to a higher value, or | |
3420 | even "infinity". Similar, there's now a logind.conf setting | |
3421 | UserTasksMax= that defaults to 4096 and limits the total | |
3422 | number of processes or tasks each user may own | |
3423 | concurrently. nspawn containers also have the TasksMax= | |
3424 | value set by default now, to 8192. Note that all of this | |
3425 | only has an effect if the "pids" cgroup controller is | |
3426 | enabled in the kernel. The general benefit of these changes | |
3427 | should be a more robust and safer system, that provides a | |
3428 | certain amount of per-service fork() bomb protection. | |
3429 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3430 | * systemd-nspawn gained the new --network-veth-extra= switch |
3431 | to define additional and arbitrarily-named virtual Ethernet | |
3432 | links between the host and the container. | |
3433 | ||
3434 | * A new service execution setting PassEnvironment= has been | |
3435 | added that allows importing select environment variables | |
3436 | from PID1's environment block into the environment block of | |
3437 | the service. | |
3438 | ||
ddb4b0d3 | 3439 | * Timer units gained support for a new RemainAfterElapse= |
595bfe7d | 3440 | setting which takes a boolean argument. It defaults to on, |
ddb4b0d3 LP |
3441 | exposing behaviour unchanged to previous releases. If set to |
3442 | off, timer units are unloaded after they elapsed if they | |
3443 | cannot elapse again. This is particularly useful for | |
3444 | transient timer units, which shall not stay around longer | |
3445 | than until they first elapse. | |
3446 | ||
a11c7ea5 | 3447 | * systemd will now bump the net.unix.max_dgram_qlen to 512 by |
28c85daf LP |
3448 | default now (the kernel default is 16). This is beneficial |
3449 | for avoiding blocking on AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM sockets since it | |
a11c7ea5 LP |
3450 | allows substantially larger numbers of queued |
3451 | datagrams. This should increase the capability of systemd to | |
3452 | parallelize boot-up, as logging and sd_notify() are unlikely | |
3453 | to stall execution anymore. If you need to change the value | |
3454 | from the new defaults, use the usual sysctl.d/ snippets. | |
3455 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3456 | * The compression framing format used by the journal or |
3457 | coredump processing has changed to be in line with what the | |
3458 | official LZ4 tools generate. LZ4 compression support in | |
3459 | systemd was considered unsupported previously, as the format | |
3460 | was not compatible with the normal tools. With this release | |
3461 | this has changed now, and it is hence safe for downstream | |
3462 | distributions to turn it on. While not compressing as well | |
815bb5bd | 3463 | as the XZ, LZ4 is substantially faster, which makes |
28c85daf LP |
3464 | it a good default choice for the compression logic in the |
3465 | journal and in coredump handling. | |
a11c7ea5 | 3466 | |
28c85daf LP |
3467 | * Any reference to /etc/mtab has been dropped from |
3468 | systemd. The file has been obsolete since a while, but | |
3469 | systemd refused to work on systems where it was incorrectly | |
815bb5bd | 3470 | set up (it should be a symlink or non-existent). Please make |
28c85daf LP |
3471 | sure to update to util-linux 2.27.1 or newer in conjunction |
3472 | with this systemd release, which also drops any reference to | |
3473 | /etc/mtab. If you maintain a distribution make sure that no | |
3474 | software you package still references it, as this is a | |
3475 | likely source of bugs. There's also a glibc bug pending, | |
3476 | asking for removal of any reference to this obsolete file: | |
3477 | ||
3478 | https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19108 | |
a11c7ea5 | 3479 | |
d5bd92bb LP |
3480 | Note that only util-linux versions built with |
3481 | --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo are supported. | |
3482 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
3483 | * Support for the ".snapshot" unit type has been removed. This |
3484 | feature turned out to be little useful and little used, and | |
3485 | has now been removed from the core and from systemctl. | |
3486 | ||
b9e2f7eb LP |
3487 | * The dependency types RequiresOverridable= and |
3488 | RequisiteOverridable= have been removed from systemd. They | |
3489 | have been used only very sparingly to our knowledge and | |
3490 | other options that provide a similar effect (such as | |
3491 | systemctl --mode=ignore-dependencies) are much more useful | |
3492 | and commonly used. Moreover, they were only half-way | |
3493 | implemented as the option to control behaviour regarding | |
3494 | these dependencies was never added to systemctl. By removing | |
3495 | these dependency types the execution engine becomes a bit | |
3496 | simpler. Unit files that use these dependencies should be | |
3497 | changed to use the non-Overridable dependency types | |
3498 | instead. In fact, when parsing unit files with these | |
3499 | options, that's what systemd will automatically convert them | |
3500 | too, but it will also warn, asking users to fix the unit | |
3501 | files accordingly. Removal of these dependency types should | |
3502 | only affect a negligible number of unit files in the wild. | |
3503 | ||
3504 | * Behaviour of networkd's IPForward= option changed | |
3505 | (again). It will no longer maintain a per-interface setting, | |
3506 | but propagate one way from interfaces where this is enabled | |
3507 | to the global kernel setting. The global setting will be | |
3508 | enabled when requested by a network that is set up, but | |
3509 | never be disabled again. This change was made to make sure | |
3510 | IPv4 and IPv6 behaviour regarding packet forwarding is | |
3511 | similar (as the Linux IPv6 stack does not support | |
3512 | per-interface control of this setting) and to minimize | |
3513 | surprises. | |
3514 | ||
28c85daf LP |
3515 | * In unit files the behaviour of %u, %U, %h, %s has |
3516 | changed. These specifiers will now unconditionally resolve | |
3517 | to the various user database fields of the user that the | |
3518 | systemd instance is running as, instead of the user | |
3519 | configured in the specific unit via User=. Note that this | |
3520 | effectively doesn't change much, as resolving of these | |
3521 | specifiers was already turned off in the --system instance | |
3522 | of systemd, as we cannot do NSS lookups from PID 1. In the | |
3523 | --user instance of systemd these specifiers where correctly | |
3524 | resolved, but hardly made any sense, since the user instance | |
3525 | lacks privileges to do user switches anyway, and User= is | |
ce830873 | 3526 | hence useless. Moreover, even in the --user instance of |
28c85daf LP |
3527 | systemd behaviour was awkward as it would only take settings |
3528 | from User= assignment placed before the specifier into | |
3529 | account. In order to unify and simplify the logic around | |
3530 | this the specifiers will now always resolve to the | |
3531 | credentials of the user invoking the manager (which in case | |
3532 | of PID 1 is the root user). | |
3533 | ||
3534 | Contributions from: Andrew Jones, Beniamino Galvani, Boyuan | |
3535 | Yang, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, David | |
3536 | Reynolds, David Strauss, Dongsu Park, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
f1f8a5a5 LP |
3537 | Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Hristo |
3538 | Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
3539 | Synacek, Jesus Ornelas Aguayo, Karel Zak, kayrus, Kay Sievers, | |
3540 | Lennart Poettering, Liu Yuan Yuan, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
3541 | Holtmann, Marcin Bachry, Marcos Alano, Marcos Mello, Mark | |
3542 | Theunissen, Martin Pitt, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, | |
3543 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nick Owens, | |
3544 | Nicolas Cornu, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, reverendhomer, | |
3545 | Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Shawn Landden, | |
3546 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
3547 | Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Vito Caputo, Zbigniew | |
3548 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
28c85daf | 3549 | |
ccddd104 | 3550 | — Berlin, 2015-11-18 |
a11c7ea5 | 3551 | |
c97e586d DM |
3552 | CHANGES WITH 227: |
3553 | ||
3554 | * systemd now depends on util-linux v2.27. More specifically, | |
3555 | the newly added mount monitor feature in libmount now | |
3556 | replaces systemd's former own implementation. | |
3557 | ||
3558 | * libmount mandates /etc/mtab not to be regular file, and | |
3559 | systemd now enforces this condition at early boot. | |
3560 | /etc/mtab has been deprecated and warned about for a very | |
3561 | long time, so systems running systemd should already have | |
3562 | stopped having this file around as anything else than a | |
3563 | symlink to /proc/self/mounts. | |
3564 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
3565 | * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. It |
3566 | allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and | |
c97e586d DM |
3567 | enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting |
3568 | TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a | |
6fd5517b | 3569 | global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. |
c97e586d DM |
3570 | |
3571 | * Support for the "net_cls" cgroup controller has been added. | |
fe08a30b LP |
3572 | It allows assigning a net class ID to each task in the |
3573 | cgroup, which can then be used in firewall rules and traffic | |
3574 | shaping configurations. Note that the kernel netfilter net | |
3575 | class code does not currently work reliably for ingress | |
3576 | packets on unestablished sockets. | |
c97e586d DM |
3577 | |
3578 | This adds a new config directive called NetClass= to CGroup | |
6fd5517b | 3579 | enabled units. Allowed values are positive numbers for fixed |
c97e586d DM |
3580 | assignments and "auto" for picking a free value |
3581 | automatically. | |
3582 | ||
21d86c61 DM |
3583 | * 'systemctl is-system-running' now returns 'offline' if the |
3584 | system is not booted with systemd. This command can now be | |
3585 | used as a substitute for 'systemd-notify --booted'. | |
3586 | ||
3587 | * Watchdog timeouts have been increased to 3 minutes for all | |
3588 | in-tree service files. Apparently, disk IO issues are more | |
3589 | frequent than we hoped, and user reported >1 minute waiting | |
3590 | for disk IO. | |
3591 | ||
3592 | * 'machine-id-commit' functionality has been merged into | |
3593 | 'machine-id-setup --commit'. The separate binary has been | |
3594 | removed. | |
3595 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
3596 | * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be set |
3597 | to the special value '~'. In this case, the working | |
3598 | directory is set to the home directory of the user | |
3599 | configured in User=. | |
21d86c61 | 3600 | |
fe08a30b LP |
3601 | * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home |
3602 | directory of the selected user by default. | |
3603 | ||
21d86c61 | 3604 | * The CrashChVT= configuration file setting is renamed to |
d046fb93 LP |
3605 | CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not |
3606 | abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still | |
3607 | supported for compat reasons. Also, this directive now takes | |
3608 | an integer value between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The | |
3609 | formerly supported '-1' value for disabling stays around for | |
3610 | compat reasons. | |
21d86c61 | 3611 | |
fe08a30b | 3612 | * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, |
8b5f9d15 | 3613 | NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and |
fe08a30b LP |
3614 | RootDirectory= properties can now be set for transient |
3615 | units. | |
3616 | ||
3617 | * The systemd-analyze tool gained a new "set-log-target" verb | |
3618 | to change the logging target the system manager logs to | |
3619 | dynamically during runtime. This is similar to how | |
3620 | "systemd-analyze set-log-level" already changes the log | |
3621 | level. | |
3622 | ||
3623 | * In nspawn /sys is now mounted as tmpfs, with only a selected | |
3624 | set of subdirectories mounted in from the real sysfs. This | |
3625 | enhances security slightly, and is useful for ensuring user | |
3626 | namespaces work correctly. | |
3627 | ||
3628 | * Support for USB FunctionFS activation has been added. This | |
3629 | allows implementation of USB gadget services that are | |
3630 | activated as soon as they are requested, so that they don't | |
595bfe7d | 3631 | have to run continuously, similar to classic socket |
fe08a30b LP |
3632 | activation. |
3633 | ||
3634 | * The "systemctl exit" command now optionally takes an | |
3635 | additional parameter that sets the exit code to return from | |
3636 | the systemd manager when exiting. This is only relevant when | |
3637 | running the systemd user instance, or when running the | |
3638 | system instance in a container. | |
3639 | ||
3640 | * sd-bus gained the new API calls sd_bus_path_encode_many() | |
3641 | and sd_bus_path_decode_many() that allow easy encoding and | |
3642 | decoding of multiple identifier strings inside a D-Bus | |
3643 | object path. Another new call sd_bus_default_flush_close() | |
3644 | has been added to flush and close per-thread default | |
3645 | connections. | |
3646 | ||
3647 | * systemd-cgtop gained support for a -M/--machine= switch to | |
3648 | show the control groups within a certain container only. | |
3649 | ||
3650 | * "systemctl kill" gained support for an optional --fail | |
3651 | switch. If specified the requested operation will fail of no | |
3652 | processes have been killed, because the unit had no | |
3653 | processes attached, or similar. | |
3654 | ||
bdba9227 DM |
3655 | * A new systemd.crash_reboot=1 kernel command line option has |
3656 | been added that triggers a reboot after crashing. This can | |
3657 | also be set through CrashReboot= in systemd.conf. | |
3658 | ||
3659 | * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit | |
3660 | specifiers like %i or %f. | |
3661 | ||
ce830873 | 3662 | * A new (still internal) library API sd-ipv4acd has been added, |
fe08a30b LP |
3663 | that implements address conflict detection for IPv4. It's |
3664 | based on code from sd-ipv4ll, and will be useful for | |
3665 | detecting DHCP address conflicts. | |
3666 | ||
bdba9227 DM |
3667 | * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be |
3668 | named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to | |
a8eaaee7 | 3669 | access the names. The default names may be overridden, |
bdba9227 DM |
3670 | either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName= |
3671 | parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file | |
3672 | descriptors using sd_notify(). | |
fe08a30b | 3673 | |
d046fb93 LP |
3674 | * systemd-networkd gained support for: |
3675 | ||
0053598f | 3676 | - Setting the IPv6 Router Advertisement settings via |
edf4126f | 3677 | IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in .network files. |
d046fb93 LP |
3678 | |
3679 | - Configuring the HelloTimeSec=, MaxAgeSec= and | |
3680 | ForwardDelaySec= bridge parameters in .netdev files. | |
3681 | ||
3682 | - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in | |
edf4126f | 3683 | .network files. |
fe08a30b | 3684 | |
bdba9227 DM |
3685 | * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk |
3686 | passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for | |
3687 | caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is | |
3688 | available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in | |
3689 | a passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock | |
3690 | with the same one. Previously, such password caching was | |
3691 | available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the | |
3692 | caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The | |
3693 | "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname= | |
3694 | switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for | |
3695 | caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for | |
3696 | enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically | |
3697 | unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the | |
3698 | user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if | |
3699 | gdm-autologin is used. | |
fe08a30b LP |
3700 | |
3701 | * When downloading tar or raw images using "machinectl | |
3702 | pull-tar" or "machinectl pull-raw", a matching ".nspawn" | |
3703 | file is now also downloaded, if it is available and stored | |
3704 | next to the image file. | |
c97e586d | 3705 | |
91d0d699 LP |
3706 | * Units of type ".socket" gained a new boolean setting |
3707 | Writable= which is only useful in conjunction with | |
3708 | ListenSpecial=. If true, enables opening the specified | |
3709 | special file in O_RDWR mode rather than O_RDONLY mode. | |
3710 | ||
3711 | * systemd-rfkill has been reworked to become a singleton | |
3712 | service that is activated through /dev/rfkill on each rfkill | |
3713 | state change and saves the settings to disk. This way, | |
3714 | systemd-rfkill is now compatible with devices that exist | |
3715 | only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous | |
3716 | system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. | |
3717 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
3718 | * The journal daemon gained support for vacuuming old journal |
3719 | files controlled by the number of files that shall remain, | |
3720 | in addition to the already existing control by size and by | |
3721 | date. This is useful as journal interleaving performance | |
6dd6a9c4 | 3722 | degrades with too many separate journal files, and allows |
d046fb93 LP |
3723 | putting an effective limit on them. The new setting defaults |
3724 | to 100, but this may be changed by setting SystemMaxFiles= | |
3725 | and RuntimeMaxFiles= in journald.conf. Also, the | |
3726 | "journalctl" tool gained the new --vacuum-files= switch to | |
3727 | manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified | |
3728 | number of files in place. | |
c48eb61f | 3729 | |
bdba9227 DM |
3730 | * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices |
3731 | on kernels where that is supported. | |
c30f086f | 3732 | |
efce0ffe | 3733 | * Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added. |
c97e586d | 3734 | |
61e6771c LP |
3735 | Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Alban Crequy, Beniamino |
3736 | Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Branislav Blaskovic, Chen-Han Hsiao | |
3737 | (Stanley), Daniel Buch, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David | |
3738 | Herrmann, David Milburn, doubleodoug, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
3739 | Felipe Franciosi, Filipe Brandenburger, Fran Dieguez, Gabriel | |
3740 | de Perthuis, Georg Müller, Hans de Goede, Hendrik Brueckner, | |
3741 | Ivan Shapovalov, Jacob Keller, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, | |
3742 | Jan Synacek, Jens Kuske, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Krzesimir | |
3743 | Nowak, Krzysztof Kotlenga, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart | |
3744 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, | |
3745 | Marcel Holtmann, Marius Thesing, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, | |
3746 | Michael Gebetsroither, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
3747 | Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, nazgul77, Nicolas Cornu, NoXPhasma, | |
3748 | Olof Johansson, Patrik Flykt, Pawel Szewczyk, reverendhomer, | |
3749 | Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Susant Sahani, | |
3750 | Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
3751 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Lyon, Viktar Vauchkevich, | |
3752 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић | |
3753 | ||
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3757 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
3758 | * The DHCP implementation of systemd-networkd gained a set of |
3759 | new features: | |
3760 | ||
3761 | - The DHCP server now supports emitting DNS and NTP | |
3762 | information. It may be enabled and configured via | |
3763 | EmitDNS=, DNS=, EmitNTP=, and NTP=. If transmission of DNS | |
3764 | and NTP information is enabled, but no servers are | |
3765 | configured, the corresponding uplink information (if there | |
3766 | is any) is propagated. | |
3767 | ||
3768 | - Server and client now support transmission and reception | |
3769 | of timezone information. It can be configured via the | |
3770 | newly introduced network options UseTimezone=, | |
3771 | EmitTimezone=, and Timezone=. Transmission of timezone | |
3772 | information is enabled between host and containers by | |
3773 | default now: the container will change its local timezone | |
3774 | to what the host has set. | |
3775 | ||
3776 | - Lease timeouts can now be configured via | |
3777 | MaxLeaseTimeSec= and DefaultLeaseTimeSec=. | |
3778 | ||
3779 | - The DHCP server improved on the stability of | |
3780 | leases. Clients are more likely to get the same lease | |
3781 | information back, even if the server loses state. | |
3782 | ||
3783 | - The DHCP server supports two new configuration options to | |
3784 | control the lease address pool metrics, PoolOffset= and | |
3785 | PoolSize=. | |
3786 | ||
3787 | * The encapsulation limit of tunnels in systemd-networkd may | |
3788 | now be configured via 'EncapsulationLimit='. It allows | |
3789 | modifying the maximum additional levels of encapsulation | |
3790 | that are permitted to be prepended to a packet. | |
3791 | ||
3792 | * systemd now supports the concept of user buses replacing | |
3793 | session buses, if used with dbus-1.10 (and enabled via dbus | |
3794 | --enable-user-session). It previously only supported this on | |
3795 | kdbus-enabled systems, and this release expands this to | |
3796 | 'dbus-daemon' systems. | |
3797 | ||
3798 | * systemd-networkd now supports predictable interface names | |
3799 | for virtio devices. | |
3800 | ||
3801 | * systemd now optionally supports the new Linux kernel | |
3802 | "unified" control group hierarchy. If enabled via the kernel | |
3803 | command-line option 'systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1', | |
3804 | systemd will try to mount the unified cgroup hierarchy | |
3805 | directly on /sys/fs/cgroup. If not enabled, or not | |
3806 | available, systemd will fall back to the legacy cgroup | |
3807 | hierarchy setup, as before. Host system and containers can | |
3808 | mix and match legacy and unified hierarchies as they | |
856ca72b | 3809 | wish. nspawn understands the $UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY |
5e8d4254 LP |
3810 | environment variable to individually select the hierarchy to |
3811 | use for executed containers. By default, nspawn will use the | |
3812 | unified hierarchy for the containers if the host uses the | |
3813 | unified hierarchy, and the legacy hierarchy otherwise. | |
3814 | Please note that at this point the unified hierarchy is an | |
3815 | experimental kernel feature and is likely to change in one | |
3816 | of the next kernel releases. Therefore, it should not be | |
3817 | enabled by default in downstream distributions yet. The | |
3818 | minimum required kernel version for the unified hierarchy to | |
3819 | work is 4.2. Note that when the unified hierarchy is used | |
3820 | for the first time delegated access to controllers is | |
3821 | safe. Because of this systemd-nspawn containers will get | |
3822 | access to controllers now, as will systemd user | |
3823 | sessions. This means containers and user sessions may now | |
3824 | manage their own resources, partitioning up what the system | |
3825 | grants them. | |
3826 | ||
3827 | * A new special scope unit "init.scope" has been introduced | |
3828 | that encapsulates PID 1 of the system. It may be used to | |
3829 | determine resource usage and enforce resource limits on PID | |
3830 | 1 itself. PID 1 hence moved out of the root of the control | |
3831 | group tree. | |
3832 | ||
3833 | * The cgtop tool gained support for filtering out kernel | |
3834 | threads when counting tasks in a control group. Also, the | |
3835 | count of processes is now recursively summed up by | |
3836 | default. Two options -k and --recursive= have been added to | |
3837 | revert to old behaviour. The tool has also been updated to | |
3838 | work correctly in containers now. | |
3839 | ||
3840 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --bind-ro= options have been | |
3841 | extended to allow creation of non-recursive bind mounts. | |
3842 | ||
c626bf1d DM |
3843 | * libsystemd gained two new calls sd_pid_get_cgroup() and |
3844 | sd_peer_get_cgroup() which return the control group path of | |
5e8d4254 LP |
3845 | a process or peer of a connected AF_UNIX socket. This |
3846 | function call is particularly useful when implementing | |
3847 | delegated subtrees support in the control group hierarchy. | |
3848 | ||
3849 | * The "sd-event" event loop API of libsystemd now supports | |
3850 | correct dequeuing of real-time signals, without losing | |
3851 | signal events. | |
3852 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
3853 | * When systemd requests a polkit decision when managing units it |
3854 | will now add additional fields to the request, including unit | |
3855 | name and desired operation. This enables more powerful polkit | |
3856 | policies, that make decisions depending on these parameters. | |
c9912c5e | 3857 | |
47f5a38c LP |
3858 | * nspawn learnt support for .nspawn settings files, that may |
3859 | accompany the image files or directories of containers, and | |
3860 | may contain additional settings for the container. This is | |
3861 | an alternative to configuring container parameters via the | |
3862 | nspawn command line. | |
3863 | ||
2f77decc LP |
3864 | Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, David |
3865 | Herrmann, Eugene Yakubovich, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe | |
3866 | Brandenburger, Hans de Goede, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan | |
3867 | Synacek, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mangix, Marcel | |
3868 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michal | |
3869 | Sekletar, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, reverendhomer, Robin | |
3870 | Hack, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Pasche, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
23d08d1b | 3871 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø |
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3876 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
3877 | * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh |
3878 | shell on the target container or the host. It is similar to | |
3879 | the existing 'login' command of machinectl, but spawns the | |
3880 | shell directly without prompting for username or | |
3881 | password. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local | |
3882 | host and is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can | |
3883 | be used as replacement for 'su -' which spawns a session as | |
3884 | a fresh systemd unit in a way that is fully isolated from | |
3885 | the originating session. | |
3886 | ||
3887 | * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP | |
3888 | options and allows other programs to query the values. | |
3889 | ||
3890 | * SELinux access control when enabling/disabling units is no | |
d35f51ea ZJS |
3891 | longer enforced with this release. The previous implementation |
3892 | was incorrect, and a new corrected implementation is not yet | |
3893 | available. As unit file operations are still protected via | |
3894 | polkit and D-Bus policy this is not a security problem. Yet, | |
3895 | distributions which care about optimal SELinux support should | |
3896 | probably not stabilize on this release. | |
5e8d4254 LP |
3897 | |
3898 | * sd-bus gained support for matches of type "arg0has=", that | |
3899 | test for membership of strings in string arrays sent in bus | |
3900 | messages. | |
3901 | ||
3902 | * systemd-resolved now dumps the contents of its DNS and LLMNR | |
3903 | caches to the logs on reception of the SIGUSR1 signal. This | |
3904 | is useful to debug DNS behaviour. | |
3905 | ||
3906 | * The coredumpctl tool gained a new --directory= option to | |
3907 | operate on journal files in a specific directory. | |
3908 | ||
3909 | * "systemctl reboot" and related commands gained a new | |
3910 | "--message=" option which may be used to set a free-text | |
3911 | wall message when shutting down or rebooting the | |
3912 | system. This message is also logged, which is useful for | |
3913 | figuring out the reason for a reboot or shutdown a | |
3914 | posteriori. | |
3915 | ||
3916 | * The "systemd-resolve-host" tool's -i switch now takes | |
3917 | network interface numbers as alternative to interface names. | |
3918 | ||
3919 | * A new unit file setting for services has been introduced: | |
3920 | UtmpMode= allows configuration of how precisely systemd | |
3921 | handles utmp and wtmp entries for the service if this is | |
3922 | enabled. This allows writing services that appear similar to | |
3923 | user sessions in the output of the "w", "who", "last" and | |
3924 | "lastlog" tools. | |
3925 | ||
3926 | * systemd-resolved will now locally synthesize DNS resource | |
3927 | records for the "localhost" and "gateway" domains as well as | |
3928 | the local hostname. This should ensure that clients querying | |
3929 | RRs via resolved will get similar results as those going via | |
3930 | NSS, if nss-myhostname is enabled. | |
3931 | ||
3932 | Contributions from: Alastair Hughes, Alex Crawford, Daniel | |
3933 | Mack, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Kostrowski, | |
3934 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, HATAYAMA Daisuke, Jan | |
3935 | Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Johnny Robeson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, | |
3936 | Kefeng Wang, Lennart Poettering, Major Hayden, Marcel | |
3937 | Holtmann, Markus Elfring, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Matt | |
3938 | Turner, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Namhyung Kim, | |
3939 | Nicolas Cornu, Owen W. Taylor, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, | |
3940 | reverendhomer, Richard Maw, Ronny Chevalier, Seth Jennings, | |
3941 | Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe | |
3942 | Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Meyer, Tom Gundersen, Vincent Batts, | |
3943 | WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
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3948 | ||
10fa421c DH |
3949 | * The systemd-efi-boot-generator functionality was merged into |
3950 | systemd-gpt-auto-generator. | |
3951 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
3952 | * systemd-networkd now supports Group Policy for vxlan |
3953 | devices. It can be enabled via the new boolean configuration | |
3954 | option called 'GroupPolicyExtension='. | |
10fa421c | 3955 | |
11811e85 DH |
3956 | Contributions from: Andreas Kempf, Christian Hesse, Daniel Mack, David |
3957 | Herrmann, Herman Fries, Johannes Nixdorf, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
3958 | Poettering, Peter Hutterer, Susant Sahani, Tom Gundersen | |
3959 | ||
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3963 | ||
3964 | * The python-systemd code has been removed from the systemd repository. | |
3965 | A new repository has been created which accommodates the code from | |
3966 | now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a separate package | |
3967 | for this: https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
3968 | ||
01608bc8 | 3969 | * The systemd daemon will now reload its main configuration |
e57eaef8 DH |
3970 | (/etc/systemd/system.conf) on daemon-reload. |
3971 | ||
3972 | * sd-dhcp now exposes vendor specific extensions via | |
3973 | sd_dhcp_lease_get_vendor_specific(). | |
3974 | ||
931618d0 DM |
3975 | * systemd-networkd gained a number of new configuration options. |
3976 | ||
3977 | - A new boolean configuration option for TAP devices called | |
37d54b93 | 3978 | 'VNetHeader='. If set, the IFF_VNET_HDR flag is set for the |
931618d0 DM |
3979 | device, thus allowing to send and receive GSO packets. |
3980 | ||
3981 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'CopyDSCP='. | |
3982 | If enabled, the DSCP field of ip6 tunnels is copied into the | |
3983 | decapsulated packet. | |
3984 | ||
3985 | - A set of boolean bridge configuration options were added. | |
3986 | 'UseBPDU=', 'HairPin=', 'FastLeave=', 'AllowPortToBeRoot=', | |
3987 | and 'UnicastFlood=' are now parsed by networkd and applied to the | |
3988 | respective bridge link device via the respective IFLA_BRPORT_* | |
3989 | netlink attribute. | |
3990 | ||
3991 | - A new string configuration option to override the hostname sent | |
3992 | to a DHCP server, called 'Hostname='. If set and 'SendHostname=' | |
3993 | is true, networkd will use the configured hostname instead of the | |
3994 | system hostname when sending DHCP requests. | |
3995 | ||
3996 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'IPv6FlowLabel='. If set, | |
3997 | networkd will configure the IPv6 flow-label of the tunnel device | |
3998 | according to RFC2460. | |
e57eaef8 | 3999 | |
f5f113f6 DH |
4000 | - The 'macvtap' virtual network devices are now supported, similar to |
4001 | the already supported 'macvlan' devices. | |
4002 | ||
e57eaef8 | 4003 | * systemd-resolved now implements RFC5452 to improve resilience against |
01608bc8 | 4004 | cache poisoning. Additionally, source port randomization is enabled |
e57eaef8 DH |
4005 | by default to further protect against DNS spoofing attacks. |
4006 | ||
4007 | * nss-mymachines now supports translating UIDs and GIDs of running | |
4008 | containers with user-namespaces enabled. If a container 'foo' | |
4009 | translates a host uid 'UID' to the container uid 'TUID', then | |
4010 | nss-mymachines will also map uid 'UID' to/from username 'vu-foo-TUID' | |
4011 | (with 'foo' and 'TUID' replaced accordingly). Similarly, groups are | |
4012 | mapped as 'vg-foo-TGID'. | |
4013 | ||
4014 | Contributions from: Beniamino Galvani, cee1, Christian Hesse, Daniel | |
e4e66993 DH |
4015 | Buch, Daniel Mack, daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, |
4016 | HATAYAMA Daisuke, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), | |
4017 | Johan Ouwerkerk, Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, | |
4018 | Lennart Poettering, Lidong Zhong, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
4019 | Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Namhyung Kim, | |
4020 | Nick Owens, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, Steven Allen, Sungbae Yoo, | |
4021 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom | |
4022 | Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo, | |
4023 | Vivenzio Pagliari, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4024 | ||
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861b02eb KS |
4029 | * udev does not longer support the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS= key in udev rules. |
4030 | There are no known issues with current sysfs, and udev does not need | |
4031 | or should be used to work around such bugs. | |
4032 | ||
4033 | * udev does no longer enable USB HID power management. Several reports | |
4034 | indicate, that some devices cannot handle that setting. | |
0db83ad7 DH |
4035 | |
4036 | * The udev accelerometer helper was removed. The functionality | |
4037 | is now fully included in iio-sensor-proxy. But this means, | |
4038 | older iio-sensor-proxy versions will no longer provide | |
4039 | accelerometer/orientation data with this systemd version. | |
4040 | Please upgrade iio-sensor-proxy to version 1.0. | |
4041 | ||
5541c889 DH |
4042 | * networkd gained a new configuration option IPv6PrivacyExtensions= |
4043 | which enables IPv6 privacy extensions (RFC 4941, "Privacy Extensions | |
4044 | for Stateless Address") on selected networks. | |
4045 | ||
9b361114 DM |
4046 | * For the sake of fewer build-time dependencies and less code in the |
4047 | main repository, the python bindings are about to be removed in the | |
4048 | next release. A new repository has been created which accommodates | |
4049 | the code from now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a | |
4050 | separate package for this. The removal will take place in v223. | |
4051 | ||
4052 | https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
4053 | ||
0db83ad7 DH |
4054 | Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Andrew Eikum, Bastien Nocera, |
4055 | Cédric Delmas, Christian Hesse, Christos Trochalakis, Daniel Mack, | |
4056 | daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Biggers, Eric | |
4057 | Cook, Felipe Sateler, Geert Jansen, Gerd Hoffmann, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
5541c889 DH |
4058 | Greg Kroah-Hartman, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Alexander Steffens |
4059 | (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jay Strict, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
0db83ad7 DH |
4060 | Markus Knetschke, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michal |
4061 | Sekletar, Miguel Bernal Marin, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, rinrinne, | |
2d1ca112 DH |
4062 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein |
4063 | Husebø, Vedran Miletić, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
0db83ad7 | 4064 | |
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4068 | ||
470e72d4 | 4069 | * The sd-bus.h and sd-event.h APIs have now been declared |
5f92d24f | 4070 | stable and have been added to the official interface of |
470e72d4 LP |
4071 | libsystemd.so. sd-bus implements an alternative D-Bus client |
4072 | library, that is relatively easy to use, very efficient and | |
4073 | supports both classic D-Bus as well as kdbus as transport | |
4074 | backend. sd-event is a generic event loop abstraction that | |
4075 | is built around Linux epoll, but adds features such as event | |
0aee49d5 | 4076 | prioritization or efficient timer handling. Both APIs are good |
470e72d4 LP |
4077 | choices for C programs looking for a bus and/or event loop |
4078 | implementation that is minimal and does not have to be | |
5f92d24f | 4079 | portable to other kernels. |
0f0467e6 | 4080 | |
470e72d4 LP |
4081 | * kdbus support is no longer compile-time optional. It is now |
4082 | always built-in. However, it can still be disabled at | |
4083 | runtime using the kdbus=0 kernel command line setting, and | |
c6551464 | 4084 | that setting may be changed to default to off, by specifying |
470e72d4 LP |
4085 | --disable-kdbus at build-time. Note though that the kernel |
4086 | command line setting has no effect if the kdbus.ko kernel | |
4087 | module is not installed, in which case kdbus is (obviously) | |
4088 | also disabled. We encourage all downstream distributions to | |
0aee49d5 | 4089 | begin testing kdbus by adding it to the kernel images in the |
470e72d4 LP |
4090 | development distributions, and leaving kdbus support in |
4091 | systemd enabled. | |
0f0467e6 | 4092 | |
470e72d4 LP |
4093 | * The minimal required util-linux version has been bumped to |
4094 | 2.26. | |
4095 | ||
4096 | * Support for chkconfig (--enable-chkconfig) was removed in | |
0aee49d5 | 4097 | favor of calling an abstraction tool |
470e72d4 LP |
4098 | /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. This needs to be |
4099 | implemented for your distribution. See "SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS" | |
4100 | in README for details. | |
4101 | ||
4102 | * If there's a systemd unit and a SysV init script for the | |
4103 | same service name, and the user executes "systemctl enable" | |
4104 | for it (or a related call), then this will now enable both | |
4105 | (or execute the related operation on both), not just the | |
4106 | unit. | |
4107 | ||
4108 | * The libudev API documentation has been converted from gtkdoc | |
4109 | into man pages. | |
4110 | ||
4111 | * gudev has been removed from the systemd tree, it is now an | |
4112 | external project. | |
4113 | ||
4114 | * The systemd-cgtop tool learnt a new --raw switch to generate | |
0aee49d5 | 4115 | "raw" (machine parsable) output. |
470e72d4 LP |
4116 | |
4117 | * networkd's IPForwarding= .network file setting learnt the | |
4118 | new setting "kernel", which ensures that networkd does not | |
4119 | change the IP forwarding sysctl from the default kernel | |
4120 | state. | |
4121 | ||
4122 | * The systemd-logind bus API now exposes a new boolean | |
4123 | property "Docked" that reports whether logind considers the | |
4124 | system "docked", i.e. connected to a docking station or not. | |
4125 | ||
4126 | Contributions from: Alex Crawford, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei | |
4127 | Borzenkov, Charles Duffy, Colin Guthrie, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
4128 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, | |
4129 | David Mohr, Dimitri John Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, dslul, Ed | |
4130 | Swierk, Eric Cook, Filipe Brandenburger, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
4131 | Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Igor Vuk, Jan Synacek, | |
4132 | Jason Pleau, Jason S. McMullan, Jean Delvare, Jeff Huang, | |
4133 | Jonathan Boulle, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, kloun, Lennart | |
4134 | Poettering, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Mario | |
4135 | Limonciello, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
4136 | Michal Schmidt, Mike Gilbert, Nick Owens, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, | |
b912e251 LP |
4137 | Patrick Donnelly, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Philip |
4138 | Withnall, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Susant Sahani, | |
4139 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
4140 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Viktar Vauchkevich, Werner | |
4141 | Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
470e72d4 | 4142 | |
ccddd104 | 4143 | — Berlin, 2015-06-19 |
0f0467e6 | 4144 | |
481a0aa2 LP |
4145 | CHANGES WITH 220: |
4146 | ||
f7a73a25 DH |
4147 | * The gudev library has been extracted into a separate repository |
4148 | available at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgudev/ | |
4149 | It is now managed as part of the Gnome project. Distributions | |
4150 | are recommended to pass --disable-gudev to systemd and use | |
4151 | gudev from the Gnome project instead. gudev is still included | |
4152 | in systemd, for now. It will be removed soon, though. Please | |
4153 | also see the announcement-thread on systemd-devel: | |
56cadcb6 | 4154 | https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032070.html |
f7a73a25 | 4155 | |
481a0aa2 LP |
4156 | * systemd now exposes a CPUUsageNSec= property for each |
4157 | service unit on the bus, that contains the overall consumed | |
4158 | CPU time of a service (the sum of what each process of the | |
4159 | service consumed). This value is only available if | |
4160 | CPUAccounting= is turned on for a service, and is then shown | |
4161 | in the "systemctl status" output. | |
4162 | ||
4163 | * Support for configuring alternative mappings of the old SysV | |
4164 | runlevels to systemd targets has been removed. They are now | |
29d1fcb4 | 4165 | hardcoded in a way that runlevels 2, 3, 4 all map to |
481a0aa2 LP |
4166 | multi-user.target and 5 to graphical.target (which |
4167 | previously was already the default behaviour). | |
4168 | ||
4169 | * The auto-mounter logic gained support for mount point | |
4170 | expiry, using a new TimeoutIdleSec= setting in .automount | |
4171 | units. (Also available as x-systemd.idle-timeout= in /etc/fstab). | |
4172 | ||
4173 | * The EFI System Partition (ESP) as mounted to /boot by | |
4174 | systemd-efi-boot-generator will now be unmounted | |
29d1fcb4 | 4175 | automatically after 2 minutes of not being used. This should |
481a0aa2 LP |
4176 | minimize the risk of ESP corruptions. |
4177 | ||
4178 | * New /etc/fstab options x-systemd.requires= and | |
4179 | x-systemd.requires-mounts-for= are now supported to express | |
4180 | additional dependencies for mounts. This is useful for | |
4181 | journalling file systems that support external journal | |
4182 | devices or overlay file systems that require underlying file | |
4183 | systems to be mounted. | |
4184 | ||
4185 | * systemd does not support direct live-upgrades (via systemctl | |
4186 | daemon-reexec) from versions older than v44 anymore. As no | |
4187 | distribution we are aware of shipped such old versions in a | |
4188 | stable release this should not be problematic. | |
4189 | ||
4190 | * When systemd forks off a new per-connection service instance | |
4191 | it will now set the $REMOTE_ADDR environment variable to the | |
4192 | remote IP address, and $REMOTE_PORT environment variable to | |
4193 | the remote IP port. This behaviour is similar to the | |
4194 | corresponding environment variables defined by CGI. | |
4195 | ||
4196 | * systemd-networkd gained support for uplink failure | |
4197 | detection. The BindCarrier= option allows binding interface | |
4198 | configuration dynamically to the link sense of other | |
4199 | interfaces. This is useful to achieve behaviour like in | |
4200 | network switches. | |
4201 | ||
4202 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring the DHCP | |
4203 | client identifier to use when requesting leases. | |
4204 | ||
4205 | * systemd-networkd now has a per-network UseNTP= option to | |
4206 | configure whether NTP server information acquired via DHCP | |
4207 | is passed on to services like systemd-timesyncd. | |
4208 | ||
4209 | * systemd-networkd gained support for vti6 tunnels. | |
4210 | ||
1579dd2c LP |
4211 | * Note that systemd-networkd manages the sysctl variable |
4212 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/*/forwarding for each interface | |
4213 | it is configured for since v219. The variable controls IP | |
4214 | forwarding, and is a per-interface alternative to the global | |
4215 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/ip_forward. This setting is | |
4216 | configurable in the IPForward= option, which defaults to | |
4217 | "no". This means if networkd is used for an interface it is | |
4218 | no longer sufficient to set the global sysctl option to turn | |
4219 | on IP forwarding! Instead, the .network file option | |
4220 | IPForward= needs to be turned on! Note that the | |
4221 | implementation of this behaviour was broken in v219 and has | |
4222 | been fixed in v220. | |
4223 | ||
481a0aa2 LP |
4224 | * Many bonding and vxlan options are now configurable in |
4225 | systemd-networkd. | |
4226 | ||
4227 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --property= setting to set unit | |
4228 | properties for the container scope. This is useful for | |
ce830873 | 4229 | setting resource parameters (e.g. "CPUShares=500") on |
481a0aa2 LP |
4230 | containers started from the command line. |
4231 | ||
4232 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --private-users= switch to make | |
4233 | use of user namespacing available on recent Linux kernels. | |
4234 | ||
4235 | * systemd-nspawn may now be called as part of a shell pipeline | |
4236 | in which case the pipes used for stdin and stdout are passed | |
4237 | directly to the process invoked in the container, without | |
4238 | indirection via a pseudo tty. | |
4239 | ||
4240 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch to control the UNIX | |
4241 | signal to use when killing the init process of the container | |
4242 | when shutting down. | |
4243 | ||
4244 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --overlay= switch for mounting | |
4245 | overlay file systems into the container using the new kernel | |
4246 | overlayfs support. | |
4247 | ||
4248 | * When a container image is imported via systemd-importd and | |
4249 | the host file system is not btrfs, a loopback block device | |
4250 | file is created in /var/lib/machines.raw with a btrfs file | |
4251 | system inside. It is then mounted to /var/lib/machines to | |
4252 | enable btrfs features for container management. The loopback | |
4253 | file and btrfs file system is grown as needed when container | |
4254 | images are imported via systemd-importd. | |
4255 | ||
4256 | * systemd-machined/systemd-importd gained support for btrfs | |
4257 | quota, to enforce container disk space limits on disk. This | |
4258 | is exposed in "machinectl set-limit". | |
4259 | ||
4260 | * systemd-importd now can import containers from local .tar, | |
4261 | .raw and .qcow2 images, and export them to .tar and .raw. It | |
4262 | can also import dkr v2 images now from the network (on top | |
4263 | of v1 as before). | |
4264 | ||
4265 | * systemd-importd gained support for verifying downloaded | |
4266 | images with gpg2 (previously only gpg1 was supported). | |
4267 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
4268 | * systemd-machined, systemd-logind, systemd: most bus calls are |
4269 | now accessible to unprivileged processes via polkit. Also, | |
4270 | systemd-logind will now allow users to kill their own sessions | |
4271 | without further privileges or authorization. | |
481a0aa2 LP |
4272 | |
4273 | * systemd-shutdownd has been removed. This service was | |
4274 | previously responsible for implementing scheduled shutdowns | |
4275 | as exposed in /usr/bin/shutdown's time parameter. This | |
4276 | functionality has now been moved into systemd-logind and is | |
4277 | accessible via a bus interface. | |
4278 | ||
4279 | * "systemctl reboot" gained a new switch --firmware-setup that | |
4280 | can be used to reboot into the EFI firmware setup, if that | |
4281 | is available. systemd-logind now exposes an API on the bus | |
4282 | to trigger such reboots, in case graphical desktop UIs want | |
4283 | to cover this functionality. | |
4284 | ||
4285 | * "systemctl enable", "systemctl disable" and "systemctl mask" | |
1579dd2c | 4286 | now support a new "--now" switch. If specified the units |
481a0aa2 LP |
4287 | that are enabled will also be started, and the ones |
4288 | disabled/masked also stopped. | |
4289 | ||
4290 | * The Gummiboot EFI boot loader tool has been merged into | |
1a2d5fbe DH |
4291 | systemd, and renamed to "systemd-boot". The bootctl tool has been |
4292 | updated to support systemd-boot. | |
481a0aa2 LP |
4293 | |
4294 | * An EFI kernel stub has been added that may be used to create | |
4295 | kernel EFI binaries that contain not only the actual kernel, | |
4296 | but also an initrd, boot splash, command line and OS release | |
4297 | information. This combined binary can then be signed as a | |
4298 | single image, so that the firmware can verify it all in one | |
1a2d5fbe | 4299 | step. systemd-boot has special support for EFI binaries created |
481a0aa2 LP |
4300 | like this and can extract OS release information from them |
4301 | and show them in the boot menu. This functionality is useful | |
4302 | to implement cryptographically verified boot schemes. | |
4303 | ||
4304 | * Optional support has been added to systemd-fsck to pass | |
4305 | fsck's progress report to an AF_UNIX socket in the file | |
4306 | system. | |
4307 | ||
4308 | * udev will no longer create device symlinks for all block | |
4309 | devices by default. A blacklist for excluding special block | |
4310 | devices from this logic has been turned into a whitelist | |
4311 | that requires picking block devices explicitly that require | |
4312 | device symlinks. | |
4313 | ||
4314 | * A new (currently still internal) API sd-device.h has been | |
4315 | added to libsystemd. This modernized API is supposed to | |
4316 | replace libudev eventually. In fact, already much of libudev | |
4317 | is now just a wrapper around sd-device.h. | |
4318 | ||
4319 | * A new hwdb database for storing metadata about pointing | |
4320 | stick devices has been added. | |
4321 | ||
4322 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for setting file attributes | |
4323 | similar to the "chattr" tool with new 'h' and 'H' lines. | |
4324 | ||
4325 | * systemd-journald will no longer unconditionally set the | |
4326 | btrfs NOCOW flag on new journal files. This is instead done | |
4327 | with tmpfiles snippet using the new 'h' line type. This | |
4328 | allows easy disabling of this logic, by masking the | |
4329 | journal-nocow.conf tmpfiles file. | |
4330 | ||
4331 | * systemd-journald will now translate audit message types to | |
4332 | human readable identifiers when writing them to the | |
4333 | journal. This should improve readability of audit messages. | |
4334 | ||
4335 | * The LUKS logic gained support for the offset= and skip= | |
4336 | options in /etc/crypttab, as previously implemented by | |
4337 | Debian. | |
4338 | ||
4339 | * /usr/lib/os-release gained a new optional field VARIANT= for | |
4340 | distributions that support multiple variants (such as a | |
4341 | desktop edition, a server edition, ...) | |
4342 | ||
4343 | Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Adam Goode, Alban Crequy, | |
4344 | Alberto Fanjul Alonso, Alexander Sverdlin, Alex Puchades, Alin | |
4345 | Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrew Jones, Arend van Spriel, | |
4346 | Benedikt Morbach, Benjamin Franzke, Benjamin Tissoires, Blaž | |
4347 | Tomažič, Chris Morgan, Chris Morin, Colin Walters, Cristian | |
4348 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel | |
4349 | Mack, Daniel Mustieles, daurnimator, Davide Bettio, David | |
4350 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Didier Roche, Dimitri John Ledkov, | |
4351 | Eric Cook, Gavin Li, Goffredo Baroncelli, Hannes Reinecke, | |
4352 | Hans de Goede, Hans-Peter Deifel, Harald Hoyer, Iago López | |
4353 | Galeiras, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
4354 | Pazdziora, Jan Synacek, Jasper St. Pierre, Jay Faulkner, John | |
4355 | Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathon Gilbert, Karel Zak, Kay | |
4356 | Sievers, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas | |
4357 | De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Lukas Rusak, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz | |
4358 | Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel | |
4359 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Chevrier, Matthew Garrett, | |
4360 | Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
4361 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nir Soffer, Patrik | |
4362 | Flykt, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Peter Lemenkov, Peter | |
4363 | Waller, Piotr Drąg, Raul Gutierrez S, Richard Maw, Ronny | |
4364 | Chevalier, Ross Burton, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
4365 | Seth Jennings, Shawn Landden, Simon Farnsworth, Stefan Junker, | |
4366 | Stephen Gallagher, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas | |
4367 | Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tobias Hunger, Tom | |
4368 | Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Will | |
4369 | Woods, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4370 | ||
ccddd104 | 4371 | — Berlin, 2015-05-22 |
481a0aa2 | 4372 | |
615aaf41 LP |
4373 | CHANGES WITH 219: |
4374 | ||
615aaf41 LP |
4375 | * Introduce a new API "sd-hwdb.h" for querying the hardware |
4376 | metadata database. With this minimal interface one can query | |
4377 | and enumerate the udev hwdb, decoupled from the old libudev | |
4378 | library. libudev's interface for this is now only a wrapper | |
4379 | around sd-hwdb. A new tool systemd-hwdb has been added to | |
4380 | interface with and update the database. | |
4381 | ||
4382 | * When any of systemd's tools copies files (for example due to | |
4383 | tmpfiles' C lines) a btrfs reflink will attempted first, | |
4384 | before bytewise copying is done. | |
4385 | ||
4386 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --ephemeral switch. When | |
4387 | specified a btrfs snapshot is taken of the container's root | |
4388 | directory, and immediately removed when the container | |
4389 | terminates again. Thus, a container can be started whose | |
4390 | changes never alter the container's root directory, and are | |
4391 | lost on container termination. This switch can also be used | |
4392 | for starting a container off the root file system of the | |
4393 | host without affecting the host OS. This switch is only | |
4394 | available on btrfs file systems. | |
4395 | ||
4396 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --template= switch. It takes the | |
4397 | path to a container tree to use as template for the tree | |
7edecf21 | 4398 | specified via --directory=, should that directory be |
615aaf41 LP |
4399 | missing. This allows instantiating containers dynamically, |
4400 | on first run. This switch is only available on btrfs file | |
4401 | systems. | |
4402 | ||
4403 | * When a .mount unit refers to a mount point on which multiple | |
4404 | mounts are stacked, and the .mount unit is stopped all of | |
4405 | the stacked mount points will now be unmounted until no | |
4406 | mount point remains. | |
4407 | ||
4408 | * systemd now has an explicit notion of supported and | |
4409 | unsupported unit types. Jobs enqueued for unsupported unit | |
4410 | types will now fail with an "unsupported" error code. More | |
4411 | specifically .swap, .automount and .device units are not | |
4412 | supported in containers, .busname units are not supported on | |
4413 | non-kdbus systems. .swap and .automount are also not | |
4414 | supported if their respective kernel compile time options | |
4415 | are disabled. | |
4416 | ||
4417 | * machinectl gained support for two new "copy-from" and | |
4418 | "copy-to" commands for copying files from a running | |
4419 | container to the host or vice versa. | |
4420 | ||
4421 | * machinectl gained support for a new "bind" command to bind | |
4422 | mount host directories into local containers. This is | |
4423 | currently only supported for nspawn containers. | |
4424 | ||
4425 | * networkd gained support for configuring bridge forwarding | |
4426 | database entries (fdb) from .network files. | |
4427 | ||
4428 | * A new tiny daemon "systemd-importd" has been added that can | |
4429 | download container images in tar, raw, qcow2 or dkr formats, | |
4430 | and make them available locally in /var/lib/machines, so | |
4431 | that they can run as nspawn containers. The daemon can GPG | |
4432 | verify the downloads (not supported for dkr, since it has no | |
4433 | provisions for verifying downloads). It will transparently | |
4434 | decompress bz2, xz, gzip compressed downloads if necessary, | |
4435 | and restore sparse files on disk. The daemon uses privilege | |
4436 | separation to ensure the actual download logic runs with | |
94e5ba37 | 4437 | fewer privileges than the daemon itself. machinectl has |
615aaf41 LP |
4438 | gained new commands "pull-tar", "pull-raw" and "pull-dkr" to |
4439 | make the functionality of importd available to the | |
4440 | user. With this in place the Fedora and Ubuntu "Cloud" | |
4441 | images can be downloaded and booted as containers unmodified | |
4442 | (the Fedora images lack the appropriate GPG signature files | |
4443 | currently, so they cannot be verified, but this will change | |
4444 | soon, hopefully). Note that downloading images is currently | |
4445 | only fully supported on btrfs. | |
4446 | ||
4447 | * machinectl is now able to list container images found in | |
4448 | /var/lib/machines, along with some metadata about sizes of | |
4449 | disk and similar. If the directory is located on btrfs and | |
4450 | quota is enabled, this includes quota display. A new command | |
4451 | "image-status" has been added that shows additional | |
4452 | information about images. | |
4453 | ||
4454 | * machinectl is now able to clone container images | |
4455 | efficiently, if the underlying file system (btrfs) supports | |
f59dba26 | 4456 | it, with the new "machinectl clone" command. It also |
615aaf41 LP |
4457 | gained commands for renaming and removing images, as well as |
4458 | marking them read-only or read-write (supported also on | |
4459 | legacy file systems). | |
4460 | ||
4461 | * networkd gained support for collecting LLDP network | |
4462 | announcements, from hardware that supports this. This is | |
4463 | shown in networkctl output. | |
4464 | ||
4465 | * systemd-run gained support for a new -t (--pty) switch for | |
4466 | invoking a binary on a pty whose input and output is | |
4467 | connected to the invoking terminal. This allows executing | |
4468 | processes as system services while interactively | |
4469 | communicating with them via the terminal. Most interestingly | |
4470 | this is supported across container boundaries. Invoking | |
4471 | "systemd-run -t /bin/bash" is an alternative to running a | |
4472 | full login session, the difference being that the former | |
4473 | will not register a session, nor go through the PAM session | |
4474 | setup. | |
4475 | ||
4476 | * tmpfiles gained support for a new "v" line type for creating | |
4477 | btrfs subvolumes. If the underlying file system is a legacy | |
4478 | file system, this automatically degrades to creating a | |
4479 | normal directory. Among others /var/lib/machines is now | |
4480 | created like this at boot, should it be missing. | |
4481 | ||
4482 | * The directory /var/lib/containers/ has been deprecated and | |
4483 | been replaced by /var/lib/machines. The term "machines" has | |
4484 | been used in the systemd context as generic term for both | |
4485 | VMs and containers, and hence appears more appropriate for | |
4486 | this, as the directory can also contain raw images bootable | |
4487 | via qemu/kvm. | |
4488 | ||
4489 | * systemd-nspawn when invoked with -M but without --directory= | |
4490 | or --image= is now capable of searching for the container | |
4491 | root directory, subvolume or disk image automatically, in | |
4492 | /var/lib/machines. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated | |
4493 | to make use of this, thus allowing it to be used for raw | |
4494 | disk images, too. | |
4495 | ||
4496 | * A new machines.target unit has been introduced that is | |
4497 | supposed to group all containers/VMs invoked as services on | |
4498 | the system. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated to | |
4499 | integrate with that. | |
4500 | ||
4501 | * machinectl gained a new "start" command, for invoking a | |
4502 | container as a service. "machinectl start foo" is mostly | |
4503 | equivalent to "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo.service", | |
4504 | but handles escaping in a nicer way. | |
4505 | ||
4506 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount most of the cgroupfs tree | |
4507 | read-only into each container, with the exception of the | |
4508 | container's own subtree in the name=systemd hierarchy. | |
4509 | ||
4510 | * journald now sets the special FS_NOCOW file flag for its | |
4511 | journal files. This should improve performance on btrfs, by | |
4512 | avoiding heavy fragmentation when journald's write-pattern | |
4513 | is used on COW file systems. It degrades btrfs' data | |
4514 | integrity guarantees for the files to the same levels as for | |
4515 | ext3/ext4 however. This should be OK though as journald does | |
4516 | its own data integrity checks and all its objects are | |
4517 | checksummed on disk. Also, journald should handle btrfs disk | |
4518 | full events a lot more gracefully now, by processing SIGBUS | |
4519 | errors, and not relying on fallocate() anymore. | |
4520 | ||
4521 | * When journald detects that journal files it is writing to | |
4522 | have been deleted it will immediately start new journal | |
4523 | files. | |
4524 | ||
4525 | * systemd now provides a way to store file descriptors | |
4c37970d | 4526 | per-service in PID 1. This is useful for daemons to ensure |
615aaf41 | 4527 | that fds they require are not lost during a daemon |
94e5ba37 | 4528 | restart. The fds are passed to the daemon on the next |
615aaf41 LP |
4529 | invocation in the same way socket activation fds are |
4530 | passed. This is now used by journald to ensure that the | |
4531 | various sockets connected to all the system's stdout/stderr | |
4532 | are not lost when journald is restarted. File descriptors | |
4533 | may be stored in PID 1 via the sd_pid_notify_with_fds() API, | |
4534 | an extension to sd_notify(). Note that a limit is enforced | |
4535 | on the number of fds a service can store in PID 1, and it | |
4536 | defaults to 0, so that no fds may be stored, unless this is | |
4537 | explicitly turned on. | |
4538 | ||
4539 | * The default TERM variable to use for units connected to a | |
4540 | terminal, when no other value is explicitly is set is now | |
4541 | vt220 rather than vt102. This should be fairly safe still, | |
4542 | but allows PgUp/PgDn work. | |
4543 | ||
4544 | * The /etc/crypttab option header= as known from Debian is now | |
4545 | supported. | |
4546 | ||
4547 | * "loginctl user-status" and "loginctl session-status" will | |
4548 | now show the last 10 lines of log messages of the | |
4549 | user/session following the status output. Similar, | |
4550 | "machinectl status" will show the last 10 log lines | |
4551 | associated with a virtual machine or container | |
4552 | service. (Note that this is usually not the log messages | |
4553 | done in the VM/container itself, but simply what the | |
4554 | container manager logs. For nspawn this includes all console | |
4555 | output however.) | |
4556 | ||
4557 | * "loginctl session-status" without further argument will now | |
4558 | show the status of the session of the caller. Similar, | |
4559 | "lock-session", "unlock-session", "activate", | |
4560 | "enable-linger", "disable-linger" may now be called without | |
4561 | session/user parameter in which case they apply to the | |
4562 | caller's session/user. | |
4563 | ||
4564 | * An X11 session scriptlet is now shipped that uploads | |
4565 | $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY into the environment of the systemd | |
4566 | --user daemon if a session begins. This should improve | |
4567 | compatibility with X11 enabled applications run as systemd | |
4568 | user services. | |
4569 | ||
4570 | * Generators are now subject to masking via /etc and /run, the | |
4571 | same way as unit files. | |
4572 | ||
4573 | * networkd .network files gained support for configuring | |
4574 | per-link IPv4/IPv6 packet forwarding as well as IPv4 | |
4575 | masquerading. This is by default turned on for veth links to | |
4576 | containers, as registered by systemd-nspawn. This means that | |
4577 | nspawn containers run with --network-veth will now get | |
4578 | automatic routed access to the host's networks without any | |
4579 | further configuration or setup, as long as networkd runs on | |
4580 | the host. | |
4581 | ||
4582 | * systemd-nspawn gained the --port= (-p) switch to expose TCP | |
4583 | or UDP posts of a container on the host. With this in place | |
4584 | it is possible to run containers with private veth links | |
4585 | (--network-veth), and have their functionality exposed on | |
4586 | the host as if their services were running directly on the | |
4587 | host. | |
4588 | ||
dd2fd155 | 4589 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth switch now gained a short |
615aaf41 LP |
4590 | version "-n", since with the changes above it is now truly |
4591 | useful out-of-the-box. The systemd-nspawn@.service has been | |
4592 | updated to make use of it too by default. | |
4593 | ||
4594 | * systemd-nspawn will now maintain a per-image R/W lock, to | |
4595 | ensure that the same image is not started more than once | |
4596 | writable. (It's OK to run an image multiple times | |
4597 | simultaneously in read-only mode.) | |
4598 | ||
4599 | * systemd-nspawn's --image= option is now capable of | |
4600 | dissecting and booting MBR and GPT disk images that contain | |
4601 | only a single active Linux partition. Previously it | |
4602 | supported only GPT disk images with proper GPT type | |
4603 | IDs. This allows running cloud images from major | |
4604 | distributions directly with systemd-nspawn, without | |
4605 | modification. | |
4606 | ||
4607 | * In addition to collecting mouse dpi data in the udev | |
4608 | hardware database, there's now support for collecting angle | |
4609 | information for mouse scroll wheels. The database is | |
7edecf21 | 4610 | supposed to guarantee similar scrolling behavior on mice |
615aaf41 LP |
4611 | that it knows about. There's also support for collecting |
4612 | information about Touchpad types. | |
4613 | ||
4614 | * udev's input_id built-in will now also collect touch screen | |
4615 | dimension data and attach it to probed devices. | |
4616 | ||
4617 | * /etc/os-release gained support for a Distribution Privacy | |
4618 | Policy link field. | |
4619 | ||
4620 | * networkd gained support for creating "ipvlan", "gretap", | |
4621 | "ip6gre", "ip6gretap" and "ip6tnl" network devices. | |
4622 | ||
4623 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for "a" lines for setting | |
4624 | ACLs on files. | |
4625 | ||
4626 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount /tmp in the container to | |
4627 | tmpfs, automatically. | |
4628 | ||
4629 | * systemd now exposes the memory.usage_in_bytes cgroup | |
4630 | attribute and shows it for each service in the "systemctl | |
4631 | status" output, if available. | |
4632 | ||
4633 | * When the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7x within 2s an | |
4634 | immediate reboot is triggered. This useful if shutdown is | |
4635 | hung and is unable to complete, to expedite the | |
4636 | operation. Note that this kind of reboot will still unmount | |
4637 | all file systems, and hence should not result in fsck being | |
4638 | run on next reboot. | |
4639 | ||
4640 | * A .device unit for an optical block device will now be | |
4641 | considered active only when a medium is in the drive. Also, | |
4642 | mount units are now bound to their backing devices thus | |
4643 | triggering automatic unmounting when devices become | |
4644 | unavailable. With this in place systemd will now | |
4645 | automatically unmount left-over mounts when a CD-ROM is | |
4646 | ejected or an USB stick is yanked from the system. | |
4647 | ||
4648 | * networkd-wait-online now has support for waiting for | |
4649 | specific interfaces only (with globbing), and for giving up | |
4650 | after a configurable timeout. | |
4651 | ||
4652 | * networkd now exits when idle. It will be automatically | |
4653 | restarted as soon as interfaces show up, are removed or | |
4654 | change state. networkd will stay around as long as there is | |
4655 | at least one DHCP state machine or similar around, that keep | |
4656 | it non-idle. | |
4657 | ||
4658 | * networkd may now configure IPv6 link-local addressing in | |
4659 | addition to IPv4 link-local addressing. | |
4660 | ||
4661 | * The IPv6 "token" for use in SLAAC may now be configured for | |
4662 | each .network interface in networkd. | |
4663 | ||
4664 | * Routes configured with networkd may now be assigned a scope | |
4665 | in .network files. | |
4666 | ||
4667 | * networkd's [Match] sections now support globbing and lists | |
4668 | of multiple space-separated matches per item. | |
4669 | ||
11ea2781 | 4670 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alin Rauta, Andrey Chaser, |
d2c643c6 LP |
4671 | Bastien Nocera, Bruno Bottazzini, Carlos Garnacho, Carlos |
4672 | Morata Castillo, Chris Atkinson, Chris J. Arges, Christian | |
4673 | Kirbach, Christian Seiler, Christoph Brill, Colin Guthrie, | |
4674 | Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, | |
4675 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, Erik Auerswald, | |
4676 | Filipe Brandenburger, Frank Theile, Gabor Kelemen, Gabriel de | |
4677 | Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Hui Wang, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan | |
4678 | Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, Jay Faulkner, Johannes Hölzl, Jonas | |
4679 | Ådahl, Jonathan Boulle, Josef Andersson, Kay Sievers, Ken | |
4680 | Werner, Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Märdian, | |
4681 | Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
4682 | Manuel Mendez, Marcel Holtmann, Marc Schmitzer, Marko | |
4683 | Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, | |
4684 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Mindaugas | |
11ea2781 LP |
4685 | Baranauskas, Moez Bouhlel, Naveen Kumar, Patrik Flykt, Paul |
4686 | Martin, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, Philippe De Swert, | |
4687 | Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira, Rami Rosen, Robert Milasan, Ronny | |
4688 | Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Sebastien Bacher, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
4689 | Shawn Landden, Stéphane Graber, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
4690 | Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tim JP, Tom | |
4691 | Gundersen, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar | |
d2c643c6 LP |
4692 | Lindskog, Veres Lajos, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, Wieland |
4693 | Hoffmann, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
11ea2781 | 4694 | |
ccddd104 | 4695 | — Berlin, 2015-02-16 |
11ea2781 | 4696 | |
d4f5a1f4 DH |
4697 | CHANGES WITH 218: |
4698 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
4699 | * When querying unit file enablement status (for example via |
4700 | "systemctl is-enabled"), a new state "indirect" is now known | |
4701 | which indicates that a unit might not be enabled itself, but | |
c7683ffb | 4702 | another unit listed in its Also= setting might be. |
f9e00a9f LP |
4703 | |
4704 | * Similar to the various existing ConditionXYZ= settings for | |
b938cb90 | 4705 | units, there are now matching AssertXYZ= settings. While |
f9e00a9f LP |
4706 | failing conditions cause a unit to be skipped, but its job |
4707 | to succeed, failing assertions declared like this will cause | |
4708 | a unit start operation and its job to fail. | |
4709 | ||
4710 | * hostnamed now knows a new chassis type "embedded". | |
4711 | ||
4712 | * systemctl gained a new "edit" command. When used on a unit | |
b938cb90 | 4713 | file, this allows extending unit files with .d/ drop-in |
f9e00a9f LP |
4714 | configuration snippets or editing the full file (after |
4715 | copying it from /usr/lib to /etc). This will invoke the | |
4716 | user's editor (as configured with $EDITOR), and reload the | |
4717 | modified configuration after editing. | |
4718 | ||
4719 | * "systemctl status" now shows the suggested enablement state | |
4720 | for a unit, as declared in the (usually vendor-supplied) | |
4721 | system preset files. | |
4722 | ||
4723 | * nss-myhostname will now resolve the single-label host name | |
4724 | "gateway" to the locally configured default IP routing | |
4725 | gateways, ordered by their metrics. This assigns a stable | |
4726 | name to the used gateways, regardless which ones are | |
4727 | currently configured. Note that the name will only be | |
4728 | resolved after all other name sources (if nss-myhostname is | |
4729 | configured properly) and should hence not negatively impact | |
4730 | systems that use the single-label host name "gateway" in | |
4731 | other contexts. | |
4732 | ||
4733 | * systemd-inhibit now allows filtering by mode when listing | |
4734 | inhibitors. | |
4735 | ||
122676c9 | 4736 | * Scope and service units gained a new "Delegate" boolean |
b938cb90 | 4737 | property, which, when set, allows processes running inside the |
122676c9 LP |
4738 | unit to further partition resources. This is primarily |
4739 | useful for systemd user instances as well as container | |
4740 | managers. | |
f9e00a9f LP |
4741 | |
4742 | * journald will now pick up audit messages directly from | |
4743 | the kernel, and log them like any other log message. The | |
4744 | audit fields are split up and fully indexed. This means that | |
4745 | journalctl in many ways is now a (nicer!) alternative to | |
4746 | ausearch, the traditional audit client. Note that this | |
b938cb90 | 4747 | implements only a minimal audit client. If you want the |
f9e00a9f LP |
4748 | special audit modes like reboot-on-log-overflow, please use |
4749 | the traditional auditd instead, which can be used in | |
4750 | parallel to journald. | |
4751 | ||
4752 | * The ConditionSecurity= unit file option now understands the | |
4753 | special string "audit" to check whether auditing is | |
4754 | available. | |
4755 | ||
4756 | * journalctl gained two new commands --vacuum-size= and | |
4757 | --vacuum-time= to delete old journal files until the | |
a8eaaee7 | 4758 | remaining ones take up no more than the specified size on disk, |
f9e00a9f LP |
4759 | or are not older than the specified time. |
4760 | ||
4761 | * A new, native PPPoE library has been added to sd-network, | |
4762 | systemd's library of light-weight networking protocols. This | |
4763 | library will be used in a future version of networkd to | |
4764 | enable PPPoE communication without an external pppd daemon. | |
4765 | ||
4766 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "capture" verb that | |
4767 | works similar to "monitor", but writes a packet capture | |
4768 | trace to STDOUT that can be redirected to a file which is | |
4769 | compatible with libcap's capture file format. This can then | |
4770 | be loaded in Wireshark and similar tools to inspect bus | |
4771 | communication. | |
4772 | ||
4773 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "tree" verb that shows | |
4774 | the object trees of a specific service on the bus, or of all | |
4775 | services. | |
4776 | ||
4777 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "introspect" verb that | |
4778 | shows all interfaces and members of objects on the bus, | |
4779 | including their signature and values. This is particularly | |
4780 | useful to get more information about bus objects shown by | |
4781 | the new "busctl tree" command. | |
4782 | ||
4783 | * The busctl tool now understands new verbs "call", | |
4784 | "set-property" and "get-property" for invoking bus method | |
4785 | calls, setting and getting bus object properties in a | |
4786 | friendly way. | |
4787 | ||
4788 | * busctl gained a new --augment-creds= argument that controls | |
4789 | whether the tool shall augment credential information it | |
4790 | gets from the bus with data from /proc, in a possibly | |
4791 | race-ful way. | |
4792 | ||
4793 | * nspawn's --link-journal= switch gained two new values | |
4794 | "try-guest" and "try-host" that work like "guest" and | |
17c29493 | 4795 | "host", but do not fail if the host has no persistent |
f9e00a9f LP |
4796 | journalling enabled. -j is now equivalent to |
4797 | --link-journal=try-guest. | |
4798 | ||
4799 | * macvlan network devices created by nspawn will now have | |
4800 | stable MAC addresses. | |
4801 | ||
4802 | * A new SmackProcessLabel= unit setting has been added, which | |
4803 | controls the SMACK security label processes forked off by | |
4804 | the respective unit shall use. | |
4805 | ||
d4f5a1f4 DH |
4806 | * If compiled with --enable-xkbcommon, systemd-localed will |
4807 | verify x11 keymap settings by compiling the given keymap. It | |
4808 | will spew out warnings if the compilation fails. This | |
4809 | requires libxkbcommon to be installed. | |
4810 | ||
b938cb90 | 4811 | * When a coredump is collected, a larger number of metadata |
f9e00a9f | 4812 | fields is now collected and included in the journal records |
b938cb90 | 4813 | created for it. More specifically, control group membership, |
f9e00a9f LP |
4814 | environment variables, memory maps, working directory, |
4815 | chroot directory, /proc/$PID/status, and a list of open file | |
4816 | descriptors is now stored in the log entry. | |
4817 | ||
17c29493 | 4818 | * The udev hwdb now contains DPI information for mice. For |
f9e00a9f LP |
4819 | details see: |
4820 | ||
4821 | http://who-t.blogspot.de/2014/12/building-a-dpi-database-for-mice.html | |
4822 | ||
4823 | * All systemd programs that read standalone configuration | |
4824 | files in /etc now also support a corresponding series of | |
997b2b43 JT |
4825 | .conf.d configuration directories in /etc/, /run/, |
4826 | /usr/local/lib/, /usr/lib/, and (if configured with | |
4827 | --enable-split-usr) /lib/. In particular, the following | |
4828 | configuration files now have corresponding configuration | |
4829 | directories: system.conf user.conf, logind.conf, | |
4830 | journald.conf, sleep.conf, bootchart.conf, coredump.conf, | |
4831 | resolved.conf, timesyncd.conf, journal-remote.conf, and | |
4832 | journal-upload.conf. Note that distributions should use the | |
4833 | configuration directories in /usr/lib/; the directories in | |
4834 | /etc/ are reserved for the system administrator. | |
4835 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
4836 | * systemd-rfkill will no longer take the rfkill device name |
4837 | into account when storing rfkill state on disk, as the name | |
4838 | might be dynamically assigned and not stable. Instead, the | |
4839 | ID_PATH udev variable combined with the rfkill type (wlan, | |
4840 | bluetooth, ...) is used. | |
4841 | ||
4842 | * A new service systemd-machine-id-commit.service has been | |
4843 | added. When used on systems where /etc is read-only during | |
4844 | boot, and /etc/machine-id is not initialized (but an empty | |
4845 | file), this service will copy the temporary machine ID | |
4846 | created as replacement into /etc after the system is fully | |
4847 | booted up. This is useful for systems that are freshly | |
4848 | installed with a non-initialized machine ID, but should get | |
4849 | a fixed machine ID for subsequent boots. | |
4850 | ||
4851 | * networkd's .netdev files now provide a large set of | |
a8eaaee7 | 4852 | configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similarly, the |
f9e00a9f LP |
4853 | bridge port cost parameter is now configurable in .network |
4854 | files. There's also new support for configuring IP source | |
4855 | routing. networkd .link files gained support for a new | |
4856 | OriginalName= match that is useful to match against the | |
4857 | original interface name the kernel assigned. .network files | |
4858 | may include MTU= and MACAddress= fields for altering the MTU | |
4859 | and MAC address while being connected to a specific network | |
4860 | interface. | |
4861 | ||
4862 | * The LUKS logic gained supported for configuring | |
4863 | UUID-specific key files. There's also new support for naming | |
4864 | LUKS device from the kernel command line, using the new | |
4865 | luks.name= argument. | |
4866 | ||
4867 | * Timer units may now be transiently created via the bus API | |
4868 | (this was previously already available for scope and service | |
4869 | units). In addition it is now possible to create multiple | |
4870 | transient units at the same time with a single bus call. The | |
4871 | "systemd-run" tool has been updated to make use of this for | |
4872 | running commands on a specified time, in at(1)-style. | |
4873 | ||
4874 | * tmpfiles gained support for "t" lines, for assigning | |
4875 | extended attributes to files. Among other uses this may be | |
4876 | used to assign SMACK labels to files. | |
4877 | ||
13e92f39 LP |
4878 | Contributions from: Alin Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrej |
4879 | Manduch, Bastien Nocera, Chris Atkinson, Chris Leech, Chris | |
4880 | Mayo, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
4881 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dan Winship, Dave | |
4882 | Reisner, David Herrmann, Didier Roche, Felipe Sateler, Gavin | |
4883 | Li, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Ivan | |
4884 | Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Joe | |
4885 | Lawrence, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
4886 | Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, Mantas | |
4887 | Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Maurizio Lombardi, | |
4888 | Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Marineau, Michal | |
7da81d33 LP |
4889 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, Peter |
4890 | Hutterer, Przemyslaw Kedzierski, Rami Rosen, Ray Strode, | |
4891 | Richard Schütz, Richard W.M. Jones, Ronny Chevalier, Ross | |
4892 | Lagerwall, Sean Young, Stanisław Pitucha, Susant Sahani, | |
4893 | Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
4894 | Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vicente Olivert | |
4895 | Riera, WaLyong Cho, Wesley Dawson, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
13e92f39 | 4896 | |
ccddd104 | 4897 | — Berlin, 2014-12-10 |
f9e00a9f | 4898 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
4899 | CHANGES WITH 217: |
4900 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
4901 | * journalctl gained the new options -t/--identifier= to match |
4902 | on the syslog identifier (aka "tag"), as well as --utc to | |
4903 | show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also | |
4904 | accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager. | |
b62a309a | 4905 | |
a65b8245 ZJS |
4906 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --flush, that synchronously |
4907 | flushes logs from /run/log/journal to /var/log/journal if | |
4908 | persistent storage is enabled. systemd-journal-flush.service | |
4909 | now waits until the operation is complete. | |
2a97b03b | 4910 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
4911 | * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload |
4912 | (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending | |
4bdc60cb LP |
4913 | STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the |
4914 | internal state of daemons and closes a race condition when | |
78b6b7ce | 4915 | the process is still running but has closed its D-Bus |
4bdc60cb | 4916 | connection. |
b62a309a | 4917 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
4918 | * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any ExecStart |
4919 | commands anymore. | |
b62a309a ZJS |
4920 | |
4921 | * User units are now loaded also from | |
4922 | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the | |
4923 | /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously | |
4924 | supported, but is under the control of the user. | |
4925 | ||
3f9a0a52 | 4926 | * Job timeouts (i.e. timeouts on the time a job that is |
4ffd29fd LP |
4927 | queued stays in the run queue) can now optionally result in |
4928 | immediate reboot or power-off actions (JobTimeoutAction= and | |
4929 | JobTimeoutRebootArgument=). This is useful on ".target" | |
4930 | units, to limit the maximum time a target remains | |
4931 | undispatched in the run queue, and to trigger an emergency | |
4932 | operation in such a case. This is now used by default to | |
4933 | turn off the system if boot-up (as defined by everything in | |
4934 | basic.target) hangs and does not complete for at least | |
4935 | 15min. Also, if power-off or reboot hang for at least 30min | |
4936 | an immediate power-off/reboot operation is triggered. This | |
4937 | functionality is particularly useful to increase reliability | |
4938 | on embedded devices, but also on laptops which might | |
4939 | accidentally get powered on when carried in a backpack and | |
4940 | whose boot stays stuck in a hard disk encryption passphrase | |
4941 | question. | |
4942 | ||
b62a309a ZJS |
4943 | * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch |
4944 | events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays | |
4945 | are attached (HandleLidSwitchDocked= option). | |
4946 | ||
4947 | * A helper binary and a service have been added which can be | |
4948 | used to resume from hibernation in the initramfs. A | |
4949 | generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel | |
81c7dd89 | 4950 | command line to trigger resume. |
b62a309a | 4951 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
4952 | * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been |
4953 | added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a | |
4954 | single terminal on each session of the user marked as | |
09077149 | 4955 | Desktop=systemd-console. |
b62a309a ZJS |
4956 | |
4957 | * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by | |
4958 | systemd-networkd. | |
4959 | ||
ba8df74b | 4960 | * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set |
78b6b7ce | 4961 | from the information provided by the networking stack |
b62a309a ZJS |
4962 | (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). |
4963 | ||
4964 | * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and | |
4965 | the minimum supported kernel version is thus bumped to 3.7. | |
4966 | ||
4967 | * Timeout for udev workers has been increased from 1 to 3 | |
4968 | minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to | |
4969 | help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load. | |
4970 | ||
78b6b7ce | 4971 | * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar". |
b62a309a | 4972 | |
4bdc60cb | 4973 | * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many |
f6d1de85 | 4974 | circumstances it didn't give expected benefits even for |
b62a309a | 4975 | rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the |
78b6b7ce LP |
4976 | age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using |
4977 | rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively | |
4978 | maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed. | |
b62a309a | 4979 | |
c4ac9900 | 4980 | * Swap units can use Options= to specify discard options. |
b62a309a ZJS |
4981 | Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now |
4982 | respected. | |
4983 | ||
4984 | * Docker containers are now detected as a separate type of | |
4985 | virtualization. | |
4986 | ||
4987 | * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where | |
ba8df74b | 4988 | the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names. |
78b6b7ce LP |
4989 | systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that |
4990 | on. | |
b62a309a | 4991 | |
e6c253e3 MS |
4992 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set: |
4993 | ||
4994 | net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel | |
4995 | ||
ba8df74b KS |
4996 | This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default |
4997 | queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps | |
e6c253e3 MS |
4998 | fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be |
4999 | a good default with no tuning required for most workloads. | |
5000 | Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit | |
5001 | servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better. | |
5002 | Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast". | |
5003 | ||
4bdc60cb LP |
5004 | * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is |
5005 | available for service units, that allows locking all service | |
5006 | processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit | |
5007 | access to various bus services, or even hide most of them | |
5008 | from the service's view entirely. | |
5009 | ||
5010 | * networkctl will now show the .network and .link file | |
5011 | networkd has applied to a specific interface. | |
5012 | ||
5013 | * sd-login gained a new API call sd_session_get_desktop() to | |
5014 | query which desktop environment has been selected for a | |
5015 | session. | |
5016 | ||
5017 | * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support | |
5018 | legacy-free systems. | |
5019 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
5020 | * systemctl gained two new commands "add-wants" and |
5021 | "add-requires" for pulling in units from specific targets | |
5022 | easily. | |
5023 | ||
5024 | * If the word "rescue" is specified on the kernel command line | |
5025 | the system will now boot into rescue mode (aka | |
5026 | rescue.target), which was previously available only by | |
5027 | specifying "1" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target" on the kernel | |
5028 | command line. This new kernel command line option nicely | |
5029 | mirrors the already existing "emergency" kernel command line | |
5030 | option. | |
5031 | ||
5032 | * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, | |
d4474c41 | 5033 | mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, |
78b6b7ce LP |
5034 | rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to |
5035 | /usr. | |
5036 | ||
f6d1de85 | 5037 | * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processes of |
78b6b7ce LP |
5038 | services, not only the main process. |
5039 | ||
5040 | * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This | |
5041 | means at least version v2.25 of util-linux is required for | |
5042 | operation, otherwise dead-locks on device nodes may | |
5043 | occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least | |
5044 | v2.25 when updating systemd to v217. | |
5045 | ||
3769415e TT |
5046 | * The "multi-seat-x" tool has been removed from systemd, as |
5047 | its functionality has been integrated into X servers 1.16, | |
5048 | and the tool is hence redundant. It is recommended to update | |
5049 | display managers invoking this tool to simply invoke X | |
5050 | directly from now on, again. | |
5051 | ||
fae9332b | 5052 | * Support for the new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION D-Bus |
d35f51ea ZJS |
5053 | message flag has been added for all of systemd's polkit |
5054 | authenticated method calls has been added. In particular this | |
5055 | now allows optional interactive authorization via polkit for | |
5056 | many of PID1's privileged operations such as unit file | |
5057 | enabling and disabling. | |
fae9332b | 5058 | |
cfa1571b LP |
5059 | * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for |
5060 | placing the rebuilt hardware database in /usr instead of | |
5061 | /etc. When used only hardware database entries stored in | |
5062 | /usr will be used, and any user database entries in /etc are | |
5063 | ignored. This functionality is useful for vendors to ship a | |
5064 | pre-built database on systems where local configuration is | |
5065 | unnecessary or unlikely. | |
5066 | ||
7e63dd10 LP |
5067 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also |
5068 | understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and | |
ba8df74b | 5069 | "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting |
7e63dd10 LP |
5070 | "anually", "hourly", ...). |
5071 | ||
d4474c41 TG |
5072 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev |
5073 | at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is | |
5074 | recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!' | |
5075 | and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not | |
5076 | overwritten at runtime. | |
5077 | ||
3b187c5c LP |
5078 | * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=) |
5079 | and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be | |
5080 | terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order | |
5081 | to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is | |
5082 | generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in | |
5083 | similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a | |
5084 | segmentation fault. | |
5085 | ||
4b08dd87 LP |
5086 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov, |
5087 | Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L. | |
5088 | Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, | |
5089 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David | |
5090 | Herrmann, David Sommerseth, David Strauss, Emil Renner | |
5091 | Berthing, Eric Cook, Evangelos Foutras, Filipe Brandenburger, | |
5092 | Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo | |
5093 | Venev, Hugo Grostabussiat, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
5094 | Synacek, Jonathan Liu, Juho Son, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Klaus | |
5095 | Purer, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
5096 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
5097 | Marius Tessmann, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, | |
5098 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, Michal | |
5099 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miroslav Lichvar, Patrik Flykt, | |
5100 | Philippe De Swert, Piotr Drąg, Rahul Sundaram, Richard | |
5101 | Weinberger, Robert Milasan, Ronny Chevalier, Ruben Kerkhof, | |
5102 | Santiago Vila, Sergey Ptashnick, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd | |
5103 | Simons, Stefan Brüns, Steven Allen, Steven Noonan, Susant | |
5104 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
5105 | Timofey Titovets, Tobias Hunger, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
5106 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew | |
13e92f39 | 5107 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
4b08dd87 | 5108 | |
ccddd104 | 5109 | — Berlin, 2014-10-28 |
4b08dd87 | 5110 | |
b72ddf0f | 5111 | CHANGES WITH 216: |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5112 | |
5113 | * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from | |
b72ddf0f | 5114 | /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5115 | implementations should add a |
5116 | ||
b72ddf0f | 5117 | Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5118 | |
5119 | to their unit files to take over and replace systemd's NTP | |
5120 | default functionality. | |
5121 | ||
5122 | * systemd-sysusers gained a new line type "r" for configuring | |
5123 | which UID/GID ranges to allocate system users/groups | |
5124 | from. Lines of type "u" may now add an additional column | |
5125 | that specifies the home directory for the system user to be | |
5126 | created. Also, systemd-sysusers may now optionally read user | |
5127 | information from STDIN instead of a file. This is useful for | |
5128 | invoking it from RPM preinst scriptlets that need to create | |
5129 | users before the first RPM file is installed since these | |
5130 | files might need to be owned by them. A new | |
5131 | %sysusers_create_inline RPM macro has been introduced to do | |
5132 | just that. systemd-sysusers now updates the shadow files as | |
5133 | well as the user/group databases, which should enhance | |
5134 | compatibility with certain tools like grpck. | |
5135 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
5136 | * A number of bus APIs of PID 1 now optionally consult polkit to |
5137 | permit access for otherwise unprivileged clients under certain | |
5138 | conditions. Note that this currently doesn't support | |
5139 | interactive authentication yet, but this is expected to be | |
5140 | added eventually, too. | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5141 | |
5142 | * /etc/machine-info now has new fields for configuring the | |
5143 | deployment environment of the machine, as well as the | |
5144 | location of the machine. hostnamectl has been updated with | |
5145 | new command to update these fields. | |
5146 | ||
5147 | * systemd-timesyncd has been updated to automatically acquire | |
5148 | NTP server information from systemd-networkd, which might | |
5149 | have been discovered via DHCP. | |
5150 | ||
5151 | * systemd-resolved now includes a caching DNS stub resolver | |
5152 | and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation. A new | |
daa05349 AB |
5153 | NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which can be used |
5154 | instead of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5155 | systemd-resolved. Hostnames, addresses and arbitrary RRs may |
5156 | be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to | |
5157 | the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of | |
5158 | multi-homed system, and keeps DNS server and caches separate | |
5f02e26c | 5159 | and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneously on all |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5160 | interfaces that have DNS servers configured, in order to |
5161 | properly handle VPNs and local LANs which might resolve | |
5162 | separate sets of domain names. systemd-resolved may acquire | |
a1a4a25e | 5163 | DNS server information from systemd-networkd automatically, |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5164 | which in turn might have discovered them via DHCP. A tool |
5165 | "systemd-resolve-host" has been added that may be used to | |
5166 | query the DNS logic in resolved. systemd-resolved implements | |
5167 | IDNA and automatically uses IDNA or UTF-8 encoding depending | |
5168 | on whether classic DNS or LLMNR is used as transport. In the | |
5169 | next releases we intend to add a DNSSEC and mDNS/DNS-SD | |
5170 | implementation to systemd-resolved. | |
5171 | ||
5172 | * A new NSS module nss-mymachines has been added, that | |
5173 | automatically resolves the names of all local registered | |
5174 | containers to their respective IP addresses. | |
5175 | ||
5176 | * A new client tool "networkctl" for systemd-networkd has been | |
5177 | added. It currently is entirely passive and will query | |
5178 | networking configuration from udev, rtnetlink and networkd, | |
5f02e26c | 5179 | and present it to the user in a very friendly |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5180 | way. Eventually, we hope to extend it to become a full |
5181 | control utility for networkd. | |
5182 | ||
5183 | * .socket units gained a new DeferAcceptSec= setting that | |
5184 | controls the kernels' TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopt for | |
a8eaaee7 | 5185 | TCP. Similarly, support for controlling TCP keep-alive |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5186 | settings has been added (KeepAliveTimeSec=, |
5187 | KeepAliveIntervalSec=, KeepAliveProbes=). Also, support for | |
5188 | turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added | |
5189 | (NoDelay=). | |
5190 | ||
a1a4a25e | 5191 | * logind learned a new session type "web", for use in projects |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5192 | like Cockpit which register web clients as PAM sessions. |
5193 | ||
5194 | * timer units with at least one OnCalendar= setting will now | |
46ae28d8 | 5195 | be started only after time-sync.target has been |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5196 | reached. This way they will not elapse before the system |
5197 | clock has been corrected by a local NTP client or | |
5198 | similar. This is particular useful on RTC-less embedded | |
5199 | machines, that come up with an invalid system clock. | |
5200 | ||
5201 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth= switch should now result in | |
5202 | stable MAC addresses for both the outer and the inner side | |
5203 | of the link. | |
5204 | ||
5205 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --volatile= switch for running | |
5206 | container instances with /etc or /var unpopulated. | |
5207 | ||
5208 | * The kdbus client code has been updated to use the new Linux | |
5209 | 3.17 memfd subsystem instead of the old kdbus-specific one. | |
5210 | ||
5211 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client and server now support | |
01da80b1 LP |
5212 | FORCERENEW. There are also new configuration options to |
5213 | configure the vendor client identifier and broadcast mode | |
5214 | for DHCP. | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5215 | |
5216 | * systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current | |
5217 | timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the | |
5218 | kernel has no understanding of DST and similar | |
5219 | concepts. This hence means FAT timestamps will be always | |
5220 | considered UTC, similar to what Android is already | |
5221 | doing. Also, when the RTC is configured to the local time | |
5222 | (rather than UTC) systemd will never synchronize back to it, | |
5223 | as this might confuse Windows at a later boot. | |
5224 | ||
5225 | * systemd-analyze gained a new command "verify" for offline | |
5226 | validation of unit files. | |
5227 | ||
5228 | * systemd-networkd gained support for a couple of additional | |
5229 | settings for bonding networking setups. Also, the metric for | |
5230 | statically configured routes may now be configured. For | |
5231 | network interfaces where this is appropriate the peer IP | |
5232 | address may now be configured. | |
5233 | ||
26568403 TG |
5234 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client will no longer request |
5235 | broadcasting by default, as this tripped up some networks. | |
5236 | For hardware where broadcast is required the feature should | |
5237 | be switched back on using RequestBroadcast=yes. | |
5238 | ||
5239 | * systemd-networkd will now set up IPv4LL addresses (when | |
5240 | enabled) even if DHCP is configured successfully. | |
5241 | ||
5242 | * udev will now default to respect network device names given | |
5243 | by the kernel when the kernel indicates that these are | |
5244 | predictable. This behavior can be tweaked by changing | |
5245 | NamePolicy= in the relevant .link file. | |
5246 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
5247 | * A new library systemd-terminal has been added that |
5248 | implements full TTY stream parsing and rendering. This | |
5249 | library is supposed to be used later on for implementing a | |
5250 | full userspace VT subsystem, replacing the current kernel | |
5251 | implementation. | |
5252 | ||
5253 | * A new tool systemd-journal-upload has been added to push | |
5254 | journal data to a remote system running | |
5255 | systemd-journal-remote. | |
5256 | ||
5257 | * journald will no longer forward all local data to another | |
5258 | running syslog daemon. This change has been made because | |
5259 | rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog | |
5260 | implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and | |
5261 | instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since | |
5f02e26c | 5262 | forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5263 | more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this |
5264 | off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog | |
5265 | version, you have to turn this option on again | |
5266 | (ForwardToSyslog= in journald.conf). | |
5267 | ||
5268 | * journald now optionally supports the LZ4 compressor for | |
5269 | larger journal fields. This compressor should perform much | |
5270 | better than XZ which was the previous default. | |
5271 | ||
5272 | * machinectl now shows the IP addresses of local containers, | |
5273 | if it knows them, plus the interface name of the container. | |
5274 | ||
5275 | * A new tool "systemd-escape" has been added that makes it | |
5276 | easy to escape strings to build unit names and similar. | |
5277 | ||
5278 | * sd_notify() messages may now include a new ERRNO= field | |
5279 | which is parsed and collected by systemd and shown among the | |
5280 | "systemctl status" output for a service. | |
5281 | ||
5282 | * A new component "systemd-firstboot" has been added that | |
5283 | queries the most basic systemd information (timezone, | |
a1a4a25e | 5284 | hostname, root password) interactively on first |
b2ca0d63 LP |
5285 | boot. Alternatively it may also be used to provision these |
5286 | things offline on OS images installed into directories. | |
5287 | ||
01da80b1 LP |
5288 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set |
5289 | ||
5290 | net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries=1 | |
5291 | ||
5292 | This has the benefit of no flushing secondary IP addresses | |
5293 | when primary addresses are removed. | |
5294 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
5295 | Contributions from: Ansgar Burchardt, Bastien Nocera, Colin |
5296 | Walters, Dan Dedrick, Daniel Buch, Daniel Korostil, Daniel | |
5297 | Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Denis | |
5298 | Kenzior, Eelco Dolstra, Eric Cook, Hannes Reinecke, Harald | |
5299 | Hoyer, Hong Shick Pak, Hui Wang, Jean-André Santoni, Jóhann | |
5300 | B. Guðmundsson, Jon Severinsson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kevin | |
5301 | Wells, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
5302 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
5303 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, | |
5304 | Miguel Angel Ajo, Mike Gilbert, Olivier Brunel, Robert | |
5305 | Schiele, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd Simons, Stef | |
5306 | Walter, Steven Noonan, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas | |
5307 | Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Timofey Titovets, | |
5308 | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, Umut | |
5309 | Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
5310 | ||
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b72ddf0f | 5312 | |
3dff3e00 | 5313 | CHANGES WITH 215: |
24a2bf4c LP |
5314 | |
5315 | * A new tool systemd-sysusers has been added. This tool | |
5316 | creates system users and groups in /etc/passwd and | |
5317 | /etc/group, based on static declarative system user/group | |
5318 | definitions in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/. This is useful to | |
5319 | enable factory resets and volatile systems that boot up with | |
5320 | an empty /etc directory, and thus need system users and | |
5321 | groups created during early boot. systemd now also ships | |
5322 | with two default sysusers.d/ files for the most basic | |
5323 | users and groups systemd and the core operating system | |
5324 | require. | |
5325 | ||
5326 | * A new tmpfiles snippet has been added that rebuilds the | |
5327 | essential files in /etc on boot, should they be missing. | |
5328 | ||
5329 | * A directive for ensuring automatic clean-up of | |
5330 | /var/cache/man/ has been removed from the default | |
5331 | configuration. This line should now be shipped by the man | |
5332 | implementation. The necessary change has been made to the | |
5333 | man-db implementation. Note that you need to update your man | |
5334 | implementation to one that ships this line, otherwise no | |
5335 | automatic clean-up of /var/cache/man will take place. | |
5336 | ||
5337 | * A new condition ConditionNeedsUpdate= has been added that | |
5338 | may conditionalize services to only run when /etc or /var | |
5339 | are "older" than the vendor operating system resources in | |
5340 | /usr. This is useful for reconstructing or updating /etc | |
5341 | after an offline update of /usr or a factory reset, on the | |
5342 | next reboot. Services that want to run once after such an | |
5343 | update or reset should use this condition and order | |
5344 | themselves before the new systemd-update-done.service, which | |
5345 | will mark the two directories as fully updated. A number of | |
5346 | service files have been added making use of this, to rebuild | |
5347 | the udev hardware database, the journald message catalog and | |
5348 | dynamic loader cache (ldconfig). The systemd-sysusers tool | |
5349 | described above also makes use of this now. With this in | |
5350 | place it is now possible to start up a minimal operating | |
ce1dde29 | 5351 | system with /etc empty cleanly. For more information on the |
24a2bf4c LP |
5352 | concepts involved see this recent blog story: |
5353 | ||
5354 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html | |
5355 | ||
5356 | * A new system group "input" has been introduced, and all | |
5357 | input device nodes get this group assigned. This is useful | |
5358 | for system-level software to get access to input devices. It | |
3dff3e00 KS |
5359 | complements what is already done for "audio" and "video". |
5360 | ||
24a2bf4c LP |
5361 | * systemd-networkd learnt minimal DHCPv4 server support in |
5362 | addition to the existing DHCPv4 client support. It also | |
5363 | learnt DHCPv6 client and IPv6 Router Solicitation client | |
5364 | support. The DHCPv4 client gained support for static routes | |
5365 | passed in from the server. Note that the [DHCPv4] section | |
5366 | known in older systemd-networkd versions has been renamed to | |
5367 | [DHCP] and is now also used by the DHCPv6 client. Existing | |
c7435cc9 LP |
5368 | .network files using settings of this section should be |
5369 | updated, though compatibility is maintained. Optionally, the | |
5370 | client hostname may now be sent to the DHCP server. | |
24a2bf4c | 5371 | |
c7435cc9 LP |
5372 | * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks as well |
5373 | as tun/tap and dummy devices. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
5374 | |
5375 | * networkd gained support for automatic allocation of address | |
5376 | ranges for interfaces from a system-wide pool of | |
5377 | addresses. This is useful for dynamically managing a large | |
5378 | number of interfaces with a single network configuration | |
5379 | file. In particular this is useful to easily assign | |
5380 | appropriate IP addresses to the veth links of a large number | |
5381 | of nspawn instances. | |
5382 | ||
5383 | * RPM macros for processing sysusers, sysctl and binfmt | |
5384 | drop-in snippets at package installation time have been | |
5385 | added. | |
5386 | ||
5387 | * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in | |
5388 | /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically | |
5389 | created as symlink. /usr/lib is the more appropriate | |
5390 | location of this file, since it shall actually describe the | |
5391 | vendor operating system shipped in /usr, and not the | |
5392 | configuration stored in /etc. | |
5393 | ||
5394 | * .mount units gained a new boolean SloppyOptions= setting | |
5395 | that maps to mount(8)'s -s option which enables permissive | |
5396 | parsing of unknown mount options. | |
5397 | ||
5398 | * tmpfiles learnt a new "L+" directive which creates a symlink | |
5399 | but (unlike "L") deletes a pre-existing file first, should | |
5400 | it already exist and not already be the correct | |
a8eaaee7 | 5401 | symlink. Similarly, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been |
24a2bf4c LP |
5402 | added as well, which create block and character devices, as |
5403 | well as fifos in the filesystem, possibly removing any | |
5404 | pre-existing files of different types. | |
5405 | ||
5406 | * For tmpfiles' "L", "L+", "C" and "C+" directives the final | |
5407 | 'argument' field (which so far specified the source to | |
ce1dde29 | 5408 | symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If omitted the |
24a2bf4c LP |
5409 | same file os copied from /usr/share/factory/ suffixed by the |
5410 | full destination path. This is useful for populating /etc | |
5411 | with essential files, by copying them from vendor defaults | |
5412 | shipped in /usr/share/factory/etc. | |
5413 | ||
5414 | * A new command "systemctl preset-all" has been added that | |
5415 | applies the service preset settings to all installed unit | |
5416 | files. A new switch --preset-mode= has been added that | |
5417 | controls whether only enable or only disable operations | |
5418 | shall be executed. | |
5419 | ||
5420 | * A new command "systemctl is-system-running" has been added | |
5421 | that allows checking the overall state of the system, for | |
ce1dde29 | 5422 | example whether it is fully up and running. |
24a2bf4c LP |
5423 | |
5424 | * When the system boots up with an empty /etc, the equivalent | |
5425 | to "systemctl preset-all" is executed during early boot, to | |
5426 | make sure all default services are enabled after a factory | |
5427 | reset. | |
5428 | ||
5429 | * systemd now contains a minimal preset file that enables the | |
5430 | most basic services systemd ships by default. | |
5431 | ||
5432 | * Unit files' [Install] section gained a new DefaultInstance= | |
5433 | field for defining the default instance to create if a | |
5434 | template unit is enabled with no instance specified. | |
5435 | ||
5436 | * A new passive target cryptsetup-pre.target has been added | |
5437 | that may be used by services that need to make they run and | |
5438 | finish before the first LUKS cryptographic device is set up. | |
5439 | ||
5440 | * The /dev/loop-control and /dev/btrfs-control device nodes | |
5441 | are now owned by the "disk" group by default, opening up | |
5442 | access to this group. | |
5443 | ||
5444 | * systemd-coredump will now automatically generate a | |
5445 | stack trace of all core dumps taking place on the system, | |
5446 | based on elfutils' libdw library. This stack trace is logged | |
5447 | to the journal. | |
5448 | ||
5449 | * systemd-coredump may now optionally store coredumps directly | |
5450 | on disk (in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, possibly compressed), | |
5451 | instead of storing them unconditionally in the journal. This | |
5452 | mode is the new default. A new configuration file | |
5453 | /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been added to configure this | |
5454 | and other parameters of systemd-coredump. | |
5455 | ||
5456 | * coredumpctl gained a new "info" verb to show details about a | |
5457 | specific coredump. A new switch "-1" has also been added | |
5458 | that makes sure to only show information about the most | |
5459 | recent entry instead of all entries. Also, as the tool is | |
5460 | generally useful now the "systemd-" prefix of the binary | |
5461 | name has been removed. Distributions that want to maintain | |
5462 | compatibility with the old name should add a symlink from | |
5463 | the old name to the new name. | |
5464 | ||
5465 | * journald's SplitMode= now defaults to "uid". This makes sure | |
ce1dde29 | 5466 | that unprivileged users can access their own coredumps with |
24a2bf4c LP |
5467 | coredumpctl without restrictions. |
5468 | ||
5469 | * New kernel command line options "systemd.wants=" (for | |
5470 | pulling an additional unit during boot), "systemd.mask=" | |
5471 | (for masking a specific unit for the boot), and | |
5472 | "systemd.debug-shell" (for enabling the debug shell on tty9) | |
5473 | have been added. This is implemented in the new generator | |
5474 | "systemd-debug-generator". | |
5475 | ||
5476 | * systemd-nspawn will now by default filter a couple of | |
5477 | syscalls for containers, among them those required for | |
5478 | kernel module loading, direct x86 IO port access, swap | |
5479 | management, and kexec. Most importantly though | |
5480 | open_by_handle_at() is now prohibited for containers, | |
5481 | closing a hole similar to a recently discussed vulnerability | |
5482 | in docker regarding access to files on file hierarchies the | |
b938cb90 JE |
5483 | container should normally not have access to. Note that, for |
5484 | nspawn, we generally make no security claims anyway (and | |
24a2bf4c LP |
5485 | this is explicitly documented in the man page), so this is |
5486 | just a fix for one of the most obvious problems. | |
5487 | ||
5488 | * A new man page file-hierarchy(7) has been added that | |
5489 | contains a minimized, modernized version of the file system | |
5490 | layout systemd expects, similar in style to the FHS | |
c7435cc9 LP |
5491 | specification or hier(5). A new tool systemd-path(1) has |
5492 | been added to query many of these paths for the local | |
5493 | machine and user. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
5494 | |
5495 | * Automatic time-based clean-up of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no | |
5496 | longer done. Since the directory now has a per-user size | |
5497 | limit, and is cleaned on logout this appears unnecessary, | |
5498 | in particular since this now brings the lifecycle of this | |
5499 | directory closer in line with how IPC objects are handled. | |
5500 | ||
5501 | * systemd.pc now exports a number of additional directories, | |
5502 | including $libdir (which is useful to identify the library | |
5503 | path for the primary architecture of the system), and a | |
5504 | couple of drop-in directories. | |
5505 | ||
3058e017 TLSC |
5506 | * udev's predictable network interface names now use the dev_port |
5507 | sysfs attribute, introduced in linux 3.15 instead of dev_id to | |
5508 | distinguish between ports of the same PCI function. dev_id should | |
5509 | only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need | |
5510 | for dev_port. | |
5511 | ||
c7435cc9 LP |
5512 | * machined has been updated to export the OS version of a |
5513 | container (read from /etc/os-release and | |
5514 | /usr/lib/os-release) on the bus. This is now shown in | |
5515 | "machinectl status" for a machine. | |
5516 | ||
5517 | * A new service setting RestartForceExitStatus= has been | |
5518 | added. If configured to a set of exit signals or process | |
5519 | return values, the service will be restarted when the main | |
5520 | daemon process exits with any of them, regardless of the | |
5521 | Restart= setting. | |
5522 | ||
5523 | * systemctl's -H switch for connecting to remote systemd | |
5524 | machines has been extended so that it may be used to | |
5525 | directly connect to a specific container on the | |
5526 | host. "systemctl -H root@foobar:waldi" will now connect as | |
5527 | user "root" to host "foobar", and then proceed directly to | |
5528 | the container named "waldi". Note that currently you have to | |
5529 | authenticate as user "root" for this to work, as entering | |
5530 | containers is a privileged operation. | |
5531 | ||
5532 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Benjamin Steinwender, | |
5533 | Carl Schaefer, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian King, Cristian | |
5534 | Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Eugene | |
5535 | Yakubovich, Filipe Brandenburger, Frederic Crozat, Hristo | |
5536 | Venev, Jan Engelhardt, Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
5537 | Poettering, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine | |
5538 | Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, | |
5539 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Sekletar, Patrik Flykt, Ronan Le | |
5540 | Martret, Ronny Chevalier, Ruediger Oertel, Steven Noonan, | |
5541 | Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Hindoe | |
5542 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Hirst, Umut Tezduyar | |
5543 | Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
5544 | ||
ccddd104 | 5545 | — Berlin, 2014-07-03 |
c7435cc9 | 5546 | |
4196a3ea KS |
5547 | CHANGES WITH 214: |
5548 | ||
5549 | * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the | |
5550 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB)) while it | |
5551 | executes events for the disk or any of its partitions. | |
5552 | Applications like partitioning programs can lock the | |
5553 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_EX)) and claim temporary | |
5554 | device ownership that way; udev will entirely skip all event | |
5555 | handling for this disk and its partitions. If the disk | |
5556 | was opened for writing, the close will trigger a partition | |
5557 | table rescan in udev's "watch" facility, and if needed | |
71449caf | 5558 | synthesize "change" events for the disk and all its partitions. |
8d0e0ddd | 5559 | This is now unconditionally enabled, and if it turns out to |
4196a3ea | 5560 | cause major problems, we might turn it on only for specific |
45df8656 | 5561 | devices, or might need to disable it entirely. Device Mapper |
4196a3ea KS |
5562 | devices are excluded from this logic. |
5563 | ||
04e91da2 LP |
5564 | * We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations, |
5565 | since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux | |
5566 | upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, | |
5567 | and we will readd "-l" as soon as util-linux with this | |
5568 | change has been released. | |
5569 | ||
5570 | * The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long | |
8d0e0ddd | 5571 | time, the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and |
04e91da2 LP |
5572 | libattr is thus unnecessary. |
5573 | ||
ce830873 | 5574 | * Virtualization detection works without privileges now. This |
04e91da2 LP |
5575 | means the systemd-detect-virt binary no longer requires |
5576 | CAP_SYS_PTRACE file capabilities, and our daemons can run | |
71449caf | 5577 | with fewer privileges. |
04e91da2 LP |
5578 | |
5579 | * systemd-networkd now runs under its own "systemd-network" | |
5580 | user. It retains the CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, | |
5581 | CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but | |
5582 | loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way. | |
5583 | ||
a8eaaee7 | 5584 | * Similarly, systemd-resolved now runs under its own |
04e91da2 LP |
5585 | "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining. |
5586 | ||
a8eaaee7 | 5587 | * Similarly, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own |
04e91da2 LP |
5588 | "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining. |
5589 | ||
5590 | * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth" | |
a8eaaee7 | 5591 | virtual Ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well |
04e91da2 LP |
5592 | as GRE and VTI tunnels. |
5593 | ||
5594 | * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to | |
5595 | manually load kernel modules necessary for certain tunnel | |
8d0e0ddd | 5596 | transports. Instead, it is assumed the kernel loads them |
04e91da2 LP |
5597 | automatically when required. This only works correctly on |
5598 | very new kernels. On older kernels, please consider adding | |
c54bed5d | 5599 | the kernel modules to /etc/modules-load.d/ as a work-around. |
04e91da2 | 5600 | |
cd14eda3 | 5601 | * The resolv.conf file systemd-resolved generates has been |
8d0e0ddd JE |
5602 | moved to /run/systemd/resolve/. If you have a symlink from |
5603 | /etc/resolv.conf, it might be necessary to correct it. | |
cd14eda3 | 5604 | |
ef392da6 | 5605 | * Two new service settings, ProtectHome= and ProtectSystem=, |
8d0e0ddd | 5606 | have been added. When enabled, they will make the user data |
04e91da2 LP |
5607 | (such as /home) inaccessible or read-only and the system |
5608 | (such as /usr) read-only, for specific services. This allows | |
5609 | very light-weight per-service sandboxing to avoid | |
5610 | modifications of user data or system files from | |
5611 | services. These two new switches have been enabled for all | |
5612 | of systemd's long-running services, where appropriate. | |
5613 | ||
5614 | * Socket units gained new SocketUser= and SocketGroup= | |
5615 | settings to set the owner user and group of AF_UNIX sockets | |
5616 | and FIFOs in the file system. | |
5617 | ||
8d0e0ddd | 5618 | * Socket units gained a new RemoveOnStop= setting. If enabled, |
04e91da2 LP |
5619 | all FIFOS and sockets in the file system will be removed |
5620 | when the specific socket unit is stopped. | |
5621 | ||
5622 | * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list | |
5623 | of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs | |
45df8656 | 5624 | created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to |
71449caf | 5625 | manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same life-cycle as |
04e91da2 LP |
5626 | the socket itself. |
5627 | ||
5628 | * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to | |
5629 | /run, and have been replaced by symlinks. This allows | |
5630 | connecting to these facilities even if PrivateDevices=yes is | |
5631 | used for a service (which makes /dev/log itself unavailable, | |
5632 | but /run is left). This also has the benefit of ensuring | |
5633 | that /dev only contains device nodes, directories and | |
5634 | symlinks, and nothing else. | |
5635 | ||
5636 | * sd-daemon gained two new calls sd_pid_notify() and | |
5637 | sd_pid_notifyf(). They are similar to sd_notify() and | |
5638 | sd_notifyf(), but allow overriding of the source PID of | |
5639 | notification messages if permissions permit this. This is | |
5640 | useful to send notify messages on behalf of a different | |
5641 | process (for example, the parent process). The | |
5642 | systemd-notify tool has been updated to make use of this | |
5643 | when sending messages (so that notification messages now | |
5644 | originate from the shell script invoking systemd-notify and | |
5645 | not the systemd-notify process itself. This should minimize | |
5646 | a race where systemd fails to associate notification | |
5647 | messages to services when the originating process already | |
5648 | vanished. | |
5649 | ||
5650 | * A new "on-abnormal" setting for Restart= has been added. If | |
8d0e0ddd | 5651 | set, it will result in automatic restarts on all "abnormal" |
04e91da2 LP |
5652 | reasons for a process to exit, which includes unclean |
5653 | signals, core dumps, timeouts and watchdog timeouts, but | |
5654 | does not include clean and unclean exit codes or clean | |
5655 | signals. Restart=on-abnormal is an alternative for | |
5656 | Restart=on-failure for services that shall be able to | |
5657 | terminate and avoid restarts on certain errors, by | |
5658 | indicating so with an unclean exit code. Restart=on-failure | |
5659 | or Restart=on-abnormal is now the recommended setting for | |
5660 | all long-running services. | |
5661 | ||
5662 | * If the InaccessibleDirectories= service setting points to a | |
5663 | mount point (or if there are any submounts contained within | |
5664 | it), it is now attempted to completely unmount it, to make | |
5665 | the file systems truly unavailable for the respective | |
5666 | service. | |
5667 | ||
5668 | * The ReadOnlyDirectories= service setting and | |
5669 | systemd-nspawn's --read-only parameter are now recursively | |
5670 | applied to all submounts, too. | |
5671 | ||
5672 | * Mount units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs. | |
5673 | ||
5674 | * The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed | |
5675 | from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now | |
5676 | implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units | |
5677 | from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a | |
5678 | substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the | |
5679 | fact that many distributions only ship a very small number | |
5680 | of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays. | |
5681 | ||
cc98b302 | 5682 | * Privileged Xen (dom0) domains are not considered |
04e91da2 LP |
5683 | virtualization anymore by the virtualization detection |
5684 | logic. After all, they generally have unrestricted access to | |
71449caf | 5685 | the hardware and usually are used to manage the unprivileged |
04e91da2 LP |
5686 | (domU) domains. |
5687 | ||
5688 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new "C" line type, for copying | |
5689 | files or entire directories. | |
5690 | ||
5691 | * systemd-tmpfiles "m" lines are now fully equivalent to "z" | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
5692 | lines. So far, they have been non-globbing versions of the |
5693 | latter, and have thus been redundant. In future, it is | |
5694 | recommended to only use "z". "m" has hence been removed | |
04e91da2 LP |
5695 | from the documentation, even though it stays supported. |
5696 | ||
5697 | * A tmpfiles snippet to recreate the most basic structure in | |
5698 | /var has been added. This is enough to create the /var/run → | |
5699 | /run symlink and create a couple of structural | |
5700 | directories. This allows systems to boot up with an empty or | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
5701 | volatile /var. Of course, while with this change, the core OS |
5702 | now is capable with dealing with a volatile /var, not all | |
04e91da2 | 5703 | user services are ready for it. However, we hope that sooner |
8d0e0ddd | 5704 | or later, many service daemons will be changed upstream so |
04e91da2 LP |
5705 | that they are able to automatically create their necessary |
5706 | directories in /var at boot, should they be missing. This is | |
5707 | the first step to allow state-less systems that only require | |
5708 | the vendor image for /usr to boot. | |
5709 | ||
5710 | * systemd-nspawn has gained a new --tmpfs= switch to mount an | |
5711 | empty tmpfs instance to a specific directory. This is | |
5712 | particularly useful for making use of the automatic | |
5713 | reconstruction of /var (see above), by passing --tmpfs=/var. | |
5714 | ||
5715 | * Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be | |
5716 | prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked | |
daa05349 | 5717 | by whether the existing file or directory is currently |
8d0e0ddd | 5718 | writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified, |
04e91da2 LP |
5719 | the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all |
5720 | non-directories. | |
5721 | ||
5722 | * A new passive target unit "network-pre.target" has been | |
5723 | added which is useful for services that shall run before any | |
5724 | network is configured, for example firewall scripts. | |
5725 | ||
4c0d13bd LP |
5726 | * The "floppy" group that previously owned the /dev/fd* |
5727 | devices is no longer used. The "disk" group is now used | |
5728 | instead. Distributions should probably deprecate usage of | |
5729 | this group. | |
5730 | ||
dc1d6c02 LP |
5731 | Contributions from: Camilo Aguilar, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian |
5732 | King, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, David | |
5733 | Strauss, Denis Tikhomirov, John, Jonathan Liu, Kay Sievers, | |
5734 | Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mark Eichin, Ronny | |
5735 | Chevalier, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
5736 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew | |
5737 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
5738 | ||
ccddd104 | 5739 | — Berlin, 2014-06-11 |
dc1d6c02 | 5740 | |
6936cd89 LP |
5741 | CHANGES WITH 213: |
5742 | ||
5743 | * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for | |
69beda1f | 5744 | synchronizing the system clock across the network. It |
6936cd89 | 5745 | implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP |
8d0e0ddd | 5746 | implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server, |
6936cd89 | 5747 | this only implements a client side, and does not bother with |
c9679c65 LP |
5748 | the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from |
5749 | one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to | |
6936cd89 | 5750 | it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or |
8d0e0ddd | 5751 | want to connect to local hardware clocks, this simple NTP |
6936cd89 LP |
5752 | client should be more than appropriate for most |
5753 | installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and | |
5754 | has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when | |
5755 | network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the | |
5756 | current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been | |
5757 | acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock | |
69beda1f | 5758 | early at bootup, in order to accommodate for systems that |
6936cd89 | 5759 | lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, |
8d0e0ddd | 5760 | and to make sure that time monotonically progresses on these |
c9679c65 | 5761 | systems, even if it is not always correct. To make use of |
8d0e0ddd | 5762 | this daemon, a new system user and group "systemd-timesync" |
c9679c65 | 5763 | needs to be created on installation of systemd. |
6936cd89 | 5764 | |
69beda1f KS |
5765 | * The queue "seqnum" interface of libudev has been disabled, as |
5766 | it was generally incompatible with device namespacing as | |
6936cd89 LP |
5767 | sequence numbers of devices go "missing" if the devices are |
5768 | part of a different namespace. | |
5769 | ||
5770 | * "systemctl list-timers" and "systemctl list-sockets" gained | |
5771 | a --recursive switch for showing units of these types also | |
499b604b ZJS |
5772 | for all local containers, similar in style to the already |
5773 | supported --recursive switch for "systemctl list-units". | |
6936cd89 LP |
5774 | |
5775 | * A new RebootArgument= setting has been added for service | |
5776 | units, which may be used to specify a kernel reboot argument | |
499b604b | 5777 | to use when triggering reboots with StartLimitAction=. |
6936cd89 LP |
5778 | |
5779 | * A new FailureAction= setting has been added for service | |
5780 | units which may be used to specify an operation to trigger | |
499b604b | 5781 | when a service fails. This works similarly to |
8d0e0ddd | 5782 | StartLimitAction=, but unlike it, controls what is done |
6936cd89 LP |
5783 | immediately rather than only after several attempts to |
5784 | restart the service in question. | |
5785 | ||
5786 | * hostnamed got updated to also expose the kernel name, | |
499b604b ZJS |
5787 | release, and version on the bus. This is useful for |
5788 | executing commands like hostnamectl with the -H switch. | |
5789 | systemd-analyze makes use of this to properly display | |
5790 | details when running non-locally. | |
6936cd89 LP |
5791 | |
5792 | * The bootchart tool can now show cgroup information in the | |
5793 | graphs it generates. | |
5794 | ||
5795 | * The CFS CPU quota cgroup attribute is now exposed for | |
5796 | services. The new CPUQuota= switch has been added for this | |
5797 | which takes a percentage value. Setting this will have the | |
5798 | result that a service may never get more CPU time than the | |
5799 | specified percentage, even if the machine is otherwise idle. | |
5800 | ||
5801 | * systemd-networkd learned IPIP and SIT tunnel support. | |
5802 | ||
5803 | * LSB init scripts exposing a dependency on $network will now | |
5804 | get a dependency on network-online.target rather than simply | |
5805 | network.target. This should bring LSB handling closer to | |
5806 | what it was on SysV systems. | |
5807 | ||
5808 | * A new fsck.repair= kernel option has been added to control | |
5809 | how fsck shall deal with unclean file systems at boot. | |
5810 | ||
5811 | * The (.ini) configuration file parser will now silently | |
5812 | ignore sections whose name begins with "X-". This may be | |
5813 | used to maintain application-specific extension sections in unit | |
5814 | files. | |
5815 | ||
5816 | * machined gained a new API to query the IP addresses of | |
5817 | registered containers. "machinectl status" has been updated | |
5818 | to show these addresses in its output. | |
5819 | ||
5820 | * A new call sd_uid_get_display() has been added to the | |
5821 | sd-login APIs for querying the "primary" session of a | |
5822 | user. The "primary" session of the user is elected from the | |
5823 | user's sessions and generally a graphical session is | |
5824 | preferred over a text one. | |
5825 | ||
5826 | * A minimal systemd-resolved daemon has been added. It | |
5827 | currently simply acts as a companion to systemd-networkd and | |
5828 | manages resolv.conf based on per-interface DNS | |
5829 | configuration, possibly supplied via DHCP. In the long run | |
5830 | we hope to extend this into a local DNSSEC enabled DNS and | |
5831 | mDNS cache. | |
5832 | ||
68dd0956 TG |
5833 | * The systemd-networkd-wait-online tool is now enabled by |
5834 | default. It will delay network-online.target until a network | |
5835 | connection has been configured. The tool primarily integrates | |
5836 | with networkd, but will also make a best effort to make sense | |
5837 | of network configuration performed in some other way. | |
5838 | ||
6936cd89 | 5839 | * Two new service options StartupCPUShares= and |
499b604b | 5840 | StartupBlockIOWeight= have been added that work similarly to |
6936cd89 | 5841 | CPUShares= and BlockIOWeight= however only apply during |
69beda1f | 5842 | system startup. This is useful to prioritize certain services |
6936cd89 LP |
5843 | differently during bootup than during normal runtime. |
5844 | ||
8e7acf67 LP |
5845 | * hostnamed has been changed to prefer the statically |
5846 | configured hostname in /etc/hostname (unless set to | |
5847 | 'localhost' or empty) over any dynamic one supplied by | |
8d0e0ddd | 5848 | dhcp. With this change, the rules for picking the hostname |
8e7acf67 LP |
5849 | match more closely the rules of other configuration settings |
5850 | where the local administrator's configuration in /etc always | |
5851 | overrides any other settings. | |
5852 | ||
5853 | Contributions fron: Ali H. Caliskan, Alison Chaiken, Bas van | |
6936cd89 LP |
5854 | den Berg, Brandon Philips, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, |
5855 | Dan Kilman, Dave Reisner, David Härdeman, David Herrmann, | |
5856 | David Strauss, Dimitris Spingos, Djalal Harouni, Eelco | |
5857 | Dolstra, Evan Nemerson, Florian Albrechtskirchinger, Greg | |
5858 | Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan | |
5859 | Engelhardt, Jani Nikula, Jason St. John, Jeffrey Clark, | |
5860 | Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas | |
5861 | Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
8e7acf67 LP |
5862 | Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael |
5863 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Nis | |
5864 | Martensen, Patrik Flykt, Philip Lorenz, poma, Ray Strode, | |
5865 | Reyad Attiyat, Robert Milasan, Scott Thrasher, Stef Walter, | |
5866 | Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas Bächler, | |
5867 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar | |
5868 | Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Will Woods, Zbigniew | |
6936cd89 LP |
5869 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
5870 | ||
ccddd104 | 5871 | — Beijing, 2014-05-28 |
6936cd89 | 5872 | |
51c61cda LP |
5873 | CHANGES WITH 212: |
5874 | ||
5875 | * When restoring the screen brightness at boot, stay away from | |
5876 | the darkest setting or from the lowest 5% of the available | |
5877 | range, depending on which is the larger value of both. This | |
5878 | should effectively protect the user from rebooting into a | |
5879 | black screen, should the brightness have been set to minimum | |
5880 | by accident. | |
5881 | ||
5882 | * sd-login gained a new sd_machine_get_class() call to | |
5883 | determine the class ("vm" or "container") of a machine | |
5884 | registered with machined. | |
5885 | ||
5886 | * sd-login gained new calls | |
5887 | sd_peer_get_{session,owner_uid,unit,user_unit,slice,machine_name}(), | |
5888 | to query the identity of the peer of a local AF_UNIX | |
499b604b | 5889 | connection. They operate similarly to their sd_pid_get_xyz() |
51c61cda LP |
5890 | counterparts. |
5891 | ||
5892 | * PID 1 will now maintain a system-wide system state engine | |
5893 | with the states "starting", "running", "degraded", | |
5894 | "maintenance", "stopping". These states are bound to system | |
5895 | startup, normal runtime, runtime with at least one failed | |
5896 | service, rescue/emergency mode and system shutdown. This | |
5897 | state is shown in the "systemctl status" output when no unit | |
5898 | name is passed. It is useful to determine system state, in | |
5899 | particularly when doing so for many systems or containers at | |
5900 | once. | |
5901 | ||
5902 | * A new command "list-machines" has been added to "systemctl" | |
5903 | that lists all local OS containers and shows their system | |
5904 | state (see above), if systemd runs inside of them. | |
5905 | ||
5906 | * systemctl gained a new "-r" switch to recursively enumerate | |
5907 | units on all local containers, when used with the | |
5908 | "list-unit" command (which is the default one that is | |
5909 | executed when no parameters are specified). | |
5910 | ||
5911 | * The GPT automatic partition discovery logic will now honour | |
5912 | two GPT partition flags: one may be set on a partition to | |
5913 | cause it to be mounted read-only, and the other may be set | |
5914 | on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery. | |
5915 | ||
5916 | * Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root | |
70a44afe | 5917 | partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not |
51c61cda LP |
5918 | particularly useful for discovering the root directory on |
5919 | these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is | |
5920 | not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of | |
5921 | ARM disk images in nspawn with the -i option. | |
5922 | ||
5923 | * MAC addresses of interfaces created with nspawn's | |
5924 | --network-interface= switch will now be generated from the | |
5925 | machine name, and thus be stable between multiple invocations | |
5926 | of the container. | |
5927 | ||
5928 | * logind will now automatically remove all IPC objects owned | |
5929 | by a user if she or he fully logs out. This makes sure that | |
5930 | users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC | |
5931 | resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message | |
5932 | queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message | |
b8bde116 JE |
5933 | queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle |
5934 | limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may | |
5935 | be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. | |
51c61cda LP |
5936 | |
5937 | * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a | |
5938 | --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, | |
5939 | instead of /. | |
5940 | ||
5941 | * journald can now forward logged messages to the TTYs of all | |
5942 | logged in users ("wall"). This is the default for all | |
5943 | emergency messages now. | |
5944 | ||
5945 | * A new tool systemd-journal-remote has been added to stream | |
5946 | journal log messages across the network. | |
5947 | ||
5948 | * /sys/fs/cgroup/ is now mounted read-only after all cgroup | |
5949 | controller trees are mounted into it. Note that the | |
5950 | directories mounted beneath it are not read-only. This is a | |
5951 | security measure and is particularly useful because glibc | |
5952 | actually includes a search logic to pick any tmpfs it can | |
5953 | find to implement shm_open() if /dev/shm is not available | |
5954 | (which it might very well be in namespaced setups). | |
5955 | ||
5956 | * machinectl gained a new "poweroff" command to cleanly power | |
5957 | down a local OS container. | |
5958 | ||
5959 | * The PrivateDevices= unit file setting will now also drop the | |
5960 | CAP_MKNOD capability from the capability bound set, and | |
5961 | imply DevicePolicy=closed. | |
5962 | ||
5963 | * PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork= and PrivateTmp= is now used | |
5964 | comprehensively on all long-running systemd services where | |
5965 | this is appropriate. | |
5966 | ||
5967 | * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount | |
b8bde116 | 5968 | namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to |
51c61cda LP |
5969 | pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. |
5970 | ||
5971 | * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into | |
5972 | the kernel. sd-bus gained support for creating "monitoring" | |
5973 | connections that can eavesdrop into all bus communication | |
5974 | for debugging purposes. | |
5975 | ||
5976 | * Timestamps may now be specified in seconds since the UNIX | |
5977 | epoch Jan 1st, 1970 by specifying "@" followed by the value | |
5978 | in seconds. | |
5979 | ||
5980 | * Native tcpwrap support in systemd has been removed. tcpwrap | |
5981 | is old code, not really maintained anymore and has serious | |
5982 | shortcomings, and better options such as firewalls | |
5983 | exist. For setups that require tcpwrap usage, please | |
5984 | consider invoking your socket-activated service via tcpd, | |
5985 | like on traditional inetd. | |
5986 | ||
5987 | * A new system.conf configuration option | |
5988 | DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the | |
5989 | default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. | |
5990 | ||
b8bde116 | 5991 | * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
5992 | timers configured this way will cause the system to resume |
5993 | from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most | |
5994 | do these days). | |
5995 | ||
b8bde116 | 5996 | * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
5997 | timers configured this way will save to disk when they have |
5998 | been last triggered. This information is then used on next | |
5999 | reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that | |
d28315e4 JE |
6000 | could not take place because the system was powered off. |
6001 | This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. | |
51c61cda LP |
6002 | |
6003 | * systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a | |
6004 | timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time | |
6005 | it will be triggered. | |
6006 | ||
6007 | * systemd-networkd will now assign predictable IPv4LL | |
6008 | addresses to its local interfaces. | |
6009 | ||
6010 | Contributions from: Brandon Philips, Daniel Buch, Daniel Mack, | |
6011 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gerd Hoffmann, Greg | |
6012 | Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Jason St. John, Josh | |
6013 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marc-Antoine | |
6014 | Perennou, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Miklos Vajna, | |
6015 | Patrik Flykt, poma, Sebastian Thorarensen, Thomas Bächler, | |
6016 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, | |
6017 | Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Wieland Hoffmann, Zbigniew | |
6018 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6019 | ||
ccddd104 | 6020 | — Berlin, 2014-03-25 |
51c61cda | 6021 | |
699b6b34 LP |
6022 | CHANGES WITH 211: |
6023 | ||
6024 | * A new unit file setting RestrictAddressFamilies= has been | |
6025 | added to restrict which socket address families unit | |
6026 | processes gain access to. This takes address family names | |
6027 | like "AF_INET" or "AF_UNIX", and is useful to minimize the | |
6028 | attack surface of services via exotic protocol stacks. This | |
6029 | is built on seccomp system call filters. | |
6030 | ||
6031 | * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and | |
6032 | RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to | |
6033 | manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is | |
6034 | an alternative for setting up directory permissions with | |
6035 | tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime | |
6036 | directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that | |
6037 | the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This | |
6038 | is particularly useful when writing services that drop | |
f1721625 | 6039 | privileges using the User= or Group= setting. |
699b6b34 LP |
6040 | |
6041 | * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports globbing for | |
6042 | matching against device group names. | |
6043 | ||
6044 | * The systemd configuration file system.conf gained new | |
6045 | settings DefaultCPUAccounting=, DefaultBlockIOAccounting=, | |
6046 | DefaultMemoryAccounting= to globally turn on/off accounting | |
6047 | for specific resources (cgroups) for all units. These | |
22e7062d | 6048 | settings may still be overridden individually in each unit |
699b6b34 LP |
6049 | though. |
6050 | ||
6051 | * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and | |
6052 | root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It | |
6053 | also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in | |
b8bde116 | 6054 | place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following |
699b6b34 | 6055 | the Discoverable Partitions Specification |
56cadcb6 | 6056 | (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) |
699b6b34 LP |
6057 | is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without |
6058 | /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on | |
b8bde116 | 6059 | systems prepared appropriately. |
699b6b34 LP |
6060 | |
6061 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows | |
6062 | booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block | |
6063 | device that follow the Discoverable Partitions Specification | |
6064 | (see above). This means that installations made with | |
6065 | appropriately updated installers may now be started and | |
6066 | deployed using container managers, completely | |
6067 | unmodified. (We hope that libvirt-lxc will add support for | |
6068 | this feature soon, too.) | |
6069 | ||
6070 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-macvlan= setting to | |
6071 | set up a private macvlan interface for the | |
499b604b | 6072 | container. Similarly, systemd-networkd gained a new |
699b6b34 LP |
6073 | Kind=macvlan setting in .netdev files. |
6074 | ||
6075 | * systemd-networkd now supports configuring local addresses | |
6076 | using IPv4LL. | |
6077 | ||
6078 | * A new tool systemd-network-wait-online has been added to | |
6079 | synchronously wait for network connectivity using | |
6080 | systemd-networkd. | |
6081 | ||
6082 | * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for | |
6083 | tracking the life-cycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is | |
6084 | still not a public API though (unless you specify | |
6085 | --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however | |
6086 | voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee). | |
6087 | ||
6088 | * The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runtime directories for each user are | |
6089 | now individual tmpfs instances, which has the benefit of | |
6090 | introducing separate pools for each user, with individual | |
4ef6e535 | 6091 | size limits, and thus making sure that unprivileged clients |
699b6b34 LP |
6092 | can no longer negatively impact the system or other users by |
6093 | filling up their $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. A new logind.conf setting | |
6094 | RuntimeDirectorySize= has been introduced that allows | |
6095 | controlling the default size limit for all users. It | |
6096 | defaults to 10% of the available physical memory. This is no | |
6097 | replacement for quotas on tmpfs though (which the kernel | |
6098 | still does not support), as /dev/shm and /tmp are still | |
4ef6e535 | 6099 | shared resources used by both the system and unprivileged |
699b6b34 LP |
6100 | users. |
6101 | ||
6102 | * logind will now automatically turn off automatic suspending | |
6103 | on laptop lid close when more than one display is | |
6104 | connected. This was previously expected to be implemented | |
6105 | individually in desktop environments (such as GNOME), | |
6106 | however has been added to logind now, in order to fix a | |
6107 | boot-time race where a desktop environment might not have | |
6108 | been started yet and thus not been able to take an inhibitor | |
6109 | lock at the time where logind already suspends the system | |
6110 | due to a closed lid. | |
6111 | ||
6112 | * logind will now wait at least 30s after each system | |
6113 | suspend/resume cycle, and 3min after system boot before | |
6114 | suspending the system due to a closed laptop lid. This | |
6115 | should give USB docking stations and similar enough time to | |
4ef6e535 | 6116 | be probed and configured after system resume and boot in |
699b6b34 LP |
6117 | order to then act as suspend blocker. |
6118 | ||
6119 | * systemd-run gained a new --property= setting which allows | |
6120 | initialization of resource control properties (and others) | |
6121 | for the created scope or service unit. Example: "systemd-run | |
6122 | --property=BlockIOWeight=10 updatedb" may be used to run | |
6123 | updatedb at a low block IO scheduling weight. | |
6124 | ||
6125 | * systemd-run's --uid=, --gid=, --setenv=, --setenv= switches | |
6126 | now also work in --scope mode. | |
6127 | ||
6128 | * When systemd is compiled with kdbus support, basic support | |
6129 | for enforced policies is now in place. (Note that enabling | |
6130 | kdbus still voids your warranty and no API compatibility | |
6131 | promises are made.) | |
6132 | ||
6133 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Ansgar Burchardt, Armin | |
6134 | K., Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, | |
6135 | Harald Hoyer, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jasper St. Pierre, Kay | |
6136 | Sievers, Kieran Clancy, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
6137 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Mark Oteiza, Martin Pitt, | |
6138 | Mike Gilbert, Peter Rajnoha, poma, Samuli Suominen, Stef | |
6139 | Walter, Susant Sahani, Tero Roponen, Thomas Andersen, Thomas | |
6140 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom | |
6141 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zachary Cook, | |
6142 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6143 | ||
ccddd104 | 6144 | — Berlin, 2014-03-12 |
699b6b34 | 6145 | |
43c71255 LP |
6146 | CHANGES WITH 210: |
6147 | ||
6148 | * systemd will now relabel /dev after loading the SMACK policy | |
6149 | according to SMACK rules. | |
6150 | ||
67dd87c5 | 6151 | * A new unit file option AppArmorProfile= has been added to |
43c71255 LP |
6152 | set the AppArmor profile for the processes of a unit. |
6153 | ||
6154 | * A new condition check ConditionArchitecture= has been added | |
6155 | to conditionalize units based on the system architecture, as | |
6156 | reported by uname()'s "machine" field. | |
6157 | ||
6158 | * systemd-networkd now supports matching on the system | |
6159 | virtualization, architecture, kernel command line, host name | |
6160 | and machine ID. | |
6161 | ||
ed28905e | 6162 | * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the |
43c71255 | 6163 | machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only |
b8bde116 | 6164 | on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid |
43c71255 LP |
6165 | status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the |
6166 | power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can | |
ed28905e | 6167 | be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo |
b8bde116 | 6168 | Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately |
ed28905e | 6169 | re-suspend the machine if the power button has been |
43c71255 LP |
6170 | accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a |
6171 | backpack or similar. | |
6172 | ||
6173 | * logind will now watch SW_DOCK switches and inhibit reaction | |
6174 | to the lid switch if it is pressed. This means that logind | |
d27893ef | 6175 | will not suspend the machine anymore if the lid is closed |
949138cc | 6176 | and the system is docked, if the laptop supports SW_DOCK |
43c71255 LP |
6177 | notifications via the input layer. Note that ACPI docking |
6178 | stations do not generate this currently. Also note that this | |
6179 | logic is usually not fully sufficient and Desktop | |
6180 | Environments should take a lid switch inhibitor lock when an | |
6181 | external display is connected, as systemd will not watch | |
6182 | this on its own. | |
6183 | ||
6184 | * nspawn will now make use of the devices cgroup controller by | |
6185 | default, and only permit creation of and access to the usual | |
6186 | API device nodes like /dev/null or /dev/random, as well as | |
6187 | access to (but not creation of) the pty devices. | |
6188 | ||
6189 | * We will now ship a default .network file for | |
6190 | systemd-networkd that automatically configures DHCP for | |
6191 | network interfaces created by nspawn's --network-veth or | |
6192 | --network-bridge= switches. | |
6193 | ||
6194 | * systemd will now understand the usual M, K, G, T suffixes | |
6195 | according to SI conventions (i.e. to the base 1000) when | |
6196 | referring to throughput and hardware metrics. It will stay | |
6197 | with IEC conventions (i.e. to the base 1024) for software | |
6198 | metrics, according to what is customary according to | |
6199 | Wikipedia. We explicitly document which base applies for | |
6200 | each configuration option. | |
6201 | ||
6202 | * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax | |
ed28905e | 6203 | to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, |
43c71255 | 6204 | based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the |
b8bde116 | 6205 | string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all |
43c71255 LP |
6206 | current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. |
6207 | ||
6208 | * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of | |
6209 | this type are triggered by the dispatching of any event | |
6210 | source of a type that is not "post". This is useful for | |
6211 | implementing clean-up and check event sources that are | |
6212 | triggered by other work being done in the program. | |
6213 | ||
6214 | * systemd-networkd is no longer statically enabled, but uses | |
6215 | the usual [Install] sections so that it can be | |
6216 | enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by | |
6217 | default however. | |
6218 | ||
b8bde116 | 6219 | * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the |
43c71255 LP |
6220 | host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if |
6221 | --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth | |
b8bde116 | 6222 | is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on |
43c71255 LP |
6223 | the host, for example to apply different configuration to |
6224 | them with systemd-networkd. | |
6225 | ||
d27893ef LP |
6226 | * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, |
6227 | libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and | |
6228 | libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC | |
b8bde116 | 6229 | anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times |
d27893ef LP |
6230 | under these alternative names. This means that the footprint |
6231 | is drastically increased, but given that these are | |
b8bde116 | 6232 | transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter |
d27893ef LP |
6233 | much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM |
6234 | platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM | |
d28315e4 | 6235 | toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain |
ed28905e | 6236 | for other architectures like x86 and does not support |
d27893ef LP |
6237 | IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only |
6238 | during a transitional period! | |
6239 | ||
13b28d82 | 6240 | Contributions from: Andreas Fuchs, Armin K., Colin Walters, |
43c71255 LP |
6241 | Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, |
6242 | Holger Schurig, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason St. John, Jasper | |
6243 | St. Pierre, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Łukasz Stelmach, | |
6244 | Marcel Holtmann, Michael Scherer, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
6245 | Gilbert, Samuli Suominen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
6246 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, | |
6247 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6248 | ||
ccddd104 | 6249 | — Berlin, 2014-02-24 |
43c71255 | 6250 | |
e49b5aad LP |
6251 | CHANGES WITH 209: |
6252 | ||
6253 | * A new component "systemd-networkd" has been added that can | |
6254 | be used to configure local network interfaces statically or | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6255 | via DHCP. It is capable of bringing up bridges, VLANs, and |
6256 | bonding. Currently, no hook-ups for interactive network | |
4670e9d5 | 6257 | configuration are provided. Use this for your initrd, |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6258 | container, embedded, or server setup if you need a simple, |
6259 | yet powerful, network configuration solution. This | |
4670e9d5 | 6260 | configuration subsystem is quite nifty, as it allows wildcard |
1e190502 | 6261 | hotplug matching in interfaces. For example, with a single |
4670e9d5 | 6262 | configuration snippet, you can configure that all Ethernet |
1e190502 ZJS |
6263 | interfaces showing up are automatically added to a bridge, |
6264 | or similar. It supports link-sensing and more. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6265 | |
6266 | * A new tool "systemd-socket-proxyd" has been added which can | |
4c2413bf | 6267 | act as a bidirectional proxy for TCP sockets. This is |
e49b5aad LP |
6268 | useful for adding socket activation support to services that |
6269 | do not actually support socket activation, including virtual | |
4c2413bf | 6270 | machines and the like. |
e49b5aad LP |
6271 | |
6272 | * Add a new tool to save/restore rfkill state on | |
6273 | shutdown/boot. | |
6274 | ||
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6275 | * Save/restore state of keyboard backlights in addition to |
6276 | display backlights on shutdown/boot. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6277 | |
6278 | * udev learned a new SECLABEL{} construct to label device | |
6279 | nodes with a specific security label when they appear. For | |
4c2413bf | 6280 | now, only SECLABEL{selinux} is supported, but the syntax is |
e49b5aad LP |
6281 | prepared for additional security frameworks. |
6282 | ||
6283 | * udev gained a new scheme to configure link-level attributes | |
6284 | from files in /etc/systemd/network/*.link. These files can | |
8b7d0494 | 6285 | match against MAC address, device path, driver name and type, |
4c2413bf | 6286 | and will apply attributes like the naming policy, link speed, |
8b7d0494 | 6287 | MTU, duplex settings, Wake-on-LAN settings, MAC address, MAC |
e49b5aad LP |
6288 | address assignment policy (randomized, ...). |
6289 | ||
dfb08b05 ZJS |
6290 | * The configuration of network interface naming rules for |
6291 | "permanent interface names" has changed: a new NamePolicy= | |
6292 | setting in the [Link] section of .link files determines the | |
a8eaaee7 | 6293 | priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, MAC, |
dfb08b05 ZJS |
6294 | path). The default value of this setting is determined by |
6295 | /usr/lib/net/links/99-default.link. Old | |
6296 | 80-net-name-slot.rules udev configuration file has been | |
6297 | removed, so local configuration overriding this file should | |
ce830873 | 6298 | be adapted to override 99-default.link instead. |
dfb08b05 | 6299 | |
e49b5aad | 6300 | * When the User= switch is used in a unit file, also |
4c2413bf | 6301 | initialize $SHELL= based on the user database entry. |
e49b5aad LP |
6302 | |
6303 | * systemd no longer depends on libdbus. All communication is | |
6304 | now done with sd-bus, systemd's low-level bus library | |
6305 | implementation. | |
6306 | ||
6307 | * kdbus support has been added to PID 1 itself. When kdbus is | |
4c2413bf | 6308 | enabled, this causes PID 1 to set up the system bus and |
e49b5aad LP |
6309 | enable support for a new ".busname" unit type that |
6310 | encapsulates bus name activation on kdbus. It works a little | |
6311 | bit like ".socket" units, except for bus names. A new | |
6312 | generator has been added that converts classic dbus1 service | |
6313 | activation files automatically into native systemd .busname | |
6314 | and .service units. | |
6315 | ||
6316 | * sd-bus: add a light-weight vtable implementation that allows | |
6317 | defining objects on the bus with a simple static const | |
6318 | vtable array of its methods, signals and properties. | |
6319 | ||
8b7d0494 | 6320 | * systemd will not generate or install static dbus |
e49b5aad | 6321 | introspection data anymore to /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces, |
1e190502 | 6322 | as the precise format of these files is unclear, and |
e49b5aad LP |
6323 | nothing makes use of it. |
6324 | ||
6325 | * A proxy daemon is now provided to proxy clients connecting | |
6326 | via classic D-Bus AF_UNIX sockets to kdbus, to provide full | |
6327 | compatibility with classic D-Bus. | |
6328 | ||
6329 | * A bus driver implementation has been added that supports the | |
6330 | classic D-Bus bus driver calls on kdbus, also for | |
6331 | compatibility purposes. | |
6332 | ||
6333 | * A new API "sd-event.h" has been added that implements a | |
6334 | minimal event loop API built around epoll. It provides a | |
6335 | couple of features that direct epoll usage is lacking: | |
b9761003 | 6336 | prioritization of events, scales to large numbers of timer |
e49b5aad LP |
6337 | events, per-event timer slack (accuracy), system-wide |
6338 | coalescing of timer events, exit handlers, watchdog | |
6339 | supervision support using systemd's sd_notify() API, child | |
6340 | process handling. | |
6341 | ||
6342 | * A new API "sd-rntl.h" has been added that provides an API | |
6343 | around the route netlink interface of the kernel, similar in | |
6344 | style to "sd-bus.h". | |
6345 | ||
7e95eda5 PF |
6346 | * A new API "sd-dhcp-client.h" has been added that provides a |
6347 | small DHCPv4 client-side implementation. This is used by | |
e49b5aad LP |
6348 | "systemd-networkd". |
6349 | ||
4c2413bf | 6350 | * There is a new kernel command line option |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6351 | "systemd.restore_state=0|1". When set to "0", none of the |
6352 | systemd tools will restore saved runtime state to hardware | |
6353 | devices. More specifically, the rfkill and backlight states | |
6354 | are not restored. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6355 | |
6356 | * The FsckPassNo= compatibility option in mount/service units | |
6357 | has been removed. The fstab generator will now add the | |
6358 | necessary dependencies automatically, and does not require | |
6359 | PID1's support for that anymore. | |
6360 | ||
8b7d0494 | 6361 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --list-boots, that lists |
e49b5aad LP |
6362 | recent boots with their times and boot IDs. |
6363 | ||
6364 | * The various tools like systemctl, loginctl, timedatectl, | |
6365 | busctl, systemd-run, ... have gained a new switch "-M" to | |
6366 | connect to a specific, local OS container (as direct | |
6367 | connection, without requiring SSH). This works on any | |
6368 | container that is registered with machined, such as those | |
6369 | created by libvirt-lxc or nspawn. | |
6370 | ||
6371 | * systemd-run and systemd-analyze also gained support for "-H" | |
4c2413bf | 6372 | to connect to remote hosts via SSH. This is particularly |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6373 | useful for systemd-run because it enables queuing of jobs |
6374 | onto remote systems. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6375 | |
6376 | * machinectl gained a new command "login" to open a getty | |
6377 | login in any local container. This works with any container | |
6378 | that is registered with machined (such as those created by | |
8e420494 | 6379 | libvirt-lxc or nspawn), and which runs systemd inside. |
e49b5aad LP |
6380 | |
6381 | * machinectl gained a new "reboot" command that may be used to | |
6382 | trigger a reboot on a specific container that is registered | |
6383 | with machined. This works on any container that runs an init | |
6384 | system of some kind. | |
6385 | ||
6386 | * systemctl gained a new "list-timers" command to print a nice | |
6387 | listing of installed timer units with the times they elapse | |
6388 | next. | |
6389 | ||
6390 | * Alternative reboot() parameters may now be specified on the | |
6391 | "systemctl reboot" command line and are passed to the | |
6392 | reboot() system call. | |
6393 | ||
6394 | * systemctl gained a new --job-mode= switch to configure the | |
6395 | mode to queue a job with. This is a more generic version of | |
8b7d0494 | 6396 | --fail, --irreversible, and --ignore-dependencies, which are |
e49b5aad LP |
6397 | still available but not advertised anymore. |
6398 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
6399 | * /etc/systemd/system.conf gained new settings to configure |
6400 | various default timeouts of units, as well as the default | |
b9761003 | 6401 | start limit interval and burst. These may still be overridden |
e49b5aad LP |
6402 | within each Unit. |
6403 | ||
270f1624 LP |
6404 | * PID1 will now export on the bus profile data of the security |
6405 | policy upload process (such as the SELinux policy upload to | |
8e420494 | 6406 | the kernel). |
e49b5aad | 6407 | |
4670e9d5 | 6408 | * journald: when forwarding logs to the console, include |
1e190502 ZJS |
6409 | timestamps (following the setting in |
6410 | /sys/module/printk/parameters/time). | |
e49b5aad LP |
6411 | |
6412 | * OnCalendar= in timer units now understands the special | |
6413 | strings "yearly" and "annually". (Both are equivalent) | |
6414 | ||
6415 | * The accuracy of timer units is now configurable with the new | |
6416 | AccuracySec= setting. It defaults to 1min. | |
6417 | ||
6418 | * A new dependency type JoinsNamespaceOf= has been added that | |
6419 | allows running two services within the same /tmp and network | |
6420 | namespace, if PrivateNetwork= or PrivateTmp= are used. | |
6421 | ||
6422 | * A new command "cat" has been added to systemctl. It outputs | |
6423 | the original unit file of a unit, and concatenates the | |
1e190502 ZJS |
6424 | contents of additional "drop-in" unit file snippets, so that |
6425 | the full configuration is shown. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6426 | |
6427 | * systemctl now supports globbing on the various "list-xyz" | |
6428 | commands, like "list-units" or "list-sockets", as well as on | |
1e190502 ZJS |
6429 | those commands which take multiple unit names. |
6430 | ||
6431 | * journalctl's --unit= switch gained support for globbing. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6432 | |
6433 | * All systemd daemons now make use of the watchdog logic so | |
6434 | that systemd automatically notices when they hang. | |
6435 | ||
4c2413bf | 6436 | * If the $container_ttys environment variable is set, |
e49b5aad LP |
6437 | getty-generator will automatically spawn a getty for each |
6438 | listed tty. This is useful for container managers to request | |
6439 | login gettys to be spawned on as many ttys as needed. | |
6440 | ||
6441 | * %h, %s, %U specifier support is not available anymore when | |
6442 | used in unit files for PID 1. This is because NSS calls are | |
6443 | not safe from PID 1. They stay available for --user | |
6444 | instances of systemd, and as special case for the root user. | |
6445 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
6446 | * loginctl gained a new "--no-legend" switch to turn off output |
6447 | of the legend text. | |
6448 | ||
6449 | * The "sd-login.h" API gained three new calls: | |
6450 | sd_session_is_remote(), sd_session_get_remote_user(), | |
6451 | sd_session_get_remote_host() to query information about | |
6452 | remote sessions. | |
6453 | ||
8e420494 LP |
6454 | * The udev hardware database now also carries vendor/product |
6455 | information of SDIO devices. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6456 | |
6457 | * The "sd-daemon.h" API gained a new sd_watchdog_enabled() to | |
6458 | determine whether watchdog notifications are requested by | |
6459 | the system manager. | |
6460 | ||
1e190502 | 6461 | * Socket-activated per-connection services now include a |
e49b5aad LP |
6462 | short description of the connection parameters in the |
6463 | description. | |
6464 | ||
4c2413bf | 6465 | * tmpfiles gained a new "--boot" option. When this is not used, |
e49b5aad | 6466 | only lines where the command character is not suffixed with |
4670e9d5 | 6467 | "!" are executed. When this option is specified, those |
1e190502 ZJS |
6468 | options are executed too. This partitions tmpfiles |
6469 | directives into those that can be safely executed at any | |
6470 | time, and those which should be run only at boot (for | |
6471 | example, a line that creates /run/nologin). | |
e49b5aad | 6472 | |
c0c5af00 | 6473 | * A new API "sd-resolve.h" has been added which provides a simple |
4c2413bf | 6474 | asynchronous wrapper around glibc NSS host name resolution |
e49b5aad | 6475 | calls, such as getaddrinfo(). In contrast to glibc's |
4c2413bf JE |
6476 | getaddrinfo_a(), it does not use signals. In contrast to most |
6477 | other asynchronous name resolution libraries, this one does | |
6478 | not reimplement DNS, but reuses NSS, so that alternate | |
e49b5aad | 6479 | host name resolution systems continue to work, such as mDNS, |
8b7d0494 | 6480 | LDAP, etc. This API is based on libasyncns, but it has been |
e49b5aad LP |
6481 | cleaned up for inclusion in systemd. |
6482 | ||
6300b3ec LP |
6483 | * The APIs "sd-journal.h", "sd-login.h", "sd-id128.h", |
6484 | "sd-daemon.h" are no longer found in individual libraries | |
6485 | libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-login.so, | |
6486 | libsystemd-id128.so, libsystemd-daemon.so. Instead, we have | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6487 | merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which |
6488 | provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic | |
e49b5aad | 6489 | dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's |
d28315e4 | 6490 | symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking |
6300b3ec LP |
6491 | a copy of a good part of our code into each of these |
6492 | libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain | |
6493 | things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it | |
6494 | substantially increases footprint. With this change, there | |
6495 | is only one library for the basic APIs systemd | |
6496 | provides. Also, "sd-bus.h", "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", | |
6497 | "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", "sd-utf8.h" are found in this | |
6498 | library as well, however are subject to the --enable-kdbus | |
6499 | switch (see below). Note that "sd-dhcp-client.h" is not part | |
6500 | of this library (this is because it only consumes, never | |
6501 | provides, services of/to other APIs). To make the transition | |
8b7d0494 | 6502 | easy from the separate libraries to the unified one, we |
4c2413bf | 6503 | provide the --enable-compat-libs compile-time switch which |
e49b5aad LP |
6504 | will generate stub libraries that are compatible with the |
6505 | old ones but redirect all calls to the new one. | |
6506 | ||
8b7d0494 | 6507 | * All of the kdbus logic and the new APIs "sd-bus.h", |
e49b5aad | 6508 | "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6509 | and "sd-utf8.h" are compile-time optional via the |
6510 | "--enable-kdbus" switch, and they are not compiled in by | |
6511 | default. To make use of kdbus, you have to explicitly enable | |
4c2413bf | 6512 | the switch. Note however, that neither the kernel nor the |
e49b5aad LP |
6513 | userspace API for all of this is considered stable yet. We |
6514 | want to maintain the freedom to still change the APIs for | |
4c2413bf | 6515 | now. By specifying this build-time switch, you acknowledge |
e49b5aad | 6516 | that you are aware of the instability of the current |
ad42cf73 KS |
6517 | APIs. |
6518 | ||
6519 | * Also, note that while kdbus is pretty much complete, | |
e49b5aad | 6520 | it lacks one thing: proper policy support. This means you |
8b7d0494 | 6521 | can build a fully working system with all features; however, |
4c2413bf JE |
6522 | it will be highly insecure. Policy support will be added in |
6523 | one of the next releases, at the same time that we will | |
6524 | declare the APIs stable. | |
e49b5aad | 6525 | |
81c7dd89 | 6526 | * When the kernel command line argument "kdbus" is specified, |
ad42cf73 | 6527 | systemd will automatically load the kdbus.ko kernel module. At |
8b7d0494 | 6528 | this stage of development, it is only useful for testing kdbus |
ad42cf73 | 6529 | and should not be used in production. Note: if "--enable-kdbus" |
8b7d0494 | 6530 | is specified, and the kdbus.ko kernel module is available, and |
ad42cf73 KS |
6531 | "kdbus" is added to the kernel command line, the entire system |
6532 | runs with kdbus instead of dbus-daemon, with the above mentioned | |
6533 | problem of missing the system policy enforcement. Also a future | |
6534 | version of kdbus.ko or a newer systemd will not be compatible with | |
6535 | each other, and will unlikely be able to boot the machine if only | |
6536 | one of them is updated. | |
6537 | ||
e49b5aad | 6538 | * systemctl gained a new "import-environment" command which |
4c2413bf | 6539 | uploads the caller's environment (or parts thereof) into the |
e49b5aad LP |
6540 | service manager so that it is inherited by services started |
6541 | by the manager. This is useful to upload variables like | |
6542 | $DISPLAY into the user service manager. | |
6543 | ||
6544 | * A new PrivateDevices= switch has been added to service units | |
6545 | which allows running a service with a namespaced /dev | |
6546 | directory that does not contain any device nodes for | |
4c2413bf | 6547 | physical devices. More specifically, it only includes devices |
8b7d0494 | 6548 | such as /dev/null, /dev/urandom, and /dev/zero which are API |
e49b5aad LP |
6549 | entry points. |
6550 | ||
6551 | * logind has been extended to support behaviour like VT | |
6552 | switching on seats that do not support a VT. This makes | |
6553 | multi-session available on seats that are not the first seat | |
6554 | (seat0), and on systems where kernel support for VTs has | |
8b7d0494 | 6555 | been disabled at compile-time. |
e49b5aad LP |
6556 | |
6557 | * If a process holds a delay lock for system sleep or shutdown | |
1e190502 | 6558 | and fails to release it in time, we will now log its |
e49b5aad LP |
6559 | identity. This makes it easier to identify processes that |
6560 | cause slow suspends or power-offs. | |
6561 | ||
1e190502 ZJS |
6562 | * When parsing /etc/crypttab, support for a new key-slot= |
6563 | option as supported by Debian is added. It allows indicating | |
6564 | which LUKS slot to use on disk, speeding up key loading. | |
e49b5aad | 6565 | |
000b1ba5 | 6566 | * The sd_journal_sendv() API call has been checked and |
1e190502 ZJS |
6567 | officially declared to be async-signal-safe so that it may |
6568 | be invoked from signal handlers for logging purposes. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6569 | |
6570 | * Boot-time status output is now enabled automatically after a | |
6571 | short timeout if boot does not progress, in order to give | |
8e420494 | 6572 | the user an indication what she or he is waiting for. |
1e190502 ZJS |
6573 | |
6574 | * The boot-time output has been improved to show how much time | |
6575 | remains until jobs expire. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6576 | |
6577 | * The KillMode= switch in service units gained a new possible | |
8b7d0494 | 6578 | value "mixed". If set, and the unit is shut down, then the |
e49b5aad | 6579 | initial SIGTERM signal is sent only to the main daemon |
8e420494 | 6580 | process, while the following SIGKILL signal is sent to |
e49b5aad LP |
6581 | all remaining processes of the service. |
6582 | ||
4c2413bf JE |
6583 | * When a scope unit is registered, a new property "Controller" |
6584 | may be set. If set to a valid bus name, systemd will send a | |
e49b5aad LP |
6585 | RequestStop() signal to this name when it would like to shut |
6586 | down the scope. This may be used to hook manager logic into | |
6587 | the shutdown logic of scope units. Also, scope units may now | |
8b7d0494 | 6588 | be put in a special "abandoned" state, in which case the |
e49b5aad LP |
6589 | manager process which created them takes no further |
6590 | responsibilities for it. | |
6591 | ||
1e190502 | 6592 | * When reading unit files, systemd will now verify |
e49b5aad LP |
6593 | the access mode of these files, and warn about certain |
6594 | suspicious combinations. This has been added to make it | |
6595 | easier to track down packaging bugs where unit files are | |
6596 | marked executable or world-writable. | |
6597 | ||
6598 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new "--setenv=" switch to set | |
8b7d0494 | 6599 | container-wide environment variables. The similar option in |
1e190502 ZJS |
6600 | systemd-activate was renamed from "--environment=" to |
6601 | "--setenv=" for consistency. | |
e49b5aad LP |
6602 | |
6603 | * systemd-nspawn has been updated to create a new kdbus domain | |
6604 | for each container that is invoked, thus allowing each | |
b9761003 | 6605 | container to have its own set of system and user buses, |
8b7d0494 | 6606 | independent of the host. |
e49b5aad LP |
6607 | |
6608 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --drop-capability= switch to run | |
6609 | the container with less capabilities than the default. Both | |
b9761003 | 6610 | --drop-capability= and --capability= now take the special |
e49b5aad LP |
6611 | string "all" for dropping or keeping all capabilities. |
6612 | ||
6613 | * systemd-nspawn gained new switches for executing containers | |
6614 | with specific SELinux labels set. | |
6615 | ||
6616 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --quiet switch to not generate | |
6617 | any additional output but the container's own console | |
6618 | output. | |
6619 | ||
6620 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --share-system switch to run a | |
6621 | container without PID namespacing enabled. | |
6622 | ||
6623 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --register= switch to control | |
1e190502 | 6624 | whether the container is registered with systemd-machined or |
8e420494 | 6625 | not. This is useful for containers that do not run full |
e49b5aad LP |
6626 | OS images, but only specific apps. |
6627 | ||
6628 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --keep-unit which may be used | |
8b7d0494 | 6629 | when invoked as the only program from a service unit, and |
e49b5aad | 6630 | results in registration of the unit service itself in |
1e190502 | 6631 | systemd-machined, instead of a newly opened scope unit. |
e49b5aad LP |
6632 | |
6633 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-interface= switch for | |
6634 | moving arbitrary interfaces to the container. The new | |
4c2413bf | 6635 | --network-veth switch creates a virtual Ethernet connection |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6636 | between host and container. The new --network-bridge= |
6637 | switch then allows assigning the host side of this virtual | |
6638 | Ethernet connection to a bridge device. | |
e49b5aad | 6639 | |
6afc95b7 LP |
6640 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for |
6641 | setting the kernel personality for the container. This is | |
70a44afe | 6642 | useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A |
b8bde116 JE |
6643 | similar option Personality= is now also available for service |
6644 | units to use. | |
6afc95b7 | 6645 | |
e49b5aad LP |
6646 | * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each |
6647 | session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is | |
6648 | useful for desktop environments that want to identify | |
6649 | multiple running sessions of itself easily. | |
6650 | ||
6651 | * A new SELinuxContext= setting for service units has been | |
6652 | added that allows setting a specific SELinux execution | |
6653 | context for a service. | |
6654 | ||
6655 | * Most systemd client tools will now honour $SYSTEMD_LESS for | |
6656 | settings of the "less" pager. By default, these tools will | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
6657 | override $LESS to allow certain operations to work, such as |
6658 | jump-to-the-end. With $SYSTEMD_LESS, it is possible to | |
e49b5aad LP |
6659 | influence this logic. |
6660 | ||
6661 | * systemd's "seccomp" hook-up has been changed to make use of | |
6662 | the libseccomp library instead of using its own | |
6663 | implementation. This has benefits for portability among | |
6664 | other things. | |
6665 | ||
4c2413bf | 6666 | * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new |
8b7d0494 | 6667 | SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that |
b8bde116 JE |
6668 | allows configuration of a system error number to be returned |
6669 | on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the | |
e49b5aad LP |
6670 | process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to |
6671 | limit access to system calls of a particular architecture | |
6672 | (in order to turn off support for unused secondary | |
4c2413bf | 6673 | architectures). There is also a global |
8b7d0494 | 6674 | SystemCallArchitectures= setting in system.conf now to turn |
e49b5aad LP |
6675 | off support for non-native system calls system-wide. |
6676 | ||
210054d7 KS |
6677 | * systemd requires a kernel with a working name_to_handle_at(), |
6678 | please see the kernel config requirements in the README file. | |
6679 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
6680 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alex Jia, Anatol Pomozov, |
6681 | Ansgar Burchardt, AppleBloom, Auke Kok, Bastien Nocera, | |
6682 | Chengwei Yang, Christian Seiler, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
6683 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniele Medri, Daniel J | |
6684 | Walsh, Daniel Mack, Dan McGee, Dave Reisner, David Coppa, | |
6685 | David Herrmann, David Strauss, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry Pisklov, | |
6686 | Elia Pinto, Florian Weimer, George McCollister, Goffredo | |
6687 | Baroncelli, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Igor | |
6688 | Zhbanov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
6689 | Jason St. John, Jasper St. Pierre, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson, Jose | |
6690 | Ignacio Naranjo, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kristian Høgsberg, | |
6691 | Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
6692 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
6693 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Felipe Rasia de | |
6694 | Mello, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael | |
6695 | Marineau, Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, | |
6696 | Michele Curti, Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, | |
6697 | Pavel Holica, Raudi, Richard Marko, Ronny Chevalier, Sébastien | |
6698 | Luttringer, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, | |
6699 | Stefan Beller, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefeve, Sylvia Else, | |
6700 | Tero Roponen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
6701 | Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Unai Uribarri, Václav | |
6702 | Pavlín, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, William Giokas, Yang | |
6703 | Zhiyong, Yin Kangkai, Yuxuan Shui, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6704 | ||
ccddd104 | 6705 | — Berlin, 2014-02-20 |
e49b5aad | 6706 | |
cd4010b3 LP |
6707 | CHANGES WITH 208: |
6708 | ||
6709 | * logind has gained support for facilitating privileged input | |
6710 | and drm device access for unprivileged clients. This work is | |
6711 | useful to allow Wayland display servers (and similar | |
6712 | programs, such as kmscon) to run under the user's ID and | |
6713 | access input and drm devices which are normally | |
6714 | protected. When this is used (and the kernel is new enough) | |
6715 | logind will "mute" IO on the file descriptors passed to | |
6716 | Wayland as long as it is in the background and "unmute" it | |
6717 | if it returns into the foreground. This allows secure | |
6718 | session switching without allowing background sessions to | |
6719 | eavesdrop on input and display data. This also introduces | |
6720 | session switching support if VT support is turned off in the | |
6721 | kernel, and on seats that are not seat0. | |
6722 | ||
6723 | * A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood | |
06b643e7 | 6724 | now which allows specifying LUKS options for usage for LUKS |
cd4010b3 LP |
6725 | encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=. |
6726 | ||
6727 | * tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in | |
6728 | path names. More specifically %m, %b, %H, %v, are now | |
6729 | replaced by the local machine id, boot id, hostname, and | |
6730 | kernel version number. | |
6731 | ||
6732 | * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which | |
6733 | may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file | |
d28315e4 | 6734 | or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not. |
cd4010b3 LP |
6735 | |
6736 | * This release removes high-level support for the | |
6737 | MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel | |
6738 | cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly | |
6739 | designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its | |
d28315e4 | 6740 | current form, hence we should not expose it for now. |
cd4010b3 LP |
6741 | |
6742 | * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for | |
6743 | all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup | |
6744 | hierarchy. This option is likely to be come the built-in | |
cc98b302 TH |
6745 | default in the kernel anyway, and the non-hierarchical mode |
6746 | never made much sense in the intrinsically hierarchical | |
cd4010b3 LP |
6747 | cgroup system. |
6748 | ||
6749 | * A new field _SYSTEMD_SLICE= is logged along with all journal | |
6750 | messages containing the slice a message was generated | |
6751 | from. This is useful to allow easy per-customer filtering of | |
6752 | logs among other things. | |
6753 | ||
6754 | * systemd-journald will no longer adjust the group of journal | |
6755 | files it creates to the "systemd-journal" group. Instead we | |
6756 | rely on the journal directory to be owned by the | |
6757 | "systemd-journal" group, and its setgid bit set, so that the | |
6758 | kernel file system layer will automatically enforce that | |
6759 | journal files inherit this group assignment. The reason for | |
6760 | this change is that we cannot allow NSS look-ups from | |
6761 | journald which would be necessary to resolve | |
6762 | "systemd-journal" to a numeric GID, because this might | |
6763 | create deadlocks if NSS involves synchronous queries to | |
6764 | other daemons (such as nscd, or sssd) which in turn are | |
6765 | logging clients of journald and might block on it, which | |
6766 | would then dead lock. A tmpfiles.d(5) snippet included in | |
6767 | systemd will make sure the setgid bit and group are | |
6768 | properly set on the journal directory if it exists on every | |
6769 | boot. However, we recommend adjusting it manually after | |
6770 | upgrades too (or from RPM scriptlets), so that the change is | |
6771 | not delayed until next reboot. | |
6772 | ||
6773 | * Backlight and random seed files in /var/lib/ have moved into | |
6774 | the /var/lib/systemd/ directory, in order to centralize all | |
6775 | systemd generated files in one directory. | |
6776 | ||
6777 | * Boot time performance measurements (as displayed by | |
6778 | "systemd-analyze" for example) will now read ACPI 5.0 FPDT | |
6779 | performance information if that's available to determine how | |
6780 | much time BIOS and boot loader initialization required. With | |
6781 | a sufficiently new BIOS you hence no longer need to boot | |
6782 | with Gummiboot to get access to such information. | |
6783 | ||
6784 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Chen Jie, Colin Walters, | |
6785 | Cristian Rodríguez, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David | |
6786 | Mackey, David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Evan Callicoat, Gao | |
6787 | feng, Harald Hoyer, Jimmie Tauriainen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
6788 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, | |
6789 | Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Mike Gilbert, Patrick McCarty, | |
6790 | Sebastian Ott, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6791 | ||
ccddd104 | 6792 | — Berlin, 2013-10-02 |
cd4010b3 | 6793 | |
4f0be680 LP |
6794 | CHANGES WITH 207: |
6795 | ||
6796 | * The Restart= option for services now understands a new | |
f3a165b0 | 6797 | on-watchdog setting, which will restart the service |
4f0be680 LP |
6798 | automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep |
6799 | alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=). | |
6800 | ||
6801 | * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a | |
6802 | getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only | |
6803 | start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all | |
6804 | others, too. This makes the order in which console= is | |
6805 | specified on the kernel command line less important. | |
6806 | ||
6807 | * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to | |
6808 | retrieve the VT number of a session. | |
6809 | ||
6810 | * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab | |
6811 | its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any | |
6812 | maximum number of tries. | |
6813 | ||
6814 | * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID | |
6815 | file will now be removed automatically if it still exists | |
6816 | afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files. | |
6817 | ||
6818 | * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names | |
6819 | for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths. | |
6820 | ||
6821 | * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take | |
6822 | paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that | |
d28315e4 | 6823 | it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist. |
4f0be680 | 6824 | |
f3a165b0 KS |
6825 | * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new |
6826 | output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but | |
4f0be680 LP |
6827 | shows timestamps with usec accuracy. |
6828 | ||
6829 | * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now | |
6830 | synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact, | |
387abf80 | 6831 | "discard" is preferred now (since it is easier to remember |
4f0be680 LP |
6832 | and type). |
6833 | ||
f3a165b0 | 6834 | * Some licensing clean-ups were made, so that more code is now |
4f0be680 LP |
6835 | LGPL-2.1 licensed than before. |
6836 | ||
6837 | * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight | |
6838 | brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the | |
f3a165b0 | 6839 | backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown, and |
4f0be680 LP |
6840 | restore it as early as possible during reboot. |
6841 | ||
6842 | * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap | |
6843 | partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place | |
6844 | /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can | |
6845 | discover certain partitions located on the root disk | |
6846 | automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their | |
6847 | GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap | |
6848 | partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID | |
6849 | 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f. | |
6850 | ||
6851 | * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel | |
6852 | or initrd to system services. If you want to set an | |
6853 | environment for all services, do so via the kernel command | |
6854 | line systemd.setenv= assignment. | |
6855 | ||
387abf80 LP |
6856 | * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file |
6857 | /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked | |
6858 | from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing | |
6859 | legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it | |
6860 | also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the | |
6861 | different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a | |
6862 | pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!) | |
04bf3c1a | 6863 | |
4f0be680 LP |
6864 | * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands |
6865 | have been moved to systemd-analyze. | |
6866 | ||
6867 | * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch, | |
6868 | which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up | |
6869 | automatically after the process terminated. | |
6870 | ||
6871 | * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude | |
6872 | certain paths from operation. | |
6873 | ||
6874 | * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk | |
f47ad593 ZJS |
6875 | as soon as a message at the log level CRIT, ALERT or EMERG |
6876 | is received. | |
4f0be680 LP |
6877 | |
6878 | Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian | |
6879 | Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal, | |
6880 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George | |
6881 | McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, | |
6882 | Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, | |
6883 | Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering, | |
6884 | Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
6885 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, | |
6886 | Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał | |
6887 | Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn | |
6888 | Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
6889 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao, | |
6890 | William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6891 | ||
ccddd104 | 6892 | — Berlin, 2013-09-13 |
4f0be680 | 6893 | |
408f281b LP |
6894 | CHANGES WITH 206: |
6895 | ||
6896 | * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new | |
6897 | concepts introduced with 205. | |
6898 | ||
6899 | * Unit files now understand the new %v specifier which | |
6900 | resolves to the kernel version string as returned by "uname | |
6901 | -r". | |
6902 | ||
6903 | * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by | |
6904 | load state, active state and sub state, using the new | |
33b521be | 6905 | --state= parameter. |
408f281b LP |
6906 | |
6907 | * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the | |
6908 | condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of | |
6909 | the last start attempts of the unit. They are also logged to | |
6910 | the journal. | |
6911 | ||
6912 | * "journalctl -b" may now be used to look for boot output of a | |
6913 | specific boot. Try "journalctl -b -1" for the previous boot, | |
6914 | but the syntax is substantially more powerful. | |
6915 | ||
6916 | * "journalctl --show-cursor" has been added which prints the | |
6917 | cursor string the last shown log line. This may then be used | |
6918 | with the new "journalctl --after-cursor=" switch to continue | |
6919 | browsing logs from that point on. | |
6920 | ||
6921 | * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration | |
6922 | of an FSS key. | |
6923 | ||
251cc819 LP |
6924 | * Creation of "dead" device nodes has been moved from udev |
6925 | into kmod and tmpfiles. Previously, udev would read the kmod | |
6926 | databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta | |
6927 | information contained in kernel modules, so that these would | |
6928 | be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this | |
d28315e4 | 6929 | does not really have much to do with the exposing actual |
251cc819 LP |
6930 | kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly |
6931 | alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod | |
6932 | will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the | |
6933 | module meta information and it now is tmpfiles' job to the | |
6934 | create the nodes. This also allows overriding access and | |
6935 | other parameters for the nodes using the usual tmpfiles | |
6936 | facilities. As side effect this allows us to remove the | |
6937 | CAP_SYS_MKNOD capability bit from udevd entirely. | |
6938 | ||
6939 | * logind's device ACLs may now be applied to these "dead" | |
6940 | devices nodes too, thus finally allowing managed access to | |
ce830873 | 6941 | devices such as /dev/snd/sequencer without loading the |
251cc819 | 6942 | backing module right-away. |
408f281b LP |
6943 | |
6944 | * A new RPM macro has been added that may be used to apply | |
6945 | tmpfiles configuration during package installation. | |
6946 | ||
6947 | * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can | |
6948 | detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML). | |
6949 | ||
251cc819 LP |
6950 | * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities |
6951 | set of processes in the message metadata. | |
408f281b LP |
6952 | |
6953 | * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes. | |
6954 | ||
6955 | * The initrd interface has been simplified (more specifically, | |
6956 | support for passing performance data via environment | |
6957 | variables and fsck results via files in /run has been | |
6958 | removed). These features were non-essential, and are | |
6959 | nowadays available in a much nicer way by having systemd in | |
6960 | the initrd serialize its state and have the hosts systemd | |
6961 | deserialize it again. | |
6962 | ||
28f5c779 KS |
6963 | * The udev "keymap" data files and tools to apply keyboard |
6964 | specific mappings of scan to key codes, and force-release | |
6965 | scan code lists have been entirely replaced by a udev | |
6966 | "keyboard" builtin and a hwdb data file. | |
408f281b | 6967 | |
251cc819 LP |
6968 | * systemd will now honour the kernel's "quiet" command line |
6969 | argument also during late shutdown, resulting in a | |
6970 | completely silent shutdown when used. | |
6971 | ||
6972 | * There's now an option to control the SO_REUSEPORT socket | |
6973 | option in .socket units. | |
6974 | ||
6975 | * Instance units will now automatically get a per-template | |
6976 | subslice of system.slice unless something else is explicitly | |
6977 | configured. For example, instances of sshd@.service will now | |
6978 | implicitly be placed in system-sshd.slice rather than | |
6979 | system.slice as before. | |
6980 | ||
6981 | * Test coverage support may now be enabled at build time. | |
6982 | ||
6983 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Harald | |
6984 | Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, Jan | |
6985 | Janssen, Jason St. John, Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
6986 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Martin Pitt, Michael | |
6987 | Olbrich, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Ross Lagerwall, Shawn Landden, | |
6988 | Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William | |
6989 | Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6990 | ||
ccddd104 | 6991 | — Berlin, 2013-07-23 |
4f0be680 | 6992 | |
00aa832b LP |
6993 | CHANGES WITH 205: |
6994 | ||
6995 | * Two new unit types have been introduced: | |
6996 | ||
6997 | Scope units are very similar to service units, however, are | |
ccddd104 | 6998 | created out of pre-existing processes — instead of PID 1 |
00aa832b LP |
6999 | forking off the processes. By using scope units it is |
7000 | possible for system services and applications to group their | |
7001 | own child processes (worker processes) in a powerful way | |
7002 | which then maybe used to organize them, or kill them | |
7003 | together, or apply resource limits on them. | |
7004 | ||
7005 | Slice units may be used to partition system resources in an | |
cc98b302 | 7006 | hierarchical fashion and then assign other units to them. By |
00aa832b LP |
7007 | default there are now three slices: system.slice (for all |
7008 | system services), user.slice (for all user sessions), | |
7009 | machine.slice (for VMs and containers). | |
7010 | ||
7011 | Slices and scopes have been introduced primarily in | |
7012 | context of the work to move cgroup handling to a | |
7013 | single-writer scheme, where only PID 1 | |
7014 | creates/removes/manages cgroups. | |
7015 | ||
7016 | * There's a new concept of "transient" units. In contrast to | |
7017 | normal units these units are created via an API at runtime, | |
7018 | not from configuration from disk. More specifically this | |
7019 | means it is now possible to run arbitrary programs as | |
7020 | independent services, with all execution parameters passed | |
7021 | in via bus APIs rather than read from disk. Transient units | |
7022 | make systemd substantially more dynamic then it ever was, | |
7023 | and useful as a general batch manager. | |
7024 | ||
7025 | * logind has been updated to make use of scope and slice units | |
7026 | for managing user sessions. As a user logs in he will get | |
7027 | his own private slice unit, to which all sessions are added | |
7028 | as scope units. We also added support for automatically | |
7029 | adding an instance of user@.service for the user into the | |
7030 | slice. Effectively logind will no longer create cgroup | |
7031 | hierarchies on its own now, it will defer entirely to PID 1 | |
7032 | for this by means of scope, service and slice units. Since | |
7033 | user sessions this way become entities managed by PID 1 | |
7034 | the output of "systemctl" is now a lot more comprehensive. | |
7035 | ||
7036 | * A new mini-daemon "systemd-machined" has been added which | |
7037 | may be used by virtualization managers to register local | |
7038 | VMs/containers. nspawn has been updated accordingly, and | |
7039 | libvirt will be updated shortly. machined will collect a bit | |
7040 | of meta information about the VMs/containers, and assign | |
7041 | them their own scope unit (see above). The collected | |
7042 | meta-data is then made available via the "machinectl" tool, | |
7043 | and exposed in "ps" and similar tools. machined/machinectl | |
7044 | is compile-time optional. | |
7045 | ||
7046 | * As discussed earlier, the low-level cgroup configuration | |
7047 | options ControlGroup=, ControlGroupModify=, | |
7048 | ControlGroupPersistent=, ControlGroupAttribute= have been | |
7049 | removed. Please use high-level attribute settings instead as | |
7050 | well as slice units. | |
7051 | ||
7052 | * A new bus call SetUnitProperties() has been added to alter | |
7053 | various runtime parameters of a unit. This is primarily | |
7054 | useful to alter cgroup parameters dynamically in a nice way, | |
7055 | but will be extended later on to make more properties | |
7056 | modifiable at runtime. systemctl gained a new set-properties | |
7057 | command that wraps this call. | |
7058 | ||
7059 | * A new tool "systemd-run" has been added which can be used to | |
7060 | run arbitrary command lines as transient services or scopes, | |
7061 | while configuring a number of settings via the command | |
7062 | line. This tool is currently very basic, however already | |
7063 | very useful. We plan to extend this tool to even allow | |
7064 | queuing of execution jobs with time triggers from the | |
7065 | command line, similar in fashion to "at". | |
7066 | ||
7067 | * nspawn will now inform the user explicitly that kernels with | |
7068 | audit enabled break containers, and suggest the user to turn | |
7069 | off audit. | |
7070 | ||
7071 | * Support for detecting the IMA and AppArmor security | |
7072 | frameworks with ConditionSecurity= has been added. | |
7073 | ||
7074 | * journalctl gained a new "-k" switch for showing only kernel | |
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
7075 | messages, mimicking dmesg output; in addition to "--user" |
7076 | and "--system" switches for showing only user's own logs | |
7077 | and system logs. | |
00aa832b LP |
7078 | |
7079 | * systemd-delta can now show information about drop-in | |
7080 | snippets extending unit files. | |
7081 | ||
7082 | * libsystemd-bus has been substantially updated but is still | |
7083 | not available as public API. | |
7084 | ||
7085 | * systemd will now look for the "debug" argument on the kernel | |
499b604b | 7086 | command line and enable debug logging, similar to what |
00aa832b LP |
7087 | "systemd.log_level=debug" already did before. |
7088 | ||
7089 | * "systemctl set-default", "systemctl get-default" has been | |
7090 | added to configure the default.target symlink, which | |
7091 | controls what to boot into by default. | |
7092 | ||
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
7093 | * "systemctl set-log-level" has been added as a convenient |
7094 | way to raise and lower systemd logging threshold. | |
7095 | ||
00aa832b LP |
7096 | * "systemd-analyze plot" will now show the time the various |
7097 | generators needed for execution, as well as information | |
7098 | about the unit file loading. | |
7099 | ||
00aa832b LP |
7100 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new sd_journal_open_files() call |
7101 | for opening specific journal files. journactl also gained a | |
7102 | new switch to expose this new functionality. Previously we | |
7103 | only supported opening all files from a directory, or all | |
7104 | files from the system, as opening individual files only is | |
7105 | racy due to journal file rotation. | |
7106 | ||
7107 | * systemd gained the new DefaultEnvironment= setting in | |
7108 | /etc/systemd/system.conf to set environment variables for | |
7109 | all services. | |
7110 | ||
7111 | * If a privileged process logs a journal message with the | |
7112 | OBJECT_PID= field set, then journald will automatically | |
7113 | augment this with additional OBJECT_UID=, OBJECT_GID=, | |
7114 | OBJECT_COMM=, OBJECT_EXE=, ... fields. This is useful if | |
7115 | system services want to log events about specific client | |
7116 | processes. journactl/systemctl has been updated to make use | |
7117 | of this information if all log messages regarding a specific | |
7118 | unit is requested. | |
7119 | ||
7120 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Chengwei Yang, Colin Walters, | |
7121 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Albers, Daniel Wallace, Dave | |
7122 | Reisner, David Coppa, David King, David Strauss, Eelco | |
7123 | Dolstra, Gabriel de Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander | |
7124 | Steffens, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason St. John, Johan | |
7125 | Heikkilä, Karel Zak, Karol Lewandowski, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
7126 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marius Vollmer, | |
7127 | Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Tremer, | |
7128 | Michal Schmidt, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Nirbheek Chauhan, | |
7129 | Pierre Neidhardt, Ross Burton, Ross Lagerwall, Sean McGovern, | |
7130 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
7131 | Václav Pavlín, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, | |
7132 | Łukasz Stelmach, 장동준 | |
7133 | ||
606c24e3 LP |
7134 | CHANGES WITH 204: |
7135 | ||
7136 | * The Python bindings gained some minimal support for the APIs | |
7137 | exposed by libsystemd-logind. | |
7138 | ||
7139 | * ConditionSecurity= gained support for detecting SMACK. Since | |
7140 | this condition already supports SELinux and AppArmor we only | |
7141 | miss IMA for this. Patches welcome! | |
7142 | ||
7143 | Contributions from: Karol Lewandowski, Lennart Poettering, | |
7144 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7145 | ||
2f3fcf85 LP |
7146 | CHANGES WITH 203: |
7147 | ||
7148 | * systemd-nspawn will now create /etc/resolv.conf if | |
7149 | necessary, before bind-mounting the host's file onto it. | |
7150 | ||
7151 | * systemd-nspawn will now store meta information about a | |
7152 | container on the container's cgroup as extended attribute | |
7153 | fields, including the root directory. | |
7154 | ||
7155 | * The cgroup hierarchy has been reworked in many ways. All | |
7156 | objects any of the components systemd creates in the cgroup | |
b82eed9a | 7157 | tree are now suffixed. More specifically, user sessions are |
2f3fcf85 LP |
7158 | now placed in cgroups suffixed with ".session", users in |
7159 | cgroups suffixed with ".user", and nspawn containers in | |
7160 | cgroups suffixed with ".nspawn". Furthermore, all cgroup | |
7161 | names are now escaped in a simple scheme to avoid collision | |
7162 | of userspace object names with kernel filenames. This work | |
7163 | is preparation for making these objects relocatable in the | |
7164 | cgroup tree, in order to allow easy resource partitioning of | |
7165 | these objects without causing naming conflicts. | |
7166 | ||
7167 | * systemctl list-dependencies gained the new switches | |
7168 | --plain, --reverse, --after and --before. | |
7169 | ||
7170 | * systemd-inhibit now shows the process name of processes that | |
7171 | have taken an inhibitor lock. | |
7172 | ||
7173 | * nss-myhostname will now also resolve "localhost" | |
7174 | implicitly. This makes /etc/hosts an optional file and | |
7175 | nicely handles that on IPv6 ::1 maps to both "localhost" and | |
7176 | the local hostname. | |
7177 | ||
7178 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call | |
7179 | sd_get_machine_names() to enumerate running containers and | |
7180 | VMs (currently only supported by very new libvirt and | |
7181 | nspawn). sd_login_monitor can now be used to watch | |
7182 | VMs/containers coming and going. | |
7183 | ||
7184 | * .include is not allowed recursively anymore, and only in | |
7185 | unit files. Usually it is better to use drop-in snippets in | |
7186 | .d/*.conf anyway, as introduced with systemd 198. | |
7187 | ||
7188 | * systemd-analyze gained a new "critical-chain" command that | |
7189 | determines the slowest chain of units run during system | |
7190 | boot-up. It is very useful for tracking down where | |
7191 | optimizing boot time is the most beneficial. | |
7192 | ||
7193 | * systemd will no longer allow manipulating service paths in | |
7194 | the name=systemd:/system cgroup tree using ControlGroup= in | |
7195 | units. (But is still fine with it in all other dirs.) | |
7196 | ||
7197 | * There's a new systemd-nspawn@.service service file that may | |
7198 | be used to easily run nspawn containers as system | |
7199 | services. With the container's root directory in | |
7200 | /var/lib/container/foobar it is now sufficient to run | |
7201 | "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foobar.service" to boot it. | |
7202 | ||
7203 | * systemd-cgls gained a new parameter "--machine" to list only | |
7204 | the processes within a certain container. | |
7205 | ||
7206 | * ConditionSecurity= now can check for "apparmor". We still | |
7207 | are lacking checks for SMACK and IMA for this condition | |
7208 | check though. Patches welcome! | |
7209 | ||
7210 | * A new configuration file /etc/systemd/sleep.conf has been | |
7211 | added that may be used to configure which kernel operation | |
7212 | systemd is supposed to execute when "suspend", "hibernate" | |
7213 | or "hybrid-sleep" is requested. This makes the new kernel | |
7214 | "freeze" state accessible to the user. | |
7215 | ||
7216 | * ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules will now implicitly escape | |
7217 | the passed argument if applicable. | |
7218 | ||
7219 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
7220 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
7221 | Evangelos Foutras, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Josh | |
7222 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
7223 | MUNEDA Takahiro, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel | |
7224 | Chen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ronny Chevalier, Ross Lagerwall, Tom | |
7225 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
7226 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7227 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
7228 | CHANGES WITH 202: |
7229 | ||
7230 | * The output of 'systemctl list-jobs' got some polishing. The | |
7231 | '--type=' argument may now be passed more than once. A new | |
7232 | command 'systemctl list-sockets' has been added which shows | |
7233 | a list of kernel sockets systemd is listening on with the | |
7234 | socket units they belong to, plus the units these socket | |
7235 | units activate. | |
7236 | ||
7237 | * The experimental libsystemd-bus library got substantial | |
7238 | updates to work in conjunction with the (also experimental) | |
7239 | kdbus kernel project. It works well enough to exchange | |
7240 | messages with some sophistication. Note that kdbus is not | |
7241 | ready yet, and the library is mostly an elaborate test case | |
7242 | for now, and not installable. | |
7243 | ||
7244 | * systemd gained a new unit 'systemd-static-nodes.service' | |
7245 | that generates static device nodes earlier during boot, and | |
7246 | can run in conjunction with udev. | |
7247 | ||
7248 | * libsystemd-login gained a new call sd_pid_get_user_unit() | |
7249 | to retrieve the user systemd unit a process is running | |
7250 | in. This is useful for systems where systemd is used as | |
7251 | session manager. | |
7252 | ||
7253 | * systemd-nspawn now places all containers in the new /machine | |
7254 | top-level cgroup directory in the name=systemd | |
7255 | hierarchy. libvirt will soon do the same, so that we get a | |
7256 | uniform separation of /system, /user and /machine for system | |
7257 | services, user processes and containers/virtual | |
7258 | machines. This new cgroup hierarchy is also useful to stick | |
7259 | stable names to specific container instances, which can be | |
7c04ad2d | 7260 | recognized later this way (this name may be controlled |
ef3b5246 LP |
7261 | via systemd-nspawn's new -M switch). libsystemd-login also |
7262 | gained a new call sd_pid_get_machine_name() to retrieve the | |
7263 | name of the container/VM a specific process belongs to. | |
7264 | ||
7265 | * bootchart can now store its data in the journal. | |
7266 | ||
7267 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new call | |
7268 | sd_journal_add_conjunction() for AND expressions to the | |
7269 | matching logic. This can be used to express more complex | |
7270 | logical expressions. | |
7271 | ||
7272 | * journactl can now take multiple --unit= and --user-unit= | |
7273 | switches. | |
7274 | ||
7275 | * The cryptsetup logic now understands the "luks.key=" kernel | |
7276 | command line switch for specifying a file to read the | |
7c04ad2d | 7277 | decryption key from. Also, if a configured key file is not |
ef3b5246 LP |
7278 | found the tool will now automatically fall back to prompting |
7279 | the user. | |
7280 | ||
cbeabcfb ZJS |
7281 | * Python systemd.journal module was updated to wrap recently |
7282 | added functions from libsystemd-journal. The interface was | |
7283 | changed to bring the low level interface in s.j._Reader | |
7284 | closer to the C API, and the high level interface in | |
7285 | s.j.Reader was updated to wrap and convert all data about | |
7286 | an entry. | |
7287 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
7288 | Contributions from: Anatol Pomozov, Auke Kok, Harald Hoyer, |
7289 | Henrik Grindal Bakken, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
7290 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas Marius Vollmer, | |
7291 | Martin Jansa, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
7292 | Mirco Tischler, Pali Rohar, Simon Peeters, Steven Hiscocks, | |
7293 | Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7294 | ||
d3a86981 LP |
7295 | CHANGES WITH 201: |
7296 | ||
7297 | * journalctl --update-catalog now understands a new --root= | |
7298 | option to operate on catalogs found in a different root | |
7299 | directory. | |
7300 | ||
7301 | * During shutdown after systemd has terminated all running | |
7302 | services a final killing loop kills all remaining left-over | |
7303 | processes. We will now print the name of these processes | |
7304 | when we send SIGKILL to them, since this usually indicates a | |
7305 | problem. | |
7306 | ||
7307 | * If /etc/crypttab refers to password files stored on | |
7308 | configured mount points automatic dependencies will now be | |
7309 | generated to ensure the specific mount is established first | |
7310 | before the key file is attempted to be read. | |
7311 | ||
7312 | * 'systemctl status' will now show information about the | |
7313 | network sockets a socket unit is listening on. | |
7314 | ||
7315 | * 'systemctl status' will also shown information about any | |
7316 | drop-in configuration file for units. (Drop-In configuration | |
7317 | files in this context are files such as | |
7318 | /etc/systemd/systemd/foobar.service.d/*.conf) | |
7319 | ||
7320 | * systemd-cgtop now optionally shows summed up CPU times of | |
7321 | cgroups. Press '%' while running cgtop to switch between | |
7322 | percentage and absolute mode. This is useful to determine | |
7323 | which cgroups use up the most CPU time over the entire | |
7324 | runtime of the system. systemd-cgtop has also been updated | |
7325 | to be 'pipeable' for processing with further shell tools. | |
7326 | ||
7327 | * 'hostnamectl set-hostname' will now allow setting of FQDN | |
7328 | hostnames. | |
7329 | ||
7330 | * The formatting and parsing of time span values has been | |
7331 | changed. The parser now understands fractional expressions | |
7332 | such as "5.5h". The formatter will now output fractional | |
7333 | expressions for all time spans under 1min, i.e. "5.123456s" | |
7334 | rather than "5s 123ms 456us". For time spans under 1s | |
7335 | millisecond values are shown, for those under 1ms | |
7336 | microsecond values are shown. This should greatly improve | |
7337 | all time-related output of systemd. | |
7338 | ||
7339 | * libsystemd-login and libsystemd-journal gained new | |
7340 | functions for querying the poll() events mask and poll() | |
7341 | timeout value for integration into arbitrary event | |
7342 | loops. | |
7343 | ||
7344 | * localectl gained the ability to list available X11 keymaps | |
7345 | (models, layouts, variants, options). | |
7346 | ||
7347 | * 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for | |
7348 | specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller, | |
d28315e4 | 7349 | more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple |
d3a86981 LP |
7350 | graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or |
7351 | of all units that Avahi has dependencies with. | |
7352 | ||
7353 | Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck, | |
7354 | Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, Kelly | |
7355 | Anderson, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Maksim Melnikau, | |
7356 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marius Vollmer, Martin Pitt, Michal | |
7357 | Schmidt, Oleksii Shevchuk, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, | |
7358 | Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Weißschuh, Umut Tezduyar, Václav | |
7359 | Pavlín, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Łukasz Stelmach | |
7360 | ||
9ca3c17f LP |
7361 | CHANGES WITH 200: |
7362 | ||
7363 | * The boot-time readahead implementation for rotating media | |
7364 | will now read the read-ahead data in multiple passes which | |
7365 | consist of all read requests made in equidistant time | |
7366 | intervals. This means instead of strictly reading read-ahead | |
7367 | data in its physical order on disk we now try to find a | |
7368 | middle ground between physical and access time order. | |
7369 | ||
7370 | * /etc/os-release files gained a new BUILD_ID= field for usage | |
7371 | on operating systems that provide continuous builds of OS | |
7372 | images. | |
7373 | ||
7374 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, | |
7375 | Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin Pitt, Václav Pavlín | |
7376 | William Douglas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7377 | ||
35911459 LP |
7378 | CHANGES WITH 199: |
7379 | ||
7380 | * systemd-python gained an API exposing libsystemd-daemon. | |
7381 | ||
7382 | * The SMACK setup logic gained support for uploading CIPSO | |
7383 | security policy. | |
7384 | ||
7385 | * Behaviour of PrivateTmp=, ReadWriteDirectories=, | |
7386 | ReadOnlyDirectories= and InaccessibleDirectories= has | |
7387 | changed. The private /tmp and /var/tmp directories are now | |
7388 | shared by all processes of a service (which means | |
7389 | ExecStartPre= may now leave data in /tmp that ExecStart= of | |
7390 | the same service can still access). When a service is | |
7391 | stopped its temporary directories are immediately deleted | |
a87197f5 | 7392 | (normal clean-up with tmpfiles is still done in addition to |
35911459 LP |
7393 | this though). |
7394 | ||
7395 | * By default, systemd will now set a couple of sysctl | |
7396 | variables in the kernel: the safe sysrq options are turned | |
7397 | on, IP route verification is turned on, and source routing | |
7398 | disabled. The recently added hardlink and softlink | |
7399 | protection of the kernel is turned on. These settings should | |
7400 | be reasonably safe, and good defaults for all new systems. | |
7401 | ||
7402 | * The predictable network naming logic may now be turned off | |
a87197f5 | 7403 | with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0. |
35911459 LP |
7404 | |
7405 | * A new libsystemd-bus module has been added that implements a | |
7406 | pretty complete D-Bus client library. For details see: | |
7407 | ||
56cadcb6 | 7408 | https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html |
35911459 | 7409 | |
c20d8298 | 7410 | * journald will now explicitly flush the journal files to disk |
a87197f5 ZJS |
7411 | at the latest 5min after each write. The file will then also |
7412 | be marked offline until the next write. This should increase | |
7413 | reliability in case of a crash. The synchronization delay | |
7414 | can be configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf. | |
35911459 LP |
7415 | |
7416 | * There's a new remote-fs-setup.target unit that can be used | |
7417 | to pull in specific services when at least one remote file | |
7418 | system is to be mounted. | |
7419 | ||
7420 | * There are new targets timers.target and paths.target as | |
7421 | canonical targets to pull user timer and path units in | |
7422 | from. This complements sockets.target with a similar | |
7423 | purpose for socket units. | |
7424 | ||
6a7d3d68 LP |
7425 | * libudev gained a new call udev_device_set_attribute_value() |
7426 | to set sysfs attributes of a device. | |
7427 | ||
a87197f5 ZJS |
7428 | * The udev daemon now sets the default number of worker |
7429 | processes executed in parallel based on the number of available | |
c20d8298 | 7430 | CPUs instead of the amount of available RAM. This is supposed |
ab06eef8 | 7431 | to provide a more reliable default and limit a too aggressive |
ce830873 | 7432 | parallelism for setups with 1000s of devices connected. |
c20d8298 | 7433 | |
35911459 LP |
7434 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Walters, Cristian |
7435 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Hannes | |
7436 | Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan | |
7437 | Engelhardt, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
7438 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Bridon, Michael Biebl, | |
7439 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nathaniel Chen, | |
7440 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Ozan Çağlayan, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
7441 | Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
7442 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7443 | ||
85d68397 LP |
7444 | CHANGES WITH 198: |
7445 | ||
7446 | * Configuration of unit files may now be extended via drop-in | |
7447 | files without having to edit/override the unit files | |
7448 | themselves. More specifically, if the administrator wants to | |
7449 | change one value for a service file foobar.service he can | |
7450 | now do so by dropping in a configuration snippet into | |
ad88e758 | 7451 | /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/*.conf. The unit logic |
85d68397 LP |
7452 | will load all these snippets and apply them on top of the |
7453 | main unit configuration file, possibly extending or | |
7454 | overriding its settings. Using these drop-in snippets is | |
40e21da8 KS |
7455 | generally nicer than the two earlier options for changing |
7456 | unit files locally: copying the files from | |
85d68397 LP |
7457 | /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to /etc/systemd/system/ and editing |
7458 | them there; or creating a new file in /etc/systemd/system/ | |
7459 | that incorporates the original one via ".include". Drop-in | |
7460 | snippets into these .d/ directories can be placed in any | |
fd868975 | 7461 | directory systemd looks for units in, and the usual |
85d68397 LP |
7462 | overriding semantics between /usr/lib, /etc and /run apply |
7463 | for them too. | |
7464 | ||
7465 | * Most unit file settings which take lists of items can now be | |
6aa8d43a | 7466 | reset by assigning the empty string to them. For example, |
85d68397 LP |
7467 | normally, settings such as Environment=FOO=BAR append a new |
7468 | environment variable assignment to the environment block, | |
7469 | each time they are used. By assigning Environment= the empty | |
7470 | string the environment block can be reset to empty. This is | |
7471 | particularly useful with the .d/*.conf drop-in snippets | |
156f7d09 KS |
7472 | mentioned above, since this adds the ability to reset list |
7473 | settings from vendor unit files via these drop-ins. | |
85d68397 LP |
7474 | |
7475 | * systemctl gained a new "list-dependencies" command for | |
7476 | listing the dependencies of a unit recursively. | |
7477 | ||
40e21da8 | 7478 | * Inhibitors are now honored and listed by "systemctl |
85d68397 LP |
7479 | suspend", "systemctl poweroff" (and similar) too, not only |
7480 | GNOME. These commands will also list active sessions by | |
7481 | other users. | |
7482 | ||
7483 | * Resource limits (as exposed by the various control group | |
7484 | controllers) can now be controlled dynamically at runtime | |
7485 | for all units. More specifically, you can now use a command | |
7486 | like "systemctl set-cgroup-attr foobar.service cpu.shares | |
7487 | 2000" to alter the CPU shares a specific service gets. These | |
6aa8d43a | 7488 | settings are stored persistently on disk, and thus allow the |
85d68397 LP |
7489 | administrator to easily adjust the resource usage of |
7490 | services with a few simple commands. This dynamic resource | |
6aa8d43a | 7491 | management logic is also available to other programs via the |
85d68397 LP |
7492 | bus. Almost any kernel cgroup attribute and controller is |
7493 | supported. | |
7494 | ||
7495 | * systemd-vconsole-setup will now copy all font settings to | |
6aa8d43a LP |
7496 | all allocated VTs, where it previously applied them only to |
7497 | the foreground VT. | |
85d68397 LP |
7498 | |
7499 | * libsystemd-login gained the new sd_session_get_tty() API | |
7500 | call. | |
7501 | ||
6aa8d43a LP |
7502 | * This release drops support for a few legacy or |
7503 | distribution-specific LSB facility names when parsing init | |
7504 | scripts: $x-display-manager, $mail-transfer-agent, | |
85d68397 LP |
7505 | $mail-transport-agent, $mail-transfer-agent, $smtp, |
7506 | $null. Also, the mail-transfer-agent.target unit backing | |
7507 | this has been removed. Distributions which want to retain | |
6aa8d43a LP |
7508 | compatibility with this should carry the burden for |
7509 | supporting this themselves and patch support for these back | |
7510 | in, if they really need to. Also, the facilities $syslog and | |
7511 | $local_fs are now ignored, since systemd does not support | |
7512 | early-boot LSB init scripts anymore, and these facilities | |
7513 | are implied anyway for normal services. syslog.target has | |
7514 | also been removed. | |
85d68397 | 7515 | |
40e21da8 | 7516 | * There are new bus calls on PID1's Manager object for |
6aa8d43a | 7517 | cancelling jobs, and removing snapshot units. Previously, |
85d68397 LP |
7518 | both calls were only available on the Job and Snapshot |
7519 | objects themselves. | |
7520 | ||
7521 | * systemd-journal-gatewayd gained SSL support. | |
7522 | ||
7523 | * The various "environment" files, such as /etc/locale.conf | |
7524 | now support continuation lines with a backslash ("\") as | |
499b604b | 7525 | last character in the line, similarly in style (but different) |
85d68397 LP |
7526 | to how this is supported in shells. |
7527 | ||
7528 | * For normal user processes the _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field is | |
7529 | now implicitly appended to every log entry logged. systemctl | |
7530 | has been updated to filter by this field when operating on a | |
7531 | user systemd instance. | |
7532 | ||
7533 | * nspawn will now implicitly add the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and | |
7534 | CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities to the capabilities set for | |
7535 | the container. This makes it easier to boot unmodified | |
7536 | Fedora systems in a container, which however still requires | |
7537 | audit=0 to be passed on the kernel command line. Auditing in | |
7538 | kernel and userspace is unfortunately still too broken in | |
7539 | context of containers, hence we recommend compiling it out | |
7540 | of the kernel or using audit=0. Hopefully this will be fixed | |
7541 | one day for good in the kernel. | |
7542 | ||
7543 | * nspawn gained the new --bind= and --bind-ro= parameters to | |
7544 | bind mount specific directories from the host into the | |
7545 | container. | |
7546 | ||
40e21da8 | 7547 | * nspawn will now mount its own devpts file system instance |
6aa8d43a | 7548 | into the container, in order not to leak pty devices from |
85d68397 LP |
7549 | the host into the container. |
7550 | ||
7551 | * systemd will now read the firmware boot time performance | |
6aa8d43a LP |
7552 | information from the EFI variables, if the used boot loader |
7553 | supports this, and takes it into account for boot performance | |
7554 | analysis via "systemd-analyze". This is currently supported | |
7555 | only in conjunction with Gummiboot, but could be supported | |
7556 | by other boot loaders too. For details see: | |
85d68397 | 7557 | |
56cadcb6 | 7558 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface |
85d68397 LP |
7559 | |
7560 | * A new generator has been added that automatically mounts the | |
7561 | EFI System Partition (ESP) to /boot, if that directory | |
6aa8d43a LP |
7562 | exists, is empty, and no other file system has been |
7563 | configured to be mounted there. | |
85d68397 LP |
7564 | |
7565 | * logind will now send out PrepareForSleep(false) out | |
7566 | unconditionally, after coming back from suspend. This may be | |
7567 | used by applications as asynchronous notification for | |
7568 | system resume events. | |
7569 | ||
7570 | * "systemctl unlock-sessions" has been added, that allows | |
7571 | unlocking the screens of all user sessions at once, similar | |
499b604b | 7572 | to how "systemctl lock-sessions" already locked all users |
40e21da8 | 7573 | sessions. This is backed by a new D-Bus call UnlockSessions(). |
85d68397 LP |
7574 | |
7575 | * "loginctl seat-status" will now show the master device of a | |
7576 | seat. (i.e. the device of a seat that needs to be around for | |
7577 | the seat to be considered available, usually the graphics | |
7578 | card). | |
7579 | ||
7580 | * tmpfiles gained a new "X" line type, that allows | |
7581 | configuration of files and directories (with wildcards) that | |
7582 | shall be excluded from automatic cleanup ("aging"). | |
7583 | ||
bf933560 KS |
7584 | * udev default rules set the device node permissions now only |
7585 | at "add" events, and do not change them any longer with a | |
7586 | later "change" event. | |
85d68397 LP |
7587 | |
7588 | * The log messages for lid events and power/sleep keypresses | |
7589 | now carry a message ID. | |
7590 | ||
7591 | * We now have a substantially larger unit test suite, but this | |
7592 | continues to be work in progress. | |
7593 | ||
7594 | * udevadm hwdb gained a new --root= parameter to change the | |
7595 | root directory to operate relative to. | |
7596 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
7597 | * logind will now issue a background sync() request to the kernel |
7598 | early at shutdown, so that dirty buffers are flushed to disk early | |
85d68397 LP |
7599 | instead of at the last moment, in order to optimize shutdown |
7600 | times a little. | |
7601 | ||
7602 | * A new bootctl tool has been added that is an interface for | |
7603 | certain boot loader operations. This is currently a preview | |
7604 | and is likely to be extended into a small mechanism daemon | |
7605 | like timedated, localed, hostnamed, and can be used by | |
7606 | graphical UIs to enumerate available boot options, and | |
7607 | request boot into firmware operations. | |
7608 | ||
7609 | * systemd-bootchart has been relicensed to LGPLv2.1+ to match | |
7610 | the rest of the package. It also has been updated to work | |
7611 | correctly in initrds. | |
7612 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
7613 | * polkit previously has been runtime optional, and is now also |
7614 | compile time optional via a configure switch. | |
85d68397 LP |
7615 | |
7616 | * systemd-analyze has been reimplemented in C. Also "systemctl | |
7617 | dot" has moved into systemd-analyze. | |
7618 | ||
7619 | * "systemctl status" with no further parameters will now print | |
7620 | the status of all active or failed units. | |
7621 | ||
7622 | * Operations such as "systemctl start" can now be executed | |
7623 | with a new mode "--irreversible" which may be used to queue | |
7624 | operations that cannot accidentally be reversed by a later | |
6aa8d43a | 7625 | job queuing. This is by default used to make shutdown |
85d68397 LP |
7626 | requests more robust. |
7627 | ||
7628 | * The Python API of systemd now gained a new module for | |
7629 | reading journal files. | |
7630 | ||
7631 | * A new tool kernel-install has been added that can install | |
7632 | kernel images according to the Boot Loader Specification: | |
7633 | ||
56cadcb6 | 7634 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec |
85d68397 LP |
7635 | |
7636 | * Boot time console output has been improved to provide | |
6aa8d43a | 7637 | animated boot time output for hanging jobs. |
85d68397 LP |
7638 | |
7639 | * A new tool systemd-activate has been added which can be used | |
7640 | to test socket activation with, directly from the command | |
7641 | line. This should make it much easier to test and debug | |
7642 | socket activation in daemons. | |
7643 | ||
7644 | * journalctl gained a new "--reverse" (or -r) option to show | |
7645 | journal output in reverse order (i.e. newest line first). | |
7646 | ||
43447fb7 LP |
7647 | * journalctl gained a new "--pager-end" (or -e) option to jump |
7648 | to immediately jump to the end of the journal in the | |
7649 | pager. This is only supported in conjunction with "less". | |
7650 | ||
85d68397 | 7651 | * journalctl gained a new "--user-unit=" option, that works |
499b604b | 7652 | similarly to "--unit=" but filters for user units rather than |
85d68397 LP |
7653 | system units. |
7654 | ||
7655 | * A number of unit files to ease adoption of systemd in | |
7656 | initrds has been added. This moves some minimal logic from | |
7657 | the various initrd implementations into systemd proper. | |
7658 | ||
7659 | * The journal files are now owned by a new group | |
7660 | "systemd-journal", which exists specifically to allow access | |
7661 | to the journal, and nothing else. Previously, we used the | |
6aa8d43a | 7662 | "adm" group for that, which however possibly covers more |
85d68397 LP |
7663 | than just journal/log file access. This new group is now |
7664 | already used by systemd-journal-gatewayd to ensure this | |
7665 | daemon gets access to the journal files and as little else | |
7666 | as possible. Note that "make install" will also set FS ACLs | |
7667 | up for /var/log/journal to give "adm" and "wheel" read | |
7668 | access to it, in addition to "systemd-journal" which owns | |
7669 | the journal files. We recommend that packaging scripts also | |
6aa8d43a | 7670 | add read access to "adm" + "wheel" to /var/log/journal, and |
85d68397 LP |
7671 | all existing/future journal files. To normal users and |
7672 | administrators little changes, however packagers need to | |
7673 | ensure to create the "systemd-journal" system group at | |
7674 | package installation time. | |
7675 | ||
7676 | * The systemd-journal-gatewayd now runs as unprivileged user | |
7677 | systemd-journal-gateway:systemd-journal-gateway. Packaging | |
7678 | scripts need to create these system user/group at | |
7679 | installation time. | |
7680 | ||
7681 | * timedated now exposes a new boolean property CanNTP that | |
7682 | indicates whether a local NTP service is available or not. | |
7683 | ||
7684 | * systemd-detect-virt will now also detect xen PVs | |
7685 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
7686 | * The pstore file system is now mounted by default, if it is |
7687 | available. | |
85d68397 | 7688 | |
1aed4590 LP |
7689 | * In addition to the SELinux and IMA policies we will now also |
7690 | load SMACK policies at early boot. | |
7691 | ||
85d68397 LP |
7692 | Contributions from: Adel Gadllah, Aleksander Morgado, Auke |
7693 | Kok, Ayan George, Bastien Nocera, Colin Walters, Daniel Buch, | |
7694 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David Strauss, | |
7695 | Eelco Dolstra, Enrico Scholz, Frederic Crozat, Harald Hoyer, | |
7696 | Jan Janssen, Jonathan Callen, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
7697 | Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin | |
7698 | Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Max F. Albrecht, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
7699 | Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michal Vyskocil, | |
7700 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel Chen, Nestor | |
7701 | Ovroy, Oleksii Shevchuk, Paul W. Frields, Piotr Drąg, Rob | |
7702 | Clark, Ryan Lortie, Simon McVittie, Simon Peeters, Steven | |
7703 | Hiscocks, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
7704 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, William Giokas, Zbigniew | |
7705 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) | |
7706 | ||
8ad26859 LP |
7707 | CHANGES WITH 197: |
7708 | ||
7709 | * Timer units now support calendar time events in addition to | |
7710 | monotonic time events. That means you can now trigger a unit | |
7711 | based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri | |
7712 | 2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first | |
7713 | or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is | |
7714 | a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support | |
7715 | considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on | |
7716 | the supported calendar time specification language see | |
7717 | systemd.time(7). | |
7718 | ||
7719 | * udev now supports a number of different naming policies for | |
7720 | network interfaces for predictable names, and a combination | |
7721 | of these policies is now the default. Please see this wiki | |
7722 | document for details: | |
7723 | ||
56cadcb6 | 7724 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames |
8ad26859 LP |
7725 | |
7726 | * Auke Kok's bootchart implementation has been added to the | |
d28315e4 JE |
7727 | systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the |
7728 | boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart | |
8ad26859 LP |
7729 | implementations around and minimal in its code and |
7730 | dependencies. | |
7731 | ||
7732 | * nss-myhostname has been integrated into the systemd source | |
7733 | tree. nss-myhostname guarantees that the local hostname | |
7734 | always stays resolvable via NSS. It has been a weak | |
7735 | requirement of systemd-hostnamed since a long time, and | |
7736 | since its code is actually trivial we decided to just | |
7737 | include it in systemd's source tree. It can be turned off | |
7738 | with a configure switch. | |
7739 | ||
7740 | * The read-ahead logic is now capable of properly detecting | |
7741 | whether a btrfs file system is on SSD or rotating media, in | |
7742 | order to optimize the read-ahead scheme. Previously, it was | |
7743 | only capable of detecting this on traditional file systems | |
7744 | such as ext4. | |
7745 | ||
7746 | * In udev, additional device properties are now read from the | |
7747 | IAB in addition to the OUI database. Also, Bluetooth company | |
7748 | identities are attached to the devices as well. | |
7749 | ||
7750 | * In service files %U may be used as specifier that is | |
7751 | replaced by the configured user name of the service. | |
7752 | ||
7753 | * nspawn may now be invoked without a controlling TTY. This | |
7754 | makes it suitable for invocation as its own service. This | |
7755 | may be used to set up a simple containerized server system | |
7756 | using only core OS tools. | |
7757 | ||
7758 | * systemd and nspawn can now accept socket file descriptors | |
7759 | when they are started for socket activation. This enables | |
7760 | implementation of socket activated nspawn | |
7761 | containers. i.e. think about autospawning an entire OS image | |
7762 | when the first SSH or HTTP connection is received. We expect | |
7763 | that similar functionality will also be added to libvirt-lxc | |
7764 | eventually. | |
7765 | ||
7766 | * journalctl will now suppress ANSI color codes when | |
7767 | presenting log data. | |
7768 | ||
7769 | * systemctl will no longer show control group information for | |
ce830873 | 7770 | a unit if the control group is empty anyway. |
8ad26859 LP |
7771 | |
7772 | * logind can now automatically suspend/hibernate/shutdown the | |
7773 | system on idle. | |
7774 | ||
7775 | * /etc/machine-info and hostnamed now also expose the chassis | |
7776 | type of the system. This can be used to determine whether | |
7777 | the local system is a laptop, desktop, handset or | |
7778 | tablet. This information may either be configured by the | |
7779 | user/vendor or is automatically determined from ACPI and DMI | |
7780 | information if possible. | |
7781 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
7782 | * A number of polkit actions are now bound together with "imply" |
7783 | rules. This should simplify creating UIs because many actions | |
7784 | will now authenticate similar ones as well. | |
8ad26859 LP |
7785 | |
7786 | * Unit files learnt a new condition ConditionACPower= which | |
7787 | may be used to conditionalize a unit depending on whether an | |
7788 | AC power source is connected or not, of whether the system | |
7789 | is running on battery power. | |
7790 | ||
7791 | * systemctl gained a new "is-failed" verb that may be used in | |
7792 | shell scripts and suchlike to check whether a specific unit | |
7793 | is in the "failed" state. | |
7794 | ||
7795 | * The EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now supports file | |
7796 | globbing, and can hence be used to easily read a number of | |
7797 | environment files at once. | |
7798 | ||
7799 | * systemd will no longer detect and recognize specific | |
7800 | distributions. All distribution-specific #ifdeffery has been | |
7801 | removed, systemd is now fully generic and | |
7802 | distribution-agnostic. Effectively, not too much is lost as | |
7803 | a lot of the code is still accessible via explicit configure | |
7804 | switches. However, support for some distribution specific | |
7805 | legacy configuration file formats has been dropped. We | |
7806 | recommend distributions to simply adopt the configuration | |
7807 | files everybody else uses now and convert the old | |
7808 | configuration from packaging scripts. Most distributions | |
7809 | already did that. If that's not possible or desirable, | |
7810 | distributions are welcome to forward port the specific | |
7811 | pieces of code locally from the git history. | |
7812 | ||
7813 | * When logging a message about a unit systemd will now always | |
7814 | log the unit name in the message meta data. | |
7815 | ||
7816 | * localectl will now also discover system locale data that is | |
7817 | not stored in locale archives, but directly unpacked. | |
7818 | ||
7819 | * logind will no longer unconditionally use framebuffer | |
7820 | devices as seat masters, i.e. as devices that are required | |
7821 | to be existing before a seat is considered preset. Instead, | |
7822 | it will now look for all devices that are tagged as | |
b938cb90 JE |
7823 | "seat-master" in udev. By default, framebuffer devices will |
7824 | be marked as such, but depending on local systems, other | |
8ad26859 LP |
7825 | devices might be marked as well. This may be used to |
7826 | integrate graphics cards using closed source drivers (such | |
7827 | as NVidia ones) more nicely into logind. Note however, that | |
7828 | we recommend using the open source NVidia drivers instead, | |
7829 | and no udev rules for the closed-source drivers will be | |
7830 | shipped from us upstream. | |
7831 | ||
7832 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alessandro Crismani, Auke | |
7833 | Kok, Colin Walters, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David | |
7834 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Dimitrios Apostolou, Eelco Dolstra, | |
7835 | Eric Benoit, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Henrik | |
7836 | Grindal Bakken, Hermann Gausterer, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
7837 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
7838 | Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael Biebl, Michael Terry, | |
7839 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Oleg | |
7840 | Samarin, Pekka Lundstrom, Philip Nilsson, Ramkumar | |
7841 | Ramachandra, Richard Yao, Robert Millan, Sami Kerola, Shawn | |
7842 | Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Jarosch, | |
7843 | Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew | |
7844 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7845 | ||
0428ddb7 LP |
7846 | CHANGES WITH 196: |
7847 | ||
7848 | * udev gained support for loading additional device properties | |
7849 | from an indexed database that is keyed by vendor/product IDs | |
7850 | and similar device identifiers. For the beginning this | |
7851 | "hwdb" is populated with data from the well-known PCI and | |
7852 | USB database, but also includes PNP, ACPI and OID data. In | |
7853 | the longer run this indexed database shall grow into | |
7854 | becoming the one central database for non-essential | |
7855 | userspace device metadata. Previously, data from the PCI/USB | |
96ec33c0 | 7856 | database was only attached to select devices, since the |
0428ddb7 | 7857 | lookup was a relatively expensive operation due to O(n) time |
96ec33c0 LP |
7858 | complexity (with n being the number of entries in the |
7859 | database). Since this is now O(1), we decided to add in this | |
7860 | data for all devices where this is available, by | |
0428ddb7 LP |
7861 | default. Note that the indexed database needs to be rebuilt |
7862 | when new data files are installed. To achieve this you need | |
7863 | to update your packaging scripts to invoke "udevadm hwdb | |
7864 | --update" after installation of hwdb data files. For | |
7865 | RPM-based distributions we introduced the new | |
7866 | %udev_hwdb_update macro for this purpose. | |
7867 | ||
7868 | * The Journal gained support for the "Message Catalog", an | |
7869 | indexed database to link up additional information with | |
7870 | journal entries. For further details please check: | |
7871 | ||
56cadcb6 | 7872 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog |
0428ddb7 LP |
7873 | |
7874 | The indexed message catalog database also needs to be | |
7875 | rebuilt after installation of message catalog files. Use | |
7876 | "journalctl --update-catalog" for this. For RPM-based | |
7877 | distributions we introduced the %journal_catalog_update | |
7878 | macro for this purpose. | |
7879 | ||
7880 | * The Python Journal bindings gained support for the standard | |
7881 | Python logging framework. | |
7882 | ||
7883 | * The Journal API gained new functions for checking whether | |
7884 | the underlying file system of a journal file is capable of | |
7885 | properly reporting file change notifications, or whether | |
7886 | applications that want to reflect journal changes "live" | |
ab06eef8 | 7887 | need to recheck journal files continuously in appropriate |
0428ddb7 LP |
7888 | time intervals. |
7889 | ||
7890 | * It is now possible to set the "age" field for tmpfiles | |
7891 | entries to 0, indicating that files matching this entry | |
7892 | shall always be removed when the directories are cleaned up. | |
7893 | ||
7894 | * coredumpctl gained a new "gdb" verb which invokes gdb | |
7895 | right-away on the selected coredump. | |
7896 | ||
7897 | * There's now support for "hybrid sleep" on kernels that | |
7898 | support this, in addition to "suspend" and "hibernate". Use | |
7899 | "systemctl hybrid-sleep" to make use of this. | |
7900 | ||
7901 | * logind's HandleSuspendKey= setting (and related settings) | |
7902 | now gained support for a new "lock" setting to simply | |
7903 | request the screen lock on all local sessions, instead of | |
7904 | actually executing a suspend or hibernation. | |
7905 | ||
7906 | * systemd will now mount the EFI variables file system by | |
7907 | default. | |
7908 | ||
7909 | * Socket units now gained support for configuration of the | |
7910 | SMACK security label. | |
7911 | ||
7912 | * timedatectl will now output the time of the last and next | |
7913 | daylight saving change. | |
7914 | ||
7915 | * We dropped support for various legacy and distro-specific | |
7916 | concepts, such as insserv, early-boot SysV services | |
7917 | (i.e. those for non-standard runlevels such as 'b' or 'S') | |
7918 | or ArchLinux /etc/rc.conf support. We recommend the | |
7919 | distributions who still need support this to either continue | |
7920 | to maintain the necessary patches downstream, or find a | |
7921 | different solution. (Talk to us if you have questions!) | |
7922 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
7923 | * Various systemd components will now bypass polkit checks for |
7924 | root and otherwise handle properly if polkit is not found to | |
7925 | be around. This should fix most issues for polkit-less | |
7926 | systems. Quite frankly this should have been this way since | |
7927 | day one. It is absolutely our intention to make systemd work | |
7928 | fine on polkit-less systems, and we consider it a bug if | |
7929 | something does not work as it should if polkit is not around. | |
0428ddb7 LP |
7930 | |
7931 | * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and | |
7932 | systemd without blkid and/or kmod support. | |
7933 | ||
7934 | * "systemctl switch-root" is now capable of switching root | |
7935 | more than once. I.e. in addition to transitions from the | |
7936 | initrd to the host OS it is now possible to transition to | |
7937 | further OS images from the host. This is useful to implement | |
7938 | offline updating tools. | |
7939 | ||
7940 | * Various other additions have been made to the RPM macros | |
7941 | shipped with systemd. Use %udev_rules_update() after | |
7942 | installing new udev rules files. %_udevhwdbdir, | |
7943 | %_udevrulesdir, %_journalcatalogdir, %_tmpfilesdir, | |
7944 | %_sysctldir are now available which resolve to the right | |
7945 | directories for packages to place various data files in. | |
7946 | ||
7947 | * journalctl gained the new --full switch (in addition to | |
7948 | --all, to disable ellipsation for long messages. | |
7949 | ||
7950 | Contributions from: Anders Olofsson, Auke Kok, Ben Boeckel, | |
7951 | Colin Walters, Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
7952 | Eelco Dolstra, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, | |
7953 | Chun-Yi Lee, Lekensteyn, Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
7954 | Marti Raudsepp, Martin Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Michael Biebl, | |
7955 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nis Martensen, | |
7956 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Thomas | |
7957 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tony | |
7958 | Camuso, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7959 | ||
139ee8cc LP |
7960 | CHANGES WITH 195: |
7961 | ||
6827101a | 7962 | * journalctl gained new --since= and --until= switches to |
139ee8cc LP |
7963 | filter by time. It also now supports nice filtering for |
7964 | units via --unit=/-u. | |
7965 | ||
6827101a | 7966 | * Type=oneshot services may use ExecReload= and do the |
139ee8cc LP |
7967 | right thing. |
7968 | ||
7969 | * The journal daemon now supports time-based rotation and | |
7970 | vacuuming, in addition to the usual disk-space based | |
7971 | rotation. | |
7972 | ||
7973 | * The journal will now index the available field values for | |
7974 | each field name. This enables clients to show pretty drop | |
7975 | downs of available match values when filtering. The bash | |
7976 | completion of journalctl has been updated | |
7977 | accordingly. journalctl gained a new switch -F to list all | |
7978 | values a certain field takes in the journal database. | |
7979 | ||
7980 | * More service events are now written as structured messages | |
7981 | to the journal, and made recognizable via message IDs. | |
7982 | ||
7983 | * The timedated, localed and hostnamed mini-services which | |
7984 | previously only provided support for changing time, locale | |
7985 | and hostname settings from graphical DEs such as GNOME now | |
7986 | also have a minimal (but very useful) text-based client | |
7987 | utility each. This is probably the nicest way to changing | |
7988 | these settings from the command line now, especially since | |
7989 | it lists available options and is fully integrated with bash | |
7990 | completion. | |
7991 | ||
7992 | * There's now a new tool "systemd-coredumpctl" to list and | |
7993 | extract coredumps from the journal. | |
7994 | ||
7995 | * We now install a README each in /var/log/ and | |
7996 | /etc/rc.d/init.d explaining where the system logs and init | |
7997 | scripts went. This hopefully should help folks who go to | |
7998 | that dirs and look into the otherwise now empty void and | |
7999 | scratch their heads. | |
8000 | ||
8001 | * When user-services are invoked (by systemd --user) the | |
8002 | $MANAGERPID env var is set to the PID of systemd. | |
8003 | ||
8004 | * SIGRTMIN+24 when sent to a --user instance will now result | |
8005 | in immediate termination of systemd. | |
8006 | ||
8007 | * gatewayd received numerous feature additions such as a | |
8008 | "follow" mode, for live syncing and filtering. | |
8009 | ||
8010 | * browse.html now allows filtering and showing detailed | |
8011 | information on specific entries. Keyboard navigation and | |
8012 | mouse screen support has been added. | |
8013 | ||
8014 | * gatewayd/journalctl now supports HTML5/JSON | |
8015 | Server-Sent-Events as output. | |
8016 | ||
1cb88f2c | 8017 | * The SysV init script compatibility logic will now |
139ee8cc LP |
8018 | heuristically determine whether a script supports the |
8019 | "reload" verb, and only then make this available as | |
8020 | "systemctl reload". | |
8021 | ||
15f47220 | 8022 | * "systemctl status --follow" has been removed, use "journalctl |
139ee8cc LP |
8023 | -u" instead. |
8024 | ||
8025 | * journald.conf's RuntimeMinSize=, PersistentMinSize= settings | |
8026 | have been removed since they are hardly useful to be | |
8027 | configured. | |
8028 | ||
8029 | * And I'd like to take the opportunity to specifically mention | |
8030 | Zbigniew for his great contributions. Zbigniew, you rock! | |
8031 | ||
8032 | Contributions from: Andrew Eikum, Christian Hesse, Colin | |
8033 | Guthrie, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, Eelco Dolstra, Ferenc | |
4d92e078 LP |
8034 | Wágner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas |
8035 | Mikulėnas, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Michael Olbrich, | |
8036 | Michael Stapelberg, Michal Schmidt, Sebastian Ott, Thomas | |
8037 | Bächler, Umut Tezduyar, Will Woods, Wulf C. Krueger, Zbigniew | |
8038 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Сковорода Никита Андреевич | |
139ee8cc | 8039 | |
f9b55720 LP |
8040 | CHANGES WITH 194: |
8041 | ||
8042 | * If /etc/vconsole.conf is non-existent or empty we will no | |
8043 | longer load any console font or key map at boot by | |
8044 | default. Instead the kernel defaults will be left | |
8045 | intact. This is definitely the right thing to do, as no | |
8046 | configuration should mean no configuration, and hard-coding | |
8047 | font names that are different on all archs is probably a bad | |
8048 | idea. Also, the kernel default key map and font should be | |
8049 | good enough for most cases anyway, and mostly identical to | |
8050 | the userspace fonts/key maps we previously overloaded them | |
8051 | with. If distributions want to continue to default to a | |
8052 | non-kernel font or key map they should ship a default | |
8053 | /etc/vconsole.conf with the appropriate contents. | |
8054 | ||
8055 | Contributions from: Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave | |
8056 | Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Tollef | |
8057 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8058 | ||
597c52cf LP |
8059 | CHANGES WITH 193: |
8060 | ||
8061 | * journalctl gained a new --cursor= switch to show entries | |
8062 | starting from the specified location in the journal. | |
8063 | ||
8064 | * We now enforce a size limit on journal entry fields exported | |
8065 | with "-o json" in journalctl. Fields larger than 4K will be | |
8066 | assigned null. This can be turned off with --all. | |
8067 | ||
8068 | * An (optional) journal gateway daemon is now available as | |
8069 | "systemd-journal-gatewayd.service". This service provides | |
8070 | access to the journal via HTTP and JSON. This functionality | |
8071 | will be used to implement live log synchronization in both | |
8072 | pull and push modes, but has various other users too, such | |
8073 | as easy log access for debugging of embedded devices. Right | |
8074 | now it is already useful to retrieve the journal via HTTP: | |
8075 | ||
8076 | # systemctl start systemd-journal-gatewayd.service | |
8077 | # wget http://localhost:19531/entries | |
8078 | ||
8079 | This will download the journal contents in a | |
8080 | /var/log/messages compatible format. The same as JSON: | |
8081 | ||
8082 | # curl -H"Accept: application/json" http://localhost:19531/entries | |
8083 | ||
8084 | This service is also accessible via a web browser where a | |
8085 | single static HTML5 app is served that uses the JSON logic | |
8086 | to enable the user to do some basic browsing of the | |
8087 | journal. This will be extended later on. Here's an example | |
8088 | screenshot of this app in its current state: | |
8089 | ||
8090 | http://0pointer.de/public/journal-gatewayd | |
8091 | ||
8092 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Robert | |
8093 | Milasan, Tom Gundersen | |
8094 | ||
075d4ecb LP |
8095 | CHANGES WITH 192: |
8096 | ||
8097 | * The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl | |
8098 | too. | |
8099 | ||
d28315e4 | 8100 | * We do not mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with |
075d4ecb LP |
8101 | "cpu" and "cpuacct", as "cpuset" groups generally cannot be |
8102 | started if no parameters are assigned to it. "cpuset" hence | |
61233823 | 8103 | broke code that assumed it could create "cpu" groups and |
075d4ecb LP |
8104 | just start them. |
8105 | ||
8106 | * journalctl -f will now subscribe to terminal size changes, | |
8107 | and line break accordingly. | |
8108 | ||
597c52cf LP |
8109 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
8110 | Poettering, Lukas Nykrynm, Mirco Tischler, Václav Pavlín | |
075d4ecb | 8111 | |
b6a86739 LP |
8112 | CHANGES WITH 191: |
8113 | ||
8114 | * nspawn will now create a symlink /etc/localtime in the | |
8115 | container environment, copying the host's timezone | |
8116 | setting. Previously this has been done via a bind mount, but | |
8117 | since symlinks cannot be bind mounted this has now been | |
8118 | changed to create/update the appropriate symlink. | |
8119 | ||
8120 | * journalctl -n's line number argument is now optional, and | |
8121 | will default to 10 if omitted. | |
8122 | ||
8123 | * journald will now log the maximum size the journal files may | |
8124 | take up on disk. This is particularly useful if the default | |
8125 | built-in logic of determining this parameter from the file | |
8126 | system size is used. Use "systemctl status | |
6563b535 | 8127 | systemd-journald.service" to see this information. |
b6a86739 LP |
8128 | |
8129 | * The multi-seat X wrapper tool has been stripped down. As X | |
8130 | is now capable of enumerating graphics devices via udev in a | |
8131 | seat-aware way the wrapper is not strictly necessary | |
8132 | anymore. A stripped down temporary stop-gap is still shipped | |
8133 | until the upstream display managers have been updated to | |
8134 | fully support the new X logic. Expect this wrapper to be | |
6563b535 | 8135 | removed entirely in one of the next releases. |
b6a86739 LP |
8136 | |
8137 | * HandleSleepKey= in logind.conf has been split up into | |
8138 | HandleSuspendKey= and HandleHibernateKey=. The old setting | |
6563b535 | 8139 | is not available anymore. X11 and the kernel are |
45afd519 | 8140 | distinguishing between these keys and we should too. This |
b6a86739 LP |
8141 | also means the inhibition lock for these keys has been split |
8142 | into two. | |
8143 | ||
597c52cf LP |
8144 | Contributions from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart |
8145 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín | |
b6a86739 | 8146 | |
0c11f949 LP |
8147 | CHANGES WITH 190: |
8148 | ||
d28315e4 | 8149 | * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the |
0c11f949 LP |
8150 | journal and show along the unit's own log output in |
8151 | "systemctl status". | |
8152 | ||
8153 | * ConditionPathIsMountPoint= can now properly detect bind | |
8154 | mount points too. (Previously, a bind mount of one file | |
8d0256b7 | 8155 | system to another place in the same file system could not be |
0c11f949 LP |
8156 | detected as mount, since they shared struct stat's st_dev |
8157 | field.) | |
8158 | ||
8159 | * We will now mount the cgroup controllers cpu, cpuacct, | |
8160 | cpuset and the controllers net_cls, net_prio together by | |
8161 | default. | |
8162 | ||
8163 | * nspawn containers will now have a virtualized boot | |
8164 | ID. (i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id is now mounted | |
8165 | over with a randomized ID at container initialization). This | |
8166 | has the effect of making "journalctl -b" do the right thing | |
8167 | in a container. | |
8168 | ||
8169 | * The JSON output journal serialization has been updated not | |
8170 | to generate "endless" list objects anymore, but rather one | |
8171 | JSON object per line. This is more in line how most JSON | |
8172 | parsers expect JSON objects. The new output mode | |
8173 | "json-pretty" has been added to provide similar output, but | |
8174 | neatly aligned for readability by humans. | |
8175 | ||
8176 | * We dropped all explicit sync() invocations in the shutdown | |
8177 | code. The kernel does this implicitly anyway in the kernel | |
8178 | reboot() syscall. halt(8)'s -n option is now a compatibility | |
8179 | no-op. | |
8180 | ||
8181 | * We now support virtualized reboot() in containers, as | |
8182 | supported by newer kernels. We will fall back to exit() if | |
8183 | CAP_SYS_REBOOT is not available to the container. Also, | |
8184 | nspawn makes use of this now and will actually reboot the | |
8185 | container if the containerized OS asks for that. | |
8186 | ||
8187 | * journalctl will only show local log output by default | |
8188 | now. Use --merge (-m) to show remote log output, too. | |
8189 | ||
8190 | * libsystemd-journal gained the new sd_journal_get_usage() | |
8191 | call to determine the current disk usage of all journal | |
8192 | files. This is exposed in the new "journalctl --disk-usage" | |
8193 | command. | |
8194 | ||
8195 | * journald gained a new configuration setting SplitMode= in | |
8196 | journald.conf which may be used to control how user journals | |
8197 | are split off. See journald.conf(5) for details. | |
8198 | ||
8199 | * A new condition type ConditionFileNotEmpty= has been added. | |
8200 | ||
8201 | * tmpfiles' "w" lines now support file globbing, to write | |
8202 | multiple files at once. | |
8203 | ||
8204 | * We added Python bindings for the journal submission | |
8205 | APIs. More Python APIs for a number of selected APIs will | |
8206 | likely follow. Note that we intend to add native bindings | |
8207 | only for the Python language, as we consider it common | |
8208 | enough to deserve bindings shipped within systemd. There are | |
8209 | various projects outside of systemd that provide bindings | |
8210 | for languages such as PHP or Lua. | |
8211 | ||
a98d5d64 LP |
8212 | * Many conditions will now resolve specifiers such as %i. In |
8213 | addition, PathChanged= and related directives of .path units | |
8214 | now support specifiers as well. | |
0c11f949 LP |
8215 | |
8216 | * There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset | |
8217 | dir: %_presetdir. | |
8218 | ||
d28315e4 | 8219 | * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the |
dca348bc | 8220 | syslog daemon because its socket is full. |
0c11f949 LP |
8221 | |
8222 | * timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone, | |
8223 | except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr | |
8224 | anymore /etc/localtime always being a symlink is now safe, | |
8225 | and hence the information in /etc/timezone is not necessary | |
8226 | anymore. | |
8227 | ||
aaccc32c | 8228 | * logind will now always reserve one VT for a text getty (VT6 |
0c11f949 LP |
8229 | by default). Previously if more than 6 X sessions where |
8230 | started they took up all the VTs with auto-spawned gettys, | |
8231 | so that no text gettys were available anymore. | |
8232 | ||
8233 | * udev will now automatically inform the btrfs kernel logic | |
8234 | about btrfs RAID components showing up. This should make | |
8235 | simple hotplug based btrfs RAID assembly work. | |
8236 | ||
8237 | * PID 1 will now increase its RLIMIT_NOFILE to 64K by default | |
8238 | (but not for its children which will stay at the kernel | |
8239 | default). This should allow setups with a lot more listening | |
8240 | sockets. | |
8241 | ||
8242 | * systemd will now always pass the configured timezone to the | |
8243 | kernel at boot. timedated will do the same when the timezone | |
8244 | is changed. | |
8245 | ||
8246 | * logind's inhibition logic has been updated. By default, | |
8247 | logind will now handle the lid switch, the power and sleep | |
8248 | keys all the time, even in graphical sessions. If DEs want | |
8249 | to handle these events on their own they should take the new | |
8250 | handle-power-key, handle-sleep-key and handle-lid-switch | |
f131770b | 8251 | inhibitors during their runtime. A simple way to achieve |
0c11f949 LP |
8252 | that is to invoke the DE wrapped in an invocation of: |
8253 | ||
8254 | systemd-inhibit --what=handle-power-key:handle-sleep-key:handle-lid-switch ... | |
8255 | ||
8256 | * Access to unit operations is now checked via SELinux taking | |
8257 | the unit file label and client process label into account. | |
8258 | ||
aad803af LP |
8259 | * systemd will now notify the administrator in the journal |
8260 | when he over-mounts a non-empty directory. | |
8261 | ||
8262 | * There are new specifiers that are resolved in unit files, | |
8263 | for the host name (%H), the machine ID (%m) and the boot ID | |
8264 | (%b). | |
8265 | ||
b6a86739 | 8266 | Contributions from: Allin Cottrell, Auke Kok, Brandon Philips, |
0c11f949 LP |
8267 | Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, |
8268 | Eelco Dolstra, Jan Engelhardt, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
8269 | Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
8270 | Martin Pitt, Matthias Clasen, Michael Olbrich, Pierre Schmitz, | |
8271 | Shawn Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
8272 | Václav Pavlín, Yin Kangkai, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8273 | ||
38a60d71 LP |
8274 | CHANGES WITH 189: |
8275 | ||
8276 | * Support for reading structured kernel messages from | |
8277 | /dev/kmsg has now been added and is enabled by default. | |
8278 | ||
8279 | * Support for reading kernel messages from /proc/kmsg has now | |
8280 | been removed. If you want kernel messages in the journal | |
8281 | make sure to run a recent kernel (>= 3.5) that supports | |
8282 | reading structured messages from /dev/kmsg (see | |
8283 | above). /proc/kmsg is now exclusive property of classic | |
8284 | syslog daemons again. | |
8285 | ||
8286 | * The libudev API gained the new | |
8287 | udev_device_new_from_device_id() call. | |
8288 | ||
8289 | * The logic for file system namespace (ReadOnlyDirectory=, | |
8290 | ReadWriteDirectoy=, PrivateTmp=) has been reworked not to | |
8291 | require pivot_root() anymore. This means fewer temporary | |
8292 | directories are created below /tmp for this feature. | |
8293 | ||
8294 | * nspawn containers will now see and receive all submounts | |
8295 | made on the host OS below the root file system of the | |
8296 | container. | |
8297 | ||
8298 | * Forward Secure Sealing is now supported for Journal files, | |
8299 | which provide cryptographical sealing of journal files so | |
8300 | that attackers cannot alter log history anymore without this | |
8301 | being detectable. Lennart will soon post a blog story about | |
8302 | this explaining it in more detail. | |
8303 | ||
8304 | * There are two new service settings RestartPreventExitStatus= | |
8305 | and SuccessExitStatus= which allow configuration of exit | |
8306 | status (exit code or signal) which will be excepted from the | |
8307 | restart logic, resp. consider successful. | |
8308 | ||
8309 | * journalctl gained the new --verify switch that can be used | |
8310 | to check the integrity of the structure of journal files and | |
8311 | (if Forward Secure Sealing is enabled) the contents of | |
8312 | journal files. | |
8313 | ||
8314 | * nspawn containers will now be run with /dev/stdin, /dev/fd/ | |
8315 | and similar symlinks pre-created. This makes running shells | |
8316 | as container init process a lot more fun. | |
8317 | ||
8318 | * The fstab support can now handle PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= | |
8319 | entries. | |
8320 | ||
8321 | * A new ConditionHost= condition has been added to match | |
8322 | against the hostname (with globs) and machine ID. This is | |
8323 | useful for clusters where a single OS image is used to | |
8324 | provision a large number of hosts which shall run slightly | |
8325 | different sets of services. | |
8326 | ||
8327 | * Services which hit the restart limit will now be placed in a | |
8328 | failure state. | |
8329 | ||
b6a86739 | 8330 | Contributions from: Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang |
38a60d71 LP |
8331 | Hang, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin |
8332 | Pitt, Simon Peeters, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8333 | ||
c269cec3 LP |
8334 | CHANGES WITH 188: |
8335 | ||
8336 | * When running in --user mode systemd will now become a | |
8337 | subreaper (PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER). This should make the ps | |
8338 | tree a lot more organized. | |
8339 | ||
8340 | * A new PartOf= unit dependency type has been introduced that | |
8341 | may be used to group services in a natural way. | |
8342 | ||
8343 | * "systemctl enable" may now be used to enable instances of | |
8344 | services. | |
8345 | ||
8346 | * journalctl now prints error log levels in red, and | |
8347 | warning/notice log levels in bright white. It also supports | |
8348 | filtering by log level now. | |
8349 | ||
8350 | * cgtop gained a new -n switch (similar to top), to configure | |
8351 | the maximum number of iterations to run for. It also gained | |
8352 | -b, to run in batch mode (accepting no input). | |
8353 | ||
ab06eef8 | 8354 | * The suffix ".service" may now be omitted on most systemctl |
c269cec3 LP |
8355 | command lines involving service unit names. |
8356 | ||
8357 | * There's a new bus call in logind to lock all sessions, as | |
8358 | well as a loginctl verb for it "lock-sessions". | |
8359 | ||
8360 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call sd_journal_perror() | |
8361 | that works similar to libc perror() but logs to the journal | |
8362 | and encodes structured information about the error number. | |
8363 | ||
8364 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-size= | |
8365 | option. | |
8366 | ||
8367 | * shutdown(8) now can send a (configurable) wall message when | |
8368 | a shutdown is cancelled. | |
8369 | ||
8370 | * The mount propagation mode for the root file system will now | |
8371 | default to "shared", which is useful to make containers work | |
8372 | nicely out-of-the-box so that they receive new mounts from | |
8373 | the host. This can be undone locally by running "mount | |
8374 | --make-rprivate /" if needed. | |
8375 | ||
8376 | * The prefdm.service file has been removed. Distributions | |
8377 | should maintain this unit downstream if they intend to keep | |
8378 | it around. However, we recommend writing normal unit files | |
8379 | for display managers instead. | |
8380 | ||
8381 | * Since systemd is a crucial part of the OS we will now | |
8382 | default to a number of compiler switches that improve | |
8383 | security (hardening) such as read-only relocations, stack | |
8384 | protection, and suchlike. | |
8385 | ||
8386 | * The TimeoutSec= setting for services is now split into | |
8387 | TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec= to allow configuration | |
8388 | of individual time outs for the start and the stop phase of | |
8389 | the service. | |
8390 | ||
8391 | Contributions from: Artur Zaprzala, Arvydas Sidorenko, Auke | |
8392 | Kok, Bryan Kadzban, Dave Reisner, David Strauss, Harald Hoyer, | |
8393 | Jim Meyering, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mantas | |
8394 | Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Peter | |
8395 | Alfredsen, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, Terence Honles, Tom | |
8396 | Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8397 | ||
c4f1b862 LP |
8398 | CHANGES WITH 187: |
8399 | ||
8400 | * The journal and id128 C APIs are now fully documented as man | |
8401 | pages. | |
8402 | ||
8403 | * Extra safety checks have been added when transitioning from | |
8404 | the initial RAM disk to the main system to avoid accidental | |
8405 | data loss. | |
8406 | ||
c269cec3 | 8407 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-offset= |
c4f1b862 LP |
8408 | option. |
8409 | ||
8410 | * systemctl -t can now be used to filter by unit load state. | |
8411 | ||
8412 | * The journal C API gained the new sd_journal_wait() call to | |
8413 | make writing synchronous journal clients easier. | |
8414 | ||
8415 | * journalctl gained the new -D switch to show journals from a | |
8416 | specific directory. | |
8417 | ||
8418 | * journalctl now displays a special marker between log | |
8419 | messages of two different boots. | |
8420 | ||
8421 | * The journal is now explicitly flushed to /var via a service | |
8422 | systemd-journal-flush.service, rather than implicitly simply | |
8423 | by seeing /var/log/journal to be writable. | |
8424 | ||
8425 | * journalctl (and the journal C APIs) can now match for much | |
8426 | more complex expressions, with alternatives and | |
8427 | disjunctions. | |
8428 | ||
8429 | * When transitioning from the initial RAM disk to the main | |
8430 | system we will now kill all processes in a killing spree to | |
8431 | ensure no processes stay around by accident. | |
8432 | ||
8433 | * Three new specifiers may be used in unit files: %u, %h, %s | |
8434 | resolve to the user name, user home directory resp. user | |
8435 | shell. This is useful for running systemd user instances. | |
8436 | ||
8437 | * We now automatically rotate journal files if their data | |
8438 | object hash table gets a fill level > 75%. We also size the | |
8439 | hash table based on the configured maximum file size. This | |
8440 | together should lower hash collisions drastically and thus | |
8441 | speed things up a bit. | |
8442 | ||
8443 | * journalctl gained the new "--header" switch to introspect | |
8444 | header data of journal files. | |
8445 | ||
8446 | * A new setting SystemCallFilters= has been added to services | |
8447 | which may be used to apply blacklists or whitelists to | |
8448 | system calls. This is based on SECCOMP Mode 2 of Linux 3.5. | |
8449 | ||
8450 | * nspawn gained a new --link-journal= switch (and quicker: -j) | |
8451 | to link the container journal with the host. This makes it | |
8452 | very easy to centralize log viewing on the host for all | |
8453 | guests while still keeping the journal files separated. | |
8454 | ||
8455 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations | |
8456 | ||
8457 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Harald Hoyer, Kay | |
8458 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Paul Menzel, Rex | |
8459 | Tsai, Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
8460 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8461 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
8462 | CHANGES WITH 186: |
8463 | ||
8464 | * Several tools now understand kernel command line arguments, | |
8465 | which are only read when run in an initial RAM disk. They | |
8466 | usually follow closely their normal counterparts, but are | |
8467 | prefixed with rd. | |
8468 | ||
8469 | * There's a new tool to analyze the readahead files that are | |
8470 | automatically generated at boot. Use: | |
8471 | ||
8472 | /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead analyze /.readahead | |
8473 | ||
8474 | * We now provide an early debug shell on tty9 if this enabled. Use: | |
8475 | ||
d1f9edaf | 8476 | systemctl enable debug-shell.service |
b5b4c94a LP |
8477 | |
8478 | * All plymouth related units have been moved into the Plymouth | |
8479 | package. Please make sure to upgrade your Plymouth version | |
8480 | as well. | |
8481 | ||
8482 | * systemd-tmpfiles now supports getting passed the basename of | |
8483 | a configuration file only, in which case it will look for it | |
8484 | in all appropriate directories automatically. | |
8485 | ||
8486 | * udevadm info now takes a /dev or /sys path as argument, and | |
8487 | does the right thing. Example: | |
8488 | ||
8489 | udevadm info /dev/sda | |
8490 | udevadm info /sys/class/block/sda | |
8491 | ||
8492 | * systemctl now prints a warning if a unit is stopped but a | |
8493 | unit that might trigger it continues to run. Example: a | |
8494 | service is stopped but the socket that activates it is left | |
8495 | running. | |
8496 | ||
8497 | * "systemctl status" will now mention if the log output was | |
8498 | shortened due to rotation since a service has been started. | |
8499 | ||
8500 | * The journal API now exposes functions to determine the | |
8501 | "cutoff" times due to rotation. | |
8502 | ||
8503 | * journald now understands SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for triggering | |
8504 | immediately flushing of runtime logs to /var if possible, | |
8505 | resp. for triggering immediate rotation of the journal | |
8506 | files. | |
8507 | ||
8508 | * It is now considered an error if a service is attempted to | |
8509 | be stopped that is not loaded. | |
8510 | ||
8511 | * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR now uses numeric UIDs instead of usernames. | |
8512 | ||
8513 | * systemd-analyze now supports Python 3 | |
8514 | ||
8515 | * tmpfiles now supports cleaning up directories via aging | |
8516 | where the first level dirs are always kept around but | |
8517 | directories beneath it automatically aged. This is enabled | |
8518 | by prefixing the age field with '~'. | |
8519 | ||
8520 | * Seat objects now expose CanGraphical, CanTTY properties | |
8521 | which is required to deal with very fast bootups where the | |
8522 | display manager might be running before the graphics drivers | |
8523 | completed initialization. | |
8524 | ||
8525 | * Seat objects now expose a State property. | |
8526 | ||
8527 | * We now include RPM macros for service enabling/disabling | |
8528 | based on the preset logic. We recommend RPM based | |
8529 | distributions to make use of these macros if possible. This | |
8530 | makes it simpler to reuse RPM spec files across | |
8531 | distributions. | |
8532 | ||
8533 | * We now make sure that the collected systemd unit name is | |
8534 | always valid when services log to the journal via | |
8535 | STDOUT/STDERR. | |
8536 | ||
8537 | * There's a new man page kernel-command-line(7) detailing all | |
8538 | command line options we understand. | |
8539 | ||
8540 | * The fstab generator may now be disabled at boot by passing | |
8541 | fstab=0 on the kernel command line. | |
8542 | ||
91ac7425 | 8543 | * A new kernel command line option modules-load= is now understood |
b5b4c94a LP |
8544 | to load a specific kernel module statically, early at boot. |
8545 | ||
8546 | * Unit names specified on the systemctl command line are now | |
8547 | automatically escaped as needed. Also, if file system or | |
8548 | device paths are specified they are automatically turned | |
8549 | into the appropriate mount or device unit names. Example: | |
8550 | ||
8551 | systemctl status /home | |
8552 | systemctl status /dev/sda | |
8553 | ||
8554 | * The SysVConsole= configuration option has been removed from | |
8555 | system.conf parsing. | |
8556 | ||
8557 | * The SysV search path is no longer exported on the D-Bus | |
8558 | Manager object. | |
8559 | ||
ce830873 | 8560 | * The Names= option has been removed from unit file parsing. |
b5b4c94a LP |
8561 | |
8562 | * There's a new man page bootup(7) detailing the boot process. | |
8563 | ||
8564 | * Every unit and every generator we ship with systemd now | |
8565 | comes with full documentation. The self-explanatory boot is | |
8566 | complete. | |
8567 | ||
8568 | * A couple of services gained "systemd-" prefixes in their | |
8569 | name if they wrap systemd code, rather than only external | |
8570 | code. Among them fsck@.service which is now | |
8571 | systemd-fsck@.service. | |
8572 | ||
8573 | * The HaveWatchdog property has been removed from the D-Bus | |
8574 | Manager object. | |
8575 | ||
8576 | * systemd.confirm_spawn= on the kernel command line should now | |
8577 | work sensibly. | |
8578 | ||
8579 | * There's a new man page crypttab(5) which details all options | |
8580 | we actually understand. | |
8581 | ||
8582 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --capability= switch to pass | |
8583 | additional capabilities to the container. | |
8584 | ||
8585 | * timedated will now read known NTP implementation unit names | |
5b00c016 | 8586 | from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list, |
b5b4c94a LP |
8587 | systemd-timedated-ntp.target has been removed. |
8588 | ||
8589 | * journalctl gained a new switch "-b" that lists log data of | |
8590 | the current boot only. | |
8591 | ||
8592 | * The notify socket is in the abstract namespace again, in | |
8593 | order to support daemons which chroot() at start-up. | |
8594 | ||
8595 | * There is a new Storage= configuration option for journald | |
8596 | which allows configuration of where log data should go. This | |
8597 | also provides a way to disable journal logging entirely, so | |
8598 | that data collected is only forwarded to the console, the | |
8599 | kernel log buffer or another syslog implementation. | |
8600 | ||
c4f1b862 | 8601 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations |
b5b4c94a | 8602 | |
2d938ac7 LP |
8603 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Dave Reisner, |
8604 | David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
8605 | Lukas Nykryn, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Paul Menzel, | |
8606 | Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen | |
b5b4c94a | 8607 | |
2d197285 | 8608 | CHANGES WITH 185: |
b6a86739 | 8609 | |
2d197285 KS |
8610 | * "systemctl help <unit>" now shows the man page if one is |
8611 | available. | |
8612 | ||
8613 | * Several new man pages have been added. | |
8614 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
8615 | * MaxLevelStore=, MaxLevelSyslog=, MaxLevelKMsg=, |
8616 | MaxLevelConsole= can now be specified in | |
8617 | journald.conf. These options allow reducing the amount of | |
8618 | data stored on disk or forwarded by the log level. | |
2d197285 | 8619 | |
b5b4c94a LP |
8620 | * TimerSlackNSec= can now be specified in system.conf for |
8621 | PID1. This allows system-wide power savings. | |
2d197285 KS |
8622 | |
8623 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lauri Kasanen, | |
8624 | Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
8625 | Matthias Clasen | |
8626 | ||
4c8cd173 | 8627 | CHANGES WITH 184: |
b6a86739 | 8628 | |
4c8cd173 LP |
8629 | * logind is now capable of (optionally) handling power and |
8630 | sleep keys as well as the lid switch. | |
8631 | ||
8632 | * journalctl now understands the syntax "journalctl | |
8633 | /usr/bin/avahi-daemon" to get all log output of a specific | |
8634 | daemon. | |
8635 | ||
8636 | * CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf now also influences | |
8637 | the capability bound set of usermode helpers of the kernel. | |
8638 | ||
8639 | Contributions from: Daniel Drake, Daniel J. Walsh, Gert | |
8640 | Michael Kulyk, Harald Hoyer, Jean Delvare, Kay Sievers, | |
8641 | Lennart Poettering, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Clasen, Paul | |
8642 | Menzel, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Tom Gundersen | |
8643 | ||
ea5943d3 | 8644 | CHANGES WITH 183: |
b6a86739 | 8645 | |
187076d4 LP |
8646 | * Note that we skipped 139 releases here in order to set the |
8647 | new version to something that is greater than both udev's | |
8648 | and systemd's most recent version number. | |
8649 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
8650 | * udev: all udev sources are merged into the systemd source tree now. |
8651 | All future udev development will happen in the systemd tree. It | |
8652 | is still fully supported to use the udev daemon and tools without | |
8653 | systemd running, like in initramfs or other init systems. Building | |
8654 | udev though, will require the *build* of the systemd tree, but | |
ea5943d3 | 8655 | udev can be properly *run* without systemd. |
07cd4fc1 | 8656 | |
91cf7e5c | 8657 | * udev: /lib/udev/devices/ are not read anymore; systemd-tmpfiles |
f13b388f KS |
8658 | should be used to create dead device nodes as workarounds for broken |
8659 | subsystems. | |
64661ee7 | 8660 | |
2d13da88 KS |
8661 | * udev: RUN+="socket:..." and udev_monitor_new_from_socket() is |
8662 | no longer supported. udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() needs to be | |
8663 | used to subscribe to events. | |
8664 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
8665 | * udev: when udevd is started by systemd, processes which are left |
8666 | behind by forking them off of udev rules, are unconditionally cleaned | |
8667 | up and killed now after the event handling has finished. Services or | |
8668 | daemons must be started as systemd services. Services can be | |
ea5943d3 | 8669 | pulled-in by udev to get started, but they can no longer be directly |
194bbe33 KS |
8670 | forked by udev rules. |
8671 | ||
f13b388f KS |
8672 | * udev: the daemon binary is called systemd-udevd now and installed |
8673 | in /usr/lib/systemd/. Standalone builds or non-systemd systems need | |
8674 | to adapt to that, create symlink, or rename the binary after building | |
8675 | it. | |
8676 | ||
ea5943d3 | 8677 | * libudev no longer provides these symbols: |
c1959569 KS |
8678 | udev_monitor_from_socket() |
8679 | udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry() | |
8680 | udev_get_{dev,sys,run}_path() | |
ea5943d3 | 8681 | The versions number was bumped and symbol versioning introduced. |
c1959569 | 8682 | |
ea5943d3 | 8683 | * systemd-loginctl and systemd-journalctl have been renamed |
9ae9afce | 8684 | to loginctl and journalctl to match systemctl. |
18b754d3 KS |
8685 | |
8686 | * The config files: /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf and | |
8687 | /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf have been renamed to | |
8688 | logind.conf and journald.conf. Package updates should rename | |
8689 | the files to the new names on upgrade. | |
8690 | ||
ea5943d3 LP |
8691 | * For almost all files the license is now LGPL2.1+, changed |
8692 | from the previous GPL2.0+. Exceptions are some minor stuff | |
8693 | of udev (which will be changed to LGPL2.1 eventually, too), | |
8694 | and the MIT licensed sd-daemon.[ch] library that is suitable | |
8695 | to be used as drop-in files. | |
8696 | ||
8697 | * systemd and logind now handle system sleep states, in | |
49f43d5f | 8698 | particular suspending and hibernating. |
ea5943d3 LP |
8699 | |
8700 | * logind now implements a sleep/shutdown/idle inhibiting logic | |
8701 | suitable for a variety of uses. Soonishly Lennart will blog | |
8702 | about this in more detail. | |
8703 | ||
8704 | * var-run.mount and var-lock.mount are no longer provided | |
ce830873 | 8705 | (which previously bind mounted these directories to their new |
ea5943d3 LP |
8706 | places). Distributions which have not converted these |
8707 | directories to symlinks should consider stealing these files | |
8708 | from git history and add them downstream. | |
8709 | ||
8710 | * We introduced the Documentation= field for units and added | |
8711 | this to all our shipped units. This is useful to make it | |
3943231c | 8712 | easier to explore the boot and the purpose of the various |
ea5943d3 LP |
8713 | units. |
8714 | ||
8715 | * All smaller setup units (such as | |
8716 | systemd-vconsole-setup.service) now detect properly if they | |
8717 | are run in a container and are skipped when | |
8718 | appropriate. This guarantees an entirely noise-free boot in | |
8719 | Linux container environments such as systemd-nspawn. | |
8720 | ||
8721 | * A framework for implementing offline system updates is now | |
8722 | integrated, for details see: | |
c6749ba5 | 8723 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates |
ea5943d3 LP |
8724 | |
8725 | * A new service type Type=idle is available now which helps us | |
8726 | avoiding ugly interleaving of getty output and boot status | |
8727 | messages. | |
8728 | ||
439d6dfd LP |
8729 | * There's now a system-wide CapabilityBoundingSet= option to |
8730 | globally reduce the set of capabilities for the | |
ea5943d3 LP |
8731 | system. This is useful to drop CAP_SYS_MKNOD, CAP_SYS_RAWIO, |
8732 | CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_SYS_MODULE, CAP_SYS_TIME, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or | |
8733 | even CAP_NET_ADMIN system-wide for secure systems. | |
8734 | ||
8735 | * There are now system-wide DefaultLimitXXX= options to | |
8736 | globally change the defaults of the various resource limits | |
8737 | for all units started by PID 1. | |
8738 | ||
8739 | * Harald Hoyer's systemd test suite has been integrated into | |
8740 | systemd which allows easy testing of systemd builds in qemu | |
8741 | and nspawn. (This is really awesome! Ask us for details!) | |
8742 | ||
3943231c LP |
8743 | * The fstab parser is now implemented as generator, not inside |
8744 | of PID 1 anymore. | |
ea5943d3 LP |
8745 | |
8746 | * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from | |
8747 | /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that | |
d28315e4 | 8748 | have not been read by systemd yet. |
ea5943d3 LP |
8749 | |
8750 | * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has | |
8751 | already been updated to make use of this. With this in place | |
8752 | initrds get a slight bit faster but primarily are much | |
8753 | easier to introspect and debug since "systemctl status" in | |
8754 | the host system can be used to introspect initrd services, | |
8755 | and the journal from the initrd is kept around too. | |
8756 | ||
8757 | * systemd-delta has been added, a tool to explore differences | |
8758 | between user/admin configuration and vendor defaults. | |
8759 | ||
8760 | * PrivateTmp= now affects both /tmp and /var/tmp. | |
8761 | ||
8762 | * Boot time status messages are now much prettier and feature | |
8763 | proper english language. Booting up systemd has never been | |
8764 | so sexy. | |
8765 | ||
8766 | * Read-ahead pack files now include the inode number of all | |
8767 | files to pre-cache. When the inode changes the pre-caching | |
8768 | is not attempted. This should be nicer to deal with updated | |
8769 | packages which might result in changes of read-ahead | |
8770 | patterns. | |
8771 | ||
8772 | * We now temporaritly lower the kernel's read_ahead_kb variable | |
8773 | when collecting read-ahead data to ensure the kernel's | |
8774 | built-in read-ahead does not add noise to our measurements | |
8775 | of necessary blocks to pre-cache. | |
8776 | ||
8777 | * There's now RequiresMountsFor= to add automatic dependencies | |
8778 | for all mounts necessary for a specific file system path. | |
8779 | ||
8780 | * MountAuto= and SwapAuto= have been removed from | |
8781 | system.conf. Mounting file systems at boot has to take place | |
8782 | in systemd now. | |
8783 | ||
8784 | * nspawn now learned a new switch --uuid= to set the machine | |
8785 | ID on the command line. | |
8786 | ||
f8c0a2cb | 8787 | * nspawn now learned the -b switch to automatically search |
ea5943d3 LP |
8788 | for an init system. |
8789 | ||
8790 | * vt102 is now the default TERM for serial TTYs, upgraded from | |
8791 | vt100. | |
8792 | ||
8793 | * systemd-logind now works on VT-less systems. | |
8794 | ||
8795 | * The build tree has been reorganized. The individual | |
3943231c | 8796 | components now have directories of their own. |
ea5943d3 LP |
8797 | |
8798 | * A new condition type ConditionPathIsReadWrite= is now available. | |
8799 | ||
8800 | * nspawn learned the new -C switch to create cgroups for the | |
8801 | container in other hierarchies. | |
8802 | ||
8803 | * We now have support for hardware watchdogs, configurable in | |
8804 | system.conf. | |
8805 | ||
8806 | * The scheduled shutdown logic now has a public API. | |
8807 | ||
8808 | * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be | |
8809 | masked and /etc/fstab can override it. | |
8810 | ||
d28315e4 | 8811 | * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not |
ea5943d3 LP |
8812 | mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. |
8813 | ||
8814 | * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave | |
8815 | locally generated journal files. | |
8816 | ||
8817 | * We can now load the IMA policy at boot automatically. | |
8818 | ||
8819 | * The GTK tools have been split off into a systemd-ui. | |
8820 | ||
79849bf9 LP |
8821 | Contributions from: Andreas Schwab, Auke Kok, Ayan George, |
8822 | Colin Guthrie, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Ward, Elan | |
8823 | Ruusamäe, Frederic Crozat, Gergely Nagy, Guillermo Vidal, | |
8824 | Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Javier Jardón, Kay Sievers, | |
8825 | Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Léo Gillot-Lamure, | |
8826 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Maxim | |
8827 | A. Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
8828 | Schmidt, Nis Martensen, Patrick McCarty, Roberto Sassu, Shawn | |
8829 | Landden, Sjoerd Simons, Sven Anders, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
8830 | Gundersen | |
8831 | ||
16f1239e | 8832 | CHANGES WITH 44: |
b6a86739 | 8833 | |
16f1239e LP |
8834 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
8835 | ||
8836 | * Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the | |
8837 | KVM or container configured UUID. | |
8838 | ||
8839 | * Support immediate reboots with "systemctl reboot -ff" | |
8840 | ||
8841 | * Show /etc/os-release data in systemd-analyze output | |
8842 | ||
ab06eef8 | 8843 | * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianness fixes and |
16f1239e LP |
8844 | ensuring that disk space enforcement works |
8845 | ||
ce830873 | 8846 | * sd-login.h is C++ compatible again |
16f1239e LP |
8847 | |
8848 | * Extend the /etc/os-release format on request of the Debian | |
8849 | folks | |
8850 | ||
8851 | * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration | |
d28315e4 | 8852 | and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid |
16f1239e LP |
8853 | data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. |
8854 | ||
8855 | * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat | |
8856 | configuration | |
8857 | ||
8858 | * Read SELinux client context from journal clients in a race | |
8859 | free fashion | |
8860 | ||
8861 | * Reorder configuration file lookup order. /etc now always | |
8862 | overrides /run in order to allow the administrator to always | |
b938cb90 | 8863 | and unconditionally override vendor-supplied or |
16f1239e LP |
8864 | automatically generated data. |
8865 | ||
8866 | * The various user visible bits of the journal now have man | |
8867 | pages. We still lack man pages for the journal API calls | |
8868 | however. | |
8869 | ||
8870 | * We now ship all man pages in HTML format again in the | |
8871 | tarball. | |
8872 | ||
8873 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Dirk Eibach, Frederic | |
8874 | Crozat, Harald Hoyer, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marti | |
8875 | Raudsepp, Michal Schmidt, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Thierry | |
8876 | Reding | |
8877 | ||
437b7dee | 8878 | CHANGES WITH 43: |
b6a86739 | 8879 | |
437b7dee LP |
8880 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
8881 | ||
8882 | * systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported. | |
8883 | ||
8884 | * Various functionality updates to libsystemd-login.so | |
8885 | ||
45afd519 | 8886 | * Track class of PAM logins to distinguish greeters from |
437b7dee LP |
8887 | normal user logins. |
8888 | ||
8889 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael | |
8890 | Biebl | |
8891 | ||
204fa33c | 8892 | CHANGES WITH 42: |
b6a86739 | 8893 | |
204fa33c LP |
8894 | * This is an important bugfix release for v41. |
8895 | ||
8896 | * Building man pages is now optional which should be useful | |
8897 | for those building systemd from git but unwilling to install | |
8898 | xsltproc. | |
8899 | ||
8900 | * Watchdog support for supervising services is now usable. In | |
8901 | a future release support for hardware watchdogs | |
8902 | (i.e. /dev/watchdog) will be added building on this. | |
8903 | ||
8904 | * Service start rate limiting is now configurable and can be | |
8905 | turned off per service. When a start rate limit is hit a | |
8906 | reboot can automatically be triggered. | |
8907 | ||
8908 | * New CanReboot(), CanPowerOff() bus calls in systemd-logind. | |
8909 | ||
8910 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Bill Nottingham, | |
8911 | Frederic Crozat, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
8912 | Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg | |
8913 | ||
e0d25329 | 8914 | CHANGES WITH 41: |
b6a86739 | 8915 | |
e0d25329 KS |
8916 | * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now; |
8917 | An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the | |
8918 | package update. | |
8919 | ||
b13df964 LP |
8920 | * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke |
8921 | libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not | |
8922 | support systems with module-init-tools anymore. | |
8923 | ||
8924 | * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not | |
8925 | complete. | |
8926 | ||
8927 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is | |
8928 | understood to set system wide environment variables | |
8929 | dynamically at boot. | |
8930 | ||
e9c1ea9d | 8931 | * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. |
ccd07a08 | 8932 | |
353e12c2 LP |
8933 | * We now set SIGPIPE to ignore by default, since it only is |
8934 | useful in shell pipelines, and has little use in general | |
8935 | code. This can be disabled with IgnoreSIPIPE=no in unit | |
8936 | files. | |
8937 | ||
b13df964 LP |
8938 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
8939 | Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen, | |
8940 | William Douglas | |
8941 | ||
d26e4270 | 8942 | CHANGES WITH 40: |
b6a86739 | 8943 | |
d26e4270 LP |
8944 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
8945 | ||
8946 | * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the | |
8947 | "Result" D-Bus property. | |
8948 | ||
8949 | * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over | |
8950 | the next few releases.) | |
8951 | ||
8952 | * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will | |
8953 | now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process | |
8954 | it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window | |
8955 | with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful | |
8956 | ||
b13df964 LP |
8957 | Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay |
8958 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, | |
8959 | Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode | |
8960 | ||
220a21d3 | 8961 | CHANGES WITH 39: |
b6a86739 | 8962 | |
220a21d3 LP |
8963 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
8964 | bugfixes. | |
8965 | ||
8966 | * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their | |
8967 | resource usage. | |
8968 | ||
8969 | * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If | |
8970 | disabled, support tracking device access for active logins | |
8971 | goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user | |
8972 | journals by the respective users. | |
8973 | ||
8974 | * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically | |
8975 | owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access | |
8976 | to the system journal as well as all user journals. | |
8977 | ||
8978 | * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging | |
8979 | client for all entries. | |
8980 | ||
8981 | * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers | |
8982 | ||
8983 | * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text | |
8984 | messages, without any meta data like date or time. | |
8985 | ||
8986 | * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to | |
8987 | teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display | |
8988 | managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg | |
8989 | learned native udev hotplugging for display devices. | |
8990 | ||
8991 | * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs | |
8992 | with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as | |
8993 | BSD logger replacement, and does so by default. | |
8994 | ||
8995 | * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the | |
8996 | journal along with meta data. | |
8997 | ||
8998 | * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for | |
8999 | writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for | |
9000 | creating symlinks, character and block device nodes. | |
9001 | ||
9002 | * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups | |
9003 | persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in | |
56cadcb6 | 9004 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups |
220a21d3 LP |
9005 | |
9006 | * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way | |
9007 | ||
9008 | * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on | |
9009 | rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to | |
9010 | death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, | |
9011 | or fsck. | |
9012 | ||
d28315e4 | 9013 | * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless |
220a21d3 LP |
9014 | requested with new -k switch. |
9015 | ||
9016 | Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
9017 | Poettering, Michal Schmidt | |
9018 | ||
9019 | CHANGES WITH 38: | |
b6a86739 | 9020 | |
220a21d3 LP |
9021 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
9022 | bugfixes. | |
9023 | ||
9024 | * The git repository moved to: | |
9025 | git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd | |
9026 | ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd | |
9027 | ||
9028 | * First release with the journal | |
9029 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html | |
9030 | ||
9031 | * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and | |
9032 | systemd-stdout-bridge. | |
9033 | ||
9034 | * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind | |
9035 | ||
9036 | * Many systemadm clean-ups | |
9037 | ||
9038 | * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all | |
9039 | remote mounts and may be used to start services before all | |
9040 | remote mounts. | |
9041 | ||
9042 | * Added Mageia support | |
9043 | ||
9044 | * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl | |
9045 | ||
9046 | * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in | |
9047 | the parent process before having finished writing the PID | |
9048 | file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be | |
9049 | fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the | |
9050 | parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them. | |
9051 | ||
9052 | * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output | |
9053 | of existing distributions. | |
9054 | ||
9055 | * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for | |
9056 | compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage. | |
9057 | ||
9058 | * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and | |
9059 | thus will no longer act as synchronization point during | |
9060 | boot. | |
9061 | ||
9062 | * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=. | |
9063 | ||
9064 | * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for | |
9065 | relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is | |
9066 | useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys, | |
9067 | among other things. | |
9068 | ||
9069 | * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console | |
9070 | and the journal by default, not only just the console. | |
9071 | ||
9072 | * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login. | |
9073 | ||
ce830873 | 9074 | * The build tree got reorganized and the build system is a |
220a21d3 LP |
9075 | lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically |
9076 | select the components of systemd they are interested in. | |
9077 | ||
9078 | * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is | |
9079 | restored. | |
9080 | ||
9081 | * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to | |
9082 | --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and | |
9083 | kmod | |
9084 | ||
d28315e4 | 9085 | * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead |
220a21d3 LP |
9086 | of /usr/local by default. |
9087 | ||
9088 | * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the | |
9089 | final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained | |
9090 | in: | |
56cadcb6 | 9091 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons |
220a21d3 LP |
9092 | |
9093 | * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter | |
9094 | the START or START_PRE states are now killed with | |
9095 | SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn | |
9096 | background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never | |
9097 | supported anyway, and bad style). | |
9098 | ||
9099 | * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind | |
9100 | reloading of units together. | |
9101 | ||
4c8cd173 | 9102 | Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel J. Walsh, Dave |
220a21d3 LP |
9103 | Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay |
9104 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
9105 | Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef | |
9106 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |