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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
16 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
18 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
21 Features:
22
23 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
24
25 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
26 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
27 container manager)
28
29 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
30
31 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
32 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
33
34 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
35 so, freeze the payload too.
36
37 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
38
39 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
40 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
41 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
42
43 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
44 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
45 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
46
47 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
48
49 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
50
51 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
52 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
53
54 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
55 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
56 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
57 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
58 anything like that.
59
60 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
61 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
62 user's journal stream down but not the others.
63
64 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
65 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
66 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
67
68 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
69 these days
70
71 * nspawn: support time namespaces
72
73 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
74 reading/writing files
75
76 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
77
78 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
79 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
80
81 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
82
83 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
84
85 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
86 when it exits
87
88 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
89 o turn into dlopen() deps:
90 - libidn2 (always)
91 - elfutils (always)
92 - p11-kit-trust (always)
93 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
94 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
95 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
96 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
97 since they are so basic and our defaults)
98 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
99 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
100
101 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
102 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
103 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
104
105 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
106 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
107 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
108
109 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
110 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
111
112 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
113 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
114 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
115 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
116
117 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
118
119 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
120 specific service
121
122 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
123
124 * credentials system:
125 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
126 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
127 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
128 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
129 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
130 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
131 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
132 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
133 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
134 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
135 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
136
137 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
138 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
139 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
140
141 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
142 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
143 signature
144
145 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
146 and insert a local signature instead.
147
148 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
149 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
150 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
151 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
152 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
153
154 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
155
156 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
157 easily?
158
159 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
160 exists and responds.
161
162 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
163 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
164 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
165 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
166 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
167
168 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
169 also in plain cryptsetup)
170
171 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
172 creates
173
174 * bootctl:
175 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
176 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
177 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
178
179 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
180 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
181 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
182
183 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
184 allow so that systemd survives
185
186 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
187 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
188
189 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
190 systemd-makefs.service instead.
191
192 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
193 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
194
195 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
196 confusion is gone)
197 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
198 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
199 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
200 - port importd over from libgcrypt
201 - when that's done: kill khash.c
202 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
203
204 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
205
206 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
207
208 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
209 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
210
211 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
212 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
213 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
214 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
215 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
216
217 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
218 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
219 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
220 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
221
222 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
223 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
224 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
225 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
226 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
227 automatically.
228
229 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
230 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
231
232 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
233
234 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
235 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
236 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
237 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
238 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
239 fails to apply use the latter.
240
241 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
242 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
243
244 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
245 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
246
247 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
248 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
249
250 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
251 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
252
253 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
254 realname substr searches in varlink API
255
256 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
257
258 * userdb: allow existence checks
259
260 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
261
262 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
263 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
264 initrd had set.
265
266 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
267 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
268 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
269 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
270 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
271 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
272
273 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
274 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
275 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
276
277 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
278 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
279 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
280 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
281 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
282 source.
283
284 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
285 with immutable /usr
286
287 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
288 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
289 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
290
291 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
292
293 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
294 the hibernation
295
296 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
297 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
298 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
299 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
300 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
301 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
302 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
303 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
304 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
305 hibernation mode. (see
306 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
307 section 10.2.2.8 and
308 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
309 at the end).
310
311 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
312 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
313 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
314 output for them.
315
316 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
317 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
318 constant vendor data.
319
320 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
321
322 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
323 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
324
325 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
326 fallback in "machinectl shell"
327
328 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
329 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
330 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
331
332 * homed:
333 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
334 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
335 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
336 - resize on login?
337 - shrink fs on logout?
338 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
339 - create on activate?
340 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
341 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
342 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
343 systemd --user is shut down.
344 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
345 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
346 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
347 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
348 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
349 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
350 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
351 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
352 - query password from kernel keyring first
353 - update even if record is "absent"
354 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
355 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
356 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
357 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
358 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
359 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
360 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
361 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
362 either from UI when disk space gets low
363
364 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
365 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
366 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
367 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
368 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
369 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
370 exec().
371
372 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
373
374 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
375 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
376
377 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
378
379 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
380 gnome-bluetooth and friends
381
382 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
383 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
384 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
385 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
386 cgroup.
387
388 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
389 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
390 root.
391
392 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
393 is issued.
394
395 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
396
397 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
398
399 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
400 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
401 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
402
403 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
404 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
405 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
406
407 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
408 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
409 ConfigurationDirectory=.
410
411 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
412
413 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
414
415 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
416 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
417
418 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
419 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
420 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
421
422 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
423
424 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
425 patching around
426
427 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
428 log.c and sd-journal-send
429
430 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
431
432 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
433
434 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
435 can add in file system drivers and such
436
437 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
438 non-zero "tries done" count
439
440 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
441 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
442 it should skip the variant type string though.
443
444 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
445 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
446 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
447 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
448 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
449 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
450 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
451 CODE_FILE.
452
453 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
454 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
455 some explanatory text online.
456
457 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
458
459 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
460 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
461 the slices, and the units attached to them.
462
463 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
464 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
465 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
466 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
467 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
468 way)
469
470 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
471 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
472 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
473
474 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
475 original defaults before calling parse_config()
476
477 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
478
479 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
480 Specifically:
481
482 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
483 properly)
484 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
485 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
486
487 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
488 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
489
490 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
491 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
492 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
493 files and suchlike we operate on.
494
495 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
496
497 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
498
499 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
500 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
501
502 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
503 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
504 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
505 numbers.
506
507 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
508 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
509 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
510 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
511 unlinked from any dir.
512
513 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
514
515 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
516
517 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
518
519 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
520 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
521 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
522 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
523 should reflink the image file itself.
524
525 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
526 specific paths only like this.
527
528 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
529 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
530 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
531 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
532 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
533
534 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
535
536 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
537
538 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
539 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
540
541 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
542 project quota
543
544 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
545 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
546 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
547 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
548 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
549 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
550 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
551 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
552
553 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
554 for root, but only then.
555
556 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
557
558 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
559 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
560
561 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
562 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
563
564 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
565 only when used. Add unit tests.
566
567 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
568 host-side interface pointing to the container.
569
570 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
571 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
572 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
573 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
574 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
575
576 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
577
578 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
579
580 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
581 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
582 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
583
584 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
585
586 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
587 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
588
589 * blog about fd store and restartable services
590
591 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
592
593 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
594 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
595
596 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
597 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
598 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
599 ID is available.
600
601 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
602 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
603 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
604
605 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
606 parameters
607
608 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
609 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
610 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
611 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
612 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
613 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
614 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
615
616 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
617 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
618
619 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
620 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
621 wait to retrieve their exit data.
622
623 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
624 about it in the resource log message
625
626 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
627 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
628
629 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
630 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
631 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
632
633 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
634 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
635
636 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
637
638 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
639 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
640 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
641 logging.
642
643 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
644 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
645 "convertible" form factor
646
647 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
648 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
649 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
650 as MAINPID.
651
652 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
653 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
654 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
655
656 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
657 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
658
659 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
660 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
661 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
662 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
663 natural habitat.
664
665 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
666 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
667 /usr is mounted into.
668
669 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
670
671 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
672
673 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
674 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
675 relative to the configured default value.
676
677 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
678
679 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
680
681 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
682
683 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
684
685 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
686
687 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
688
689 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
690
691 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
692
693 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
694
695 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
696
697 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
698 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
699 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
700
701 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
702
703 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
704
705 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
706 partitions
707
708 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
709 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
710 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
711 mapping to work.
712
713 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
714
715 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
716
717 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
718
719 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
720 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
721
722 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
723 reload the unit file anyway
724
725 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
726 from the SIGBUS handler
727
728 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
729
730 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
731 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
732
733 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
734
735 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
736 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
737
738 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
739 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
740 specifications.
741
742 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
743
744 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
745
746 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
747
748 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
749 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
750 prefixed with /sys generally special.
751 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
752
753 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
754
755 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
756
757 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
758 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
759 state.
760 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
761
762 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
763 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
764 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
765 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
766 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
767
768 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
769 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
770
771 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
772
773 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
775
776 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
777 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
778 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
779 do, for example)
780
781 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
782 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
783
784 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
785 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
786
787 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
788
789 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
790 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
791 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
792 returning from the "systemctl stop".
793
794 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
795
796 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
797
798 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
799 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
800
801 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
802
803 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
804
805 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
806 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
807
808 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
809
810 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
811
812 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
813
814 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
815 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
816
817 * resolved:
818 - mDNS/DNS-SD
819 - service registration
820 - service/domain/types browsing
821 - avahi compat
822 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
823 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
824 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
825 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
826 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
827 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
828
829 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
830
831 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
832
833 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
834
835 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
836 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
837
838 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
839
840 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
841
842 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
843
844 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
845 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
846
847 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
848
849 * gpt-auto-generator:
850 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
851 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
852
853 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
854 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
855 when it is otherwise off
856
857 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
858
859 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
860 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
861 for ReusePort=
862
863 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
864 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
865 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
866 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
867 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
868 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
869
870 * cgroups:
871 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
872 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
873 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
874 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
875 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
876 the hierarchies of child processes
877
878 * transient units:
879 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
880
881 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
882
883 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
884
885 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
886
887 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
888
889 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
890
891 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
892 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
893 path anyway.
894
895 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
896
897 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
898
899 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
900
901 * sd-bus:
902 - EBADSLT handling
903 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
904 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
905 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
906 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
907 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
908 - longer term: priority inheritance
909 - dbus spec updates:
910 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
911 - GVariant
912 - path escaping
913 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
914
915 * sd-event
916 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
917 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
918 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
919 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
920 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
921 here:
922 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
923
924 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
925
926 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
927 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
928
929 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
930
931 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
932
933 * test/:
934 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
935
936 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
937 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
938 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
939 destination.
940
941 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
942 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
943
944 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
945
946 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
947 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
948 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
949
950 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
951 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
952 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
953 is installed.
954
955 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
956 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
957 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
958 that automatically.
959
960 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
961
962 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
963
964 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
965
966 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
967
968 * EFI:
969 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
970 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
971 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
972 * bootctl
973 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
974
975 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
976
977 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
978
979 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
980
981 * logind:
982 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
983 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
984 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
985 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
986 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
987 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
988 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
989 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
990 needs setuid().
991 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
992 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
993 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
994 complete.
995 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
996 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
997 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
998 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
999 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1000 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1001 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1002 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1003 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1004 relogins
1005 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1006
1007 * journal:
1008 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1009 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1010 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1011 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1012 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1013 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1014 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1015 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1016 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1017 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1018 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1019 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1020 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1021 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1022 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1023 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1024 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1025 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
1026 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1027 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1028 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1029 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1030 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1031 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1032 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1033 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1034 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1035 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1036 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1037 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1038 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1039 to syslog when it works again.
1040 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1041 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1042 journals in.
1043 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1044 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1045 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1046 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1047 the most common operations.
1048 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1049 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1050 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1051 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1052 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1053 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1054 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1055 operation.
1056 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1057 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1058 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1059 binary logs data
1060 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1061 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1062 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1063 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1064 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1065 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1066
1067 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1068 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1069 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1070 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1071
1072 * document:
1073 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1074 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1075 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1076 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1077 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1078 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1079 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1080 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1081 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1082 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1083 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1084 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1085
1086 * systemctl:
1087 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1088 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1089 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1090 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1091 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1092 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1093 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1094 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1095 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1096 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1097
1098 * unit install:
1099 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1100 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1101
1102 * timer units:
1103 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1104 o DST changes
1105 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1106
1107 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1108
1109 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1110
1111 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1112
1113 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1114
1115 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1116
1117 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1118
1119 * nspawn:
1120 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1121 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1122 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1123 from the kernel's logs.
1124 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1125 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1126 interface be missing
1127 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1128 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1129 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1130 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1131 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1132 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1133 PID 1...
1134 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1135 running, remove them when shut down.
1136
1137 * machined:
1138 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1139 removed or added to an existing machine
1140 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1141 difference host, via ssh
1142 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1143 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1144 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1145 question
1146 - "machinectl history"
1147 - "machinectl diff"
1148 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1149 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1150
1151 * cryptsetup:
1152 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1153 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1154
1155 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1156 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1157
1158 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1159
1160 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1161
1162 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1163
1164 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1165
1166 * udev:
1167 - move to LGPL
1168 - kill scsi_id
1169 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1170 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1171
1172 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1173
1174 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1175
1176 * coredump:
1177 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1178 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1179
1180 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1181
1182 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1183 needs to be auto-respawned?
1184
1185 * tmpfiles:
1186 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1187 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1188 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1189 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1190 calls follow symlinks.
1191
1192 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1193
1194 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1195 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1196 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1197
1198 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1199 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1200
1201 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1202
1203 * write blog stories about:
1204 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1205 - enabling dbus services
1206 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1207 - remote access
1208 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1209 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1210 - auto-restart
1211 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1212 - the journal HTTP iface
1213 - non-cgroup resource management
1214 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1215 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1216 - calendar time events
1217 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1218 - how to create your own target
1219 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1220 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1221
1222 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1223
1224 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1225
1226 * pid1:
1227 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1228 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1229 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1230 that are not supported...
1231 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1232 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1233 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1234 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1235 - move PAM code into its own binary
1236 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1237 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1238 - Support --test based on current system state
1239 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1240 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1241 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1242 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1243 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1244 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1245 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1246 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1247 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1248 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1249
1250 * unit files:
1251 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1252 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1253 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1254 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1255 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1256 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1257 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1258 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1259 - introduce Type=pid-file
1260 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1261 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1262 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1263 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1264
1265 * udev-link-config:
1266 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1267 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1268 on Path= matching
1269
1270 * sd-rtnl:
1271 - add support for more attribute types
1272 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1273
1274 * networkd:
1275 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1276 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1277 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1278 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1279 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1280 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1281 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1282 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1283 - expose in the API the following bits:
1284 - option 15, domain name
1285 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1286 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1287 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1288 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1289 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1290 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1291 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1292 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1293 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1294
1295 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1296
1297 * dhcp:
1298 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1299
1300 * dhcp6:
1301 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1302 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1303 - write more test cases
1304 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1305 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1306 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1307 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1308 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1309 or interface down
1310 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1311 this behavior
1312 - RouteTable= ?
1313
1314 External:
1315
1316 * dbus:
1317 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1318 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1319
1320 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1321
1322 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1323
1324 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1325
1326 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
1327
1328 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1329
1330 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1331
1332 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1333
1334 * zsh shell completion:
1335 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1336 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1337
1338 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1339 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1340 after being started.
1341
1342 Regularly:
1343
1344 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1345
1346 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1347
1348 * pahole
1349
1350 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1351
1352 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1353
1354 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1355 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment