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d657c51f | 1 | systemd System and Service Manager |
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4 | ||
5 | * The python-systemd code has been removed from the systemd repository. | |
6 | A new repository has been created which accommodates the code from | |
7 | now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a separate package | |
8 | for this: https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
9 | ||
01608bc8 | 10 | * The systemd daemon will now reload its main configuration |
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11 | (/etc/systemd/system.conf) on daemon-reload. |
12 | ||
13 | * sd-dhcp now exposes vendor specific extensions via | |
14 | sd_dhcp_lease_get_vendor_specific(). | |
15 | ||
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16 | * systemd-networkd gained a number of new configuration options. |
17 | ||
18 | - A new boolean configuration option for TAP devices called | |
37d54b93 | 19 | 'VNetHeader='. If set, the IFF_VNET_HDR flag is set for the |
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20 | device, thus allowing to send and receive GSO packets. |
21 | ||
22 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'CopyDSCP='. | |
23 | If enabled, the DSCP field of ip6 tunnels is copied into the | |
24 | decapsulated packet. | |
25 | ||
26 | - A set of boolean bridge configuration options were added. | |
27 | 'UseBPDU=', 'HairPin=', 'FastLeave=', 'AllowPortToBeRoot=', | |
28 | and 'UnicastFlood=' are now parsed by networkd and applied to the | |
29 | respective bridge link device via the respective IFLA_BRPORT_* | |
30 | netlink attribute. | |
31 | ||
32 | - A new string configuration option to override the hostname sent | |
33 | to a DHCP server, called 'Hostname='. If set and 'SendHostname=' | |
34 | is true, networkd will use the configured hostname instead of the | |
35 | system hostname when sending DHCP requests. | |
36 | ||
37 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'IPv6FlowLabel='. If set, | |
38 | networkd will configure the IPv6 flow-label of the tunnel device | |
39 | according to RFC2460. | |
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40 | |
41 | * systemd-resolved now implements RFC5452 to improve resilience against | |
01608bc8 | 42 | cache poisoning. Additionally, source port randomization is enabled |
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43 | by default to further protect against DNS spoofing attacks. |
44 | ||
45 | * nss-mymachines now supports translating UIDs and GIDs of running | |
46 | containers with user-namespaces enabled. If a container 'foo' | |
47 | translates a host uid 'UID' to the container uid 'TUID', then | |
48 | nss-mymachines will also map uid 'UID' to/from username 'vu-foo-TUID' | |
49 | (with 'foo' and 'TUID' replaced accordingly). Similarly, groups are | |
50 | mapped as 'vg-foo-TGID'. | |
51 | ||
52 | Contributions from: Beniamino Galvani, cee1, Christian Hesse, Daniel | |
53 | Buch, Daniel Mack, daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Jan | |
54 | Alexander Steffens (heftig), Johan Ouwerkerk, Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz, | |
55 | Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lidong Zhong, Martin Pitt, Michael | |
56 | Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Mike Gilbert, Namhyung Kim, Nick | |
57 | Owens, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, Steven Allen, Sungbae Yoo, Susant | |
58 | Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
59 | Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo, Vivenzio Pagliari, Zbigniew | |
60 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
61 | ||
62 | -- Berlin, 2015-XX-XX | |
63 | ||
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66 | * udev does not longer support the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS= key in udev rules. |
67 | There are no known issues with current sysfs, and udev does not need | |
68 | or should be used to work around such bugs. | |
69 | ||
70 | * udev does no longer enable USB HID power management. Several reports | |
71 | indicate, that some devices cannot handle that setting. | |
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72 | |
73 | * The udev accelerometer helper was removed. The functionality | |
74 | is now fully included in iio-sensor-proxy. But this means, | |
75 | older iio-sensor-proxy versions will no longer provide | |
76 | accelerometer/orientation data with this systemd version. | |
77 | Please upgrade iio-sensor-proxy to version 1.0. | |
78 | ||
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79 | * networkd gained a new configuration option IPv6PrivacyExtensions= |
80 | which enables IPv6 privacy extensions (RFC 4941, "Privacy Extensions | |
81 | for Stateless Address") on selected networks. | |
82 | ||
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83 | * For the sake of fewer build-time dependencies and less code in the |
84 | main repository, the python bindings are about to be removed in the | |
85 | next release. A new repository has been created which accommodates | |
86 | the code from now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a | |
87 | separate package for this. The removal will take place in v223. | |
88 | ||
89 | https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
90 | ||
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91 | Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Andrew Eikum, Bastien Nocera, |
92 | Cédric Delmas, Christian Hesse, Christos Trochalakis, Daniel Mack, | |
93 | daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Biggers, Eric | |
94 | Cook, Felipe Sateler, Geert Jansen, Gerd Hoffmann, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
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95 | Greg Kroah-Hartman, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Alexander Steffens |
96 | (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jay Strict, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
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97 | Markus Knetschke, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michal |
98 | Sekletar, Miguel Bernal Marin, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, rinrinne, | |
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99 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein |
100 | Husebø, Vedran Miletić, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
0db83ad7 | 101 | |
2d1ca112 | 102 | -- Berlin, 2015-07-07 |
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105 | ||
470e72d4 | 106 | * The sd-bus.h and sd-event.h APIs have now been declared |
5f92d24f | 107 | stable and have been added to the official interface of |
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108 | libsystemd.so. sd-bus implements an alternative D-Bus client |
109 | library, that is relatively easy to use, very efficient and | |
110 | supports both classic D-Bus as well as kdbus as transport | |
111 | backend. sd-event is a generic event loop abstraction that | |
112 | is built around Linux epoll, but adds features such as event | |
0aee49d5 | 113 | prioritization or efficient timer handling. Both APIs are good |
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114 | choices for C programs looking for a bus and/or event loop |
115 | implementation that is minimal and does not have to be | |
5f92d24f | 116 | portable to other kernels. |
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118 | * kdbus support is no longer compile-time optional. It is now |
119 | always built-in. However, it can still be disabled at | |
120 | runtime using the kdbus=0 kernel command line setting, and | |
c6551464 | 121 | that setting may be changed to default to off, by specifying |
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122 | --disable-kdbus at build-time. Note though that the kernel |
123 | command line setting has no effect if the kdbus.ko kernel | |
124 | module is not installed, in which case kdbus is (obviously) | |
125 | also disabled. We encourage all downstream distributions to | |
0aee49d5 | 126 | begin testing kdbus by adding it to the kernel images in the |
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127 | development distributions, and leaving kdbus support in |
128 | systemd enabled. | |
0f0467e6 | 129 | |
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130 | * The minimal required util-linux version has been bumped to |
131 | 2.26. | |
132 | ||
133 | * Support for chkconfig (--enable-chkconfig) was removed in | |
0aee49d5 | 134 | favor of calling an abstraction tool |
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135 | /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. This needs to be |
136 | implemented for your distribution. See "SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS" | |
137 | in README for details. | |
138 | ||
139 | * If there's a systemd unit and a SysV init script for the | |
140 | same service name, and the user executes "systemctl enable" | |
141 | for it (or a related call), then this will now enable both | |
142 | (or execute the related operation on both), not just the | |
143 | unit. | |
144 | ||
145 | * The libudev API documentation has been converted from gtkdoc | |
146 | into man pages. | |
147 | ||
148 | * gudev has been removed from the systemd tree, it is now an | |
149 | external project. | |
150 | ||
151 | * The systemd-cgtop tool learnt a new --raw switch to generate | |
0aee49d5 | 152 | "raw" (machine parsable) output. |
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153 | |
154 | * networkd's IPForwarding= .network file setting learnt the | |
155 | new setting "kernel", which ensures that networkd does not | |
156 | change the IP forwarding sysctl from the default kernel | |
157 | state. | |
158 | ||
159 | * The systemd-logind bus API now exposes a new boolean | |
160 | property "Docked" that reports whether logind considers the | |
161 | system "docked", i.e. connected to a docking station or not. | |
162 | ||
163 | Contributions from: Alex Crawford, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei | |
164 | Borzenkov, Charles Duffy, Colin Guthrie, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
165 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, | |
166 | David Mohr, Dimitri John Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, dslul, Ed | |
167 | Swierk, Eric Cook, Filipe Brandenburger, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
168 | Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Igor Vuk, Jan Synacek, | |
169 | Jason Pleau, Jason S. McMullan, Jean Delvare, Jeff Huang, | |
170 | Jonathan Boulle, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, kloun, Lennart | |
171 | Poettering, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Mario | |
172 | Limonciello, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
173 | Michal Schmidt, Mike Gilbert, Nick Owens, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, | |
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174 | Patrick Donnelly, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Philip |
175 | Withnall, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Susant Sahani, | |
176 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
177 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Viktar Vauchkevich, Werner | |
178 | Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
470e72d4 | 179 | |
b912e251 | 180 | -- Berlin, 2015-06-19 |
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182 | CHANGES WITH 220: |
183 | ||
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184 | * The gudev library has been extracted into a separate repository |
185 | available at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgudev/ | |
186 | It is now managed as part of the Gnome project. Distributions | |
187 | are recommended to pass --disable-gudev to systemd and use | |
188 | gudev from the Gnome project instead. gudev is still included | |
189 | in systemd, for now. It will be removed soon, though. Please | |
190 | also see the announcement-thread on systemd-devel: | |
191 | http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032070.html | |
192 | ||
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193 | * systemd now exposes a CPUUsageNSec= property for each |
194 | service unit on the bus, that contains the overall consumed | |
195 | CPU time of a service (the sum of what each process of the | |
196 | service consumed). This value is only available if | |
197 | CPUAccounting= is turned on for a service, and is then shown | |
198 | in the "systemctl status" output. | |
199 | ||
200 | * Support for configuring alternative mappings of the old SysV | |
201 | runlevels to systemd targets has been removed. They are now | |
29d1fcb4 | 202 | hardcoded in a way that runlevels 2, 3, 4 all map to |
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203 | multi-user.target and 5 to graphical.target (which |
204 | previously was already the default behaviour). | |
205 | ||
206 | * The auto-mounter logic gained support for mount point | |
207 | expiry, using a new TimeoutIdleSec= setting in .automount | |
208 | units. (Also available as x-systemd.idle-timeout= in /etc/fstab). | |
209 | ||
210 | * The EFI System Partition (ESP) as mounted to /boot by | |
211 | systemd-efi-boot-generator will now be unmounted | |
29d1fcb4 | 212 | automatically after 2 minutes of not being used. This should |
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213 | minimize the risk of ESP corruptions. |
214 | ||
215 | * New /etc/fstab options x-systemd.requires= and | |
216 | x-systemd.requires-mounts-for= are now supported to express | |
217 | additional dependencies for mounts. This is useful for | |
218 | journalling file systems that support external journal | |
219 | devices or overlay file systems that require underlying file | |
220 | systems to be mounted. | |
221 | ||
222 | * systemd does not support direct live-upgrades (via systemctl | |
223 | daemon-reexec) from versions older than v44 anymore. As no | |
224 | distribution we are aware of shipped such old versions in a | |
225 | stable release this should not be problematic. | |
226 | ||
227 | * When systemd forks off a new per-connection service instance | |
228 | it will now set the $REMOTE_ADDR environment variable to the | |
229 | remote IP address, and $REMOTE_PORT environment variable to | |
230 | the remote IP port. This behaviour is similar to the | |
231 | corresponding environment variables defined by CGI. | |
232 | ||
233 | * systemd-networkd gained support for uplink failure | |
234 | detection. The BindCarrier= option allows binding interface | |
235 | configuration dynamically to the link sense of other | |
236 | interfaces. This is useful to achieve behaviour like in | |
237 | network switches. | |
238 | ||
239 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring the DHCP | |
240 | client identifier to use when requesting leases. | |
241 | ||
242 | * systemd-networkd now has a per-network UseNTP= option to | |
243 | configure whether NTP server information acquired via DHCP | |
244 | is passed on to services like systemd-timesyncd. | |
245 | ||
246 | * systemd-networkd gained support for vti6 tunnels. | |
247 | ||
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248 | * Note that systemd-networkd manages the sysctl variable |
249 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/*/forwarding for each interface | |
250 | it is configured for since v219. The variable controls IP | |
251 | forwarding, and is a per-interface alternative to the global | |
252 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/ip_forward. This setting is | |
253 | configurable in the IPForward= option, which defaults to | |
254 | "no". This means if networkd is used for an interface it is | |
255 | no longer sufficient to set the global sysctl option to turn | |
256 | on IP forwarding! Instead, the .network file option | |
257 | IPForward= needs to be turned on! Note that the | |
258 | implementation of this behaviour was broken in v219 and has | |
259 | been fixed in v220. | |
260 | ||
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261 | * Many bonding and vxlan options are now configurable in |
262 | systemd-networkd. | |
263 | ||
264 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --property= setting to set unit | |
265 | properties for the container scope. This is useful for | |
266 | setting resource parameters (e.g "CPUShares=500") on | |
267 | containers started from the command line. | |
268 | ||
269 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --private-users= switch to make | |
270 | use of user namespacing available on recent Linux kernels. | |
271 | ||
272 | * systemd-nspawn may now be called as part of a shell pipeline | |
273 | in which case the pipes used for stdin and stdout are passed | |
274 | directly to the process invoked in the container, without | |
275 | indirection via a pseudo tty. | |
276 | ||
277 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch to control the UNIX | |
278 | signal to use when killing the init process of the container | |
279 | when shutting down. | |
280 | ||
281 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --overlay= switch for mounting | |
282 | overlay file systems into the container using the new kernel | |
283 | overlayfs support. | |
284 | ||
285 | * When a container image is imported via systemd-importd and | |
286 | the host file system is not btrfs, a loopback block device | |
287 | file is created in /var/lib/machines.raw with a btrfs file | |
288 | system inside. It is then mounted to /var/lib/machines to | |
289 | enable btrfs features for container management. The loopback | |
290 | file and btrfs file system is grown as needed when container | |
291 | images are imported via systemd-importd. | |
292 | ||
293 | * systemd-machined/systemd-importd gained support for btrfs | |
294 | quota, to enforce container disk space limits on disk. This | |
295 | is exposed in "machinectl set-limit". | |
296 | ||
297 | * systemd-importd now can import containers from local .tar, | |
298 | .raw and .qcow2 images, and export them to .tar and .raw. It | |
299 | can also import dkr v2 images now from the network (on top | |
300 | of v1 as before). | |
301 | ||
302 | * systemd-importd gained support for verifying downloaded | |
303 | images with gpg2 (previously only gpg1 was supported). | |
304 | ||
305 | * systemd-machined, systemd-logind, systemd: most bus calls | |
306 | are now accessible to unprivileged processes via | |
307 | PolicyKit. Also, systemd-logind will now allow users to kill | |
308 | their own sessions without further privileges or | |
309 | authorization. | |
310 | ||
311 | * systemd-shutdownd has been removed. This service was | |
312 | previously responsible for implementing scheduled shutdowns | |
313 | as exposed in /usr/bin/shutdown's time parameter. This | |
314 | functionality has now been moved into systemd-logind and is | |
315 | accessible via a bus interface. | |
316 | ||
317 | * "systemctl reboot" gained a new switch --firmware-setup that | |
318 | can be used to reboot into the EFI firmware setup, if that | |
319 | is available. systemd-logind now exposes an API on the bus | |
320 | to trigger such reboots, in case graphical desktop UIs want | |
321 | to cover this functionality. | |
322 | ||
323 | * "systemctl enable", "systemctl disable" and "systemctl mask" | |
1579dd2c | 324 | now support a new "--now" switch. If specified the units |
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325 | that are enabled will also be started, and the ones |
326 | disabled/masked also stopped. | |
327 | ||
328 | * The Gummiboot EFI boot loader tool has been merged into | |
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329 | systemd, and renamed to "systemd-boot". The bootctl tool has been |
330 | updated to support systemd-boot. | |
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331 | |
332 | * An EFI kernel stub has been added that may be used to create | |
333 | kernel EFI binaries that contain not only the actual kernel, | |
334 | but also an initrd, boot splash, command line and OS release | |
335 | information. This combined binary can then be signed as a | |
336 | single image, so that the firmware can verify it all in one | |
1a2d5fbe | 337 | step. systemd-boot has special support for EFI binaries created |
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338 | like this and can extract OS release information from them |
339 | and show them in the boot menu. This functionality is useful | |
340 | to implement cryptographically verified boot schemes. | |
341 | ||
342 | * Optional support has been added to systemd-fsck to pass | |
343 | fsck's progress report to an AF_UNIX socket in the file | |
344 | system. | |
345 | ||
346 | * udev will no longer create device symlinks for all block | |
347 | devices by default. A blacklist for excluding special block | |
348 | devices from this logic has been turned into a whitelist | |
349 | that requires picking block devices explicitly that require | |
350 | device symlinks. | |
351 | ||
352 | * A new (currently still internal) API sd-device.h has been | |
353 | added to libsystemd. This modernized API is supposed to | |
354 | replace libudev eventually. In fact, already much of libudev | |
355 | is now just a wrapper around sd-device.h. | |
356 | ||
357 | * A new hwdb database for storing metadata about pointing | |
358 | stick devices has been added. | |
359 | ||
360 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for setting file attributes | |
361 | similar to the "chattr" tool with new 'h' and 'H' lines. | |
362 | ||
363 | * systemd-journald will no longer unconditionally set the | |
364 | btrfs NOCOW flag on new journal files. This is instead done | |
365 | with tmpfiles snippet using the new 'h' line type. This | |
366 | allows easy disabling of this logic, by masking the | |
367 | journal-nocow.conf tmpfiles file. | |
368 | ||
369 | * systemd-journald will now translate audit message types to | |
370 | human readable identifiers when writing them to the | |
371 | journal. This should improve readability of audit messages. | |
372 | ||
373 | * The LUKS logic gained support for the offset= and skip= | |
374 | options in /etc/crypttab, as previously implemented by | |
375 | Debian. | |
376 | ||
377 | * /usr/lib/os-release gained a new optional field VARIANT= for | |
378 | distributions that support multiple variants (such as a | |
379 | desktop edition, a server edition, ...) | |
380 | ||
381 | Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Adam Goode, Alban Crequy, | |
382 | Alberto Fanjul Alonso, Alexander Sverdlin, Alex Puchades, Alin | |
383 | Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrew Jones, Arend van Spriel, | |
384 | Benedikt Morbach, Benjamin Franzke, Benjamin Tissoires, Blaž | |
385 | Tomažič, Chris Morgan, Chris Morin, Colin Walters, Cristian | |
386 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel | |
387 | Mack, Daniel Mustieles, daurnimator, Davide Bettio, David | |
388 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Didier Roche, Dimitri John Ledkov, | |
389 | Eric Cook, Gavin Li, Goffredo Baroncelli, Hannes Reinecke, | |
390 | Hans de Goede, Hans-Peter Deifel, Harald Hoyer, Iago López | |
391 | Galeiras, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
392 | Pazdziora, Jan Synacek, Jasper St. Pierre, Jay Faulkner, John | |
393 | Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathon Gilbert, Karel Zak, Kay | |
394 | Sievers, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas | |
395 | De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Lukas Rusak, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz | |
396 | Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel | |
397 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Chevrier, Matthew Garrett, | |
398 | Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
399 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nir Soffer, Patrik | |
400 | Flykt, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Peter Lemenkov, Peter | |
401 | Waller, Piotr Drąg, Raul Gutierrez S, Richard Maw, Ronny | |
402 | Chevalier, Ross Burton, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
403 | Seth Jennings, Shawn Landden, Simon Farnsworth, Stefan Junker, | |
404 | Stephen Gallagher, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas | |
405 | Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tobias Hunger, Tom | |
406 | Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Will | |
407 | Woods, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
408 | ||
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412 | ||
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413 | * Introduce a new API "sd-hwdb.h" for querying the hardware |
414 | metadata database. With this minimal interface one can query | |
415 | and enumerate the udev hwdb, decoupled from the old libudev | |
416 | library. libudev's interface for this is now only a wrapper | |
417 | around sd-hwdb. A new tool systemd-hwdb has been added to | |
418 | interface with and update the database. | |
419 | ||
420 | * When any of systemd's tools copies files (for example due to | |
421 | tmpfiles' C lines) a btrfs reflink will attempted first, | |
422 | before bytewise copying is done. | |
423 | ||
424 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --ephemeral switch. When | |
425 | specified a btrfs snapshot is taken of the container's root | |
426 | directory, and immediately removed when the container | |
427 | terminates again. Thus, a container can be started whose | |
428 | changes never alter the container's root directory, and are | |
429 | lost on container termination. This switch can also be used | |
430 | for starting a container off the root file system of the | |
431 | host without affecting the host OS. This switch is only | |
432 | available on btrfs file systems. | |
433 | ||
434 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --template= switch. It takes the | |
435 | path to a container tree to use as template for the tree | |
7edecf21 | 436 | specified via --directory=, should that directory be |
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437 | missing. This allows instantiating containers dynamically, |
438 | on first run. This switch is only available on btrfs file | |
439 | systems. | |
440 | ||
441 | * When a .mount unit refers to a mount point on which multiple | |
442 | mounts are stacked, and the .mount unit is stopped all of | |
443 | the stacked mount points will now be unmounted until no | |
444 | mount point remains. | |
445 | ||
446 | * systemd now has an explicit notion of supported and | |
447 | unsupported unit types. Jobs enqueued for unsupported unit | |
448 | types will now fail with an "unsupported" error code. More | |
449 | specifically .swap, .automount and .device units are not | |
450 | supported in containers, .busname units are not supported on | |
451 | non-kdbus systems. .swap and .automount are also not | |
452 | supported if their respective kernel compile time options | |
453 | are disabled. | |
454 | ||
455 | * machinectl gained support for two new "copy-from" and | |
456 | "copy-to" commands for copying files from a running | |
457 | container to the host or vice versa. | |
458 | ||
459 | * machinectl gained support for a new "bind" command to bind | |
460 | mount host directories into local containers. This is | |
461 | currently only supported for nspawn containers. | |
462 | ||
463 | * networkd gained support for configuring bridge forwarding | |
464 | database entries (fdb) from .network files. | |
465 | ||
466 | * A new tiny daemon "systemd-importd" has been added that can | |
467 | download container images in tar, raw, qcow2 or dkr formats, | |
468 | and make them available locally in /var/lib/machines, so | |
469 | that they can run as nspawn containers. The daemon can GPG | |
470 | verify the downloads (not supported for dkr, since it has no | |
471 | provisions for verifying downloads). It will transparently | |
472 | decompress bz2, xz, gzip compressed downloads if necessary, | |
473 | and restore sparse files on disk. The daemon uses privilege | |
474 | separation to ensure the actual download logic runs with | |
475 | fewer privileges than the deamon itself. machinectl has | |
476 | gained new commands "pull-tar", "pull-raw" and "pull-dkr" to | |
477 | make the functionality of importd available to the | |
478 | user. With this in place the Fedora and Ubuntu "Cloud" | |
479 | images can be downloaded and booted as containers unmodified | |
480 | (the Fedora images lack the appropriate GPG signature files | |
481 | currently, so they cannot be verified, but this will change | |
482 | soon, hopefully). Note that downloading images is currently | |
483 | only fully supported on btrfs. | |
484 | ||
485 | * machinectl is now able to list container images found in | |
486 | /var/lib/machines, along with some metadata about sizes of | |
487 | disk and similar. If the directory is located on btrfs and | |
488 | quota is enabled, this includes quota display. A new command | |
489 | "image-status" has been added that shows additional | |
490 | information about images. | |
491 | ||
492 | * machinectl is now able to clone container images | |
493 | efficiently, if the underlying file system (btrfs) supports | |
494 | it, with the new "machinectl list-images" command. It also | |
495 | gained commands for renaming and removing images, as well as | |
496 | marking them read-only or read-write (supported also on | |
497 | legacy file systems). | |
498 | ||
499 | * networkd gained support for collecting LLDP network | |
500 | announcements, from hardware that supports this. This is | |
501 | shown in networkctl output. | |
502 | ||
503 | * systemd-run gained support for a new -t (--pty) switch for | |
504 | invoking a binary on a pty whose input and output is | |
505 | connected to the invoking terminal. This allows executing | |
506 | processes as system services while interactively | |
507 | communicating with them via the terminal. Most interestingly | |
508 | this is supported across container boundaries. Invoking | |
509 | "systemd-run -t /bin/bash" is an alternative to running a | |
510 | full login session, the difference being that the former | |
511 | will not register a session, nor go through the PAM session | |
512 | setup. | |
513 | ||
514 | * tmpfiles gained support for a new "v" line type for creating | |
515 | btrfs subvolumes. If the underlying file system is a legacy | |
516 | file system, this automatically degrades to creating a | |
517 | normal directory. Among others /var/lib/machines is now | |
518 | created like this at boot, should it be missing. | |
519 | ||
520 | * The directory /var/lib/containers/ has been deprecated and | |
521 | been replaced by /var/lib/machines. The term "machines" has | |
522 | been used in the systemd context as generic term for both | |
523 | VMs and containers, and hence appears more appropriate for | |
524 | this, as the directory can also contain raw images bootable | |
525 | via qemu/kvm. | |
526 | ||
527 | * systemd-nspawn when invoked with -M but without --directory= | |
528 | or --image= is now capable of searching for the container | |
529 | root directory, subvolume or disk image automatically, in | |
530 | /var/lib/machines. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated | |
531 | to make use of this, thus allowing it to be used for raw | |
532 | disk images, too. | |
533 | ||
534 | * A new machines.target unit has been introduced that is | |
535 | supposed to group all containers/VMs invoked as services on | |
536 | the system. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated to | |
537 | integrate with that. | |
538 | ||
539 | * machinectl gained a new "start" command, for invoking a | |
540 | container as a service. "machinectl start foo" is mostly | |
541 | equivalent to "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo.service", | |
542 | but handles escaping in a nicer way. | |
543 | ||
544 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount most of the cgroupfs tree | |
545 | read-only into each container, with the exception of the | |
546 | container's own subtree in the name=systemd hierarchy. | |
547 | ||
548 | * journald now sets the special FS_NOCOW file flag for its | |
549 | journal files. This should improve performance on btrfs, by | |
550 | avoiding heavy fragmentation when journald's write-pattern | |
551 | is used on COW file systems. It degrades btrfs' data | |
552 | integrity guarantees for the files to the same levels as for | |
553 | ext3/ext4 however. This should be OK though as journald does | |
554 | its own data integrity checks and all its objects are | |
555 | checksummed on disk. Also, journald should handle btrfs disk | |
556 | full events a lot more gracefully now, by processing SIGBUS | |
557 | errors, and not relying on fallocate() anymore. | |
558 | ||
559 | * When journald detects that journal files it is writing to | |
560 | have been deleted it will immediately start new journal | |
561 | files. | |
562 | ||
563 | * systemd now provides a way to store file descriptors | |
564 | per-service in PID 1.This is useful for daemons to ensure | |
565 | that fds they require are not lost during a daemon | |
566 | restart. The fds are passed to the deamon on the next | |
567 | invocation in the same way socket activation fds are | |
568 | passed. This is now used by journald to ensure that the | |
569 | various sockets connected to all the system's stdout/stderr | |
570 | are not lost when journald is restarted. File descriptors | |
571 | may be stored in PID 1 via the sd_pid_notify_with_fds() API, | |
572 | an extension to sd_notify(). Note that a limit is enforced | |
573 | on the number of fds a service can store in PID 1, and it | |
574 | defaults to 0, so that no fds may be stored, unless this is | |
575 | explicitly turned on. | |
576 | ||
577 | * The default TERM variable to use for units connected to a | |
578 | terminal, when no other value is explicitly is set is now | |
579 | vt220 rather than vt102. This should be fairly safe still, | |
580 | but allows PgUp/PgDn work. | |
581 | ||
582 | * The /etc/crypttab option header= as known from Debian is now | |
583 | supported. | |
584 | ||
585 | * "loginctl user-status" and "loginctl session-status" will | |
586 | now show the last 10 lines of log messages of the | |
587 | user/session following the status output. Similar, | |
588 | "machinectl status" will show the last 10 log lines | |
589 | associated with a virtual machine or container | |
590 | service. (Note that this is usually not the log messages | |
591 | done in the VM/container itself, but simply what the | |
592 | container manager logs. For nspawn this includes all console | |
593 | output however.) | |
594 | ||
595 | * "loginctl session-status" without further argument will now | |
596 | show the status of the session of the caller. Similar, | |
597 | "lock-session", "unlock-session", "activate", | |
598 | "enable-linger", "disable-linger" may now be called without | |
599 | session/user parameter in which case they apply to the | |
600 | caller's session/user. | |
601 | ||
602 | * An X11 session scriptlet is now shipped that uploads | |
603 | $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY into the environment of the systemd | |
604 | --user daemon if a session begins. This should improve | |
605 | compatibility with X11 enabled applications run as systemd | |
606 | user services. | |
607 | ||
608 | * Generators are now subject to masking via /etc and /run, the | |
609 | same way as unit files. | |
610 | ||
611 | * networkd .network files gained support for configuring | |
612 | per-link IPv4/IPv6 packet forwarding as well as IPv4 | |
613 | masquerading. This is by default turned on for veth links to | |
614 | containers, as registered by systemd-nspawn. This means that | |
615 | nspawn containers run with --network-veth will now get | |
616 | automatic routed access to the host's networks without any | |
617 | further configuration or setup, as long as networkd runs on | |
618 | the host. | |
619 | ||
620 | * systemd-nspawn gained the --port= (-p) switch to expose TCP | |
621 | or UDP posts of a container on the host. With this in place | |
622 | it is possible to run containers with private veth links | |
623 | (--network-veth), and have their functionality exposed on | |
624 | the host as if their services were running directly on the | |
625 | host. | |
626 | ||
dd2fd155 | 627 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth switch now gained a short |
615aaf41 LP |
628 | version "-n", since with the changes above it is now truly |
629 | useful out-of-the-box. The systemd-nspawn@.service has been | |
630 | updated to make use of it too by default. | |
631 | ||
632 | * systemd-nspawn will now maintain a per-image R/W lock, to | |
633 | ensure that the same image is not started more than once | |
634 | writable. (It's OK to run an image multiple times | |
635 | simultaneously in read-only mode.) | |
636 | ||
637 | * systemd-nspawn's --image= option is now capable of | |
638 | dissecting and booting MBR and GPT disk images that contain | |
639 | only a single active Linux partition. Previously it | |
640 | supported only GPT disk images with proper GPT type | |
641 | IDs. This allows running cloud images from major | |
642 | distributions directly with systemd-nspawn, without | |
643 | modification. | |
644 | ||
645 | * In addition to collecting mouse dpi data in the udev | |
646 | hardware database, there's now support for collecting angle | |
647 | information for mouse scroll wheels. The database is | |
7edecf21 | 648 | supposed to guarantee similar scrolling behavior on mice |
615aaf41 LP |
649 | that it knows about. There's also support for collecting |
650 | information about Touchpad types. | |
651 | ||
652 | * udev's input_id built-in will now also collect touch screen | |
653 | dimension data and attach it to probed devices. | |
654 | ||
655 | * /etc/os-release gained support for a Distribution Privacy | |
656 | Policy link field. | |
657 | ||
658 | * networkd gained support for creating "ipvlan", "gretap", | |
659 | "ip6gre", "ip6gretap" and "ip6tnl" network devices. | |
660 | ||
661 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for "a" lines for setting | |
662 | ACLs on files. | |
663 | ||
664 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount /tmp in the container to | |
665 | tmpfs, automatically. | |
666 | ||
667 | * systemd now exposes the memory.usage_in_bytes cgroup | |
668 | attribute and shows it for each service in the "systemctl | |
669 | status" output, if available. | |
670 | ||
671 | * When the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7x within 2s an | |
672 | immediate reboot is triggered. This useful if shutdown is | |
673 | hung and is unable to complete, to expedite the | |
674 | operation. Note that this kind of reboot will still unmount | |
675 | all file systems, and hence should not result in fsck being | |
676 | run on next reboot. | |
677 | ||
678 | * A .device unit for an optical block device will now be | |
679 | considered active only when a medium is in the drive. Also, | |
680 | mount units are now bound to their backing devices thus | |
681 | triggering automatic unmounting when devices become | |
682 | unavailable. With this in place systemd will now | |
683 | automatically unmount left-over mounts when a CD-ROM is | |
684 | ejected or an USB stick is yanked from the system. | |
685 | ||
686 | * networkd-wait-online now has support for waiting for | |
687 | specific interfaces only (with globbing), and for giving up | |
688 | after a configurable timeout. | |
689 | ||
690 | * networkd now exits when idle. It will be automatically | |
691 | restarted as soon as interfaces show up, are removed or | |
692 | change state. networkd will stay around as long as there is | |
693 | at least one DHCP state machine or similar around, that keep | |
694 | it non-idle. | |
695 | ||
696 | * networkd may now configure IPv6 link-local addressing in | |
697 | addition to IPv4 link-local addressing. | |
698 | ||
699 | * The IPv6 "token" for use in SLAAC may now be configured for | |
700 | each .network interface in networkd. | |
701 | ||
702 | * Routes configured with networkd may now be assigned a scope | |
703 | in .network files. | |
704 | ||
705 | * networkd's [Match] sections now support globbing and lists | |
706 | of multiple space-separated matches per item. | |
707 | ||
11ea2781 | 708 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alin Rauta, Andrey Chaser, |
d2c643c6 LP |
709 | Bastien Nocera, Bruno Bottazzini, Carlos Garnacho, Carlos |
710 | Morata Castillo, Chris Atkinson, Chris J. Arges, Christian | |
711 | Kirbach, Christian Seiler, Christoph Brill, Colin Guthrie, | |
712 | Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, | |
713 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, Erik Auerswald, | |
714 | Filipe Brandenburger, Frank Theile, Gabor Kelemen, Gabriel de | |
715 | Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Hui Wang, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan | |
716 | Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, Jay Faulkner, Johannes Hölzl, Jonas | |
717 | Ådahl, Jonathan Boulle, Josef Andersson, Kay Sievers, Ken | |
718 | Werner, Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Märdian, | |
719 | Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
720 | Manuel Mendez, Marcel Holtmann, Marc Schmitzer, Marko | |
721 | Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, | |
722 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Mindaugas | |
11ea2781 LP |
723 | Baranauskas, Moez Bouhlel, Naveen Kumar, Patrik Flykt, Paul |
724 | Martin, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, Philippe De Swert, | |
725 | Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira, Rami Rosen, Robert Milasan, Ronny | |
726 | Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Sebastien Bacher, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
727 | Shawn Landden, Stéphane Graber, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
728 | Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tim JP, Tom | |
729 | Gundersen, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar | |
d2c643c6 LP |
730 | Lindskog, Veres Lajos, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, Wieland |
731 | Hoffmann, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
11ea2781 | 732 | |
d2c643c6 | 733 | -- Berlin, 2015-02-16 |
11ea2781 | 734 | |
d4f5a1f4 DH |
735 | CHANGES WITH 218: |
736 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
737 | * When querying unit file enablement status (for example via |
738 | "systemctl is-enabled"), a new state "indirect" is now known | |
739 | which indicates that a unit might not be enabled itself, but | |
740 | another unit listed in its Alias= setting might be. | |
741 | ||
742 | * Similar to the various existing ConditionXYZ= settings for | |
743 | units there are now matching AssertXYZ= settings. While | |
744 | failing conditions cause a unit to be skipped, but its job | |
745 | to succeed, failing assertions declared like this will cause | |
746 | a unit start operation and its job to fail. | |
747 | ||
748 | * hostnamed now knows a new chassis type "embedded". | |
749 | ||
750 | * systemctl gained a new "edit" command. When used on a unit | |
751 | file this allows extending unit files with .d/ drop-in | |
752 | configuration snippets or editing the full file (after | |
753 | copying it from /usr/lib to /etc). This will invoke the | |
754 | user's editor (as configured with $EDITOR), and reload the | |
755 | modified configuration after editing. | |
756 | ||
757 | * "systemctl status" now shows the suggested enablement state | |
758 | for a unit, as declared in the (usually vendor-supplied) | |
759 | system preset files. | |
760 | ||
761 | * nss-myhostname will now resolve the single-label host name | |
762 | "gateway" to the locally configured default IP routing | |
763 | gateways, ordered by their metrics. This assigns a stable | |
764 | name to the used gateways, regardless which ones are | |
765 | currently configured. Note that the name will only be | |
766 | resolved after all other name sources (if nss-myhostname is | |
767 | configured properly) and should hence not negatively impact | |
768 | systems that use the single-label host name "gateway" in | |
769 | other contexts. | |
770 | ||
771 | * systemd-inhibit now allows filtering by mode when listing | |
772 | inhibitors. | |
773 | ||
122676c9 LP |
774 | * Scope and service units gained a new "Delegate" boolean |
775 | property, which when set allows processes running inside the | |
776 | unit to further partition resources. This is primarily | |
777 | useful for systemd user instances as well as container | |
778 | managers. | |
f9e00a9f LP |
779 | |
780 | * journald will now pick up audit messages directly from | |
781 | the kernel, and log them like any other log message. The | |
782 | audit fields are split up and fully indexed. This means that | |
783 | journalctl in many ways is now a (nicer!) alternative to | |
784 | ausearch, the traditional audit client. Note that this | |
785 | implements only a minimal audit client, if you want the | |
786 | special audit modes like reboot-on-log-overflow, please use | |
787 | the traditional auditd instead, which can be used in | |
788 | parallel to journald. | |
789 | ||
790 | * The ConditionSecurity= unit file option now understands the | |
791 | special string "audit" to check whether auditing is | |
792 | available. | |
793 | ||
794 | * journalctl gained two new commands --vacuum-size= and | |
795 | --vacuum-time= to delete old journal files until the | |
796 | remaining ones take up no more the specified size on disk, | |
797 | or are not older than the specified time. | |
798 | ||
799 | * A new, native PPPoE library has been added to sd-network, | |
800 | systemd's library of light-weight networking protocols. This | |
801 | library will be used in a future version of networkd to | |
802 | enable PPPoE communication without an external pppd daemon. | |
803 | ||
804 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "capture" verb that | |
805 | works similar to "monitor", but writes a packet capture | |
806 | trace to STDOUT that can be redirected to a file which is | |
807 | compatible with libcap's capture file format. This can then | |
808 | be loaded in Wireshark and similar tools to inspect bus | |
809 | communication. | |
810 | ||
811 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "tree" verb that shows | |
812 | the object trees of a specific service on the bus, or of all | |
813 | services. | |
814 | ||
815 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "introspect" verb that | |
816 | shows all interfaces and members of objects on the bus, | |
817 | including their signature and values. This is particularly | |
818 | useful to get more information about bus objects shown by | |
819 | the new "busctl tree" command. | |
820 | ||
821 | * The busctl tool now understands new verbs "call", | |
822 | "set-property" and "get-property" for invoking bus method | |
823 | calls, setting and getting bus object properties in a | |
824 | friendly way. | |
825 | ||
826 | * busctl gained a new --augment-creds= argument that controls | |
827 | whether the tool shall augment credential information it | |
828 | gets from the bus with data from /proc, in a possibly | |
829 | race-ful way. | |
830 | ||
831 | * nspawn's --link-journal= switch gained two new values | |
832 | "try-guest" and "try-host" that work like "guest" and | |
17c29493 | 833 | "host", but do not fail if the host has no persistent |
f9e00a9f LP |
834 | journalling enabled. -j is now equivalent to |
835 | --link-journal=try-guest. | |
836 | ||
837 | * macvlan network devices created by nspawn will now have | |
838 | stable MAC addresses. | |
839 | ||
840 | * A new SmackProcessLabel= unit setting has been added, which | |
841 | controls the SMACK security label processes forked off by | |
842 | the respective unit shall use. | |
843 | ||
d4f5a1f4 DH |
844 | * If compiled with --enable-xkbcommon, systemd-localed will |
845 | verify x11 keymap settings by compiling the given keymap. It | |
846 | will spew out warnings if the compilation fails. This | |
847 | requires libxkbcommon to be installed. | |
848 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
849 | * When a coredump is collected a larger number of metadata |
850 | fields is now collected and included in the journal records | |
851 | created for it. More specifically control group membership, | |
852 | environment variables, memory maps, working directory, | |
853 | chroot directory, /proc/$PID/status, and a list of open file | |
854 | descriptors is now stored in the log entry. | |
855 | ||
17c29493 | 856 | * The udev hwdb now contains DPI information for mice. For |
f9e00a9f LP |
857 | details see: |
858 | ||
859 | http://who-t.blogspot.de/2014/12/building-a-dpi-database-for-mice.html | |
860 | ||
861 | * All systemd programs that read standalone configuration | |
862 | files in /etc now also support a corresponding series of | |
997b2b43 JT |
863 | .conf.d configuration directories in /etc/, /run/, |
864 | /usr/local/lib/, /usr/lib/, and (if configured with | |
865 | --enable-split-usr) /lib/. In particular, the following | |
866 | configuration files now have corresponding configuration | |
867 | directories: system.conf user.conf, logind.conf, | |
868 | journald.conf, sleep.conf, bootchart.conf, coredump.conf, | |
869 | resolved.conf, timesyncd.conf, journal-remote.conf, and | |
870 | journal-upload.conf. Note that distributions should use the | |
871 | configuration directories in /usr/lib/; the directories in | |
872 | /etc/ are reserved for the system administrator. | |
873 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
874 | * systemd-rfkill will no longer take the rfkill device name |
875 | into account when storing rfkill state on disk, as the name | |
876 | might be dynamically assigned and not stable. Instead, the | |
877 | ID_PATH udev variable combined with the rfkill type (wlan, | |
878 | bluetooth, ...) is used. | |
879 | ||
880 | * A new service systemd-machine-id-commit.service has been | |
881 | added. When used on systems where /etc is read-only during | |
882 | boot, and /etc/machine-id is not initialized (but an empty | |
883 | file), this service will copy the temporary machine ID | |
884 | created as replacement into /etc after the system is fully | |
885 | booted up. This is useful for systems that are freshly | |
886 | installed with a non-initialized machine ID, but should get | |
887 | a fixed machine ID for subsequent boots. | |
888 | ||
889 | * networkd's .netdev files now provide a large set of | |
890 | configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similar, the | |
891 | bridge port cost parameter is now configurable in .network | |
892 | files. There's also new support for configuring IP source | |
893 | routing. networkd .link files gained support for a new | |
894 | OriginalName= match that is useful to match against the | |
895 | original interface name the kernel assigned. .network files | |
896 | may include MTU= and MACAddress= fields for altering the MTU | |
897 | and MAC address while being connected to a specific network | |
898 | interface. | |
899 | ||
900 | * The LUKS logic gained supported for configuring | |
901 | UUID-specific key files. There's also new support for naming | |
902 | LUKS device from the kernel command line, using the new | |
903 | luks.name= argument. | |
904 | ||
905 | * Timer units may now be transiently created via the bus API | |
906 | (this was previously already available for scope and service | |
907 | units). In addition it is now possible to create multiple | |
908 | transient units at the same time with a single bus call. The | |
909 | "systemd-run" tool has been updated to make use of this for | |
910 | running commands on a specified time, in at(1)-style. | |
911 | ||
912 | * tmpfiles gained support for "t" lines, for assigning | |
913 | extended attributes to files. Among other uses this may be | |
914 | used to assign SMACK labels to files. | |
915 | ||
13e92f39 LP |
916 | Contributions from: Alin Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrej |
917 | Manduch, Bastien Nocera, Chris Atkinson, Chris Leech, Chris | |
918 | Mayo, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
919 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dan Winship, Dave | |
920 | Reisner, David Herrmann, Didier Roche, Felipe Sateler, Gavin | |
921 | Li, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Ivan | |
922 | Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Joe | |
923 | Lawrence, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
924 | Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, Mantas | |
925 | Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Maurizio Lombardi, | |
926 | Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Marineau, Michal | |
7da81d33 LP |
927 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, Peter |
928 | Hutterer, Przemyslaw Kedzierski, Rami Rosen, Ray Strode, | |
929 | Richard Schütz, Richard W.M. Jones, Ronny Chevalier, Ross | |
930 | Lagerwall, Sean Young, Stanisław Pitucha, Susant Sahani, | |
931 | Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
932 | Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vicente Olivert | |
933 | Riera, WaLyong Cho, Wesley Dawson, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
13e92f39 LP |
934 | |
935 | -- Berlin, 2014-12-10 | |
f9e00a9f | 936 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
937 | CHANGES WITH 217: |
938 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
939 | * journalctl gained the new options -t/--identifier= to match |
940 | on the syslog identifier (aka "tag"), as well as --utc to | |
941 | show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also | |
942 | accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager. | |
b62a309a | 943 | |
a65b8245 ZJS |
944 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --flush, that synchronously |
945 | flushes logs from /run/log/journal to /var/log/journal if | |
946 | persistent storage is enabled. systemd-journal-flush.service | |
947 | now waits until the operation is complete. | |
2a97b03b | 948 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
949 | * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload |
950 | (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending | |
4bdc60cb LP |
951 | STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the |
952 | internal state of daemons and closes a race condition when | |
78b6b7ce | 953 | the process is still running but has closed its D-Bus |
4bdc60cb | 954 | connection. |
b62a309a | 955 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
956 | * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any ExecStart |
957 | commands anymore. | |
b62a309a ZJS |
958 | |
959 | * User units are now loaded also from | |
960 | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the | |
961 | /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously | |
962 | supported, but is under the control of the user. | |
963 | ||
4ffd29fd LP |
964 | * Job timeouts (i.e. time-outs on the time a job that is |
965 | queued stays in the run queue) can now optionally result in | |
966 | immediate reboot or power-off actions (JobTimeoutAction= and | |
967 | JobTimeoutRebootArgument=). This is useful on ".target" | |
968 | units, to limit the maximum time a target remains | |
969 | undispatched in the run queue, and to trigger an emergency | |
970 | operation in such a case. This is now used by default to | |
971 | turn off the system if boot-up (as defined by everything in | |
972 | basic.target) hangs and does not complete for at least | |
973 | 15min. Also, if power-off or reboot hang for at least 30min | |
974 | an immediate power-off/reboot operation is triggered. This | |
975 | functionality is particularly useful to increase reliability | |
976 | on embedded devices, but also on laptops which might | |
977 | accidentally get powered on when carried in a backpack and | |
978 | whose boot stays stuck in a hard disk encryption passphrase | |
979 | question. | |
980 | ||
b62a309a ZJS |
981 | * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch |
982 | events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays | |
983 | are attached (HandleLidSwitchDocked= option). | |
984 | ||
985 | * A helper binary and a service have been added which can be | |
986 | used to resume from hibernation in the initramfs. A | |
987 | generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel | |
81c7dd89 | 988 | command line to trigger resume. |
b62a309a | 989 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
990 | * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been |
991 | added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a | |
992 | single terminal on each session of the user marked as | |
09077149 | 993 | Desktop=systemd-console. |
b62a309a ZJS |
994 | |
995 | * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by | |
996 | systemd-networkd. | |
997 | ||
ba8df74b | 998 | * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set |
78b6b7ce | 999 | from the information provided by the networking stack |
b62a309a ZJS |
1000 | (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). |
1001 | ||
1002 | * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and | |
1003 | the minimum supported kernel version is thus bumped to 3.7. | |
1004 | ||
1005 | * Timeout for udev workers has been increased from 1 to 3 | |
1006 | minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to | |
1007 | help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load. | |
1008 | ||
78b6b7ce | 1009 | * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar". |
b62a309a | 1010 | |
4bdc60cb | 1011 | * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many |
f6d1de85 | 1012 | circumstances it didn't give expected benefits even for |
b62a309a | 1013 | rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the |
78b6b7ce LP |
1014 | age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using |
1015 | rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively | |
1016 | maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed. | |
b62a309a | 1017 | |
c4ac9900 | 1018 | * Swap units can use Options= to specify discard options. |
b62a309a ZJS |
1019 | Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now |
1020 | respected. | |
1021 | ||
1022 | * Docker containers are now detected as a separate type of | |
1023 | virtualization. | |
1024 | ||
1025 | * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where | |
ba8df74b | 1026 | the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names. |
78b6b7ce LP |
1027 | systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that |
1028 | on. | |
b62a309a | 1029 | |
e6c253e3 MS |
1030 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set: |
1031 | ||
1032 | net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel | |
1033 | ||
ba8df74b KS |
1034 | This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default |
1035 | queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps | |
e6c253e3 MS |
1036 | fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be |
1037 | a good default with no tuning required for most workloads. | |
1038 | Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit | |
1039 | servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better. | |
1040 | Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast". | |
1041 | ||
4bdc60cb LP |
1042 | * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is |
1043 | available for service units, that allows locking all service | |
1044 | processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit | |
1045 | access to various bus services, or even hide most of them | |
1046 | from the service's view entirely. | |
1047 | ||
1048 | * networkctl will now show the .network and .link file | |
1049 | networkd has applied to a specific interface. | |
1050 | ||
1051 | * sd-login gained a new API call sd_session_get_desktop() to | |
1052 | query which desktop environment has been selected for a | |
1053 | session. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support | |
1056 | legacy-free systems. | |
1057 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
1058 | * systemctl gained two new commands "add-wants" and |
1059 | "add-requires" for pulling in units from specific targets | |
1060 | easily. | |
1061 | ||
1062 | * If the word "rescue" is specified on the kernel command line | |
1063 | the system will now boot into rescue mode (aka | |
1064 | rescue.target), which was previously available only by | |
1065 | specifying "1" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target" on the kernel | |
1066 | command line. This new kernel command line option nicely | |
1067 | mirrors the already existing "emergency" kernel command line | |
1068 | option. | |
1069 | ||
1070 | * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, | |
d4474c41 | 1071 | mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, |
78b6b7ce LP |
1072 | rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to |
1073 | /usr. | |
1074 | ||
f6d1de85 | 1075 | * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processes of |
78b6b7ce LP |
1076 | services, not only the main process. |
1077 | ||
1078 | * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This | |
1079 | means at least version v2.25 of util-linux is required for | |
1080 | operation, otherwise dead-locks on device nodes may | |
1081 | occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least | |
1082 | v2.25 when updating systemd to v217. | |
1083 | ||
3769415e TT |
1084 | * The "multi-seat-x" tool has been removed from systemd, as |
1085 | its functionality has been integrated into X servers 1.16, | |
1086 | and the tool is hence redundant. It is recommended to update | |
1087 | display managers invoking this tool to simply invoke X | |
1088 | directly from now on, again. | |
1089 | ||
fae9332b LP |
1090 | * Support for the new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION D-Bus |
1091 | message flag has been added for all of systemd's PolicyKit | |
1092 | authenticated method calls has been added. In particular | |
1093 | this now allows optional interactive authorization via | |
ba8df74b | 1094 | PolicyKit for many of PID1's privileged operations such as |
fae9332b LP |
1095 | unit file enabling and disabling. |
1096 | ||
cfa1571b LP |
1097 | * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for |
1098 | placing the rebuilt hardware database in /usr instead of | |
1099 | /etc. When used only hardware database entries stored in | |
1100 | /usr will be used, and any user database entries in /etc are | |
1101 | ignored. This functionality is useful for vendors to ship a | |
1102 | pre-built database on systems where local configuration is | |
1103 | unnecessary or unlikely. | |
1104 | ||
7e63dd10 LP |
1105 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also |
1106 | understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and | |
ba8df74b | 1107 | "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting |
7e63dd10 LP |
1108 | "anually", "hourly", ...). |
1109 | ||
d4474c41 TG |
1110 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev |
1111 | at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is | |
1112 | recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!' | |
1113 | and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not | |
1114 | overwritten at runtime. | |
1115 | ||
3b187c5c LP |
1116 | * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=) |
1117 | and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be | |
1118 | terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order | |
1119 | to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is | |
1120 | generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in | |
1121 | similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a | |
1122 | segmentation fault. | |
1123 | ||
4b08dd87 LP |
1124 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov, |
1125 | Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L. | |
1126 | Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, | |
1127 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David | |
1128 | Herrmann, David Sommerseth, David Strauss, Emil Renner | |
1129 | Berthing, Eric Cook, Evangelos Foutras, Filipe Brandenburger, | |
1130 | Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo | |
1131 | Venev, Hugo Grostabussiat, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
1132 | Synacek, Jonathan Liu, Juho Son, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Klaus | |
1133 | Purer, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
1134 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
1135 | Marius Tessmann, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, | |
1136 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, Michal | |
1137 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miroslav Lichvar, Patrik Flykt, | |
1138 | Philippe De Swert, Piotr Drąg, Rahul Sundaram, Richard | |
1139 | Weinberger, Robert Milasan, Ronny Chevalier, Ruben Kerkhof, | |
1140 | Santiago Vila, Sergey Ptashnick, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd | |
1141 | Simons, Stefan Brüns, Steven Allen, Steven Noonan, Susant | |
1142 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
1143 | Timofey Titovets, Tobias Hunger, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
1144 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew | |
13e92f39 | 1145 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
4b08dd87 LP |
1146 | |
1147 | -- Berlin, 2014-10-28 | |
1148 | ||
b72ddf0f | 1149 | CHANGES WITH 216: |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1150 | |
1151 | * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from | |
b72ddf0f | 1152 | /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1153 | implementations should add a |
1154 | ||
b72ddf0f | 1155 | Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1156 | |
1157 | to their unit files to take over and replace systemd's NTP | |
1158 | default functionality. | |
1159 | ||
1160 | * systemd-sysusers gained a new line type "r" for configuring | |
1161 | which UID/GID ranges to allocate system users/groups | |
1162 | from. Lines of type "u" may now add an additional column | |
1163 | that specifies the home directory for the system user to be | |
1164 | created. Also, systemd-sysusers may now optionally read user | |
1165 | information from STDIN instead of a file. This is useful for | |
1166 | invoking it from RPM preinst scriptlets that need to create | |
1167 | users before the first RPM file is installed since these | |
1168 | files might need to be owned by them. A new | |
1169 | %sysusers_create_inline RPM macro has been introduced to do | |
1170 | just that. systemd-sysusers now updates the shadow files as | |
1171 | well as the user/group databases, which should enhance | |
1172 | compatibility with certain tools like grpck. | |
1173 | ||
1174 | * A number of bus APIs of PID 1 now optionally consult | |
5f02e26c | 1175 | PolicyKit to permit access for otherwise unprivileged |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1176 | clients under certain conditions. Note that this currently |
1177 | doesn't support interactive authentication yet, but this is | |
1178 | expected to be added eventually, too. | |
1179 | ||
1180 | * /etc/machine-info now has new fields for configuring the | |
1181 | deployment environment of the machine, as well as the | |
1182 | location of the machine. hostnamectl has been updated with | |
1183 | new command to update these fields. | |
1184 | ||
1185 | * systemd-timesyncd has been updated to automatically acquire | |
1186 | NTP server information from systemd-networkd, which might | |
1187 | have been discovered via DHCP. | |
1188 | ||
1189 | * systemd-resolved now includes a caching DNS stub resolver | |
1190 | and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation. A new | |
daa05349 AB |
1191 | NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which can be used |
1192 | instead of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1193 | systemd-resolved. Hostnames, addresses and arbitrary RRs may |
1194 | be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to | |
1195 | the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of | |
1196 | multi-homed system, and keeps DNS server and caches separate | |
5f02e26c | 1197 | and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneously on all |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1198 | interfaces that have DNS servers configured, in order to |
1199 | properly handle VPNs and local LANs which might resolve | |
1200 | separate sets of domain names. systemd-resolved may acquire | |
a1a4a25e | 1201 | DNS server information from systemd-networkd automatically, |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1202 | which in turn might have discovered them via DHCP. A tool |
1203 | "systemd-resolve-host" has been added that may be used to | |
1204 | query the DNS logic in resolved. systemd-resolved implements | |
1205 | IDNA and automatically uses IDNA or UTF-8 encoding depending | |
1206 | on whether classic DNS or LLMNR is used as transport. In the | |
1207 | next releases we intend to add a DNSSEC and mDNS/DNS-SD | |
1208 | implementation to systemd-resolved. | |
1209 | ||
1210 | * A new NSS module nss-mymachines has been added, that | |
1211 | automatically resolves the names of all local registered | |
1212 | containers to their respective IP addresses. | |
1213 | ||
1214 | * A new client tool "networkctl" for systemd-networkd has been | |
1215 | added. It currently is entirely passive and will query | |
1216 | networking configuration from udev, rtnetlink and networkd, | |
5f02e26c | 1217 | and present it to the user in a very friendly |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1218 | way. Eventually, we hope to extend it to become a full |
1219 | control utility for networkd. | |
1220 | ||
1221 | * .socket units gained a new DeferAcceptSec= setting that | |
1222 | controls the kernels' TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopt for | |
1223 | TCP. Similar, support for controlling TCP keep-alive | |
1224 | settings has been added (KeepAliveTimeSec=, | |
1225 | KeepAliveIntervalSec=, KeepAliveProbes=). Also, support for | |
1226 | turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added | |
1227 | (NoDelay=). | |
1228 | ||
a1a4a25e | 1229 | * logind learned a new session type "web", for use in projects |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1230 | like Cockpit which register web clients as PAM sessions. |
1231 | ||
1232 | * timer units with at least one OnCalendar= setting will now | |
1233 | be started only after timer-sync.target has been | |
1234 | reached. This way they will not elapse before the system | |
1235 | clock has been corrected by a local NTP client or | |
1236 | similar. This is particular useful on RTC-less embedded | |
1237 | machines, that come up with an invalid system clock. | |
1238 | ||
1239 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth= switch should now result in | |
1240 | stable MAC addresses for both the outer and the inner side | |
1241 | of the link. | |
1242 | ||
1243 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --volatile= switch for running | |
1244 | container instances with /etc or /var unpopulated. | |
1245 | ||
1246 | * The kdbus client code has been updated to use the new Linux | |
1247 | 3.17 memfd subsystem instead of the old kdbus-specific one. | |
1248 | ||
1249 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client and server now support | |
01da80b1 LP |
1250 | FORCERENEW. There are also new configuration options to |
1251 | configure the vendor client identifier and broadcast mode | |
1252 | for DHCP. | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1253 | |
1254 | * systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current | |
1255 | timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the | |
1256 | kernel has no understanding of DST and similar | |
1257 | concepts. This hence means FAT timestamps will be always | |
1258 | considered UTC, similar to what Android is already | |
1259 | doing. Also, when the RTC is configured to the local time | |
1260 | (rather than UTC) systemd will never synchronize back to it, | |
1261 | as this might confuse Windows at a later boot. | |
1262 | ||
1263 | * systemd-analyze gained a new command "verify" for offline | |
1264 | validation of unit files. | |
1265 | ||
1266 | * systemd-networkd gained support for a couple of additional | |
1267 | settings for bonding networking setups. Also, the metric for | |
1268 | statically configured routes may now be configured. For | |
1269 | network interfaces where this is appropriate the peer IP | |
1270 | address may now be configured. | |
1271 | ||
26568403 TG |
1272 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client will no longer request |
1273 | broadcasting by default, as this tripped up some networks. | |
1274 | For hardware where broadcast is required the feature should | |
1275 | be switched back on using RequestBroadcast=yes. | |
1276 | ||
1277 | * systemd-networkd will now set up IPv4LL addresses (when | |
1278 | enabled) even if DHCP is configured successfully. | |
1279 | ||
1280 | * udev will now default to respect network device names given | |
1281 | by the kernel when the kernel indicates that these are | |
1282 | predictable. This behavior can be tweaked by changing | |
1283 | NamePolicy= in the relevant .link file. | |
1284 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
1285 | * A new library systemd-terminal has been added that |
1286 | implements full TTY stream parsing and rendering. This | |
1287 | library is supposed to be used later on for implementing a | |
1288 | full userspace VT subsystem, replacing the current kernel | |
1289 | implementation. | |
1290 | ||
1291 | * A new tool systemd-journal-upload has been added to push | |
1292 | journal data to a remote system running | |
1293 | systemd-journal-remote. | |
1294 | ||
1295 | * journald will no longer forward all local data to another | |
1296 | running syslog daemon. This change has been made because | |
1297 | rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog | |
1298 | implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and | |
1299 | instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since | |
5f02e26c | 1300 | forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1301 | more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this |
1302 | off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog | |
1303 | version, you have to turn this option on again | |
1304 | (ForwardToSyslog= in journald.conf). | |
1305 | ||
1306 | * journald now optionally supports the LZ4 compressor for | |
1307 | larger journal fields. This compressor should perform much | |
1308 | better than XZ which was the previous default. | |
1309 | ||
1310 | * machinectl now shows the IP addresses of local containers, | |
1311 | if it knows them, plus the interface name of the container. | |
1312 | ||
1313 | * A new tool "systemd-escape" has been added that makes it | |
1314 | easy to escape strings to build unit names and similar. | |
1315 | ||
1316 | * sd_notify() messages may now include a new ERRNO= field | |
1317 | which is parsed and collected by systemd and shown among the | |
1318 | "systemctl status" output for a service. | |
1319 | ||
1320 | * A new component "systemd-firstboot" has been added that | |
1321 | queries the most basic systemd information (timezone, | |
a1a4a25e | 1322 | hostname, root password) interactively on first |
b2ca0d63 LP |
1323 | boot. Alternatively it may also be used to provision these |
1324 | things offline on OS images installed into directories. | |
1325 | ||
01da80b1 LP |
1326 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set |
1327 | ||
1328 | net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries=1 | |
1329 | ||
1330 | This has the benefit of no flushing secondary IP addresses | |
1331 | when primary addresses are removed. | |
1332 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
1333 | Contributions from: Ansgar Burchardt, Bastien Nocera, Colin |
1334 | Walters, Dan Dedrick, Daniel Buch, Daniel Korostil, Daniel | |
1335 | Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Denis | |
1336 | Kenzior, Eelco Dolstra, Eric Cook, Hannes Reinecke, Harald | |
1337 | Hoyer, Hong Shick Pak, Hui Wang, Jean-André Santoni, Jóhann | |
1338 | B. Guðmundsson, Jon Severinsson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kevin | |
1339 | Wells, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
1340 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
1341 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, | |
1342 | Miguel Angel Ajo, Mike Gilbert, Olivier Brunel, Robert | |
1343 | Schiele, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd Simons, Stef | |
1344 | Walter, Steven Noonan, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas | |
1345 | Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Timofey Titovets, | |
1346 | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, Umut | |
1347 | Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
1348 | ||
1349 | -- Berlin, 2014-08-19 | |
b72ddf0f | 1350 | |
3dff3e00 | 1351 | CHANGES WITH 215: |
24a2bf4c LP |
1352 | |
1353 | * A new tool systemd-sysusers has been added. This tool | |
1354 | creates system users and groups in /etc/passwd and | |
1355 | /etc/group, based on static declarative system user/group | |
1356 | definitions in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/. This is useful to | |
1357 | enable factory resets and volatile systems that boot up with | |
1358 | an empty /etc directory, and thus need system users and | |
1359 | groups created during early boot. systemd now also ships | |
1360 | with two default sysusers.d/ files for the most basic | |
1361 | users and groups systemd and the core operating system | |
1362 | require. | |
1363 | ||
1364 | * A new tmpfiles snippet has been added that rebuilds the | |
1365 | essential files in /etc on boot, should they be missing. | |
1366 | ||
1367 | * A directive for ensuring automatic clean-up of | |
1368 | /var/cache/man/ has been removed from the default | |
1369 | configuration. This line should now be shipped by the man | |
1370 | implementation. The necessary change has been made to the | |
1371 | man-db implementation. Note that you need to update your man | |
1372 | implementation to one that ships this line, otherwise no | |
1373 | automatic clean-up of /var/cache/man will take place. | |
1374 | ||
1375 | * A new condition ConditionNeedsUpdate= has been added that | |
1376 | may conditionalize services to only run when /etc or /var | |
1377 | are "older" than the vendor operating system resources in | |
1378 | /usr. This is useful for reconstructing or updating /etc | |
1379 | after an offline update of /usr or a factory reset, on the | |
1380 | next reboot. Services that want to run once after such an | |
1381 | update or reset should use this condition and order | |
1382 | themselves before the new systemd-update-done.service, which | |
1383 | will mark the two directories as fully updated. A number of | |
1384 | service files have been added making use of this, to rebuild | |
1385 | the udev hardware database, the journald message catalog and | |
1386 | dynamic loader cache (ldconfig). The systemd-sysusers tool | |
1387 | described above also makes use of this now. With this in | |
1388 | place it is now possible to start up a minimal operating | |
ce1dde29 | 1389 | system with /etc empty cleanly. For more information on the |
24a2bf4c LP |
1390 | concepts involved see this recent blog story: |
1391 | ||
1392 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html | |
1393 | ||
1394 | * A new system group "input" has been introduced, and all | |
1395 | input device nodes get this group assigned. This is useful | |
1396 | for system-level software to get access to input devices. It | |
3dff3e00 KS |
1397 | complements what is already done for "audio" and "video". |
1398 | ||
24a2bf4c LP |
1399 | * systemd-networkd learnt minimal DHCPv4 server support in |
1400 | addition to the existing DHCPv4 client support. It also | |
1401 | learnt DHCPv6 client and IPv6 Router Solicitation client | |
1402 | support. The DHCPv4 client gained support for static routes | |
1403 | passed in from the server. Note that the [DHCPv4] section | |
1404 | known in older systemd-networkd versions has been renamed to | |
1405 | [DHCP] and is now also used by the DHCPv6 client. Existing | |
c7435cc9 LP |
1406 | .network files using settings of this section should be |
1407 | updated, though compatibility is maintained. Optionally, the | |
1408 | client hostname may now be sent to the DHCP server. | |
24a2bf4c | 1409 | |
c7435cc9 LP |
1410 | * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks as well |
1411 | as tun/tap and dummy devices. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
1412 | |
1413 | * networkd gained support for automatic allocation of address | |
1414 | ranges for interfaces from a system-wide pool of | |
1415 | addresses. This is useful for dynamically managing a large | |
1416 | number of interfaces with a single network configuration | |
1417 | file. In particular this is useful to easily assign | |
1418 | appropriate IP addresses to the veth links of a large number | |
1419 | of nspawn instances. | |
1420 | ||
1421 | * RPM macros for processing sysusers, sysctl and binfmt | |
1422 | drop-in snippets at package installation time have been | |
1423 | added. | |
1424 | ||
1425 | * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in | |
1426 | /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically | |
1427 | created as symlink. /usr/lib is the more appropriate | |
1428 | location of this file, since it shall actually describe the | |
1429 | vendor operating system shipped in /usr, and not the | |
1430 | configuration stored in /etc. | |
1431 | ||
1432 | * .mount units gained a new boolean SloppyOptions= setting | |
1433 | that maps to mount(8)'s -s option which enables permissive | |
1434 | parsing of unknown mount options. | |
1435 | ||
1436 | * tmpfiles learnt a new "L+" directive which creates a symlink | |
1437 | but (unlike "L") deletes a pre-existing file first, should | |
1438 | it already exist and not already be the correct | |
1439 | symlink. Similar, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been | |
1440 | added as well, which create block and character devices, as | |
1441 | well as fifos in the filesystem, possibly removing any | |
1442 | pre-existing files of different types. | |
1443 | ||
1444 | * For tmpfiles' "L", "L+", "C" and "C+" directives the final | |
1445 | 'argument' field (which so far specified the source to | |
ce1dde29 | 1446 | symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If omitted the |
24a2bf4c LP |
1447 | same file os copied from /usr/share/factory/ suffixed by the |
1448 | full destination path. This is useful for populating /etc | |
1449 | with essential files, by copying them from vendor defaults | |
1450 | shipped in /usr/share/factory/etc. | |
1451 | ||
1452 | * A new command "systemctl preset-all" has been added that | |
1453 | applies the service preset settings to all installed unit | |
1454 | files. A new switch --preset-mode= has been added that | |
1455 | controls whether only enable or only disable operations | |
1456 | shall be executed. | |
1457 | ||
1458 | * A new command "systemctl is-system-running" has been added | |
1459 | that allows checking the overall state of the system, for | |
ce1dde29 | 1460 | example whether it is fully up and running. |
24a2bf4c LP |
1461 | |
1462 | * When the system boots up with an empty /etc, the equivalent | |
1463 | to "systemctl preset-all" is executed during early boot, to | |
1464 | make sure all default services are enabled after a factory | |
1465 | reset. | |
1466 | ||
1467 | * systemd now contains a minimal preset file that enables the | |
1468 | most basic services systemd ships by default. | |
1469 | ||
1470 | * Unit files' [Install] section gained a new DefaultInstance= | |
1471 | field for defining the default instance to create if a | |
1472 | template unit is enabled with no instance specified. | |
1473 | ||
1474 | * A new passive target cryptsetup-pre.target has been added | |
1475 | that may be used by services that need to make they run and | |
1476 | finish before the first LUKS cryptographic device is set up. | |
1477 | ||
1478 | * The /dev/loop-control and /dev/btrfs-control device nodes | |
1479 | are now owned by the "disk" group by default, opening up | |
1480 | access to this group. | |
1481 | ||
1482 | * systemd-coredump will now automatically generate a | |
1483 | stack trace of all core dumps taking place on the system, | |
1484 | based on elfutils' libdw library. This stack trace is logged | |
1485 | to the journal. | |
1486 | ||
1487 | * systemd-coredump may now optionally store coredumps directly | |
1488 | on disk (in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, possibly compressed), | |
1489 | instead of storing them unconditionally in the journal. This | |
1490 | mode is the new default. A new configuration file | |
1491 | /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been added to configure this | |
1492 | and other parameters of systemd-coredump. | |
1493 | ||
1494 | * coredumpctl gained a new "info" verb to show details about a | |
1495 | specific coredump. A new switch "-1" has also been added | |
1496 | that makes sure to only show information about the most | |
1497 | recent entry instead of all entries. Also, as the tool is | |
1498 | generally useful now the "systemd-" prefix of the binary | |
1499 | name has been removed. Distributions that want to maintain | |
1500 | compatibility with the old name should add a symlink from | |
1501 | the old name to the new name. | |
1502 | ||
1503 | * journald's SplitMode= now defaults to "uid". This makes sure | |
ce1dde29 | 1504 | that unprivileged users can access their own coredumps with |
24a2bf4c LP |
1505 | coredumpctl without restrictions. |
1506 | ||
1507 | * New kernel command line options "systemd.wants=" (for | |
1508 | pulling an additional unit during boot), "systemd.mask=" | |
1509 | (for masking a specific unit for the boot), and | |
1510 | "systemd.debug-shell" (for enabling the debug shell on tty9) | |
1511 | have been added. This is implemented in the new generator | |
1512 | "systemd-debug-generator". | |
1513 | ||
1514 | * systemd-nspawn will now by default filter a couple of | |
1515 | syscalls for containers, among them those required for | |
1516 | kernel module loading, direct x86 IO port access, swap | |
1517 | management, and kexec. Most importantly though | |
1518 | open_by_handle_at() is now prohibited for containers, | |
1519 | closing a hole similar to a recently discussed vulnerability | |
1520 | in docker regarding access to files on file hierarchies the | |
1521 | container should normally not have access to. Note that for | |
1522 | nspawn we generally make no security claims anyway (and | |
1523 | this is explicitly documented in the man page), so this is | |
1524 | just a fix for one of the most obvious problems. | |
1525 | ||
1526 | * A new man page file-hierarchy(7) has been added that | |
1527 | contains a minimized, modernized version of the file system | |
1528 | layout systemd expects, similar in style to the FHS | |
c7435cc9 LP |
1529 | specification or hier(5). A new tool systemd-path(1) has |
1530 | been added to query many of these paths for the local | |
1531 | machine and user. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
1532 | |
1533 | * Automatic time-based clean-up of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no | |
1534 | longer done. Since the directory now has a per-user size | |
1535 | limit, and is cleaned on logout this appears unnecessary, | |
1536 | in particular since this now brings the lifecycle of this | |
1537 | directory closer in line with how IPC objects are handled. | |
1538 | ||
1539 | * systemd.pc now exports a number of additional directories, | |
1540 | including $libdir (which is useful to identify the library | |
1541 | path for the primary architecture of the system), and a | |
1542 | couple of drop-in directories. | |
1543 | ||
3058e017 TLSC |
1544 | * udev's predictable network interface names now use the dev_port |
1545 | sysfs attribute, introduced in linux 3.15 instead of dev_id to | |
1546 | distinguish between ports of the same PCI function. dev_id should | |
1547 | only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need | |
1548 | for dev_port. | |
1549 | ||
c7435cc9 LP |
1550 | * machined has been updated to export the OS version of a |
1551 | container (read from /etc/os-release and | |
1552 | /usr/lib/os-release) on the bus. This is now shown in | |
1553 | "machinectl status" for a machine. | |
1554 | ||
1555 | * A new service setting RestartForceExitStatus= has been | |
1556 | added. If configured to a set of exit signals or process | |
1557 | return values, the service will be restarted when the main | |
1558 | daemon process exits with any of them, regardless of the | |
1559 | Restart= setting. | |
1560 | ||
1561 | * systemctl's -H switch for connecting to remote systemd | |
1562 | machines has been extended so that it may be used to | |
1563 | directly connect to a specific container on the | |
1564 | host. "systemctl -H root@foobar:waldi" will now connect as | |
1565 | user "root" to host "foobar", and then proceed directly to | |
1566 | the container named "waldi". Note that currently you have to | |
1567 | authenticate as user "root" for this to work, as entering | |
1568 | containers is a privileged operation. | |
1569 | ||
1570 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Benjamin Steinwender, | |
1571 | Carl Schaefer, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian King, Cristian | |
1572 | Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Eugene | |
1573 | Yakubovich, Filipe Brandenburger, Frederic Crozat, Hristo | |
1574 | Venev, Jan Engelhardt, Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
1575 | Poettering, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine | |
1576 | Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, | |
1577 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Sekletar, Patrik Flykt, Ronan Le | |
1578 | Martret, Ronny Chevalier, Ruediger Oertel, Steven Noonan, | |
1579 | Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Hindoe | |
1580 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Hirst, Umut Tezduyar | |
1581 | Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
1582 | ||
1583 | -- Berlin, 2014-07-03 | |
1584 | ||
4196a3ea KS |
1585 | CHANGES WITH 214: |
1586 | ||
1587 | * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the | |
1588 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB)) while it | |
1589 | executes events for the disk or any of its partitions. | |
1590 | Applications like partitioning programs can lock the | |
1591 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_EX)) and claim temporary | |
1592 | device ownership that way; udev will entirely skip all event | |
1593 | handling for this disk and its partitions. If the disk | |
1594 | was opened for writing, the close will trigger a partition | |
1595 | table rescan in udev's "watch" facility, and if needed | |
71449caf | 1596 | synthesize "change" events for the disk and all its partitions. |
8d0e0ddd | 1597 | This is now unconditionally enabled, and if it turns out to |
4196a3ea | 1598 | cause major problems, we might turn it on only for specific |
45df8656 | 1599 | devices, or might need to disable it entirely. Device Mapper |
4196a3ea KS |
1600 | devices are excluded from this logic. |
1601 | ||
04e91da2 LP |
1602 | * We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations, |
1603 | since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux | |
1604 | upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, | |
1605 | and we will readd "-l" as soon as util-linux with this | |
1606 | change has been released. | |
1607 | ||
1608 | * The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long | |
8d0e0ddd | 1609 | time, the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and |
04e91da2 LP |
1610 | libattr is thus unnecessary. |
1611 | ||
1612 | * Virtualization detection works without priviliges now. This | |
1613 | means the systemd-detect-virt binary no longer requires | |
1614 | CAP_SYS_PTRACE file capabilities, and our daemons can run | |
71449caf | 1615 | with fewer privileges. |
04e91da2 LP |
1616 | |
1617 | * systemd-networkd now runs under its own "systemd-network" | |
1618 | user. It retains the CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, | |
1619 | CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but | |
1620 | loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way. | |
1621 | ||
1622 | * Similar, systemd-resolved now runs under its own | |
1623 | "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining. | |
1624 | ||
1625 | * Similar, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own | |
1626 | "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining. | |
1627 | ||
1628 | * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth" | |
1629 | virtual ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well | |
1630 | as GRE and VTI tunnels. | |
1631 | ||
1632 | * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to | |
1633 | manually load kernel modules necessary for certain tunnel | |
8d0e0ddd | 1634 | transports. Instead, it is assumed the kernel loads them |
04e91da2 LP |
1635 | automatically when required. This only works correctly on |
1636 | very new kernels. On older kernels, please consider adding | |
c54bed5d | 1637 | the kernel modules to /etc/modules-load.d/ as a work-around. |
04e91da2 | 1638 | |
cd14eda3 | 1639 | * The resolv.conf file systemd-resolved generates has been |
8d0e0ddd JE |
1640 | moved to /run/systemd/resolve/. If you have a symlink from |
1641 | /etc/resolv.conf, it might be necessary to correct it. | |
cd14eda3 | 1642 | |
ef392da6 | 1643 | * Two new service settings, ProtectHome= and ProtectSystem=, |
8d0e0ddd | 1644 | have been added. When enabled, they will make the user data |
04e91da2 LP |
1645 | (such as /home) inaccessible or read-only and the system |
1646 | (such as /usr) read-only, for specific services. This allows | |
1647 | very light-weight per-service sandboxing to avoid | |
1648 | modifications of user data or system files from | |
1649 | services. These two new switches have been enabled for all | |
1650 | of systemd's long-running services, where appropriate. | |
1651 | ||
1652 | * Socket units gained new SocketUser= and SocketGroup= | |
1653 | settings to set the owner user and group of AF_UNIX sockets | |
1654 | and FIFOs in the file system. | |
1655 | ||
8d0e0ddd | 1656 | * Socket units gained a new RemoveOnStop= setting. If enabled, |
04e91da2 LP |
1657 | all FIFOS and sockets in the file system will be removed |
1658 | when the specific socket unit is stopped. | |
1659 | ||
1660 | * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list | |
1661 | of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs | |
45df8656 | 1662 | created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to |
71449caf | 1663 | manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same life-cycle as |
04e91da2 LP |
1664 | the socket itself. |
1665 | ||
1666 | * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to | |
1667 | /run, and have been replaced by symlinks. This allows | |
1668 | connecting to these facilities even if PrivateDevices=yes is | |
1669 | used for a service (which makes /dev/log itself unavailable, | |
1670 | but /run is left). This also has the benefit of ensuring | |
1671 | that /dev only contains device nodes, directories and | |
1672 | symlinks, and nothing else. | |
1673 | ||
1674 | * sd-daemon gained two new calls sd_pid_notify() and | |
1675 | sd_pid_notifyf(). They are similar to sd_notify() and | |
1676 | sd_notifyf(), but allow overriding of the source PID of | |
1677 | notification messages if permissions permit this. This is | |
1678 | useful to send notify messages on behalf of a different | |
1679 | process (for example, the parent process). The | |
1680 | systemd-notify tool has been updated to make use of this | |
1681 | when sending messages (so that notification messages now | |
1682 | originate from the shell script invoking systemd-notify and | |
1683 | not the systemd-notify process itself. This should minimize | |
1684 | a race where systemd fails to associate notification | |
1685 | messages to services when the originating process already | |
1686 | vanished. | |
1687 | ||
1688 | * A new "on-abnormal" setting for Restart= has been added. If | |
8d0e0ddd | 1689 | set, it will result in automatic restarts on all "abnormal" |
04e91da2 LP |
1690 | reasons for a process to exit, which includes unclean |
1691 | signals, core dumps, timeouts and watchdog timeouts, but | |
1692 | does not include clean and unclean exit codes or clean | |
1693 | signals. Restart=on-abnormal is an alternative for | |
1694 | Restart=on-failure for services that shall be able to | |
1695 | terminate and avoid restarts on certain errors, by | |
1696 | indicating so with an unclean exit code. Restart=on-failure | |
1697 | or Restart=on-abnormal is now the recommended setting for | |
1698 | all long-running services. | |
1699 | ||
1700 | * If the InaccessibleDirectories= service setting points to a | |
1701 | mount point (or if there are any submounts contained within | |
1702 | it), it is now attempted to completely unmount it, to make | |
1703 | the file systems truly unavailable for the respective | |
1704 | service. | |
1705 | ||
1706 | * The ReadOnlyDirectories= service setting and | |
1707 | systemd-nspawn's --read-only parameter are now recursively | |
1708 | applied to all submounts, too. | |
1709 | ||
1710 | * Mount units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs. | |
1711 | ||
1712 | * The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed | |
1713 | from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now | |
1714 | implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units | |
1715 | from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a | |
1716 | substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the | |
1717 | fact that many distributions only ship a very small number | |
1718 | of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays. | |
1719 | ||
cc98b302 | 1720 | * Privileged Xen (dom0) domains are not considered |
04e91da2 LP |
1721 | virtualization anymore by the virtualization detection |
1722 | logic. After all, they generally have unrestricted access to | |
71449caf | 1723 | the hardware and usually are used to manage the unprivileged |
04e91da2 LP |
1724 | (domU) domains. |
1725 | ||
1726 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new "C" line type, for copying | |
1727 | files or entire directories. | |
1728 | ||
1729 | * systemd-tmpfiles "m" lines are now fully equivalent to "z" | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
1730 | lines. So far, they have been non-globbing versions of the |
1731 | latter, and have thus been redundant. In future, it is | |
1732 | recommended to only use "z". "m" has hence been removed | |
04e91da2 LP |
1733 | from the documentation, even though it stays supported. |
1734 | ||
1735 | * A tmpfiles snippet to recreate the most basic structure in | |
1736 | /var has been added. This is enough to create the /var/run → | |
1737 | /run symlink and create a couple of structural | |
1738 | directories. This allows systems to boot up with an empty or | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
1739 | volatile /var. Of course, while with this change, the core OS |
1740 | now is capable with dealing with a volatile /var, not all | |
04e91da2 | 1741 | user services are ready for it. However, we hope that sooner |
8d0e0ddd | 1742 | or later, many service daemons will be changed upstream so |
04e91da2 LP |
1743 | that they are able to automatically create their necessary |
1744 | directories in /var at boot, should they be missing. This is | |
1745 | the first step to allow state-less systems that only require | |
1746 | the vendor image for /usr to boot. | |
1747 | ||
1748 | * systemd-nspawn has gained a new --tmpfs= switch to mount an | |
1749 | empty tmpfs instance to a specific directory. This is | |
1750 | particularly useful for making use of the automatic | |
1751 | reconstruction of /var (see above), by passing --tmpfs=/var. | |
1752 | ||
1753 | * Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be | |
1754 | prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked | |
daa05349 | 1755 | by whether the existing file or directory is currently |
8d0e0ddd | 1756 | writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified, |
04e91da2 LP |
1757 | the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all |
1758 | non-directories. | |
1759 | ||
1760 | * A new passive target unit "network-pre.target" has been | |
1761 | added which is useful for services that shall run before any | |
1762 | network is configured, for example firewall scripts. | |
1763 | ||
4c0d13bd LP |
1764 | * The "floppy" group that previously owned the /dev/fd* |
1765 | devices is no longer used. The "disk" group is now used | |
1766 | instead. Distributions should probably deprecate usage of | |
1767 | this group. | |
1768 | ||
dc1d6c02 LP |
1769 | Contributions from: Camilo Aguilar, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian |
1770 | King, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, David | |
1771 | Strauss, Denis Tikhomirov, John, Jonathan Liu, Kay Sievers, | |
1772 | Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mark Eichin, Ronny | |
1773 | Chevalier, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
1774 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew | |
1775 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
1776 | ||
1777 | -- Berlin, 2014-06-11 | |
1778 | ||
6936cd89 LP |
1779 | CHANGES WITH 213: |
1780 | ||
1781 | * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for | |
69beda1f | 1782 | synchronizing the system clock across the network. It |
6936cd89 | 1783 | implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP |
8d0e0ddd | 1784 | implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server, |
6936cd89 | 1785 | this only implements a client side, and does not bother with |
c9679c65 LP |
1786 | the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from |
1787 | one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to | |
6936cd89 | 1788 | it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or |
8d0e0ddd | 1789 | want to connect to local hardware clocks, this simple NTP |
6936cd89 LP |
1790 | client should be more than appropriate for most |
1791 | installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and | |
1792 | has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when | |
1793 | network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the | |
1794 | current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been | |
1795 | acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock | |
69beda1f | 1796 | early at bootup, in order to accommodate for systems that |
6936cd89 | 1797 | lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, |
8d0e0ddd | 1798 | and to make sure that time monotonically progresses on these |
c9679c65 | 1799 | systems, even if it is not always correct. To make use of |
8d0e0ddd | 1800 | this daemon, a new system user and group "systemd-timesync" |
c9679c65 | 1801 | needs to be created on installation of systemd. |
6936cd89 | 1802 | |
69beda1f KS |
1803 | * The queue "seqnum" interface of libudev has been disabled, as |
1804 | it was generally incompatible with device namespacing as | |
6936cd89 LP |
1805 | sequence numbers of devices go "missing" if the devices are |
1806 | part of a different namespace. | |
1807 | ||
1808 | * "systemctl list-timers" and "systemctl list-sockets" gained | |
1809 | a --recursive switch for showing units of these types also | |
499b604b ZJS |
1810 | for all local containers, similar in style to the already |
1811 | supported --recursive switch for "systemctl list-units". | |
6936cd89 LP |
1812 | |
1813 | * A new RebootArgument= setting has been added for service | |
1814 | units, which may be used to specify a kernel reboot argument | |
499b604b | 1815 | to use when triggering reboots with StartLimitAction=. |
6936cd89 LP |
1816 | |
1817 | * A new FailureAction= setting has been added for service | |
1818 | units which may be used to specify an operation to trigger | |
499b604b | 1819 | when a service fails. This works similarly to |
8d0e0ddd | 1820 | StartLimitAction=, but unlike it, controls what is done |
6936cd89 LP |
1821 | immediately rather than only after several attempts to |
1822 | restart the service in question. | |
1823 | ||
1824 | * hostnamed got updated to also expose the kernel name, | |
499b604b ZJS |
1825 | release, and version on the bus. This is useful for |
1826 | executing commands like hostnamectl with the -H switch. | |
1827 | systemd-analyze makes use of this to properly display | |
1828 | details when running non-locally. | |
6936cd89 LP |
1829 | |
1830 | * The bootchart tool can now show cgroup information in the | |
1831 | graphs it generates. | |
1832 | ||
1833 | * The CFS CPU quota cgroup attribute is now exposed for | |
1834 | services. The new CPUQuota= switch has been added for this | |
1835 | which takes a percentage value. Setting this will have the | |
1836 | result that a service may never get more CPU time than the | |
1837 | specified percentage, even if the machine is otherwise idle. | |
1838 | ||
1839 | * systemd-networkd learned IPIP and SIT tunnel support. | |
1840 | ||
1841 | * LSB init scripts exposing a dependency on $network will now | |
1842 | get a dependency on network-online.target rather than simply | |
1843 | network.target. This should bring LSB handling closer to | |
1844 | what it was on SysV systems. | |
1845 | ||
1846 | * A new fsck.repair= kernel option has been added to control | |
1847 | how fsck shall deal with unclean file systems at boot. | |
1848 | ||
1849 | * The (.ini) configuration file parser will now silently | |
1850 | ignore sections whose name begins with "X-". This may be | |
1851 | used to maintain application-specific extension sections in unit | |
1852 | files. | |
1853 | ||
1854 | * machined gained a new API to query the IP addresses of | |
1855 | registered containers. "machinectl status" has been updated | |
1856 | to show these addresses in its output. | |
1857 | ||
1858 | * A new call sd_uid_get_display() has been added to the | |
1859 | sd-login APIs for querying the "primary" session of a | |
1860 | user. The "primary" session of the user is elected from the | |
1861 | user's sessions and generally a graphical session is | |
1862 | preferred over a text one. | |
1863 | ||
1864 | * A minimal systemd-resolved daemon has been added. It | |
1865 | currently simply acts as a companion to systemd-networkd and | |
1866 | manages resolv.conf based on per-interface DNS | |
1867 | configuration, possibly supplied via DHCP. In the long run | |
1868 | we hope to extend this into a local DNSSEC enabled DNS and | |
1869 | mDNS cache. | |
1870 | ||
68dd0956 TG |
1871 | * The systemd-networkd-wait-online tool is now enabled by |
1872 | default. It will delay network-online.target until a network | |
1873 | connection has been configured. The tool primarily integrates | |
1874 | with networkd, but will also make a best effort to make sense | |
1875 | of network configuration performed in some other way. | |
1876 | ||
6936cd89 | 1877 | * Two new service options StartupCPUShares= and |
499b604b | 1878 | StartupBlockIOWeight= have been added that work similarly to |
6936cd89 | 1879 | CPUShares= and BlockIOWeight= however only apply during |
69beda1f | 1880 | system startup. This is useful to prioritize certain services |
6936cd89 LP |
1881 | differently during bootup than during normal runtime. |
1882 | ||
8e7acf67 LP |
1883 | * hostnamed has been changed to prefer the statically |
1884 | configured hostname in /etc/hostname (unless set to | |
1885 | 'localhost' or empty) over any dynamic one supplied by | |
8d0e0ddd | 1886 | dhcp. With this change, the rules for picking the hostname |
8e7acf67 LP |
1887 | match more closely the rules of other configuration settings |
1888 | where the local administrator's configuration in /etc always | |
1889 | overrides any other settings. | |
1890 | ||
1891 | Contributions fron: Ali H. Caliskan, Alison Chaiken, Bas van | |
6936cd89 LP |
1892 | den Berg, Brandon Philips, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, |
1893 | Dan Kilman, Dave Reisner, David Härdeman, David Herrmann, | |
1894 | David Strauss, Dimitris Spingos, Djalal Harouni, Eelco | |
1895 | Dolstra, Evan Nemerson, Florian Albrechtskirchinger, Greg | |
1896 | Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan | |
1897 | Engelhardt, Jani Nikula, Jason St. John, Jeffrey Clark, | |
1898 | Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas | |
1899 | Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
8e7acf67 LP |
1900 | Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael |
1901 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Nis | |
1902 | Martensen, Patrik Flykt, Philip Lorenz, poma, Ray Strode, | |
1903 | Reyad Attiyat, Robert Milasan, Scott Thrasher, Stef Walter, | |
1904 | Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas Bächler, | |
1905 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar | |
1906 | Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Will Woods, Zbigniew | |
6936cd89 LP |
1907 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
1908 | ||
8e7acf67 | 1909 | -- Beijing, 2014-05-28 |
6936cd89 | 1910 | |
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1911 | CHANGES WITH 212: |
1912 | ||
1913 | * When restoring the screen brightness at boot, stay away from | |
1914 | the darkest setting or from the lowest 5% of the available | |
1915 | range, depending on which is the larger value of both. This | |
1916 | should effectively protect the user from rebooting into a | |
1917 | black screen, should the brightness have been set to minimum | |
1918 | by accident. | |
1919 | ||
1920 | * sd-login gained a new sd_machine_get_class() call to | |
1921 | determine the class ("vm" or "container") of a machine | |
1922 | registered with machined. | |
1923 | ||
1924 | * sd-login gained new calls | |
1925 | sd_peer_get_{session,owner_uid,unit,user_unit,slice,machine_name}(), | |
1926 | to query the identity of the peer of a local AF_UNIX | |
499b604b | 1927 | connection. They operate similarly to their sd_pid_get_xyz() |
51c61cda LP |
1928 | counterparts. |
1929 | ||
1930 | * PID 1 will now maintain a system-wide system state engine | |
1931 | with the states "starting", "running", "degraded", | |
1932 | "maintenance", "stopping". These states are bound to system | |
1933 | startup, normal runtime, runtime with at least one failed | |
1934 | service, rescue/emergency mode and system shutdown. This | |
1935 | state is shown in the "systemctl status" output when no unit | |
1936 | name is passed. It is useful to determine system state, in | |
1937 | particularly when doing so for many systems or containers at | |
1938 | once. | |
1939 | ||
1940 | * A new command "list-machines" has been added to "systemctl" | |
1941 | that lists all local OS containers and shows their system | |
1942 | state (see above), if systemd runs inside of them. | |
1943 | ||
1944 | * systemctl gained a new "-r" switch to recursively enumerate | |
1945 | units on all local containers, when used with the | |
1946 | "list-unit" command (which is the default one that is | |
1947 | executed when no parameters are specified). | |
1948 | ||
1949 | * The GPT automatic partition discovery logic will now honour | |
1950 | two GPT partition flags: one may be set on a partition to | |
1951 | cause it to be mounted read-only, and the other may be set | |
1952 | on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery. | |
1953 | ||
1954 | * Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root | |
70a44afe | 1955 | partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not |
51c61cda LP |
1956 | particularly useful for discovering the root directory on |
1957 | these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is | |
1958 | not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of | |
1959 | ARM disk images in nspawn with the -i option. | |
1960 | ||
1961 | * MAC addresses of interfaces created with nspawn's | |
1962 | --network-interface= switch will now be generated from the | |
1963 | machine name, and thus be stable between multiple invocations | |
1964 | of the container. | |
1965 | ||
1966 | * logind will now automatically remove all IPC objects owned | |
1967 | by a user if she or he fully logs out. This makes sure that | |
1968 | users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC | |
1969 | resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message | |
1970 | queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message | |
b8bde116 JE |
1971 | queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle |
1972 | limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may | |
1973 | be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. | |
51c61cda LP |
1974 | |
1975 | * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a | |
1976 | --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, | |
1977 | instead of /. | |
1978 | ||
1979 | * journald can now forward logged messages to the TTYs of all | |
1980 | logged in users ("wall"). This is the default for all | |
1981 | emergency messages now. | |
1982 | ||
1983 | * A new tool systemd-journal-remote has been added to stream | |
1984 | journal log messages across the network. | |
1985 | ||
1986 | * /sys/fs/cgroup/ is now mounted read-only after all cgroup | |
1987 | controller trees are mounted into it. Note that the | |
1988 | directories mounted beneath it are not read-only. This is a | |
1989 | security measure and is particularly useful because glibc | |
1990 | actually includes a search logic to pick any tmpfs it can | |
1991 | find to implement shm_open() if /dev/shm is not available | |
1992 | (which it might very well be in namespaced setups). | |
1993 | ||
1994 | * machinectl gained a new "poweroff" command to cleanly power | |
1995 | down a local OS container. | |
1996 | ||
1997 | * The PrivateDevices= unit file setting will now also drop the | |
1998 | CAP_MKNOD capability from the capability bound set, and | |
1999 | imply DevicePolicy=closed. | |
2000 | ||
2001 | * PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork= and PrivateTmp= is now used | |
2002 | comprehensively on all long-running systemd services where | |
2003 | this is appropriate. | |
2004 | ||
2005 | * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount | |
b8bde116 | 2006 | namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to |
51c61cda LP |
2007 | pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. |
2008 | ||
2009 | * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into | |
2010 | the kernel. sd-bus gained support for creating "monitoring" | |
2011 | connections that can eavesdrop into all bus communication | |
2012 | for debugging purposes. | |
2013 | ||
2014 | * Timestamps may now be specified in seconds since the UNIX | |
2015 | epoch Jan 1st, 1970 by specifying "@" followed by the value | |
2016 | in seconds. | |
2017 | ||
2018 | * Native tcpwrap support in systemd has been removed. tcpwrap | |
2019 | is old code, not really maintained anymore and has serious | |
2020 | shortcomings, and better options such as firewalls | |
2021 | exist. For setups that require tcpwrap usage, please | |
2022 | consider invoking your socket-activated service via tcpd, | |
2023 | like on traditional inetd. | |
2024 | ||
2025 | * A new system.conf configuration option | |
2026 | DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the | |
2027 | default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. | |
2028 | ||
b8bde116 | 2029 | * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
2030 | timers configured this way will cause the system to resume |
2031 | from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most | |
2032 | do these days). | |
2033 | ||
b8bde116 | 2034 | * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
2035 | timers configured this way will save to disk when they have |
2036 | been last triggered. This information is then used on next | |
2037 | reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that | |
d28315e4 JE |
2038 | could not take place because the system was powered off. |
2039 | This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. | |
51c61cda LP |
2040 | |
2041 | * systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a | |
2042 | timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time | |
2043 | it will be triggered. | |
2044 | ||
2045 | * systemd-networkd will now assign predictable IPv4LL | |
2046 | addresses to its local interfaces. | |
2047 | ||
2048 | Contributions from: Brandon Philips, Daniel Buch, Daniel Mack, | |
2049 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gerd Hoffmann, Greg | |
2050 | Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Jason St. John, Josh | |
2051 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marc-Antoine | |
2052 | Perennou, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Miklos Vajna, | |
2053 | Patrik Flykt, poma, Sebastian Thorarensen, Thomas Bächler, | |
2054 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, | |
2055 | Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Wieland Hoffmann, Zbigniew | |
2056 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2057 | ||
2058 | -- Berlin, 2014-03-25 | |
2059 | ||
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2060 | CHANGES WITH 211: |
2061 | ||
2062 | * A new unit file setting RestrictAddressFamilies= has been | |
2063 | added to restrict which socket address families unit | |
2064 | processes gain access to. This takes address family names | |
2065 | like "AF_INET" or "AF_UNIX", and is useful to minimize the | |
2066 | attack surface of services via exotic protocol stacks. This | |
2067 | is built on seccomp system call filters. | |
2068 | ||
2069 | * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and | |
2070 | RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to | |
2071 | manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is | |
2072 | an alternative for setting up directory permissions with | |
2073 | tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime | |
2074 | directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that | |
2075 | the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This | |
2076 | is particularly useful when writing services that drop | |
f1721625 | 2077 | privileges using the User= or Group= setting. |
699b6b34 LP |
2078 | |
2079 | * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports globbing for | |
2080 | matching against device group names. | |
2081 | ||
2082 | * The systemd configuration file system.conf gained new | |
2083 | settings DefaultCPUAccounting=, DefaultBlockIOAccounting=, | |
2084 | DefaultMemoryAccounting= to globally turn on/off accounting | |
2085 | for specific resources (cgroups) for all units. These | |
22e7062d | 2086 | settings may still be overridden individually in each unit |
699b6b34 LP |
2087 | though. |
2088 | ||
2089 | * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and | |
2090 | root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It | |
2091 | also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in | |
b8bde116 | 2092 | place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following |
699b6b34 LP |
2093 | the Discoverable Partitions Specification |
2094 | (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) | |
2095 | is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without | |
2096 | /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on | |
b8bde116 | 2097 | systems prepared appropriately. |
699b6b34 LP |
2098 | |
2099 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows | |
2100 | booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block | |
2101 | device that follow the Discoverable Partitions Specification | |
2102 | (see above). This means that installations made with | |
2103 | appropriately updated installers may now be started and | |
2104 | deployed using container managers, completely | |
2105 | unmodified. (We hope that libvirt-lxc will add support for | |
2106 | this feature soon, too.) | |
2107 | ||
2108 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-macvlan= setting to | |
2109 | set up a private macvlan interface for the | |
499b604b | 2110 | container. Similarly, systemd-networkd gained a new |
699b6b34 LP |
2111 | Kind=macvlan setting in .netdev files. |
2112 | ||
2113 | * systemd-networkd now supports configuring local addresses | |
2114 | using IPv4LL. | |
2115 | ||
2116 | * A new tool systemd-network-wait-online has been added to | |
2117 | synchronously wait for network connectivity using | |
2118 | systemd-networkd. | |
2119 | ||
2120 | * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for | |
2121 | tracking the life-cycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is | |
2122 | still not a public API though (unless you specify | |
2123 | --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however | |
2124 | voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee). | |
2125 | ||
2126 | * The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runtime directories for each user are | |
2127 | now individual tmpfs instances, which has the benefit of | |
2128 | introducing separate pools for each user, with individual | |
4ef6e535 | 2129 | size limits, and thus making sure that unprivileged clients |
699b6b34 LP |
2130 | can no longer negatively impact the system or other users by |
2131 | filling up their $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. A new logind.conf setting | |
2132 | RuntimeDirectorySize= has been introduced that allows | |
2133 | controlling the default size limit for all users. It | |
2134 | defaults to 10% of the available physical memory. This is no | |
2135 | replacement for quotas on tmpfs though (which the kernel | |
2136 | still does not support), as /dev/shm and /tmp are still | |
4ef6e535 | 2137 | shared resources used by both the system and unprivileged |
699b6b34 LP |
2138 | users. |
2139 | ||
2140 | * logind will now automatically turn off automatic suspending | |
2141 | on laptop lid close when more than one display is | |
2142 | connected. This was previously expected to be implemented | |
2143 | individually in desktop environments (such as GNOME), | |
2144 | however has been added to logind now, in order to fix a | |
2145 | boot-time race where a desktop environment might not have | |
2146 | been started yet and thus not been able to take an inhibitor | |
2147 | lock at the time where logind already suspends the system | |
2148 | due to a closed lid. | |
2149 | ||
2150 | * logind will now wait at least 30s after each system | |
2151 | suspend/resume cycle, and 3min after system boot before | |
2152 | suspending the system due to a closed laptop lid. This | |
2153 | should give USB docking stations and similar enough time to | |
4ef6e535 | 2154 | be probed and configured after system resume and boot in |
699b6b34 LP |
2155 | order to then act as suspend blocker. |
2156 | ||
2157 | * systemd-run gained a new --property= setting which allows | |
2158 | initialization of resource control properties (and others) | |
2159 | for the created scope or service unit. Example: "systemd-run | |
2160 | --property=BlockIOWeight=10 updatedb" may be used to run | |
2161 | updatedb at a low block IO scheduling weight. | |
2162 | ||
2163 | * systemd-run's --uid=, --gid=, --setenv=, --setenv= switches | |
2164 | now also work in --scope mode. | |
2165 | ||
2166 | * When systemd is compiled with kdbus support, basic support | |
2167 | for enforced policies is now in place. (Note that enabling | |
2168 | kdbus still voids your warranty and no API compatibility | |
2169 | promises are made.) | |
2170 | ||
2171 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Ansgar Burchardt, Armin | |
2172 | K., Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, | |
2173 | Harald Hoyer, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jasper St. Pierre, Kay | |
2174 | Sievers, Kieran Clancy, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
2175 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Mark Oteiza, Martin Pitt, | |
2176 | Mike Gilbert, Peter Rajnoha, poma, Samuli Suominen, Stef | |
2177 | Walter, Susant Sahani, Tero Roponen, Thomas Andersen, Thomas | |
2178 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom | |
2179 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zachary Cook, | |
2180 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2181 | ||
13b28d82 | 2182 | -- Berlin, 2014-03-12 |
699b6b34 | 2183 | |
43c71255 LP |
2184 | CHANGES WITH 210: |
2185 | ||
2186 | * systemd will now relabel /dev after loading the SMACK policy | |
2187 | according to SMACK rules. | |
2188 | ||
67dd87c5 | 2189 | * A new unit file option AppArmorProfile= has been added to |
43c71255 LP |
2190 | set the AppArmor profile for the processes of a unit. |
2191 | ||
2192 | * A new condition check ConditionArchitecture= has been added | |
2193 | to conditionalize units based on the system architecture, as | |
2194 | reported by uname()'s "machine" field. | |
2195 | ||
2196 | * systemd-networkd now supports matching on the system | |
2197 | virtualization, architecture, kernel command line, host name | |
2198 | and machine ID. | |
2199 | ||
ed28905e | 2200 | * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the |
43c71255 | 2201 | machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only |
b8bde116 | 2202 | on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid |
43c71255 LP |
2203 | status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the |
2204 | power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can | |
ed28905e | 2205 | be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo |
b8bde116 | 2206 | Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately |
ed28905e | 2207 | re-suspend the machine if the power button has been |
43c71255 LP |
2208 | accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a |
2209 | backpack or similar. | |
2210 | ||
2211 | * logind will now watch SW_DOCK switches and inhibit reaction | |
2212 | to the lid switch if it is pressed. This means that logind | |
d27893ef | 2213 | will not suspend the machine anymore if the lid is closed |
949138cc | 2214 | and the system is docked, if the laptop supports SW_DOCK |
43c71255 LP |
2215 | notifications via the input layer. Note that ACPI docking |
2216 | stations do not generate this currently. Also note that this | |
2217 | logic is usually not fully sufficient and Desktop | |
2218 | Environments should take a lid switch inhibitor lock when an | |
2219 | external display is connected, as systemd will not watch | |
2220 | this on its own. | |
2221 | ||
2222 | * nspawn will now make use of the devices cgroup controller by | |
2223 | default, and only permit creation of and access to the usual | |
2224 | API device nodes like /dev/null or /dev/random, as well as | |
2225 | access to (but not creation of) the pty devices. | |
2226 | ||
2227 | * We will now ship a default .network file for | |
2228 | systemd-networkd that automatically configures DHCP for | |
2229 | network interfaces created by nspawn's --network-veth or | |
2230 | --network-bridge= switches. | |
2231 | ||
2232 | * systemd will now understand the usual M, K, G, T suffixes | |
2233 | according to SI conventions (i.e. to the base 1000) when | |
2234 | referring to throughput and hardware metrics. It will stay | |
2235 | with IEC conventions (i.e. to the base 1024) for software | |
2236 | metrics, according to what is customary according to | |
2237 | Wikipedia. We explicitly document which base applies for | |
2238 | each configuration option. | |
2239 | ||
2240 | * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax | |
ed28905e | 2241 | to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, |
43c71255 | 2242 | based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the |
b8bde116 | 2243 | string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all |
43c71255 LP |
2244 | current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. |
2245 | ||
2246 | * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of | |
2247 | this type are triggered by the dispatching of any event | |
2248 | source of a type that is not "post". This is useful for | |
2249 | implementing clean-up and check event sources that are | |
2250 | triggered by other work being done in the program. | |
2251 | ||
2252 | * systemd-networkd is no longer statically enabled, but uses | |
2253 | the usual [Install] sections so that it can be | |
2254 | enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by | |
2255 | default however. | |
2256 | ||
b8bde116 | 2257 | * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the |
43c71255 LP |
2258 | host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if |
2259 | --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth | |
b8bde116 | 2260 | is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on |
43c71255 LP |
2261 | the host, for example to apply different configuration to |
2262 | them with systemd-networkd. | |
2263 | ||
d27893ef LP |
2264 | * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, |
2265 | libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and | |
2266 | libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC | |
b8bde116 | 2267 | anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times |
d27893ef LP |
2268 | under these alternative names. This means that the footprint |
2269 | is drastically increased, but given that these are | |
b8bde116 | 2270 | transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter |
d27893ef LP |
2271 | much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM |
2272 | platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM | |
d28315e4 | 2273 | toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain |
ed28905e | 2274 | for other architectures like x86 and does not support |
d27893ef LP |
2275 | IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only |
2276 | during a transitional period! | |
2277 | ||
13b28d82 | 2278 | Contributions from: Andreas Fuchs, Armin K., Colin Walters, |
43c71255 LP |
2279 | Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, |
2280 | Holger Schurig, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason St. John, Jasper | |
2281 | St. Pierre, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Łukasz Stelmach, | |
2282 | Marcel Holtmann, Michael Scherer, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
2283 | Gilbert, Samuli Suominen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
2284 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, | |
2285 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2286 | ||
2287 | -- Berlin, 2014-02-24 | |
2288 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
2289 | CHANGES WITH 209: |
2290 | ||
2291 | * A new component "systemd-networkd" has been added that can | |
2292 | be used to configure local network interfaces statically or | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2293 | via DHCP. It is capable of bringing up bridges, VLANs, and |
2294 | bonding. Currently, no hook-ups for interactive network | |
4670e9d5 | 2295 | configuration are provided. Use this for your initrd, |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2296 | container, embedded, or server setup if you need a simple, |
2297 | yet powerful, network configuration solution. This | |
4670e9d5 | 2298 | configuration subsystem is quite nifty, as it allows wildcard |
1e190502 | 2299 | hotplug matching in interfaces. For example, with a single |
4670e9d5 | 2300 | configuration snippet, you can configure that all Ethernet |
1e190502 ZJS |
2301 | interfaces showing up are automatically added to a bridge, |
2302 | or similar. It supports link-sensing and more. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2303 | |
2304 | * A new tool "systemd-socket-proxyd" has been added which can | |
4c2413bf | 2305 | act as a bidirectional proxy for TCP sockets. This is |
e49b5aad LP |
2306 | useful for adding socket activation support to services that |
2307 | do not actually support socket activation, including virtual | |
4c2413bf | 2308 | machines and the like. |
e49b5aad LP |
2309 | |
2310 | * Add a new tool to save/restore rfkill state on | |
2311 | shutdown/boot. | |
2312 | ||
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2313 | * Save/restore state of keyboard backlights in addition to |
2314 | display backlights on shutdown/boot. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2315 | |
2316 | * udev learned a new SECLABEL{} construct to label device | |
2317 | nodes with a specific security label when they appear. For | |
4c2413bf | 2318 | now, only SECLABEL{selinux} is supported, but the syntax is |
e49b5aad LP |
2319 | prepared for additional security frameworks. |
2320 | ||
2321 | * udev gained a new scheme to configure link-level attributes | |
2322 | from files in /etc/systemd/network/*.link. These files can | |
8b7d0494 | 2323 | match against MAC address, device path, driver name and type, |
4c2413bf | 2324 | and will apply attributes like the naming policy, link speed, |
8b7d0494 | 2325 | MTU, duplex settings, Wake-on-LAN settings, MAC address, MAC |
e49b5aad LP |
2326 | address assignment policy (randomized, ...). |
2327 | ||
dfb08b05 ZJS |
2328 | * The configuration of network interface naming rules for |
2329 | "permanent interface names" has changed: a new NamePolicy= | |
2330 | setting in the [Link] section of .link files determines the | |
2331 | priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, mac, | |
2332 | path). The default value of this setting is determined by | |
2333 | /usr/lib/net/links/99-default.link. Old | |
2334 | 80-net-name-slot.rules udev configuration file has been | |
2335 | removed, so local configuration overriding this file should | |
2336 | be adapated to override 99-default.link instead. | |
2337 | ||
e49b5aad | 2338 | * When the User= switch is used in a unit file, also |
4c2413bf | 2339 | initialize $SHELL= based on the user database entry. |
e49b5aad LP |
2340 | |
2341 | * systemd no longer depends on libdbus. All communication is | |
2342 | now done with sd-bus, systemd's low-level bus library | |
2343 | implementation. | |
2344 | ||
2345 | * kdbus support has been added to PID 1 itself. When kdbus is | |
4c2413bf | 2346 | enabled, this causes PID 1 to set up the system bus and |
e49b5aad LP |
2347 | enable support for a new ".busname" unit type that |
2348 | encapsulates bus name activation on kdbus. It works a little | |
2349 | bit like ".socket" units, except for bus names. A new | |
2350 | generator has been added that converts classic dbus1 service | |
2351 | activation files automatically into native systemd .busname | |
2352 | and .service units. | |
2353 | ||
2354 | * sd-bus: add a light-weight vtable implementation that allows | |
2355 | defining objects on the bus with a simple static const | |
2356 | vtable array of its methods, signals and properties. | |
2357 | ||
8b7d0494 | 2358 | * systemd will not generate or install static dbus |
e49b5aad | 2359 | introspection data anymore to /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces, |
1e190502 | 2360 | as the precise format of these files is unclear, and |
e49b5aad LP |
2361 | nothing makes use of it. |
2362 | ||
2363 | * A proxy daemon is now provided to proxy clients connecting | |
2364 | via classic D-Bus AF_UNIX sockets to kdbus, to provide full | |
2365 | compatibility with classic D-Bus. | |
2366 | ||
2367 | * A bus driver implementation has been added that supports the | |
2368 | classic D-Bus bus driver calls on kdbus, also for | |
2369 | compatibility purposes. | |
2370 | ||
2371 | * A new API "sd-event.h" has been added that implements a | |
2372 | minimal event loop API built around epoll. It provides a | |
2373 | couple of features that direct epoll usage is lacking: | |
b9761003 | 2374 | prioritization of events, scales to large numbers of timer |
e49b5aad LP |
2375 | events, per-event timer slack (accuracy), system-wide |
2376 | coalescing of timer events, exit handlers, watchdog | |
2377 | supervision support using systemd's sd_notify() API, child | |
2378 | process handling. | |
2379 | ||
2380 | * A new API "sd-rntl.h" has been added that provides an API | |
2381 | around the route netlink interface of the kernel, similar in | |
2382 | style to "sd-bus.h". | |
2383 | ||
7e95eda5 PF |
2384 | * A new API "sd-dhcp-client.h" has been added that provides a |
2385 | small DHCPv4 client-side implementation. This is used by | |
e49b5aad LP |
2386 | "systemd-networkd". |
2387 | ||
4c2413bf | 2388 | * There is a new kernel command line option |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2389 | "systemd.restore_state=0|1". When set to "0", none of the |
2390 | systemd tools will restore saved runtime state to hardware | |
2391 | devices. More specifically, the rfkill and backlight states | |
2392 | are not restored. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2393 | |
2394 | * The FsckPassNo= compatibility option in mount/service units | |
2395 | has been removed. The fstab generator will now add the | |
2396 | necessary dependencies automatically, and does not require | |
2397 | PID1's support for that anymore. | |
2398 | ||
8b7d0494 | 2399 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --list-boots, that lists |
e49b5aad LP |
2400 | recent boots with their times and boot IDs. |
2401 | ||
2402 | * The various tools like systemctl, loginctl, timedatectl, | |
2403 | busctl, systemd-run, ... have gained a new switch "-M" to | |
2404 | connect to a specific, local OS container (as direct | |
2405 | connection, without requiring SSH). This works on any | |
2406 | container that is registered with machined, such as those | |
2407 | created by libvirt-lxc or nspawn. | |
2408 | ||
2409 | * systemd-run and systemd-analyze also gained support for "-H" | |
4c2413bf | 2410 | to connect to remote hosts via SSH. This is particularly |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2411 | useful for systemd-run because it enables queuing of jobs |
2412 | onto remote systems. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2413 | |
2414 | * machinectl gained a new command "login" to open a getty | |
2415 | login in any local container. This works with any container | |
2416 | that is registered with machined (such as those created by | |
8e420494 | 2417 | libvirt-lxc or nspawn), and which runs systemd inside. |
e49b5aad LP |
2418 | |
2419 | * machinectl gained a new "reboot" command that may be used to | |
2420 | trigger a reboot on a specific container that is registered | |
2421 | with machined. This works on any container that runs an init | |
2422 | system of some kind. | |
2423 | ||
2424 | * systemctl gained a new "list-timers" command to print a nice | |
2425 | listing of installed timer units with the times they elapse | |
2426 | next. | |
2427 | ||
2428 | * Alternative reboot() parameters may now be specified on the | |
2429 | "systemctl reboot" command line and are passed to the | |
2430 | reboot() system call. | |
2431 | ||
2432 | * systemctl gained a new --job-mode= switch to configure the | |
2433 | mode to queue a job with. This is a more generic version of | |
8b7d0494 | 2434 | --fail, --irreversible, and --ignore-dependencies, which are |
e49b5aad LP |
2435 | still available but not advertised anymore. |
2436 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
2437 | * /etc/systemd/system.conf gained new settings to configure |
2438 | various default timeouts of units, as well as the default | |
b9761003 | 2439 | start limit interval and burst. These may still be overridden |
e49b5aad LP |
2440 | within each Unit. |
2441 | ||
270f1624 LP |
2442 | * PID1 will now export on the bus profile data of the security |
2443 | policy upload process (such as the SELinux policy upload to | |
8e420494 | 2444 | the kernel). |
e49b5aad | 2445 | |
4670e9d5 | 2446 | * journald: when forwarding logs to the console, include |
1e190502 ZJS |
2447 | timestamps (following the setting in |
2448 | /sys/module/printk/parameters/time). | |
e49b5aad LP |
2449 | |
2450 | * OnCalendar= in timer units now understands the special | |
2451 | strings "yearly" and "annually". (Both are equivalent) | |
2452 | ||
2453 | * The accuracy of timer units is now configurable with the new | |
2454 | AccuracySec= setting. It defaults to 1min. | |
2455 | ||
2456 | * A new dependency type JoinsNamespaceOf= has been added that | |
2457 | allows running two services within the same /tmp and network | |
2458 | namespace, if PrivateNetwork= or PrivateTmp= are used. | |
2459 | ||
2460 | * A new command "cat" has been added to systemctl. It outputs | |
2461 | the original unit file of a unit, and concatenates the | |
1e190502 ZJS |
2462 | contents of additional "drop-in" unit file snippets, so that |
2463 | the full configuration is shown. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2464 | |
2465 | * systemctl now supports globbing on the various "list-xyz" | |
2466 | commands, like "list-units" or "list-sockets", as well as on | |
1e190502 ZJS |
2467 | those commands which take multiple unit names. |
2468 | ||
2469 | * journalctl's --unit= switch gained support for globbing. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2470 | |
2471 | * All systemd daemons now make use of the watchdog logic so | |
2472 | that systemd automatically notices when they hang. | |
2473 | ||
4c2413bf | 2474 | * If the $container_ttys environment variable is set, |
e49b5aad LP |
2475 | getty-generator will automatically spawn a getty for each |
2476 | listed tty. This is useful for container managers to request | |
2477 | login gettys to be spawned on as many ttys as needed. | |
2478 | ||
2479 | * %h, %s, %U specifier support is not available anymore when | |
2480 | used in unit files for PID 1. This is because NSS calls are | |
2481 | not safe from PID 1. They stay available for --user | |
2482 | instances of systemd, and as special case for the root user. | |
2483 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
2484 | * loginctl gained a new "--no-legend" switch to turn off output |
2485 | of the legend text. | |
2486 | ||
2487 | * The "sd-login.h" API gained three new calls: | |
2488 | sd_session_is_remote(), sd_session_get_remote_user(), | |
2489 | sd_session_get_remote_host() to query information about | |
2490 | remote sessions. | |
2491 | ||
8e420494 LP |
2492 | * The udev hardware database now also carries vendor/product |
2493 | information of SDIO devices. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2494 | |
2495 | * The "sd-daemon.h" API gained a new sd_watchdog_enabled() to | |
2496 | determine whether watchdog notifications are requested by | |
2497 | the system manager. | |
2498 | ||
1e190502 | 2499 | * Socket-activated per-connection services now include a |
e49b5aad LP |
2500 | short description of the connection parameters in the |
2501 | description. | |
2502 | ||
4c2413bf | 2503 | * tmpfiles gained a new "--boot" option. When this is not used, |
e49b5aad | 2504 | only lines where the command character is not suffixed with |
4670e9d5 | 2505 | "!" are executed. When this option is specified, those |
1e190502 ZJS |
2506 | options are executed too. This partitions tmpfiles |
2507 | directives into those that can be safely executed at any | |
2508 | time, and those which should be run only at boot (for | |
2509 | example, a line that creates /run/nologin). | |
e49b5aad | 2510 | |
c0c5af00 | 2511 | * A new API "sd-resolve.h" has been added which provides a simple |
4c2413bf | 2512 | asynchronous wrapper around glibc NSS host name resolution |
e49b5aad | 2513 | calls, such as getaddrinfo(). In contrast to glibc's |
4c2413bf JE |
2514 | getaddrinfo_a(), it does not use signals. In contrast to most |
2515 | other asynchronous name resolution libraries, this one does | |
2516 | not reimplement DNS, but reuses NSS, so that alternate | |
e49b5aad | 2517 | host name resolution systems continue to work, such as mDNS, |
8b7d0494 | 2518 | LDAP, etc. This API is based on libasyncns, but it has been |
e49b5aad LP |
2519 | cleaned up for inclusion in systemd. |
2520 | ||
6300b3ec LP |
2521 | * The APIs "sd-journal.h", "sd-login.h", "sd-id128.h", |
2522 | "sd-daemon.h" are no longer found in individual libraries | |
2523 | libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-login.so, | |
2524 | libsystemd-id128.so, libsystemd-daemon.so. Instead, we have | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2525 | merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which |
2526 | provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic | |
e49b5aad | 2527 | dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's |
d28315e4 | 2528 | symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking |
6300b3ec LP |
2529 | a copy of a good part of our code into each of these |
2530 | libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain | |
2531 | things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it | |
2532 | substantially increases footprint. With this change, there | |
2533 | is only one library for the basic APIs systemd | |
2534 | provides. Also, "sd-bus.h", "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", | |
2535 | "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", "sd-utf8.h" are found in this | |
2536 | library as well, however are subject to the --enable-kdbus | |
2537 | switch (see below). Note that "sd-dhcp-client.h" is not part | |
2538 | of this library (this is because it only consumes, never | |
2539 | provides, services of/to other APIs). To make the transition | |
8b7d0494 | 2540 | easy from the separate libraries to the unified one, we |
4c2413bf | 2541 | provide the --enable-compat-libs compile-time switch which |
e49b5aad LP |
2542 | will generate stub libraries that are compatible with the |
2543 | old ones but redirect all calls to the new one. | |
2544 | ||
8b7d0494 | 2545 | * All of the kdbus logic and the new APIs "sd-bus.h", |
e49b5aad | 2546 | "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2547 | and "sd-utf8.h" are compile-time optional via the |
2548 | "--enable-kdbus" switch, and they are not compiled in by | |
2549 | default. To make use of kdbus, you have to explicitly enable | |
4c2413bf | 2550 | the switch. Note however, that neither the kernel nor the |
e49b5aad LP |
2551 | userspace API for all of this is considered stable yet. We |
2552 | want to maintain the freedom to still change the APIs for | |
4c2413bf | 2553 | now. By specifying this build-time switch, you acknowledge |
e49b5aad | 2554 | that you are aware of the instability of the current |
ad42cf73 KS |
2555 | APIs. |
2556 | ||
2557 | * Also, note that while kdbus is pretty much complete, | |
e49b5aad | 2558 | it lacks one thing: proper policy support. This means you |
8b7d0494 | 2559 | can build a fully working system with all features; however, |
4c2413bf JE |
2560 | it will be highly insecure. Policy support will be added in |
2561 | one of the next releases, at the same time that we will | |
2562 | declare the APIs stable. | |
e49b5aad | 2563 | |
81c7dd89 | 2564 | * When the kernel command line argument "kdbus" is specified, |
ad42cf73 | 2565 | systemd will automatically load the kdbus.ko kernel module. At |
8b7d0494 | 2566 | this stage of development, it is only useful for testing kdbus |
ad42cf73 | 2567 | and should not be used in production. Note: if "--enable-kdbus" |
8b7d0494 | 2568 | is specified, and the kdbus.ko kernel module is available, and |
ad42cf73 KS |
2569 | "kdbus" is added to the kernel command line, the entire system |
2570 | runs with kdbus instead of dbus-daemon, with the above mentioned | |
2571 | problem of missing the system policy enforcement. Also a future | |
2572 | version of kdbus.ko or a newer systemd will not be compatible with | |
2573 | each other, and will unlikely be able to boot the machine if only | |
2574 | one of them is updated. | |
2575 | ||
e49b5aad | 2576 | * systemctl gained a new "import-environment" command which |
4c2413bf | 2577 | uploads the caller's environment (or parts thereof) into the |
e49b5aad LP |
2578 | service manager so that it is inherited by services started |
2579 | by the manager. This is useful to upload variables like | |
2580 | $DISPLAY into the user service manager. | |
2581 | ||
2582 | * A new PrivateDevices= switch has been added to service units | |
2583 | which allows running a service with a namespaced /dev | |
2584 | directory that does not contain any device nodes for | |
4c2413bf | 2585 | physical devices. More specifically, it only includes devices |
8b7d0494 | 2586 | such as /dev/null, /dev/urandom, and /dev/zero which are API |
e49b5aad LP |
2587 | entry points. |
2588 | ||
2589 | * logind has been extended to support behaviour like VT | |
2590 | switching on seats that do not support a VT. This makes | |
2591 | multi-session available on seats that are not the first seat | |
2592 | (seat0), and on systems where kernel support for VTs has | |
8b7d0494 | 2593 | been disabled at compile-time. |
e49b5aad LP |
2594 | |
2595 | * If a process holds a delay lock for system sleep or shutdown | |
1e190502 | 2596 | and fails to release it in time, we will now log its |
e49b5aad LP |
2597 | identity. This makes it easier to identify processes that |
2598 | cause slow suspends or power-offs. | |
2599 | ||
1e190502 ZJS |
2600 | * When parsing /etc/crypttab, support for a new key-slot= |
2601 | option as supported by Debian is added. It allows indicating | |
2602 | which LUKS slot to use on disk, speeding up key loading. | |
e49b5aad | 2603 | |
1e190502 ZJS |
2604 | * The sd_journald_sendv() API call has been checked and |
2605 | officially declared to be async-signal-safe so that it may | |
2606 | be invoked from signal handlers for logging purposes. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2607 | |
2608 | * Boot-time status output is now enabled automatically after a | |
2609 | short timeout if boot does not progress, in order to give | |
8e420494 | 2610 | the user an indication what she or he is waiting for. |
1e190502 ZJS |
2611 | |
2612 | * The boot-time output has been improved to show how much time | |
2613 | remains until jobs expire. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2614 | |
2615 | * The KillMode= switch in service units gained a new possible | |
8b7d0494 | 2616 | value "mixed". If set, and the unit is shut down, then the |
e49b5aad | 2617 | initial SIGTERM signal is sent only to the main daemon |
8e420494 | 2618 | process, while the following SIGKILL signal is sent to |
e49b5aad LP |
2619 | all remaining processes of the service. |
2620 | ||
4c2413bf JE |
2621 | * When a scope unit is registered, a new property "Controller" |
2622 | may be set. If set to a valid bus name, systemd will send a | |
e49b5aad LP |
2623 | RequestStop() signal to this name when it would like to shut |
2624 | down the scope. This may be used to hook manager logic into | |
2625 | the shutdown logic of scope units. Also, scope units may now | |
8b7d0494 | 2626 | be put in a special "abandoned" state, in which case the |
e49b5aad LP |
2627 | manager process which created them takes no further |
2628 | responsibilities for it. | |
2629 | ||
1e190502 | 2630 | * When reading unit files, systemd will now verify |
e49b5aad LP |
2631 | the access mode of these files, and warn about certain |
2632 | suspicious combinations. This has been added to make it | |
2633 | easier to track down packaging bugs where unit files are | |
2634 | marked executable or world-writable. | |
2635 | ||
2636 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new "--setenv=" switch to set | |
8b7d0494 | 2637 | container-wide environment variables. The similar option in |
1e190502 ZJS |
2638 | systemd-activate was renamed from "--environment=" to |
2639 | "--setenv=" for consistency. | |
e49b5aad LP |
2640 | |
2641 | * systemd-nspawn has been updated to create a new kdbus domain | |
2642 | for each container that is invoked, thus allowing each | |
b9761003 | 2643 | container to have its own set of system and user buses, |
8b7d0494 | 2644 | independent of the host. |
e49b5aad LP |
2645 | |
2646 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --drop-capability= switch to run | |
2647 | the container with less capabilities than the default. Both | |
b9761003 | 2648 | --drop-capability= and --capability= now take the special |
e49b5aad LP |
2649 | string "all" for dropping or keeping all capabilities. |
2650 | ||
2651 | * systemd-nspawn gained new switches for executing containers | |
2652 | with specific SELinux labels set. | |
2653 | ||
2654 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --quiet switch to not generate | |
2655 | any additional output but the container's own console | |
2656 | output. | |
2657 | ||
2658 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --share-system switch to run a | |
2659 | container without PID namespacing enabled. | |
2660 | ||
2661 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --register= switch to control | |
1e190502 | 2662 | whether the container is registered with systemd-machined or |
8e420494 | 2663 | not. This is useful for containers that do not run full |
e49b5aad LP |
2664 | OS images, but only specific apps. |
2665 | ||
2666 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --keep-unit which may be used | |
8b7d0494 | 2667 | when invoked as the only program from a service unit, and |
e49b5aad | 2668 | results in registration of the unit service itself in |
1e190502 | 2669 | systemd-machined, instead of a newly opened scope unit. |
e49b5aad LP |
2670 | |
2671 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-interface= switch for | |
2672 | moving arbitrary interfaces to the container. The new | |
4c2413bf | 2673 | --network-veth switch creates a virtual Ethernet connection |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2674 | between host and container. The new --network-bridge= |
2675 | switch then allows assigning the host side of this virtual | |
2676 | Ethernet connection to a bridge device. | |
e49b5aad | 2677 | |
6afc95b7 LP |
2678 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for |
2679 | setting the kernel personality for the container. This is | |
70a44afe | 2680 | useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A |
b8bde116 JE |
2681 | similar option Personality= is now also available for service |
2682 | units to use. | |
6afc95b7 | 2683 | |
e49b5aad LP |
2684 | * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each |
2685 | session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is | |
2686 | useful for desktop environments that want to identify | |
2687 | multiple running sessions of itself easily. | |
2688 | ||
2689 | * A new SELinuxContext= setting for service units has been | |
2690 | added that allows setting a specific SELinux execution | |
2691 | context for a service. | |
2692 | ||
2693 | * Most systemd client tools will now honour $SYSTEMD_LESS for | |
2694 | settings of the "less" pager. By default, these tools will | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
2695 | override $LESS to allow certain operations to work, such as |
2696 | jump-to-the-end. With $SYSTEMD_LESS, it is possible to | |
e49b5aad LP |
2697 | influence this logic. |
2698 | ||
2699 | * systemd's "seccomp" hook-up has been changed to make use of | |
2700 | the libseccomp library instead of using its own | |
2701 | implementation. This has benefits for portability among | |
2702 | other things. | |
2703 | ||
4c2413bf | 2704 | * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new |
8b7d0494 | 2705 | SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that |
b8bde116 JE |
2706 | allows configuration of a system error number to be returned |
2707 | on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the | |
e49b5aad LP |
2708 | process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to |
2709 | limit access to system calls of a particular architecture | |
2710 | (in order to turn off support for unused secondary | |
4c2413bf | 2711 | architectures). There is also a global |
8b7d0494 | 2712 | SystemCallArchitectures= setting in system.conf now to turn |
e49b5aad LP |
2713 | off support for non-native system calls system-wide. |
2714 | ||
210054d7 KS |
2715 | * systemd requires a kernel with a working name_to_handle_at(), |
2716 | please see the kernel config requirements in the README file. | |
2717 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
2718 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alex Jia, Anatol Pomozov, |
2719 | Ansgar Burchardt, AppleBloom, Auke Kok, Bastien Nocera, | |
2720 | Chengwei Yang, Christian Seiler, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
2721 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniele Medri, Daniel J | |
2722 | Walsh, Daniel Mack, Dan McGee, Dave Reisner, David Coppa, | |
2723 | David Herrmann, David Strauss, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry Pisklov, | |
2724 | Elia Pinto, Florian Weimer, George McCollister, Goffredo | |
2725 | Baroncelli, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Igor | |
2726 | Zhbanov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
2727 | Jason St. John, Jasper St. Pierre, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson, Jose | |
2728 | Ignacio Naranjo, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kristian Høgsberg, | |
2729 | Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
2730 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
2731 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Felipe Rasia de | |
2732 | Mello, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael | |
2733 | Marineau, Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, | |
2734 | Michele Curti, Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, | |
2735 | Pavel Holica, Raudi, Richard Marko, Ronny Chevalier, Sébastien | |
2736 | Luttringer, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, | |
2737 | Stefan Beller, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefeve, Sylvia Else, | |
2738 | Tero Roponen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
2739 | Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Unai Uribarri, Václav | |
2740 | Pavlín, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, William Giokas, Yang | |
2741 | Zhiyong, Yin Kangkai, Yuxuan Shui, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2742 | ||
6300b3ec | 2743 | -- Berlin, 2014-02-20 |
e49b5aad | 2744 | |
cd4010b3 LP |
2745 | CHANGES WITH 208: |
2746 | ||
2747 | * logind has gained support for facilitating privileged input | |
2748 | and drm device access for unprivileged clients. This work is | |
2749 | useful to allow Wayland display servers (and similar | |
2750 | programs, such as kmscon) to run under the user's ID and | |
2751 | access input and drm devices which are normally | |
2752 | protected. When this is used (and the kernel is new enough) | |
2753 | logind will "mute" IO on the file descriptors passed to | |
2754 | Wayland as long as it is in the background and "unmute" it | |
2755 | if it returns into the foreground. This allows secure | |
2756 | session switching without allowing background sessions to | |
2757 | eavesdrop on input and display data. This also introduces | |
2758 | session switching support if VT support is turned off in the | |
2759 | kernel, and on seats that are not seat0. | |
2760 | ||
2761 | * A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood | |
06b643e7 | 2762 | now which allows specifying LUKS options for usage for LUKS |
cd4010b3 LP |
2763 | encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=. |
2764 | ||
2765 | * tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in | |
2766 | path names. More specifically %m, %b, %H, %v, are now | |
2767 | replaced by the local machine id, boot id, hostname, and | |
2768 | kernel version number. | |
2769 | ||
2770 | * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which | |
2771 | may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file | |
d28315e4 | 2772 | or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not. |
cd4010b3 LP |
2773 | |
2774 | * This release removes high-level support for the | |
2775 | MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel | |
2776 | cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly | |
2777 | designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its | |
d28315e4 | 2778 | current form, hence we should not expose it for now. |
cd4010b3 LP |
2779 | |
2780 | * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for | |
2781 | all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup | |
2782 | hierarchy. This option is likely to be come the built-in | |
cc98b302 TH |
2783 | default in the kernel anyway, and the non-hierarchical mode |
2784 | never made much sense in the intrinsically hierarchical | |
cd4010b3 LP |
2785 | cgroup system. |
2786 | ||
2787 | * A new field _SYSTEMD_SLICE= is logged along with all journal | |
2788 | messages containing the slice a message was generated | |
2789 | from. This is useful to allow easy per-customer filtering of | |
2790 | logs among other things. | |
2791 | ||
2792 | * systemd-journald will no longer adjust the group of journal | |
2793 | files it creates to the "systemd-journal" group. Instead we | |
2794 | rely on the journal directory to be owned by the | |
2795 | "systemd-journal" group, and its setgid bit set, so that the | |
2796 | kernel file system layer will automatically enforce that | |
2797 | journal files inherit this group assignment. The reason for | |
2798 | this change is that we cannot allow NSS look-ups from | |
2799 | journald which would be necessary to resolve | |
2800 | "systemd-journal" to a numeric GID, because this might | |
2801 | create deadlocks if NSS involves synchronous queries to | |
2802 | other daemons (such as nscd, or sssd) which in turn are | |
2803 | logging clients of journald and might block on it, which | |
2804 | would then dead lock. A tmpfiles.d(5) snippet included in | |
2805 | systemd will make sure the setgid bit and group are | |
2806 | properly set on the journal directory if it exists on every | |
2807 | boot. However, we recommend adjusting it manually after | |
2808 | upgrades too (or from RPM scriptlets), so that the change is | |
2809 | not delayed until next reboot. | |
2810 | ||
2811 | * Backlight and random seed files in /var/lib/ have moved into | |
2812 | the /var/lib/systemd/ directory, in order to centralize all | |
2813 | systemd generated files in one directory. | |
2814 | ||
2815 | * Boot time performance measurements (as displayed by | |
2816 | "systemd-analyze" for example) will now read ACPI 5.0 FPDT | |
2817 | performance information if that's available to determine how | |
2818 | much time BIOS and boot loader initialization required. With | |
2819 | a sufficiently new BIOS you hence no longer need to boot | |
2820 | with Gummiboot to get access to such information. | |
2821 | ||
2822 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Chen Jie, Colin Walters, | |
2823 | Cristian Rodríguez, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David | |
2824 | Mackey, David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Evan Callicoat, Gao | |
2825 | feng, Harald Hoyer, Jimmie Tauriainen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
2826 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, | |
2827 | Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Mike Gilbert, Patrick McCarty, | |
2828 | Sebastian Ott, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2829 | ||
2830 | -- Berlin, 2013-10-02 | |
2831 | ||
4f0be680 LP |
2832 | CHANGES WITH 207: |
2833 | ||
2834 | * The Restart= option for services now understands a new | |
f3a165b0 | 2835 | on-watchdog setting, which will restart the service |
4f0be680 LP |
2836 | automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep |
2837 | alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=). | |
2838 | ||
2839 | * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a | |
2840 | getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only | |
2841 | start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all | |
2842 | others, too. This makes the order in which console= is | |
2843 | specified on the kernel command line less important. | |
2844 | ||
2845 | * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to | |
2846 | retrieve the VT number of a session. | |
2847 | ||
2848 | * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab | |
2849 | its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any | |
2850 | maximum number of tries. | |
2851 | ||
2852 | * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID | |
2853 | file will now be removed automatically if it still exists | |
2854 | afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files. | |
2855 | ||
2856 | * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names | |
2857 | for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths. | |
2858 | ||
2859 | * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take | |
2860 | paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that | |
d28315e4 | 2861 | it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist. |
4f0be680 | 2862 | |
f3a165b0 KS |
2863 | * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new |
2864 | output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but | |
4f0be680 LP |
2865 | shows timestamps with usec accuracy. |
2866 | ||
2867 | * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now | |
2868 | synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact, | |
387abf80 | 2869 | "discard" is preferred now (since it is easier to remember |
4f0be680 LP |
2870 | and type). |
2871 | ||
f3a165b0 | 2872 | * Some licensing clean-ups were made, so that more code is now |
4f0be680 LP |
2873 | LGPL-2.1 licensed than before. |
2874 | ||
2875 | * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight | |
2876 | brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the | |
f3a165b0 | 2877 | backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown, and |
4f0be680 LP |
2878 | restore it as early as possible during reboot. |
2879 | ||
2880 | * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap | |
2881 | partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place | |
2882 | /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can | |
2883 | discover certain partitions located on the root disk | |
2884 | automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their | |
2885 | GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap | |
2886 | partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID | |
2887 | 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f. | |
2888 | ||
2889 | * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel | |
2890 | or initrd to system services. If you want to set an | |
2891 | environment for all services, do so via the kernel command | |
2892 | line systemd.setenv= assignment. | |
2893 | ||
387abf80 LP |
2894 | * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file |
2895 | /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked | |
2896 | from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing | |
2897 | legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it | |
2898 | also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the | |
2899 | different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a | |
2900 | pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!) | |
04bf3c1a | 2901 | |
4f0be680 LP |
2902 | * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands |
2903 | have been moved to systemd-analyze. | |
2904 | ||
2905 | * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch, | |
2906 | which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up | |
2907 | automatically after the process terminated. | |
2908 | ||
2909 | * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude | |
2910 | certain paths from operation. | |
2911 | ||
2912 | * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk | |
f47ad593 ZJS |
2913 | as soon as a message at the log level CRIT, ALERT or EMERG |
2914 | is received. | |
4f0be680 LP |
2915 | |
2916 | Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian | |
2917 | Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal, | |
2918 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George | |
2919 | McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, | |
2920 | Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, | |
2921 | Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering, | |
2922 | Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
2923 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, | |
2924 | Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał | |
2925 | Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn | |
2926 | Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
2927 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao, | |
2928 | William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
2929 | ||
2930 | -- Berlin, 2013-09-13 | |
2931 | ||
408f281b LP |
2932 | CHANGES WITH 206: |
2933 | ||
2934 | * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new | |
2935 | concepts introduced with 205. | |
2936 | ||
2937 | * Unit files now understand the new %v specifier which | |
2938 | resolves to the kernel version string as returned by "uname | |
2939 | -r". | |
2940 | ||
2941 | * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by | |
2942 | load state, active state and sub state, using the new | |
33b521be | 2943 | --state= parameter. |
408f281b LP |
2944 | |
2945 | * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the | |
2946 | condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of | |
2947 | the last start attempts of the unit. They are also logged to | |
2948 | the journal. | |
2949 | ||
2950 | * "journalctl -b" may now be used to look for boot output of a | |
2951 | specific boot. Try "journalctl -b -1" for the previous boot, | |
2952 | but the syntax is substantially more powerful. | |
2953 | ||
2954 | * "journalctl --show-cursor" has been added which prints the | |
2955 | cursor string the last shown log line. This may then be used | |
2956 | with the new "journalctl --after-cursor=" switch to continue | |
2957 | browsing logs from that point on. | |
2958 | ||
2959 | * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration | |
2960 | of an FSS key. | |
2961 | ||
251cc819 LP |
2962 | * Creation of "dead" device nodes has been moved from udev |
2963 | into kmod and tmpfiles. Previously, udev would read the kmod | |
2964 | databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta | |
2965 | information contained in kernel modules, so that these would | |
2966 | be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this | |
d28315e4 | 2967 | does not really have much to do with the exposing actual |
251cc819 LP |
2968 | kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly |
2969 | alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod | |
2970 | will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the | |
2971 | module meta information and it now is tmpfiles' job to the | |
2972 | create the nodes. This also allows overriding access and | |
2973 | other parameters for the nodes using the usual tmpfiles | |
2974 | facilities. As side effect this allows us to remove the | |
2975 | CAP_SYS_MKNOD capability bit from udevd entirely. | |
2976 | ||
2977 | * logind's device ACLs may now be applied to these "dead" | |
2978 | devices nodes too, thus finally allowing managed access to | |
2979 | devices such as /dev/snd/sequencer whithout loading the | |
2980 | backing module right-away. | |
408f281b LP |
2981 | |
2982 | * A new RPM macro has been added that may be used to apply | |
2983 | tmpfiles configuration during package installation. | |
2984 | ||
2985 | * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can | |
2986 | detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML). | |
2987 | ||
251cc819 LP |
2988 | * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities |
2989 | set of processes in the message metadata. | |
408f281b LP |
2990 | |
2991 | * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes. | |
2992 | ||
2993 | * The initrd interface has been simplified (more specifically, | |
2994 | support for passing performance data via environment | |
2995 | variables and fsck results via files in /run has been | |
2996 | removed). These features were non-essential, and are | |
2997 | nowadays available in a much nicer way by having systemd in | |
2998 | the initrd serialize its state and have the hosts systemd | |
2999 | deserialize it again. | |
3000 | ||
28f5c779 KS |
3001 | * The udev "keymap" data files and tools to apply keyboard |
3002 | specific mappings of scan to key codes, and force-release | |
3003 | scan code lists have been entirely replaced by a udev | |
3004 | "keyboard" builtin and a hwdb data file. | |
408f281b | 3005 | |
251cc819 LP |
3006 | * systemd will now honour the kernel's "quiet" command line |
3007 | argument also during late shutdown, resulting in a | |
3008 | completely silent shutdown when used. | |
3009 | ||
3010 | * There's now an option to control the SO_REUSEPORT socket | |
3011 | option in .socket units. | |
3012 | ||
3013 | * Instance units will now automatically get a per-template | |
3014 | subslice of system.slice unless something else is explicitly | |
3015 | configured. For example, instances of sshd@.service will now | |
3016 | implicitly be placed in system-sshd.slice rather than | |
3017 | system.slice as before. | |
3018 | ||
3019 | * Test coverage support may now be enabled at build time. | |
3020 | ||
3021 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Harald | |
3022 | Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, Jan | |
3023 | Janssen, Jason St. John, Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
3024 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Martin Pitt, Michael | |
3025 | Olbrich, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Ross Lagerwall, Shawn Landden, | |
3026 | Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William | |
3027 | Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3028 | ||
4f0be680 LP |
3029 | -- Berlin, 2013-07-23 |
3030 | ||
00aa832b LP |
3031 | CHANGES WITH 205: |
3032 | ||
3033 | * Two new unit types have been introduced: | |
3034 | ||
3035 | Scope units are very similar to service units, however, are | |
3036 | created out of pre-existing processes -- instead of PID 1 | |
3037 | forking off the processes. By using scope units it is | |
3038 | possible for system services and applications to group their | |
3039 | own child processes (worker processes) in a powerful way | |
3040 | which then maybe used to organize them, or kill them | |
3041 | together, or apply resource limits on them. | |
3042 | ||
3043 | Slice units may be used to partition system resources in an | |
cc98b302 | 3044 | hierarchical fashion and then assign other units to them. By |
00aa832b LP |
3045 | default there are now three slices: system.slice (for all |
3046 | system services), user.slice (for all user sessions), | |
3047 | machine.slice (for VMs and containers). | |
3048 | ||
3049 | Slices and scopes have been introduced primarily in | |
3050 | context of the work to move cgroup handling to a | |
3051 | single-writer scheme, where only PID 1 | |
3052 | creates/removes/manages cgroups. | |
3053 | ||
3054 | * There's a new concept of "transient" units. In contrast to | |
3055 | normal units these units are created via an API at runtime, | |
3056 | not from configuration from disk. More specifically this | |
3057 | means it is now possible to run arbitrary programs as | |
3058 | independent services, with all execution parameters passed | |
3059 | in via bus APIs rather than read from disk. Transient units | |
3060 | make systemd substantially more dynamic then it ever was, | |
3061 | and useful as a general batch manager. | |
3062 | ||
3063 | * logind has been updated to make use of scope and slice units | |
3064 | for managing user sessions. As a user logs in he will get | |
3065 | his own private slice unit, to which all sessions are added | |
3066 | as scope units. We also added support for automatically | |
3067 | adding an instance of user@.service for the user into the | |
3068 | slice. Effectively logind will no longer create cgroup | |
3069 | hierarchies on its own now, it will defer entirely to PID 1 | |
3070 | for this by means of scope, service and slice units. Since | |
3071 | user sessions this way become entities managed by PID 1 | |
3072 | the output of "systemctl" is now a lot more comprehensive. | |
3073 | ||
3074 | * A new mini-daemon "systemd-machined" has been added which | |
3075 | may be used by virtualization managers to register local | |
3076 | VMs/containers. nspawn has been updated accordingly, and | |
3077 | libvirt will be updated shortly. machined will collect a bit | |
3078 | of meta information about the VMs/containers, and assign | |
3079 | them their own scope unit (see above). The collected | |
3080 | meta-data is then made available via the "machinectl" tool, | |
3081 | and exposed in "ps" and similar tools. machined/machinectl | |
3082 | is compile-time optional. | |
3083 | ||
3084 | * As discussed earlier, the low-level cgroup configuration | |
3085 | options ControlGroup=, ControlGroupModify=, | |
3086 | ControlGroupPersistent=, ControlGroupAttribute= have been | |
3087 | removed. Please use high-level attribute settings instead as | |
3088 | well as slice units. | |
3089 | ||
3090 | * A new bus call SetUnitProperties() has been added to alter | |
3091 | various runtime parameters of a unit. This is primarily | |
3092 | useful to alter cgroup parameters dynamically in a nice way, | |
3093 | but will be extended later on to make more properties | |
3094 | modifiable at runtime. systemctl gained a new set-properties | |
3095 | command that wraps this call. | |
3096 | ||
3097 | * A new tool "systemd-run" has been added which can be used to | |
3098 | run arbitrary command lines as transient services or scopes, | |
3099 | while configuring a number of settings via the command | |
3100 | line. This tool is currently very basic, however already | |
3101 | very useful. We plan to extend this tool to even allow | |
3102 | queuing of execution jobs with time triggers from the | |
3103 | command line, similar in fashion to "at". | |
3104 | ||
3105 | * nspawn will now inform the user explicitly that kernels with | |
3106 | audit enabled break containers, and suggest the user to turn | |
3107 | off audit. | |
3108 | ||
3109 | * Support for detecting the IMA and AppArmor security | |
3110 | frameworks with ConditionSecurity= has been added. | |
3111 | ||
3112 | * journalctl gained a new "-k" switch for showing only kernel | |
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
3113 | messages, mimicking dmesg output; in addition to "--user" |
3114 | and "--system" switches for showing only user's own logs | |
3115 | and system logs. | |
00aa832b LP |
3116 | |
3117 | * systemd-delta can now show information about drop-in | |
3118 | snippets extending unit files. | |
3119 | ||
3120 | * libsystemd-bus has been substantially updated but is still | |
3121 | not available as public API. | |
3122 | ||
3123 | * systemd will now look for the "debug" argument on the kernel | |
499b604b | 3124 | command line and enable debug logging, similar to what |
00aa832b LP |
3125 | "systemd.log_level=debug" already did before. |
3126 | ||
3127 | * "systemctl set-default", "systemctl get-default" has been | |
3128 | added to configure the default.target symlink, which | |
3129 | controls what to boot into by default. | |
3130 | ||
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
3131 | * "systemctl set-log-level" has been added as a convenient |
3132 | way to raise and lower systemd logging threshold. | |
3133 | ||
00aa832b LP |
3134 | * "systemd-analyze plot" will now show the time the various |
3135 | generators needed for execution, as well as information | |
3136 | about the unit file loading. | |
3137 | ||
00aa832b LP |
3138 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new sd_journal_open_files() call |
3139 | for opening specific journal files. journactl also gained a | |
3140 | new switch to expose this new functionality. Previously we | |
3141 | only supported opening all files from a directory, or all | |
3142 | files from the system, as opening individual files only is | |
3143 | racy due to journal file rotation. | |
3144 | ||
3145 | * systemd gained the new DefaultEnvironment= setting in | |
3146 | /etc/systemd/system.conf to set environment variables for | |
3147 | all services. | |
3148 | ||
3149 | * If a privileged process logs a journal message with the | |
3150 | OBJECT_PID= field set, then journald will automatically | |
3151 | augment this with additional OBJECT_UID=, OBJECT_GID=, | |
3152 | OBJECT_COMM=, OBJECT_EXE=, ... fields. This is useful if | |
3153 | system services want to log events about specific client | |
3154 | processes. journactl/systemctl has been updated to make use | |
3155 | of this information if all log messages regarding a specific | |
3156 | unit is requested. | |
3157 | ||
3158 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Chengwei Yang, Colin Walters, | |
3159 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Albers, Daniel Wallace, Dave | |
3160 | Reisner, David Coppa, David King, David Strauss, Eelco | |
3161 | Dolstra, Gabriel de Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander | |
3162 | Steffens, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason St. John, Johan | |
3163 | Heikkilä, Karel Zak, Karol Lewandowski, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
3164 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marius Vollmer, | |
3165 | Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Tremer, | |
3166 | Michal Schmidt, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Nirbheek Chauhan, | |
3167 | Pierre Neidhardt, Ross Burton, Ross Lagerwall, Sean McGovern, | |
3168 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
3169 | Václav Pavlín, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, | |
3170 | Łukasz Stelmach, 장동준 | |
3171 | ||
606c24e3 LP |
3172 | CHANGES WITH 204: |
3173 | ||
3174 | * The Python bindings gained some minimal support for the APIs | |
3175 | exposed by libsystemd-logind. | |
3176 | ||
3177 | * ConditionSecurity= gained support for detecting SMACK. Since | |
3178 | this condition already supports SELinux and AppArmor we only | |
3179 | miss IMA for this. Patches welcome! | |
3180 | ||
3181 | Contributions from: Karol Lewandowski, Lennart Poettering, | |
3182 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3183 | ||
2f3fcf85 LP |
3184 | CHANGES WITH 203: |
3185 | ||
3186 | * systemd-nspawn will now create /etc/resolv.conf if | |
3187 | necessary, before bind-mounting the host's file onto it. | |
3188 | ||
3189 | * systemd-nspawn will now store meta information about a | |
3190 | container on the container's cgroup as extended attribute | |
3191 | fields, including the root directory. | |
3192 | ||
3193 | * The cgroup hierarchy has been reworked in many ways. All | |
3194 | objects any of the components systemd creates in the cgroup | |
b82eed9a | 3195 | tree are now suffixed. More specifically, user sessions are |
2f3fcf85 LP |
3196 | now placed in cgroups suffixed with ".session", users in |
3197 | cgroups suffixed with ".user", and nspawn containers in | |
3198 | cgroups suffixed with ".nspawn". Furthermore, all cgroup | |
3199 | names are now escaped in a simple scheme to avoid collision | |
3200 | of userspace object names with kernel filenames. This work | |
3201 | is preparation for making these objects relocatable in the | |
3202 | cgroup tree, in order to allow easy resource partitioning of | |
3203 | these objects without causing naming conflicts. | |
3204 | ||
3205 | * systemctl list-dependencies gained the new switches | |
3206 | --plain, --reverse, --after and --before. | |
3207 | ||
3208 | * systemd-inhibit now shows the process name of processes that | |
3209 | have taken an inhibitor lock. | |
3210 | ||
3211 | * nss-myhostname will now also resolve "localhost" | |
3212 | implicitly. This makes /etc/hosts an optional file and | |
3213 | nicely handles that on IPv6 ::1 maps to both "localhost" and | |
3214 | the local hostname. | |
3215 | ||
3216 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call | |
3217 | sd_get_machine_names() to enumerate running containers and | |
3218 | VMs (currently only supported by very new libvirt and | |
3219 | nspawn). sd_login_monitor can now be used to watch | |
3220 | VMs/containers coming and going. | |
3221 | ||
3222 | * .include is not allowed recursively anymore, and only in | |
3223 | unit files. Usually it is better to use drop-in snippets in | |
3224 | .d/*.conf anyway, as introduced with systemd 198. | |
3225 | ||
3226 | * systemd-analyze gained a new "critical-chain" command that | |
3227 | determines the slowest chain of units run during system | |
3228 | boot-up. It is very useful for tracking down where | |
3229 | optimizing boot time is the most beneficial. | |
3230 | ||
3231 | * systemd will no longer allow manipulating service paths in | |
3232 | the name=systemd:/system cgroup tree using ControlGroup= in | |
3233 | units. (But is still fine with it in all other dirs.) | |
3234 | ||
3235 | * There's a new systemd-nspawn@.service service file that may | |
3236 | be used to easily run nspawn containers as system | |
3237 | services. With the container's root directory in | |
3238 | /var/lib/container/foobar it is now sufficient to run | |
3239 | "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foobar.service" to boot it. | |
3240 | ||
3241 | * systemd-cgls gained a new parameter "--machine" to list only | |
3242 | the processes within a certain container. | |
3243 | ||
3244 | * ConditionSecurity= now can check for "apparmor". We still | |
3245 | are lacking checks for SMACK and IMA for this condition | |
3246 | check though. Patches welcome! | |
3247 | ||
3248 | * A new configuration file /etc/systemd/sleep.conf has been | |
3249 | added that may be used to configure which kernel operation | |
3250 | systemd is supposed to execute when "suspend", "hibernate" | |
3251 | or "hybrid-sleep" is requested. This makes the new kernel | |
3252 | "freeze" state accessible to the user. | |
3253 | ||
3254 | * ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules will now implicitly escape | |
3255 | the passed argument if applicable. | |
3256 | ||
3257 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
3258 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
3259 | Evangelos Foutras, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Josh | |
3260 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
3261 | MUNEDA Takahiro, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel | |
3262 | Chen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ronny Chevalier, Ross Lagerwall, Tom | |
3263 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
3264 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3265 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
3266 | CHANGES WITH 202: |
3267 | ||
3268 | * The output of 'systemctl list-jobs' got some polishing. The | |
3269 | '--type=' argument may now be passed more than once. A new | |
3270 | command 'systemctl list-sockets' has been added which shows | |
3271 | a list of kernel sockets systemd is listening on with the | |
3272 | socket units they belong to, plus the units these socket | |
3273 | units activate. | |
3274 | ||
3275 | * The experimental libsystemd-bus library got substantial | |
3276 | updates to work in conjunction with the (also experimental) | |
3277 | kdbus kernel project. It works well enough to exchange | |
3278 | messages with some sophistication. Note that kdbus is not | |
3279 | ready yet, and the library is mostly an elaborate test case | |
3280 | for now, and not installable. | |
3281 | ||
3282 | * systemd gained a new unit 'systemd-static-nodes.service' | |
3283 | that generates static device nodes earlier during boot, and | |
3284 | can run in conjunction with udev. | |
3285 | ||
3286 | * libsystemd-login gained a new call sd_pid_get_user_unit() | |
3287 | to retrieve the user systemd unit a process is running | |
3288 | in. This is useful for systems where systemd is used as | |
3289 | session manager. | |
3290 | ||
3291 | * systemd-nspawn now places all containers in the new /machine | |
3292 | top-level cgroup directory in the name=systemd | |
3293 | hierarchy. libvirt will soon do the same, so that we get a | |
3294 | uniform separation of /system, /user and /machine for system | |
3295 | services, user processes and containers/virtual | |
3296 | machines. This new cgroup hierarchy is also useful to stick | |
3297 | stable names to specific container instances, which can be | |
7c04ad2d | 3298 | recognized later this way (this name may be controlled |
ef3b5246 LP |
3299 | via systemd-nspawn's new -M switch). libsystemd-login also |
3300 | gained a new call sd_pid_get_machine_name() to retrieve the | |
3301 | name of the container/VM a specific process belongs to. | |
3302 | ||
3303 | * bootchart can now store its data in the journal. | |
3304 | ||
3305 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new call | |
3306 | sd_journal_add_conjunction() for AND expressions to the | |
3307 | matching logic. This can be used to express more complex | |
3308 | logical expressions. | |
3309 | ||
3310 | * journactl can now take multiple --unit= and --user-unit= | |
3311 | switches. | |
3312 | ||
3313 | * The cryptsetup logic now understands the "luks.key=" kernel | |
3314 | command line switch for specifying a file to read the | |
7c04ad2d | 3315 | decryption key from. Also, if a configured key file is not |
ef3b5246 LP |
3316 | found the tool will now automatically fall back to prompting |
3317 | the user. | |
3318 | ||
cbeabcfb ZJS |
3319 | * Python systemd.journal module was updated to wrap recently |
3320 | added functions from libsystemd-journal. The interface was | |
3321 | changed to bring the low level interface in s.j._Reader | |
3322 | closer to the C API, and the high level interface in | |
3323 | s.j.Reader was updated to wrap and convert all data about | |
3324 | an entry. | |
3325 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
3326 | Contributions from: Anatol Pomozov, Auke Kok, Harald Hoyer, |
3327 | Henrik Grindal Bakken, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
3328 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas Marius Vollmer, | |
3329 | Martin Jansa, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
3330 | Mirco Tischler, Pali Rohar, Simon Peeters, Steven Hiscocks, | |
3331 | Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3332 | ||
d3a86981 LP |
3333 | CHANGES WITH 201: |
3334 | ||
3335 | * journalctl --update-catalog now understands a new --root= | |
3336 | option to operate on catalogs found in a different root | |
3337 | directory. | |
3338 | ||
3339 | * During shutdown after systemd has terminated all running | |
3340 | services a final killing loop kills all remaining left-over | |
3341 | processes. We will now print the name of these processes | |
3342 | when we send SIGKILL to them, since this usually indicates a | |
3343 | problem. | |
3344 | ||
3345 | * If /etc/crypttab refers to password files stored on | |
3346 | configured mount points automatic dependencies will now be | |
3347 | generated to ensure the specific mount is established first | |
3348 | before the key file is attempted to be read. | |
3349 | ||
3350 | * 'systemctl status' will now show information about the | |
3351 | network sockets a socket unit is listening on. | |
3352 | ||
3353 | * 'systemctl status' will also shown information about any | |
3354 | drop-in configuration file for units. (Drop-In configuration | |
3355 | files in this context are files such as | |
3356 | /etc/systemd/systemd/foobar.service.d/*.conf) | |
3357 | ||
3358 | * systemd-cgtop now optionally shows summed up CPU times of | |
3359 | cgroups. Press '%' while running cgtop to switch between | |
3360 | percentage and absolute mode. This is useful to determine | |
3361 | which cgroups use up the most CPU time over the entire | |
3362 | runtime of the system. systemd-cgtop has also been updated | |
3363 | to be 'pipeable' for processing with further shell tools. | |
3364 | ||
3365 | * 'hostnamectl set-hostname' will now allow setting of FQDN | |
3366 | hostnames. | |
3367 | ||
3368 | * The formatting and parsing of time span values has been | |
3369 | changed. The parser now understands fractional expressions | |
3370 | such as "5.5h". The formatter will now output fractional | |
3371 | expressions for all time spans under 1min, i.e. "5.123456s" | |
3372 | rather than "5s 123ms 456us". For time spans under 1s | |
3373 | millisecond values are shown, for those under 1ms | |
3374 | microsecond values are shown. This should greatly improve | |
3375 | all time-related output of systemd. | |
3376 | ||
3377 | * libsystemd-login and libsystemd-journal gained new | |
3378 | functions for querying the poll() events mask and poll() | |
3379 | timeout value for integration into arbitrary event | |
3380 | loops. | |
3381 | ||
3382 | * localectl gained the ability to list available X11 keymaps | |
3383 | (models, layouts, variants, options). | |
3384 | ||
3385 | * 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for | |
3386 | specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller, | |
d28315e4 | 3387 | more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple |
d3a86981 LP |
3388 | graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or |
3389 | of all units that Avahi has dependencies with. | |
3390 | ||
3391 | Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck, | |
3392 | Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, Kelly | |
3393 | Anderson, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Maksim Melnikau, | |
3394 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marius Vollmer, Martin Pitt, Michal | |
3395 | Schmidt, Oleksii Shevchuk, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, | |
3396 | Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Weißschuh, Umut Tezduyar, Václav | |
3397 | Pavlín, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Łukasz Stelmach | |
3398 | ||
9ca3c17f LP |
3399 | CHANGES WITH 200: |
3400 | ||
3401 | * The boot-time readahead implementation for rotating media | |
3402 | will now read the read-ahead data in multiple passes which | |
3403 | consist of all read requests made in equidistant time | |
3404 | intervals. This means instead of strictly reading read-ahead | |
3405 | data in its physical order on disk we now try to find a | |
3406 | middle ground between physical and access time order. | |
3407 | ||
3408 | * /etc/os-release files gained a new BUILD_ID= field for usage | |
3409 | on operating systems that provide continuous builds of OS | |
3410 | images. | |
3411 | ||
3412 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, | |
3413 | Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin Pitt, Václav Pavlín | |
3414 | William Douglas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3415 | ||
35911459 LP |
3416 | CHANGES WITH 199: |
3417 | ||
3418 | * systemd-python gained an API exposing libsystemd-daemon. | |
3419 | ||
3420 | * The SMACK setup logic gained support for uploading CIPSO | |
3421 | security policy. | |
3422 | ||
3423 | * Behaviour of PrivateTmp=, ReadWriteDirectories=, | |
3424 | ReadOnlyDirectories= and InaccessibleDirectories= has | |
3425 | changed. The private /tmp and /var/tmp directories are now | |
3426 | shared by all processes of a service (which means | |
3427 | ExecStartPre= may now leave data in /tmp that ExecStart= of | |
3428 | the same service can still access). When a service is | |
3429 | stopped its temporary directories are immediately deleted | |
a87197f5 | 3430 | (normal clean-up with tmpfiles is still done in addition to |
35911459 LP |
3431 | this though). |
3432 | ||
3433 | * By default, systemd will now set a couple of sysctl | |
3434 | variables in the kernel: the safe sysrq options are turned | |
3435 | on, IP route verification is turned on, and source routing | |
3436 | disabled. The recently added hardlink and softlink | |
3437 | protection of the kernel is turned on. These settings should | |
3438 | be reasonably safe, and good defaults for all new systems. | |
3439 | ||
3440 | * The predictable network naming logic may now be turned off | |
a87197f5 | 3441 | with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0. |
35911459 LP |
3442 | |
3443 | * A new libsystemd-bus module has been added that implements a | |
3444 | pretty complete D-Bus client library. For details see: | |
3445 | ||
3446 | http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html | |
3447 | ||
c20d8298 | 3448 | * journald will now explicitly flush the journal files to disk |
a87197f5 ZJS |
3449 | at the latest 5min after each write. The file will then also |
3450 | be marked offline until the next write. This should increase | |
3451 | reliability in case of a crash. The synchronization delay | |
3452 | can be configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf. | |
35911459 LP |
3453 | |
3454 | * There's a new remote-fs-setup.target unit that can be used | |
3455 | to pull in specific services when at least one remote file | |
3456 | system is to be mounted. | |
3457 | ||
3458 | * There are new targets timers.target and paths.target as | |
3459 | canonical targets to pull user timer and path units in | |
3460 | from. This complements sockets.target with a similar | |
3461 | purpose for socket units. | |
3462 | ||
6a7d3d68 LP |
3463 | * libudev gained a new call udev_device_set_attribute_value() |
3464 | to set sysfs attributes of a device. | |
3465 | ||
a87197f5 ZJS |
3466 | * The udev daemon now sets the default number of worker |
3467 | processes executed in parallel based on the number of available | |
c20d8298 | 3468 | CPUs instead of the amount of available RAM. This is supposed |
ab06eef8 | 3469 | to provide a more reliable default and limit a too aggressive |
c20d8298 KS |
3470 | paralellism for setups with 1000s of devices connected. |
3471 | ||
35911459 LP |
3472 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Walters, Cristian |
3473 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Hannes | |
3474 | Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan | |
3475 | Engelhardt, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
3476 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Bridon, Michael Biebl, | |
3477 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nathaniel Chen, | |
3478 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Ozan Çağlayan, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
3479 | Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
3480 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3481 | ||
85d68397 LP |
3482 | CHANGES WITH 198: |
3483 | ||
3484 | * Configuration of unit files may now be extended via drop-in | |
3485 | files without having to edit/override the unit files | |
3486 | themselves. More specifically, if the administrator wants to | |
3487 | change one value for a service file foobar.service he can | |
3488 | now do so by dropping in a configuration snippet into | |
ad88e758 | 3489 | /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/*.conf. The unit logic |
85d68397 LP |
3490 | will load all these snippets and apply them on top of the |
3491 | main unit configuration file, possibly extending or | |
3492 | overriding its settings. Using these drop-in snippets is | |
40e21da8 KS |
3493 | generally nicer than the two earlier options for changing |
3494 | unit files locally: copying the files from | |
85d68397 LP |
3495 | /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to /etc/systemd/system/ and editing |
3496 | them there; or creating a new file in /etc/systemd/system/ | |
3497 | that incorporates the original one via ".include". Drop-in | |
3498 | snippets into these .d/ directories can be placed in any | |
fd868975 | 3499 | directory systemd looks for units in, and the usual |
85d68397 LP |
3500 | overriding semantics between /usr/lib, /etc and /run apply |
3501 | for them too. | |
3502 | ||
3503 | * Most unit file settings which take lists of items can now be | |
6aa8d43a | 3504 | reset by assigning the empty string to them. For example, |
85d68397 LP |
3505 | normally, settings such as Environment=FOO=BAR append a new |
3506 | environment variable assignment to the environment block, | |
3507 | each time they are used. By assigning Environment= the empty | |
3508 | string the environment block can be reset to empty. This is | |
3509 | particularly useful with the .d/*.conf drop-in snippets | |
156f7d09 KS |
3510 | mentioned above, since this adds the ability to reset list |
3511 | settings from vendor unit files via these drop-ins. | |
85d68397 LP |
3512 | |
3513 | * systemctl gained a new "list-dependencies" command for | |
3514 | listing the dependencies of a unit recursively. | |
3515 | ||
40e21da8 | 3516 | * Inhibitors are now honored and listed by "systemctl |
85d68397 LP |
3517 | suspend", "systemctl poweroff" (and similar) too, not only |
3518 | GNOME. These commands will also list active sessions by | |
3519 | other users. | |
3520 | ||
3521 | * Resource limits (as exposed by the various control group | |
3522 | controllers) can now be controlled dynamically at runtime | |
3523 | for all units. More specifically, you can now use a command | |
3524 | like "systemctl set-cgroup-attr foobar.service cpu.shares | |
3525 | 2000" to alter the CPU shares a specific service gets. These | |
6aa8d43a | 3526 | settings are stored persistently on disk, and thus allow the |
85d68397 LP |
3527 | administrator to easily adjust the resource usage of |
3528 | services with a few simple commands. This dynamic resource | |
6aa8d43a | 3529 | management logic is also available to other programs via the |
85d68397 LP |
3530 | bus. Almost any kernel cgroup attribute and controller is |
3531 | supported. | |
3532 | ||
3533 | * systemd-vconsole-setup will now copy all font settings to | |
6aa8d43a LP |
3534 | all allocated VTs, where it previously applied them only to |
3535 | the foreground VT. | |
85d68397 LP |
3536 | |
3537 | * libsystemd-login gained the new sd_session_get_tty() API | |
3538 | call. | |
3539 | ||
6aa8d43a LP |
3540 | * This release drops support for a few legacy or |
3541 | distribution-specific LSB facility names when parsing init | |
3542 | scripts: $x-display-manager, $mail-transfer-agent, | |
85d68397 LP |
3543 | $mail-transport-agent, $mail-transfer-agent, $smtp, |
3544 | $null. Also, the mail-transfer-agent.target unit backing | |
3545 | this has been removed. Distributions which want to retain | |
6aa8d43a LP |
3546 | compatibility with this should carry the burden for |
3547 | supporting this themselves and patch support for these back | |
3548 | in, if they really need to. Also, the facilities $syslog and | |
3549 | $local_fs are now ignored, since systemd does not support | |
3550 | early-boot LSB init scripts anymore, and these facilities | |
3551 | are implied anyway for normal services. syslog.target has | |
3552 | also been removed. | |
85d68397 | 3553 | |
40e21da8 | 3554 | * There are new bus calls on PID1's Manager object for |
6aa8d43a | 3555 | cancelling jobs, and removing snapshot units. Previously, |
85d68397 LP |
3556 | both calls were only available on the Job and Snapshot |
3557 | objects themselves. | |
3558 | ||
3559 | * systemd-journal-gatewayd gained SSL support. | |
3560 | ||
3561 | * The various "environment" files, such as /etc/locale.conf | |
3562 | now support continuation lines with a backslash ("\") as | |
499b604b | 3563 | last character in the line, similarly in style (but different) |
85d68397 LP |
3564 | to how this is supported in shells. |
3565 | ||
3566 | * For normal user processes the _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field is | |
3567 | now implicitly appended to every log entry logged. systemctl | |
3568 | has been updated to filter by this field when operating on a | |
3569 | user systemd instance. | |
3570 | ||
3571 | * nspawn will now implicitly add the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and | |
3572 | CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities to the capabilities set for | |
3573 | the container. This makes it easier to boot unmodified | |
3574 | Fedora systems in a container, which however still requires | |
3575 | audit=0 to be passed on the kernel command line. Auditing in | |
3576 | kernel and userspace is unfortunately still too broken in | |
3577 | context of containers, hence we recommend compiling it out | |
3578 | of the kernel or using audit=0. Hopefully this will be fixed | |
3579 | one day for good in the kernel. | |
3580 | ||
3581 | * nspawn gained the new --bind= and --bind-ro= parameters to | |
3582 | bind mount specific directories from the host into the | |
3583 | container. | |
3584 | ||
40e21da8 | 3585 | * nspawn will now mount its own devpts file system instance |
6aa8d43a | 3586 | into the container, in order not to leak pty devices from |
85d68397 LP |
3587 | the host into the container. |
3588 | ||
3589 | * systemd will now read the firmware boot time performance | |
6aa8d43a LP |
3590 | information from the EFI variables, if the used boot loader |
3591 | supports this, and takes it into account for boot performance | |
3592 | analysis via "systemd-analyze". This is currently supported | |
3593 | only in conjunction with Gummiboot, but could be supported | |
3594 | by other boot loaders too. For details see: | |
85d68397 LP |
3595 | |
3596 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface | |
3597 | ||
3598 | * A new generator has been added that automatically mounts the | |
3599 | EFI System Partition (ESP) to /boot, if that directory | |
6aa8d43a LP |
3600 | exists, is empty, and no other file system has been |
3601 | configured to be mounted there. | |
85d68397 LP |
3602 | |
3603 | * logind will now send out PrepareForSleep(false) out | |
3604 | unconditionally, after coming back from suspend. This may be | |
3605 | used by applications as asynchronous notification for | |
3606 | system resume events. | |
3607 | ||
3608 | * "systemctl unlock-sessions" has been added, that allows | |
3609 | unlocking the screens of all user sessions at once, similar | |
499b604b | 3610 | to how "systemctl lock-sessions" already locked all users |
40e21da8 | 3611 | sessions. This is backed by a new D-Bus call UnlockSessions(). |
85d68397 LP |
3612 | |
3613 | * "loginctl seat-status" will now show the master device of a | |
3614 | seat. (i.e. the device of a seat that needs to be around for | |
3615 | the seat to be considered available, usually the graphics | |
3616 | card). | |
3617 | ||
3618 | * tmpfiles gained a new "X" line type, that allows | |
3619 | configuration of files and directories (with wildcards) that | |
3620 | shall be excluded from automatic cleanup ("aging"). | |
3621 | ||
bf933560 KS |
3622 | * udev default rules set the device node permissions now only |
3623 | at "add" events, and do not change them any longer with a | |
3624 | later "change" event. | |
85d68397 LP |
3625 | |
3626 | * The log messages for lid events and power/sleep keypresses | |
3627 | now carry a message ID. | |
3628 | ||
3629 | * We now have a substantially larger unit test suite, but this | |
3630 | continues to be work in progress. | |
3631 | ||
3632 | * udevadm hwdb gained a new --root= parameter to change the | |
3633 | root directory to operate relative to. | |
3634 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
3635 | * logind will now issue a background sync() request to the kernel |
3636 | early at shutdown, so that dirty buffers are flushed to disk early | |
85d68397 LP |
3637 | instead of at the last moment, in order to optimize shutdown |
3638 | times a little. | |
3639 | ||
3640 | * A new bootctl tool has been added that is an interface for | |
3641 | certain boot loader operations. This is currently a preview | |
3642 | and is likely to be extended into a small mechanism daemon | |
3643 | like timedated, localed, hostnamed, and can be used by | |
3644 | graphical UIs to enumerate available boot options, and | |
3645 | request boot into firmware operations. | |
3646 | ||
3647 | * systemd-bootchart has been relicensed to LGPLv2.1+ to match | |
3648 | the rest of the package. It also has been updated to work | |
3649 | correctly in initrds. | |
3650 | ||
3651 | * Policykit previously has been runtime optional, and is now | |
3652 | also compile time optional via a configure switch. | |
3653 | ||
3654 | * systemd-analyze has been reimplemented in C. Also "systemctl | |
3655 | dot" has moved into systemd-analyze. | |
3656 | ||
3657 | * "systemctl status" with no further parameters will now print | |
3658 | the status of all active or failed units. | |
3659 | ||
3660 | * Operations such as "systemctl start" can now be executed | |
3661 | with a new mode "--irreversible" which may be used to queue | |
3662 | operations that cannot accidentally be reversed by a later | |
6aa8d43a | 3663 | job queuing. This is by default used to make shutdown |
85d68397 LP |
3664 | requests more robust. |
3665 | ||
3666 | * The Python API of systemd now gained a new module for | |
3667 | reading journal files. | |
3668 | ||
3669 | * A new tool kernel-install has been added that can install | |
3670 | kernel images according to the Boot Loader Specification: | |
3671 | ||
3672 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec | |
3673 | ||
3674 | * Boot time console output has been improved to provide | |
6aa8d43a | 3675 | animated boot time output for hanging jobs. |
85d68397 LP |
3676 | |
3677 | * A new tool systemd-activate has been added which can be used | |
3678 | to test socket activation with, directly from the command | |
3679 | line. This should make it much easier to test and debug | |
3680 | socket activation in daemons. | |
3681 | ||
3682 | * journalctl gained a new "--reverse" (or -r) option to show | |
3683 | journal output in reverse order (i.e. newest line first). | |
3684 | ||
43447fb7 LP |
3685 | * journalctl gained a new "--pager-end" (or -e) option to jump |
3686 | to immediately jump to the end of the journal in the | |
3687 | pager. This is only supported in conjunction with "less". | |
3688 | ||
85d68397 | 3689 | * journalctl gained a new "--user-unit=" option, that works |
499b604b | 3690 | similarly to "--unit=" but filters for user units rather than |
85d68397 LP |
3691 | system units. |
3692 | ||
3693 | * A number of unit files to ease adoption of systemd in | |
3694 | initrds has been added. This moves some minimal logic from | |
3695 | the various initrd implementations into systemd proper. | |
3696 | ||
3697 | * The journal files are now owned by a new group | |
3698 | "systemd-journal", which exists specifically to allow access | |
3699 | to the journal, and nothing else. Previously, we used the | |
6aa8d43a | 3700 | "adm" group for that, which however possibly covers more |
85d68397 LP |
3701 | than just journal/log file access. This new group is now |
3702 | already used by systemd-journal-gatewayd to ensure this | |
3703 | daemon gets access to the journal files and as little else | |
3704 | as possible. Note that "make install" will also set FS ACLs | |
3705 | up for /var/log/journal to give "adm" and "wheel" read | |
3706 | access to it, in addition to "systemd-journal" which owns | |
3707 | the journal files. We recommend that packaging scripts also | |
6aa8d43a | 3708 | add read access to "adm" + "wheel" to /var/log/journal, and |
85d68397 LP |
3709 | all existing/future journal files. To normal users and |
3710 | administrators little changes, however packagers need to | |
3711 | ensure to create the "systemd-journal" system group at | |
3712 | package installation time. | |
3713 | ||
3714 | * The systemd-journal-gatewayd now runs as unprivileged user | |
3715 | systemd-journal-gateway:systemd-journal-gateway. Packaging | |
3716 | scripts need to create these system user/group at | |
3717 | installation time. | |
3718 | ||
3719 | * timedated now exposes a new boolean property CanNTP that | |
3720 | indicates whether a local NTP service is available or not. | |
3721 | ||
3722 | * systemd-detect-virt will now also detect xen PVs | |
3723 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
3724 | * The pstore file system is now mounted by default, if it is |
3725 | available. | |
85d68397 | 3726 | |
1aed4590 LP |
3727 | * In addition to the SELinux and IMA policies we will now also |
3728 | load SMACK policies at early boot. | |
3729 | ||
85d68397 LP |
3730 | Contributions from: Adel Gadllah, Aleksander Morgado, Auke |
3731 | Kok, Ayan George, Bastien Nocera, Colin Walters, Daniel Buch, | |
3732 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David Strauss, | |
3733 | Eelco Dolstra, Enrico Scholz, Frederic Crozat, Harald Hoyer, | |
3734 | Jan Janssen, Jonathan Callen, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
3735 | Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin | |
3736 | Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Max F. Albrecht, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
3737 | Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michal Vyskocil, | |
3738 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel Chen, Nestor | |
3739 | Ovroy, Oleksii Shevchuk, Paul W. Frields, Piotr Drąg, Rob | |
3740 | Clark, Ryan Lortie, Simon McVittie, Simon Peeters, Steven | |
3741 | Hiscocks, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
3742 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, William Giokas, Zbigniew | |
3743 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) | |
3744 | ||
8ad26859 LP |
3745 | CHANGES WITH 197: |
3746 | ||
3747 | * Timer units now support calendar time events in addition to | |
3748 | monotonic time events. That means you can now trigger a unit | |
3749 | based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri | |
3750 | 2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first | |
3751 | or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is | |
3752 | a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support | |
3753 | considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on | |
3754 | the supported calendar time specification language see | |
3755 | systemd.time(7). | |
3756 | ||
3757 | * udev now supports a number of different naming policies for | |
3758 | network interfaces for predictable names, and a combination | |
3759 | of these policies is now the default. Please see this wiki | |
3760 | document for details: | |
3761 | ||
3762 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames | |
3763 | ||
3764 | * Auke Kok's bootchart implementation has been added to the | |
d28315e4 JE |
3765 | systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the |
3766 | boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart | |
8ad26859 LP |
3767 | implementations around and minimal in its code and |
3768 | dependencies. | |
3769 | ||
3770 | * nss-myhostname has been integrated into the systemd source | |
3771 | tree. nss-myhostname guarantees that the local hostname | |
3772 | always stays resolvable via NSS. It has been a weak | |
3773 | requirement of systemd-hostnamed since a long time, and | |
3774 | since its code is actually trivial we decided to just | |
3775 | include it in systemd's source tree. It can be turned off | |
3776 | with a configure switch. | |
3777 | ||
3778 | * The read-ahead logic is now capable of properly detecting | |
3779 | whether a btrfs file system is on SSD or rotating media, in | |
3780 | order to optimize the read-ahead scheme. Previously, it was | |
3781 | only capable of detecting this on traditional file systems | |
3782 | such as ext4. | |
3783 | ||
3784 | * In udev, additional device properties are now read from the | |
3785 | IAB in addition to the OUI database. Also, Bluetooth company | |
3786 | identities are attached to the devices as well. | |
3787 | ||
3788 | * In service files %U may be used as specifier that is | |
3789 | replaced by the configured user name of the service. | |
3790 | ||
3791 | * nspawn may now be invoked without a controlling TTY. This | |
3792 | makes it suitable for invocation as its own service. This | |
3793 | may be used to set up a simple containerized server system | |
3794 | using only core OS tools. | |
3795 | ||
3796 | * systemd and nspawn can now accept socket file descriptors | |
3797 | when they are started for socket activation. This enables | |
3798 | implementation of socket activated nspawn | |
3799 | containers. i.e. think about autospawning an entire OS image | |
3800 | when the first SSH or HTTP connection is received. We expect | |
3801 | that similar functionality will also be added to libvirt-lxc | |
3802 | eventually. | |
3803 | ||
3804 | * journalctl will now suppress ANSI color codes when | |
3805 | presenting log data. | |
3806 | ||
3807 | * systemctl will no longer show control group information for | |
3808 | a unit if a the control group is empty anyway. | |
3809 | ||
3810 | * logind can now automatically suspend/hibernate/shutdown the | |
3811 | system on idle. | |
3812 | ||
3813 | * /etc/machine-info and hostnamed now also expose the chassis | |
3814 | type of the system. This can be used to determine whether | |
3815 | the local system is a laptop, desktop, handset or | |
3816 | tablet. This information may either be configured by the | |
3817 | user/vendor or is automatically determined from ACPI and DMI | |
3818 | information if possible. | |
3819 | ||
3820 | * A number of PolicyKit actions are now bound together with | |
3821 | "imply" rules. This should simplify creating UIs because | |
3822 | many actions will now authenticate similar ones as well. | |
3823 | ||
3824 | * Unit files learnt a new condition ConditionACPower= which | |
3825 | may be used to conditionalize a unit depending on whether an | |
3826 | AC power source is connected or not, of whether the system | |
3827 | is running on battery power. | |
3828 | ||
3829 | * systemctl gained a new "is-failed" verb that may be used in | |
3830 | shell scripts and suchlike to check whether a specific unit | |
3831 | is in the "failed" state. | |
3832 | ||
3833 | * The EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now supports file | |
3834 | globbing, and can hence be used to easily read a number of | |
3835 | environment files at once. | |
3836 | ||
3837 | * systemd will no longer detect and recognize specific | |
3838 | distributions. All distribution-specific #ifdeffery has been | |
3839 | removed, systemd is now fully generic and | |
3840 | distribution-agnostic. Effectively, not too much is lost as | |
3841 | a lot of the code is still accessible via explicit configure | |
3842 | switches. However, support for some distribution specific | |
3843 | legacy configuration file formats has been dropped. We | |
3844 | recommend distributions to simply adopt the configuration | |
3845 | files everybody else uses now and convert the old | |
3846 | configuration from packaging scripts. Most distributions | |
3847 | already did that. If that's not possible or desirable, | |
3848 | distributions are welcome to forward port the specific | |
3849 | pieces of code locally from the git history. | |
3850 | ||
3851 | * When logging a message about a unit systemd will now always | |
3852 | log the unit name in the message meta data. | |
3853 | ||
3854 | * localectl will now also discover system locale data that is | |
3855 | not stored in locale archives, but directly unpacked. | |
3856 | ||
3857 | * logind will no longer unconditionally use framebuffer | |
3858 | devices as seat masters, i.e. as devices that are required | |
3859 | to be existing before a seat is considered preset. Instead, | |
3860 | it will now look for all devices that are tagged as | |
3861 | "seat-master" in udev. By default framebuffer devices will | |
3862 | be marked as such, but depending on local systems other | |
3863 | devices might be marked as well. This may be used to | |
3864 | integrate graphics cards using closed source drivers (such | |
3865 | as NVidia ones) more nicely into logind. Note however, that | |
3866 | we recommend using the open source NVidia drivers instead, | |
3867 | and no udev rules for the closed-source drivers will be | |
3868 | shipped from us upstream. | |
3869 | ||
3870 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alessandro Crismani, Auke | |
3871 | Kok, Colin Walters, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David | |
3872 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Dimitrios Apostolou, Eelco Dolstra, | |
3873 | Eric Benoit, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Henrik | |
3874 | Grindal Bakken, Hermann Gausterer, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
3875 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
3876 | Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael Biebl, Michael Terry, | |
3877 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Oleg | |
3878 | Samarin, Pekka Lundstrom, Philip Nilsson, Ramkumar | |
3879 | Ramachandra, Richard Yao, Robert Millan, Sami Kerola, Shawn | |
3880 | Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Jarosch, | |
3881 | Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew | |
3882 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3883 | ||
0428ddb7 LP |
3884 | CHANGES WITH 196: |
3885 | ||
3886 | * udev gained support for loading additional device properties | |
3887 | from an indexed database that is keyed by vendor/product IDs | |
3888 | and similar device identifiers. For the beginning this | |
3889 | "hwdb" is populated with data from the well-known PCI and | |
3890 | USB database, but also includes PNP, ACPI and OID data. In | |
3891 | the longer run this indexed database shall grow into | |
3892 | becoming the one central database for non-essential | |
3893 | userspace device metadata. Previously, data from the PCI/USB | |
96ec33c0 | 3894 | database was only attached to select devices, since the |
0428ddb7 | 3895 | lookup was a relatively expensive operation due to O(n) time |
96ec33c0 LP |
3896 | complexity (with n being the number of entries in the |
3897 | database). Since this is now O(1), we decided to add in this | |
3898 | data for all devices where this is available, by | |
0428ddb7 LP |
3899 | default. Note that the indexed database needs to be rebuilt |
3900 | when new data files are installed. To achieve this you need | |
3901 | to update your packaging scripts to invoke "udevadm hwdb | |
3902 | --update" after installation of hwdb data files. For | |
3903 | RPM-based distributions we introduced the new | |
3904 | %udev_hwdb_update macro for this purpose. | |
3905 | ||
3906 | * The Journal gained support for the "Message Catalog", an | |
3907 | indexed database to link up additional information with | |
3908 | journal entries. For further details please check: | |
3909 | ||
3910 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog | |
3911 | ||
3912 | The indexed message catalog database also needs to be | |
3913 | rebuilt after installation of message catalog files. Use | |
3914 | "journalctl --update-catalog" for this. For RPM-based | |
3915 | distributions we introduced the %journal_catalog_update | |
3916 | macro for this purpose. | |
3917 | ||
3918 | * The Python Journal bindings gained support for the standard | |
3919 | Python logging framework. | |
3920 | ||
3921 | * The Journal API gained new functions for checking whether | |
3922 | the underlying file system of a journal file is capable of | |
3923 | properly reporting file change notifications, or whether | |
3924 | applications that want to reflect journal changes "live" | |
ab06eef8 | 3925 | need to recheck journal files continuously in appropriate |
0428ddb7 LP |
3926 | time intervals. |
3927 | ||
3928 | * It is now possible to set the "age" field for tmpfiles | |
3929 | entries to 0, indicating that files matching this entry | |
3930 | shall always be removed when the directories are cleaned up. | |
3931 | ||
3932 | * coredumpctl gained a new "gdb" verb which invokes gdb | |
3933 | right-away on the selected coredump. | |
3934 | ||
3935 | * There's now support for "hybrid sleep" on kernels that | |
3936 | support this, in addition to "suspend" and "hibernate". Use | |
3937 | "systemctl hybrid-sleep" to make use of this. | |
3938 | ||
3939 | * logind's HandleSuspendKey= setting (and related settings) | |
3940 | now gained support for a new "lock" setting to simply | |
3941 | request the screen lock on all local sessions, instead of | |
3942 | actually executing a suspend or hibernation. | |
3943 | ||
3944 | * systemd will now mount the EFI variables file system by | |
3945 | default. | |
3946 | ||
3947 | * Socket units now gained support for configuration of the | |
3948 | SMACK security label. | |
3949 | ||
3950 | * timedatectl will now output the time of the last and next | |
3951 | daylight saving change. | |
3952 | ||
3953 | * We dropped support for various legacy and distro-specific | |
3954 | concepts, such as insserv, early-boot SysV services | |
3955 | (i.e. those for non-standard runlevels such as 'b' or 'S') | |
3956 | or ArchLinux /etc/rc.conf support. We recommend the | |
3957 | distributions who still need support this to either continue | |
3958 | to maintain the necessary patches downstream, or find a | |
3959 | different solution. (Talk to us if you have questions!) | |
3960 | ||
3961 | * Various systemd components will now bypass PolicyKit checks | |
3962 | for root and otherwise handle properly if PolicyKit is not | |
3963 | found to be around. This should fix most issues for | |
3964 | PolicyKit-less systems. Quite frankly this should have been | |
3965 | this way since day one. It is absolutely our intention to | |
3966 | make systemd work fine on PolicyKit-less systems, and we | |
d28315e4 | 3967 | consider it a bug if something does not work as it should if |
0428ddb7 LP |
3968 | PolicyKit is not around. |
3969 | ||
3970 | * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and | |
3971 | systemd without blkid and/or kmod support. | |
3972 | ||
3973 | * "systemctl switch-root" is now capable of switching root | |
3974 | more than once. I.e. in addition to transitions from the | |
3975 | initrd to the host OS it is now possible to transition to | |
3976 | further OS images from the host. This is useful to implement | |
3977 | offline updating tools. | |
3978 | ||
3979 | * Various other additions have been made to the RPM macros | |
3980 | shipped with systemd. Use %udev_rules_update() after | |
3981 | installing new udev rules files. %_udevhwdbdir, | |
3982 | %_udevrulesdir, %_journalcatalogdir, %_tmpfilesdir, | |
3983 | %_sysctldir are now available which resolve to the right | |
3984 | directories for packages to place various data files in. | |
3985 | ||
3986 | * journalctl gained the new --full switch (in addition to | |
3987 | --all, to disable ellipsation for long messages. | |
3988 | ||
3989 | Contributions from: Anders Olofsson, Auke Kok, Ben Boeckel, | |
3990 | Colin Walters, Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
3991 | Eelco Dolstra, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, | |
3992 | Chun-Yi Lee, Lekensteyn, Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
3993 | Marti Raudsepp, Martin Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Michael Biebl, | |
3994 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nis Martensen, | |
3995 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Thomas | |
3996 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tony | |
3997 | Camuso, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
3998 | ||
139ee8cc LP |
3999 | CHANGES WITH 195: |
4000 | ||
6827101a | 4001 | * journalctl gained new --since= and --until= switches to |
139ee8cc LP |
4002 | filter by time. It also now supports nice filtering for |
4003 | units via --unit=/-u. | |
4004 | ||
6827101a | 4005 | * Type=oneshot services may use ExecReload= and do the |
139ee8cc LP |
4006 | right thing. |
4007 | ||
4008 | * The journal daemon now supports time-based rotation and | |
4009 | vacuuming, in addition to the usual disk-space based | |
4010 | rotation. | |
4011 | ||
4012 | * The journal will now index the available field values for | |
4013 | each field name. This enables clients to show pretty drop | |
4014 | downs of available match values when filtering. The bash | |
4015 | completion of journalctl has been updated | |
4016 | accordingly. journalctl gained a new switch -F to list all | |
4017 | values a certain field takes in the journal database. | |
4018 | ||
4019 | * More service events are now written as structured messages | |
4020 | to the journal, and made recognizable via message IDs. | |
4021 | ||
4022 | * The timedated, localed and hostnamed mini-services which | |
4023 | previously only provided support for changing time, locale | |
4024 | and hostname settings from graphical DEs such as GNOME now | |
4025 | also have a minimal (but very useful) text-based client | |
4026 | utility each. This is probably the nicest way to changing | |
4027 | these settings from the command line now, especially since | |
4028 | it lists available options and is fully integrated with bash | |
4029 | completion. | |
4030 | ||
4031 | * There's now a new tool "systemd-coredumpctl" to list and | |
4032 | extract coredumps from the journal. | |
4033 | ||
4034 | * We now install a README each in /var/log/ and | |
4035 | /etc/rc.d/init.d explaining where the system logs and init | |
4036 | scripts went. This hopefully should help folks who go to | |
4037 | that dirs and look into the otherwise now empty void and | |
4038 | scratch their heads. | |
4039 | ||
4040 | * When user-services are invoked (by systemd --user) the | |
4041 | $MANAGERPID env var is set to the PID of systemd. | |
4042 | ||
4043 | * SIGRTMIN+24 when sent to a --user instance will now result | |
4044 | in immediate termination of systemd. | |
4045 | ||
4046 | * gatewayd received numerous feature additions such as a | |
4047 | "follow" mode, for live syncing and filtering. | |
4048 | ||
4049 | * browse.html now allows filtering and showing detailed | |
4050 | information on specific entries. Keyboard navigation and | |
4051 | mouse screen support has been added. | |
4052 | ||
4053 | * gatewayd/journalctl now supports HTML5/JSON | |
4054 | Server-Sent-Events as output. | |
4055 | ||
1cb88f2c | 4056 | * The SysV init script compatibility logic will now |
139ee8cc LP |
4057 | heuristically determine whether a script supports the |
4058 | "reload" verb, and only then make this available as | |
4059 | "systemctl reload". | |
4060 | ||
15f47220 | 4061 | * "systemctl status --follow" has been removed, use "journalctl |
139ee8cc LP |
4062 | -u" instead. |
4063 | ||
4064 | * journald.conf's RuntimeMinSize=, PersistentMinSize= settings | |
4065 | have been removed since they are hardly useful to be | |
4066 | configured. | |
4067 | ||
4068 | * And I'd like to take the opportunity to specifically mention | |
4069 | Zbigniew for his great contributions. Zbigniew, you rock! | |
4070 | ||
4071 | Contributions from: Andrew Eikum, Christian Hesse, Colin | |
4072 | Guthrie, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, Eelco Dolstra, Ferenc | |
4d92e078 LP |
4073 | Wágner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas |
4074 | Mikulėnas, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Michael Olbrich, | |
4075 | Michael Stapelberg, Michal Schmidt, Sebastian Ott, Thomas | |
4076 | Bächler, Umut Tezduyar, Will Woods, Wulf C. Krueger, Zbigniew | |
4077 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Сковорода Никита Андреевич | |
139ee8cc | 4078 | |
f9b55720 LP |
4079 | CHANGES WITH 194: |
4080 | ||
4081 | * If /etc/vconsole.conf is non-existent or empty we will no | |
4082 | longer load any console font or key map at boot by | |
4083 | default. Instead the kernel defaults will be left | |
4084 | intact. This is definitely the right thing to do, as no | |
4085 | configuration should mean no configuration, and hard-coding | |
4086 | font names that are different on all archs is probably a bad | |
4087 | idea. Also, the kernel default key map and font should be | |
4088 | good enough for most cases anyway, and mostly identical to | |
4089 | the userspace fonts/key maps we previously overloaded them | |
4090 | with. If distributions want to continue to default to a | |
4091 | non-kernel font or key map they should ship a default | |
4092 | /etc/vconsole.conf with the appropriate contents. | |
4093 | ||
4094 | Contributions from: Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave | |
4095 | Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Tollef | |
4096 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4097 | ||
597c52cf LP |
4098 | CHANGES WITH 193: |
4099 | ||
4100 | * journalctl gained a new --cursor= switch to show entries | |
4101 | starting from the specified location in the journal. | |
4102 | ||
4103 | * We now enforce a size limit on journal entry fields exported | |
4104 | with "-o json" in journalctl. Fields larger than 4K will be | |
4105 | assigned null. This can be turned off with --all. | |
4106 | ||
4107 | * An (optional) journal gateway daemon is now available as | |
4108 | "systemd-journal-gatewayd.service". This service provides | |
4109 | access to the journal via HTTP and JSON. This functionality | |
4110 | will be used to implement live log synchronization in both | |
4111 | pull and push modes, but has various other users too, such | |
4112 | as easy log access for debugging of embedded devices. Right | |
4113 | now it is already useful to retrieve the journal via HTTP: | |
4114 | ||
4115 | # systemctl start systemd-journal-gatewayd.service | |
4116 | # wget http://localhost:19531/entries | |
4117 | ||
4118 | This will download the journal contents in a | |
4119 | /var/log/messages compatible format. The same as JSON: | |
4120 | ||
4121 | # curl -H"Accept: application/json" http://localhost:19531/entries | |
4122 | ||
4123 | This service is also accessible via a web browser where a | |
4124 | single static HTML5 app is served that uses the JSON logic | |
4125 | to enable the user to do some basic browsing of the | |
4126 | journal. This will be extended later on. Here's an example | |
4127 | screenshot of this app in its current state: | |
4128 | ||
4129 | http://0pointer.de/public/journal-gatewayd | |
4130 | ||
4131 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Robert | |
4132 | Milasan, Tom Gundersen | |
4133 | ||
075d4ecb LP |
4134 | CHANGES WITH 192: |
4135 | ||
4136 | * The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl | |
4137 | too. | |
4138 | ||
d28315e4 | 4139 | * We do not mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with |
075d4ecb LP |
4140 | "cpu" and "cpuacct", as "cpuset" groups generally cannot be |
4141 | started if no parameters are assigned to it. "cpuset" hence | |
4142 | broke code that assumed it it could create "cpu" groups and | |
4143 | just start them. | |
4144 | ||
4145 | * journalctl -f will now subscribe to terminal size changes, | |
4146 | and line break accordingly. | |
4147 | ||
597c52cf LP |
4148 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
4149 | Poettering, Lukas Nykrynm, Mirco Tischler, Václav Pavlín | |
075d4ecb | 4150 | |
b6a86739 LP |
4151 | CHANGES WITH 191: |
4152 | ||
4153 | * nspawn will now create a symlink /etc/localtime in the | |
4154 | container environment, copying the host's timezone | |
4155 | setting. Previously this has been done via a bind mount, but | |
4156 | since symlinks cannot be bind mounted this has now been | |
4157 | changed to create/update the appropriate symlink. | |
4158 | ||
4159 | * journalctl -n's line number argument is now optional, and | |
4160 | will default to 10 if omitted. | |
4161 | ||
4162 | * journald will now log the maximum size the journal files may | |
4163 | take up on disk. This is particularly useful if the default | |
4164 | built-in logic of determining this parameter from the file | |
4165 | system size is used. Use "systemctl status | |
6563b535 | 4166 | systemd-journald.service" to see this information. |
b6a86739 LP |
4167 | |
4168 | * The multi-seat X wrapper tool has been stripped down. As X | |
4169 | is now capable of enumerating graphics devices via udev in a | |
4170 | seat-aware way the wrapper is not strictly necessary | |
4171 | anymore. A stripped down temporary stop-gap is still shipped | |
4172 | until the upstream display managers have been updated to | |
4173 | fully support the new X logic. Expect this wrapper to be | |
6563b535 | 4174 | removed entirely in one of the next releases. |
b6a86739 LP |
4175 | |
4176 | * HandleSleepKey= in logind.conf has been split up into | |
4177 | HandleSuspendKey= and HandleHibernateKey=. The old setting | |
6563b535 | 4178 | is not available anymore. X11 and the kernel are |
45afd519 | 4179 | distinguishing between these keys and we should too. This |
b6a86739 LP |
4180 | also means the inhibition lock for these keys has been split |
4181 | into two. | |
4182 | ||
597c52cf LP |
4183 | Contributions from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart |
4184 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín | |
b6a86739 | 4185 | |
0c11f949 LP |
4186 | CHANGES WITH 190: |
4187 | ||
d28315e4 | 4188 | * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the |
0c11f949 LP |
4189 | journal and show along the unit's own log output in |
4190 | "systemctl status". | |
4191 | ||
4192 | * ConditionPathIsMountPoint= can now properly detect bind | |
4193 | mount points too. (Previously, a bind mount of one file | |
8d0256b7 | 4194 | system to another place in the same file system could not be |
0c11f949 LP |
4195 | detected as mount, since they shared struct stat's st_dev |
4196 | field.) | |
4197 | ||
4198 | * We will now mount the cgroup controllers cpu, cpuacct, | |
4199 | cpuset and the controllers net_cls, net_prio together by | |
4200 | default. | |
4201 | ||
4202 | * nspawn containers will now have a virtualized boot | |
4203 | ID. (i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id is now mounted | |
4204 | over with a randomized ID at container initialization). This | |
4205 | has the effect of making "journalctl -b" do the right thing | |
4206 | in a container. | |
4207 | ||
4208 | * The JSON output journal serialization has been updated not | |
4209 | to generate "endless" list objects anymore, but rather one | |
4210 | JSON object per line. This is more in line how most JSON | |
4211 | parsers expect JSON objects. The new output mode | |
4212 | "json-pretty" has been added to provide similar output, but | |
4213 | neatly aligned for readability by humans. | |
4214 | ||
4215 | * We dropped all explicit sync() invocations in the shutdown | |
4216 | code. The kernel does this implicitly anyway in the kernel | |
4217 | reboot() syscall. halt(8)'s -n option is now a compatibility | |
4218 | no-op. | |
4219 | ||
4220 | * We now support virtualized reboot() in containers, as | |
4221 | supported by newer kernels. We will fall back to exit() if | |
4222 | CAP_SYS_REBOOT is not available to the container. Also, | |
4223 | nspawn makes use of this now and will actually reboot the | |
4224 | container if the containerized OS asks for that. | |
4225 | ||
4226 | * journalctl will only show local log output by default | |
4227 | now. Use --merge (-m) to show remote log output, too. | |
4228 | ||
4229 | * libsystemd-journal gained the new sd_journal_get_usage() | |
4230 | call to determine the current disk usage of all journal | |
4231 | files. This is exposed in the new "journalctl --disk-usage" | |
4232 | command. | |
4233 | ||
4234 | * journald gained a new configuration setting SplitMode= in | |
4235 | journald.conf which may be used to control how user journals | |
4236 | are split off. See journald.conf(5) for details. | |
4237 | ||
4238 | * A new condition type ConditionFileNotEmpty= has been added. | |
4239 | ||
4240 | * tmpfiles' "w" lines now support file globbing, to write | |
4241 | multiple files at once. | |
4242 | ||
4243 | * We added Python bindings for the journal submission | |
4244 | APIs. More Python APIs for a number of selected APIs will | |
4245 | likely follow. Note that we intend to add native bindings | |
4246 | only for the Python language, as we consider it common | |
4247 | enough to deserve bindings shipped within systemd. There are | |
4248 | various projects outside of systemd that provide bindings | |
4249 | for languages such as PHP or Lua. | |
4250 | ||
a98d5d64 LP |
4251 | * Many conditions will now resolve specifiers such as %i. In |
4252 | addition, PathChanged= and related directives of .path units | |
4253 | now support specifiers as well. | |
0c11f949 LP |
4254 | |
4255 | * There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset | |
4256 | dir: %_presetdir. | |
4257 | ||
d28315e4 | 4258 | * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the |
dca348bc | 4259 | syslog daemon because its socket is full. |
0c11f949 LP |
4260 | |
4261 | * timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone, | |
4262 | except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr | |
4263 | anymore /etc/localtime always being a symlink is now safe, | |
4264 | and hence the information in /etc/timezone is not necessary | |
4265 | anymore. | |
4266 | ||
aaccc32c | 4267 | * logind will now always reserve one VT for a text getty (VT6 |
0c11f949 LP |
4268 | by default). Previously if more than 6 X sessions where |
4269 | started they took up all the VTs with auto-spawned gettys, | |
4270 | so that no text gettys were available anymore. | |
4271 | ||
4272 | * udev will now automatically inform the btrfs kernel logic | |
4273 | about btrfs RAID components showing up. This should make | |
4274 | simple hotplug based btrfs RAID assembly work. | |
4275 | ||
4276 | * PID 1 will now increase its RLIMIT_NOFILE to 64K by default | |
4277 | (but not for its children which will stay at the kernel | |
4278 | default). This should allow setups with a lot more listening | |
4279 | sockets. | |
4280 | ||
4281 | * systemd will now always pass the configured timezone to the | |
4282 | kernel at boot. timedated will do the same when the timezone | |
4283 | is changed. | |
4284 | ||
4285 | * logind's inhibition logic has been updated. By default, | |
4286 | logind will now handle the lid switch, the power and sleep | |
4287 | keys all the time, even in graphical sessions. If DEs want | |
4288 | to handle these events on their own they should take the new | |
4289 | handle-power-key, handle-sleep-key and handle-lid-switch | |
f131770b | 4290 | inhibitors during their runtime. A simple way to achieve |
0c11f949 LP |
4291 | that is to invoke the DE wrapped in an invocation of: |
4292 | ||
4293 | systemd-inhibit --what=handle-power-key:handle-sleep-key:handle-lid-switch ... | |
4294 | ||
4295 | * Access to unit operations is now checked via SELinux taking | |
4296 | the unit file label and client process label into account. | |
4297 | ||
aad803af LP |
4298 | * systemd will now notify the administrator in the journal |
4299 | when he over-mounts a non-empty directory. | |
4300 | ||
4301 | * There are new specifiers that are resolved in unit files, | |
4302 | for the host name (%H), the machine ID (%m) and the boot ID | |
4303 | (%b). | |
4304 | ||
b6a86739 | 4305 | Contributions from: Allin Cottrell, Auke Kok, Brandon Philips, |
0c11f949 LP |
4306 | Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, |
4307 | Eelco Dolstra, Jan Engelhardt, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
4308 | Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
4309 | Martin Pitt, Matthias Clasen, Michael Olbrich, Pierre Schmitz, | |
4310 | Shawn Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
4311 | Václav Pavlín, Yin Kangkai, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4312 | ||
38a60d71 LP |
4313 | CHANGES WITH 189: |
4314 | ||
4315 | * Support for reading structured kernel messages from | |
4316 | /dev/kmsg has now been added and is enabled by default. | |
4317 | ||
4318 | * Support for reading kernel messages from /proc/kmsg has now | |
4319 | been removed. If you want kernel messages in the journal | |
4320 | make sure to run a recent kernel (>= 3.5) that supports | |
4321 | reading structured messages from /dev/kmsg (see | |
4322 | above). /proc/kmsg is now exclusive property of classic | |
4323 | syslog daemons again. | |
4324 | ||
4325 | * The libudev API gained the new | |
4326 | udev_device_new_from_device_id() call. | |
4327 | ||
4328 | * The logic for file system namespace (ReadOnlyDirectory=, | |
4329 | ReadWriteDirectoy=, PrivateTmp=) has been reworked not to | |
4330 | require pivot_root() anymore. This means fewer temporary | |
4331 | directories are created below /tmp for this feature. | |
4332 | ||
4333 | * nspawn containers will now see and receive all submounts | |
4334 | made on the host OS below the root file system of the | |
4335 | container. | |
4336 | ||
4337 | * Forward Secure Sealing is now supported for Journal files, | |
4338 | which provide cryptographical sealing of journal files so | |
4339 | that attackers cannot alter log history anymore without this | |
4340 | being detectable. Lennart will soon post a blog story about | |
4341 | this explaining it in more detail. | |
4342 | ||
4343 | * There are two new service settings RestartPreventExitStatus= | |
4344 | and SuccessExitStatus= which allow configuration of exit | |
4345 | status (exit code or signal) which will be excepted from the | |
4346 | restart logic, resp. consider successful. | |
4347 | ||
4348 | * journalctl gained the new --verify switch that can be used | |
4349 | to check the integrity of the structure of journal files and | |
4350 | (if Forward Secure Sealing is enabled) the contents of | |
4351 | journal files. | |
4352 | ||
4353 | * nspawn containers will now be run with /dev/stdin, /dev/fd/ | |
4354 | and similar symlinks pre-created. This makes running shells | |
4355 | as container init process a lot more fun. | |
4356 | ||
4357 | * The fstab support can now handle PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= | |
4358 | entries. | |
4359 | ||
4360 | * A new ConditionHost= condition has been added to match | |
4361 | against the hostname (with globs) and machine ID. This is | |
4362 | useful for clusters where a single OS image is used to | |
4363 | provision a large number of hosts which shall run slightly | |
4364 | different sets of services. | |
4365 | ||
4366 | * Services which hit the restart limit will now be placed in a | |
4367 | failure state. | |
4368 | ||
b6a86739 | 4369 | Contributions from: Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang |
38a60d71 LP |
4370 | Hang, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin |
4371 | Pitt, Simon Peeters, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4372 | ||
c269cec3 LP |
4373 | CHANGES WITH 188: |
4374 | ||
4375 | * When running in --user mode systemd will now become a | |
4376 | subreaper (PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER). This should make the ps | |
4377 | tree a lot more organized. | |
4378 | ||
4379 | * A new PartOf= unit dependency type has been introduced that | |
4380 | may be used to group services in a natural way. | |
4381 | ||
4382 | * "systemctl enable" may now be used to enable instances of | |
4383 | services. | |
4384 | ||
4385 | * journalctl now prints error log levels in red, and | |
4386 | warning/notice log levels in bright white. It also supports | |
4387 | filtering by log level now. | |
4388 | ||
4389 | * cgtop gained a new -n switch (similar to top), to configure | |
4390 | the maximum number of iterations to run for. It also gained | |
4391 | -b, to run in batch mode (accepting no input). | |
4392 | ||
ab06eef8 | 4393 | * The suffix ".service" may now be omitted on most systemctl |
c269cec3 LP |
4394 | command lines involving service unit names. |
4395 | ||
4396 | * There's a new bus call in logind to lock all sessions, as | |
4397 | well as a loginctl verb for it "lock-sessions". | |
4398 | ||
4399 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call sd_journal_perror() | |
4400 | that works similar to libc perror() but logs to the journal | |
4401 | and encodes structured information about the error number. | |
4402 | ||
4403 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-size= | |
4404 | option. | |
4405 | ||
4406 | * shutdown(8) now can send a (configurable) wall message when | |
4407 | a shutdown is cancelled. | |
4408 | ||
4409 | * The mount propagation mode for the root file system will now | |
4410 | default to "shared", which is useful to make containers work | |
4411 | nicely out-of-the-box so that they receive new mounts from | |
4412 | the host. This can be undone locally by running "mount | |
4413 | --make-rprivate /" if needed. | |
4414 | ||
4415 | * The prefdm.service file has been removed. Distributions | |
4416 | should maintain this unit downstream if they intend to keep | |
4417 | it around. However, we recommend writing normal unit files | |
4418 | for display managers instead. | |
4419 | ||
4420 | * Since systemd is a crucial part of the OS we will now | |
4421 | default to a number of compiler switches that improve | |
4422 | security (hardening) such as read-only relocations, stack | |
4423 | protection, and suchlike. | |
4424 | ||
4425 | * The TimeoutSec= setting for services is now split into | |
4426 | TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec= to allow configuration | |
4427 | of individual time outs for the start and the stop phase of | |
4428 | the service. | |
4429 | ||
4430 | Contributions from: Artur Zaprzala, Arvydas Sidorenko, Auke | |
4431 | Kok, Bryan Kadzban, Dave Reisner, David Strauss, Harald Hoyer, | |
4432 | Jim Meyering, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mantas | |
4433 | Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Peter | |
4434 | Alfredsen, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, Terence Honles, Tom | |
4435 | Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4436 | ||
c4f1b862 LP |
4437 | CHANGES WITH 187: |
4438 | ||
4439 | * The journal and id128 C APIs are now fully documented as man | |
4440 | pages. | |
4441 | ||
4442 | * Extra safety checks have been added when transitioning from | |
4443 | the initial RAM disk to the main system to avoid accidental | |
4444 | data loss. | |
4445 | ||
c269cec3 | 4446 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-offset= |
c4f1b862 LP |
4447 | option. |
4448 | ||
4449 | * systemctl -t can now be used to filter by unit load state. | |
4450 | ||
4451 | * The journal C API gained the new sd_journal_wait() call to | |
4452 | make writing synchronous journal clients easier. | |
4453 | ||
4454 | * journalctl gained the new -D switch to show journals from a | |
4455 | specific directory. | |
4456 | ||
4457 | * journalctl now displays a special marker between log | |
4458 | messages of two different boots. | |
4459 | ||
4460 | * The journal is now explicitly flushed to /var via a service | |
4461 | systemd-journal-flush.service, rather than implicitly simply | |
4462 | by seeing /var/log/journal to be writable. | |
4463 | ||
4464 | * journalctl (and the journal C APIs) can now match for much | |
4465 | more complex expressions, with alternatives and | |
4466 | disjunctions. | |
4467 | ||
4468 | * When transitioning from the initial RAM disk to the main | |
4469 | system we will now kill all processes in a killing spree to | |
4470 | ensure no processes stay around by accident. | |
4471 | ||
4472 | * Three new specifiers may be used in unit files: %u, %h, %s | |
4473 | resolve to the user name, user home directory resp. user | |
4474 | shell. This is useful for running systemd user instances. | |
4475 | ||
4476 | * We now automatically rotate journal files if their data | |
4477 | object hash table gets a fill level > 75%. We also size the | |
4478 | hash table based on the configured maximum file size. This | |
4479 | together should lower hash collisions drastically and thus | |
4480 | speed things up a bit. | |
4481 | ||
4482 | * journalctl gained the new "--header" switch to introspect | |
4483 | header data of journal files. | |
4484 | ||
4485 | * A new setting SystemCallFilters= has been added to services | |
4486 | which may be used to apply blacklists or whitelists to | |
4487 | system calls. This is based on SECCOMP Mode 2 of Linux 3.5. | |
4488 | ||
4489 | * nspawn gained a new --link-journal= switch (and quicker: -j) | |
4490 | to link the container journal with the host. This makes it | |
4491 | very easy to centralize log viewing on the host for all | |
4492 | guests while still keeping the journal files separated. | |
4493 | ||
4494 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations | |
4495 | ||
4496 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Harald Hoyer, Kay | |
4497 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Paul Menzel, Rex | |
4498 | Tsai, Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
4499 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4500 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
4501 | CHANGES WITH 186: |
4502 | ||
4503 | * Several tools now understand kernel command line arguments, | |
4504 | which are only read when run in an initial RAM disk. They | |
4505 | usually follow closely their normal counterparts, but are | |
4506 | prefixed with rd. | |
4507 | ||
4508 | * There's a new tool to analyze the readahead files that are | |
4509 | automatically generated at boot. Use: | |
4510 | ||
4511 | /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead analyze /.readahead | |
4512 | ||
4513 | * We now provide an early debug shell on tty9 if this enabled. Use: | |
4514 | ||
d1f9edaf | 4515 | systemctl enable debug-shell.service |
b5b4c94a LP |
4516 | |
4517 | * All plymouth related units have been moved into the Plymouth | |
4518 | package. Please make sure to upgrade your Plymouth version | |
4519 | as well. | |
4520 | ||
4521 | * systemd-tmpfiles now supports getting passed the basename of | |
4522 | a configuration file only, in which case it will look for it | |
4523 | in all appropriate directories automatically. | |
4524 | ||
4525 | * udevadm info now takes a /dev or /sys path as argument, and | |
4526 | does the right thing. Example: | |
4527 | ||
4528 | udevadm info /dev/sda | |
4529 | udevadm info /sys/class/block/sda | |
4530 | ||
4531 | * systemctl now prints a warning if a unit is stopped but a | |
4532 | unit that might trigger it continues to run. Example: a | |
4533 | service is stopped but the socket that activates it is left | |
4534 | running. | |
4535 | ||
4536 | * "systemctl status" will now mention if the log output was | |
4537 | shortened due to rotation since a service has been started. | |
4538 | ||
4539 | * The journal API now exposes functions to determine the | |
4540 | "cutoff" times due to rotation. | |
4541 | ||
4542 | * journald now understands SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for triggering | |
4543 | immediately flushing of runtime logs to /var if possible, | |
4544 | resp. for triggering immediate rotation of the journal | |
4545 | files. | |
4546 | ||
4547 | * It is now considered an error if a service is attempted to | |
4548 | be stopped that is not loaded. | |
4549 | ||
4550 | * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR now uses numeric UIDs instead of usernames. | |
4551 | ||
4552 | * systemd-analyze now supports Python 3 | |
4553 | ||
4554 | * tmpfiles now supports cleaning up directories via aging | |
4555 | where the first level dirs are always kept around but | |
4556 | directories beneath it automatically aged. This is enabled | |
4557 | by prefixing the age field with '~'. | |
4558 | ||
4559 | * Seat objects now expose CanGraphical, CanTTY properties | |
4560 | which is required to deal with very fast bootups where the | |
4561 | display manager might be running before the graphics drivers | |
4562 | completed initialization. | |
4563 | ||
4564 | * Seat objects now expose a State property. | |
4565 | ||
4566 | * We now include RPM macros for service enabling/disabling | |
4567 | based on the preset logic. We recommend RPM based | |
4568 | distributions to make use of these macros if possible. This | |
4569 | makes it simpler to reuse RPM spec files across | |
4570 | distributions. | |
4571 | ||
4572 | * We now make sure that the collected systemd unit name is | |
4573 | always valid when services log to the journal via | |
4574 | STDOUT/STDERR. | |
4575 | ||
4576 | * There's a new man page kernel-command-line(7) detailing all | |
4577 | command line options we understand. | |
4578 | ||
4579 | * The fstab generator may now be disabled at boot by passing | |
4580 | fstab=0 on the kernel command line. | |
4581 | ||
91ac7425 | 4582 | * A new kernel command line option modules-load= is now understood |
b5b4c94a LP |
4583 | to load a specific kernel module statically, early at boot. |
4584 | ||
4585 | * Unit names specified on the systemctl command line are now | |
4586 | automatically escaped as needed. Also, if file system or | |
4587 | device paths are specified they are automatically turned | |
4588 | into the appropriate mount or device unit names. Example: | |
4589 | ||
4590 | systemctl status /home | |
4591 | systemctl status /dev/sda | |
4592 | ||
4593 | * The SysVConsole= configuration option has been removed from | |
4594 | system.conf parsing. | |
4595 | ||
4596 | * The SysV search path is no longer exported on the D-Bus | |
4597 | Manager object. | |
4598 | ||
4599 | * The Names= option is been removed from unit file parsing. | |
4600 | ||
4601 | * There's a new man page bootup(7) detailing the boot process. | |
4602 | ||
4603 | * Every unit and every generator we ship with systemd now | |
4604 | comes with full documentation. The self-explanatory boot is | |
4605 | complete. | |
4606 | ||
4607 | * A couple of services gained "systemd-" prefixes in their | |
4608 | name if they wrap systemd code, rather than only external | |
4609 | code. Among them fsck@.service which is now | |
4610 | systemd-fsck@.service. | |
4611 | ||
4612 | * The HaveWatchdog property has been removed from the D-Bus | |
4613 | Manager object. | |
4614 | ||
4615 | * systemd.confirm_spawn= on the kernel command line should now | |
4616 | work sensibly. | |
4617 | ||
4618 | * There's a new man page crypttab(5) which details all options | |
4619 | we actually understand. | |
4620 | ||
4621 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --capability= switch to pass | |
4622 | additional capabilities to the container. | |
4623 | ||
4624 | * timedated will now read known NTP implementation unit names | |
5b00c016 | 4625 | from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list, |
b5b4c94a LP |
4626 | systemd-timedated-ntp.target has been removed. |
4627 | ||
4628 | * journalctl gained a new switch "-b" that lists log data of | |
4629 | the current boot only. | |
4630 | ||
4631 | * The notify socket is in the abstract namespace again, in | |
4632 | order to support daemons which chroot() at start-up. | |
4633 | ||
4634 | * There is a new Storage= configuration option for journald | |
4635 | which allows configuration of where log data should go. This | |
4636 | also provides a way to disable journal logging entirely, so | |
4637 | that data collected is only forwarded to the console, the | |
4638 | kernel log buffer or another syslog implementation. | |
4639 | ||
c4f1b862 | 4640 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations |
b5b4c94a | 4641 | |
2d938ac7 LP |
4642 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Dave Reisner, |
4643 | David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
4644 | Lukas Nykryn, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Paul Menzel, | |
4645 | Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen | |
b5b4c94a | 4646 | |
2d197285 | 4647 | CHANGES WITH 185: |
b6a86739 | 4648 | |
2d197285 KS |
4649 | * "systemctl help <unit>" now shows the man page if one is |
4650 | available. | |
4651 | ||
4652 | * Several new man pages have been added. | |
4653 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
4654 | * MaxLevelStore=, MaxLevelSyslog=, MaxLevelKMsg=, |
4655 | MaxLevelConsole= can now be specified in | |
4656 | journald.conf. These options allow reducing the amount of | |
4657 | data stored on disk or forwarded by the log level. | |
2d197285 | 4658 | |
b5b4c94a LP |
4659 | * TimerSlackNSec= can now be specified in system.conf for |
4660 | PID1. This allows system-wide power savings. | |
2d197285 KS |
4661 | |
4662 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lauri Kasanen, | |
4663 | Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
4664 | Matthias Clasen | |
4665 | ||
4c8cd173 | 4666 | CHANGES WITH 184: |
b6a86739 | 4667 | |
4c8cd173 LP |
4668 | * logind is now capable of (optionally) handling power and |
4669 | sleep keys as well as the lid switch. | |
4670 | ||
4671 | * journalctl now understands the syntax "journalctl | |
4672 | /usr/bin/avahi-daemon" to get all log output of a specific | |
4673 | daemon. | |
4674 | ||
4675 | * CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf now also influences | |
4676 | the capability bound set of usermode helpers of the kernel. | |
4677 | ||
4678 | Contributions from: Daniel Drake, Daniel J. Walsh, Gert | |
4679 | Michael Kulyk, Harald Hoyer, Jean Delvare, Kay Sievers, | |
4680 | Lennart Poettering, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Clasen, Paul | |
4681 | Menzel, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Tom Gundersen | |
4682 | ||
ea5943d3 | 4683 | CHANGES WITH 183: |
b6a86739 | 4684 | |
187076d4 LP |
4685 | * Note that we skipped 139 releases here in order to set the |
4686 | new version to something that is greater than both udev's | |
4687 | and systemd's most recent version number. | |
4688 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
4689 | * udev: all udev sources are merged into the systemd source tree now. |
4690 | All future udev development will happen in the systemd tree. It | |
4691 | is still fully supported to use the udev daemon and tools without | |
4692 | systemd running, like in initramfs or other init systems. Building | |
4693 | udev though, will require the *build* of the systemd tree, but | |
ea5943d3 | 4694 | udev can be properly *run* without systemd. |
07cd4fc1 | 4695 | |
91cf7e5c | 4696 | * udev: /lib/udev/devices/ are not read anymore; systemd-tmpfiles |
f13b388f KS |
4697 | should be used to create dead device nodes as workarounds for broken |
4698 | subsystems. | |
64661ee7 | 4699 | |
2d13da88 KS |
4700 | * udev: RUN+="socket:..." and udev_monitor_new_from_socket() is |
4701 | no longer supported. udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() needs to be | |
4702 | used to subscribe to events. | |
4703 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
4704 | * udev: when udevd is started by systemd, processes which are left |
4705 | behind by forking them off of udev rules, are unconditionally cleaned | |
4706 | up and killed now after the event handling has finished. Services or | |
4707 | daemons must be started as systemd services. Services can be | |
ea5943d3 | 4708 | pulled-in by udev to get started, but they can no longer be directly |
194bbe33 KS |
4709 | forked by udev rules. |
4710 | ||
f13b388f KS |
4711 | * udev: the daemon binary is called systemd-udevd now and installed |
4712 | in /usr/lib/systemd/. Standalone builds or non-systemd systems need | |
4713 | to adapt to that, create symlink, or rename the binary after building | |
4714 | it. | |
4715 | ||
ea5943d3 | 4716 | * libudev no longer provides these symbols: |
c1959569 KS |
4717 | udev_monitor_from_socket() |
4718 | udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry() | |
4719 | udev_get_{dev,sys,run}_path() | |
ea5943d3 | 4720 | The versions number was bumped and symbol versioning introduced. |
c1959569 | 4721 | |
ea5943d3 | 4722 | * systemd-loginctl and systemd-journalctl have been renamed |
9ae9afce | 4723 | to loginctl and journalctl to match systemctl. |
18b754d3 KS |
4724 | |
4725 | * The config files: /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf and | |
4726 | /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf have been renamed to | |
4727 | logind.conf and journald.conf. Package updates should rename | |
4728 | the files to the new names on upgrade. | |
4729 | ||
ea5943d3 LP |
4730 | * For almost all files the license is now LGPL2.1+, changed |
4731 | from the previous GPL2.0+. Exceptions are some minor stuff | |
4732 | of udev (which will be changed to LGPL2.1 eventually, too), | |
4733 | and the MIT licensed sd-daemon.[ch] library that is suitable | |
4734 | to be used as drop-in files. | |
4735 | ||
4736 | * systemd and logind now handle system sleep states, in | |
49f43d5f | 4737 | particular suspending and hibernating. |
ea5943d3 LP |
4738 | |
4739 | * logind now implements a sleep/shutdown/idle inhibiting logic | |
4740 | suitable for a variety of uses. Soonishly Lennart will blog | |
4741 | about this in more detail. | |
4742 | ||
4743 | * var-run.mount and var-lock.mount are no longer provided | |
4744 | (which prevously bind mounted these directories to their new | |
4745 | places). Distributions which have not converted these | |
4746 | directories to symlinks should consider stealing these files | |
4747 | from git history and add them downstream. | |
4748 | ||
4749 | * We introduced the Documentation= field for units and added | |
4750 | this to all our shipped units. This is useful to make it | |
3943231c | 4751 | easier to explore the boot and the purpose of the various |
ea5943d3 LP |
4752 | units. |
4753 | ||
4754 | * All smaller setup units (such as | |
4755 | systemd-vconsole-setup.service) now detect properly if they | |
4756 | are run in a container and are skipped when | |
4757 | appropriate. This guarantees an entirely noise-free boot in | |
4758 | Linux container environments such as systemd-nspawn. | |
4759 | ||
4760 | * A framework for implementing offline system updates is now | |
4761 | integrated, for details see: | |
4762 | http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates | |
4763 | ||
4764 | * A new service type Type=idle is available now which helps us | |
4765 | avoiding ugly interleaving of getty output and boot status | |
4766 | messages. | |
4767 | ||
439d6dfd LP |
4768 | * There's now a system-wide CapabilityBoundingSet= option to |
4769 | globally reduce the set of capabilities for the | |
ea5943d3 LP |
4770 | system. This is useful to drop CAP_SYS_MKNOD, CAP_SYS_RAWIO, |
4771 | CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_SYS_MODULE, CAP_SYS_TIME, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or | |
4772 | even CAP_NET_ADMIN system-wide for secure systems. | |
4773 | ||
4774 | * There are now system-wide DefaultLimitXXX= options to | |
4775 | globally change the defaults of the various resource limits | |
4776 | for all units started by PID 1. | |
4777 | ||
4778 | * Harald Hoyer's systemd test suite has been integrated into | |
4779 | systemd which allows easy testing of systemd builds in qemu | |
4780 | and nspawn. (This is really awesome! Ask us for details!) | |
4781 | ||
3943231c LP |
4782 | * The fstab parser is now implemented as generator, not inside |
4783 | of PID 1 anymore. | |
ea5943d3 LP |
4784 | |
4785 | * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from | |
4786 | /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that | |
d28315e4 | 4787 | have not been read by systemd yet. |
ea5943d3 LP |
4788 | |
4789 | * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has | |
4790 | already been updated to make use of this. With this in place | |
4791 | initrds get a slight bit faster but primarily are much | |
4792 | easier to introspect and debug since "systemctl status" in | |
4793 | the host system can be used to introspect initrd services, | |
4794 | and the journal from the initrd is kept around too. | |
4795 | ||
4796 | * systemd-delta has been added, a tool to explore differences | |
4797 | between user/admin configuration and vendor defaults. | |
4798 | ||
4799 | * PrivateTmp= now affects both /tmp and /var/tmp. | |
4800 | ||
4801 | * Boot time status messages are now much prettier and feature | |
4802 | proper english language. Booting up systemd has never been | |
4803 | so sexy. | |
4804 | ||
4805 | * Read-ahead pack files now include the inode number of all | |
4806 | files to pre-cache. When the inode changes the pre-caching | |
4807 | is not attempted. This should be nicer to deal with updated | |
4808 | packages which might result in changes of read-ahead | |
4809 | patterns. | |
4810 | ||
4811 | * We now temporaritly lower the kernel's read_ahead_kb variable | |
4812 | when collecting read-ahead data to ensure the kernel's | |
4813 | built-in read-ahead does not add noise to our measurements | |
4814 | of necessary blocks to pre-cache. | |
4815 | ||
4816 | * There's now RequiresMountsFor= to add automatic dependencies | |
4817 | for all mounts necessary for a specific file system path. | |
4818 | ||
4819 | * MountAuto= and SwapAuto= have been removed from | |
4820 | system.conf. Mounting file systems at boot has to take place | |
4821 | in systemd now. | |
4822 | ||
4823 | * nspawn now learned a new switch --uuid= to set the machine | |
4824 | ID on the command line. | |
4825 | ||
f8c0a2cb | 4826 | * nspawn now learned the -b switch to automatically search |
ea5943d3 LP |
4827 | for an init system. |
4828 | ||
4829 | * vt102 is now the default TERM for serial TTYs, upgraded from | |
4830 | vt100. | |
4831 | ||
4832 | * systemd-logind now works on VT-less systems. | |
4833 | ||
4834 | * The build tree has been reorganized. The individual | |
3943231c | 4835 | components now have directories of their own. |
ea5943d3 LP |
4836 | |
4837 | * A new condition type ConditionPathIsReadWrite= is now available. | |
4838 | ||
4839 | * nspawn learned the new -C switch to create cgroups for the | |
4840 | container in other hierarchies. | |
4841 | ||
4842 | * We now have support for hardware watchdogs, configurable in | |
4843 | system.conf. | |
4844 | ||
4845 | * The scheduled shutdown logic now has a public API. | |
4846 | ||
4847 | * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be | |
4848 | masked and /etc/fstab can override it. | |
4849 | ||
d28315e4 | 4850 | * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not |
ea5943d3 LP |
4851 | mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. |
4852 | ||
4853 | * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave | |
4854 | locally generated journal files. | |
4855 | ||
4856 | * We can now load the IMA policy at boot automatically. | |
4857 | ||
4858 | * The GTK tools have been split off into a systemd-ui. | |
4859 | ||
79849bf9 LP |
4860 | Contributions from: Andreas Schwab, Auke Kok, Ayan George, |
4861 | Colin Guthrie, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Ward, Elan | |
4862 | Ruusamäe, Frederic Crozat, Gergely Nagy, Guillermo Vidal, | |
4863 | Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Javier Jardón, Kay Sievers, | |
4864 | Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Léo Gillot-Lamure, | |
4865 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Maxim | |
4866 | A. Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
4867 | Schmidt, Nis Martensen, Patrick McCarty, Roberto Sassu, Shawn | |
4868 | Landden, Sjoerd Simons, Sven Anders, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
4869 | Gundersen | |
4870 | ||
16f1239e | 4871 | CHANGES WITH 44: |
b6a86739 | 4872 | |
16f1239e LP |
4873 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
4874 | ||
4875 | * Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the | |
4876 | KVM or container configured UUID. | |
4877 | ||
4878 | * Support immediate reboots with "systemctl reboot -ff" | |
4879 | ||
4880 | * Show /etc/os-release data in systemd-analyze output | |
4881 | ||
ab06eef8 | 4882 | * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianness fixes and |
16f1239e LP |
4883 | ensuring that disk space enforcement works |
4884 | ||
4885 | * sd-login.h is C++ comptaible again | |
4886 | ||
4887 | * Extend the /etc/os-release format on request of the Debian | |
4888 | folks | |
4889 | ||
4890 | * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration | |
d28315e4 | 4891 | and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid |
16f1239e LP |
4892 | data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. |
4893 | ||
4894 | * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat | |
4895 | configuration | |
4896 | ||
4897 | * Read SELinux client context from journal clients in a race | |
4898 | free fashion | |
4899 | ||
4900 | * Reorder configuration file lookup order. /etc now always | |
4901 | overrides /run in order to allow the administrator to always | |
4902 | and unconditionally override vendor supplied or | |
4903 | automatically generated data. | |
4904 | ||
4905 | * The various user visible bits of the journal now have man | |
4906 | pages. We still lack man pages for the journal API calls | |
4907 | however. | |
4908 | ||
4909 | * We now ship all man pages in HTML format again in the | |
4910 | tarball. | |
4911 | ||
4912 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Dirk Eibach, Frederic | |
4913 | Crozat, Harald Hoyer, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marti | |
4914 | Raudsepp, Michal Schmidt, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Thierry | |
4915 | Reding | |
4916 | ||
437b7dee | 4917 | CHANGES WITH 43: |
b6a86739 | 4918 | |
437b7dee LP |
4919 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
4920 | ||
4921 | * systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported. | |
4922 | ||
4923 | * Various functionality updates to libsystemd-login.so | |
4924 | ||
45afd519 | 4925 | * Track class of PAM logins to distinguish greeters from |
437b7dee LP |
4926 | normal user logins. |
4927 | ||
4928 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael | |
4929 | Biebl | |
4930 | ||
204fa33c | 4931 | CHANGES WITH 42: |
b6a86739 | 4932 | |
204fa33c LP |
4933 | * This is an important bugfix release for v41. |
4934 | ||
4935 | * Building man pages is now optional which should be useful | |
4936 | for those building systemd from git but unwilling to install | |
4937 | xsltproc. | |
4938 | ||
4939 | * Watchdog support for supervising services is now usable. In | |
4940 | a future release support for hardware watchdogs | |
4941 | (i.e. /dev/watchdog) will be added building on this. | |
4942 | ||
4943 | * Service start rate limiting is now configurable and can be | |
4944 | turned off per service. When a start rate limit is hit a | |
4945 | reboot can automatically be triggered. | |
4946 | ||
4947 | * New CanReboot(), CanPowerOff() bus calls in systemd-logind. | |
4948 | ||
4949 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Bill Nottingham, | |
4950 | Frederic Crozat, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
4951 | Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg | |
4952 | ||
e0d25329 | 4953 | CHANGES WITH 41: |
b6a86739 | 4954 | |
e0d25329 KS |
4955 | * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now; |
4956 | An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the | |
4957 | package update. | |
4958 | ||
b13df964 LP |
4959 | * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke |
4960 | libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not | |
4961 | support systems with module-init-tools anymore. | |
4962 | ||
4963 | * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not | |
4964 | complete. | |
4965 | ||
4966 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is | |
4967 | understood to set system wide environment variables | |
4968 | dynamically at boot. | |
4969 | ||
e9c1ea9d | 4970 | * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. |
ccd07a08 | 4971 | |
353e12c2 LP |
4972 | * We now set SIGPIPE to ignore by default, since it only is |
4973 | useful in shell pipelines, and has little use in general | |
4974 | code. This can be disabled with IgnoreSIPIPE=no in unit | |
4975 | files. | |
4976 | ||
b13df964 LP |
4977 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
4978 | Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen, | |
4979 | William Douglas | |
4980 | ||
d26e4270 | 4981 | CHANGES WITH 40: |
b6a86739 | 4982 | |
d26e4270 LP |
4983 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
4984 | ||
4985 | * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the | |
4986 | "Result" D-Bus property. | |
4987 | ||
4988 | * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over | |
4989 | the next few releases.) | |
4990 | ||
4991 | * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will | |
4992 | now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process | |
4993 | it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window | |
4994 | with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful | |
4995 | ||
b13df964 LP |
4996 | Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay |
4997 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, | |
4998 | Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode | |
4999 | ||
220a21d3 | 5000 | CHANGES WITH 39: |
b6a86739 | 5001 | |
220a21d3 LP |
5002 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
5003 | bugfixes. | |
5004 | ||
5005 | * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their | |
5006 | resource usage. | |
5007 | ||
5008 | * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If | |
5009 | disabled, support tracking device access for active logins | |
5010 | goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user | |
5011 | journals by the respective users. | |
5012 | ||
5013 | * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically | |
5014 | owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access | |
5015 | to the system journal as well as all user journals. | |
5016 | ||
5017 | * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging | |
5018 | client for all entries. | |
5019 | ||
5020 | * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers | |
5021 | ||
5022 | * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text | |
5023 | messages, without any meta data like date or time. | |
5024 | ||
5025 | * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to | |
5026 | teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display | |
5027 | managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg | |
5028 | learned native udev hotplugging for display devices. | |
5029 | ||
5030 | * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs | |
5031 | with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as | |
5032 | BSD logger replacement, and does so by default. | |
5033 | ||
5034 | * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the | |
5035 | journal along with meta data. | |
5036 | ||
5037 | * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for | |
5038 | writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for | |
5039 | creating symlinks, character and block device nodes. | |
5040 | ||
5041 | * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups | |
5042 | persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in | |
5043 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups | |
5044 | ||
5045 | * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way | |
5046 | ||
5047 | * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on | |
5048 | rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to | |
5049 | death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, | |
5050 | or fsck. | |
5051 | ||
d28315e4 | 5052 | * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless |
220a21d3 LP |
5053 | requested with new -k switch. |
5054 | ||
5055 | Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
5056 | Poettering, Michal Schmidt | |
5057 | ||
5058 | CHANGES WITH 38: | |
b6a86739 | 5059 | |
220a21d3 LP |
5060 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
5061 | bugfixes. | |
5062 | ||
5063 | * The git repository moved to: | |
5064 | git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd | |
5065 | ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd | |
5066 | ||
5067 | * First release with the journal | |
5068 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html | |
5069 | ||
5070 | * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and | |
5071 | systemd-stdout-bridge. | |
5072 | ||
5073 | * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind | |
5074 | ||
5075 | * Many systemadm clean-ups | |
5076 | ||
5077 | * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all | |
5078 | remote mounts and may be used to start services before all | |
5079 | remote mounts. | |
5080 | ||
5081 | * Added Mageia support | |
5082 | ||
5083 | * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl | |
5084 | ||
5085 | * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in | |
5086 | the parent process before having finished writing the PID | |
5087 | file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be | |
5088 | fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the | |
5089 | parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them. | |
5090 | ||
5091 | * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output | |
5092 | of existing distributions. | |
5093 | ||
5094 | * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for | |
5095 | compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage. | |
5096 | ||
5097 | * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and | |
5098 | thus will no longer act as synchronization point during | |
5099 | boot. | |
5100 | ||
5101 | * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=. | |
5102 | ||
5103 | * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for | |
5104 | relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is | |
5105 | useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys, | |
5106 | among other things. | |
5107 | ||
5108 | * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console | |
5109 | and the journal by default, not only just the console. | |
5110 | ||
5111 | * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login. | |
5112 | ||
5113 | * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a | |
5114 | lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically | |
5115 | select the components of systemd they are interested in. | |
5116 | ||
5117 | * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is | |
5118 | restored. | |
5119 | ||
5120 | * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to | |
5121 | --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and | |
5122 | kmod | |
5123 | ||
d28315e4 | 5124 | * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead |
220a21d3 LP |
5125 | of /usr/local by default. |
5126 | ||
5127 | * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the | |
5128 | final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained | |
5129 | in: | |
5130 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons | |
5131 | ||
5132 | * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter | |
5133 | the START or START_PRE states are now killed with | |
5134 | SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn | |
5135 | background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never | |
5136 | supported anyway, and bad style). | |
5137 | ||
5138 | * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind | |
5139 | reloading of units together. | |
5140 | ||
4c8cd173 | 5141 | Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel J. Walsh, Dave |
220a21d3 LP |
5142 | Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay |
5143 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
5144 | Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef | |
5145 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |