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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 * port selinux code from mallinfo() to mallinfo2() once added to glibc
24
25 * in fd_get_path() if we see (deleted) then do stat and check for st_nlink
26
27 * add support for close_range() added in kernel 5.9
28
29 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
30 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
31
32 * systemd-analyze syscall-filter should show a list of syscalls listed in
33 @known but not in other groups (at least at debug level), since they are
34 candidates to be added to them.
35
36 * export action of device object on sd-device, so that monitor becomes useful
37
38 * add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
39 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
40 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
41 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
42 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
43 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
44 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
45 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
46
47 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
48 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
49 temporary dir.
50
51 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
52 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
53
54 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
55 (autofs and such) while user is loged in.
56
57 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
58
59 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
60
61 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
62 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
63
64 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
65 so, freeze the payload too.
66
67 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
68
69 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
70 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
71 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
72
73 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
74 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
75 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
76
77 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
78
79 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
80 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
81
82 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
83 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
84 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
85 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
86 anything like that.
87
88 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
89 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
90 user's journal stream down but not the others.
91
92 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
93 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
94 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
95
96 * nspawn: support time namespaces
97
98 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
99 reading/writing files
100
101 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
102
103 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
104 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
105
106 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
107
108 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
109
110 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
111 when it exits
112
113 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
114 o turn into dlopen() deps:
115 - elfutils (always)
116 - p11-kit-trust (always)
117 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
118 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
119 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
120 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
121 since they are so basic and our defaults)
122 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
123 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
124
125 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
126 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
127 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
128
129 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
130 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
131 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
132
133 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
134 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
135
136 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
137 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
138 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
139 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
140
141 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
142
143 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
144 specific service
145
146 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
147
148 * credentials system:
149 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
150 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
151 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
152 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
153 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
154 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
155 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
156 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
157 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
158 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
159 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
160
161 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
162 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
163 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
164
165 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
166 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
167 signature
168
169 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
170 and insert a local signature instead.
171
172 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
173 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
174 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
175 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
176 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
177
178 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
179
180 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
181 easily?
182
183 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
184 exists and responds.
185
186 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
187 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
188 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
189 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
190 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
191
192 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
193 also in plain cryptsetup)
194
195 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
196 creates
197
198 * bootctl:
199 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
200 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
201 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
202
203 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
204 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
205 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
206
207 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
208 allow so that systemd survives
209
210 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
211 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
212
213 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
214 systemd-makefs.service instead.
215
216 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
217 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
218
219 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
220 confusion is gone)
221 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
222 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
223 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
224 - port importd over from libgcrypt
225 - when that's done: kill khash.c
226 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
227
228 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
229
230 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
231 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
232
233 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
234 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
235 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
236 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
237 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
238
239 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
240 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
241 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
242 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
243
244 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
245 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
246 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
247 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
248 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
249 automatically.
250
251 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
252 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
253
254 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
255
256 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
257 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
258 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
259 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
260 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
261 fails to apply use the latter.
262
263 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
264 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
265
266 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
267 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
268
269 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
270 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
271
272 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
273 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
274
275 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
276 realname substr searches in varlink API
277
278 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
279
280 * userdb: allow existence checks
281
282 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
283
284 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
285 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
286 initrd had set.
287
288 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
289 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
290 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
291 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
292 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
293 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
294
295 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
296 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
297 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
298
299 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
300 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
301 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
302 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
303 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
304 source.
305
306 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
307 with immutable /usr
308
309 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
310 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
311 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
312
313 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
314
315 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
316 the hibernation
317
318 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
319 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
320 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
321 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
322 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
323 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
324 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
325 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
326 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
327 hibernation mode. (see
328 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
329 section 10.2.2.8 and
330 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
331 at the end).
332
333 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
334 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
335 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
336 output for them.
337
338 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
339 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
340 constant vendor data.
341
342 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
343
344 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
345 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
346
347 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
348 fallback in "machinectl shell"
349
350 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
351 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
352 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
353
354 * homed:
355 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
356 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
357 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
358 - resize on login?
359 - shrink fs on logout?
360 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
361 - create on activate?
362 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
363 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
364 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
365 systemd --user is shut down.
366 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
367 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
368 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
369 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
370 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
371 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
372 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
373 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
374 - query password from kernel keyring first
375 - update even if record is "absent"
376 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
377 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
378 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
379 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
380 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
381 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
382 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
383 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
384 either from UI when disk space gets low
385
386 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
387 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
388 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
389 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
390 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
391 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
392 exec().
393
394 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
395
396 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
397 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
398
399 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
400
401 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
402 gnome-bluetooth and friends
403
404 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
405 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
406 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
407 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
408 cgroup.
409
410 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
411 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
412 root.
413
414 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
415 is issued.
416
417 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
418
419 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
420
421 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
422 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
423 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
424
425 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
426 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
427 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
428
429 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
430 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
431 ConfigurationDirectory=.
432
433 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
434
435 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
436
437 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
438 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
439
440 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
441 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
442 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
443
444 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
445
446 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
447 patching around
448
449 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
450 log.c and sd-journal-send
451
452 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
453
454 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
455
456 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
457 can add in file system drivers and such
458
459 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
460 non-zero "tries done" count
461
462 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
463 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
464 it should skip the variant type string though.
465
466 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
467 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
468 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
469 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
470 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
471 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
472 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
473 CODE_FILE.
474
475 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
476 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
477 some explanatory text online.
478
479 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
480
481 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
482 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
483 the slices, and the units attached to them.
484
485 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
486 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
487 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
488 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
489 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
490 way)
491
492 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
493 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
494 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
495
496 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
497 original defaults before calling parse_config()
498
499 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
500
501 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
502 Specifically:
503
504 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
505 properly)
506 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
507 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
508
509 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
510 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
511
512 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
513 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
514 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
515 files and suchlike we operate on.
516
517 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
518
519 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
520
521 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
522 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
523
524 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
525 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
526 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
527 numbers.
528
529 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
530 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
531 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
532 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
533 unlinked from any dir.
534
535 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
536
537 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
538
539 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
540
541 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
542 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
543 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
544 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
545 should reflink the image file itself.
546
547 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
548 specific paths only like this.
549
550 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
551 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
552 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
553 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
554 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
555
556 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
557
558 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
559
560 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
561 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
562
563 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
564 project quota
565
566 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
567 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
568 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
569 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
570 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
571 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
572 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
573 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
574
575 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
576 for root, but only then.
577
578 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
579
580 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
581 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
582
583 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
584 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
585
586 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
587 only when used. Add unit tests.
588
589 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
590 host-side interface pointing to the container.
591
592 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
593 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
594 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
595 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
596 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
597
598 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
599
600 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
601
602 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
603 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
604 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
605
606 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
607
608 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
609 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
610
611 * blog about fd store and restartable services
612
613 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
614
615 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
616 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
617
618 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
619 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
620 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
621 ID is available.
622
623 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
624 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
625 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
626
627 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
628 parameters
629
630 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
631 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
632 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
633 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
634 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
635 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
636 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
637
638 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
639 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
640
641 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
642 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
643 wait to retrieve their exit data.
644
645 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
646 about it in the resource log message
647
648 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
649 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
650
651 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
652 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
653 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
654
655 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
656 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
657
658 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
659
660 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
661 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
662 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
663 logging.
664
665 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
666 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
667 "convertible" form factor
668
669 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
670 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
671 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
672
673 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
674 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
675
676 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
677 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
678 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
679 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
680 natural habitat.
681
682 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
683 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
684 /usr is mounted into.
685
686 * 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
687
688 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
689
690 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
691 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
692 relative to the configured default value.
693
694 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
695
696 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
697
698 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
699
700 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
701
702 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
703
704 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
705
706 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
707
708 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
709
710 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
711
712 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
713
714 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
715 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
716 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
717
718 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
719
720 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
721
722 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
723 partitions
724
725 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
726 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
727 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
728 mapping to work.
729
730 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
731
732 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
733
734 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
735
736 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
737 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
738
739 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
740 reload the unit file anyway
741
742 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
743 from the SIGBUS handler
744
745 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
746
747 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
748 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
749
750 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
751
752 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
753 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
754
755 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
756 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
757 specifications.
758
759 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
760
761 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
762
763 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
764
765 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
766 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
767 prefixed with /sys generally special.
768 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
769
770 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
771
772 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
773
774 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
775 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
776 state.
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
778
779 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
780 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
781 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
782 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
783 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
784
785 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
787
788 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
789
790 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
791 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
792
793 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
794 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
795 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
796 do, for example)
797
798 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
799 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
800
801 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
802 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
803
804 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
805
806 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
807 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
808 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
809 returning from the "systemctl stop".
810
811 * 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
812
813 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
814
815 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
816 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
817
818 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
819
820 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
821
822 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
823 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
824
825 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
826
827 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
828
829 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
830
831 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
832 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
833
834 * resolved:
835 - mDNS/DNS-SD
836 - service registration
837 - service/domain/types browsing
838 - avahi compat
839 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
840 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
841 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
842 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
843 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
844 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
845
846 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
847
848 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
849
850 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
851
852 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
853
854 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
855
856 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
857
858 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
859 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
860
861 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
862
863 * gpt-auto-generator:
864 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
865 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
866
867 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
868 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
869 when it is otherwise off
870
871 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
872
873 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
874 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
875 for ReusePort=
876
877 * cgroups:
878 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
879 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
880 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
881 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
882 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
883 the hierarchies of child processes
884
885 * transient units:
886 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
887
888 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
889
890 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
891
892 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
893
894 * 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
895
896 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
897
898 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
899 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
900 path anyway.
901
902 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
903
904 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
905
906 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
907
908 * sd-bus:
909 - EBADSLT handling
910 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
911 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
912 - 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
913 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
914 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
915 - longer term: priority inheritance
916 - dbus spec updates:
917 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
918 - GVariant
919 - path escaping
920 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
921
922 * sd-event
923 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
924 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
925 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
926 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
927 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
928 here:
929 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
930
931 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
932
933 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
934 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
935
936 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
937
938 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
939
940 * test/:
941 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
942
943 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
944 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
945 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
946 destination.
947
948 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
949 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
950
951 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
952
953 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
954 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
955 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
956
957 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
958 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
959 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
960 is installed.
961
962 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
963 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
964 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
965 that automatically.
966
967 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
968
969 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
970
971 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
972
973 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
974
975 * EFI:
976 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
977 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
978 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
979 * bootctl
980 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
981
982 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
983
984 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
985
986 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
987
988 * logind:
989 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
990 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
991 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
992 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
993 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
994 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
995 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
996 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
997 needs setuid().
998 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
999 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1000 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1001 complete.
1002 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1003 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1004 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1005 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1006 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1007 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1008 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1009 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1010 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1011 relogins
1012 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1013
1014 * journal:
1015 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1016 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1017 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1018 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1019 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1020 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1021 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1022 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1023 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1024 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1025 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1026 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1027 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1028 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1029 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1030 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1031 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1032 - 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.
1033 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1034 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1035 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1036 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1037 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1038 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1039 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1040 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1041 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1042 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1043 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1044 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1045 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1046 to syslog when it works again.
1047 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1048 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1049 journals in.
1050 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1051 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1052 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1053 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1054 the most common operations.
1055 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1056 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1057 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1058 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1059 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1060 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1061 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1062 operation.
1063 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1064 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1065 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1066 binary logs data
1067 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1068 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1069 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1070 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1071 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1072 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1073
1074 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1075 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1076 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1077 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1078
1079 * document:
1080 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1081 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1082 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1083 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1084 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1085 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1086 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1087 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1088 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1089 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1090 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1091 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1092
1093 * systemctl:
1094 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1095 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1096 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1097 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1098 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1099 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1100 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1101 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1102 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1103 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1104
1105 * unit install:
1106 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1107 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1108
1109 * timer units:
1110 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1111 o DST changes
1112 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1113
1114 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1115
1116 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1117
1118 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1119
1120 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1121
1122 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1123
1124 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1125
1126 * nspawn:
1127 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1128 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1129 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1130 from the kernel's logs.
1131 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1132 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1133 interface be missing
1134 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1135 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1136 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1137 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1138 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1139 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1140 PID 1...
1141 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1142 running, remove them when shut down.
1143
1144 * machined:
1145 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1146 removed or added to an existing machine
1147 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1148 difference host, via ssh
1149 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1150 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1151 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1152 question
1153 - "machinectl history"
1154 - "machinectl diff"
1155 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1156 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1157
1158 * cryptsetup:
1159 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1160 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1161
1162 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1163 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1164
1165 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1166
1167 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1168
1169 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1170
1171 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1172
1173 * udev:
1174 - move to LGPL
1175 - kill scsi_id
1176 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1177 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1178
1179 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1180
1181 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1182
1183 * coredump:
1184 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1185 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1186
1187 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1188
1189 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1190 needs to be auto-respawned?
1191
1192 * tmpfiles:
1193 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1194 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1195 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1196 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1197 calls follow symlinks.
1198
1199 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1200
1201 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1202 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1203 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1204
1205 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1206 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1207
1208 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1209
1210 * write blog stories about:
1211 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1212 - enabling dbus services
1213 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1214 - remote access
1215 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1216 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1217 - auto-restart
1218 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1219 - the journal HTTP iface
1220 - non-cgroup resource management
1221 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1222 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1223 - calendar time events
1224 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1225 - how to create your own target
1226 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1227 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1228
1229 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1230
1231 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1232
1233 * pid1:
1234 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1235 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1236 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1237 that are not supported...
1238 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1239 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1240 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1241 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1242 - move PAM code into its own binary
1243 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1244 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1245 - Support --test based on current system state
1246 - 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().
1247 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1248 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1249 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1250 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1251 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1252 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1253 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1254 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1255 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1256
1257 * unit files:
1258 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1259 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1260 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1261 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1262 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1263 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1264 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1265 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1266 - introduce Type=pid-file
1267 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1268 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1269 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1270 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1271
1272 * udev-link-config:
1273 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1274 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1275 on Path= matching
1276
1277 * sd-rtnl:
1278 - add support for more attribute types
1279 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1280
1281 * networkd:
1282 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1283 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1284 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1285 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1286 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1287 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1288 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1289 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1290 - expose in the API the following bits:
1291 - option 15, domain name
1292 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1293 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1294 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1295 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1296 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1297 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1298 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1299 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1300 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1301
1302 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1303
1304 * dhcp:
1305 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1306
1307 * dhcp6:
1308 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1309 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1310 - write more test cases
1311 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1312 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1313 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1314 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1315 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1316 or interface down
1317 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1318 this behavior
1319 - RouteTable= ?
1320
1321 External:
1322
1323 * dbus:
1324 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1325 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1326
1327 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1328
1329 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1330
1331 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1332
1333 * 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=
1334
1335 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1336
1337 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1338
1339 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1340
1341 * zsh shell completion:
1342 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1343 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1344
1345 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1346 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1347 after being started.
1348
1349 Regularly:
1350
1351 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1352
1353 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1354
1355 * pahole
1356
1357 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1358
1359 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1360
1361 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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