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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 * Get rid of nftw(). We should refuse to use such useless APIs on principle.
11
12 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
13 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
14 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
15
16 External:
17
18 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
19
20 * dbus:
21 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
22 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
23
24 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
25
26 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
27
28 * 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=
29
30 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
31
32 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
33
34 * register catalog database signature as file magic
35
36 * zsh shell completion:
37 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
38 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
39
40 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
41 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
42 after being started.
43
44 * write blog stories about:
45 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
46 - enabling dbus services
47 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
48 - remote access
49 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
50 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
51 - auto-restart
52 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
53 - the journal HTTP iface
54 - non-cgroup resource management
55 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
56 - refreshed, longer missions statement
57 - calendar time events
58 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
59 - how to create your own target
60 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
61 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
62
63 Regularly:
64
65 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
66
67 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
68
69 * pahole
70
71 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
72
73 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
74
75 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
76
77 Janitorial Clean-ups:
78
79 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
80
81 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
82 semantics, like we do for device.c now
83
84 Features:
85
86 * New udev block device symlink names:
87 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
88 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
89 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
90 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
91
92 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
93
94 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
95 make dirs appear under right UID.
96
97 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
98 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
99
100 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
101 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
102 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
103 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
104 for doing that.
105
106 * pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
107 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
108 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
109 anyway, so it's basically free.
110
111 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
112 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
113 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
114 already have it.
115
116 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
117 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
118
119 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
120 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
121 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
122 socket: connect() to it.
123
124 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
125 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
126 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
127
128 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
129 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
130
131 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
132 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
133
134 * sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
135 overlayfs
136
137 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
138 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
139 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
140 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
141 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
142
143 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
144
145 * allow passing creds into kernel when booting: in EFI stub, collect creds
146 files from ESP directory, generate CPIO archive on the fly from them, so that
147 they are dropped into /run/initramfs/creds/ and pass to kernel as additional
148 initrd. Then, use LoadCredentialEncrypted=foo:/run/initramfs/creds/foo to
149 load them.
150
151 * make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
152 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
153
154 * teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
155 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
156
157 * credentials system:
158 - acquire from kernel command line
159 - acquire from EFI variable?
160 - acquire via via ask-password?
161 - acquire creds via keyring?
162 - pass creds via keyring?
163 - pass creds via memfd?
164 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
165 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
166 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
167 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
168 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
169 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
170
171 * teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
172 individual creds
173
174 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
175 firmware indicates there is one.
176
177 * tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
178 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
179 cryptsetup and homed
180
181 * Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
182 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
183 override its hash
184
185 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
186 and such
187
188 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
189
190 * cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
191 we cannot update identity info
192
193 * cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
194 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
195
196 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
197
198 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
199 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
200
201 * cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
202 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
203
204 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
205 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
206
207 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
208
209 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
210 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
211
212 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
213 systemd-makefs.service instead.
214
215 * cryptsetup:
216 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
217 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
218
219 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
220 it happens to be set up alright already.
221
222 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
223
224 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
225 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
226 default.
227
228 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
229 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
230 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
231 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
232 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
233
234 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
235
236 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
237 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
238
239 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
240 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
241 temporary dir.
242
243 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
244 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
245
246 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
247
248 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
249 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
250 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
251
252 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
253 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
254 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
255
256 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
257
258 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
259 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
260
261 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
262
263 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
264
265 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
266 when it exits
267
268 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
269 o turn into dlopen() deps:
270 - elfutils (always)
271 - p11-kit-trust (always)
272 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
273 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
274 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
275 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
276 since they are so basic and our defaults)
277 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
278 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
279
280 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
281 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
282 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
283
284 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
285 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
286
287 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
288 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
289 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
290 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
291
292 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
293
294 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
295 specific service
296
297 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
298
299 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
300 exists and responds.
301
302 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
303 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
304 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
305
306 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
307 allow so that systemd survives
308
309 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
310 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
311
312 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
313 confusion is gone)
314 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
315 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
316 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
317 - port importd over from libgcrypt
318 - when that's done: kill khash.c
319 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
320
321 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
322 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
323
324 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
325 realname substr searches in varlink API
326
327 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
328
329 * userdb: allow existence checks
330
331 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
332
333 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
334 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
335 initrd had set.
336
337 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
338 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
339 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
340 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
341 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
342 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
343
344 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
345 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
346 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
347
348 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
349 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
350 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
351 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
352 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
353 source.
354
355 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
356 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
357 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
358
359 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
360
361 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
362 the hibernation
363
364 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
365 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
366 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
367 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
368 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
369 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
370 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
371 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
372 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
373 hibernation mode. (see
374 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
375 section 10.2.2.8 and
376 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
377 at the end).
378
379 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
380 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
381 constant vendor data.
382
383 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
384
385 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
386 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
387 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
388 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
389 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
390 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
391 exec().
392
393 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
394
395 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
396 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
397
398 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
399 gnome-bluetooth and friends
400
401 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
402 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
403 root.
404
405 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
406 is issued.
407
408 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
409
410 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
411
412 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
413 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
414 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
415
416 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
417 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
418 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
419
420 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
421
422 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
423 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
424
425 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
426 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
427 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
428
429 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
430
431 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
432 patching around
433
434 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
435 log.c and sd-journal-send
436
437 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
438
439 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
440
441 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
442 can add in file system drivers and such
443
444 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
445 non-zero "tries done" count
446
447 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
448 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
449 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
450 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
451 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
452 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
453 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
454 CODE_FILE.
455
456 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
457 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
458 some explanatory text online.
459
460 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
461
462 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
463 original defaults before calling parse_config()
464
465 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
466 Specifically:
467
468 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
469 properly)
470 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
471 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
472
473 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
474 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
475
476 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
477 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
478 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
479 files and suchlike we operate on.
480
481 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
482
483 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
484
485 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
486 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
487
488 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
489 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
490 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
491 numbers.
492
493 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
494 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
495 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
496 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
497 unlinked from any dir.
498
499 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
500
501 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
502
503 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
504
505 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
506 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
507 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
508 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
509 should reflink the image file itself.
510
511 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
512 specific paths only like this.
513
514 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
515 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
516 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
517 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
518 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
519
520 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
521
522 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
523
524 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
525 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
526
527 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
528 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
529 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
530 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
531 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
532 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
533 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
534 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
535
536 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
537 for root, but only then.
538
539 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
540
541 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
542 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
543
544 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
545 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
546
547 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
548 only when used. Add unit tests.
549
550 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
551 host-side interface pointing to the container.
552
553 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
554 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
555 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
556 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
557 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
558
559 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
560
561 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
562
563 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
564 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
565 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
566
567 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
568
569 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
570 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
571
572 * blog about fd store and restartable services
573
574 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
575
576 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
577 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
578
579 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
580 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
581 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
582 ID is available.
583
584 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
585 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
586 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
587
588 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
589 parameters
590
591 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
592 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
593 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
594 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
595 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
596 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
597 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
598
599 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
600 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
601
602 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
603 about it in the resource log message
604
605 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
606 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
607 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
608
609 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
610 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
611
612 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
613
614 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
615 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
616 "convertible" form factor
617
618 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
619 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
620 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
621
622 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
623 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
624
625 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
626 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
627 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
628 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
629 natural habitat.
630
631 * 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
632
633 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
634 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
635 relative to the configured default value.
636
637 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
638
639 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
640
641 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
642
643 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
644
645 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
646
647 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
648
649 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
650
651 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
652
653 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
654 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
655 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
656
657 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
658 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
659
660 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
661
662 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
663 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
664 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
665 mapping to work.
666
667 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
668
669 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
670
671 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
672
673 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
674 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
675
676 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
677 reload the unit file anyway
678
679 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
680
681 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
682
683 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
684 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
685
686 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
687 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
688 specifications.
689
690 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
691
692 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
693
694 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
695
696 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
697 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
698 prefixed with /sys generally special.
699 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
700
701 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
702
703 * initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
704 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
705 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
706
707 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
708
709 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
710 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
711 state.
712 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
713
714 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
715 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
716 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
717 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
718 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
719
720 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
721
722 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
723 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
724
725 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
726 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
727
728 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
729 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
730
731 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
732
733 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
734 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
735
736 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
737
738 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
739
740 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
741
742 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
743
744 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
745 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
746
747 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
748
749 * resolved:
750 - mDNS/DNS-SD
751 - service registration
752 - service/domain/types browsing
753 - avahi compat
754 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
755 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
756 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
757 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
758 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
759 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
760
761 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
762
763 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
764
765 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
766
767 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
768
769 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
770
771 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
772 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
773
774 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
775
776 * gpt-auto-generator:
777 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
778 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
779
780 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
781 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
782 when it is otherwise off
783
784 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
785
786 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
787 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
788 for ReusePort=
789
790 * cgroups:
791 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
792 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
793 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
794 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
795 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
796 the hierarchies of child processes
797
798 * transient units:
799 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
800
801 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
802
803 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
804
805 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
806
807 * 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
808
809 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
810
811 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
812 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
813 path anyway.
814
815 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
816
817 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
818
819 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
820
821 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
822
823 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
824
825 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
826
827 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
828 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
829 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
830
831 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
832 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
833
834 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
835
836 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
837
838 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
839
840 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
841 needs to be auto-respawned?
842
843 * pid1:
844 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
845 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
846 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
847 that are not supported...
848 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
849 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
850 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
851 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
852 - move PAM code into its own binary
853 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
854 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
855 - Support --test based on current system state
856 - 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().
857 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
858 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
859 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
860 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
861 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
862 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
863 but much rather a disconnect on success.
864 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
865 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
866 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
867 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
868 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
869
870 * unit files:
871 - allow port=0 in .socket units
872 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
873 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
874 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
875 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
876 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
877 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
878 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
879 - introduce Type=pid-file
880 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
881 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
882 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
883
884 * timer units:
885 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
886 o DST changes
887 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
888
889 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
890
891 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
892
893 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
894
895 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
896
897 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
898
899 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
900
901 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
902
903 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
904
905 * test/:
906 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
907
908 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
909 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
910 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
911 destination.
912
913 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
914 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
915
916 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
917
918 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
919 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
920 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
921
922 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
923 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
924 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
925 is installed.
926
927 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
928 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
929 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
930 that automatically.
931
932 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
933
934 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
935
936 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
937
938 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
939
940 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
941 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
942
943 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
944
945 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
946
947 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
948
949 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
950
951 * sd-bus:
952 - EBADSLT handling
953 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
954 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
955 - 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
956 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
957 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
958 - longer term: priority inheritance
959 - dbus spec updates:
960 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
961 - GVariant
962 - path escaping
963 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
964
965 * sd-event
966 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
967 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
968 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
969 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
970 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
971 here:
972 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
973
974 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
975 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
976
977 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
978
979 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
980
981 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
982
983 * firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
984 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
985 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
986 the host on invocation
987
988 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
989 reading/writing files
990
991 * 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
992
993 * sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
994 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
995 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
996 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
997 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
998 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
999 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1000
1001 * efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1002 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1003 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1004 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1005 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1006 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1007 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1008
1009 * EFI:
1010 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1011 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1012 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1013 * bootctl
1014 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1015
1016 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1017
1018 * sd-boot: add service that automatically runs "bootctl update" on every boot,
1019 in a graceful way, so that updated /usr trees automatically propagate into
1020 updated boot loaders on reboot.
1021
1022 * bootctl:
1023 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1024 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1025 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
1026
1027 * logind:
1028 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1029 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1030 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1031 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1032 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1033 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1034 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1035 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1036 needs setuid().
1037 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1038 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1039 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1040 complete.
1041 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1042 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1043 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1044 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1045 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1046 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1047 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1048 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1049 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1050 relogins
1051 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1052
1053 * move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1054
1055 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1056
1057 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1058 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1059 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1060
1061 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1062 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1063
1064 * journal:
1065 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1066 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1067 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1068 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1069 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1070 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1071 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1072 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1073 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1074 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1075 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1076 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1077 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1078 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1079 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1080 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1081 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1082 - 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.
1083 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1084 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1085 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1086 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1087 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1088 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1089 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1090 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1091 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1092 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1093 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1094 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1095 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1096 to syslog when it works again.
1097 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1098 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1099 journals in.
1100 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1101 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1102 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1103 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1104 the most common operations.
1105 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1106 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1107 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1108 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1109 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1110 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1111 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1112 operation.
1113 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1114 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1115 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1116 binary logs data
1117 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1118 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1119 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1120 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1121 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1122 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1123
1124 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1125 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1126
1127 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1128 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1129 validated via TPM.
1130
1131 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1132 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1133
1134 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1135 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1136 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1137
1138 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1139 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1140 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1141 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1142 cgroup.
1143
1144 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1145 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1146 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1147 logging.
1148
1149 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1150
1151 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1152 from the SIGBUS handler
1153
1154 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1155 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1156 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1157 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1158
1159 * homed:
1160 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1161 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1162 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1163 - resize on login?
1164 - shrink fs on logout?
1165 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1166 - create on activate?
1167 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1168 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1169 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1170 systemd --user is shut down.
1171 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1172 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1173 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1174 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1175 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1176 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1177 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1178 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1179 - query password from kernel keyring first
1180 - update even if record is "absent"
1181 - 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
1182 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1183 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1184 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1185 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1186 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1187 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
1188 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
1189 either from UI when disk space gets low
1190
1191 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
1192 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
1193 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
1194
1195 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1196 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1197 signature
1198
1199 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1200 and insert a local signature instead.
1201
1202 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1203 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1204 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1205 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1206 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1207
1208 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1209
1210 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1211 easily?
1212
1213 * homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
1214 chowns.
1215
1216 * add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1217 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1218 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1219 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1220 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1221
1222 * homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1223 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1224
1225 * homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
1226 tried because idle.
1227
1228 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
1229 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
1230
1231 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
1232
1233 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1234 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1235 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1236
1237 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1238
1239 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1240 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1241 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1242 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1243
1244 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1245
1246 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1247 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1248 something goes wrong on the way.
1249
1250 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1251
1252 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1253 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1254 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1255 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1256
1257 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1258 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1259 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1260 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1261 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1262 automatically.
1263
1264 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1265 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1266
1267 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1268 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1269 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1270 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1271 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1272 fails to apply use the latter.
1273
1274 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1275 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1276
1277 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1278 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1279
1280 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1281 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1282
1283 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1284 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1285
1286 * document:
1287 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1288 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1289 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1290 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1291 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1292 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1293 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1294 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1295 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1296 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1297 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1298 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1299
1300 * systemctl:
1301 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1302 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1303 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1304 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1305 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1306 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1307 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1308 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1309 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1310 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1311
1312 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1313 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1314 it should skip the variant type string though.
1315
1316 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1317 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1318 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1319 output for them.
1320
1321 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1322 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1323 the slices, and the units attached to them.
1324
1325 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1326 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1327 wait to retrieve their exit data.
1328
1329 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1330 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
1331
1332 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1333 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1334 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1335 do, for example)
1336
1337 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1338 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1339 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1340 returning from the "systemctl stop".
1341
1342 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1343
1344 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1345
1346 * unit install:
1347 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1348 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1349
1350 * nspawn:
1351 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1352 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1353 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1354 from the kernel's logs.
1355 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1356 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1357 interface be missing
1358 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1359 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1360 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1361 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1362 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1363 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1364 PID 1...
1365 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1366 running, remove them when shut down.
1367
1368 * nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
1369 are used.
1370
1371 * nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1372 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1373 during startup.
1374
1375 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1376 so, freeze the payload too.
1377
1378 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1379 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1380 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1381 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1382 anything like that.
1383
1384 * nspawn: support time namespaces
1385
1386 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1387 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1388
1389 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1390 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1391
1392 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1393 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1394 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1395
1396 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1397
1398 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1399
1400 * machined:
1401 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1402 removed or added to an existing machine
1403 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1404 difference host, via ssh
1405 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1406 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1407 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1408 question
1409 - "machinectl history"
1410 - "machinectl diff"
1411 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1412 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1413
1414 * udev:
1415 - move to LGPL
1416 - kill scsi_id
1417 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1418 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1419
1420 * coredump:
1421 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1422 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1423
1424 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1425
1426 * tmpfiles:
1427 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1428 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1429 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1430 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1431 calls follow symlinks.
1432 - add --test mode
1433 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1434 project quota
1435
1436 * udev-link-config:
1437 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1438 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1439 on Path= matching
1440
1441 * sd-rtnl:
1442 - add support for more attribute types
1443 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1444
1445 * networkd:
1446 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1447 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1448 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1449 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1450 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1451 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1452 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1453 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1454 - expose in the API the following bits:
1455 - option 15, domain name
1456 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1457 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1458 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1459 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1460 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1461 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1462 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1463 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1464
1465 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1466
1467 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1468
1469 * dhcp:
1470 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1471
1472 * dhcp6:
1473 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1474 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1475 - write more test cases
1476 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1477 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1478 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1479 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1480 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1481 or interface down
1482 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1483 this behavior
1484 - RouteTable= ?