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