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d657c51f | 1 | systemd System and Service Manager |
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b7db8b7b | 3 | CHANGES WITH 244 in spe: |
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4 | |
5 | * Support for the cpuset cgroups v2 controller has been added. | |
6 | Processes may be restricted to specific CPUs using the new | |
7 | AllowedCPUs= setting, and to specific memory NUMA nodes using the new | |
8 | AllowedMemoryNodes= setting. | |
9 | ||
10 | * The signal used in restart jobs (as opposed to e.g. stop jobs) may | |
11 | now be configured using a new RestartKillSignal= settting. This | |
12 | allows units which signals to request termination to implement | |
13 | different behaviour when stopping in preparation for a restart. | |
14 | ||
15 | * "systemctl clean" may now be used also for socket, mount, and swap | |
16 | units. | |
17 | ||
18 | * systemd will also read configuration options from the EFI variable | |
19 | SystemdOptions. This may be used to configure systemd behaviour when | |
20 | modifying the kernel command line is inconvenient, but configuration | |
21 | on disk is read too late, for example for the options related to | |
22 | cgroup hierarchy setup. 'bootctl system-options' may be used to | |
23 | set the EFI variable. | |
24 | ||
25 | * systemd will now disable printk ratelimits in early boot. This should | |
26 | allow us to capture more logs from the early boot phase where normal | |
27 | storage is not available and the kernel ring buffer is used for | |
28 | logging. Configuration on the kernel command line has higher priority | |
29 | and overrides the systemd setting. | |
30 | ||
31 | systemd programs which log to /dev/kmsg directly use internal | |
32 | ratelimits to prevent runaway logging. (Normally this is only used | |
33 | during early boot, so in practice this change has very little | |
34 | effect.) | |
35 | ||
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36 | * Unit files now support top level dropin directories of the form |
37 | <unit_type>.d/ (e.g. service.d/) that may be used to add configuration | |
38 | that affects all corresponding unit files. | |
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39 | |
40 | * The RuntimeMaxSec= setting is now supported by scopes, not just | |
41 | .service units. This is particularly useful for PAM sessions which | |
42 | create a scope unit for the user login. systemd.runtime_max_sec= | |
43 | setting may used with the pam_systemd module to limit the duration | |
44 | of the PAM session, for example for time-limited logins. | |
45 | ||
46 | * udev now provides a program (fido_id) that identifies FIDO CTAP1 | |
47 | ("U2F")/CTAP2 security tokens based on the usage declared in their | |
48 | report and descriptor and outputs suitable environment variables. | |
49 | This replaces the externally maintained whitelists of all known | |
50 | security tokens that were used previously. | |
51 | ||
52 | * Automatically generated autosuspend udev rules for whitelisted | |
53 | devices have been imported from the Chromium OS project. This should | |
b7db8b7b | 54 | improve power saving with many more devices. |
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55 | |
56 | * udev gained a new "CONST{key}=value" setting that allows matching | |
57 | against system-wide constants without forking a helper binary. | |
58 | Currently "arch" and "virt" keys are supported. | |
59 | ||
60 | * udev now opens CDROMs in non-exclusive mode when querying their | |
61 | capabilities. This should fix issues where other programs trying to | |
62 | use the CDROM cannot gain access to it, but carries a risk of | |
63 | interfering with programs writing to the disk, if they did not open | |
64 | the device in exclusive mode as they should. | |
65 | ||
66 | * systemd-networkd does not create a default route for IPv4 link local | |
67 | addressing anymore. The creation of the route was unexpected and was | |
68 | breaking routing in various cases, but people who rely on it being | |
69 | created implicitly will need to adjust. Such a route may be requested | |
70 | with DefaultRouteOnDevice=yes. | |
71 | ||
72 | Similarly, systemd-networkd will not assign a link-local IPv6 address | |
73 | when IPv6 link-local routing is not enabled. | |
74 | ||
75 | * Receive and transmit buffers may now be configured on links with | |
76 | the new RxBufferSize= and TxBufferSize= settings. | |
77 | ||
78 | * systemd-networkd may now advertise additional IPv6 routes. A new | |
79 | [IPv6RoutePrefix] section with Route= and LifetimeSec= options is | |
80 | now supported. | |
81 | ||
82 | * systemd-networkd may now configure "next hop" routes using the | |
83 | [NextHop] section and Gateway= and Id= settings. | |
84 | ||
85 | * systemd-networkd will now retain DHCP config on restarts by default | |
86 | (but this may be overridden using the KeepConfiguration= setting). | |
87 | The default for SendRelease= has been changed to true. | |
88 | ||
89 | * The DHCPv4 client now uses the OPTION_INFORMATION_REFRESH_TIME option | |
90 | received from the server. | |
91 | ||
92 | The client will use the received SIP server list if UseSIP=yes is | |
93 | set. | |
94 | ||
95 | The client may be configured to request specific options from the | |
96 | server using a new RequestOptions= setting. | |
97 | ||
98 | A new IPServiceType= setting has been added to configure the "IP | |
99 | service type" value used by the client. | |
100 | ||
101 | * The DHCPv6 client learnt a new PrefixDelegationHint= option to | |
102 | request prefix hints in the DHCPv6 solicitation. | |
103 | ||
104 | * systemd-networkd and networkctl may now renew DHCP leases on demand. | |
105 | networkctl has a new 'networkctl renew' verb. | |
106 | ||
107 | * systemd-networkd may now reconfigure links on demand. networkctl | |
108 | gained two new verbs: "reload" will reload the configuration, and | |
109 | "reconfigure DEVICE…" will reconfigure one or more devices. | |
110 | ||
111 | * .network files may now match on SSID and BSSID of a wireless network, | |
112 | i.e. the access point name and hardware address using the new SSID= | |
113 | and BSSID= options. networkctl will display the current SSID and | |
114 | BSSID for wireless links. | |
115 | ||
116 | .network files may also match on the wireless network type using the | |
f36e6a4a | 117 | new WLANInterfaceType= option. |
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118 | |
119 | * systemd-networkd now includes default configuration that enables | |
120 | link-local addressing when connected to an ad-hoc wireless network. | |
121 | ||
122 | * The DHCPv4 server may now be configured to emit SIP server list using | |
123 | the new EmitSIP= and SIP= settings. | |
124 | ||
125 | * systemd-networkd may configure the Traffic Control queueing | |
126 | disciplines in the kernel using the new | |
127 | [TrafficControlQueueingDiscipline] section and Parent=, | |
128 | NetworkEmulatorDelaySec=, NetworkEmulatorDelayJitterSec=, | |
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129 | NetworkEmulatorPacketLimit=, NetworkEmulatorLossRate=, |
130 | NetworkEmulatorDuplicateRate= settings. | |
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131 | |
132 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new w+ setting to append to files. | |
133 | ||
134 | * systemd-analyze dump will now report when the memory configuration in | |
135 | the kernel does not match what systemd has configured (usually, | |
136 | because some external program has modified the kernel configuration | |
137 | on its own). | |
138 | ||
139 | * journalctl --update-catalog now produces deterministic output (making | |
140 | reproducible image builds easier). | |
141 | ||
142 | * A new devicetree-overlay setting is now documented in the Boot Loader | |
143 | Specification. | |
144 | ||
145 | * The default value of the WatchdogSec= setting used in systemd | |
146 | services (the ones bundled with the project itself) may be set at | |
147 | configuration time using the -Dservice-watchdog= setting. If set to | |
148 | empty, the watchdogs will be disabled. | |
149 | ||
150 | * libcryptsetup >= 2.0.1 is now required. | |
151 | ||
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152 | * systemd-resolved validates IP addresses in certificates now when GnuTLS |
153 | is being used. | |
154 | ||
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157 | * This release enables unprivileged programs (i.e. requiring neither |
158 | setuid nor file capabilities) to send ICMP Echo (i.e. ping) requests | |
08b59539 | 159 | by turning on the "net.ipv4.ping_group_range" sysctl of the Linux |
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160 | kernel for the whole UNIX group range, i.e. all processes. This |
161 | change should be reasonably safe, as the kernel support for it was | |
162 | specifically implemented to allow safe access to ICMP Echo for | |
163 | processes lacking any privileges. If this is not desirable, it can be | |
164 | disabled again by setting the parameter to "1 0". | |
165 | ||
4cd82631 | 166 | * Previously, filters defined with SystemCallFilter= would have the |
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167 | effect that any calling of an offending system call would terminate |
168 | the calling thread. This behaviour never made much sense, since | |
169 | killing individual threads of unsuspecting processes is likely to | |
170 | create more problems than it solves. With this release the default | |
171 | action changed from killing the thread to killing the whole | |
172 | process. For this to work correctly both a kernel version (>= 4.14) | |
173 | and a libseccomp version (>= 2.4.0) supporting this new seccomp | |
174 | action is required. If an older kernel or libseccomp is used the old | |
175 | behaviour continues to be used. This change does not affect any | |
176 | services that have no system call filters defined, or that use | |
177 | SystemCallErrorNumber= (and thus see EPERM or another error instead | |
178 | of being killed when calling an offending system call). Note that | |
179 | systemd documentation always claimed that the whole process is | |
180 | killed. With this change behaviour is thus adjusted to match the | |
181 | documentation. | |
4cd82631 | 182 | |
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183 | * On 64 bit systems, the "kernel.pid_max" sysctl is now bumped to |
184 | 4194304 by default, i.e. the full 22bit range the kernel allows, up | |
185 | from the old 16bit range. This should improve security and | |
186 | robustness, as PID collisions are made less likely (though certainly | |
187 | still possible). There are rumours this might create compatibility | |
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188 | problems, though at this moment no practical ones are known to |
189 | us. Downstream distributions are hence advised to undo this change in | |
190 | their builds if they are concerned about maximum compatibility, but | |
191 | for everybody else we recommend leaving the value bumped. Besides | |
192 | improving security and robustness this should also simplify things as | |
193 | the maximum number of allowed concurrent tasks was previously bounded | |
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194 | by both "kernel.pid_max" and "kernel.threads-max" and now effectively |
195 | only a single knob is left ("kernel.threads-max"). There have been | |
196 | concerns that usability is affected by this change because larger PID | |
197 | numbers are harder to type, but we believe the change from 5 digits | |
198 | to 7 digits doesn't hamper usability. | |
6af90583 | 199 | |
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200 | * MemoryLow= and MemoryMin= gained hierarchy-aware counterparts, |
201 | DefaultMemoryLow= and DefaultMemoryMin=, which can be used to | |
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202 | hierarchically set default memory protection values for a particular |
203 | subtree of the unit hierarchy. | |
204 | ||
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205 | * Memory protection directives can now take a value of zero, allowing |
206 | explicit opting out of a default value propagated by an ancestor. | |
207 | ||
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208 | * systemd now defaults to the "unified" cgroup hierarchy setup during |
209 | build-time, i.e. -Ddefault-hierarchy=unified is now the build-time | |
210 | default. Previously, -Ddefault-hierarchy=hybrid was the default. This | |
211 | change reflects the fact that cgroupsv2 support has matured | |
212 | substantially in both systemd and in the kernel, and is clearly the | |
213 | way forward. Downstream production distributions might want to | |
214 | continue to use -Ddefault-hierarchy=hybrid (or even =legacy) for | |
215 | their builds as unfortunately the popular container managers have not | |
216 | caught up with the kernel API changes. | |
217 | ||
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218 | * Man pages are not built by default anymore (html pages were already |
219 | disabled by default), to make development builds quicker. When | |
220 | building systemd for a full installation with documentation, meson | |
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221 | should be called with -Dman=true and/or -Dhtml=true as appropriate. |
222 | The default was changed based on the assumption that quick one-off or | |
223 | repeated development builds are much more common than full optimized | |
224 | builds for installation, and people need to pass various other | |
225 | options to when doing "proper" builds anyway, so the gain from making | |
226 | development builds quicker is bigger than the one time disruption for | |
227 | packagers. | |
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228 | |
229 | Two scripts are created in the *build* directory to generate and | |
230 | preview man and html pages on demand, e.g.: | |
231 | ||
232 | build/man/man systemctl | |
233 | build/man/html systemd.index | |
234 | ||
e110599b | 235 | * libidn2 is used by default if both libidn2 and libidn are installed. |
4860f5c2 | 236 | Please use -Dlibidn=true if libidn is preferred. |
e110599b | 237 | |
2875a36b | 238 | * The D-Bus "wire format" of the CPUAffinity= attribute is changed on |
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239 | big-endian machines. Before, bytes were written and read in native |
240 | machine order as exposed by the native libc __cpu_mask interface. | |
241 | Now, little-endian order is always used (CPUs 0–7 are described by | |
242 | bits 0–7 in byte 0, CPUs 8–15 are described by byte 1, and so on). | |
243 | This change fixes D-Bus calls that cross endianness boundary. | |
244 | ||
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245 | The presentation format used for CPUAffinity= by "systemctl show" and |
246 | "systemd-analyze dump" is changed to present CPU indices instead of | |
247 | the raw __cpu_mask bitmask. For example, CPUAffinity=0-1 would be | |
248 | shown as CPUAffinity=03000000000000000000000000000… (on | |
249 | little-endian) or CPUAffinity=00000000000000300000000000000… (on | |
250 | 64-bit big-endian), and is now shown as CPUAffinity=0-1, matching the | |
251 | input format. The maximum integer that will be printed in the new | |
252 | format is 8191 (four digits), while the old format always used a very | |
253 | long number (with the length varying by architecture), so they can be | |
254 | unambiguously distinguished. | |
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256 | * /usr/sbin/halt.local is no longer supported. Implementation in |
257 | distributions was inconsistent and it seems this functionality was | |
258 | very rarely used. | |
259 | ||
260 | To replace this functionality, users should: | |
261 | - either define a new unit and make it a dependency of final.target | |
262 | (systemctl add-wants final.target my-halt-local.service) | |
263 | - or move the shutdown script to /usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ | |
264 | and ensure that it accepts "halt", "poweroff", "reboot", and | |
265 | "kexec" as an argument, see the description in systemd-shutdown(8). | |
266 | ||
267 | * When a [Match] section in .link or .network file is empty (contains | |
268 | no match patterns), a warning will be emitted. Please add any "match | |
9120e2bf | 269 | all" pattern instead, e.g. OriginalName=* or Name=* in case all |
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270 | interfaces should really be matched. |
271 | ||
b070c7c0 | 272 | * A new setting NUMAPolicy= may be used to set process memory |
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273 | allocation policy. This setting can be specified in |
274 | /etc/systemd/system.conf and hence will set the default policy for | |
275 | PID1. The default policy can be overridden on a per-service | |
276 | basis. The related setting NUMAMask= is used to specify NUMA node | |
277 | mask that should be associated with the selected policy. | |
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278 | |
279 | * PID 1 will now listen to Out-Of-Memory (OOM) events the kernel | |
eebaa724 | 280 | generates when processes it manages are reaching their memory limits, |
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281 | and will place their units in a special state, and optionally kill or |
282 | stop the whole unit. | |
283 | ||
284 | * The service manager will now expose bus properties for the IO | |
285 | resources used by units. This information is also shown in "systemctl | |
286 | status" now (for services that have IOAccounting=yes set). Moreover, | |
287 | the IO accounting data is included in the resource log message | |
288 | generated whenever a unit stops. | |
289 | ||
08b59539 | 290 | * Units may now configure an explicit time-out to wait for when killed |
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291 | with SIGABRT, for example when a service watchdog is hit. Previously, |
292 | the regular TimeoutStopSec= time-out was applied in this case too — | |
293 | now a separate time-out may be set using TimeoutAbortSec=. | |
294 | ||
295 | * Services may now send a special WATCHDOG=trigger message with | |
296 | sd_notify() to trigger an immediate "watchdog missed" event, and thus | |
4860f5c2 | 297 | trigger service termination. This is useful both for testing watchdog |
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298 | handling, but also for defining error paths in services, that shall |
299 | be handled the same way as watchdog events. | |
300 | ||
301 | * There are two new per-unit settings IPIngressFilterPath= and | |
302 | IPEgressFilterPath= which allow configuration of a BPF program | |
303 | (usually by specifying a path to a program uploaded to /sys/fs/bpf/) | |
304 | to apply to the IP packet ingress/egress path of all processes of a | |
305 | unit. This is useful to allow running systemd services with BPF | |
306 | programs set up externally. | |
307 | ||
308 | * systemctl gained a new "clean" verb for removing the state, cache, | |
309 | runtime or logs directories of a service while it is terminated. The | |
310 | new verb may also be used to remove the state maintained on disk for | |
311 | timer units that have Persistent= configured. | |
312 | ||
313 | * During the last phase of shutdown systemd will now automatically | |
314 | increase the log level configured in the "kernel.printk" sysctl so | |
315 | that any relevant loggable events happening during late shutdown are | |
316 | made visible. Previously, loggable events happening so late during | |
317 | shutdown were generally lost if the "kernel.printk" sysctl was set to | |
318 | high thresholds, as regular logging daemons are terminated at that | |
319 | time and thus nothing is written to disk. | |
320 | ||
321 | * If processes terminated during the last phase of shutdown do not exit | |
322 | quickly systemd will now show their names after a short time, to make | |
323 | debugging easier. After a longer time-out they are forcibly killed, | |
324 | as before. | |
325 | ||
326 | * journalctl (and the other tools that display logs) will now highlight | |
327 | warnings in yellow (previously, both LOG_NOTICE and LOG_WARNING where | |
328 | shown in bright bold, now only LOG_NOTICE is). Moreover, audit logs | |
329 | are now shown in blue color, to separate them visually from regular | |
330 | logs. References to configuration files are now turned into clickable | |
331 | links on terminals that support that. | |
332 | ||
333 | * systemd-journald will now stop logging to /var/log/journal during | |
334 | shutdown when /var/ is on a separate mount, so that it can be | |
335 | unmounted safely during shutdown. | |
336 | ||
337 | * systemd-resolved gained support for a new 'strict' DNS-over-TLS mode. | |
338 | ||
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339 | * systemd-resolved "Cache=" configuration option in resolved.conf has |
340 | been extended to also accept the 'no-negative' value. Previously, | |
341 | only a boolean option was allowed (yes/no), having yes as the | |
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342 | default. If this option is set to 'no-negative', negative answers are |
343 | not cached while the old cache heuristics are used positive answers. | |
344 | The default remains unchanged. | |
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346 | * The predictable naming scheme for network devices now supports |
347 | generating predictable names for "netdevsim" devices. | |
348 | ||
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349 | Moreover, the "en" prefix was dropped from the ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD |
350 | udev property. | |
351 | ||
352 | Those two changes form a new net.naming-policy-scheme= entry. | |
353 | Distributions which want to preserve naming stability may want to set | |
354 | the -Ddefault-net-naming-scheme= configuration option. | |
355 | ||
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356 | * systemd-networkd now supports MACsec, nlmon, IPVTAP and Xfrm |
357 | interfaces natively. | |
358 | ||
359 | * systemd-networkd's bridge FDB support now allows configuration of a | |
360 | destination address for each entry (Destination=), as well as the | |
361 | VXLAN VNI (VNI=), as well as an option to declare what an entry is | |
362 | associated with (AssociatedWith=). | |
363 | ||
364 | * systemd-networkd's DHCPv4 support now understands a new MaxAttempts= | |
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365 | option for configuring the maximum number of DHCP lease requests. It |
366 | also learnt a new BlackList= option for blacklisting DHCP servers (a | |
367 | similar setting has also been added to the IPv6 RA client), as well | |
368 | as a SendRelease= option for configuring whether to send a DHCP | |
369 | RELEASE message when terminating. | |
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370 | |
371 | * systemd-networkd's DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 stacks can now be configured | |
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372 | separately in the [DHCPv4] and [DHCPv6] sections. |
373 | ||
374 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP support will now optionally create an | |
375 | implicit host route to the DNS server specified in the DHCP lease, in | |
376 | addition to the routes listed explicitly in the lease. This should | |
377 | ensure that in multi-homed systems DNS traffic leaves the systems on | |
378 | the interface that acquired the DNS server information even if other | |
379 | routes such as default routes exist. This behaviour may be turned on | |
380 | with the new RoutesToDNS= option. | |
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381 | |
382 | * systemd-networkd's VXLAN support gained a new option | |
eebaa724 | 383 | GenericProtocolExtension= for enabling VXLAN Generic Protocol |
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384 | Extension support, as well as IPDoNotFragment= for setting the IP |
385 | "Don't fragment" bit on outgoing packets. A similar option has been | |
386 | added to the GENEVE support. | |
387 | ||
388 | * In systemd-networkd's [Route] section you may now configure | |
389 | FastOpenNoCookie= for configuring per-route TCP fast-open support, as | |
390 | well as TTLPropagate= for configuring Label Switched Path (LSP) TTL | |
391 | propagation. The Type= setting now supports local, broadcast, | |
392 | anycast, multicast, any, xresolve routes, too. | |
393 | ||
394 | * systemd-networkd's [Network] section learnt a new option | |
395 | DefaultRouteOnDevice= for automatically configuring a default route | |
396 | onto the network device. | |
397 | ||
398 | * systemd-networkd's bridging support gained two new options ProxyARP= | |
399 | and ProxyARPWifi= for configuring proxy ARP behaviour as well as | |
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400 | MulticastRouter= for configuring multicast routing behaviour. A new |
401 | option MulticastIGMPVersion= may be used to change bridge's multicast | |
402 | Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version. | |
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403 | |
404 | * systemd-networkd's FooOverUDP support gained the ability to configure | |
405 | local and peer IP addresses via Local= and Peer=. A new option | |
406 | PeerPort= may be used to configure the peer's IP port. | |
407 | ||
408 | * systemd-networkd's TUN support gained a new setting VnetHeader= for | |
409 | tweaking Generic Segment Offload support. | |
410 | ||
411 | * networkctl gained a new "delete" command for removing virtual network | |
412 | devices, as well as a new "--stats" switch for showing device | |
413 | statistics. | |
414 | ||
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415 | * networkd.conf gained a new setting SpeedMeter= and |
416 | SpeedMeterIntervalSec=, to measure bitrate of network interfaces. The | |
417 | measured speed may be shown by 'networkctl status'. | |
418 | ||
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419 | * "networkctl status" now displays MTU and queue lengths, and more |
420 | detailed information about VXLAN and bridge devices. | |
421 | ||
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422 | * systemd-networkd's .network and .link files gained a new Property= |
423 | setting in the [Match] section, to match against devices with | |
424 | specific udev properties. | |
425 | ||
426 | * systemd-networkd's tunnel support gained a new option | |
427 | AssignToLoopback= for selecting whether to use the loopback device | |
428 | "lo" as underlying device. | |
429 | ||
70183735 | 430 | * systemd-networkd's MACAddress= setting in the [Neighbor] section has |
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431 | been renamed to LinkLayerAddress=, and it now allows configuration of |
432 | IP addresses, too. | |
433 | ||
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434 | * systemd-networkd's handling of the kernel's disable_ipv6 sysctl is |
435 | simplified: systemd-networkd will disable the sysctl (enable IPv6) if | |
436 | IPv6 configuration (static or DHCPv6) was found for a given | |
437 | interface. It will not touch the sysctl otherwise. | |
438 | ||
439 | * The order of entries is $PATH used by the user manager instance was | |
440 | changed to put bin/ entries before the corresponding sbin/ entries. | |
441 | It is recommended to not rely on this order, and only ever have one | |
442 | binary with a given name in the system paths under /usr. | |
443 | ||
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444 | * A new tool systemd-network-generator has been added that may generate |
445 | .network, .netdev and .link files from IP configuration specified on | |
4860f5c2 | 446 | the kernel command line in the format used by Dracut. |
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448 | * The CriticalConnection= setting in .network files is now deprecated, |
449 | and replaced by a new KeepConfiguration= setting which allows more | |
450 | detailed configuration of the IP configuration to keep in place. | |
451 | ||
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452 | * systemd-analyze gained a few new verbs: |
453 | ||
454 | - "systemd-analyze timestamp" parses and converts timestamps. This is | |
455 | similar to the existing "systemd-analyze calendar" command which | |
456 | does the same for recurring calendar events. | |
457 | ||
458 | - "systemd-analyze timespan" parses and converts timespans (i.e. | |
459 | durations as opposed to points in time). | |
460 | ||
461 | - "systemd-analyze condition" will parse and test ConditionXYZ= | |
462 | expressions. | |
463 | ||
464 | - "systemd-analyze exit-status" will parse and convert exit status | |
465 | codes to their names and back. | |
466 | ||
467 | - "systemd-analyze unit-files" will print a list of all unit | |
468 | file paths and unit aliases. | |
469 | ||
470 | * SuccessExitStatus=, RestartPreventExitStatus=, and | |
471 | RestartForceExitStatus= now accept exit status names (e.g. "DATAERR" | |
472 | is equivalent to "65"). Those exit status name mappings may be | |
473 | displayed with the sytemd-analyze exit-status verb describe above. | |
2875a36b LP |
474 | |
475 | * systemd-logind now exposes a per-session SetBrightness() bus call, | |
476 | which may be used to securely change the brightness of a kernel | |
477 | brightness device, if it belongs to the session's seat. By using this | |
478 | call unprivileged clients can make changes to "backlight" and "leds" | |
4860f5c2 ZJS |
479 | devices securely with strict requirements on session membership. |
480 | Desktop environments may use this to generically make brightness | |
481 | changes to such devices without shipping private SUID binaries or | |
482 | udev rules for that purpose. | |
2875a36b LP |
483 | |
484 | * "udevadm info" gained a --wait-for-initialization switch to wait for | |
485 | a device to be initialized. | |
486 | ||
487 | * systemd-hibernate-resume-generator will now look for resumeflags= on | |
488 | the kernel command line, which is similar to rootflags= and may be | |
4860f5c2 | 489 | used to configure device timeout for the hibernation device. |
2875a36b LP |
490 | |
491 | * sd-event learnt a new API call sd_event_source_disable_unref() for | |
492 | disabling and unref'ing an event source in a single function. A | |
493 | related call sd_event_source_disable_unrefp() has been added for use | |
4860f5c2 | 494 | with gcc's cleanup extension. |
2875a36b LP |
495 | |
496 | * The sd-id128.h public API gained a new definition | |
497 | SD_ID128_UUID_FORMAT_STR for formatting a 128bit ID in UUID format | |
498 | with printf(). | |
499 | ||
500 | * "busctl introspect" gained a new switch --xml-interface for dumping | |
501 | XML introspection data unmodified. | |
502 | ||
503 | * PID 1 may now show the unit name instead of the unit description | |
504 | string in its status output during boot. This may be configured in | |
505 | the StatusUnitFormat= setting in /etc/systemd/system.conf or the | |
506 | kernel command line option systemd.status_unit_format=. | |
507 | ||
907ddcd3 | 508 | * PID 1 now understands a new option KExecWatchdogSec= in |
4860f5c2 ZJS |
509 | /etc/systemd/system.conf to set a watchdog timeout for kexec reboots. |
510 | Previously watchdog functionality was only available for regular | |
511 | reboots. The new setting defaults to off, because we don't know in | |
512 | the general case if the watchdog will be reset after kexec (some | |
513 | drivers do reset it, but not all), and the new userspace might not be | |
514 | configured to handle the watchdog. | |
515 | ||
516 | Moreover, the old ShutdownWatchdogSec= setting has been renamed to | |
517 | RebootWatchdogSec= to more clearly communicate what it is about. The | |
518 | old name is still accepted for compatibility. | |
907ddcd3 | 519 | |
2875a36b | 520 | * The systemd.debug_shell kernel command line option now optionally |
4860f5c2 ZJS |
521 | takes a tty name to spawn the debug shell on, which allows a |
522 | different tty to be selected than the built-in default. | |
2875a36b | 523 | |
a4d5848a AZ |
524 | * Service units gained a new ExecCondition= setting which will run |
525 | before ExecStartPre= and either continue execution of the unit (for | |
526 | clean exit codes), stop execution without marking the unit failed | |
527 | (for exit codes 1 through 254), or stop execution and fail the unit | |
4860f5c2 | 528 | (for exit code 255 or abnormal termination). |
a4d5848a | 529 | |
29db4c3a | 530 | * A new service systemd-pstore.service has been added that pulls data |
08b59539 | 531 | from /sys/fs/pstore/ and saves it to /var/lib/pstore for later |
29db4c3a LP |
532 | review. |
533 | ||
534 | * timedatectl gained new verbs for configuring per-interface NTP | |
535 | service configuration for systemd-timesyncd. | |
536 | ||
537 | * "localectl list-locales" won't list non-UTF-8 locales anymore. It's | |
a18a3aac | 538 | 2019. (You can set non-UTF-8 locales though, if you know their name.) |
29db4c3a | 539 | |
b64c47c0 LP |
540 | * If variable assignments in sysctl.d/ files are prefixed with "-" any |
541 | failures to apply them are now ignored. | |
542 | ||
a18a3aac LP |
543 | * systemd-random-seed.service now optionally credits entropy when |
544 | applying the seed to the system. Set $SYSTEMD_RANDOM_SEED_CREDIT to | |
545 | true for the service to enable this behaviour, but please consult the | |
546 | documentation first, since this comes with a couple of caveats. | |
547 | ||
4860f5c2 ZJS |
548 | * systemd-random-seed.service is now a synchronization point for full |
549 | initialization of the kernel's entropy pool. Services that require | |
550 | /dev/urandom to be correctly initialized should be ordered after this | |
551 | service. | |
a18a3aac LP |
552 | |
553 | * The systemd-boot boot loader has been updated to optionally maintain | |
554 | a random seed file in the EFI System Partition (ESP). During the boot | |
555 | phase, this random seed is read and updated with a new seed | |
4860f5c2 | 556 | cryptographically derived from it. Another derived seed is passed to |
a18a3aac LP |
557 | the OS. The latter seed is then credited to the kernel's entropy pool |
558 | very early during userspace initialization (from PID 1). This allows | |
559 | systems to boot up with a fully initialized kernel entropy pool from | |
560 | earliest boot on, and thus entirely removes all entropy pool | |
561 | initialization delays from systems using systemd-boot. Special care | |
562 | is taken to ensure different seeds are derived on system images | |
4860f5c2 ZJS |
563 | replicated to multiple systems. "bootctl status" will show whether |
564 | a seed was received from the boot loader. | |
565 | ||
566 | * bootctl gained two new verbs: | |
567 | ||
568 | - "bootctl random-seed" will generate the file in ESP and an EFI | |
569 | variable to allow a random seed to be passed to the OS as described | |
570 | above. | |
571 | ||
572 | - "bootctl is-installed" checks whether systemd-boot is currently | |
573 | installed. | |
a18a3aac | 574 | |
4860f5c2 ZJS |
575 | * bootctl will warn if it detects that boot entries are misconfigured |
576 | (for example if the kernel image was removed without purging the | |
577 | bootloader entry). | |
a18a3aac LP |
578 | |
579 | * A new document has been added describing systemd's use and support | |
580 | for the kernel's entropy pool subsystem: | |
581 | ||
582 | https://systemd.io/RANDOM_SEEDS | |
583 | ||
48fd50f7 LP |
584 | * When the system is hibernated the swap device to write the |
585 | hibernation image to is now automatically picked from all available | |
586 | swap devices, preferring the swap device with the highest configured | |
587 | priority over all others, and picking the device with the most free | |
588 | space if there are multiple devices with the highest priority. | |
589 | ||
590 | * /etc/crypttab support has learnt a new keyfile-timeout= per-device | |
591 | option that permits selecting the timout how long to wait for a | |
592 | device with an encryption key before asking for the password. | |
593 | ||
2dbc45ae KK |
594 | * IOWeight= has learnt to properly set the IO weight when using the |
595 | BFQ scheduler officially found in kernels 5.0+. | |
596 | ||
6d8cf864 ZJS |
597 | * A new mailing list has been created for reporting of security issues: |
598 | systemd-security@redhat.com. For mode details, see | |
599 | https://systemd.io/CONTRIBUTING#security-vulnerability-reports. | |
600 | ||
f21e2ecb ZJS |
601 | Contributions from: Aaron Barany, Adrian Bunk, Alan Jenkins, Albrecht |
602 | Lohofener, Andrej Valek, Anita Zhang, Arian van Putten, Balint Reczey, | |
603 | Bastien Nocera, Ben Boeckel, Benjamin Robin, camoz, Chen Qi, Chris | |
604 | Chiu, Chris Down, Christian Kellner, Clinton Roy, Connor Reeder, Daniel | |
605 | Black, Daniele Medri, Dan Streetman, Dave Reisner, Dave Ross, David | |
a7d9b355 ZJS |
606 | Art, David Tardon, Debarshi Ray, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dominick Grift, |
607 | Donald Buczek, Douglas Christman, Eric DeVolder, EtherGraf, Evgeny | |
608 | Vereshchagin, Feldwor, Felix Riemann, Florian Dollinger, Francesco | |
609 | Pennica, Franck Bui, Frantisek Sumsal, Franz Pletz, frederik, Hans | |
610 | de Goede, Iago López Galeiras, Insun Pyo, Ivan Shapovalov, Iwan Timmer, | |
611 | Jack, Jakob Unterwurzacher, Jan Chren, Jan Klötzke, Jan Losinski, Jan | |
612 | Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Jan-Michael Brummer, Jeka Pats, Jeremy Soller, | |
f21e2ecb ZJS |
613 | Jérémy Rosen, Jiri Pirko, Joe Lin, Joerg Behrmann, Joe Richey, Jóhann |
614 | B. Guðmundsson, Johannes Christ, Johannes Schmitz, Jonathan Rouleau, | |
615 | Jorge Niedbalski, Kai Krakow, Kai Lüke, Karel Zak, Kashyap Chamarthy, | |
616 | Krayushkin Konstantin, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Luca | |
617 | Boccassi, Luís Ferreira, Marc-André Lureau, Markus Felten, Martin Pitt, | |
618 | Matthew Leeds, Mattias Jernberg, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
619 | Michael Prokop, Michael Stapelberg, Michael Zhivich, Michal Koutný, | |
620 | Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Milan Broz, Miroslav Lichvar, mpe85, | |
621 | Mr-Foo, Network Silence, Oliver Harley, pan93412, Paul Menzel, pEJipE, | |
622 | Peter A. Bigot, Philip Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Rafael Fontenelle, Roberto | |
623 | Santalla, Ronan Pigott, root, RussianNeuroMancer, Sebastian Jennen, | |
624 | shinygold, Shreyas Behera, Simon Schricker, Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima | |
625 | de Souza Cascardo, Theo Ouzhinski, Thiebaud Weksteen, Thomas Haller, | |
a7d9b355 ZJS |
626 | Thomas Weißschuh, Tomas Mraz, Tommi Rantala, Topi Miettinen, VD-Lycos, |
627 | ven, Wieland Hoffmann, William A. Kennington III, William Wold, Xi | |
e48a1e34 | 628 | Ruoyao, Yuri Chornoivan, Yu Watanabe, Zach Smith, Zbigniew |
a7d9b355 | 629 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zhang Xianwei |
29db4c3a | 630 | |
efb536d0 | 631 | – Camerino, 2019-09-03 |
6af90583 | 632 | |
d822bd4e | 633 | CHANGES WITH 242: |
9b89e602 ZJS |
634 | |
635 | * In .link files, MACAddressPolicy=persistent (the default) is changed | |
636 | to cover more devices. For devices like bridges, tun, tap, bond, and | |
637 | similar interfaces that do not have other identifying information, | |
638 | the interface name is used as the basis for persistent seed for MAC | |
639 | and IPv4LL addresses. The way that devices that were handled | |
fd9baae8 ZJS |
640 | previously is not changed, and this change is about covering more |
641 | devices then previously by the "persistent" policy. | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
642 | |
643 | MACAddressPolicy=random may be used to force randomized MACs and | |
644 | IPv4LL addresses for a device if desired. | |
645 | ||
646 | Hint: the log output from udev (at debug level) was enhanced to | |
647 | clarify what policy is followed and which attributes are used. | |
648 | `SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug udevadm test-builtin net_setup_link /sys/class/net/<name>` | |
649 | may be used to view this. | |
650 | ||
c111cd98 YW |
651 | Hint: if a bridge interface is created without any slaves, and gains |
652 | a slave later, then now the bridge does not inherit slave's MAC. | |
653 | To inherit slave's MAC, for example, create the following file: | |
654 | ``` | |
655 | # /etc/systemd/network/98-bridge-inherit-mac.link | |
656 | [Match] | |
657 | Type=bridge | |
658 | ||
659 | [Link] | |
660 | MACAddressPolicy=none | |
661 | ``` | |
662 | ||
9b89e602 ZJS |
663 | * The .device units generated by systemd-fstab-generator and other |
664 | generators do not automatically pull in the corresponding .mount unit | |
665 | as a Wants= dependency. This means that simply plugging in the device | |
666 | will not cause the mount unit to be started automatically. But please | |
5787c509 LP |
667 | note that the mount unit may be started for other reasons, in |
668 | particular if it is part of local-fs.target, and any unit which | |
669 | (transitively) depends on local-fs.target is started. | |
9b89e602 | 670 | |
5787c509 LP |
671 | * networkctl list/status/lldp now accept globbing wildcards for network |
672 | interface names to match against all existing interfaces. | |
673 | ||
674 | * The $PIDFILE environment variable is set to point the absolute path | |
675 | configured with PIDFile= for processes of that service. | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
676 | |
677 | * The fallback DNS server list was augmented with Cloudflare public DNS | |
678 | servers. Use `-Ddns-servers=` to set a different fallback. | |
679 | ||
680 | * A new special target usb-gadget.target will be started automatically | |
681 | when a USB Device Controller is detected (which means that the system | |
682 | is a USB peripheral). | |
683 | ||
5787c509 LP |
684 | * A new unit setting CPUQuotaPeriodSec= assigns the time period |
685 | relatively to which the CPU time quota specified by CPUQuota= is | |
686 | measured. | |
9b89e602 | 687 | |
5787c509 | 688 | * A new unit setting ProtectHostname= may be used to prevent services |
9b89e602 ZJS |
689 | from modifying hostname information (even if they otherwise would |
690 | have privileges to do so). | |
691 | ||
5787c509 | 692 | * A new unit setting NetworkNamespacePath= may be used to specify a |
9b89e602 ZJS |
693 | namespace for service or socket units through a path referring to a |
694 | Linux network namespace pseudo-file. | |
695 | ||
5787c509 LP |
696 | * The PrivateNetwork= setting and JoinsNamespaceOf= dependencies now |
697 | have an effect on .socket units: when used the listening socket is | |
698 | created within the configured network namespace instead of the host | |
699 | namespace. | |
700 | ||
701 | * ExecStart= command lines in unit files may now be prefixed with ':' | |
702 | in which case environment variable substitution is | |
703 | disabled. (Supported for the other ExecXYZ= settings, too.) | |
704 | ||
2eb466fc LP |
705 | * .timer units gained two new boolean settings OnClockChange= and |
706 | OnTimezoneChange= which may be used to also trigger a unit when the | |
707 | system clock is changed or the local timezone is | |
708 | modified. systemd-run has been updated to make these options easily | |
709 | accessible from the command line for transient timers. | |
710 | ||
711 | * Two new conditions for units have been added: ConditionMemory= may be | |
712 | used to conditionalize a unit based on installed system | |
713 | RAM. ConditionCPUs= may be used to conditionalize a unit based on | |
39e445c9 | 714 | installed CPU cores. |
2eb466fc LP |
715 | |
716 | * The @default system call filter group understood by SystemCallFilter= | |
717 | has been updated to include the new rseq() system call introduced in | |
718 | kernel 4.15. | |
719 | ||
ab80eca1 ZJS |
720 | * A new time-set.target has been added that indicates that the system |
721 | time has been set from a local source (possibly imprecise). The | |
722 | existing time-sync.target is stronger and indicates that the time has | |
723 | been synchronized with a precise external source. Services where | |
724 | approximate time is sufficient should use the new target. | |
725 | ||
2eb466fc LP |
726 | * "systemctl start" (and related commands) learnt a new |
727 | --show-transaction option. If specified brief information about all | |
728 | jobs queued because of the requested operation is shown. | |
729 | ||
5787c509 LP |
730 | * systemd-networkd recognizes a new operation state 'enslaved', used |
731 | (instead of 'degraded' or 'carrier') for interfaces which form a | |
732 | bridge, bond, or similar, and an new 'degraded-carrier' operational | |
733 | state used for the bond or bridge master interface when one of the | |
734 | enslaved devices is not operational. | |
9b89e602 | 735 | |
5787c509 LP |
736 | * .network files learnt the new IgnoreCarrierLoss= option for leaving |
737 | networks configured even if the carrier is lost. | |
738 | ||
739 | * The RequiredForOnline= setting in .network files may now specify a | |
9b89e602 | 740 | minimum operational state required for the interface to be considered |
5787c509 LP |
741 | "online" by systemd-networkd-wait-online. Related to this |
742 | systemd-networkd-wait-online gained a new option --operational-state= | |
743 | to configure the same, and its --interface= option was updated to | |
744 | optionally also take an operational state specific for an interface. | |
9b89e602 | 745 | |
2eb466fc LP |
746 | * systemd-networkd-wait-online gained a new setting --any for waiting |
747 | for only one of the requested interfaces instead of all of them. | |
748 | ||
9b89e602 ZJS |
749 | * systemd-networkd now implements L2TP tunnels. |
750 | ||
5787c509 LP |
751 | * Two new .network settings UseAutonomousPrefix= and UseOnLinkPrefix= |
752 | may be used to cause autonomous and onlink prefixes received in IPv6 | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
753 | Router Advertisements to be ignored. |
754 | ||
5787c509 LP |
755 | * New MulticastFlood=, NeighborSuppression=, and Learning= .network |
756 | file settings may be used to tweak bridge behaviour. | |
757 | ||
758 | * The new TripleSampling= option in .network files may be used to | |
759 | configure CAN triple sampling. | |
9b89e602 | 760 | |
78bb2866 YW |
761 | * A new .netdev settings PrivateKeyFile= and PresharedKeyFile= may be |
762 | used to point to private or preshared key for a WireGuard interface. | |
9b89e602 | 763 | |
5787c509 LP |
764 | * /etc/crypttab now supports the same-cpu-crypt and |
765 | submit-from-crypt-cpus options to tweak encryption work scheduling | |
766 | details. | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
767 | |
768 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now take a BSD file lock before operating on a | |
769 | contents of directory. This may be used to temporarily exclude | |
770 | directories from aging by taking the same lock (useful for example | |
771 | when extracting a tarball into /tmp or /var/tmp as a privileged user, | |
772 | which might create files with really old timestamps, which | |
5787c509 LP |
773 | nevertheless should not be deleted). For further details, see: |
774 | ||
775 | https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES | |
9b89e602 | 776 | |
70d8401d LP |
777 | * systemd-tmpfiles' h line type gained support for the |
778 | FS_PROJINHERIT_FL ('P') file attribute (introduced in kernel 4.5), | |
779 | controlling project quota inheritance. | |
780 | ||
9b89e602 ZJS |
781 | * sd-boot and bootctl now implement support for an Extended Boot Loader |
782 | (XBOOTLDR) partition, that is intended to be mounted to /boot, in | |
783 | addition to the ESP partition mounted to /efi or /boot/efi. | |
784 | Configuration file fragments, kernels, initrds and other EFI images | |
785 | to boot will be loaded from both the ESP and XBOOTLDR partitions. | |
786 | The XBOOTLDR partition was previously described by the Boot Loader | |
5787c509 LP |
787 | Specification, but implementation was missing in sd-boot. Support for |
788 | this concept allows using the sd-boot boot loader in more | |
789 | conservative scenarios where the boot loader itself is placed in the | |
790 | ESP but the kernels to boot (and their metadata) in a separate | |
791 | partition. | |
9b89e602 | 792 | |
5787c509 LP |
793 | * A system may now be booted with systemd.volatile=overlay on the |
794 | kernel command line, which causes the root file system to be set up | |
795 | an overlayfs mount combining the root-only root directory with a | |
796 | writable tmpfs. In this setup, the underlying root device is not | |
797 | modified, and any changes are lost at reboot. | |
9b89e602 | 798 | |
5787c509 LP |
799 | * Similar, systemd-nspawn can now boot containers with a volatile |
800 | overlayfs root with the new --volatile=overlay switch. | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
801 | |
802 | * systemd-nspawn can now consume OCI runtime bundles using a new | |
803 | --oci-bundle= option. This implementation is fully usable, with most | |
804 | features in the specification implemented, but since this a lot of | |
805 | new code and functionality, this feature should most likely not | |
806 | be used in production yet. | |
807 | ||
5787c509 LP |
808 | * systemd-nspawn now supports various options described by the OCI |
809 | runtime specification on the command-line and in .nspawn files: | |
9b89e602 | 810 | --inaccessible=/Inaccessible= may be used to mask parts of the file |
5787c509 | 811 | system tree, --console=/--pipe may be used to configure how standard |
9b89e602 ZJS |
812 | input, output, and error are set up. |
813 | ||
814 | * busctl learned the `emit` verb to generate D-Bus signals. | |
815 | ||
816 | * systemd-analyze cat-config may be used to gather and display | |
817 | configuration spread over multiple files, for example system and user | |
818 | presets, tmpfiles.d, sysusers.d, udev rules, etc. | |
819 | ||
5787c509 LP |
820 | * systemd-analyze calendar now takes an optional new parameter |
821 | --iterations= which may be used to show a maximum number of iterations | |
822 | the specified expression will elapse next. | |
823 | ||
824 | * The sd-bus C API gained support for naming method parameters in the | |
825 | introspection data. | |
826 | ||
827 | * systemd-logind gained D-Bus APIs to specify the "reboot parameter" | |
828 | the reboot() system call expects. | |
829 | ||
830 | * journalctl learnt a new --cursor-file= option that points to a file | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
831 | from which a cursor should be loaded in the beginning and to which |
832 | the updated cursor should be stored at the end. | |
833 | ||
834 | * ACRN hypervisor and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) are now | |
835 | detected by systemd-detect-virt (and may also be used in | |
836 | ConditionVirtualization=). | |
837 | ||
838 | * The behaviour of systemd-logind may now be modified with environment | |
839 | variables $SYSTEMD_REBOOT_TO_FIRMWARE_SETUP, | |
840 | $SYSTEMD_REBOOT_TO_BOOT_LOADER_MENU, and | |
841 | $SYSTEMD_REBOOT_TO_BOOT_LOADER_ENTRY. They cause logind to either | |
842 | skip the relevant operation completely (when set to false), or to | |
843 | create a flag file in /run/systemd (when set to true), instead of | |
844 | actually commencing the real operation when requested. The presence | |
845 | of /run/systemd/reboot-to-firmware-setup, | |
846 | /run/systemd/reboot-to-boot-loader-menu, and | |
847 | /run/systemd/reboot-to-boot-loader-entry, may be used by alternative | |
848 | boot loader implementations to replace some steps logind performs | |
849 | during reboot with their own operations. | |
850 | ||
851 | * systemctl can be used to request a reboot into the boot loader menu | |
5787c509 LP |
852 | or a specific boot loader entry with the new --boot-load-menu= and |
853 | --boot-loader-entry= options to a reboot command. (This requires a | |
854 | boot loader that supports this, for example sd-boot.) | |
9b89e602 ZJS |
855 | |
856 | * kernel-install will no longer unconditionally create the output | |
857 | directory (e.g. /efi/<machine-id>/<kernel-version>) for boot loader | |
858 | snippets, but will do only if the machine-specific parent directory | |
859 | (i.e. /efi/<machine-id>/) already exists. bootctl has been modified | |
860 | to create this parent directory during sd-boot installation. | |
861 | ||
862 | This makes it easier to use kernel-install with plugins which support | |
863 | a different layout of the bootloader partitions (for example grub2). | |
864 | ||
a3134241 | 865 | * During package installation (with `ninja install`), we would create |
1fa3ba90 PM |
866 | symlinks for getty@tty1.service, systemd-networkd.service, |
867 | systemd-networkd.socket, systemd-resolved.service, | |
868 | remote-cryptsetup.target, remote-fs.target, | |
a3134241 ZJS |
869 | systemd-networkd-wait-online.service, and systemd-timesyncd.service |
870 | in /etc, as if `systemctl enable` was called for those units, to make | |
871 | the system usable immediately after installation. Now this is not | |
872 | done anymore, and instead calling `systemctl preset-all` is | |
873 | recommended after the first installation of systemd. | |
874 | ||
bf65b7e0 LP |
875 | * A new boolean sandboxing option RestrictSUIDSGID= has been added that |
876 | is built on seccomp. When turned on creation of SUID/SGID files is | |
877 | prohibited. | |
878 | ||
879 | * The NoNewPrivileges= and the new RestrictSUIDSGID= options are now | |
880 | implied if DynamicUser= is turned on for a service. This hardens | |
881 | these services, so that they neither can benefit from nor create | |
882 | SUID/SGID executables. This is a minor compatibility breakage, given | |
883 | that when DynamicUser= was first introduced SUID/SGID behaviour was | |
884 | unaffected. However, the security benefit of these two options is | |
885 | substantial, and the setting is still relatively new, hence we opted | |
886 | to make it mandatory for services with dynamic users. | |
887 | ||
5b2fc74f LP |
888 | Contributions from: Adam Jackson, Alexander Tsoy, Andrey Yashkin, |
889 | Andrzej Pietrasiewicz, Anita Zhang, Balint Reczey, Beniamino Galvani, | |
890 | Ben Iofel, Benjamin Berg, Benjamin Dahlhoff, Chris, Chris Morin, | |
891 | Christopher Wong, Claudius Ellsel, Clemens Gruber, dana, Daniel Black, | |
892 | Davide Cavalca, David Michael, David Rheinsberg, emersion, Evgeny | |
893 | Vereshchagin, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Frantisek Sumsal, | |
894 | Giacinto Cifelli, Hans de Goede, Hugo Kindel, Ignat Korchagin, Insun | |
c3287a42 LP |
895 | Pyo, Jan Engelhardt, Jonas Dorel, Jonathan Lebon, Jonathon Kowalski, |
896 | Jörg Sommer, Jörg Thalheim, Jussi Pakkanen, Kai-Heng Feng, Lennart | |
897 | Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Luís Ferreira, Martin Pitt, Matthias | |
898 | Klumpp, Michael Biebl, Michael Niewöhner, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
ab80eca1 ZJS |
899 | Sekletar, Mike Lothian, Paul Menzel, Piotr Drąg, Riccardo Schirone, |
900 | Robin Elvedi, Roman Kulikov, Ronald Tschalär, Ross Burton, Ryan | |
1e5d2d65 ZJS |
901 | Gonzalez, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, Stephane Chazelas, StKob, Susant |
902 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Szabolcs Fruhwald, Taro Yamada, Theo | |
903 | Ouzhinski, Thomas Haller, Tobias Jungel, Tom Yan, Tony Asleson, Topi | |
904 | Miettinen, unixsysadmin, Van Laser, Vesa Jääskeläinen, Yu, Li-Yu, | |
905 | Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
c3287a42 | 906 | |
1e5d2d65 | 907 | — Warsaw, 2019-04-11 |
bf65b7e0 | 908 | |
d0f71749 | 909 | CHANGES WITH 241: |
b4ff3dbb ZJS |
910 | |
911 | * The default locale can now be configured at compile time. Otherwise, | |
912 | a suitable default will be selected automatically (one of C.UTF-8, | |
913 | en_US.UTF-8, and C). | |
914 | ||
915 | * The version string shown by systemd and other tools now includes the | |
916 | git commit hash when built from git. An override may be specified | |
917 | during compilation, which is intended to be used by distributions to | |
918 | include the package release information. | |
919 | ||
920 | * systemd-cat can now filter standard input and standard error streams | |
921 | for different syslog priorities using the new --stderr-priority= | |
922 | option. | |
923 | ||
924 | * systemd-journald and systemd-journal-remote reject entries which | |
925 | contain too many fields (CVE-2018-16865) and set limits on the | |
926 | process' command line length (CVE-2018-16864). | |
927 | ||
928 | * $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is set by pam_systemd | |
929 | again. | |
930 | ||
08e1fe42 ZJS |
931 | * A new network device NamePolicy "keep" is implemented for link files, |
932 | and used by default in 99-default.link (the fallback configuration | |
933 | provided by systemd). With this policy, if the network device name | |
934 | was already set by userspace, the device will not be renamed again. | |
935 | This matches the naming scheme that was implemented before | |
936 | systemd-240. If naming-scheme < 240 is specified, the "keep" policy | |
937 | is also enabled by default, even if not specified. Effectively, this | |
938 | means that if naming-scheme >= 240 is specified, network devices will | |
939 | be renamed according to the configuration, even if they have been | |
940 | renamed already, if "keep" is not specified as the naming policy in | |
941 | the .link file. The 99-default.link file provided by systemd includes | |
942 | "keep" for backwards compatibility, but it is recommended for user | |
943 | installed .link files to *not* include it. | |
944 | ||
945 | The "kernel" policy, which keeps kernel names declared to be | |
946 | "persistent", now works again as documented. | |
947 | ||
ba7a6b8c LP |
948 | * kernel-install script now optionally takes the paths to one or more |
949 | initrd files, and passes them to all plugins. | |
bd36ef0a | 950 | |
57c03b1e LP |
951 | * The mincore() system call has been dropped from the @system-service |
952 | system call filter group, as it is pretty exotic and may potentially | |
953 | used for side-channel attacks. | |
954 | ||
774d6375 ZJS |
955 | * -fPIE is dropped from compiler and linker options. Please specify |
956 | -Db_pie=true option to meson to build position-independent | |
bd36ef0a YW |
957 | executables. Note that the meson option is supported since meson-0.49. |
958 | ||
27325875 LW |
959 | * The fs.protected_regular and fs.protected_fifos sysctls, which were |
960 | added in Linux 4.19 to make some data spoofing attacks harder, are | |
961 | now enabled by default. While this will hopefully improve the | |
962 | security of most installations, it is technically a backwards | |
963 | incompatible change; to disable these sysctls again, place the | |
964 | following lines in /etc/sysctl.d/60-protected.conf or a similar file: | |
965 | ||
966 | fs.protected_regular = 0 | |
967 | fs.protected_fifos = 0 | |
968 | ||
969 | Note that the similar hardlink and symlink protection has been | |
970 | enabled since v199, and may be disabled likewise. | |
971 | ||
a77f438b LT |
972 | * The files read from the EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now |
973 | parse backslashes inside quotes literally, matching the behaviour of | |
974 | POSIX shells. | |
975 | ||
ba7a6b8c LP |
976 | * udevadm trigger, udevadm control, udevadm settle and udevadm monitor |
977 | now automatically become NOPs when run in a chroot() environment. | |
978 | ||
979 | * The tmpfiles.d/ "C" line type will now copy directory trees not only | |
980 | when the destination is so far missing, but also if it already exists | |
981 | as a directory and is empty. This is useful to cater for systems | |
982 | where directory trees are put together from multiple separate mount | |
983 | points but otherwise empty. | |
984 | ||
985 | * A new function sd_bus_close_unref() (and the associated | |
986 | sd_bus_close_unrefp()) has been added to libsystemd, that combines | |
987 | sd_bus_close() and sd_bus_unref() in one. | |
988 | ||
989 | * udevadm control learnt a new option for --ping for testing whether a | |
990 | systemd-udevd instance is running and reacting. | |
991 | ||
ecebd1ec YW |
992 | * udevadm trigger learnt a new option for --wait-daemon for waiting |
993 | systemd-udevd daemon to be initialized. | |
994 | ||
d0f71749 LP |
995 | Contributions from: Aaron Plattner, Alberts Muktupāvels, Alex Mayer, |
996 | Ayman Bagabas, Beniamino Galvani, Burt P, Chris Down, Chris Lamb, Chris | |
997 | Morin, Christian Hesse, Claudius Ellsel, dana, Daniel Axtens, Daniele | |
998 | Medri, Dave Reisner, David Santamaría Rogado, Diego Canuhe, Dimitri | |
999 | John Ledkov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabrice Fontaine, Filipe | |
1000 | Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Frantisek Sumsal, govwin, Hans de Goede, | |
1001 | James Hilliard, Jan Engelhardt, Jani Uusitalo, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
1002 | Synacek, Jonathan McDowell, Jonathan Roemer, Jonathon Kowalski, Joost | |
1003 | Heitbrink, Jörg Thalheim, Lance, Lennart Poettering, Louis Taylor, | |
1004 | Lucas Werkmeister, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
1005 | marvelousblack, Michael Biebl, Michael Sloan, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
1006 | Auty, Mike Gilbert, Mikhail Kasimov, Neil Brown, Niklas Hambüchen, | |
1007 | Patrick Williams, Paul Seyfert, Peter Hutterer, Philip Withnall, Roger | |
1008 | James, Ronnie P. Thomas, Ryan Gonzalez, Sam Morris, Stephan Edel, | |
1009 | Stephan Gerhold, Susant Sahani, Taro Yamada, Thomas Haller, Topi | |
1010 | Miettinen, YiFei Zhu, YmrDtnJu, YunQiang Su, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
1011 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, zsergeant77, Дамјан Георгиевски | |
1012 | ||
36d28ebc | 1013 | — Berlin, 2019-02-14 |
ba7a6b8c | 1014 | |
32673162 | 1015 | CHANGES WITH 240: |
fcb97512 | 1016 | |
e68a35a7 ZJS |
1017 | * NoNewPrivileges=yes has been set for all long-running services |
1018 | implemented by systemd. Previously, this was problematic due to | |
1019 | SELinux (as this would also prohibit the transition from PID1's label | |
1020 | to the service's label). This restriction has since been lifted, but | |
1021 | an SELinux policy update is required. | |
1022 | (See e.g. https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/234.) | |
1023 | ||
aa2437e2 YW |
1024 | * DynamicUser=yes is dropped from systemd-networkd.service, |
1025 | systemd-resolved.service and systemd-timesyncd.service, which was | |
1026 | enabled in v239 for systemd-networkd.service and systemd-resolved.service, | |
1027 | and since v236 for systemd-timesyncd.service. The users and groups | |
1028 | systemd-network, systemd-resolve and systemd-timesync are created | |
1029 | by systemd-sysusers again. Distributors or system administrators | |
1030 | may need to create these users and groups if they not exist (or need | |
1031 | to re-enable DynamicUser= for those units) while upgrading systemd. | |
787a133f YW |
1032 | Also, the clock file for systemd-timesyncd may need to move from |
1033 | /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync/clock to /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock. | |
aa2437e2 | 1034 | |
b1a082cd ZJS |
1035 | * When unit files are loaded from disk, previously systemd would |
1036 | sometimes (depending on the unit loading order) load units from the | |
1037 | target path of symlinks in .wants/ or .requires/ directories of other | |
1038 | units. This meant that unit could be loaded from different paths | |
1039 | depending on whether the unit was requested explicitly or as a | |
1040 | dependency of another unit, not honouring the priority of directories | |
1041 | in search path. It also meant that it was possible to successfully | |
1042 | load and start units which are not found in the unit search path, as | |
1043 | long as they were requested as a dependency and linked to from | |
1044 | .wants/ or .requires/. The target paths of those symlinks are not | |
1045 | used for loading units anymore and the unit file must be found in | |
1046 | the search path. | |
1047 | ||
fcb97512 | 1048 | * A new service type has been added: Type=exec. It's very similar to |
421e3b45 | 1049 | Type=simple but ensures the service manager will wait for both fork() |
fcb97512 LP |
1050 | and execve() of the main service binary to complete before proceeding |
1051 | with follow-up units. This is primarily useful so that the manager | |
1052 | propagates any errors in the preparation phase of service execution | |
1053 | back to the job that requested the unit to be started. For example, | |
1054 | consider a service that has ExecStart= set to a file system binary | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1055 | that doesn't exist. With Type=simple starting the unit would be |
1056 | considered instantly successful, as only fork() has to complete | |
1057 | successfully and the manager does not wait for execve(), and hence | |
1058 | its failure is seen "too late". With the new Type=exec service type | |
1059 | starting the unit will fail, as the manager will wait for the | |
1060 | execve() and notice its failure, which is then propagated back to the | |
1061 | start job. | |
fcb97512 LP |
1062 | |
1063 | NOTE: with the next release 241 of systemd we intend to change the | |
1064 | systemd-run tool to default to Type=exec for transient services | |
1065 | started by it. This should be mostly safe, but in specific corner | |
1066 | cases might result in problems, as the systemd-run tool will then | |
6b1ab752 | 1067 | block on NSS calls (such as user name look-ups due to User=) done |
fcb97512 LP |
1068 | between the fork() and execve(), which under specific circumstances |
1069 | might cause problems. It is recommended to specify "-p Type=simple" | |
1070 | explicitly in the few cases where this applies. For regular, | |
1071 | non-transient services (i.e. those defined with unit files on disk) | |
1072 | we will continue to default to Type=simple. | |
1073 | ||
0972c1ae LP |
1074 | * The Linux kernel's current default RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit for |
1075 | userspace processes is set to 1024 (soft) and 4096 | |
1076 | (hard). Previously, systemd passed this on unmodified to all | |
1077 | processes it forked off. With this systemd release the hard limit | |
0abf9492 | 1078 | systemd passes on is increased to 512K, overriding the kernel's |
0972c1ae LP |
1079 | defaults and substantially increasing the number of simultaneous file |
1080 | descriptors unprivileged userspace processes can allocate. Note that | |
1081 | the soft limit remains at 1024 for compatibility reasons: the | |
1082 | traditional UNIX select() call cannot deal with file descriptors >= | |
1083 | 1024 and increasing the soft limit globally might thus result in | |
1084 | programs unexpectedly allocating a high file descriptor and thus | |
1085 | failing abnormally when attempting to use it with select() (of | |
1086 | course, programs shouldn't use select() anymore, and prefer | |
1087 | poll()/epoll, but the call unfortunately remains undeservedly popular | |
1088 | at this time). This change reflects the fact that file descriptor | |
1089 | handling in the Linux kernel has been optimized in more recent | |
1090 | kernels and allocating large numbers of them should be much cheaper | |
1091 | both in memory and in performance than it used to be. Programs that | |
1092 | want to take benefit of the increased limit have to "opt-in" into | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1093 | high file descriptors explicitly by raising their soft limit. Of |
1094 | course, when they do that they must acknowledge that they cannot use | |
1095 | select() anymore (and neither can any shared library they use — or | |
1096 | any shared library used by any shared library they use and so on). | |
1097 | Which default hard limit is most appropriate is of course hard to | |
1098 | decide. However, given reports that ~300K file descriptors are used | |
1099 | in real-life applications we believe 512K is sufficiently high as new | |
1100 | default for now. Note that there are also reports that using very | |
1101 | high hard limits (e.g. 1G) is problematic: some software allocates | |
1102 | large arrays with one element for each potential file descriptor | |
1103 | (Java, …) — a high hard limit thus triggers excessively large memory | |
1104 | allocations in these applications. Hopefully, the new default of 512K | |
1105 | is a good middle ground: higher than what real-life applications | |
1106 | currently need, and low enough for avoid triggering excessively large | |
1107 | allocations in problematic software. (And yes, somebody should fix | |
1108 | Java.) | |
0972c1ae | 1109 | |
a8b627aa LP |
1110 | * The fs.nr_open and fs.file-max sysctls are now automatically bumped |
1111 | to the highest possible values, as separate accounting of file | |
1112 | descriptors is no longer necessary, as memcg tracks them correctly as | |
1113 | part of the memory accounting anyway. Thus, from the four limits on | |
1114 | file descriptors currently enforced (fs.file-max, fs.nr_open, | |
1115 | RLIMIT_NOFILE hard, RLIMIT_NOFILE soft) we turn off the first two, | |
1116 | and keep only the latter two. A set of build-time options | |
a579d42a | 1117 | (-Dbump-proc-sys-fs-file-max=false and -Dbump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=false) |
a8b627aa LP |
1118 | has been added to revert this change in behaviour, which might be |
1119 | an option for systems that turn off memcg in the kernel. | |
1120 | ||
4f7dc24f LP |
1121 | * When no /etc/locale.conf file exists (and hence no locale settings |
1122 | are in place), systemd will now use the "C.UTF-8" locale by default, | |
1123 | and set LANG= to it. This locale is supported by various | |
1124 | distributions including Fedora, with clear indications that upstream | |
1125 | glibc is going to make it available too. This locale enables UTF-8 | |
1126 | mode by default, which appears appropriate for 2018. | |
1127 | ||
230450d4 LR |
1128 | * The "net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter" sysctl will now be set to 2 by |
1129 | default. This effectively switches the RFC3704 Reverse Path filtering | |
1130 | from Strict mode to Loose mode. This is more appropriate for hosts | |
1131 | that have multiple links with routes to the same networks (e.g. | |
1132 | a client with a Wi-Fi and Ethernet both connected to the internet). | |
1133 | ||
6b1ab752 | 1134 | Consult the kernel documentation for details on this sysctl: |
230450d4 LR |
1135 | https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |
1136 | ||
23305a29 CD |
1137 | * CPUAccounting=yes no longer enables the CPU controller when using |
1138 | kernel 4.15+ and the unified cgroup hierarchy, as required accounting | |
1139 | statistics are now provided independently from the CPU controller. | |
1140 | ||
6b1ab752 | 1141 | * Support for disabling a particular cgroup controller within a sub-tree |
a8467688 CD |
1142 | has been added through the DisableControllers= directive. |
1143 | ||
8f044cf9 CD |
1144 | * cgroup_no_v1=all on the kernel command line now also implies |
1145 | using the unified cgroup hierarchy, unless one explicitly passes | |
1146 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 on the kernel command line. | |
1147 | ||
6b1ab752 LP |
1148 | * The new "MemoryMin=" unit file property may now be used to set the |
1149 | memory usage protection limit of processes invoked by the unit. This | |
4e1dfa45 | 1150 | controls the cgroup v2 memory.min attribute. Similarly, the new |
6b1ab752 | 1151 | "IODeviceLatencyTargetSec=" property has been added, wrapping the new |
4e1dfa45 | 1152 | cgroup v2 io.latency cgroup property for configuring per-service I/O |
6b1ab752 LP |
1153 | latency. |
1154 | ||
4e1dfa45 CD |
1155 | * systemd now supports the cgroup v2 devices BPF logic, as counterpart |
1156 | to the cgroup v1 "devices" cgroup controller. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1157 | |
1158 | * systemd-escape now is able to combine --unescape with --template. It | |
1159 | also learnt a new option --instance for extracting and unescaping the | |
1160 | instance part of a unit name. | |
1161 | ||
1162 | * sd-bus now provides the sd_bus_message_readv() which is similar to | |
1163 | sd_bus_message_read() but takes a va_list object. The pair | |
1164 | sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout() and sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout() | |
421e3b45 | 1165 | has been added for configuring the default method call timeout to |
6b1ab752 LP |
1166 | use. sd_bus_error_move() may be used to efficiently move the contents |
1167 | from one sd_bus_error structure to another, invalidating the | |
1168 | source. sd_bus_set_close_on_exit() and sd_bus_get_close_on_exit() may | |
1169 | be used to control whether a bus connection object is automatically | |
1170 | flushed when an sd-event loop is exited. | |
1171 | ||
1172 | * When processing classic BSD syslog log messages, journald will now | |
1173 | save the original time-stamp string supplied in the new | |
1174 | SYSLOG_TIMESTAMP= journal field. This permits consumers to | |
1175 | reconstruct the original BSD syslog message more correctly. | |
1176 | ||
1177 | * StandardOutput=/StandardError= in service files gained support for | |
1178 | new "append:…" parameters, for connecting STDOUT/STDERR of a service | |
1179 | to a file, and appending to it. | |
1180 | ||
1181 | * The signal to use as last step of killing of unit processes is now | |
1182 | configurable. Previously it was hard-coded to SIGKILL, which may now | |
1183 | be overridden with the new KillSignal= setting. Note that this is the | |
46b028f2 | 1184 | signal used when regular termination (i.e. SIGTERM) does not suffice. |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1185 | Similarly, the signal used when aborting a program in case of a |
1186 | watchdog timeout may now be configured too (WatchdogSignal=). | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1187 | |
1188 | * The XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP environment variable may now be configured in | |
1189 | the pam_systemd argument line, using the new desktop= switch. This is | |
1190 | useful to initialize it properly from a display manager without | |
1191 | having to touch C code. | |
1192 | ||
421e3b45 ZJS |
1193 | * Most configuration options that previously accepted percentage values |
1194 | now also accept permille values with the '‰' suffix (instead of '%'). | |
6b1ab752 | 1195 | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1196 | * systemd-resolved may now optionally use OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS for |
1197 | DNS-over-TLS. | |
1198 | ||
1199 | * systemd-resolved's configuration file resolved.conf gained a new | |
1200 | option ReadEtcHosts= which may be used to turn off processing and | |
1201 | honoring /etc/hosts entries. | |
1202 | ||
1203 | * The "--wait" switch may now be passed to "systemctl | |
1204 | is-system-running", in which case the tool will synchronously wait | |
1205 | until the system finished start-up. | |
1206 | ||
1207 | * hostnamed gained a new bus call to determine the DMI product UUID. | |
1208 | ||
1209 | * On x86-64 systemd will now prefer using the RDRAND processor | |
1210 | instruction over /dev/urandom whenever it requires randomness that | |
1211 | neither has to be crypto-grade nor should be reproducible. This | |
1212 | should substantially reduce the amount of entropy systemd requests | |
1213 | from the kernel during initialization on such systems, though not | |
1214 | reduce it to zero. (Why not zero? systemd still needs to allocate | |
1215 | UUIDs and such uniquely, which require high-quality randomness.) | |
1216 | ||
1217 | * networkd gained support for Foo-Over-UDP, ERSPAN and ISATAP | |
1218 | tunnels. It also gained a new option ForceDHCPv6PDOtherInformation= | |
1219 | for forcing the "Other Information" bit in IPv6 RA messages. The | |
d6131be9 | 1220 | bonding logic gained four new options AdActorSystemPriority=, |
6b1ab752 | 1221 | AdUserPortKey=, AdActorSystem= for configuring various 802.3ad |
d6131be9 YW |
1222 | aspects, and DynamicTransmitLoadBalancing= for enabling dynamic |
1223 | shuffling of flows. The tunnel logic gained a new | |
1224 | IPv6RapidDeploymentPrefix= option for configuring IPv6 Rapid | |
1225 | Deployment. The policy rule logic gained four new options IPProtocol=, | |
1226 | SourcePort= and DestinationPort=, InvertRule=. The bridge logic gained | |
1227 | support for the MulticastToUnicast= option. networkd also gained | |
1228 | support for configuring static IPv4 ARP or IPv6 neighbor entries. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1229 | |
1230 | * .preset files (as read by 'systemctl preset') may now be used to | |
1231 | instantiate services. | |
1232 | ||
1233 | * /etc/crypttab now understands the sector-size= option to configure | |
1234 | the sector size for an encrypted partition. | |
1235 | ||
1236 | * Key material for encrypted disks may now be placed on a formatted | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1237 | medium, and referenced from /etc/crypttab by the UUID of the file |
1238 | system, followed by "=" suffixed by the path to the key file. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1239 | |
1240 | * The "collect" udev component has been removed without replacement, as | |
421e3b45 | 1241 | it is neither used nor maintained. |
6b1ab752 LP |
1242 | |
1243 | * When the RuntimeDirectory=, StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, | |
1244 | LogsDirectory=, ConfigurationDirectory= settings are used in a | |
1245 | service the executed processes will now receive a set of environment | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1246 | variables containing the full paths of these directories. |
1247 | Specifically, RUNTIME_DIRECTORY=, STATE_DIRECTORY, CACHE_DIRECTORY, | |
1248 | LOGS_DIRECTORY, CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY are now set if these options | |
1249 | are used. Note that these options may be used multiple times per | |
1250 | service in which case the resulting paths will be concatenated and | |
1251 | separated by colons. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1252 | |
1253 | * Predictable interface naming has been extended to cover InfiniBand | |
1254 | NICs. They will be exposed with an "ib" prefix. | |
1255 | ||
1256 | * tmpfiles.d/ line types may now be suffixed with a '-' character, in | |
1257 | which case the respective line failing is ignored. | |
1258 | ||
1259 | * .link files may now be used to configure the equivalent to the | |
1260 | "ethtool advertise" commands. | |
1261 | ||
1262 | * The sd-device.h and sd-hwdb.h APIs are now exported, as an | |
1263 | alternative to libudev.h. Previously, the latter was just an internal | |
1264 | wrapper around the former, but now these two APIs are exposed | |
1265 | directly. | |
1266 | ||
1267 | * sd-id128.h gained a new function sd_id128_get_boot_app_specific() | |
1268 | which calculates an app-specific boot ID similar to how | |
1269 | sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() generates an app-specific machine | |
1270 | ID. | |
1271 | ||
1272 | * A new tool systemd-id128 has been added that can be used to determine | |
1273 | and generate various 128bit IDs. | |
1274 | ||
1275 | * /etc/os-release gained two new standardized fields DOCUMENTATION_URL= | |
1276 | and LOGO=. | |
1277 | ||
1278 | * systemd-hibernate-resume-generator will now honor the "noresume" | |
1279 | kernel command line option, in which case it will bypass resuming | |
1280 | from any hibernated image. | |
1281 | ||
1282 | * The systemd-sleep.conf configuration file gained new options | |
1283 | AllowSuspend=, AllowHibernation=, AllowSuspendThenHibernate=, | |
1284 | AllowHybridSleep= for prohibiting specific sleep modes even if the | |
421e3b45 | 1285 | kernel exports them. |
6b1ab752 LP |
1286 | |
1287 | * portablectl is now officially supported and has thus moved to | |
1288 | /usr/bin/. | |
1289 | ||
1290 | * bootctl learnt the two new commands "set-default" and "set-oneshot" | |
1291 | for setting the default boot loader item to boot to (either | |
1292 | persistently or only for the next boot). This is currently only | |
1293 | compatible with sd-boot, but may be implemented on other boot loaders | |
1294 | too, that follow the boot loader interface. The updated interface is | |
1295 | now documented here: | |
1296 | ||
1297 | https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE | |
1298 | ||
1299 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.early_core_pattern= is now | |
1300 | understood which may be used to influence the core_pattern PID 1 | |
1301 | installs during early boot. | |
1302 | ||
1303 | * busctl learnt two new options -j and --json= for outputting method | |
1304 | call replies, properties and monitoring output in JSON. | |
1305 | ||
1306 | * journalctl's JSON output now supports simple ANSI coloring as well as | |
1307 | a new "json-seq" mode for generating RFC7464 output. | |
1308 | ||
1309 | * Unit files now support the %g/%G specifiers that resolve to the UNIX | |
1310 | group/GID of the service manager runs as, similar to the existing | |
1311 | %u/%U specifiers that resolve to the UNIX user/UID. | |
1312 | ||
1313 | * systemd-logind learnt a new global configuration option | |
1314 | UserStopDelaySec= that may be set in logind.conf. It specifies how | |
1315 | long the systemd --user instance shall remain started after a user | |
1316 | logs out. This is useful to speed up repetitive re-connections of the | |
1317 | same user, as it means the user's service manager doesn't have to be | |
1318 | stopped/restarted on each iteration, but can be reused between | |
1319 | subsequent options. This setting defaults to 10s. systemd-logind also | |
1320 | exports two new properties on its Manager D-Bus objects indicating | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1321 | whether the system's lid is currently closed, and whether the system |
1322 | is on AC power. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1323 | |
1324 | * systemd gained support for a generic boot counting logic, which | |
1325 | generically permits automatic reverting to older boot loader entries | |
1326 | if newer updated ones don't work. The boot loader side is implemented | |
1327 | in sd-boot, but is kept open for other boot loaders too. For details | |
1328 | see: | |
1329 | ||
1330 | https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT | |
1331 | ||
1332 | * The SuccessAction=/FailureAction= unit file settings now learnt two | |
1333 | new parameters: "exit" and "exit-force", which result in immediate | |
1334 | exiting of the service manager, and are only useful in systemd --user | |
1335 | and container environments. | |
1336 | ||
1337 | * Unit files gained support for a pair of options | |
1338 | FailureActionExitStatus=/SuccessActionExitStatus= for configuring the | |
1339 | exit status to use as service manager exit status when | |
1340 | SuccessAction=/FailureAction= is set to exit or exit-force. | |
1341 | ||
1342 | * A pair of LogRateLimitIntervalSec=/LogRateLimitBurst= per-service | |
1343 | options may now be used to configure the log rate limiting applied by | |
1344 | journald per-service. | |
1345 | ||
1346 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "timespan" for parsing and | |
1347 | normalizing time span values (i.e. strings like "5min 7s 8us"). | |
1348 | ||
1349 | * systemd-analyze also gained a new verb "security" for analyzing the | |
1350 | security and sand-boxing settings of services in order to determine an | |
1351 | "exposure level" for them, indicating whether a service would benefit | |
1352 | from more sand-boxing options turned on for them. | |
1353 | ||
1354 | * "systemd-analyze syscall-filter" will now also show system calls | |
1355 | supported by the local kernel but not included in any of the defined | |
1356 | groups. | |
1357 | ||
1358 | * .nspawn files now understand the Ephemeral= setting, matching the | |
1359 | --ephemeral command line switch. | |
1360 | ||
1361 | * sd-event gained the new APIs sd_event_source_get_floating() and | |
1362 | sd_event_source_set_floating() for controlling whether a specific | |
1363 | event source is "floating", i.e. destroyed along with the even loop | |
1364 | object itself. | |
1365 | ||
1366 | * Unit objects on D-Bus gained a new "Refs" property that lists all | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1367 | clients that currently have a reference on the unit (to ensure it is |
1368 | not unloaded). | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1369 | |
1370 | * The JoinControllers= option in system.conf is no longer supported, as | |
1371 | it didn't work correctly, is hard to support properly, is legacy (as | |
4e1dfa45 | 1372 | the concept only exists on cgroup v1) and apparently wasn't used. |
6b1ab752 LP |
1373 | |
1374 | * Journal messages that are generated whenever a unit enters the failed | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1375 | state are now tagged with a unique MESSAGE_ID. Similarly, messages |
1376 | generated whenever a service process exits are now made recognizable, | |
5238e957 | 1377 | too. A tagged message is also emitted whenever a unit enters the |
421e3b45 | 1378 | "dead" state on success. |
6b1ab752 LP |
1379 | |
1380 | * systemd-run gained a new switch --working-directory= for configuring | |
1381 | the working directory of the service to start. A shortcut -d is | |
1382 | equivalent, setting the working directory of the service to the | |
1383 | current working directory of the invoking program. The new --shell | |
1384 | (or just -S) option has been added for invoking the $SHELL of the | |
1385 | caller as a service, and implies --pty --same-dir --wait --collect | |
421e3b45 | 1386 | --service-type=exec. Or in other words, "systemd-run -S" is now the |
6b1ab752 LP |
1387 | quickest way to quickly get an interactive in a fully clean and |
1388 | well-defined system service context. | |
1389 | ||
1390 | * machinectl gained a new verb "import-fs" for importing an OS tree | |
1391 | from a directory. Moreover, when a directory or tarball is imported | |
1392 | and single top-level directory found with the OS itself below the OS | |
1393 | tree is automatically mangled and moved one level up. | |
1394 | ||
421e3b45 ZJS |
1395 | * systemd-importd will no longer set up an implicit btrfs loop-back |
1396 | file system on /var/lib/machines. If one is already set up, it will | |
1397 | continue to be used. | |
6b1ab752 LP |
1398 | |
1399 | * A new generator "systemd-run-generator" has been added. It will | |
1400 | synthesize a unit from one or more program command lines included in | |
1401 | the kernel command line. This is very useful in container managers | |
1402 | for example: | |
1403 | ||
1404 | # systemd-nspawn -i someimage.raw -b systemd.run='"some command line"' | |
1405 | ||
1406 | This will run "systemd-nspawn" on an image, invoke the specified | |
421e3b45 ZJS |
1407 | command line and immediately shut down the container again, returning |
1408 | the command line's exit code. | |
6b1ab752 | 1409 | |
421e3b45 | 1410 | * The block device locking logic is now documented: |
6b1ab752 LP |
1411 | |
1412 | https://systemd.io/BLOCK_DEVICE_LOCKING | |
1413 | ||
1414 | * loginctl and machinectl now optionally output the various tables in | |
1415 | JSON using the --output= switch. It is our intention to add similar | |
1416 | support to systemctl and all other commands. | |
1417 | ||
1418 | * udevadm's query and trigger verb now optionally take a .device unit | |
1419 | name as argument. | |
1420 | ||
1421 | * systemd-udevd's network naming logic now understands a new | |
421e3b45 | 1422 | net.naming-scheme= kernel command line switch, which may be used to |
6b1ab752 LP |
1423 | pick a specific version of the naming scheme. This helps stabilizing |
1424 | interface names even as systemd/udev are updated and the naming logic | |
1425 | is improved. | |
1426 | ||
67081438 LP |
1427 | * sd-id128.h learnt two new auxiliary helpers: sd_id128_is_allf() and |
1428 | SD_ID128_ALLF to test if a 128bit ID is set to all 0xFF bytes, and to | |
1429 | initialize one to all 0xFF. | |
1430 | ||
144d7f1d LP |
1431 | * After loading the SELinux policy systemd will now recursively relabel |
1432 | all files and directories listed in | |
1433 | /run/systemd/relabel-extra.d/*.relabel (which should be simple | |
1434 | newline separated lists of paths) in addition to the ones it already | |
1435 | implicitly relabels in /run, /dev and /sys. After the relabelling is | |
1436 | completed the *.relabel files (and /run/systemd/relabel-extra.d/) are | |
1437 | removed. This is useful to permit initrds (i.e. code running before | |
1438 | the SELinux policy is in effect) to generate files in the host | |
1439 | filesystem safely and ensure that the correct label is applied during | |
1440 | the transition to the host OS. | |
1441 | ||
98a7b55a LP |
1442 | * KERNEL API BREAKAGE: Linux kernel 4.18 changed behaviour regarding |
1443 | mknod() handling in user namespaces. Previously mknod() would always | |
1444 | fail with EPERM in user namespaces. Since 4.18 mknod() will succeed | |
1445 | but device nodes generated that way cannot be opened, and attempts to | |
1446 | open them result in EPERM. This breaks the "graceful fallback" logic | |
1447 | in systemd's PrivateDevices= sand-boxing option. This option is | |
1448 | implemented defensively, so that when systemd detects it runs in a | |
1449 | restricted environment (such as a user namespace, or an environment | |
1450 | where mknod() is blocked through seccomp or absence of CAP_SYS_MKNOD) | |
1451 | where device nodes cannot be created the effect of PrivateDevices= is | |
1452 | bypassed (following the logic that 2nd-level sand-boxing is not | |
1453 | essential if the system systemd runs in is itself already sand-boxed | |
1454 | as a whole). This logic breaks with 4.18 in container managers where | |
1455 | user namespacing is used: suddenly PrivateDevices= succeeds setting | |
1456 | up a private /dev/ file system containing devices nodes — but when | |
1457 | these are opened they don't work. | |
1458 | ||
d238709c | 1459 | At this point it is recommended that container managers utilizing |
98a7b55a LP |
1460 | user namespaces that intend to run systemd in the payload explicitly |
1461 | block mknod() with seccomp or similar, so that the graceful fallback | |
1462 | logic works again. | |
1463 | ||
1464 | We are very sorry for the breakage and the requirement to change | |
1465 | container configurations for newer kernels. It's purely caused by an | |
1466 | incompatible kernel change. The relevant kernel developers have been | |
1467 | notified about this userspace breakage quickly, but they chose to | |
1468 | ignore it. | |
1469 | ||
455027c9 ZJS |
1470 | * PermissionsStartOnly= setting is deprecated (but is still supported |
1471 | for backwards compatibility). The same functionality is provided by | |
1472 | the more flexible "+", "!", and "!!" prefixes to ExecStart= and other | |
1473 | commands. | |
1474 | ||
b4ff3dbb ZJS |
1475 | * $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is not set by |
1476 | pam_systemd anymore. | |
1477 | ||
08e1fe42 ZJS |
1478 | * The naming scheme for network devices was changed to always rename |
1479 | devices, even if they were already renamed by userspace. The "kernel" | |
1480 | policy was changed to only apply as a fallback, if no other naming | |
1481 | policy took effect. | |
1482 | ||
bd36ef0a YW |
1483 | * The requirements to build systemd is bumped to meson-0.46 and |
1484 | python-3.5. | |
1485 | ||
6b1ab752 LP |
1486 | Contributions from: afg, Alan Jenkins, Aleksei Timofeyev, Alexander |
1487 | Filippov, Alexander Kurtz, Alexey Bogdanenko, Andreas Henriksson, | |
1488 | Andrew Jorgensen, Anita Zhang, apnix-uk, Arkan49, Arseny Maslennikov, | |
1489 | asavah, Asbjørn Apeland, aszlig, Bastien Nocera, Ben Boeckel, Benedikt | |
c37e2358 LP |
1490 | Morbach, Benjamin Berg, Bruce Zhang, Carlo Caione, Cedric Viou, Chen |
1491 | Qi, Chris Chiu, Chris Down, Chris Morin, Christian Rebischke, Claudius | |
1492 | Ellsel, Colin Guthrie, dana, Daniel, Daniele Medri, Daniel Kahn | |
1493 | Gillmor, Daniel Rusek, Daniel van Vugt, Dariusz Gadomski, Dave Reisner, | |
1494 | David Anderson, Davide Cavalca, David Leeds, David Malcolm, David | |
1742aae2 ZJS |
1495 | Strauss, David Tardon, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitry Torokhov, dj-kaktus, |
1496 | Dongsu Park, Elias Probst, Emil Soleyman, Erik Kooistra, Ervin Peters, | |
1497 | Evgeni Golov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabrice Fontaine, Faheel Ahmad, | |
1498 | Faizal Luthfi, Felix Yan, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Frank | |
1499 | Schaefer, Frantisek Sumsal, Gautier Husson, Gianluca Boiano, Giuseppe | |
1500 | Scrivano, glitsj16, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Harry Mallon, Harshit | |
1501 | Jain, Helmut Grohne, Henry Tung, Hui Yiqun, imayoda, Insun Pyo, Iwan | |
1502 | Timmer, Jan Janssen, Jan Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
1503 | javitoom, Jérémy Nouhaud, Jeremy Su, Jiuyang Liu, João Paulo Rechi | |
1504 | Vita, Joe Hershberger, Joe Rayhawk, Joerg Behrmann, Joerg Steffens, | |
1505 | Jonas Dorel, Jon Ringle, Josh Soref, Julian Andres Klode, Jun Bo Bi, | |
1506 | Jürg Billeter, Keith Busch, Khem Raj, Kirill Marinushkin, Larry | |
1507 | Bernstone, Lennart Poettering, Lion Yang, Li Song, Lorenz | |
1508 | Hübschle-Schneider, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas Werkmeister, Ludwin Janvier, | |
1509 | Lukáš Nykrýn, Luke Shumaker, mal, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcin | |
1510 | Skarbek, Marco Trevisan (Treviño), Marian Cepok, Mario Hros, Marko | |
1511 | Myllynen, Markus Grimm, Martin Pitt, Martin Sobotka, Martin Wilck, | |
1512 | Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Matthew Leeds, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
1513 | Michael 'pbone' Pobega, Michael Scherer, Michal Koutný, Michal | |
1514 | Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Mike Gilbert, Mike Palmer, Muhammet Kara, Neal | |
1515 | Gompa, Neil Brown, Network Silence, Niklas Tibbling, Nikolas Nyby, | |
1516 | Nogisaka Sadata, Oliver Smith, Patrik Flykt, Pavel Hrdina, Paweł | |
1517 | Szewczyk, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, Ray Strode, Reinhold Mueller, | |
1518 | Renaud Métrich, Roman Gushchin, Ronny Chevalier, Rubén Suárez Alvarez, | |
1519 | Ruixin Bao, RussianNeuroMancer, Ryutaroh Matsumoto, Saleem Rashid, Sam | |
1520 | Morris, Samuel Morris, Sandy Carter, scootergrisen, Sébastien Bacher, | |
1521 | Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shengyao Xue, Shih-Yuan Lee | |
1522 | (FourDollars), Silvio Knizek, Sjoerd Simons, Stasiek Michalski, Stephen | |
1523 | Gallagher, Steven Allen, Steve Ramage, Susant Sahani, Sven Joachim, | |
1524 | Sylvain Plantefève, Tanu Kaskinen, Tejun Heo, Thiago Macieira, Thomas | |
1525 | Blume, Thomas Haller, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tim Ruffing, TJ, Tobias | |
1526 | Jungel, Todd Walton, Tommi Rantala, Tomsod M, Tony Novak, Tore | |
1527 | Anderson, Trevonn, Victor Laskurain, Victor Tapia, Violet Halo, Vojtech | |
1528 | Trefny, welaq, William A. Kennington III, William Douglas, Wyatt Ward, | |
1529 | Xiang Fan, Xi Ruoyao, Xuanwo, Yann E. Morin, YmrDtnJu, Yu Watanabe, | |
1530 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zhang Xianwei, Zsolt Dollenstein | |
1531 | ||
1532 | — Warsaw, 2018-12-21 | |
6b1ab752 | 1533 | |
e8498f82 | 1534 | CHANGES WITH 239: |
019cb3ab SH |
1535 | |
1536 | * NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE NAMING CHANGES: systemd-udevd's "net_id" | |
d69f5282 ZJS |
1537 | builtin will name network interfaces differently than in previous |
1538 | versions for virtual network interfaces created with SR-IOV and NPAR | |
1539 | and for devices where the PCI network controller device does not have | |
1540 | a slot number associated. | |
1541 | ||
1542 | SR-IOV virtual devices are now named based on the name of the parent | |
1543 | interface, with a suffix of "v<N>", where <N> is the virtual device | |
1544 | number. Previously those virtual devices were named as if completely | |
1545 | independent. | |
1546 | ||
1547 | The ninth and later NPAR virtual devices will be named following the | |
1548 | scheme used for the first eight NPAR partitions. Previously those | |
1549 | devices were not renamed and the kernel default (eth<n>) was used. | |
1550 | ||
1551 | "net_id" will also generate names for PCI devices where the PCI | |
1552 | network controller device does not have an associated slot number | |
1553 | itself, but one of its parents does. Previously those devices were | |
1554 | not renamed and the kernel default (eth<n>) was used. | |
019cb3ab | 1555 | |
6e2d744b YW |
1556 | * AF_INET and AF_INET6 are dropped from RestrictAddressFamilies= in |
1557 | systemd-logind.service. Since v235, IPAddressDeny=any has been set to | |
fe903cf4 LP |
1558 | the unit. So, it is expected that the default behavior of |
1559 | systemd-logind is not changed. However, if distribution packagers or | |
1560 | administrators disabled or modified IPAddressDeny= setting by a | |
1561 | drop-in config file, then it may be necessary to update the file to | |
1562 | re-enable AF_INET and AF_INET6 to support network user name services, | |
1563 | e.g. NIS. | |
1564 | ||
1565 | * When the RestrictNamespaces= unit property is specified multiple | |
1566 | times, then the specified types are merged now. Previously, only the | |
1567 | last assignment was used. So, if distribution packagers or | |
1568 | administrators modified the setting by a drop-in config file, then it | |
1569 | may be necessary to update the file. | |
e0eee477 | 1570 | |
1fc83d09 LP |
1571 | * When OnFailure= is used in combination with Restart= on a service |
1572 | unit, then the specified units will no longer be triggered on | |
1573 | failures that result in restarting. Previously, the specified units | |
1574 | would be activated each time the unit failed, even when the unit was | |
1575 | going to be restarted automatically. This behaviour contradicted the | |
1576 | documentation. With this release the code is adjusted to match the | |
1577 | documentation. | |
1578 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
1579 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now print a notice whenever it encounters |
1580 | tmpfiles.d/ lines referencing the /var/run/ directory. It will | |
1581 | recommend reworking them to use the /run/ directory instead (for | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1582 | which /var/run/ is simply a symlinked compatibility alias). This way |
1583 | systemd-tmpfiles can properly detect line conflicts and merge lines | |
1584 | referencing the same file by two paths, without having to access | |
1585 | them. | |
41a4c3ec | 1586 | |
ce55bd5e ZJS |
1587 | * systemctl disable/unmask/preset/preset-all cannot be used with |
1588 | --runtime. Previously this was allowed, but resulted in unintuitive | |
fe903cf4 LP |
1589 | behaviour that wasn't useful. systemctl disable/unmask will now undo |
1590 | both runtime and persistent enablement/masking, i.e. it will remove | |
1591 | any relevant symlinks both in /run and /etc. | |
ce55bd5e | 1592 | |
e01d9e21 LP |
1593 | * Note that all long-running system services shipped with systemd will |
1594 | now default to a system call whitelist (rather than a blacklist, as | |
1595 | before). In particular, systemd-udevd will now enforce one too. For | |
1596 | most cases this should be safe, however downstream distributions | |
1597 | which disabled sandboxing of systemd-udevd (specifically the | |
1598 | MountFlags= setting), might want to disable this security feature | |
1599 | too, as the default whitelisting will prohibit all mount, swap, | |
1600 | reboot and clock changing operations from udev rules. | |
1601 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
1602 | * sd-boot acquired new loader configuration settings to optionally turn |
1603 | off Windows and MacOS boot partition discovery as well as | |
1604 | reboot-into-firmware menu items. It is also able to pick a better | |
1605 | screen resolution for HiDPI systems, and now provides loader | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1606 | configuration settings to change the resolution explicitly. |
1607 | ||
c9299be2 IT |
1608 | * systemd-resolved now supports DNS-over-TLS. It's still |
1609 | turned off by default, use DNSOverTLS=opportunistic to turn it on in | |
c086ce8c LP |
1610 | resolved.conf. We intend to make this the default as soon as couple |
1611 | of additional techniques for optimizing the initial latency caused by | |
1612 | establishing a TLS/TCP connection are implemented. | |
1613 | ||
73c718a9 YW |
1614 | * systemd-resolved.service and systemd-networkd.service now set |
1615 | DynamicUser=yes. The users systemd-resolve and systemd-network are | |
abc291aa LP |
1616 | not created by systemd-sysusers anymore. |
1617 | ||
1618 | NOTE: This has a chance of breaking nss-ldap and similar NSS modules | |
5238e957 | 1619 | that embed a network facing module into any process using getpwuid() |
abc291aa LP |
1620 | or related call: the dynamic allocation of the user ID for |
1621 | systemd-resolved.service means the service manager has to check NSS | |
1622 | if the user name is already taken when forking off the service. Since | |
1623 | the user in the common case won't be defined in /etc/passwd the | |
1624 | lookup is likely to trigger nss-ldap which in turn might use NSS to | |
1625 | ask systemd-resolved for hostname lookups. This will hence result in | |
1626 | a deadlock: a user name lookup in order to start | |
1627 | systemd-resolved.service will result in a host name lookup for which | |
1628 | systemd-resolved.service needs to be started already. There are | |
1629 | multiple ways to work around this problem: pre-allocate the | |
1630 | "systemd-resolve" user on such systems, so that nss-ldap won't be | |
1631 | triggered; or use a different NSS package that doesn't do networking | |
1632 | in-process but provides a local asynchronous name cache; or configure | |
1633 | the NSS package to avoid lookups for UIDs in the range `pkg-config | |
1634 | systemd --variable=dynamicuidmin` … `pkg-config systemd | |
1635 | --variable=dynamicuidmax`, so that it does not consider itself | |
1636 | authoritative for the same UID range systemd allocates dynamic users | |
1637 | from. | |
73c718a9 | 1638 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1639 | * The systemd-resolve tool has been renamed to resolvectl (it also |
1640 | remains available under the old name, for compatibility), and its | |
1641 | interface is now verb-based, similar in style to the other <xyz>ctl | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1642 | tools, such as systemctl or loginctl. |
1643 | ||
75da262a LP |
1644 | * The resolvectl/systemd-resolve tool also provides 'resolvconf' |
1645 | compatibility. It may be symlinked under the 'resolvconf' name, in | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1646 | which case it will take arguments and input compatible with the |
1647 | Debian and FreeBSD resolvconf tool. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1648 | |
1649 | * Support for suspend-then-hibernate has been added, i.e. a sleep mode | |
3f9a0a52 | 1650 | where the system initially suspends, and after a timeout resumes and |
41a4c3ec LP |
1651 | hibernates again. |
1652 | ||
1653 | * networkd's ClientIdentifier= now accepts a new option "duid-only". If | |
1654 | set the client will only send a DUID as client identifier. | |
1655 | ||
1656 | * The nss-systemd glibc NSS module will now enumerate dynamic users and | |
1657 | groups in effect. Previously, it could resolve UIDs/GIDs to user | |
1658 | names/groups and vice versa, but did not support enumeration. | |
1659 | ||
1660 | * journald's Compress= configuration setting now optionally accepts a | |
1661 | byte threshold value. All journal objects larger than this threshold | |
1662 | will be compressed, smaller ones will not. Previously this threshold | |
1663 | was not configurable and set to 512. | |
1664 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
1665 | * A new system.conf setting NoNewPrivileges= is now available which may |
1666 | be used to turn off acquisition of new privileges system-wide | |
1667 | (i.e. set Linux' PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS for PID 1 itself, and thus also | |
1668 | for all its children). Note that turning this option on means setuid | |
1669 | binaries and file system capabilities lose their special powers. | |
1670 | While turning on this option is a big step towards a more secure | |
1671 | system, doing so is likely to break numerous pre-existing UNIX tools, | |
1672 | in particular su and sudo. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1673 | |
1674 | * A new service systemd-time-sync-wait.service has been added. If | |
1675 | enabled it will delay the time-sync.target unit at boot until time | |
bc99dac5 | 1676 | synchronization has been received from the network. This |
41a4c3ec LP |
1677 | functionality is useful on systems lacking a local RTC or where it is |
1678 | acceptable that the boot process shall be delayed by external network | |
1679 | services. | |
1680 | ||
1681 | * When hibernating, systemd will now inform the kernel of the image | |
1682 | write offset, on kernels new enough to support this. This means swap | |
1683 | files should work for hibernation now. | |
1684 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
1685 | * When loading unit files, systemd will now look for drop-in unit files |
1686 | extensions in additional places. Previously, for a unit file name | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1687 | "foo-bar-baz.service" it would look for dropin files in |
1688 | "foo-bar-baz.service.d/*.conf". Now, it will also look in | |
1689 | "foo-bar-.service.d/*.conf" and "foo-.service.d/", i.e. at the | |
1690 | service name truncated after all inner dashes. This scheme allows | |
1691 | writing drop-ins easily that apply to a whole set of unit files at | |
1692 | once. It's particularly useful for mount and slice units (as their | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1693 | naming is prefix based), but is also useful for service and other |
1694 | units, for packages that install multiple unit files at once, | |
41a4c3ec | 1695 | following a strict naming regime of beginning the unit file name with |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1696 | the package's name. Two new specifiers are now supported in unit |
1697 | files to match this: %j and %J are replaced by the part of the unit | |
1698 | name following the last dash. | |
1699 | ||
1700 | * Unit files and other configuration files that support specifier | |
88099359 | 1701 | expansion now understand another three new specifiers: %T and %V will |
5cadf58e | 1702 | resolve to /tmp and /var/tmp respectively, or whatever temporary |
88099359 ZJS |
1703 | directory has been set for the calling user. %E will expand to either |
1704 | /etc (for system units) or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (for user units). | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1705 | |
1706 | * The ExecStart= lines of unit files are no longer required to | |
1707 | reference absolute paths. If non-absolute paths are specified the | |
1708 | specified binary name is searched within the service manager's | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1709 | built-in $PATH, which may be queried with 'systemd-path |
1710 | search-binaries-default'. It's generally recommended to continue to | |
1711 | use absolute paths for all binaries specified in unit files. | |
41a4c3ec | 1712 | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
1713 | * Units gained a new load state "bad-setting", which is used when a |
1714 | unit file was loaded, but contained fatal errors which prevent it | |
ba1dc1a1 LP |
1715 | from being started (for example, a service unit has been defined |
1716 | lacking both ExecStart= and ExecStop= lines). | |
c7f93e28 | 1717 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1718 | * coredumpctl's "gdb" verb has been renamed to "debug", in order to |
1719 | support alternative debuggers, for example lldb. The old name | |
1720 | continues to be available however, for compatibility reasons. Use the | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1721 | new --debugger= switch or the $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER environment variable |
1722 | to pick an alternative debugger instead of the default gdb. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1723 | |
1724 | * systemctl and the other tools will now output escape sequences that | |
1725 | generate proper clickable hyperlinks in various terminal emulators | |
1726 | where useful (for example, in the "systemctl status" output you can | |
1727 | now click on the unit file name to quickly open it in the | |
1728 | editor/viewer of your choice). Note that not all terminal emulators | |
1729 | support this functionality yet, but many do. Unfortunately, the | |
1730 | "less" pager doesn't support this yet, hence this functionality is | |
1731 | currently automatically turned off when a pager is started (which | |
1732 | happens quite often due to auto-paging). We hope to remove this | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1733 | limitation as soon as "less" learns these escape sequences. This new |
1734 | behaviour may also be turned off explicitly with the $SYSTEMD_URLIFY | |
1735 | environment variable. For details on these escape sequences see: | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1736 | https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda |
1737 | ||
1738 | * networkd's .network files now support a new IPv6MTUBytes= option for | |
1739 | setting the MTU used by IPv6 explicitly as well as a new MTUBytes= | |
1740 | option in the [Route] section to configure the MTU to use for | |
1741 | specific routes. It also gained support for configuration of the DHCP | |
1742 | "UserClass" option through the new UserClass= setting. It gained | |
1743 | three new options in the new [CAN] section for configuring CAN | |
1744 | networks. The MULTICAST and ALLMULTI interface flags may now be | |
1745 | controlled explicitly with the new Multicast= and AllMulticast= | |
1746 | settings. | |
1747 | ||
1748 | * networkd will now automatically make use of the kernel's route | |
1749 | expiration feature, if it is available. | |
1750 | ||
5cadf58e ZJS |
1751 | * udevd's .link files now support setting the number of receive and |
1752 | transmit channels, using the RxChannels=, TxChannels=, | |
1753 | OtherChannels=, CombinedChannels= settings. | |
1754 | ||
1755 | * Support for UDPSegmentationOffload= has been removed, given its | |
1756 | limited support in hardware, and waning software support. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1757 | |
1758 | * networkd's .netdev files now support creating "netdevsim" interfaces. | |
1759 | ||
1760 | * PID 1 learnt a new bus call GetUnitByControlGroup() which may be used | |
1761 | to query the unit belonging to a specific kernel control group. | |
1762 | ||
5cadf58e | 1763 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "cat-config", which may be used to |
41a4c3ec LP |
1764 | dump the contents of any configuration file, with all its matching |
1765 | drop-in files added in, and honouring the usual search and masking | |
1766 | logic applied to systemd configuration files. For example use | |
1767 | "systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system.conf" to get the complete | |
1768 | system configuration file of systemd how it would be loaded by PID 1 | |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1769 | itself. Similar to this, various tools such as systemd-tmpfiles or |
1770 | systemd-sysusers, gained a new option "--cat-config", which does the | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1771 | corresponding operation for their own configuration settings. For |
1772 | example, "systemd-tmpfiles --cat-config" will now output the full | |
1773 | list of tmpfiles.d/ lines in place. | |
1774 | ||
704ae536 YW |
1775 | * timedatectl gained three new verbs: "show" shows bus properties of |
1776 | systemd-timedated, "timesync-status" shows the current NTP | |
1777 | synchronization state of systemd-timesyncd, and "show-timesync" | |
1778 | shows bus properties of systemd-timesyncd. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1779 | |
1780 | * systemd-timesyncd gained a bus interface on which it exposes details | |
1781 | about its state. | |
1782 | ||
73c718a9 YW |
1783 | * A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES is now |
1784 | understood by systemd-timedated. It takes a colon-separated list of | |
1785 | unit names of NTP client services. The list is used by | |
1786 | "timedatectl set-ntp". | |
1787 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
1788 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --rlimit= switch for setting initial |
1789 | resource limits for the container payload. There's a new switch | |
5cadf58e | 1790 | --hostname= to explicitly override the container's hostname. A new |
41a4c3ec LP |
1791 | --no-new-privileges= switch may be used to control the |
1792 | PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag for the container payload. A new | |
1793 | --oom-score-adjust= switch controls the OOM scoring adjustment value | |
1794 | for the payload. The new --cpu-affinity= switch controls the CPU | |
1795 | affinity of the container payload. The new --resolv-conf= switch | |
1796 | allows more detailed control of /etc/resolv.conf handling of the | |
5cadf58e | 1797 | container. Similarly, the new --timezone= switch allows more detailed |
41a4c3ec LP |
1798 | control of /etc/localtime handling of the container. |
1799 | ||
5cadf58e | 1800 | * systemd-detect-virt gained a new --list switch, which will print a |
41a4c3ec LP |
1801 | list of all currently known VM and container environments. |
1802 | ||
5cadf58e | 1803 | * Support for "Portable Services" has been added, see |
41a4c3ec | 1804 | doc/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md for details. Currently, the support is still |
5cadf58e ZJS |
1805 | experimental, but this is expected to change soon. Reflecting this |
1806 | experimental state, the "portablectl" binary is not installed into | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1807 | /usr/bin yet. The binary has to be called with the full path |
1808 | /usr/lib/systemd/portablectl instead. | |
1809 | ||
1810 | * journalctl's and systemctl's -o switch now knows a new log output | |
1811 | mode "with-unit". The output it generates is very similar to the | |
1812 | regular "short" mode, but displays the unit name instead of the | |
1813 | syslog tag for each log line. Also, the date is shown with timezone | |
1814 | information. This mode is probably more useful than the classic | |
1815 | "short" output mode for most purposes, except where pixel-perfect | |
1816 | compatibility with classic /var/log/messages formatting is required. | |
1817 | ||
1818 | * A new --dump-bus-properties switch has been added to the systemd | |
1819 | binary, which may be used to dump all supported D-Bus properties. | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
1820 | (Options which are still supported, but are deprecated, are *not* |
1821 | shown.) | |
41a4c3ec | 1822 | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1823 | * sd-bus gained a set of new calls: |
1824 | sd_bus_slot_set_floating()/sd_bus_slot_get_floating() may be used to | |
1825 | enable/disable the "floating" state of a bus slot object, | |
1826 | i.e. whether the slot object pins the bus it is allocated for into | |
1827 | memory or if the bus slot object gets disconnected when the bus goes | |
1828 | away. sd_bus_open_with_description(), | |
1829 | sd_bus_open_user_with_description(), | |
1830 | sd_bus_open_system_with_description() may be used to allocate bus | |
1831 | objects and set their description string already during allocation. | |
1832 | ||
1833 | * sd-event gained support for watching inotify events from the event | |
1834 | loop, in an efficient way, sharing inotify handles between multiple | |
1835 | users. For this a new function sd_event_add_inotify() has been added. | |
1836 | ||
1837 | * sd-event and sd-bus gained support for calling special user-supplied | |
1838 | destructor functions for userdata pointers associated with | |
c7f93e28 ZJS |
1839 | sd_event_source, sd_bus_slot, and sd_bus_track objects. For this new |
1840 | functions sd_bus_slot_set_destroy_callback, | |
1841 | sd_bus_slot_get_destroy_callback, sd_bus_track_set_destroy_callback, | |
1842 | sd_bus_track_get_destroy_callback, | |
1843 | sd_event_source_set_destroy_callback, | |
1844 | sd_event_source_get_destroy_callback have been added. | |
41a4c3ec LP |
1845 | |
1846 | * The "net.ipv4.tcp_ecn" sysctl will now be turned on by default. | |
1847 | ||
1848 | * PID 1 will now automatically reschedule .timer units whenever the | |
5cadf58e | 1849 | local timezone changes. (They previously got rescheduled |
41a4c3ec LP |
1850 | automatically when the system clock changed.) |
1851 | ||
1852 | * New documentation has been added to document cgroups delegation, | |
1853 | portable services and the various code quality tools we have set up: | |
1854 | ||
a8a27374 SK |
1855 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CGROUP_DELEGATION.md |
1856 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md | |
1857 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CODE_QUALITY.md | |
41a4c3ec | 1858 | |
d6906108 LP |
1859 | * The Boot Loader Specification has been added to the source tree. |
1860 | ||
a8a27374 | 1861 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION.md |
d6906108 LP |
1862 | |
1863 | While moving it into our source tree we have updated it and further | |
1864 | changes are now accepted through the usual github PR workflow. | |
1865 | ||
41a4c3ec LP |
1866 | * pam_systemd will now look for PAM userdata fields systemd.memory_max, |
1867 | systemd.tasks_max, systemd.cpu_weight, systemd.io_weight set by | |
1868 | earlier PAM modules. The data in these fields is used to initialize | |
1869 | the session scope's resource properties. Thus external PAM modules | |
1870 | may now configure per-session limits, for example sourced from | |
1871 | external user databases. | |
1872 | ||
1873 | * socket units with Accept=yes will now maintain a "refused" counter in | |
1874 | addition to the existing "accepted" counter, counting connections | |
1875 | refused due to the enforced limits. | |
1876 | ||
1877 | * The "systemd-path search-binaries-default" command may now be use to | |
1878 | query the default, built-in $PATH PID 1 will pass to the services it | |
1879 | manages. | |
1880 | ||
c49a7cbd LP |
1881 | * A new unit file setting PrivateMounts= has been added. It's a boolean |
1882 | option. If enabled the unit's processes are invoked in their own file | |
1883 | system namespace. Note that this behaviour is also implied if any | |
1884 | other file system namespacing options (such as PrivateTmp=, | |
1885 | PrivateDevices=, ProtectSystem=, …) are used. This option is hence | |
1886 | primarily useful for services that do not use any of the other file | |
1887 | system namespacing options. One such service is systemd-udevd.service | |
5238e957 | 1888 | where this is now used by default. |
c49a7cbd | 1889 | |
57ab451e ZJS |
1890 | * ConditionSecurity= gained a new value "uefi-secureboot" that is true |
1891 | when the system is booted in UEFI "secure mode". | |
1892 | ||
c7668c1c LP |
1893 | * A new unit "system-update-pre.target" is added, which defines an |
1894 | optional synchronization point for offline system updates, as | |
1895 | implemented by the pre-existing "system-update.target" unit. It | |
1896 | allows ordering services before the service that executes the actual | |
1897 | update process in a generic way. | |
1898 | ||
f26ad321 ZJS |
1899 | * Systemd now emits warnings whenever .include syntax is used. |
1900 | ||
41a4c3ec | 1901 | Contributions from: Adam Duskett, Alan Jenkins, Alessandro Casale, |
ec53d48c | 1902 | Alexander Kurtz, Alex Gartrell, Anssi Hannula, Arnaud Rebillout, Brian |
bb6f071f LP |
1903 | J. Murrell, Bruno Vernay, Chris Lamb, Chris Lesiak, Christian Brauner, |
1904 | Christian Hesse, Christian Rebischke, Colin Guthrie, Daniel Dao, Daniel | |
1905 | Lin, Danylo Korostil, Davide Cavalca, David Tardon, Dimitri John | |
1906 | Ledkov, Dmitriy Geels, Douglas Christman, Elia Geretto, emelenas, Emil | |
1907 | Velikov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Feng Sun, Filipe | |
1908 | Brandenburger, Franck Bui, futpib, Giuseppe Scrivano, Guillem Jover, | |
1909 | guixxx, Hannes Reinecke, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Henrique Dante de | |
1910 | Almeida, Hiram van Paassen, Ian Miell, Igor Gnatenko, Ivan Shapovalov, | |
1911 | Iwan Timmer, James Cowgill, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Jared Kazimir, | |
1912 | Jérémy Rosen, João Paulo Rechi Vita, Joost Heitbrink, Jui-Chi Ricky | |
1913 | Liang, Jürg Billeter, Kai-Heng Feng, Karol Augustin, Kay Sievers, | |
1914 | Krzysztof Nowicki, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lennart Poettering, Leonard König, | |
1915 | Long Li, Luca Boccassi, Lucas Werkmeister, Marcel Hoppe, Marc | |
1916 | Kleine-Budde, Mario Limonciello, Martin Jansa, Martin Wilck, Mathieu | |
1917 | Malaterre, Matteo F. Vescovi, Matthew McGinn, Matthias-Christian Ott, | |
1918 | Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Prokop, Michal Koutný, Michal | |
1919 | Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Mikhail Kasimov, Milan Broz, Milan Pässler, | |
1920 | Mladen Pejaković, Muhammet Kara, Nicolas Boichat, Omer Katz, Paride | |
1921 | Legovini, Paul Menzel, Paul Milliken, Pavel Hrdina, Peter A. Bigot, | |
1922 | Peter D'Hoye, Peter Hutterer, Peter Jones, Philip Sequeira, Philip | |
61d0025d | 1923 | Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Radostin Stoyanov, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo, |
bb6f071f LP |
1924 | Ronny Chevalier, Rosen Penev, Rubén Suárez Alvarez, Ryan Gonzalez, |
1925 | Salvo Tomaselli, Sebastian Reichel, Sergey Ptashnick, Sergio Lindo | |
1926 | Mansilla, Stefan Schweter, Stephen Hemminger, Stuart Hayes, Susant | |
1927 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Jungel, | |
1928 | Tomasz Torcz, Vito Caputo, Will Dietz, Will Thompson, Wim van Mourik, | |
1929 | Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
41a4c3ec | 1930 | |
e8498f82 | 1931 | — Berlin, 2018-06-22 |
41a4c3ec | 1932 | |
c657bff1 | 1933 | CHANGES WITH 238: |
e0c46a73 LP |
1934 | |
1935 | * The MemoryAccounting= unit property now defaults to on. After | |
1936 | discussions with the upstream control group maintainers we learnt | |
1937 | that the negative impact of cgroup memory accounting on current | |
1938 | kernels is finally relatively minimal, so that it should be safe to | |
444d5863 ZJS |
1939 | enable this by default without affecting system performance. Besides |
1940 | memory accounting only task accounting is turned on by default, all | |
1941 | other forms of resource accounting (CPU, IO, IP) remain off for now, | |
1942 | because it's not clear yet that their impact is small enough to move | |
1943 | from opt-in to opt-out. We recommend downstreams to leave memory | |
07a35e84 | 1944 | accounting on by default if kernel 4.14 or higher is primarily |
444d5863 ZJS |
1945 | used. On very resource constrained systems or when support for old |
1946 | kernels is a necessity, -Dmemory-accounting-default=false can be used | |
1947 | to revert this change. | |
e0c46a73 | 1948 | |
313c32c3 ZJS |
1949 | * rpm scriptlets to update the udev hwdb and rules (%udev_hwdb_update, |
1950 | %udev_rules_update) and the journal catalog (%journal_catalog_update) | |
1951 | from the upgrade scriptlets of individual packages now do nothing. | |
1952 | Transfiletriggers have been added which will perform those updates | |
1953 | once at the end of the transaction. | |
1954 | ||
1955 | Similar transfiletriggers have been added to execute any sysctl.d | |
1956 | and binfmt.d rules. Thus, it should be unnecessary to provide any | |
1957 | scriptlets to execute this configuration from package installation | |
1958 | scripts. | |
1959 | ||
1960 | * systemd-sysusers gained a mode where the configuration to execute is | |
1961 | specified on the command line, but this configuration is not executed | |
1962 | directly, but instead it is merged with the configuration on disk, | |
1963 | and the result is executed. This is useful for package installation | |
1964 | scripts which want to create the user before installing any files on | |
1965 | disk (in case some of those files are owned by that user), while | |
1966 | still allowing local admin overrides. | |
1967 | ||
07a35e84 | 1968 | This functionality is exposed to rpm scriptlets through a new |
313c32c3 ZJS |
1969 | %sysusers_create_package macro. Old %sysusers_create and |
1970 | %sysusers_create_inline macros are deprecated. | |
1971 | ||
1972 | A transfiletrigger for sysusers.d configuration is now installed, | |
07a35e84 | 1973 | which means that it should be unnecessary to call systemd-sysusers from |
313c32c3 ZJS |
1974 | package installation scripts, unless the package installs any files |
1975 | owned by those newly-created users, in which case | |
1976 | %sysusers_create_package should be used. | |
1977 | ||
1978 | * Analogous change has been done for systemd-tmpfiles: it gained a mode | |
1979 | where the command-line configuration is merged with the configuration | |
1980 | on disk. This is exposed as the new %tmpfiles_create_package macro, | |
1981 | and %tmpfiles_create is deprecated. A transfiletrigger is installed | |
1982 | for tmpfiles.d, hence it should be unnecessary to call systemd-tmpfiles | |
1983 | from package installation scripts. | |
1984 | ||
1985 | * sysusers.d configuration for a user may now also specify the group | |
1986 | number, in addition to the user number ("u username 123:456"), or | |
1987 | without the user number ("u username -:456"). | |
1988 | ||
1989 | * Configution items for systemd-sysusers can now be specified as | |
1990 | positional arguments when the new --inline switch is used. | |
1991 | ||
1992 | * The login shell of users created through sysusers.d may now be | |
1993 | specified (previously, it was always /bin/sh for root and | |
1994 | /sbin/nologin for other users). | |
1995 | ||
1996 | * systemd-analyze gained a new --global switch to look at global user | |
1997 | configuration. It also gained a unit-paths verb to list the unit load | |
1998 | paths that are compiled into systemd (which can be used with | |
1999 | --systemd, --user, or --global). | |
2000 | ||
2001 | * udevadm trigger gained a new --settle/-w option to wait for any | |
2002 | triggered events to finish (but just those, and not any other events | |
2003 | which are triggered meanwhile). | |
2004 | ||
2005 | * The action that systemd-logind takes when the lid is closed and the | |
2006 | machine is connected to external power can now be configured using | |
2007 | HandleLidSwitchExternalPower= in logind.conf. Previously, this action | |
2008 | was determined by HandleLidSwitch=, and, for backwards compatibility, | |
2009 | is still is, if HandleLidSwitchExternalPower= is not explicitly set. | |
2010 | ||
2011 | * journalctl will periodically call sd_journal_process() to make it | |
2012 | resilient against inotify queue overruns when journal files are | |
2013 | rotated very quickly. | |
2014 | ||
2015 | * Two new functions in libsystemd — sd_bus_get_n_queued_read and | |
2016 | sd_bus_get_n_queued_write — may be used to check the number of | |
2017 | pending bus messages. | |
2018 | ||
2019 | * systemd gained a new | |
2020 | org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.AttachProcessesToUnit dbus call | |
2021 | which can be used to migrate foreign processes to scope and service | |
2022 | units. The primary user for this new API is systemd itself: the | |
2023 | systemd --user instance uses this call of the systemd --system | |
2024 | instance to migrate processes if it itself gets the request to | |
2025 | migrate processes and the kernel refuses this due to access | |
2026 | restrictions. Thanks to this "systemd-run --scope --user …" works | |
4e1dfa45 | 2027 | again in pure cgroup v2 environments when invoked from the user |
313c32c3 ZJS |
2028 | session scope. |
2029 | ||
2030 | * A new TemporaryFileSystem= setting can be used to mask out part of | |
2031 | the real file system tree with tmpfs mounts. This may be combined | |
2032 | with BindPaths= and BindReadOnlyPaths= to hide files or directories | |
2033 | not relevant to the unit, while still allowing some paths lower in | |
2034 | the tree to be accessed. | |
2035 | ||
2036 | ProtectHome=tmpfs may now be used to hide user home and runtime | |
2037 | directories from units, in a way that is mostly equivalent to | |
2038 | "TemporaryFileSystem=/home /run/user /root". | |
2039 | ||
2040 | * Non-service units are now started with KeyringMode=shared by default. | |
2041 | This means that mount and swapon and other mount tools have access | |
2042 | to keys in the main keyring. | |
2043 | ||
2044 | * /sys/fs/bpf is now mounted automatically. | |
2045 | ||
2046 | * QNX virtualization is now detected by systemd-detect-virt and may | |
2047 | be used in ConditionVirtualization=. | |
2048 | ||
2049 | * IPAccounting= may now be enabled also for slice units. | |
2050 | ||
2051 | * A new -Dsplit-bin= build configuration switch may be used to specify | |
2052 | whether bin and sbin directories are merged, or if they should be | |
2053 | included separately in $PATH and various listings of executable | |
2054 | directories. The build configuration scripts will try to autodetect | |
2055 | the proper values of -Dsplit-usr= and -Dsplit-bin= based on build | |
2056 | system, but distributions are encouraged to configure this | |
2057 | explicitly. | |
2058 | ||
2059 | * A new -Dok-color= build configuration switch may be used to change | |
2060 | the colour of "OK" status messages. | |
2061 | ||
2062 | * UPGRADE ISSUE: serialization of units using JoinsNamespaceOf= with | |
2063 | PrivateNetwork=yes was buggy in previous versions of systemd. This | |
2064 | means that after the upgrade and daemon-reexec, any such units must | |
2065 | be restarted. | |
2066 | ||
2067 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: as announced in the NEWS for 237, systemd-tmpfiles | |
2068 | will not exclude read-only files owned by root from cleanup. | |
2069 | ||
c657bff1 ZJS |
2070 | Contributions from: Alan Jenkins, Alexander F Rødseth, Alexis Jeandet, |
2071 | Andika Triwidada, Andrei Gherzan, Ansgar Burchardt, antizealot1337, | |
2072 | Batuhan Osman Taşkaya, Beniamino Galvani, Bill Yodlowsky, Caio Marcelo | |
2073 | de Oliveira Filho, CuBiC, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mouritzen, Daniel | |
2074 | Rusek, Davide Cavalca, Dimitri John Ledkov, Douglas Christman, Evgeny | |
2075 | Vereshchagin, Faalagorn, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, futpib, | |
2076 | Giacomo Longo, Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Hans de Goede, Hermann Gausterer, | |
2077 | Iago López Galeiras, Jakub Filak, Jan Synacek, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
2078 | Javier Martinez Canillas, Jérémy Rosen, Lennart Poettering, Lucas | |
2079 | Werkmeister, Mao Huang, Marco Gulino, Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, | |
2080 | MilhouseVH, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ), Oleander Reis, Olof Mogren, | |
2081 | Patrick Uiterwijk, Peter Hutterer, Peter Portante, Piotr Drąg, Robert | |
2082 | Antoni Buj Gelonch, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shuang Liu, Simon | |
2083 | Fowler, SjonHortensius, snorreflorre, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
2084 | Plantefève, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Vito Caputo, Yu Watanabe, | |
2085 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић (Marko M. Kostić) | |
2086 | ||
2087 | — Warsaw, 2018-03-05 | |
2088 | ||
82c8e3e6 | 2089 | CHANGES WITH 237: |
2b0c59ba MP |
2090 | |
2091 | * Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got | |
2092 | mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these | |
2093 | keycodes are not recognized by any major desktop. They now produce | |
2094 | Up/Down key events so that they can be used for scrolling. | |
2095 | ||
49e87292 LP |
2096 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: systemd-tmpfiles' "f" lines changed behaviour |
2097 | slightly: previously, if an argument was specified for lines of this | |
2098 | type (i.e. the right-most column was set) this string was appended to | |
2099 | existing files each time systemd-tmpfiles was run. This behaviour was | |
2100 | different from what the documentation said, and not particularly | |
2101 | useful, as repeated systemd-tmpfiles invocations would not be | |
2102 | idempotent and grow such files without bounds. With this release | |
15c5594b ZJS |
2103 | behaviour has been altered to match what the documentation says: |
2104 | lines of this type only have an effect if the indicated files don't | |
2105 | exist yet, and only then the argument string is written to the file. | |
49e87292 | 2106 | |
82c8e3e6 LP |
2107 | * FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY: In systemd v238 we intend to slightly change |
2108 | systemd-tmpfiles behaviour: previously, read-only files owned by root | |
2109 | were always excluded from the file "aging" algorithm (i.e. the | |
2110 | automatic clean-up of directories like /tmp based on | |
2111 | atime/mtime/ctime). We intend to drop this restriction, and age files | |
2112 | by default even when owned by root and read-only. This behaviour was | |
2113 | inherited from older tools, but there have been requests to remove | |
2114 | it, and it's not obvious why this restriction was made in the first | |
2115 | place. Please speak up now, if you are aware of software that reqires | |
2116 | this behaviour, otherwise we'll remove the restriction in v238. | |
2117 | ||
95894b91 LP |
2118 | * A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_OFFLINE is now understood by |
2119 | systemctl. It takes a boolean argument. If on, systemctl assumes it | |
2120 | operates on an "offline" OS tree, and will not attempt to talk to the | |
2121 | service manager. Previously, this mode was implicitly enabled if a | |
2122 | chroot() environment was detected, and this new environment variable | |
2123 | now provides explicit control. | |
2124 | ||
1a0cd2c7 ZJS |
2125 | * .path and .socket units may now be created transiently, too. |
2126 | Previously only service, mount, automount and timer units were | |
95894b91 LP |
2127 | supported as transient units. The systemd-run tool has been updated |
2128 | to expose this new functionality, you may hence use it now to bind | |
2129 | arbitrary commands to path or socket activation on-the-fly from the | |
1a0cd2c7 ZJS |
2130 | command line. Moreover, almost all properties are now exposed for the |
2131 | unit types that already supported transient operation. | |
95894b91 LP |
2132 | |
2133 | * The systemd-mount command gained support for a new --owner= parameter | |
2134 | which takes a user name, which is then resolved and included in uid= | |
2135 | and gid= mount options string of the file system to mount. | |
2136 | ||
2137 | * A new unit condition ConditionControlGroupController= has been added | |
2138 | that checks whether a specific cgroup controller is available. | |
2139 | ||
2140 | * Unit files, udev's .link files, and systemd-networkd's .netdev and | |
2141 | .network files all gained support for a new condition | |
2142 | ConditionKernelVersion= for checking against specific kernel | |
2143 | versions. | |
2144 | ||
2145 | * In systemd-networkd, the [IPVLAN] section in .netdev files gained | |
6cddc792 | 2146 | support for configuring device flags in the Flags= setting. In the |
95894b91 LP |
2147 | same files, the [Tunnel] section gained support for configuring |
2148 | AllowLocalRemote=. The [Route] section in .network files gained | |
2149 | support for configuring InitialCongestionWindow=, | |
2150 | InitialAdvertisedReceiveWindow= and QuickAck=. The [DHCP] section now | |
2151 | understands RapidCommit=. | |
2152 | ||
2153 | * systemd-networkd's DHCPv6 support gained support for Prefix | |
2154 | Delegation. | |
2155 | ||
2156 | * sd-bus gained support for a new "watch-bind" feature. When this | |
2157 | feature is enabled, an sd_bus connection may be set up to connect to | |
2158 | an AF_UNIX socket in the file system as soon as it is created. This | |
2159 | functionality is useful for writing early-boot services that | |
2160 | automatically connect to the system bus as soon as it is started, | |
2161 | without ugly time-based polling. systemd-networkd and | |
2162 | systemd-resolved have been updated to make use of this | |
2163 | functionality. busctl exposes this functionality in a new | |
2164 | --watch-bind= command line switch. | |
2165 | ||
2166 | * sd-bus will now optionally synthesize a local "Connected" signal as | |
2167 | soon as a D-Bus connection is set up fully. This message mirrors the | |
2168 | already existing "Disconnected" signal which is synthesized when the | |
2169 | connection is terminated. This signal is generally useful but | |
2170 | particularly handy in combination with the "watch-bind" feature | |
2171 | described above. Synthesizing of this message has to be requested | |
2172 | explicitly through the new API call sd_bus_set_connected_signal(). In | |
2173 | addition a new call sd_bus_is_ready() has been added that checks | |
caf2a2d8 | 2174 | whether a connection is fully set up (i.e. between the "Connected" and |
95894b91 LP |
2175 | "Disconnected" signals). |
2176 | ||
2177 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_request_name_async() and | |
2178 | sd_bus_release_name_async() for asynchronously registering bus | |
2179 | names. Similar, there is now sd_bus_add_match_async() for installing | |
2180 | a signal match asynchronously. All of systemd's own services have | |
2181 | been updated to make use of these calls. Doing these operations | |
2182 | asynchronously has two benefits: it reduces the risk of deadlocks in | |
2183 | case of cyclic dependencies between bus services, and it speeds up | |
2184 | service initialization since synchronization points for bus | |
2185 | round-trips are removed. | |
2186 | ||
2187 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_match_signal() and | |
2188 | sd_bus_match_signal_async(), which are similar to sd_bus_add_match() | |
2189 | and sd_bus_add_match_async() but instead of taking a D-Bus match | |
2190 | string take match fields as normal function parameters. | |
2191 | ||
2192 | * sd-bus gained two new calls sd_bus_set_sender() and | |
2193 | sd_bus_message_set_sender() for setting the sender name of outgoing | |
2194 | messages (either for all outgoing messages or for just one specific | |
2195 | one). These calls are only useful in direct connections as on | |
2196 | brokered connections the broker fills in the sender anyway, | |
2197 | overwriting whatever the client filled in. | |
2198 | ||
2199 | * sd-event gained a new pseudo-handle that may be specified on all API | |
2200 | calls where an "sd_event*" object is expected: SD_EVENT_DEFAULT. When | |
2201 | used this refers to the default event loop object of the calling | |
2202 | thread. Note however that this does not implicitly allocate one — | |
6cddc792 CR |
2203 | which has to be done prior by using sd_event_default(). Similarly |
2204 | sd-bus gained three new pseudo-handles SD_BUS_DEFAULT, | |
95894b91 LP |
2205 | SD_BUS_DEFAULT_USER, SD_BUS_DEFAULT_SYSTEM that may be used to refer |
2206 | to the default bus of the specified type of the calling thread. Here | |
2207 | too this does not implicitly allocate bus connection objects, this | |
2208 | has to be done prior with sd_bus_default() and friends. | |
2209 | ||
2210 | * sd-event gained a new call pair | |
6cddc792 CR |
2211 | sd_event_source_{get|set}_io_fd_own(). This may be used to request |
2212 | automatic closure of the file descriptor an IO event source watches | |
95894b91 LP |
2213 | when the event source is destroyed. |
2214 | ||
2215 | * systemd-networkd gained support for natively configuring WireGuard | |
2216 | connections. | |
2217 | ||
6cddc792 CR |
2218 | * In previous versions systemd synthesized user records both for the |
2219 | "nobody" (UID 65534) and "root" (UID 0) users in nss-systemd and | |
2220 | internally. In order to simplify distribution-wide renames of the | |
95894b91 LP |
2221 | "nobody" user (like it is planned in Fedora: nfsnobody → nobody), a |
2222 | new transitional flag file has been added: if | |
2223 | /etc/systemd/dont-synthesize-nobody exists synthesizing of the 65534 | |
2224 | user and group record within the systemd codebase is disabled. | |
2225 | ||
2226 | * systemd-notify gained a new --uid= option for selecting the source | |
2227 | user/UID to use for notification messages sent to the service | |
2228 | manager. | |
2229 | ||
31751f7e | 2230 | * journalctl gained a new --grep= option to list only entries in which |
e6501af8 ZJS |
2231 | the message matches a certain pattern. By default matching is case |
2232 | insensitive if the pattern is lowercase, and case sensitive | |
2233 | otherwise. Option --case-sensitive=yes|no can be used to override | |
2234 | this an specify case sensitivity or case insensitivity. | |
2235 | ||
56a29112 | 2236 | * There's now a "systemd-analyze service-watchdogs" command for printing |
508058c9 | 2237 | the current state of the service runtime watchdog, and optionally |
56a29112 | 2238 | enabling or disabling the per-service watchdogs system-wide if given a |
508058c9 LP |
2239 | boolean argument (i.e. the concept you configure in WatchdogSec=), for |
2240 | debugging purposes. There's also a kernel command line option | |
56a29112 | 2241 | systemd.service_watchdogs= for controlling the same. |
508058c9 LP |
2242 | |
2243 | * Two new "log-level" and "log-target" options for systemd-analyze were | |
bc99dac5 | 2244 | added that merge the now deprecated get-log-level, set-log-level and |
508058c9 LP |
2245 | get-log-target, set-log-target pairs. The deprecated options are still |
2246 | understood for backwards compatibility. The two new options print the | |
2247 | current value when no arguments are given, and set them when a | |
56a29112 | 2248 | level/target is given as an argument. |
95894b91 | 2249 | |
508058c9 LP |
2250 | * sysusers.d's "u" lines now optionally accept both a UID and a GID |
2251 | specification, separated by a ":" character, in order to create users | |
2252 | where UID and GID do not match. | |
2253 | ||
95894b91 | 2254 | Contributions from: Adam Duskett, Alan Jenkins, Alexander Kuleshov, |
508058c9 LP |
2255 | Alexis Deruelle, Andrew Jeddeloh, Armin Widegreen, Batuhan Osman |
2256 | Taşkaya, Björn Esser, bleep_blop, Bruce A. Johnson, Chris Down, Clinton | |
2257 | Roy, Colin Walters, Daniel Rusek, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitry Rozhkov, | |
2258 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Ewout van Mansom, Felipe Sateler, Franck Bui, | |
2259 | Frantisek Sumsal, George Gaydarov, Gianluca Boiano, Hans-Christian | |
2260 | Noren Egtvedt, Hans de Goede, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jan Alexander | |
2261 | Steffens, Jan Klötzke, Jason A. Donenfeld, jdkbx, Jérémy Rosen, | |
2262 | Jerónimo Borque, John Lin, John Paul Herold, Jonathan Rudenberg, Jörg | |
2263 | Thalheim, Ken (Bitsko) MacLeod, Larry Bernstone, Lennart Poettering, | |
2264 | Lucas Werkmeister, Maciej S. Szmigiero, Marek Čermák, Martin Pitt, | |
2265 | Mathieu Malaterre, Matthew Thode, Matthias-Christian Ott, Max Harmathy, | |
2266 | Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Michał | |
2267 | Szczepański, Mike Gilbert, Nathaniel McCallum, Nicolas Chauvet, Olaf | |
2268 | Hering, Olivier Schwander, Patrik Flykt, Paul Cercueil, Peter Hutterer, | |
2269 | Piotr Drąg, Raphael Vogelgsang, Reverend Homer, Robert Kolchmeyer, | |
2270 | Samuel Dionne-Riel, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Susant Sahani, | |
2271 | Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Thomas Huth, Tomasz | |
2272 | Bachorski, Vladislav Vishnyakov, Wieland Hoffmann, Yu Watanabe, Zachary | |
2273 | Winnerman, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Дамјан Георгиевски, Дилян | |
2274 | Палаузов | |
2275 | ||
2276 | — Brno, 2018-01-28 | |
2b0c59ba | 2277 | |
a1b2c92d | 2278 | CHANGES WITH 236: |
195b943d | 2279 | |
89780840 ZJS |
2280 | * The modprobe.d/ drop-in for the bonding.ko kernel module introduced |
2281 | in v235 has been extended to also set the dummy.ko module option | |
2282 | numdummies=0, preventing the kernel from automatically creating | |
2283 | dummy0. All dummy interfaces must now be explicitly created. | |
195b943d | 2284 | |
3925496a LP |
2285 | * Unknown '%' specifiers in configuration files are now rejected. This |
2286 | applies to units and tmpfiles.d configuration. Any percent characters | |
2287 | that are followed by a letter or digit that are not supposed to be | |
2288 | interpreted as the beginning of a specifier should be escaped by | |
2289 | doubling ("%%"). (So "size=5%" is still accepted, as well as | |
2290 | "size=5%,foo=bar", but not "LABEL=x%y%z" since %y and %z are not | |
2291 | valid specifiers today.) | |
751223fe | 2292 | |
e6b2d948 | 2293 | * systemd-resolved now maintains a new dynamic |
89780840 ZJS |
2294 | /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf compatibility file. It is |
2295 | recommended to make /etc/resolv.conf a symlink to it. This file | |
2296 | points at the systemd-resolved stub DNS 127.0.0.53 resolver and | |
2297 | includes dynamically acquired search domains, achieving more correct | |
2298 | DNS resolution by software that bypasses local DNS APIs such as NSS. | |
e6b2d948 | 2299 | |
67eb5b38 LP |
2300 | * The "uaccess" udev tag has been dropped from /dev/kvm and |
2301 | /dev/dri/renderD*. These devices now have the 0666 permissions by | |
2302 | default (but this may be changed at build-time). /dev/dri/renderD* | |
2303 | will now be owned by the "render" group along with /dev/kfd. | |
2304 | ||
89780840 ZJS |
2305 | * "DynamicUser=yes" has been enabled for systemd-timesyncd.service, |
2306 | systemd-journal-gatewayd.service and | |
2307 | systemd-journal-upload.service. This means "nss-systemd" must be | |
2308 | enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf to ensure the UIDs assigned to these | |
2309 | services are resolved properly. | |
67eb5b38 | 2310 | |
3925496a LP |
2311 | * In /etc/fstab two new mount options are now understood: |
2312 | x-systemd.makefs and x-systemd.growfs. The former has the effect that | |
2313 | the configured file system is formatted before it is mounted, the | |
2314 | latter that the file system is resized to the full block device size | |
2315 | after it is mounted (i.e. if the file system is smaller than the | |
2316 | partition it resides on, it's grown). This is similar to the fsck | |
2317 | logic in /etc/fstab, and pulls in systemd-makefs@.service and | |
2318 | systemd-growfs@.service as necessary, similar to | |
2319 | systemd-fsck@.service. Resizing is currently only supported on ext4 | |
2320 | and btrfs. | |
2321 | ||
67eb5b38 LP |
2322 | * In systemd-networkd, the IPv6 RA logic now optionally may announce |
2323 | DNS server and domain information. | |
2324 | ||
2325 | * Support for the LUKS2 on-disk format for encrypted partitions has | |
2326 | been added. This requires libcryptsetup2 during compilation and | |
2327 | runtime. | |
2328 | ||
89780840 | 2329 | * The systemd --user instance will now signal "readiness" when its |
67eb5b38 LP |
2330 | basic.target unit has been reached, instead of when the run queue ran |
2331 | empty for the first time. | |
2332 | ||
8ea2dcb0 ZJS |
2333 | * Tmpfiles.d with user configuration are now also supported. |
2334 | systemd-tmpfiles gained a new --user switch, and snippets placed in | |
2335 | ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/ and corresponding directories will be | |
2336 | executed by systemd-tmpfiles --user running in the new | |
2337 | systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service and systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service | |
2338 | running in the user session. | |
2339 | ||
2340 | * Unit files and tmpfiles.d snippets learnt three new % specifiers: | |
2341 | %S resolves to the top-level state directory (/var/lib for the system | |
2342 | instance, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for the user instance), %C resolves to the | |
2343 | top-level cache directory (/var/cache for the system instance, | |
2344 | $XDG_CACHE_HOME for the user instance), %L resolves to the top-level | |
2345 | logs directory (/var/log for the system instance, | |
67eb5b38 | 2346 | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/log/ for the user instance). This matches the |
8ea2dcb0 | 2347 | existing %t specifier, that resolves to the top-level runtime |
67eb5b38 LP |
2348 | directory (/run for the system instance, and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for the |
2349 | user instance). | |
2350 | ||
2351 | * journalctl learnt a new parameter --output-fields= for limiting the | |
2352 | set of journal fields to output in verbose and JSON output modes. | |
2353 | ||
2354 | * systemd-timesyncd's configuration file gained a new option | |
89780840 ZJS |
2355 | RootDistanceMaxSec= for setting the maximum root distance of servers |
2356 | it'll use, as well as the new options PollIntervalMinSec= and | |
2357 | PollIntervalMaxSec= to tweak the minimum and maximum poll interval. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
2358 | |
2359 | * bootctl gained a new command "list" for listing all available boot | |
89780840 | 2360 | menu items on systems that follow the boot loader specification. |
67eb5b38 LP |
2361 | |
2362 | * systemctl gained a new --dry-run switch that shows what would be done | |
2363 | instead of doing it, and is currently supported by the shutdown and | |
2364 | sleep verbs. | |
2365 | ||
e9ad86d5 | 2366 | * ConditionSecurity= can now detect the TOMOYO security module. |
67eb5b38 LP |
2367 | |
2368 | * Unit file [Install] sections are now also respected in unit drop-in | |
89780840 | 2369 | files. This is intended to be used by drop-ins under /usr/lib/. |
67eb5b38 | 2370 | |
89780840 | 2371 | * systemd-firstboot may now also set the initial keyboard mapping. |
67eb5b38 | 2372 | |
89780840 ZJS |
2373 | * Udev "changed" events for devices which are exposed as systemd |
2374 | .device units are now propagated to units specified in | |
2375 | ReloadPropagatedFrom= as reload requests. | |
67eb5b38 | 2376 | |
89780840 ZJS |
2377 | * If a udev device has a SYSTEMD_WANTS= property containing a systemd |
2378 | unit template name (i.e. a name in the form of 'foobar@.service', | |
2379 | without the instance component between the '@' and - the '.'), then | |
2380 | the escaped sysfs path of the device is automatically used as the | |
2381 | instance. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
2382 | |
2383 | * SystemCallFilter= in unit files has been extended so that an "errno" | |
2384 | can be specified individually for each system call. Example: | |
2385 | SystemCallFilter=~uname:EILSEQ. | |
2386 | ||
2387 | * The cgroup delegation logic has been substantially updated. Delegate= | |
2388 | now optionally takes a list of controllers (instead of a boolean, as | |
2389 | before), which lists the controllers to delegate at least. | |
2390 | ||
89780840 | 2391 | * The networkd DHCPv6 client now implements the FQDN option (RFC 4704). |
67eb5b38 | 2392 | |
89780840 ZJS |
2393 | * A new LogLevelMax= setting configures the maximum log level any |
2394 | process of the service may log at (i.e. anything with a lesser | |
2395 | priority than what is specified is automatically dropped). A new | |
2396 | LogExtraFields= setting allows configuration of additional journal | |
2397 | fields to attach to all log records generated by any of the unit's | |
2398 | processes. | |
67eb5b38 | 2399 | |
89780840 ZJS |
2400 | * New StandardInputData= and StandardInputText= settings along with the |
2401 | new option StandardInput=data may be used to configure textual or | |
2402 | binary data that shall be passed to the executed service process via | |
2403 | standard input, encoded in-line in the unit file. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
2404 | |
2405 | * StandardInput=, StandardOutput= and StandardError= may now be used to | |
2406 | connect stdin/stdout/stderr of executed processes directly with a | |
2407 | file or AF_UNIX socket in the file system, using the new "file:" option. | |
2408 | ||
89780840 ZJS |
2409 | * A new unit file option CollectMode= has been added, that allows |
2410 | tweaking the garbage collection logic for units. It may be used to | |
2411 | tell systemd to garbage collect units that have failed automatically | |
2412 | (normally it only GCs units that exited successfully). systemd-run | |
2413 | and systemd-mount expose this new functionality with a new -G option. | |
2414 | ||
67eb5b38 LP |
2415 | * "machinectl bind" may now be used to bind mount non-directories |
2416 | (i.e. regularfiles, devices, fifos, sockets). | |
2417 | ||
2418 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "calendar" for validating and | |
2419 | testing calendar time specifications to use for OnCalendar= in timer | |
2420 | units. Besides validating the expression it will calculate the next | |
2421 | time the specified expression would elapse. | |
2422 | ||
2423 | * In addition to the pre-existing FailureAction= unit file setting | |
89780840 ZJS |
2424 | there's now SuccessAction=, for configuring a shutdown action to |
2425 | execute when a unit completes successfully. This is useful in | |
2426 | particular inside containers that shall terminate after some workload | |
2427 | has been completed. Also, both options are now supported for all unit | |
2428 | types, not just services. | |
67eb5b38 LP |
2429 | |
2430 | * networkds's IP rule support gained two new options | |
dd014eeb | 2431 | IncomingInterface= and OutgoingInterface= for configuring the incoming |
67eb5b38 LP |
2432 | and outgoing interfaces of configured rules. systemd-networkd also |
2433 | gained support for "vxcan" network devices. | |
2434 | ||
2435 | * networkd gained a new setting RequiredForOnline=, taking a | |
2436 | boolean. If set, systemd-wait-online will take it into consideration | |
2437 | when determining that the system is up, otherwise it will ignore the | |
2438 | interface for this purpose. | |
2439 | ||
2440 | * The sd_notify() protocol gained support for a new operation: with | |
2441 | FDSTOREREMOVE=1 file descriptors may be removed from the per-service | |
2442 | store again, ahead of POLLHUP or POLLERR when they are removed | |
2443 | anyway. | |
2444 | ||
f09eb768 LP |
2445 | * A new document doc/UIDS-GIDS.md has been added to the source tree, |
2446 | that documents the UID/GID range and assignment assumptions and | |
3925496a LP |
2447 | requirements of systemd. |
2448 | ||
2449 | * The watchdog device PID 1 will ping may now be configured through the | |
2450 | WatchdogDevice= configuration file setting, or by setting the | |
2451 | systemd.watchdog_service= kernel commandline option. | |
2452 | ||
2453 | * systemd-resolved's gained support for registering DNS-SD services on | |
2454 | the local network using MulticastDNS. Services may either be | |
2455 | registered by dropping in a .dnssd file in /etc/systemd/dnssd/ (or | |
2456 | the same dir below /run, /usr/lib), or through its D-Bus API. | |
2457 | ||
a327431b DB |
2458 | * The sd_notify() protocol can now with EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC=microsecond |
2459 | extend the effective start, runtime, and stop time. The service must | |
2460 | continue to send EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC within the period specified to | |
2461 | prevent the service manager from making the service as timedout. | |
2462 | ||
ea2a3c9e LP |
2463 | * systemd-resolved's DNSSEC support gained support for RFC 8080 |
2464 | (Ed25519 keys and signatures). | |
2465 | ||
a1b2c92d LP |
2466 | * The systemd-resolve command line tool gained a new set of options |
2467 | --set-dns=, --set-domain=, --set-llmnr=, --set-mdns=, --set-dnssec=, | |
2468 | --set-nta= and --revert to configure per-interface DNS configuration | |
2469 | dynamically during runtime. It's useful for pushing DNS information | |
2470 | into systemd-resolved from DNS hook scripts that various interface | |
2471 | managing software supports (such as pppd). | |
2472 | ||
2473 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-namespace-path= command line | |
2474 | option, which may be used to make a container join an existing | |
2475 | network namespace, by specifying a path to a "netns" file. | |
2476 | ||
3925496a LP |
2477 | Contributions from: Alan Jenkins, Alan Robertson, Alessandro Ghedini, |
2478 | Andrew Jeddeloh, Antonio Rojas, Ari, asavah, bleep_blop, Carsten | |
2479 | Strotmann, Christian Brauner, Christian Hesse, Clinton Roy, Collin | |
ea2a3c9e | 2480 | Eggert, Cong Wang, Daniel Black, Daniel Lockyer, Daniel Rusek, Dimitri |
a1b2c92d LP |
2481 | John Ledkov, Dmitry Rozhkov, Dongsu Park, Edward A. James, Evgeny |
2482 | Vereshchagin, Florian Klink, Franck Bui, Gwendal Grignou, Hans de | |
2483 | Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Ikey Doherty, | |
2484 | Jakub Wilk, Jérémy Rosen, Jiahui Xie, John Lin, José Bollo, Josef | |
2485 | Andersson, juga0, Krzysztof Nowicki, Kyle Walker, Lars Karlitski, Lars | |
2486 | Kellogg-Stedman, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, | |
2487 | Luca Bruno, Lucas Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Lukáš Říha, Lukasz | |
2488 | Rubaszewski, Maciej S. Szmigiero, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcus Folkesson, | |
2489 | Martin Steuer, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Matija Skala, | |
2490 | Matthias-Christian Ott, Max Resch, Michael Biebl, Michael Vogt, Michal | |
2491 | Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, Neil Brown, Olaf | |
2492 | Hering, Ondrej Kozina, Patrik Flykt, Patryk Kocielnik, Peter Hutterer, | |
2493 | Piotr Drąg, Razvan Cojocaru, Robin McCorkell, Roland Hieber, Saran | |
2494 | Tunyasuvunakool, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Shuang Liu, Simon | |
2495 | Arlott, Simon Peeters, Stanislav Angelovič, Stefan Agner, Susant | |
2496 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Tiago Salem | |
2497 | Herrmann, Tinu Weber, Tom Stellard, Topi Miettinen, Torsten Hilbrich, | |
2498 | Vito Caputo, Vladislav Vishnyakov, WaLyong Cho, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
2499 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeal Jagannatha | |
67eb5b38 | 2500 | |
ea2a3c9e | 2501 | — Berlin, 2017-12-14 |
3754abc5 | 2502 | |
582faeb4 DJL |
2503 | CHANGES WITH 235: |
2504 | ||
2bcbffd6 LP |
2505 | * INCOMPATIBILITY: systemd-logind.service and other long-running |
2506 | services now run inside an IPv4/IPv6 sandbox, prohibiting them any IP | |
2507 | communication with the outside. This generally improves security of | |
2508 | the system, and is in almost all cases a safe and good choice, as | |
23d37367 | 2509 | these services do not and should not provide any network-facing |
2bcbffd6 LP |
2510 | functionality. However, systemd-logind uses the glibc NSS API to |
2511 | query the user database. This creates problems on systems where NSS | |
2512 | is set up to directly consult network services for user database | |
2513 | lookups. In particular, this creates incompatibilities with the | |
2514 | "nss-nis" module, which attempts to directly contact the NIS/YP | |
2515 | network servers it is configured for, and will now consistently | |
2516 | fail. In such cases, it is possible to turn off IP sandboxing for | |
2517 | systemd-logind.service (set IPAddressDeny= in its [Service] section | |
2518 | to the empty string, via a .d/ unit file drop-in). Downstream | |
2519 | distributions might want to update their nss-nis packaging to include | |
2520 | such a drop-in snippet, accordingly, to hide this incompatibility | |
2521 | from the user. Another option is to make use of glibc's nscd service | |
2522 | to proxy such network requests through a privilege-separated, minimal | |
2523 | local caching daemon, or to switch to more modern technologies such | |
2524 | sssd, whose NSS hook-ups generally do not involve direct network | |
2525 | access. In general, we think it's definitely time to question the | |
2526 | implementation choices of nss-nis, i.e. whether it's a good idea | |
2527 | today to embed a network-facing loadable module into all local | |
2528 | processes that need to query the user database, including the most | |
2529 | trivial and benign ones, such as "ls". For more details about | |
2530 | IPAddressDeny= see below. | |
2531 | ||
fccf5419 LP |
2532 | * A new modprobe.d drop-in is now shipped by default that sets the |
2533 | bonding module option max_bonds=0. This overrides the kernel default, | |
2534 | to avoid conflicts and ambiguity as to whether or not bond0 should be | |
2535 | managed by systemd-networkd or not. This resolves multiple issues | |
2536 | with bond0 properties not being applied, when bond0 is configured | |
2537 | with systemd-networkd. Distributors may choose to not package this, | |
2538 | however in that case users will be prevented from correctly managing | |
2539 | bond0 interface using systemd-networkd. | |
582faeb4 | 2540 | |
ef5a8cb1 | 2541 | * systemd-analyze gained new verbs "get-log-level" and "get-log-target" |
21723f53 ZJS |
2542 | which print the logging level and target of the system manager. They |
2543 | complement the existing "set-log-level" and "set-log-target" verbs | |
2544 | used to change those values. | |
ef5a8cb1 | 2545 | |
fccf5419 LP |
2546 | * journald.conf gained a new boolean setting ReadKMsg= which defaults |
2547 | to on. If turned off kernel log messages will not be read by | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2548 | systemd-journald or included in the logs. It also gained a new |
2549 | setting LineMax= for configuring the maximum line length in | |
2550 | STDOUT/STDERR log streams. The new default for this value is 48K, up | |
2551 | from the previous hardcoded 2048. | |
fccf5419 | 2552 | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2553 | * A new unit setting RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= has been added, which |
2554 | allows more detailed control of what to do with a runtime directory | |
2555 | configured with RuntimeDirectory= (i.e. a directory below /run or | |
2556 | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) after a unit is stopped. | |
fccf5419 LP |
2557 | |
2558 | * The RuntimeDirectory= setting for units gained support for creating | |
2559 | deeper subdirectories below /run or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, instead of just | |
2560 | one top-level directory. | |
2561 | ||
2562 | * Units gained new options StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, | |
2563 | LogsDirectory= and ConfigurationDirectory= which are closely related | |
2564 | to RuntimeDirectory= but manage per-service directories below | |
21723f53 | 2565 | /var/lib, /var/cache, /var/log and /etc. By making use of them it is |
fccf5419 LP |
2566 | possible to write unit files which when activated automatically gain |
2567 | properly owned service specific directories in these locations, thus | |
2568 | making unit files self-contained and increasing compatibility with | |
2569 | stateless systems and factory reset where /etc or /var are | |
2570 | unpopulated at boot. Matching these new settings there's also | |
2571 | StateDirectoryMode=, CacheDirectoryMode=, LogsDirectoryMode=, | |
2572 | ConfigurationDirectoryMode= for configuring the access mode of these | |
75dfbbac LP |
2573 | directories. These settings are particularly useful in combination |
2574 | with DynamicUser=yes as they provide secure, properly-owned, | |
2575 | writable, and stateful locations for storage, excluded from the | |
2576 | sandbox that such services live in otherwise. | |
fccf5419 LP |
2577 | |
2578 | * Automake support has been removed from this release. systemd is now | |
2579 | Meson-only. | |
2580 | ||
2581 | * systemd-journald will now aggressively cache client metadata during | |
2582 | runtime, speeding up log write performance under pressure. This comes | |
2583 | at a small price though: as much of the metadata is read | |
2584 | asynchronously from /proc/ (and isn't implicitly attached to log | |
2585 | datagrams by the kernel, like UID/GID/PID/SELinux are) this means the | |
2586 | metadata stored alongside a log entry might be slightly | |
2587 | out-of-date. Previously it could only be slightly newer than the log | |
2588 | message. The time window is small however, and given that the kernel | |
2589 | is unlikely to be improved anytime soon in this regard, this appears | |
2590 | acceptable to us. | |
2591 | ||
2592 | * nss-myhostname/systemd-resolved will now by default synthesize an | |
2593 | A/AAAA resource record for the "_gateway" hostname, pointing to the | |
2594 | current default IP gateway. Previously it did that for the "gateway" | |
2595 | name, hampering adoption, as some distributions wanted to leave that | |
2596 | host name open for local use. The old behaviour may still be | |
2597 | requested at build time. | |
2598 | ||
2599 | * systemd-networkd's [Address] section in .network files gained a new | |
2600 | Scope= setting for configuring the IP address scope. The [Network] | |
2601 | section gained a new boolean setting ConfigureWithoutCarrier= that | |
2602 | tells systemd-networkd to ignore link sensing when configuring the | |
2603 | device. The [DHCP] section gained a new Anonymize= boolean option for | |
2604 | turning on a number of options suggested in RFC 7844. A new | |
2605 | [RoutingPolicyRule] section has been added for configuring the IP | |
2606 | routing policy. The [Route] section has gained support for a new | |
2607 | Type= setting which permits configuring | |
2608 | blackhole/unreachable/prohibit routes. | |
2609 | ||
2610 | * The [VRF] section in .netdev files gained a new Table= setting for | |
2611 | configuring the routing table to use. The [Tunnel] section gained a | |
2612 | new Independent= boolean field for configuring tunnels independent of | |
2613 | an underlying network interface. The [Bridge] section gained a new | |
2614 | GroupForwardMask= option for configuration of propagation of link | |
2615 | local frames between bridge ports. | |
2616 | ||
2617 | * The WakeOnLan= setting in .link files gained support for a number of | |
2618 | new modes. A new TCP6SegmentationOffload= setting has been added for | |
2619 | configuring TCP/IPv6 hardware segmentation offload. | |
2620 | ||
2621 | * The IPv6 RA sender implementation may now optionally send out RDNSS | |
21723f53 | 2622 | and RDNSSL records to supply DNS configuration to peers. |
fccf5419 LP |
2623 | |
2624 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for a new --system-call-filter= command | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2625 | line option for adding and removing entries in the default system |
2626 | call filter it applies. Moreover systemd-nspawn has been changed to | |
fccf5419 LP |
2627 | implement a system call whitelist instead of a blacklist. |
2628 | ||
2629 | * systemd-run gained support for a new --pipe command line option. If | |
2630 | used the STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR file descriptors passed to systemd-run | |
2631 | are directly passed on to the activated transient service | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2632 | executable. This allows invoking arbitrary processes as systemd |
2633 | services (for example to take benefit of dependency management, | |
2634 | accounting management, resource management or log management that is | |
2635 | done automatically for services) — while still allowing them to be | |
fccf5419 LP |
2636 | integrated in a classic UNIX shell pipeline. |
2637 | ||
2638 | * When a service sends RELOAD=1 via sd_notify() and reload propagation | |
2639 | using ReloadPropagationTo= is configured, a reload is now propagated | |
2640 | to configured units. (Previously this was only done on explicitly | |
2641 | requested reloads, using "systemctl reload" or an equivalent | |
2642 | command.) | |
2643 | ||
2644 | * For each service unit a restart counter is now kept: it is increased | |
2645 | each time the service is restarted due to Restart=, and may be | |
2646 | queried using "systemctl show -p NRestarts …". | |
2647 | ||
44898c53 LP |
2648 | * New system call filter groups @aio, @sync, @chown, @setuid, @memlock, |
2649 | @signal and @timer have been added, for usage with SystemCallFilter= | |
fccf5419 LP |
2650 | in unit files and the new --system-call-filter= command line option |
2651 | of systemd-nspawn (see above). | |
2652 | ||
2653 | * ExecStart= lines in unit files gained two new modifiers: when a | |
2654 | command line is prefixed with "!" the command will be executed as | |
2655 | configured, except for the credentials applied by | |
2656 | setuid()/setgid()/setgroups(). It is very similar to the pre-existing | |
2657 | "+", but does still apply namespacing options unlike "+". There's | |
2658 | also "!!" now, which is mostly identical, but becomes a NOP on | |
2659 | systems that support ambient capabilities. This is useful to write | |
2660 | unit files that work with ambient capabilities where possible but | |
2661 | automatically fall back to traditional privilege dropping mechanisms | |
2662 | on systems where this is not supported. | |
2663 | ||
2664 | * ListenNetlink= settings in socket units now support RDMA netlink | |
2665 | sockets. | |
2666 | ||
2667 | * A new unit file setting LockPersonality= has been added which permits | |
2668 | locking down the chosen execution domain ("personality") of a service | |
2669 | during runtime. | |
2670 | ||
2671 | * A new special target "getty-pre.target" has been added, which is | |
2672 | ordered before all text logins, and may be used to order services | |
21723f53 | 2673 | before textual logins acquire access to the console. |
fccf5419 LP |
2674 | |
2675 | * systemd will now attempt to load the virtio-rng.ko kernel module very | |
2676 | early on if a VM environment supporting this is detected. This should | |
2677 | improve entropy during early boot in virtualized environments. | |
2678 | ||
2679 | * A _netdev option is now supported in /etc/crypttab that operates in a | |
2680 | similar way as the same option in /etc/fstab: it permits configuring | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2681 | encrypted devices that need to be ordered after the network is up. |
2682 | Following this logic, two new special targets | |
fccf5419 | 2683 | remote-cryptsetup-pre.target and remote-cryptsetup.target have been |
21723f53 ZJS |
2684 | added that are to cryptsetup.target what remote-fs.target and |
2685 | remote-fs-pre.target are to local-fs.target. | |
fccf5419 LP |
2686 | |
2687 | * Service units gained a new UnsetEnvironment= setting which permits | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2688 | unsetting specific environment variables for services that are |
2689 | normally passed to it (for example in order to mask out locale | |
fccf5419 LP |
2690 | settings for specific services that can't deal with it). |
2691 | ||
2692 | * Units acquired a new boolean option IPAccounting=. When turned on, IP | |
2693 | traffic accounting (packet count as well as byte count) is done for | |
2694 | the service, and shown as part of "systemctl status" or "systemd-run | |
2695 | --wait". | |
2696 | ||
2697 | * Service units acquired two new options IPAddressAllow= and | |
2698 | IPAddressDeny=, taking a list of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and masks, | |
2699 | for configuring a simple IP access control list for all sockets of | |
2700 | the unit. These options are available also on .slice and .socket | |
2701 | units, permitting flexible access list configuration for individual | |
2702 | services as well as groups of services (as defined by a slice unit), | |
2703 | including system-wide. Note that IP ACLs configured this way are | |
2704 | enforced on every single IPv4 and IPv6 socket created by any process | |
2705 | of the service unit, and apply to ingress as well as egress traffic. | |
2706 | ||
21723f53 | 2707 | * If CPUAccounting= or IPAccounting= is turned on for a unit a new |
608f70e6 | 2708 | structured log message is generated each time the unit is stopped, |
fccf5419 LP |
2709 | containing information about the consumed resources of this |
2710 | invocation. | |
2711 | ||
2712 | * A new setting KeyringMode= has been added to unit files, which may be | |
2713 | used to control how the kernel keyring is set up for executed | |
2714 | processes. | |
2715 | ||
e06fafb2 LP |
2716 | * "systemctl poweroff", "systemctl reboot", "systemctl halt", |
2717 | "systemctl kexec" and "systemctl exit" are now always asynchronous in | |
2718 | behaviour (that is: these commands return immediately after the | |
21723f53 ZJS |
2719 | operation was enqueued instead of waiting for the operation to |
2720 | complete). Previously, "systemctl poweroff" and "systemctl reboot" | |
e06fafb2 LP |
2721 | were asynchronous on systems using systemd-logind (i.e. almost |
2722 | always, and like they were on sysvinit), and the other three commands | |
2723 | were unconditionally synchronous. With this release this is cleaned | |
2724 | up, and callers will see the same asynchronous behaviour on all | |
2725 | systems for all five operations. | |
2726 | ||
2727 | * systemd-logind gained new Halt() and CanHalt() bus calls for halting | |
2728 | the system. | |
2729 | ||
fccf5419 LP |
2730 | * .timer units now accept calendar specifications in other timezones |
2731 | than UTC or the local timezone. | |
2732 | ||
f6e64b78 | 2733 | * The tmpfiles snippet var.conf has been changed to create |
21723f53 ZJS |
2734 | /var/log/btmp with access mode 0660 instead of 0600. It was owned by |
2735 | the "utmp" group already, and it appears to be generally understood | |
2736 | that members of "utmp" can modify/flush the utmp/wtmp/lastlog/btmp | |
2737 | databases. Previously this was implemented correctly for all these | |
2738 | databases excepts btmp, which has been opened up like this now | |
2739 | too. Note that while the other databases are world-readable | |
2740 | (i.e. 0644), btmp is not and remains more restrictive. | |
f6e64b78 | 2741 | |
d55b0463 LP |
2742 | * The systemd-resolve tool gained a new --reset-server-features |
2743 | switch. When invoked like this systemd-resolved will forget | |
2744 | everything it learnt about the features supported by the configured | |
2745 | upstream DNS servers, and restarts the feature probing logic on the | |
cf84484a LP |
2746 | next resolver look-up for them at the highest feature level |
2747 | again. | |
2748 | ||
2749 | * The status dump systemd-resolved sends to the logs upon receiving | |
2750 | SIGUSR1 now also includes information about all DNS servers it is | |
2751 | configured to use, and the features levels it probed for them. | |
d55b0463 | 2752 | |
fccf5419 LP |
2753 | Contributions from: Abdó Roig-Maranges, Alan Jenkins, Alexander |
2754 | Kuleshov, Andreas Rammhold, Andrew Jeddeloh, Andrew Soutar, Ansgar | |
76451c1d LP |
2755 | Burchardt, Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin Berg, Benjamin Robin, Charles |
2756 | Huber, Christian Hesse, Daniel Berrange, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Daniel | |
2757 | Mack, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Șerbănescu, Davide Cavalca, Dimitri John | |
2758 | Ledkov, Diogo Pereira, Djalal Harouni, Dmitriy Geels, Dmitry Torokhov, | |
2759 | ettavolt, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabio Kung, Felipe Sateler, Franck Bui, | |
2760 | Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Insun Pyo, Ivan Kurnosov, Ivan Shapovalov, | |
2761 | Jakub Wilk, Jan Synacek, Jason Gunthorpe, Jeremy Bicha, Jérémy Rosen, | |
2762 | John Lin, jonasBoss, Jonathan Lebon, Jonathan Teh, Jon Ringle, Jörg | |
2763 | Thalheim, Jouke Witteveen, juga0, Justin Capella, Justin Michaud, | |
2764 | Kai-Heng Feng, Lennart Poettering, Lion Yang, Luca Bruno, Lucas | |
2765 | Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Marcel Hollerbach, Marcus Lundblad, Martin | |
2766 | Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Grzeschik, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, | |
2767 | Neil Brown, Nicolas Iooss, Patrik Flykt, pEJipE, Piotr Drąg, Russell | |
2768 | Stuart, S. Fan, Shengyao Xue, Stefan Pietsch, Susant Sahani, Tejun Heo, | |
2769 | Thomas Miller, Thomas Sailer, Tobias Hunger, Tomasz Pala, Tom | |
2770 | Gundersen, Tommi Rantala, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, userwithuid, | |
2771 | Vasilis Liaskovitis, Vito Caputo, WaLyong Cho, William Douglas, Xiang | |
2772 | Fan, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
fccf5419 | 2773 | |
c1719d8b | 2774 | — Berlin, 2017-10-06 |
fccf5419 | 2775 | |
4b4da299 LP |
2776 | CHANGES WITH 234: |
2777 | ||
2778 | * Meson is now supported as build system in addition to Automake. It is | |
2779 | our plan to remove Automake in one of our next releases, so that | |
2780 | Meson becomes our exclusive build system. Hence, please start using | |
2781 | the Meson build system in your downstream packaging. There's plenty | |
2782 | of documentation around how to use Meson, the extremely brief | |
2783 | summary: | |
2784 | ||
2785 | ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install | |
2786 | ||
2787 | becomes: | |
2788 | ||
2789 | meson build && ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install | |
2790 | ||
2791 | * Unit files gained support for a new JobRunningTimeoutUSec= setting, | |
2792 | which permits configuring a timeout on the time a job is | |
2793 | running. This is particularly useful for setting timeouts on jobs for | |
2794 | .device units. | |
2795 | ||
2796 | * Unit files gained two new options ConditionUser= and ConditionGroup= | |
2797 | for conditionalizing units based on the identity of the user/group | |
2798 | running a systemd user instance. | |
2799 | ||
2800 | * systemd-networkd now understands a new FlowLabel= setting in the | |
2801 | [VXLAN] section of .network files, as well as a Priority= in | |
2802 | [Bridge], GVRP= + MVRP= + LooseBinding= + ReorderHeader= in [VLAN] | |
2803 | and GatewayOnlink= + IPv6Preference= + Protocol= in [Route]. It also | |
2804 | gained support for configuration of GENEVE links, and IPv6 address | |
2805 | labels. The [Network] section gained the new IPv6ProxyNDP= setting. | |
2806 | ||
9f09a95a | 2807 | * .link files now understand a new Port= setting. |
4b4da299 LP |
2808 | |
2809 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP support gained support for DHCP option 119 | |
2810 | (domain search list). | |
2811 | ||
2812 | * systemd-networkd gained support for serving IPv6 address ranges using | |
bc99dac5 | 2813 | the Router Advertisement protocol. The new .network configuration |
4b4da299 LP |
2814 | section [IPv6Prefix] may be used to configure the ranges to |
2815 | serve. This is implemented based on a new, minimal, native server | |
2816 | implementation of RA. | |
2817 | ||
2818 | * journalctl's --output= switch gained support for a new parameter | |
2819 | "short-iso-precise" for a mode where timestamps are shown as precise | |
2820 | ISO date values. | |
2821 | ||
2822 | * systemd-udevd's "net_id" builtin may now generate stable network | |
2823 | interface names from IBM PowerVM VIO devices as well as ACPI platform | |
2824 | devices. | |
2825 | ||
2826 | * MulticastDNS support in systemd-resolved may now be explicitly | |
2827 | enabled/disabled using the new MulticastDNS= configuration file | |
2828 | option. | |
2829 | ||
2830 | * systemd-resolved may now optionally use libidn2 instead of the libidn | |
7f7ab228 ZJS |
2831 | for processing internationalized domain names. Support for libidn2 |
2832 | should be considered experimental and should not be enabled by | |
2833 | default yet. | |
4b4da299 LP |
2834 | |
2835 | * "machinectl pull-tar" and related call may now do verification of | |
2836 | downloaded images using SUSE-style .sha256 checksum files in addition | |
2837 | to the already existing support for validating using Ubuntu-style | |
2838 | SHA256SUMS files. | |
2839 | ||
2840 | * sd-bus gained support for a new sd_bus_message_appendv() call which | |
2841 | is va_list equivalent of sd_bus_message_append(). | |
2842 | ||
2843 | * sd-boot gained support for validating images using SHIM/MOK. | |
2844 | ||
2845 | * The SMACK code learnt support for "onlycap". | |
2846 | ||
2847 | * systemd-mount --umount is now much smarter in figuring out how to | |
2848 | properly unmount a device given its mount or device path. | |
5486a31d ZJS |
2849 | |
2850 | * The code to call libnss_dns as a fallback from libnss_resolve when | |
2851 | the communication with systemd-resolved fails was removed. This | |
2852 | fallback was redundant and interfered with the [!UNAVAIL=return] | |
2853 | suffix. See nss-resolve(8) for the recommended configuration. | |
2854 | ||
9f09a95a ZJS |
2855 | * systemd-logind may now be restarted without losing state. It stores |
2856 | the file descriptors for devices it manages in the system manager | |
38d93385 | 2857 | using the FDSTORE= mechanism. Please note that further changes in |
9f09a95a ZJS |
2858 | other components may be required to make use of this (for example |
2859 | Xorg has code to listen for stops of systemd-logind and terminate | |
2860 | itself when logind is stopped or restarted, in order to avoid using | |
2861 | stale file descriptors for graphical devices, which is now | |
2862 | counterproductive and must be reverted in order for restarts of | |
2863 | systemd-logind to be safe. See | |
2864 | https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.) | |
2865 | ||
d271c5d3 | 2866 | * All kernel-install plugins are called with the environment variable |
9d8813b3 | 2867 | KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by |
d271c5d3 ZJS |
2868 | /etc/machine-id. If the machine ID could not be determined, |
2869 | $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID will be empty. Plugins should not put | |
2870 | anything in the entry directory (passed as the second argument) if | |
5238e957 | 2871 | $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID is empty. For backwards compatibility, a |
d271c5d3 ZJS |
2872 | temporary directory is passed as the entry directory and removed |
2873 | after all the plugins exit. | |
9d8813b3 | 2874 | |
184d2c15 | 2875 | Contributions from: Adrian Heine né Lang, Aggelos Avgerinos, Alexander |
ac172e52 LP |
2876 | Kurtz, Alexandros Frantzis, Alexey Brodkin, Alex Lu, Amir Pakdel, Amir |
2877 | Yalon, Anchor Cat, Anthony Parsons, Bastien Nocera, Benjamin Gilbert, | |
2878 | Benjamin Robin, Boucman, Charles Plessy, Chris Chiu, Chris Lamb, | |
2879 | Christian Brauner, Christian Hesse, Colin Walters, Daniel Drake, | |
184d2c15 LP |
2880 | Danielle Church, Daniel Molkentin, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Wang, Davide |
2881 | Cavalca, David Herrmann, David Michael, Dax Kelson, Dimitri John | |
2882 | Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, Dušan Kazik, Elias Probst, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
2883 | Federico Di Pierro, Felipe Sateler, Felix Zhang, Franck Bui, Gary | |
ac172e52 LP |
2884 | Tierney, George McCollister, Giedrius Statkevičius, Hans de Goede, |
2885 | hecke, Hendrik Westerberg, Hristo Venev, Ian Wienand, Insun Pyo, Ivan | |
2886 | Shapovalov, James Cowgill, James Hemsing, Janne Heß, Jan Synacek, Jason | |
2887 | Reeder, João Paulo Rechi Vita, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jörg | |
2888 | Thalheim, Josef Andersson, Josef Gajdusek, Julian Mehne, Kai Krakow, | |
2889 | Krzysztof Jackiewicz, Lars Karlitski, Lennart Poettering, Lluís Gili, | |
2890 | Lucas Werkmeister, Lukáš Nykrýn, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
2891 | Marcin Bachry, Marcus Cooper, Mark Stosberg, Martin Pitt, Matija Skala, | |
2892 | Matt Clarkson, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Greiner, Matthijs van Duin, | |
2893 | Max Resch, Michael Biebl, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar, Michal | |
2894 | Soltys, Michal Suchanek, Mike Gilbert, Nate Clark, Nathaniel R. Lewis, | |
2895 | Neil Brown, Nikolai Kondrashov, Pascal S. de Kloe, Pat Riehecky, Patrik | |
2896 | Flykt, Paul Kocialkowski, Peter Hutterer, Philip Withnall, Piotr | |
2897 | Szydełko, Rafael Fontenelle, Ray Strode, Richard Maw, Roelf Wichertjes, | |
2898 | Ronny Chevalier, Sarang S. Dalal, Sjoerd Simons, slodki, Stefan | |
2899 | Schweter, Susant Sahani, Ted Wood, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, Thomas | |
184d2c15 LP |
2900 | H. P. Andersen, Timothée Ravier, Tobias Jungel, Tobias Stoeckmann, Tom |
2901 | Gundersen, Tom Yan, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, | |
ac172e52 LP |
2902 | userwithuid, Vito Caputo, Waldemar Brodkorb, WaLyong Cho, Yu, Li-Yu, |
2903 | Yusuke Nojima, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Дамјан | |
2904 | Георгиевски | |
4b4da299 | 2905 | |
ac172e52 | 2906 | — Berlin, 2017-07-12 |
4b4da299 | 2907 | |
a2b53448 | 2908 | CHANGES WITH 233: |
d08ee7cb | 2909 | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2910 | * The "hybrid" control group mode has been modified to improve |
2911 | compatibility with "legacy" cgroups-v1 setups. Specifically, the | |
2912 | "hybrid" setup of /sys/fs/cgroup is now pretty much identical to | |
2913 | "legacy" (including /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd as "name=systemd" named | |
2914 | cgroups-v1 hierarchy), the only externally visible change being that | |
2915 | the cgroups-v2 hierarchy is also mounted, to | |
2916 | /sys/fs/cgroup/unified. This should provide a large degree of | |
2917 | compatibility with "legacy" cgroups-v1, while taking benefit of the | |
2918 | better management capabilities of cgroups-v2. | |
2919 | ||
2920 | * The default control group setup mode may be selected both a boot-time | |
2921 | via a set of kernel command line parameters (specifically: | |
2922 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy= and | |
2923 | systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=), as well as a compile-time | |
2924 | default selected on the configure command line | |
2925 | (--with-default-hierarchy=). The upstream default is "hybrid" | |
2926 | (i.e. the cgroups-v1 + cgroups-v2 mixture discussed above) now, but | |
2927 | this will change in a future systemd version to be "unified" (pure | |
2928 | cgroups-v2 mode). The third option for the compile time option is | |
2929 | "legacy", to enter pure cgroups-v1 mode. We recommend downstream | |
2930 | distributions to default to "hybrid" mode for release distributions, | |
2931 | starting with v233. We recommend "unified" for development | |
2932 | distributions (specifically: distributions such as Fedora's rawhide) | |
2933 | as that's where things are headed in the long run. Use "legacy" for | |
2934 | greatest stability and compatibility only. | |
2935 | ||
2936 | * Note one current limitation of "unified" and "hybrid" control group | |
2937 | setup modes: the kernel currently does not permit the systemd --user | |
2938 | instance (i.e. unprivileged code) to migrate processes between two | |
2939 | disconnected cgroup subtrees, even if both are managed and owned by | |
2940 | the user. This effectively means "systemd-run --user --scope" doesn't | |
2941 | work when invoked from outside of any "systemd --user" service or | |
2942 | scope. Specifically, it is not supported from session scopes. We are | |
2943 | working on fixing this in a future systemd version. (See #3388 for | |
2944 | further details about this.) | |
2945 | ||
fb7c4eff MG |
2946 | * DBus policy files are now installed into /usr rather than /etc. Make |
2947 | sure your system has dbus >= 1.9.18 running before upgrading to this | |
2948 | version, or override the install path with --with-dbuspolicydir= . | |
2949 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2950 | * All python scripts shipped with systemd (specifically: the various |
2951 | tests written in Python) now require Python 3. | |
2952 | ||
d60c5270 | 2953 | * systemd unit tests can now run standalone (without the source or |
4dfe64f8 ZJS |
2954 | build directories), and can be installed into /usr/lib/systemd/tests/ |
2955 | with 'make install-tests'. | |
2956 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
2957 | * Note that from this version on, CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH, |
2958 | CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC and CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 need to be enabled in the | |
2959 | kernel. | |
2960 | ||
2961 | * Support for the %c, %r, %R specifiers in unit files has been | |
2962 | removed. Specifiers are not supposed to be dependent on configuration | |
2963 | in the unit file itself (so that they resolve the same regardless | |
2964 | where used in the unit files), but these specifiers were influenced | |
2965 | by the Slice= option. | |
2966 | ||
5cfc0a84 LP |
2967 | * The shell invoked by debug-shell.service now defaults to /bin/sh in |
2968 | all cases. If distributions want to use a different shell for this | |
2969 | purpose (for example Fedora's /sbin/sushell) they need to specify | |
2970 | this explicitly at configure time using --with-debug-shell=. | |
2971 | ||
2bcc3309 FB |
2972 | * The confirmation spawn prompt has been reworked to offer the |
2973 | following choices: | |
2974 | ||
b0eb2944 | 2975 | (c)ontinue, proceed without asking anymore |
dd6f9ac0 | 2976 | (D)ump, show the state of the unit |
2bcc3309 | 2977 | (f)ail, don't execute the command and pretend it failed |
d172b175 | 2978 | (h)elp |
eedf223a | 2979 | (i)nfo, show a short summary of the unit |
56fde33a | 2980 | (j)obs, show jobs that are in progress |
2bcc3309 FB |
2981 | (s)kip, don't execute the command and pretend it succeeded |
2982 | (y)es, execute the command | |
2983 | ||
2984 | The 'n' choice for the confirmation spawn prompt has been removed, | |
2985 | because its meaning was confusing. | |
2986 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
2987 | The prompt may now also be redirected to an alternative console by |
2988 | specifying the console as parameter to systemd.confirm_spawn=. | |
2989 | ||
8e458bfe JW |
2990 | * Services of Type=notify require a READY=1 notification to be sent |
2991 | during startup. If no such message is sent, the service now fails, | |
2992 | even if the main process exited with a successful exit code. | |
2993 | ||
85266f9b LP |
2994 | * Services that fail to start up correctly now always have their |
2995 | ExecStopPost= commands executed. Previously, they'd enter "failed" | |
2996 | state directly, without executing these commands. | |
2997 | ||
baf32786 MP |
2998 | * The option MulticastDNS= of network configuration files has acquired |
2999 | an actual implementation. With MulticastDNS=yes a host can resolve | |
23eb30b3 | 3000 | names of remote hosts and reply to mDNS A and AAAA requests. |
fa8b4499 | 3001 | |
631b676b LP |
3002 | * When units are about to be started an additional check is now done to |
3003 | ensure that all dependencies of type BindsTo= (when used in | |
3004 | combination with After=) have been started. | |
3005 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
3006 | * systemd-analyze gained a new verb "syscall-filter" which shows which |
3007 | system call groups are defined for the SystemCallFilter= unit file | |
23eb30b3 | 3008 | setting, and which system calls they contain. |
d08ee7cb LP |
3009 | |
3010 | * A new system call filter group "@filesystem" has been added, | |
23eb30b3 | 3011 | consisting of various file system related system calls. Group |
d08ee7cb | 3012 | "@reboot" has been added, covering reboot, kexec and shutdown related |
23eb30b3 | 3013 | calls. Finally, group "@swap" has been added covering swap |
d08ee7cb LP |
3014 | configuration related calls. |
3015 | ||
3016 | * A new unit file option RestrictNamespaces= has been added that may be | |
3017 | used to restrict access to the various process namespace types the | |
3018 | Linux kernel provides. Specifically, it may be used to take away the | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3019 | right for a service unit to create additional file system, network, |
3020 | user, and other namespaces. This sandboxing option is particularly | |
3021 | relevant due to the high amount of recently discovered namespacing | |
3022 | related vulnerabilities in the kernel. | |
d08ee7cb | 3023 | |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3024 | * systemd-udev's .link files gained support for a new AutoNegotiation= |
3025 | setting for configuring Ethernet auto-negotiation. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3026 | |
3027 | * systemd-networkd's .network files gained support for a new | |
3028 | ListenPort= setting in the [DHCP] section to explicitly configure the | |
3029 | UDP client port the DHCP client shall listen on. | |
3030 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3031 | * .network files gained a new Unmanaged= boolean setting for explicitly |
3032 | excluding one or more interfaces from management by systemd-networkd. | |
3033 | ||
3034 | * The systemd-networkd ProxyARP= option has been renamed to | |
3035 | IPV4ProxyARP=. Similarly, VXLAN-specific option ARPProxy= has been | |
3036 | renamed to ReduceARPProxy=. The old names continue to be available | |
3037 | for compatibility. | |
3038 | ||
3039 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring IPv6 Proxy NDP | |
3040 | addresses via the new IPv6ProxyNDPAddress= .network file setting. | |
3041 | ||
3042 | * systemd-networkd's bonding device support gained support for two new | |
3043 | configuration options ActiveSlave= and PrimarySlave=. | |
3044 | ||
3045 | * The various options in the [Match] section of .network files gained | |
3046 | support for negative matching. | |
3047 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
3048 | * New systemd-specific mount options are now understood in /etc/fstab: |
3049 | ||
3050 | x-systemd.mount-timeout= may be used to configure the maximum | |
3051 | permitted runtime of the mount command. | |
3052 | ||
3053 | x-systemd.device-bound may be set to bind a mount point to its | |
3054 | backing device unit, in order to automatically remove a mount point | |
3055 | if its backing device is unplugged. This option may also be | |
3056 | configured through the new SYSTEMD_MOUNT_DEVICE_BOUND udev property | |
3057 | on the block device, which is now automatically set for all CDROM | |
3058 | drives, so that mounted CDs are automatically unmounted when they are | |
3059 | removed from the drive. | |
3060 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3061 | x-systemd.after= and x-systemd.before= may be used to explicitly |
3062 | order a mount after or before another unit or mount point. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3063 | |
3064 | * Enqueued start jobs for device units are now automatically garbage | |
3065 | collected if there are no jobs waiting for them anymore. | |
3066 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3067 | * systemctl list-jobs gained two new switches: with --after, for every |
3068 | queued job the jobs it's waiting for are shown; with --before the | |
3069 | jobs which it's blocking are shown. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3070 | |
3071 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for ephemeral boots from disk images | |
3072 | (or in other words: --ephemeral and --image= may now be | |
3073 | combined). Moreover, ephemeral boots are now supported for normal | |
3074 | directories, even if the backing file system is not btrfs. Of course, | |
baf32786 MP |
3075 | if the file system does not support file system snapshots or |
3076 | reflinks, the initial copy operation will be relatively expensive, but | |
3077 | this should still be suitable for many use cases. | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3078 | |
3079 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now support | |
3080 | specifications relative to the end of a month by using "~" instead of | |
3081 | "-" as separator between month and day. For example, "*-02~03" means | |
23eb30b3 | 3082 | "the third last day in February". In addition a new syntax for |
d08ee7cb LP |
3083 | repeated events has been added using the "/" character. For example, |
3084 | "9..17/2:00" means "every two hours from 9am to 5pm". | |
3085 | ||
3086 | * systemd-socket-proxyd gained a new parameter --connections-max= for | |
3087 | configuring the maximum number of concurrent connections. | |
3088 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3089 | * sd-id128 gained a new API for generating unique IDs for the host in a |
3090 | way that does not leak the machine ID. Specifically, | |
d08ee7cb | 3091 | sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() derives an ID based on the |
baf32786 | 3092 | machine ID a in well-defined, non-reversible, stable way. This is |
d08ee7cb LP |
3093 | useful whenever an identifier for the host is needed but where the |
3094 | identifier shall not be useful to identify the system beyond the | |
3095 | scope of the application itself. (Internally this uses HMAC-SHA256 as | |
3096 | keyed hash function using the machine ID as input.) | |
3097 | ||
3098 | * NotifyAccess= gained a new supported value "exec". When set | |
3099 | notifications are accepted from all processes systemd itself invoked, | |
3100 | including all control processes. | |
3101 | ||
3102 | * .nspawn files gained support for defining overlay mounts using the | |
3103 | Overlay= and OverlayReadOnly= options. Previously this functionality | |
3104 | was only available on the systemd-nspawn command line. | |
3105 | ||
3106 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --overlay= options gained support for | |
3107 | bind/overlay mounts whose source lies within the container tree by | |
3108 | prefixing the source path with "+". | |
3109 | ||
3110 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --overlay= options gained support for | |
3111 | automatically allocating a temporary source directory in /var/tmp | |
3112 | that is removed when the container dies. Specifically, if the source | |
3113 | directory is specified as empty string this mechanism is selected. An | |
3114 | example usage is --overlay=+/var::/var, which creates an overlay | |
3115 | mount based on the original /var contained in the image, overlayed | |
3116 | with a temporary directory in the host's /var/tmp. This way changes | |
3117 | to /var are automatically flushed when the container shuts down. | |
3118 | ||
baf32786 MP |
3119 | * systemd-nspawn --image= option does now permit raw file system block |
3120 | devices (in addition to images containing partition tables, as | |
3121 | before). | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3122 | |
3123 | * The disk image dissection logic in systemd-nspawn gained support for | |
3124 | automatically setting up LUKS encrypted as well as Verity protected | |
3125 | partitions. When a container is booted from an encrypted image the | |
3126 | passphrase is queried at start-up time. When a container with Verity | |
3127 | data is started, the root hash is search in a ".roothash" file | |
3128 | accompanying the disk image (alternatively, pass the root hash via | |
3129 | the new --root-hash= command line option). | |
3130 | ||
3131 | * A new tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-dissect has been added that may | |
3132 | be used to dissect disk images the same way as systemd-nspawn does | |
3133 | it, following the Bootable Partition Specification. It may even be | |
3134 | used to mount disk images with complex partition setups (including | |
3135 | LUKS and Verity partitions) to a local host directory, in order to | |
3136 | inspect them. This tool is not considered public API (yet), and is | |
3137 | thus not installed into /usr/bin. Please do not rely on its | |
3b31c466 | 3138 | existence, since it might go away or be changed in later systemd |
d08ee7cb LP |
3139 | versions. |
3140 | ||
3141 | * A new generator "systemd-verity-generator" has been added, similar in | |
baf32786 | 3142 | style to "systemd-cryptsetup-generator", permitting automatic setup of |
d08ee7cb LP |
3143 | Verity root partitions when systemd boots up. In order to make use of |
3144 | this your partition setup should follow the Discoverable Partitions | |
3145 | Specification, and the GPT partition ID of the root file system | |
3146 | partition should be identical to the upper 128bit of the Verity root | |
3147 | hash. The GPT partition ID of the Verity partition protecting it | |
3148 | should be the lower 128bit of the Verity root hash. If the partition | |
3149 | image follows this model it is sufficient to specify a single | |
3150 | "roothash=" kernel command line argument to both configure which root | |
3151 | image and verity partition to use as well as the root hash for | |
3152 | it. Note that systemd-nspawn's Verity support follows the same | |
3153 | semantics, meaning that disk images with proper Verity data in place | |
3154 | may be booted in containers with systemd-nspawn as well as on | |
3155 | physical systems via the verity generator. Also note that the "mkosi" | |
3156 | tool available at https://github.com/systemd/mkosi has been updated | |
3157 | to generate Verity protected disk images following this scheme. In | |
3158 | fact, it has been updated to generate disk images that optionally | |
3159 | implement a complete UEFI SecureBoot trust chain, involving a signed | |
3160 | kernel and initrd image that incorporates such a root hash as well as | |
3161 | a Verity-enabled root partition. | |
3162 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
3163 | * The hardware database (hwdb) udev supports has been updated to carry |
3164 | accelerometer quirks. | |
3165 | ||
3166 | * All system services are now run with a fresh kernel keyring set up | |
3167 | for them. The invocation ID is stored by default in it, thus | |
3168 | providing a safe, non-overridable way to determine the invocation | |
3169 | ID of each service. | |
3170 | ||
3171 | * Service unit files gained new BindPaths= and BindReadOnlyPaths= | |
3172 | options for bind mounting arbitrary paths in a service-specific | |
3173 | way. When these options are used, arbitrary host or service files and | |
3174 | directories may be mounted to arbitrary locations in the service's | |
3175 | view. | |
3176 | ||
3177 | * Documentation has been added that lists all of systemd's low-level | |
3178 | environment variables: | |
3179 | ||
a8a27374 | 3180 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/ENVIRONMENT.md |
d08ee7cb LP |
3181 | |
3182 | * sd-daemon gained a new API sd_is_socket_sockaddr() for determining | |
3183 | whether a specific socket file descriptor matches a specified socket | |
3184 | address. | |
3185 | ||
3186 | * systemd-firstboot has been updated to check for the | |
3187 | systemd.firstboot= kernel command line option. It accepts a boolean | |
3188 | and when set to false the first boot questions are skipped. | |
3189 | ||
d08ee7cb | 3190 | * systemd-fstab-generator has been updated to check for the |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3191 | systemd.volatile= kernel command line option, which either takes an |
3192 | optional boolean parameter or the special value "state". If used the | |
3193 | system may be booted in a "volatile" boot mode. Specifically, | |
3194 | "systemd.volatile" is used, the root directory will be mounted as | |
d08ee7cb | 3195 | tmpfs, and only /usr is mounted from the actual root file system. If |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3196 | "systemd.volatile=state" is used, the root directory will be mounted |
3197 | as usual, but /var is mounted as tmpfs. This concept provides similar | |
d08ee7cb LP |
3198 | functionality as systemd-nspawn's --volatile= option, but provides it |
3199 | on physical boots. Use this option for implementing stateless | |
3200 | systems, or testing systems with all state and/or configuration reset | |
3201 | to the defaults. (Note though that many distributions are not | |
23eb30b3 | 3202 | prepared to boot up without a populated /etc or /var, though.) |
d08ee7cb LP |
3203 | |
3204 | * systemd-gpt-auto-generator gained support for LUKS encrypted root | |
3205 | partitions. Previously it only supported LUKS encrypted partitions | |
3206 | for all other uses, except for the root partition itself. | |
3207 | ||
3208 | * Socket units gained support for listening on AF_VSOCK sockets for | |
3209 | communication in virtualized QEMU environments. | |
3210 | ||
3211 | * The "configure" script gained a new option --with-fallback-hostname= | |
3212 | for specifying the fallback hostname to use if none is configured in | |
3213 | /etc/hostname. For example, by specifying | |
3214 | --with-fallback-hostname=fedora it is possible to default to a | |
23eb30b3 | 3215 | hostname of "fedora" on pristine installations. |
d08ee7cb LP |
3216 | |
3217 | * systemd-cgls gained support for a new --unit= switch for listing only | |
3218 | the control groups of a specific unit. Similar --user-unit= has been | |
3219 | added for listing only the control groups of a specific user unit. | |
3220 | ||
3221 | * systemd-mount gained a new --umount switch for unmounting a mount or | |
3222 | automount point (and all mount/automount points below it). | |
3223 | ||
3224 | * systemd will now refuse full configuration reloads (via systemctl | |
3225 | daemon-reload and related calls) unless at least 16MiB of free space | |
3226 | are available in /run. This is a safety precaution in order to ensure | |
3227 | that generators can safely operate after the reload completed. | |
3228 | ||
3229 | * A new unit file option RootImage= has been added, which has a similar | |
3230 | effect as RootDirectory= but mounts the service's root directory from | |
3231 | a disk image instead of plain directory. This logic reuses the same | |
3232 | image dissection and mount logic that systemd-nspawn already uses, | |
3233 | and hence supports any disk images systemd-nspawn supports, including | |
3234 | those following the Discoverable Partition Specification, as well as | |
3235 | Verity enabled images. This option enables systemd to run system | |
3236 | services directly off disk images acting as resource bundles, | |
3237 | possibly even including full integrity data. | |
3238 | ||
3239 | * A new MountAPIVFS= unit file option has been added, taking a boolean | |
baf32786 | 3240 | argument. If enabled /proc, /sys and /dev (collectively called the |
d08ee7cb LP |
3241 | "API VFS") will be mounted for the service. This is only relevant if |
3242 | RootDirectory= or RootImage= is used for the service, as these mounts | |
3243 | are of course in place in the host mount namespace anyway. | |
3244 | ||
3245 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for a new --pivot-root= switch. If | |
3246 | specified the root directory within the container image is pivoted to | |
3247 | the specified mount point, while the original root disk is moved to a | |
3248 | different place. This option enables booting of ostree images | |
3249 | directly with systemd-nspawn. | |
3250 | ||
d08ee7cb | 3251 | * The systemd build scripts will no longer complain if the NTP server |
23eb30b3 | 3252 | addresses are not changed from the defaults. Google now supports |
d08ee7cb LP |
3253 | these NTP servers officially. We still recommend downstreams to |
3254 | properly register an NTP pool with the NTP pool project though. | |
3255 | ||
c1ec34d1 | 3256 | * coredumpctl gained a new "--reverse" option for printing the list |
d08ee7cb LP |
3257 | of coredumps in reverse order. |
3258 | ||
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3259 | * coredumpctl will now show additional information about truncated and |
3260 | inaccessible coredumps, as well as coredumps that are still being | |
3261 | processed. It also gained a new --quiet switch for suppressing | |
3262 | additional informational message in its output. | |
3263 | ||
3264 | * coredumpctl gained support for only showing coredumps newer and/or | |
3265 | older than specific timestamps, using the new --since= and --until= | |
3266 | options, reminiscent of journalctl's options by the same name. | |
3267 | ||
d08ee7cb | 3268 | * The systemd-coredump logic has been improved so that it may be reused |
23eb30b3 | 3269 | to collect backtraces in non-compiled languages, for example in |
d08ee7cb LP |
3270 | scripting languages such as Python. |
3271 | ||
3272 | * machinectl will now show the UID shift of local containers, if user | |
3273 | namespacing is enabled for them. | |
3274 | ||
baf32786 | 3275 | * systemd will now optionally run "environment generator" binaries at |
d08ee7cb LP |
3276 | configuration load time. They may be used to add environment |
3277 | variables to the environment block passed to services invoked. One | |
baf32786 | 3278 | user environment generator is shipped by default that sets up |
23eb30b3 ZJS |
3279 | environment variables based on files dropped into /etc/environment.d |
3280 | and ~/.config/environment.d/. | |
d08ee7cb | 3281 | |
a2b53448 LP |
3282 | * systemd-resolved now includes the new, recently published 2017 DNSSEC |
3283 | root key (KSK). | |
3284 | ||
a2b53448 LP |
3285 | * hostnamed has been updated to report a new chassis type of |
3286 | "convertible" to cover "foldable" laptops that can both act as a | |
3287 | tablet and as a laptop, such as various Lenovo Yoga devices. | |
3288 | ||
d08ee7cb LP |
3289 | Contributions from: Adrián López, Alexander Galanin, Alexander |
3290 | Kochetkov, Alexandros Frantzis, Andrey Ulanov, Antoine Eiche, Baruch | |
3291 | Siach, Bastien Nocera, Benjamin Robin, Björn, Brandon Philips, Cédric | |
3292 | Schieli, Charles (Chas) Williams, Christian Hesse, Daniele Medri, | |
3293 | Daniel Drake, Daniel Rusek, Daniel Wagner, Dan Streetman, Dave Reisner, | |
3294 | David Glasser, David Herrmann, David Michael, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry | |
3295 | Khlebnikov, Dmitry Rozhkov, Dongsu Park, Douglas Christman, Earnestly, | |
3296 | Emil Soleyman, Eric Cook, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Fionn | |
3297 | Cleary, Florian Klink, Francesco Brozzu, Franck Bui, Gabriel Rauter, | |
a2b53448 LP |
3298 | Gianluca Boiano, Giedrius Statkevičius, Graeme Lawes, Hans de Goede, |
3299 | Harald Hoyer, Ian Kelling, Ivan Shapovalov, Jakub Wilk, Janne Heß, Jan | |
3300 | Synacek, Jason Reeder, Jonathan Boulle, Jörg Thalheim, Jouke Witteveen, | |
3301 | Karl Kraus, Kees Cook, Keith Busch, Kieran Colford, kilian-k, Lennart | |
3302 | Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas Werkmeister, Lukas Rusak, Maarten de | |
3303 | Vries, Maks Naumov, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Andre Lureau, Marcin Bachry, | |
3304 | Mark Stosberg, Martin Ejdestig, Martin Pitt, Mauricio Faria de | |
3305 | Oliveira, micah, Michael Biebl, Michael Shields, Michal Schmidt, Michal | |
3306 | Sekletar, Michel Kraus, Mike Gilbert, Mikko Ylinen, Mirza Krak, | |
3307 | Namhyung Kim, nikolaof, peoronoob, Peter Hutterer, Peter Körner, Philip | |
3308 | Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Ray Strode, Reverend Homer, Rike-Benjamin | |
3309 | Schuppner, Robert Kreuzer, Ronny Chevalier, Ruslan Bilovol, sammynx, | |
3310 | Sergey Ptashnick, Sergiusz Urbaniak, Stefan Berger, Stefan Hajnoczi, | |
3311 | Stefan Schweter, Stuart McLaren, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, | |
3312 | Taylor Smock, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tibor | |
3313 | Nagy, Tobias Stoeckmann, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Viktar | |
3314 | Vaŭčkievič, Viktor Mihajlovski, Vitaly Sulimov, Waldemar Brodkorb, | |
3315 | Walter Garcia-Fontes, Wim de With, Yassine Imounachen, Yi EungJun, | |
3316 | YunQiang Su, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Александр | |
3317 | Тихонов | |
3318 | ||
3319 | — Berlin, 2017-03-01 | |
d08ee7cb | 3320 | |
54b24597 | 3321 | CHANGES WITH 232: |
76153ad4 | 3322 | |
05f426d2 LP |
3323 | * udev now runs with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=, RestrictRealtime= and |
3324 | RestrictAddressFamilies= enabled. These sandboxing options should | |
3325 | generally be compatible with the various external udev call-out | |
3326 | binaries we are aware of, however there may be exceptions, in | |
3327 | particular when exotic languages for these call-outs are used. In | |
3328 | this case, consider turning off these settings locally. | |
3329 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3330 | * The new RemoveIPC= option can be used to remove IPC objects owned by |
3331 | the user or group of a service when that service exits. | |
3332 | ||
6fa44114 | 3333 | * The new ProtectKernelModules= option can be used to disable explicit |
4c37970d LP |
3334 | load and unload operations of kernel modules by a service. In |
3335 | addition access to /usr/lib/modules is removed if this option is set. | |
6fa44114 | 3336 | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3337 | * ProtectSystem= option gained a new value "strict", which causes the |
3338 | whole file system tree with the exception of /dev, /proc, and /sys, | |
3339 | to be remounted read-only for a service. | |
3340 | ||
e49e2c25 | 3341 | * The new ProtectKernelTunables= option can be used to disable |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3342 | modification of configuration files in /sys and /proc by a service. |
3343 | Various directories and files are remounted read-only, so access is | |
3344 | restricted even if the file permissions would allow it. | |
3345 | ||
6fa44114 | 3346 | * The new ProtectControlGroups= option can be used to disable write |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3347 | access by a service to /sys/fs/cgroup. |
3348 | ||
3349 | * Various systemd services have been hardened with | |
3350 | ProtectKernelTunables=yes, ProtectControlGroups=yes, | |
3351 | RestrictAddressFamilies=. | |
3352 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3353 | * Support for dynamically creating users for the lifetime of a service |
3354 | has been added. If DynamicUser=yes is specified, user and group IDs | |
3355 | will be allocated from the range 61184..65519 for the lifetime of the | |
3356 | service. They can be resolved using the new nss-systemd.so NSS | |
3357 | module. The module must be enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Services | |
3358 | started in this way have PrivateTmp= and RemoveIPC= enabled, so that | |
3359 | any resources allocated by the service will be cleaned up when the | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3360 | service exits. They also have ProtectHome=read-only and |
3361 | ProtectSystem=strict enabled, so they are not able to make any | |
3362 | permanent modifications to the system. | |
4ffe2479 | 3363 | |
171ae2cd | 3364 | * The nss-systemd module also always resolves root and nobody, making |
4ffe2479 | 3365 | it possible to have no /etc/passwd or /etc/group files in minimal |
171ae2cd | 3366 | container or chroot environments. |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3367 | |
3368 | * Services may be started with their own user namespace using the new | |
171ae2cd LP |
3369 | boolean PrivateUsers= option. Only root, nobody, and the uid/gid |
3370 | under which the service is running are mapped. All other users are | |
3371 | mapped to nobody. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3372 | |
3373 | * Support for the cgroup namespace has been added to systemd-nspawn. If | |
3374 | supported by kernel, the container system started by systemd-nspawn | |
3375 | will have its own view of the cgroup hierarchy. This new behaviour | |
3376 | can be disabled using $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_USE_CGNS environment variable. | |
3377 | ||
3378 | * The new MemorySwapMax= option can be used to limit the maximum swap | |
3379 | usage under the unified cgroup hierarchy. | |
3380 | ||
3381 | * Support for the CPU controller in the unified cgroup hierarchy has | |
3382 | been added, via the CPUWeight=, CPUStartupWeight=, CPUAccounting= | |
3383 | options. This controller requires out-of-tree patches for the kernel | |
3384 | and the support is provisional. | |
3385 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
3386 | * Mount and automount units may now be created transiently |
3387 | (i.e. dynamically at runtime via the bus API, instead of requiring | |
3388 | unit files in the file system). | |
3389 | ||
3390 | * systemd-mount is a new tool which may mount file systems – much like | |
3391 | mount(8), optionally pulling in additional dependencies through | |
3392 | transient .mount and .automount units. For example, this tool | |
3393 | automatically runs fsck on a backing block device before mounting, | |
3394 | and allows the automount logic to be used dynamically from the | |
3395 | command line for establishing mount points. This tool is particularly | |
3396 | useful when dealing with removable media, as it will ensure fsck is | |
3397 | run – if necessary – before the first access and that the file system | |
3398 | is quickly unmounted after each access by utilizing the automount | |
3399 | logic. This maximizes the chance that the file system on the | |
3400 | removable media stays in a clean state, and if it isn't in a clean | |
3401 | state is fixed automatically. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3402 | |
3403 | * LazyUnmount=yes option for mount units has been added to expose the | |
3404 | umount --lazy option. Similarly, ForceUnmount=yes exposes the --force | |
3405 | option. | |
3406 | ||
3407 | * /efi will be used as the mount point of the EFI boot partition, if | |
3408 | the directory is present, and the mount point was not configured | |
3409 | through other means (e.g. fstab). If /efi directory does not exist, | |
3410 | /boot will be used as before. This makes it easier to automatically | |
3411 | mount the EFI partition on systems where /boot is used for something | |
3412 | else. | |
3413 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
3414 | * When operating on GPT disk images for containers, systemd-nspawn will |
3415 | now mount the ESP to /boot or /efi according to the same rules as PID | |
3416 | 1 running on a host. This allows tools like "bootctl" to operate | |
3417 | correctly within such containers, in order to make container images | |
3418 | bootable on physical systems. | |
3419 | ||
4a77c53d | 3420 | * disk/by-id and disk/by-path symlinks are now created for NVMe drives. |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3421 | |
3422 | * Two new user session targets have been added to support running | |
3423 | graphical sessions under the systemd --user instance: | |
3424 | graphical-session.target and graphical-session-pre.target. See | |
3425 | systemd.special(7) for a description of how those targets should be | |
3426 | used. | |
3427 | ||
3428 | * The vconsole initialization code has been significantly reworked to | |
d4c08299 | 3429 | use KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET ioctls instead of KD_FONT_OP_COPY and better |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3430 | support unicode keymaps. Font and keymap configuration will now be |
3431 | copied to all allocated virtual consoles. | |
3432 | ||
05ecf467 | 3433 | * FreeBSD's bhyve virtualization is now detected. |
4ffe2479 | 3434 | |
d4c08299 | 3435 | * Information recorded in the journal for core dumps now includes the |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3436 | contents of /proc/mountinfo and the command line of the process at |
3437 | the top of the process hierarchy (which is usually the init process | |
3438 | of the container). | |
3439 | ||
171ae2cd | 3440 | * systemd-journal-gatewayd learned the --directory= option to serve |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3441 | files from the specified location. |
3442 | ||
3443 | * journalctl --root=… can be used to peruse the journal in the | |
3444 | /var/log/ directories inside of a container tree. This is similar to | |
3445 | the existing --machine= option, but does not require the container to | |
3446 | be active. | |
3447 | ||
3448 | * The hardware database has been extended to support | |
3449 | ID_INPUT_TRACKBALL, used in addition to ID_INPUT_MOUSE to identify | |
3450 | trackball devices. | |
3451 | ||
3452 | MOUSE_WHEEL_CLICK_ANGLE_HORIZONTAL hwdb property has been added to | |
3453 | specify the click rate for mice which include a horizontal wheel with | |
3454 | a click rate that is different than the one for the vertical wheel. | |
3455 | ||
3456 | * systemd-run gained a new --wait option that makes service execution | |
171ae2cd LP |
3457 | synchronous. (Specifically, the command will not return until the |
3458 | specified service binary exited.) | |
4ffe2479 | 3459 | |
171ae2cd | 3460 | * systemctl gained a new --wait option that causes the start command to |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3461 | wait until the units being started have terminated again. |
3462 | ||
171ae2cd | 3463 | * A new journal output mode "short-full" has been added which displays |
4ffe2479 | 3464 | timestamps with abbreviated English day names and adds a timezone |
171ae2cd LP |
3465 | suffix. Those timestamps include more information than the default |
3466 | "short" output mode, and can be passed directly to journalctl's | |
3467 | --since= and --until= options. | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3468 | |
3469 | * /etc/resolv.conf will be bind-mounted into containers started by | |
3470 | systemd-nspawn, if possible, so any changes to resolv.conf contents | |
3471 | are automatically propagated to the container. | |
3472 | ||
3473 | * The number of instances for socket-activated services originating | |
171ae2cd LP |
3474 | from a single IP address can be limited with |
3475 | MaxConnectionsPerSource=, extending the existing setting of | |
3476 | MaxConnections=. | |
4ffe2479 | 3477 | |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3478 | * systemd-networkd gained support for vcan ("Virtual CAN") interface |
3479 | configuration. | |
3480 | ||
3481 | * .netdev and .network configuration can now be extended through | |
3482 | drop-ins. | |
3483 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3484 | * UDP Segmentation Offload, TCP Segmentation Offload, Generic |
3485 | Segmentation Offload, Generic Receive Offload, Large Receive Offload | |
3486 | can be enabled and disabled using the new UDPSegmentationOffload=, | |
3487 | TCPSegmentationOffload=, GenericSegmentationOffload=, | |
3488 | GenericReceiveOffload=, LargeReceiveOffload= options in the | |
3489 | [Link] section of .link files. | |
3490 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
3491 | * The Spanning Tree Protocol, Priority, Aging Time, and the Default |
3492 | Port VLAN ID can be configured for bridge devices using the new STP=, | |
3493 | Priority=, AgeingTimeSec=, and DefaultPVID= settings in the [Bridge] | |
3494 | section of .netdev files. | |
4ffe2479 | 3495 | |
171ae2cd | 3496 | * The route table to which routes received over DHCP or RA should be |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3497 | added can be configured with the new RouteTable= option in the [DHCP] |
3498 | and [IPv6AcceptRA] sections of .network files. | |
3499 | ||
171ae2cd | 3500 | * The Address Resolution Protocol can be disabled on links managed by |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3501 | systemd-networkd using the ARP=no setting in the [Link] section of |
3502 | .network files. | |
3503 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
3504 | * New environment variables $SERVICE_RESULT, $EXIT_CODE and |
3505 | $EXIT_STATUS are set for ExecStop= and ExecStopPost= commands, and | |
3506 | encode information about the result and exit codes of the current | |
3507 | service runtime cycle. | |
4ffe2479 | 3508 | |
4a77c53d | 3509 | * systemd-sysctl will now configure kernel parameters in the order |
1f4f4cf7 | 3510 | they occur in the configuration files. This matches what sysctl |
4a77c53d ZJS |
3511 | has been traditionally doing. |
3512 | ||
3513 | * kernel-install "plugins" that are executed to perform various | |
3514 | tasks after a new kernel is added and before an old one is removed | |
3515 | can now return a special value to terminate the procedure and | |
3516 | prevent any later plugins from running. | |
3517 | ||
76153ad4 | 3518 | * Journald's SplitMode=login setting has been deprecated. It has been |
d4c08299 | 3519 | removed from documentation, and its use is discouraged. In a future |
76153ad4 ZJS |
3520 | release it will be completely removed, and made equivalent to current |
3521 | default of SplitMode=uid. | |
3522 | ||
4a77c53d ZJS |
3523 | * Storage=both option setting in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been |
3524 | removed. With fast LZ4 compression storing the core dump twice is not | |
3525 | useful. | |
3526 | ||
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3527 | * The --share-system systemd-nspawn option has been replaced with an |
3528 | (undocumented) variable $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_SYSTEM, but the use of | |
3529 | this functionality is discouraged. In addition the variables | |
3530 | $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_IPC, $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_PID, | |
3531 | $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_NS_UTS may be used to control the unsharing of | |
3532 | individual namespaces. | |
3533 | ||
171ae2cd LP |
3534 | * "machinectl list" now shows the IP address of running containers in |
3535 | the output, as well as OS release information. | |
3536 | ||
3537 | * "loginctl list" now shows the TTY of each session in the output. | |
3538 | ||
3539 | * sd-bus gained new API calls sd_bus_track_set_recursive(), | |
3540 | sd_bus_track_get_recursive(), sd_bus_track_count_name(), | |
3541 | sd_bus_track_count_sender(). They permit usage of sd_bus_track peer | |
3542 | tracking objects in a "recursive" mode, where a single client can be | |
3543 | counted multiple times, if it takes multiple references. | |
3544 | ||
3545 | * sd-bus gained new API calls sd_bus_set_exit_on_disconnect() and | |
bc99dac5 | 3546 | sd_bus_get_exit_on_disconnect(). They may be used to make a |
171ae2cd LP |
3547 | process using sd-bus automatically exit if the bus connection is |
3548 | severed. | |
3549 | ||
3550 | * Bus clients of the service manager may now "pin" loaded units into | |
3551 | memory, by taking an explicit reference on them. This is useful to | |
3552 | ensure the client can retrieve runtime data about the service even | |
3553 | after the service completed execution. Taking such a reference is | |
3554 | available only for privileged clients and should be helpful to watch | |
3555 | running services in a race-free manner, and in particular collect | |
3556 | information about exit statuses and results. | |
3557 | ||
4c37970d LP |
3558 | * The nss-resolve module has been changed to strictly return UNAVAIL |
3559 | when communication via D-Bus with resolved failed, and NOTFOUND when | |
3560 | a lookup completed but was negative. This means it is now possible to | |
3561 | neatly configure fallbacks using nsswitch.conf result checking | |
3562 | expressions. Taking benefit of this, the new recommended | |
3563 | configuration line for the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf is: | |
3564 | ||
3565 | hosts: files mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname | |
3566 | ||
3567 | * A new setting CtrlAltDelBurstAction= has been added to | |
3568 | /etc/systemd/system.conf which may be used to configure the precise | |
3569 | behaviour if the user on the console presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more often | |
3570 | than 7 times in 2s. Previously this would unconditionally result in | |
3571 | an expedited, immediate reboot. With this new setting the precise | |
3572 | operation may be configured in more detail, and also turned off | |
3573 | entirely. | |
3574 | ||
3575 | * In .netdev files two new settings RemoteChecksumTx= and | |
3576 | RemoteChecksumRx= are now understood that permit configuring the | |
3577 | remote checksumming logic for VXLAN networks. | |
3578 | ||
3579 | * The service manager learnt a new "invocation ID" concept for invoked | |
3580 | services. Each runtime cycle of a service will get a new invocation | |
3581 | ID (a 128bit random UUID) assigned that identifies the current | |
3582 | run of the service uniquely and globally. A new invocation ID | |
3583 | is generated each time a service starts up. The journal will store | |
3584 | the invocation ID of a service along with any logged messages, thus | |
3585 | making the invocation ID useful for matching the online runtime of a | |
3586 | service with the offline log data it generated in a safe way without | |
3587 | relying on synchronized timestamps. In many ways this new service | |
3588 | invocation ID concept is similar to the kernel's boot ID concept that | |
3589 | uniquely and globally identifies the runtime of each boot. The | |
3590 | invocation ID of a service is passed to the service itself via an | |
3591 | environment variable ($INVOCATION_ID). A new bus call | |
3592 | GetUnitByInvocationID() has been added that is similar to GetUnit() | |
3593 | but instead of retrieving the bus path for a unit by its name | |
3594 | retrieves it by its invocation ID. The returned path is valid only as | |
3595 | long as the passed invocation ID is current. | |
3596 | ||
3597 | * systemd-resolved gained a new "DNSStubListener" setting in | |
3598 | resolved.conf. It either takes a boolean value or the special values | |
3599 | "udp" and "tcp", and configures whether to enable the stub DNS | |
3600 | listener on 127.0.0.53:53. | |
3601 | ||
3602 | * IP addresses configured via networkd may now carry additional | |
3603 | configuration settings supported by the kernel. New options include: | |
3604 | HomeAddress=, DuplicateAddressDetection=, ManageTemporaryAddress=, | |
3605 | PrefixRoute=, AutoJoin=. | |
3606 | ||
3607 | * The PAM configuration fragment file for "user@.service" shipped with | |
3608 | systemd (i.e. the --user instance of systemd) has been stripped to | |
3609 | the minimum necessary to make the system boot. Previously, it | |
3610 | contained Fedora-specific stanzas that did not apply to other | |
3611 | distributions. It is expected that downstream distributions add | |
3612 | additional configuration lines, matching their needs to this file, | |
3613 | using it only as rough template of what systemd itself needs. Note | |
3614 | that this reduced fragment does not even include an invocation of | |
3615 | pam_limits which most distributions probably want to add, even though | |
3616 | systemd itself does not need it. (There's also the new build time | |
3617 | option --with-pamconfdir=no to disable installation of the PAM | |
3618 | fragment entirely.) | |
3619 | ||
3620 | * If PrivateDevices=yes is set for a service the CAP_SYS_RAWIO | |
3621 | capability is now also dropped from its set (in addition to | |
3622 | CAP_SYS_MKNOD as before). | |
3623 | ||
3624 | * In service unit files it is now possible to connect a specific named | |
3625 | file descriptor with stdin/stdout/stdout of an executed service. The | |
3626 | name may be specified in matching .socket units using the | |
3627 | FileDescriptorName= setting. | |
3628 | ||
3629 | * A number of journal settings may now be configured on the kernel | |
3630 | command line. Specifically, the following options are now understood: | |
3631 | systemd.journald.max_level_console=, | |
3632 | systemd.journald.max_level_store=, | |
3633 | systemd.journald.max_level_syslog=, systemd.journald.max_level_kmsg=, | |
3634 | systemd.journald.max_level_wall=. | |
3635 | ||
3636 | * "systemctl is-enabled --full" will now show by which symlinks a unit | |
3637 | file is enabled in the unit dependency tree. | |
3638 | ||
b4eed568 LP |
3639 | * Support for VeraCrypt encrypted partitions has been added to the |
3640 | "cryptsetup" logic and /etc/crypttab. | |
3641 | ||
3642 | * systemd-detect-virt gained support for a new --private-users switch | |
3643 | that checks whether the invoking processes are running inside a user | |
3644 | namespace. Similar, a new special value "private-users" for the | |
3645 | existing ConditionVirtualization= setting has been added, permitting | |
3646 | skipping of specific units in user namespace environments. | |
3647 | ||
07393b6e LP |
3648 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alexander Kuleshov, Alfie John, |
3649 | Andreas Henriksson, Andrew Jeddeloh, Balázs Úr, Bart Rulon, Benjamin | |
3650 | Richter, Ben Gamari, Ben Harris, Brian J. Murrell, Christian Brauner, | |
3651 | Christian Rebischke, Clinton Roy, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
3652 | Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, Daniel Maixner, Daniel Rusek, Dan Dedrick, | |
3653 | Davide Cavalca, David Herrmann, David Michael, Dennis Wassenberg, | |
3654 | Djalal Harouni, Dongsu Park, Douglas Christman, Elias Probst, Eric | |
3655 | Cook, Erik Karlsson, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Felix Zhang, | |
3656 | Franck Bui, George Hilliard, Giuseppe Scrivano, HATAYAMA Daisuke, | |
3657 | Heikki Kemppainen, Hendrik Brueckner, hi117, Ismo Puustinen, Ivan | |
3658 | Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jakub Wilk, Jan Synacek, Jason Kölker, | |
3659 | Jean-Sébastien Bour, Jiří Pírko, Jonathan Boulle, Jorge Niedbalski, | |
3660 | Keith Busch, kristbaum, Kyle Russell, Lans Zhang, Lennart Poettering, | |
3661 | Leonardo Brondani Schenkel, Lucas Werkmeister, Luca Bruno, Lukáš | |
3662 | Nykrýn, Maciek Borzecki, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
3663 | Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Mello, Martin Ejdestig, Martin Pitt, Matej | |
3664 | Habrnal, Maxime de Roucy, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Hoy, | |
3665 | Michael Olbrich, Michael Pope, Michal Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Mike | |
3666 | Gilbert, Nick Owens, Patrik Flykt, Paweł Szewczyk, Peter Hutterer, | |
3667 | Piotr Drąg, Reid Price, Richard W.M. Jones, Roman Stingler, Ronny | |
3668 | Chevalier, Seraphime Kirkovski, Stefan Schweter, Steve Muir, Susant | |
3669 | Sahani, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tiago Levit, | |
3670 | Tobias Jungel, Tomáš Janoušek, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut | |
3671 | Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo, WaLyong Cho, Wilhelm Schuster, Yann | |
3672 | E. MORIN, Yi EungJun, Yuki Inoguchi, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
3673 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeal Jagannatha | |
3674 | ||
54b24597 | 3675 | — Santa Fe, 2016-11-03 |
07393b6e | 3676 | |
5cd118ba MP |
3677 | CHANGES WITH 231: |
3678 | ||
fcd30826 LP |
3679 | * In service units the various ExecXYZ= settings have been extended |
3680 | with an additional special character as first argument of the | |
43eb109a | 3681 | assigned value: if the character '+' is used the specified command |
fcd30826 LP |
3682 | line it will be run with full privileges, regardless of User=, |
3683 | Group=, CapabilityBoundingSet= and similar options. The effect is | |
3684 | similar to the existing PermissionsStartOnly= option, but allows | |
3685 | configuration of this concept for each executed command line | |
3686 | independently. | |
3687 | ||
3688 | * Services may now alter the service watchdog timeout at runtime by | |
3689 | sending a WATCHDOG_USEC= message via sd_notify(). | |
3690 | ||
3691 | * MemoryLimit= and related unit settings now optionally take percentage | |
3692 | specifications. The percentage is taken relative to the amount of | |
3693 | physical memory in the system (or in case of containers, the assigned | |
3694 | amount of memory). This allows scaling service resources neatly with | |
771de3f5 | 3695 | the amount of RAM available on the system. Similarly, systemd-logind's |
fcd30826 LP |
3696 | RuntimeDirectorySize= option now also optionally takes percentage |
3697 | values. | |
3698 | ||
3699 | * In similar fashion TasksMax= takes percentage values now, too. The | |
3700 | value is taken relative to the configured maximum number of processes | |
3701 | on the system. The per-service task maximum has been changed to 15% | |
3702 | using this functionality. (Effectively this is an increase of 512 → | |
3703 | 4915 for service units, given the kernel's default pid_max setting.) | |
3704 | ||
3705 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now understand a ".." | |
3706 | syntax for time ranges. Example: "4..7:10" may now be used for | |
3707 | defining a timer that is triggered at 4:10am, 5:10am, 6:10am and | |
3708 | 7:10am every day. | |
3709 | ||
3710 | * The InaccessableDirectories=, ReadOnlyDirectories= and | |
3711 | ReadWriteDirectories= unit file settings have been renamed to | |
3712 | InaccessablePaths=, ReadOnlyPaths= and ReadWritePaths= and may now be | |
3713 | applied to all kinds of file nodes, and not just directories, with | |
3714 | the exception of symlinks. Specifically these settings may now be | |
3715 | used on block and character device nodes, UNIX sockets and FIFOS as | |
3716 | well as regular files. The old names of these settings remain | |
3717 | available for compatibility. | |
3718 | ||
3719 | * systemd will now log about all service processes it kills forcibly | |
3720 | (using SIGKILL) because they remained after the clean shutdown phase | |
3721 | of the service completed. This should help identifying services that | |
3722 | shut down uncleanly. Moreover if KillUserProcesses= is enabled in | |
3723 | systemd-logind's configuration a similar log message is generated for | |
3724 | processes killed at the end of each session due to this setting. | |
3725 | ||
3726 | * systemd will now set the $JOURNAL_STREAM environment variable for all | |
3727 | services whose stdout/stderr are connected to the Journal (which | |
3728 | effectively means by default: all services). The variable contains | |
3729 | the device and inode number of the file descriptor used for | |
3730 | stdout/stderr. This may be used by invoked programs to detect whether | |
3731 | their stdout/stderr is connected to the Journal, in which case they | |
3732 | can switch over to direct Journal communication, thus being able to | |
3733 | pass extended, structured metadata along with their log messages. As | |
3734 | one example, this is now used by glib's logging primitives. | |
3735 | ||
3736 | * When using systemd's default tmp.mount unit for /tmp, the mount point | |
3737 | will now be established with the "nosuid" and "nodev" options. This | |
3738 | avoids privilege escalation attacks that put traps and exploits into | |
3739 | /tmp. However, this might cause problems if you e. g. put container | |
5cd118ba MP |
3740 | images or overlays into /tmp; if you need this, override tmp.mount's |
3741 | "Options=" with a drop-in, or mount /tmp from /etc/fstab with your | |
3742 | desired options. | |
3743 | ||
fcd30826 | 3744 | * systemd now supports the "memory" cgroup controller also on |
4e1dfa45 | 3745 | cgroup v2. |
fcd30826 LP |
3746 | |
3747 | * The systemd-cgtop tool now optionally takes a control group path as | |
3748 | command line argument. If specified, the control group list shown is | |
3749 | limited to subgroups of that group. | |
3750 | ||
3751 | * The SystemCallFilter= unit file setting gained support for | |
3752 | pre-defined, named system call filter sets. For example | |
3753 | SystemCallFilter=@clock is now an effective way to make all clock | |
771de3f5 | 3754 | changing-related system calls unavailable to a service. A number of |
fcd30826 LP |
3755 | similar pre-defined groups are defined. Writing system call filters |
3756 | for system services is simplified substantially with this new | |
3757 | concept. Accordingly, all of systemd's own, long-running services now | |
3758 | enable system call filtering based on this, by default. | |
3759 | ||
3760 | * A new service setting MemoryDenyWriteExecute= has been added, taking | |
3761 | a boolean value. If turned on, a service may no longer create memory | |
3762 | mappings that are writable and executable at the same time. This | |
3763 | enhances security for services where this is enabled as it becomes | |
3764 | harder to dynamically write and then execute memory in exploited | |
3765 | service processes. This option has been enabled for all of systemd's | |
3766 | own long-running services. | |
3767 | ||
3768 | * A new RestrictRealtime= service setting has been added, taking a | |
3769 | boolean argument. If set the service's processes may no longer | |
3770 | acquire realtime scheduling. This improves security as realtime | |
3771 | scheduling may otherwise be used to easily freeze the system. | |
3772 | ||
3773 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch --notify-ready= taking a boolean | |
3774 | value. This may be used for requesting that the system manager inside | |
3775 | of the container reports start-up completion to nspawn which then | |
3776 | propagates this notification further to the service manager | |
3777 | supervising nspawn itself. A related option NotifyReady= in .nspawn | |
3778 | files has been added too. This functionality allows ordering of the | |
3779 | start-up of multiple containers using the usual systemd ordering | |
3780 | primitives. | |
3781 | ||
3782 | * machinectl gained a new command "stop" that is an alias for | |
3783 | "terminate". | |
3784 | ||
3785 | * systemd-resolved gained support for contacting DNS servers on | |
3786 | link-local IPv6 addresses. | |
3787 | ||
3788 | * If systemd-resolved receives the SIGUSR2 signal it will now flush all | |
3789 | its caches. A method call for requesting the same operation has been | |
3790 | added to the bus API too, and is made available via "systemd-resolve | |
3791 | --flush-caches". | |
3792 | ||
771de3f5 | 3793 | * systemd-resolve gained a new --status switch. If passed a brief |
fcd30826 LP |
3794 | summary of the used DNS configuration with per-interface information |
3795 | is shown. | |
3796 | ||
3797 | * resolved.conf gained a new Cache= boolean option, defaulting to | |
3798 | on. If turned off local DNS caching is disabled. This comes with a | |
3799 | performance penalty in particular when DNSSEC is enabled. Note that | |
771de3f5 | 3800 | resolved disables its internal caching implicitly anyway, when the |
fcd30826 LP |
3801 | configured DNS server is on a host-local IP address such as ::1 or |
3802 | 127.0.0.1, thus automatically avoiding double local caching. | |
3803 | ||
3804 | * systemd-resolved now listens on the local IP address 127.0.0.53:53 | |
3805 | for DNS requests. This improves compatibility with local programs | |
3806 | that do not use the libc NSS or systemd-resolved's bus APIs for name | |
3807 | resolution. This minimal DNS service is only available to local | |
3808 | programs and does not implement the full DNS protocol, but enough to | |
3809 | cover local DNS clients. A new, static resolv.conf file, listing just | |
3810 | this DNS server is now shipped in /usr/lib/systemd/resolv.conf. It is | |
3811 | now recommended to make /etc/resolv.conf a symlink to this file in | |
3812 | order to route all DNS lookups to systemd-resolved, regardless if | |
3813 | done via NSS, the bus API or raw DNS packets. Note that this local | |
3814 | DNS service is not as fully featured as the libc NSS or | |
3815 | systemd-resolved's bus APIs. For example, as unicast DNS cannot be | |
3816 | used to deliver link-local address information (as this implies | |
3817 | sending a local interface index along), LLMNR/mDNS support via this | |
3818 | interface is severely restricted. It is thus strongly recommended for | |
3819 | all applications to use the libc NSS API or native systemd-resolved | |
3820 | bus API instead. | |
3821 | ||
3822 | * systemd-networkd's bridge support learned a new setting | |
3823 | VLANFiltering= for controlling VLAN filtering. Moreover a new section | |
3824 | in .network files has been added for configuring VLAN bridging in | |
3825 | more detail: VLAN=, EgressUntagged=, PVID= in [BridgeVLAN]. | |
3826 | ||
3827 | * systemd-networkd's IPv6 Router Advertisement code now makes use of | |
3828 | the DNSSL and RDNSS options. This means IPv6 DNS configuration may | |
3829 | now be acquired without relying on DHCPv6. Two new options | |
3830 | UseDomains= and UseDNS= have been added to configure this behaviour. | |
3831 | ||
3832 | * systemd-networkd's IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= option has been | |
3833 | renamed IPv6AcceptRA=, without altering its behaviour. The old | |
3834 | setting name remains available for compatibility reasons. | |
3835 | ||
3836 | * The systemd-networkd VTI/VTI6 tunneling support gained new options | |
3837 | Key=, InputKey= and OutputKey=. | |
3838 | ||
3839 | * systemd-networkd gained support for VRF ("Virtual Routing Function") | |
3840 | interface configuration. | |
3841 | ||
3842 | * "systemctl edit" may now be used to create new unit files by | |
3843 | specifying the --force switch. | |
3844 | ||
3845 | * sd-event gained a new function sd_event_get_iteration() for | |
3846 | requesting the current iteration counter of the event loop. It starts | |
3847 | at zero and is increased by one with each event loop iteration. | |
3848 | ||
43a569a1 ZJS |
3849 | * A new rpm macro %systemd_ordering is provided by the macros.systemd |
3850 | file. It can be used in lieu of %systemd_requires in packages which | |
3851 | don't use any systemd functionality and are intended to be installed | |
3852 | in minimal containers without systemd present. This macro provides | |
ce830873 | 3853 | ordering dependencies to ensure that if the package is installed in |
43a569a1 ZJS |
3854 | the same rpm transaction as systemd, systemd will be installed before |
3855 | the scriptlets for the package are executed, allowing unit presets | |
3856 | to be handled. | |
3857 | ||
3858 | New macros %_systemdgeneratordir and %_systemdusergeneratordir have | |
3859 | been added to simplify packaging of generators. | |
3860 | ||
3861 | * The os-release file gained VERSION_CODENAME field for the | |
3862 | distribution nickname (e.g. VERSION_CODENAME=woody). | |
3863 | ||
3864 | * New udev property UDEV_DISABLE_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_RULES_FLAG=1 | |
3865 | can be set to disable parsing of metadata and the creation | |
3866 | of persistent symlinks for that device. | |
3867 | ||
0f1da52b LP |
3868 | * The v230 change to tag framebuffer devices (/dev/fb*) with "uaccess" |
3869 | to make them available to logged-in users has been reverted. | |
3870 | ||
3871 | * Much of the common code of the various systemd components is now | |
3872 | built into an internal shared library libsystemd-shared-231.so | |
3873 | (incorporating the systemd version number in the name, to be updated | |
3874 | with future releases) that the components link to. This should | |
3875 | decrease systemd footprint both in memory during runtime and on | |
3876 | disk. Note that the shared library is not for public use, and is | |
ead6bd25 | 3877 | neither API nor ABI stable, but is likely to change with every new |
1ecbf32f ZJS |
3878 | released update. Packagers need to make sure that binaries |
3879 | linking to libsystemd-shared.so are updated in step with the | |
3880 | library. | |
43a569a1 | 3881 | |
fcd30826 LP |
3882 | * Configuration for "mkosi" is now part of the systemd |
3883 | repository. mkosi is a tool to easily build legacy-free OS images, | |
3884 | and is available on github: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi. If | |
3885 | "mkosi" is invoked in the build tree a new raw OS image is generated | |
3886 | incorporating the systemd sources currently being worked on and a | |
3887 | clean, fresh distribution installation. The generated OS image may be | |
ce830873 | 3888 | booted up with "systemd-nspawn -b -i", qemu-kvm or on any physical |
fcd30826 LP |
3889 | UEFI PC. This functionality is particularly useful to easily test |
3890 | local changes made to systemd in a pristine, defined environment. See | |
f09eb768 | 3891 | doc/HACKING for details. |
ceeddf79 | 3892 | |
4ffe2479 ZJS |
3893 | * configure learned the --with-support-url= option to specify the |
3894 | distribution's bugtracker. | |
3895 | ||
38b383d9 LP |
3896 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alessandro Puccetti, Alessio Igor |
3897 | Bogani, Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Kurtz, Alex Gaynor, Andika | |
3898 | Triwidada, Andreas Pokorny, Andreas Rammhold, Andrew Jeddeloh, Ansgar | |
3899 | Burchardt, Atrotors, Benjamin Drung, Brian Boylston, Christian Hesse, | |
3900 | Christian Rebischke, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David | |
3901 | Herrmann, David Michael, Djalal Harouni, Douglas Christman, Elias | |
3902 | Probst, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Federico Mena Quintero, Felipe Sateler, | |
3903 | Franck Bui, Harald Hoyer, Ian Lee, Ivan Shapovalov, Jakub Wilk, Jan | |
3904 | Janssen, Jean-Sébastien Bour, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jouke | |
3905 | Witteveen, Kai Ruhnau, kpengboy, Kyle Walker, Lénaïc Huard, Lennart | |
3906 | Poettering, Luca Bruno, Lukas Lösche, Lukáš Nykrýn, mahkoh, Marcel | |
3907 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Marty Plummer, Matthieu Codron, Max Prokhorov, | |
3908 | Michael Biebl, Michael Karcher, Michael Olbrich, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, | |
3909 | Michal Sekletar, Michal Soltys, Minkyung, Muhammet Kara, mulkieran, | |
3910 | Otto Wallenius, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, Peter Hutterer, Ronny Chevalier, | |
3911 | Rusty Bird, Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas | |
771de3f5 ZJS |
3912 | Haller, Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Jungel, Tom Gundersen, Tom Yan, |
3913 | Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Valentin Vidić, Viktar Vaŭčkievič, | |
38b383d9 | 3914 | WaLyong Cho, Weng Xuetian, Werner Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
5cd118ba | 3915 | |
38b383d9 | 3916 | — Berlin, 2016-07-25 |
5cd118ba | 3917 | |
46e40fab | 3918 | CHANGES WITH 230: |
7f6e8043 | 3919 | |
61ecb465 LP |
3920 | * DNSSEC is now turned on by default in systemd-resolved (in |
3921 | "allow-downgrade" mode), but may be turned off during compile time by | |
3922 | passing "--with-default-dnssec=no" to "configure" (and of course, | |
3923 | during runtime with DNSSEC= in resolved.conf). We recommend | |
3924 | downstreams to leave this on at least during development cycles and | |
3925 | report any issues with the DNSSEC logic upstream. We are very | |
3926 | interested in collecting feedback about the DNSSEC validator and its | |
3927 | limitations in the wild. Note however, that DNSSEC support is | |
3928 | probably nothing downstreams should turn on in stable distros just | |
96d49011 | 3929 | yet, as it might create incompatibilities with a few DNS servers and |
61ecb465 LP |
3930 | networks. We tried hard to make sure we downgrade to non-DNSSEC mode |
3931 | automatically whenever we detect such incompatible setups, but there | |
3932 | might be systems we do not cover yet. Hence: please help us testing | |
3933 | the DNSSEC code, leave this on where you can, report back, but then | |
3934 | again don't consider turning this on in your stable, LTS or | |
e40a326c LP |
3935 | production release just yet. (Note that you have to enable |
3936 | nss-resolve in /etc/nsswitch.conf, to actually use systemd-resolved | |
3937 | and its DNSSEC mode for host name resolution from local | |
3938 | applications.) | |
61ecb465 | 3939 | |
96515dbf | 3940 | * systemd-resolve conveniently resolves DANE records with the --tlsa |
e40a326c | 3941 | option and OPENPGPKEY records with the --openpgp option. It also |
e75690c3 | 3942 | supports dumping raw DNS record data via the new --raw= switch. |
96515dbf | 3943 | |
97e5530c ZJS |
3944 | * systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes that are |
3945 | part of the user session scope unit (session-XX.scope) when the user | |
977f2bea | 3946 | logs out. This behavior is controlled by the KillUserProcesses= |
e40a326c LP |
3947 | setting in logind.conf, and the previous default of "no" is now |
3948 | changed to "yes". This means that user sessions will be properly | |
3949 | cleaned up after, but additional steps are necessary to allow | |
3950 | intentionally long-running processes to survive logout. | |
97e5530c ZJS |
3951 | |
3952 | While the user is logged in at least once, user@.service is running, | |
3953 | and any service that should survive the end of any individual login | |
3954 | session can be started at a user service or scope using systemd-run. | |
e40a326c | 3955 | systemd-run(1) man page has been extended with an example which shows |
8951eaec | 3956 | how to run screen in a scope unit underneath user@.service. The same |
e40a326c | 3957 | command works for tmux. |
97e5530c ZJS |
3958 | |
3959 | After the user logs out of all sessions, user@.service will be | |
3960 | terminated too, by default, unless the user has "lingering" enabled. | |
3961 | To effectively allow users to run long-term tasks even if they are | |
152199f2 ZJS |
3962 | logged out, lingering must be enabled for them. See loginctl(1) for |
3963 | details. The default polkit policy was modified to allow users to | |
3964 | set lingering for themselves without authentication. | |
7f6e8043 | 3965 | |
95365a57 | 3966 | Previous defaults can be restored at compile time by the |
e40a326c | 3967 | --without-kill-user-processes option to "configure". |
7f6e8043 | 3968 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3969 | * systemd-logind gained new configuration settings SessionsMax= and |
3970 | InhibitorsMax=, both with a default of 8192. It will not register new | |
188d3082 | 3971 | user sessions or inhibitors above this limit. |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3972 | |
3973 | * systemd-logind will now reload configuration on SIGHUP. | |
3974 | ||
96515dbf | 3975 | * The unified cgroup hierarchy added in Linux 4.5 is now supported. |
e40a326c | 3976 | Use systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 on the kernel command line to |
25b0e6cb LP |
3977 | enable. Also, support for the "io" cgroup controller in the unified |
3978 | hierarchy has been added, so that the "memory", "pids" and "io" are | |
3979 | now the controllers that are supported on the unified hierarchy. | |
e40a326c | 3980 | |
96515dbf ZJS |
3981 | WARNING: it is not possible to use previous systemd versions with |
3982 | systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 and the new kernel. Therefore it | |
3983 | is necessary to also update systemd in the initramfs if using the | |
e40a326c | 3984 | unified hierarchy. An updated SELinux policy is also required. |
96515dbf | 3985 | |
e40a326c LP |
3986 | * LLDP support has been extended, and both passive (receive-only) and |
3987 | active (sender) modes are supported. Passive mode ("routers-only") is | |
8951eaec ZJS |
3988 | enabled by default in systemd-networkd. Active LLDP mode is enabled |
3989 | by default for containers on the internal network. The "networkctl | |
e40a326c LP |
3990 | lldp" command may be used to list information gathered. "networkctl |
3991 | status" will also show basic LLDP information on connected peers now. | |
96515dbf | 3992 | |
e40a326c LP |
3993 | * The IAID and DUID unique identifier sent in DHCP requests may now be |
3994 | configured for the system and each .network file managed by | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
3995 | systemd-networkd using the DUIDType=, DUIDRawData=, IAID= options. |
3996 | ||
3997 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring proxy ARP support for | |
3998 | each interface, via the ProxyArp= setting in .network files. It also | |
3999 | gained support for configuring the multicast querier feature of | |
4000 | bridge devices, via the new MulticastQuerier= setting in .netdev | |
4001 | files. Similarly, snooping on the IGMP traffic can be controlled | |
4002 | via the new setting MulticastSnooping=. | |
4003 | ||
4004 | A new setting PreferredLifetime= has been added for addresses | |
4005 | configured in .network file to configure the lifetime intended for an | |
4006 | address. | |
4007 | ||
4008 | The systemd-networkd DHCP server gained the option EmitRouter=, which | |
4009 | defaults to yes, to configure whether the DHCP Option 3 (Router) | |
4010 | should be emitted. | |
96515dbf | 4011 | |
e40a326c | 4012 | * The testing tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-activate is renamed to |
97e5530c ZJS |
4013 | systemd-socket-activate and installed into /usr/bin. It is now fully |
4014 | supported. | |
4015 | ||
e40a326c LP |
4016 | * systemd-journald now uses separate threads to flush changes to disk |
4017 | when closing journal files, thus reducing impact of slow disk I/O on | |
4018 | logging performance. | |
96515dbf | 4019 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
4020 | * The sd-journal API gained two new calls |
4021 | sd_journal_open_directory_fd() and sd_journal_open_files_fd() which | |
4022 | can be used to open journal files using file descriptors instead of | |
4023 | file or directory paths. sd_journal_open_container() has been | |
4024 | deprecated, sd_journal_open_directory_fd() should be used instead | |
4025 | with the flag SD_JOURNAL_OS_ROOT. | |
4026 | ||
4027 | * journalctl learned a new output mode "-o short-unix" that outputs log | |
4028 | lines prefixed by their UNIX time (i.e. seconds since Jan 1st, 1970 | |
4029 | UTC). It also gained support for a new --no-hostname setting to | |
4030 | suppress the hostname column in the family of "short" output modes. | |
4031 | ||
e40a326c LP |
4032 | * systemd-ask-password now optionally skips printing of the password to |
4033 | stdout with --no-output which can be useful in scripts. | |
96515dbf ZJS |
4034 | |
4035 | * Framebuffer devices (/dev/fb*) and 3D printers and scanners | |
4036 | (devices tagged with ID_MAKER_TOOL) are now tagged with | |
4037 | "uaccess" and are available to logged in users. | |
4038 | ||
e75690c3 | 4039 | * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports specifiers (with "%"). |
e40a326c LP |
4040 | |
4041 | * "systemctl show" gained a new --value switch, which allows print a | |
4042 | only the contents of a specific unit property, without also printing | |
8951eaec ZJS |
4043 | the property's name. Similar support was added to "show*" verbs |
4044 | of loginctl and machinectl that output "key=value" lists. | |
e40a326c | 4045 | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
4046 | * A new unit type "generated" was added for files dynamically generated |
4047 | by generator tools. Similarly, a new unit type "transient" is used | |
4048 | for unit files created using the runtime API. "systemctl enable" will | |
4049 | refuse to operate on such files. | |
4050 | ||
e40a326c LP |
4051 | * A new command "systemctl revert" has been added that may be used to |
4052 | revert to the vendor version of a unit file, in case local changes | |
4053 | have been made by adding drop-ins or overriding the unit file. | |
4054 | ||
4055 | * "machinectl clean" gained a new verb to automatically remove all or | |
4056 | just hidden container images. | |
4057 | ||
e40a326c LP |
4058 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for a new line type "e" for emptying |
4059 | directories, if they exist, without creating them if they don't. | |
4060 | ||
e40a326c LP |
4061 | * systemd-nspawn gained support for automatically patching the UID/GIDs |
4062 | of the owners and the ACLs of all files and directories in a | |
4063 | container tree to match the UID/GID user namespacing range selected | |
4064 | for the container invocation. This mode is enabled via the new | |
24597ee0 ZJS |
4065 | --private-users-chown switch. It also gained support for |
4066 | automatically choosing a free, previously unused UID/GID range when | |
4067 | starting a container, via the new --private-users=pick setting (which | |
4068 | implies --private-users-chown). Together, these options for the first | |
4069 | time make user namespacing for nspawn containers fully automatic and | |
4070 | thus deployable. The systemd-nspawn@.service template unit file has | |
4071 | been changed to use this functionality by default. | |
e40a326c | 4072 | |
25b0e6cb LP |
4073 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-zone= switch, that allows |
4074 | creating ad-hoc virtual Ethernet links between multiple containers, | |
4075 | that only exist as long as at least one container referencing them is | |
4076 | running. This allows easy connecting of multiple containers with a | |
4077 | common link that implements an Ethernet broadcast domain. Each of | |
4078 | these network "zones" may be named relatively freely by the user, and | |
4079 | may be referenced by any number of containers, but each container may | |
4080 | only reference one of these "zones". On the lower level, this is | |
4081 | implemented by an automatically managed bridge network interface for | |
4082 | each zone, that is created when the first container referencing its | |
4083 | zone is created and removed when the last one referencing its zone | |
4084 | terminates. | |
4085 | ||
e40a326c | 4086 | * The default start timeout may now be configured on the kernel command |
8951eaec ZJS |
4087 | line via systemd.default_timeout_start_sec=. It was already |
4088 | configurable via the DefaultTimeoutStartSec= option in | |
4089 | /etc/systemd/system.conf. | |
e40a326c | 4090 | |
030bd839 | 4091 | * Socket units gained a new TriggerLimitIntervalSec= and |
e40a326c LP |
4092 | TriggerLimitBurst= setting to configure a limit on the activation |
4093 | rate of the socket unit. | |
4094 | ||
4095 | * The LimitNICE= setting now optionally takes normal UNIX nice values | |
4096 | in addition to the raw integer limit value. If the specified | |
4097 | parameter is prefixed with "+" or "-" and is in the range -20..19 the | |
4098 | value is understood as UNIX nice value. If not prefixed like this it | |
4099 | is understood as raw RLIMIT_NICE limit. | |
4100 | ||
999a43f8 LP |
4101 | * Note that the effect of the PrivateDevices= unit file setting changed |
4102 | slightly with this release: the per-device /dev file system will be | |
4103 | mounted read-only from this version on, and will have "noexec" | |
188d3082 | 4104 | set. This (minor) change of behavior might cause some (exceptional) |
999a43f8 LP |
4105 | legacy software to break, when PrivateDevices=yes is set for its |
4106 | service. Please leave PrivateDevices= off if you run into problems | |
4107 | with this. | |
4108 | ||
e75690c3 ZJS |
4109 | * systemd-bootchart has been split out to a separate repository: |
4110 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart | |
4111 | ||
4112 | * systemd-bus-proxyd has been removed, as kdbus is unlikely to still be | |
4113 | merged into the kernel in its current form. | |
4114 | ||
4115 | * The compatibility libraries libsystemd-daemon.so, | |
4116 | libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-id128.so, and libsystemd-login.so | |
4117 | which have been deprecated since systemd-209 have been removed along | |
4118 | with the corresponding pkg-config files. All symbols provided by | |
4119 | those libraries are provided by libsystemd.so. | |
4120 | ||
4121 | * The Capabilities= unit file setting has been removed (it is ignored | |
4122 | for backwards compatibility). AmbientCapabilities= and | |
4123 | CapabilityBoundingSet= should be used instead. | |
4124 | ||
4f9020fa DR |
4125 | * A new special target has been added, initrd-root-device.target, |
4126 | which creates a synchronization point for dependencies of the root | |
4127 | device in early userspace. Initramfs builders must ensure that this | |
4128 | target is now included in early userspace. | |
4129 | ||
e75690c3 ZJS |
4130 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Shopov, |
4131 | Alex Crawford, Andre Klärner, Andrew Eikum, Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin | |
4132 | Robin, Biao Lu, Bjørnar Ness, Calvin Owens, Christian Hesse, Clemens | |
4133 | Gruber, Colin Guthrie, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel J Walsh, | |
4134 | Daniel Mack, Dan Nicholson, daurnimator, David Herrmann, David | |
4135 | R. Hedges, Elias Probst, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot, EMOziko, Evgeny | |
4136 | Vereshchagin, Federico, Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck | |
4137 | Bui, frankheckenbach, gdamjan, Georgia Brikis, Harald Hoyer, Hendrik | |
77ff6022 CG |
4138 | Brueckner, Hristo Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Ian Kelling, Ismo |
4139 | Puustinen, Jakub Wilk, Jaroslav Škarvada, Jeff Huang, Joel Holdsworth, | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
4140 | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathan Boulle, kayrus, Klearchos |
4141 | Chaloulos, Kyle Russell, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir | |
4142 | Rintel, Lukáš Nykrýn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, | |
77ff6022 CG |
4143 | Michael Biebl, michaelolbrich, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Koutný, |
4144 | Michal Sekletar, Mike Frysinger, Mike Gilbert, Mingcong Bai, Ming Lin, | |
4145 | mulkieran, muzena, Nalin Dahyabhai, Naohiro Aota, Nathan McSween, | |
e75690c3 ZJS |
4146 | Nicolas Braud-Santoni, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, |
4147 | Petr Lautrbach, Petros Angelatos, Piotr Drąg, Rabin Vincent, Robert | |
4148 | Węcławski, Ronny Chevalier, Samuel Tardieu, Stefan Saraev, Stefan | |
4149 | Schallenberg aka nafets227, Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
4150 | Plantefève, Taylor Smock, Tejun Heo, Thomas Blume, Thomas Haller, | |
4151 | Thomas H. P. Andersen, Tobias Klauser, Tom Gundersen, topimiettinen, | |
46e40fab ZJS |
4152 | Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uwe Kleine-König, Victor Toso, |
4153 | Vinay Kulkarni, Vito Caputo, Vittorio G (VittGam), Vladimir Panteleev, | |
4154 | Wieland Hoffmann, Wouter Verhelst, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew | |
4155 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
e40a326c | 4156 | |
46e40fab | 4157 | — Fairfax, 2016-05-21 |
96515dbf | 4158 | |
61f32bff MP |
4159 | CHANGES WITH 229: |
4160 | ||
d5f8b295 LP |
4161 | * The systemd-resolved DNS resolver service has gained a substantial |
4162 | set of new features, most prominently it may now act as a DNSSEC | |
4163 | validating stub resolver. DNSSEC mode is currently turned off by | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4164 | default, but is expected to be turned on by default in one of the |
4165 | next releases. For now, we invite everybody to test the DNSSEC logic | |
4166 | by setting DNSSEC=allow-downgrade in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. The | |
4167 | service also gained a full set of D-Bus interfaces, including calls | |
4168 | to configure DNS and DNSSEC settings per link (for use by external | |
4169 | network management software). systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd | |
4170 | now distinguish between "search" and "routing" domains. The former | |
4171 | are used to qualify single-label names, the latter are used purely | |
4172 | for routing lookups within certain domains to specific links. | |
4173 | resolved now also synthesizes RRs for all entries from /etc/hosts. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4174 | |
4175 | * The systemd-resolve tool (which is a client utility for | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4176 | systemd-resolved) has been improved considerably and is now fully |
4177 | supported and documented. Hence it has moved from /usr/lib/systemd to | |
4178 | /usr/bin. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4179 | |
4180 | * /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio | |
4181 | devices. | |
4182 | ||
a7c723c0 LP |
4183 | * The coredump collection logic has been reworked: when a coredump is |
4184 | collected it is now written to disk, compressed and processed | |
4185 | (including stacktrace extraction) from a new instantiated service | |
4186 | systemd-coredump@.service, instead of directly from the | |
4187 | /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook we provide. This is beneficial as | |
4188 | processing large coredumps can take up a substantial amount of | |
4189 | resources and time, and this previously happened entirely outside of | |
4190 | systemd's service supervision. With the new logic the core_pattern | |
4191 | hook only does minimal metadata collection before passing off control | |
4192 | to the new instantiated service, which is configured with a time | |
4193 | limit, a nice level and other settings to minimize negative impact on | |
4194 | the rest of the system. Also note that the new logic will honour the | |
4195 | RLIMIT_CORE setting of the crashed process, which now allows users | |
4196 | and processes to turn off coredumping for their processes by setting | |
4197 | this limit. | |
4198 | ||
4199 | * The RLIMIT_CORE resource limit now defaults to "unlimited" for PID 1 | |
4200 | and all forked processes by default. Previously, PID 1 would leave | |
4201 | the setting at "0" for all processes, as set by the kernel. Note that | |
4202 | the resource limit traditionally has no effect on the generated | |
4203 | coredumps on the system if the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook | |
4204 | logic is used. Since the limit is now honoured (see above) its | |
4205 | default has been changed so that the coredumping logic is enabled by | |
4206 | default for all processes, while allowing specific opt-out. | |
4207 | ||
4208 | * When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, this | |
4209 | is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this | |
4210 | potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when | |
4211 | processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID | |
4212 | of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice | |
4213 | that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system user | |
4214 | and group at package installation time. | |
4215 | ||
d5f8b295 LP |
4216 | * The systemd-activate socket activation testing tool gained support |
4217 | for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets using the new --datagram | |
4218 | and --seqpacket switches. It also has been extended to support both | |
4219 | new-style and inetd-style file descriptor passing. Use the new | |
4220 | --inetd switch to request inetd-style file descriptor passing. | |
4221 | ||
8968aea0 MP |
4222 | * Most systemd tools now honor a new $SYSTEMD_COLORS environment |
4223 | variable, which takes a boolean value. If set to false, ANSI color | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4224 | output is disabled in the tools even when run on a terminal that |
4225 | supports it. | |
4226 | ||
4227 | * The VXLAN support in networkd now supports two new settings | |
4228 | DestinationPort= and PortRange=. | |
4229 | ||
4230 | * A new systemd.machine_id= kernel command line switch has been added, | |
4231 | that may be used to set the machine ID in /etc/machine-id if it is | |
4232 | not initialized yet. This command line option has no effect if the | |
4233 | file is already initialized. | |
4234 | ||
4235 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --as-pid2 switch that invokes any | |
4236 | specified command line as PID 2 rather than PID 1 in the | |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4237 | container. In this mode PID 1 is a minimal stub init process that |
4238 | implements the special POSIX and Linux semantics of PID 1 regarding | |
4239 | signal and child process management. Note that this stub init process | |
4240 | is implemented in nspawn itself and requires no support from the | |
4241 | container image. This new logic is useful to support running | |
4242 | arbitrary commands in the container, as normal processes are | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4243 | generally not prepared to run as PID 1. |
4244 | ||
4245 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --chdir= switch for setting the current | |
4246 | working directory for the process started in the container. | |
4247 | ||
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4248 | * "journalctl /dev/sda" will now output all kernel log messages for |
4249 | specified device from the current boot, in addition to all devices | |
4250 | that are parents of it. This should make log output about devices | |
4251 | pretty useful, as long as kernel drivers attach enough metadata to | |
4252 | the log messages. (The usual SATA drivers do.) | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4253 | |
4254 | * The sd-journal API gained two new calls | |
4255 | sd_journal_has_runtime_files() and sd_journal_has_persistent_files() | |
4256 | that report whether log data from /run or /var has been found. | |
4257 | ||
4258 | * journalctl gained a new switch "--fields" that prints all journal | |
4259 | record field names currently in use in the journal. This is backed | |
4260 | by two new sd-journal API calls sd_journal_enumerate_fields() and | |
4261 | sd_journal_restart_fields(). | |
4262 | ||
4263 | * Most configurable timeouts in systemd now expect an argument of | |
8968aea0 MP |
4264 | "infinity" to turn them off, instead of "0" as before. The semantics |
4265 | from now on is that a timeout of "0" means "now", and "infinity" | |
4266 | means "never". To maintain backwards compatibility, "0" continues to | |
4267 | turn off previously existing timeout settings. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4268 | |
4269 | * "systemctl reload-or-try-restart" has been renamed to "systemctl | |
8968aea0 MP |
4270 | try-reload-or-restart" to clarify what it actually does: the "try" |
4271 | logic applies to both reloading and restarting, not just restarting. | |
4272 | The old name continues to be accepted for compatibility. | |
4273 | ||
4274 | * On boot-up, when PID 1 detects that the system clock is behind the | |
4275 | release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now set | |
4276 | to the latter. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4277 | to avoid running with clocks set to the various clock epochs such as |
4278 | 1902, 1938 or 1970. With this change the logic is now done in PID 1 | |
4279 | in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced | |
4280 | before the first process is spawned by systemd. Note that the logic | |
4281 | in timesyncd remains, as it is more comprehensive and ensures | |
ed5f8840 | 4282 | clock monotonicity by maintaining a persistent timestamp file in |
d5f8b295 LP |
4283 | /var. Since /var is generally not available in earliest boot or the |
4284 | initrd, this part of the logic remains in timesyncd, and is not done | |
4285 | by PID 1. | |
4286 | ||
50f48ad3 DM |
4287 | * Support for tweaking details in net_cls.class_id through the |
4288 | NetClass= configuration directive has been removed, as the kernel | |
4289 | people have decided to deprecate that controller in cgroup v2. | |
4290 | Userspace tools such as nftables are moving over to setting rules | |
4291 | that are specific to the full cgroup path of a task, which obsoletes | |
4292 | these controllers anyway. The NetClass= directive is kept around for | |
4293 | legacy compatibility reasons. For a more in-depth description of the | |
4294 | kernel change, please refer to the respective upstream commit: | |
4295 | ||
4296 | https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd1060a1d671 | |
4297 | ||
d5f8b295 | 4298 | * A new service setting RuntimeMaxSec= has been added that may be used |
8968aea0 | 4299 | to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit, the |
d5f8b295 LP |
4300 | service is terminated and put into a failure state. |
4301 | ||
8968aea0 MP |
4302 | * A new service setting AmbientCapabilities= has been added. It allows |
4303 | configuration of additional Linux process capabilities that are | |
4304 | passed to the activated processes. This is only available on very | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4305 | recent kernels. |
4306 | ||
4307 | * The process resource limit settings in service units may now be used | |
4308 | to configure hard and soft limits individually. | |
4309 | ||
8968aea0 | 4310 | * The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publicly |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4311 | expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C extension. |
4312 | Specifically, for many object destructor functions alternative | |
4313 | versions have been added that have names suffixed with "p" and take a | |
4314 | pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy, instead of just a | |
4315 | pointer to the object itself. This is useful because these destructor | |
4316 | functions may be used directly as parameters to the cleanup | |
4317 | construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of this GCC | |
4318 | extension for a long time, and with this change similar support is | |
4319 | now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note | |
8968aea0 | 4320 | that by using this extension in your sources compatibility with old |
ed5f8840 ZJS |
4321 | and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, all gcc or |
4322 | LLVM versions of recent years support this extension. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4323 | |
4324 | * Timer units gained support for a new setting RandomizedDelaySec= that | |
8968aea0 MP |
4325 | allows configuring some additional randomized delay to the configured |
4326 | time. This is useful to spread out timer events to avoid load peaks in | |
4327 | clusters or larger setups. | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4328 | |
4329 | * Calendar time specifications now support sub-second accuracy. | |
4330 | ||
4331 | * Socket units now support listening on SCTP and UDP-lite protocol | |
4332 | sockets. | |
4333 | ||
4334 | * The sd-event API now comes with a full set of man pages. | |
4335 | ||
4336 | * Older versions of systemd contained experimental support for | |
4337 | compressing journal files and coredumps with the LZ4 compressor that | |
4338 | was not compatible with the lz4 binary (due to API limitations of the | |
4339 | lz4 library). This support has been removed; only support for files | |
4340 | compatible with the lz4 binary remains. This LZ4 logic is now | |
4341 | officially supported and no longer considered experimental. | |
4342 | ||
4343 | * The dkr image import logic has been removed again from importd. dkr's | |
4344 | micro-services focus doesn't fit into the machine image focus of | |
4345 | importd, and quickly got out of date with the upstream dkr API. | |
4346 | ||
4347 | * Creation of the /run/lock/lockdev/ directory was dropped from | |
4348 | tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf. Better locking mechanisms like flock() have | |
61f32bff MP |
4349 | been available for many years. If you still need this, you need to |
4350 | create your own tmpfiles.d config file with: | |
d5f8b295 LP |
4351 | |
4352 | d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock - | |
61f32bff | 4353 | |
dd95b381 LP |
4354 | * The settings StartLimitBurst=, StartLimitInterval=, StartLimitAction= |
4355 | and RebootArgument= have been moved from the [Service] section of | |
4356 | unit files to [Unit], and they are now supported on all unit types, | |
4357 | not just service units. Of course, systemd will continue to | |
4358 | understand these settings also at the old location, in order to | |
4359 | maintain compatibility. | |
4360 | ||
3545ab35 LP |
4361 | Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Alban Crequy, Aleksander |
4362 | Adamowski, Alexander Kuleshov, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei Borzenkov, | |
4363 | Andrew Wilcox, Arthur Clement, Beniamino Galvani, Casey Schaufler, | |
4364 | Chris Atkinson, Chris Mayo, Christian Hesse, Damjan Georgievski, Dan | |
4365 | Dedrick, Daniele Medri, Daniel J Walsh, Daniel Korostil, Daniel Mack, | |
4366 | David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dominik Hannen, Douglas Christman, | |
4367 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Gabor Kelemen, | |
4368 | Harald Hoyer, Hayden Walles, Helmut Grohne, Henrik Kaare Poulsen, | |
4369 | Hristo Venev, Hui Wang, Indrajit Raychaudhuri, Ismo Puustinen, Jakub | |
4370 | Wilk, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, | |
4371 | Joost Bremmer, Jorgen Schaefer, Karel Zak, Klearchos Chaloulos, | |
4372 | lc85446, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
4373 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, | |
4374 | Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, Nicolas Cornu, Nicolas Iooss, Nils | |
4375 | Carlson, nmartensen, nnz1024, Patrick Ohly, Peter Hutterer, Phillip Sz, | |
4376 | Ronny Chevalier, Samu Kallio, Shawn Landden, Stef Walter, Susant | |
4377 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Tadej Janež, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
4378 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito | |
4379 | Caputo, WaLyong Cho, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
4380 | ||
ccddd104 | 4381 | — Berlin, 2016-02-11 |
61f32bff | 4382 | |
a11c7ea5 LP |
4383 | CHANGES WITH 228: |
4384 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
4385 | * A number of properties previously only settable in unit |
4386 | files are now also available as properties to set when | |
4387 | creating transient units programmatically via the bus, as it | |
4388 | is exposed with systemd-run's --property= | |
4389 | setting. Specifically, these are: SyslogIdentifier=, | |
4390 | SyslogLevelPrefix=, TimerSlackNSec=, OOMScoreAdjust=, | |
4391 | EnvironmentFile=, ReadWriteDirectories=, | |
4392 | ReadOnlyDirectories=, InaccessibleDirectories=, | |
4393 | ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome=, RuntimeDirectory=. | |
4394 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4395 | * When creating transient services via the bus API it is now |
4396 | possible to pass in a set of file descriptors to use as | |
4397 | STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR for the invoked process. | |
a11c7ea5 | 4398 | |
f1f8a5a5 LP |
4399 | * Slice units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs, |
4400 | similar to the way service and scope units may already be | |
4401 | created transiently. | |
4402 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
4403 | * Wherever systemd expects a calendar timestamp specification |
4404 | (like in journalctl's --since= and --until= switches) UTC | |
4405 | timestamps are now supported. Timestamps suffixed with "UTC" | |
4406 | are now considered to be in Universal Time Coordinated | |
4407 | instead of the local timezone. Also, timestamps may now | |
815bb5bd | 4408 | optionally be specified with sub-second accuracy. Both of |
a11c7ea5 LP |
4409 | these additions also apply to recurring calendar event |
4410 | specification, such as OnCalendar= in timer units. | |
4411 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4412 | * journalctl gained a new "--sync" switch that asks the |
4413 | journal daemon to write all so far unwritten log messages to | |
4414 | disk and sync the files, before returning. | |
4415 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
4416 | * systemd-tmpfiles learned two new line types "q" and "Q" that |
4417 | operate like "v", but also set up a basic btrfs quota | |
4418 | hierarchy when used on a btrfs file system with quota | |
4419 | enabled. | |
4420 | ||
f1f8a5a5 LP |
4421 | * tmpfiles' "v", "q" and "Q" will now create a plain directory |
4422 | instead of a subvolume (even on a btrfs file system) if the | |
4423 | root directory is a plain directory, and not a | |
4424 | subvolume. This should simplify things with certain chroot() | |
4425 | environments which are not aware of the concept of btrfs | |
4426 | subvolumes. | |
4427 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
4428 | * systemd-detect-virt gained a new --chroot switch to detect |
4429 | whether execution takes place in a chroot() environment. | |
4430 | ||
28c85daf | 4431 | * CPUAffinity= now takes CPU index ranges in addition to |
a11c7ea5 LP |
4432 | individual indexes. |
4433 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4434 | * The various memory-related resource limit settings (such as |
4435 | LimitAS=) now understand the usual K, M, G, ... suffixes to | |
4436 | the base of 1024 (IEC). Similar, the time-related resource | |
4437 | limit settings understand the usual min, h, day, ... | |
4438 | suffixes now. | |
4439 | ||
f1f8a5a5 LP |
4440 | * There's a new system.conf setting DefaultTasksMax= to |
4441 | control the default TasksMax= setting for services and | |
4442 | scopes running on the system. (TasksMax= is the primary | |
4443 | setting that exposes the "pids" cgroup controller on systemd | |
4444 | and was introduced in the previous systemd release.) The | |
4445 | setting now defaults to 512, which means services that are | |
4446 | not explicitly configured otherwise will only be able to | |
4447 | create 512 processes or threads at maximum, from this | |
4448 | version on. Note that this means that thread- or | |
4449 | process-heavy services might need to be reconfigured to set | |
4450 | TasksMax= to a higher value. It is sufficient to set | |
4451 | TasksMax= in these specific unit files to a higher value, or | |
4452 | even "infinity". Similar, there's now a logind.conf setting | |
4453 | UserTasksMax= that defaults to 4096 and limits the total | |
4454 | number of processes or tasks each user may own | |
4455 | concurrently. nspawn containers also have the TasksMax= | |
4456 | value set by default now, to 8192. Note that all of this | |
4457 | only has an effect if the "pids" cgroup controller is | |
4458 | enabled in the kernel. The general benefit of these changes | |
4459 | should be a more robust and safer system, that provides a | |
4460 | certain amount of per-service fork() bomb protection. | |
4461 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4462 | * systemd-nspawn gained the new --network-veth-extra= switch |
4463 | to define additional and arbitrarily-named virtual Ethernet | |
4464 | links between the host and the container. | |
4465 | ||
4466 | * A new service execution setting PassEnvironment= has been | |
4467 | added that allows importing select environment variables | |
4468 | from PID1's environment block into the environment block of | |
4469 | the service. | |
4470 | ||
ddb4b0d3 | 4471 | * Timer units gained support for a new RemainAfterElapse= |
595bfe7d | 4472 | setting which takes a boolean argument. It defaults to on, |
ddb4b0d3 LP |
4473 | exposing behaviour unchanged to previous releases. If set to |
4474 | off, timer units are unloaded after they elapsed if they | |
4475 | cannot elapse again. This is particularly useful for | |
4476 | transient timer units, which shall not stay around longer | |
4477 | than until they first elapse. | |
4478 | ||
a11c7ea5 | 4479 | * systemd will now bump the net.unix.max_dgram_qlen to 512 by |
28c85daf LP |
4480 | default now (the kernel default is 16). This is beneficial |
4481 | for avoiding blocking on AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM sockets since it | |
a11c7ea5 LP |
4482 | allows substantially larger numbers of queued |
4483 | datagrams. This should increase the capability of systemd to | |
4484 | parallelize boot-up, as logging and sd_notify() are unlikely | |
4485 | to stall execution anymore. If you need to change the value | |
4486 | from the new defaults, use the usual sysctl.d/ snippets. | |
4487 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4488 | * The compression framing format used by the journal or |
4489 | coredump processing has changed to be in line with what the | |
4490 | official LZ4 tools generate. LZ4 compression support in | |
4491 | systemd was considered unsupported previously, as the format | |
4492 | was not compatible with the normal tools. With this release | |
4493 | this has changed now, and it is hence safe for downstream | |
4494 | distributions to turn it on. While not compressing as well | |
815bb5bd | 4495 | as the XZ, LZ4 is substantially faster, which makes |
28c85daf LP |
4496 | it a good default choice for the compression logic in the |
4497 | journal and in coredump handling. | |
a11c7ea5 | 4498 | |
28c85daf LP |
4499 | * Any reference to /etc/mtab has been dropped from |
4500 | systemd. The file has been obsolete since a while, but | |
4501 | systemd refused to work on systems where it was incorrectly | |
815bb5bd | 4502 | set up (it should be a symlink or non-existent). Please make |
28c85daf LP |
4503 | sure to update to util-linux 2.27.1 or newer in conjunction |
4504 | with this systemd release, which also drops any reference to | |
4505 | /etc/mtab. If you maintain a distribution make sure that no | |
4506 | software you package still references it, as this is a | |
4507 | likely source of bugs. There's also a glibc bug pending, | |
4508 | asking for removal of any reference to this obsolete file: | |
4509 | ||
4510 | https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19108 | |
a11c7ea5 | 4511 | |
d5bd92bb LP |
4512 | Note that only util-linux versions built with |
4513 | --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo are supported. | |
4514 | ||
a11c7ea5 LP |
4515 | * Support for the ".snapshot" unit type has been removed. This |
4516 | feature turned out to be little useful and little used, and | |
4517 | has now been removed from the core and from systemctl. | |
4518 | ||
b9e2f7eb LP |
4519 | * The dependency types RequiresOverridable= and |
4520 | RequisiteOverridable= have been removed from systemd. They | |
4521 | have been used only very sparingly to our knowledge and | |
4522 | other options that provide a similar effect (such as | |
4523 | systemctl --mode=ignore-dependencies) are much more useful | |
4524 | and commonly used. Moreover, they were only half-way | |
4525 | implemented as the option to control behaviour regarding | |
4526 | these dependencies was never added to systemctl. By removing | |
4527 | these dependency types the execution engine becomes a bit | |
4528 | simpler. Unit files that use these dependencies should be | |
4529 | changed to use the non-Overridable dependency types | |
4530 | instead. In fact, when parsing unit files with these | |
4531 | options, that's what systemd will automatically convert them | |
4532 | too, but it will also warn, asking users to fix the unit | |
4533 | files accordingly. Removal of these dependency types should | |
4534 | only affect a negligible number of unit files in the wild. | |
4535 | ||
4536 | * Behaviour of networkd's IPForward= option changed | |
4537 | (again). It will no longer maintain a per-interface setting, | |
4538 | but propagate one way from interfaces where this is enabled | |
4539 | to the global kernel setting. The global setting will be | |
4540 | enabled when requested by a network that is set up, but | |
4541 | never be disabled again. This change was made to make sure | |
4542 | IPv4 and IPv6 behaviour regarding packet forwarding is | |
4543 | similar (as the Linux IPv6 stack does not support | |
4544 | per-interface control of this setting) and to minimize | |
4545 | surprises. | |
4546 | ||
28c85daf LP |
4547 | * In unit files the behaviour of %u, %U, %h, %s has |
4548 | changed. These specifiers will now unconditionally resolve | |
4549 | to the various user database fields of the user that the | |
4550 | systemd instance is running as, instead of the user | |
4551 | configured in the specific unit via User=. Note that this | |
4552 | effectively doesn't change much, as resolving of these | |
4553 | specifiers was already turned off in the --system instance | |
4554 | of systemd, as we cannot do NSS lookups from PID 1. In the | |
4555 | --user instance of systemd these specifiers where correctly | |
4556 | resolved, but hardly made any sense, since the user instance | |
4557 | lacks privileges to do user switches anyway, and User= is | |
ce830873 | 4558 | hence useless. Moreover, even in the --user instance of |
28c85daf LP |
4559 | systemd behaviour was awkward as it would only take settings |
4560 | from User= assignment placed before the specifier into | |
4561 | account. In order to unify and simplify the logic around | |
4562 | this the specifiers will now always resolve to the | |
4563 | credentials of the user invoking the manager (which in case | |
4564 | of PID 1 is the root user). | |
4565 | ||
4566 | Contributions from: Andrew Jones, Beniamino Galvani, Boyuan | |
4567 | Yang, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, David | |
4568 | Reynolds, David Strauss, Dongsu Park, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
f1f8a5a5 LP |
4569 | Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Hristo |
4570 | Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
4571 | Synacek, Jesus Ornelas Aguayo, Karel Zak, kayrus, Kay Sievers, | |
4572 | Lennart Poettering, Liu Yuan Yuan, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
4573 | Holtmann, Marcin Bachry, Marcos Alano, Marcos Mello, Mark | |
4574 | Theunissen, Martin Pitt, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, | |
4575 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nick Owens, | |
4576 | Nicolas Cornu, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, reverendhomer, | |
4577 | Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Shawn Landden, | |
4578 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
4579 | Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Vito Caputo, Zbigniew | |
4580 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
28c85daf | 4581 | |
ccddd104 | 4582 | — Berlin, 2015-11-18 |
a11c7ea5 | 4583 | |
c97e586d DM |
4584 | CHANGES WITH 227: |
4585 | ||
4586 | * systemd now depends on util-linux v2.27. More specifically, | |
4587 | the newly added mount monitor feature in libmount now | |
4588 | replaces systemd's former own implementation. | |
4589 | ||
4590 | * libmount mandates /etc/mtab not to be regular file, and | |
4591 | systemd now enforces this condition at early boot. | |
4592 | /etc/mtab has been deprecated and warned about for a very | |
4593 | long time, so systems running systemd should already have | |
4594 | stopped having this file around as anything else than a | |
4595 | symlink to /proc/self/mounts. | |
4596 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
4597 | * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. It |
4598 | allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and | |
c97e586d DM |
4599 | enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting |
4600 | TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a | |
6fd5517b | 4601 | global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. |
c97e586d DM |
4602 | |
4603 | * Support for the "net_cls" cgroup controller has been added. | |
fe08a30b LP |
4604 | It allows assigning a net class ID to each task in the |
4605 | cgroup, which can then be used in firewall rules and traffic | |
4606 | shaping configurations. Note that the kernel netfilter net | |
4607 | class code does not currently work reliably for ingress | |
4608 | packets on unestablished sockets. | |
c97e586d DM |
4609 | |
4610 | This adds a new config directive called NetClass= to CGroup | |
6fd5517b | 4611 | enabled units. Allowed values are positive numbers for fixed |
c97e586d DM |
4612 | assignments and "auto" for picking a free value |
4613 | automatically. | |
4614 | ||
21d86c61 DM |
4615 | * 'systemctl is-system-running' now returns 'offline' if the |
4616 | system is not booted with systemd. This command can now be | |
4617 | used as a substitute for 'systemd-notify --booted'. | |
4618 | ||
4619 | * Watchdog timeouts have been increased to 3 minutes for all | |
4620 | in-tree service files. Apparently, disk IO issues are more | |
4621 | frequent than we hoped, and user reported >1 minute waiting | |
4622 | for disk IO. | |
4623 | ||
4624 | * 'machine-id-commit' functionality has been merged into | |
4625 | 'machine-id-setup --commit'. The separate binary has been | |
4626 | removed. | |
4627 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
4628 | * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be set |
4629 | to the special value '~'. In this case, the working | |
4630 | directory is set to the home directory of the user | |
4631 | configured in User=. | |
21d86c61 | 4632 | |
fe08a30b LP |
4633 | * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home |
4634 | directory of the selected user by default. | |
4635 | ||
21d86c61 | 4636 | * The CrashChVT= configuration file setting is renamed to |
d046fb93 LP |
4637 | CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not |
4638 | abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still | |
4639 | supported for compat reasons. Also, this directive now takes | |
4640 | an integer value between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The | |
4641 | formerly supported '-1' value for disabling stays around for | |
4642 | compat reasons. | |
21d86c61 | 4643 | |
fe08a30b | 4644 | * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, |
8b5f9d15 | 4645 | NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and |
fe08a30b LP |
4646 | RootDirectory= properties can now be set for transient |
4647 | units. | |
4648 | ||
4649 | * The systemd-analyze tool gained a new "set-log-target" verb | |
4650 | to change the logging target the system manager logs to | |
4651 | dynamically during runtime. This is similar to how | |
4652 | "systemd-analyze set-log-level" already changes the log | |
4653 | level. | |
4654 | ||
4655 | * In nspawn /sys is now mounted as tmpfs, with only a selected | |
4656 | set of subdirectories mounted in from the real sysfs. This | |
4657 | enhances security slightly, and is useful for ensuring user | |
4658 | namespaces work correctly. | |
4659 | ||
4660 | * Support for USB FunctionFS activation has been added. This | |
4661 | allows implementation of USB gadget services that are | |
4662 | activated as soon as they are requested, so that they don't | |
595bfe7d | 4663 | have to run continuously, similar to classic socket |
fe08a30b LP |
4664 | activation. |
4665 | ||
4666 | * The "systemctl exit" command now optionally takes an | |
4667 | additional parameter that sets the exit code to return from | |
4668 | the systemd manager when exiting. This is only relevant when | |
4669 | running the systemd user instance, or when running the | |
4670 | system instance in a container. | |
4671 | ||
4672 | * sd-bus gained the new API calls sd_bus_path_encode_many() | |
4673 | and sd_bus_path_decode_many() that allow easy encoding and | |
4674 | decoding of multiple identifier strings inside a D-Bus | |
4675 | object path. Another new call sd_bus_default_flush_close() | |
4676 | has been added to flush and close per-thread default | |
4677 | connections. | |
4678 | ||
4679 | * systemd-cgtop gained support for a -M/--machine= switch to | |
4680 | show the control groups within a certain container only. | |
4681 | ||
4682 | * "systemctl kill" gained support for an optional --fail | |
4683 | switch. If specified the requested operation will fail of no | |
4684 | processes have been killed, because the unit had no | |
4685 | processes attached, or similar. | |
4686 | ||
bdba9227 DM |
4687 | * A new systemd.crash_reboot=1 kernel command line option has |
4688 | been added that triggers a reboot after crashing. This can | |
4689 | also be set through CrashReboot= in systemd.conf. | |
4690 | ||
4691 | * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit | |
4692 | specifiers like %i or %f. | |
4693 | ||
ce830873 | 4694 | * A new (still internal) library API sd-ipv4acd has been added, |
fe08a30b LP |
4695 | that implements address conflict detection for IPv4. It's |
4696 | based on code from sd-ipv4ll, and will be useful for | |
4697 | detecting DHCP address conflicts. | |
4698 | ||
bdba9227 DM |
4699 | * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be |
4700 | named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to | |
a8eaaee7 | 4701 | access the names. The default names may be overridden, |
bdba9227 DM |
4702 | either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName= |
4703 | parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file | |
4704 | descriptors using sd_notify(). | |
fe08a30b | 4705 | |
d046fb93 LP |
4706 | * systemd-networkd gained support for: |
4707 | ||
0053598f | 4708 | - Setting the IPv6 Router Advertisement settings via |
edf4126f | 4709 | IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in .network files. |
d046fb93 LP |
4710 | |
4711 | - Configuring the HelloTimeSec=, MaxAgeSec= and | |
4712 | ForwardDelaySec= bridge parameters in .netdev files. | |
4713 | ||
4714 | - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in | |
edf4126f | 4715 | .network files. |
fe08a30b | 4716 | |
bdba9227 DM |
4717 | * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk |
4718 | passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for | |
4719 | caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is | |
4720 | available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in | |
4721 | a passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock | |
4722 | with the same one. Previously, such password caching was | |
4723 | available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the | |
4724 | caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The | |
4725 | "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname= | |
4726 | switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for | |
4727 | caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for | |
4728 | enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically | |
4729 | unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the | |
4730 | user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if | |
4731 | gdm-autologin is used. | |
fe08a30b LP |
4732 | |
4733 | * When downloading tar or raw images using "machinectl | |
4734 | pull-tar" or "machinectl pull-raw", a matching ".nspawn" | |
4735 | file is now also downloaded, if it is available and stored | |
4736 | next to the image file. | |
c97e586d | 4737 | |
91d0d699 LP |
4738 | * Units of type ".socket" gained a new boolean setting |
4739 | Writable= which is only useful in conjunction with | |
4740 | ListenSpecial=. If true, enables opening the specified | |
4741 | special file in O_RDWR mode rather than O_RDONLY mode. | |
4742 | ||
4743 | * systemd-rfkill has been reworked to become a singleton | |
4744 | service that is activated through /dev/rfkill on each rfkill | |
4745 | state change and saves the settings to disk. This way, | |
4746 | systemd-rfkill is now compatible with devices that exist | |
4747 | only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous | |
4748 | system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. | |
4749 | ||
d046fb93 LP |
4750 | * The journal daemon gained support for vacuuming old journal |
4751 | files controlled by the number of files that shall remain, | |
4752 | in addition to the already existing control by size and by | |
4753 | date. This is useful as journal interleaving performance | |
6dd6a9c4 | 4754 | degrades with too many separate journal files, and allows |
d046fb93 LP |
4755 | putting an effective limit on them. The new setting defaults |
4756 | to 100, but this may be changed by setting SystemMaxFiles= | |
4757 | and RuntimeMaxFiles= in journald.conf. Also, the | |
4758 | "journalctl" tool gained the new --vacuum-files= switch to | |
4759 | manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified | |
4760 | number of files in place. | |
c48eb61f | 4761 | |
bdba9227 DM |
4762 | * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices |
4763 | on kernels where that is supported. | |
c30f086f | 4764 | |
efce0ffe | 4765 | * Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added. |
c97e586d | 4766 | |
61e6771c LP |
4767 | Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Alban Crequy, Beniamino |
4768 | Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Branislav Blaskovic, Chen-Han Hsiao | |
4769 | (Stanley), Daniel Buch, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David | |
4770 | Herrmann, David Milburn, doubleodoug, Evgeny Vereshchagin, | |
4771 | Felipe Franciosi, Filipe Brandenburger, Fran Dieguez, Gabriel | |
4772 | de Perthuis, Georg Müller, Hans de Goede, Hendrik Brueckner, | |
4773 | Ivan Shapovalov, Jacob Keller, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, | |
4774 | Jan Synacek, Jens Kuske, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Krzesimir | |
4775 | Nowak, Krzysztof Kotlenga, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart | |
4776 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, | |
4777 | Marcel Holtmann, Marius Thesing, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, | |
4778 | Michael Gebetsroither, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
4779 | Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, nazgul77, Nicolas Cornu, NoXPhasma, | |
4780 | Olof Johansson, Patrik Flykt, Pawel Szewczyk, reverendhomer, | |
4781 | Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Susant Sahani, | |
4782 | Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
4783 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Lyon, Viktar Vauchkevich, | |
4784 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић | |
4785 | ||
ccddd104 | 4786 | — Berlin, 2015-10-07 |
c97e586d | 4787 | |
c9912c5e DH |
4788 | CHANGES WITH 226: |
4789 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
4790 | * The DHCP implementation of systemd-networkd gained a set of |
4791 | new features: | |
4792 | ||
4793 | - The DHCP server now supports emitting DNS and NTP | |
4794 | information. It may be enabled and configured via | |
4795 | EmitDNS=, DNS=, EmitNTP=, and NTP=. If transmission of DNS | |
4796 | and NTP information is enabled, but no servers are | |
4797 | configured, the corresponding uplink information (if there | |
4798 | is any) is propagated. | |
4799 | ||
4800 | - Server and client now support transmission and reception | |
4801 | of timezone information. It can be configured via the | |
4802 | newly introduced network options UseTimezone=, | |
4803 | EmitTimezone=, and Timezone=. Transmission of timezone | |
4804 | information is enabled between host and containers by | |
4805 | default now: the container will change its local timezone | |
4806 | to what the host has set. | |
4807 | ||
4808 | - Lease timeouts can now be configured via | |
4809 | MaxLeaseTimeSec= and DefaultLeaseTimeSec=. | |
4810 | ||
4811 | - The DHCP server improved on the stability of | |
4812 | leases. Clients are more likely to get the same lease | |
4813 | information back, even if the server loses state. | |
4814 | ||
4815 | - The DHCP server supports two new configuration options to | |
4816 | control the lease address pool metrics, PoolOffset= and | |
4817 | PoolSize=. | |
4818 | ||
4819 | * The encapsulation limit of tunnels in systemd-networkd may | |
4820 | now be configured via 'EncapsulationLimit='. It allows | |
4821 | modifying the maximum additional levels of encapsulation | |
4822 | that are permitted to be prepended to a packet. | |
4823 | ||
4824 | * systemd now supports the concept of user buses replacing | |
4825 | session buses, if used with dbus-1.10 (and enabled via dbus | |
4826 | --enable-user-session). It previously only supported this on | |
4827 | kdbus-enabled systems, and this release expands this to | |
4828 | 'dbus-daemon' systems. | |
4829 | ||
4830 | * systemd-networkd now supports predictable interface names | |
4831 | for virtio devices. | |
4832 | ||
4833 | * systemd now optionally supports the new Linux kernel | |
4834 | "unified" control group hierarchy. If enabled via the kernel | |
4835 | command-line option 'systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1', | |
4836 | systemd will try to mount the unified cgroup hierarchy | |
4837 | directly on /sys/fs/cgroup. If not enabled, or not | |
4838 | available, systemd will fall back to the legacy cgroup | |
4839 | hierarchy setup, as before. Host system and containers can | |
4840 | mix and match legacy and unified hierarchies as they | |
856ca72b | 4841 | wish. nspawn understands the $UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY |
5e8d4254 LP |
4842 | environment variable to individually select the hierarchy to |
4843 | use for executed containers. By default, nspawn will use the | |
4844 | unified hierarchy for the containers if the host uses the | |
4845 | unified hierarchy, and the legacy hierarchy otherwise. | |
4846 | Please note that at this point the unified hierarchy is an | |
4847 | experimental kernel feature and is likely to change in one | |
4848 | of the next kernel releases. Therefore, it should not be | |
4849 | enabled by default in downstream distributions yet. The | |
4850 | minimum required kernel version for the unified hierarchy to | |
4851 | work is 4.2. Note that when the unified hierarchy is used | |
4852 | for the first time delegated access to controllers is | |
4853 | safe. Because of this systemd-nspawn containers will get | |
4854 | access to controllers now, as will systemd user | |
4855 | sessions. This means containers and user sessions may now | |
4856 | manage their own resources, partitioning up what the system | |
4857 | grants them. | |
4858 | ||
4859 | * A new special scope unit "init.scope" has been introduced | |
4860 | that encapsulates PID 1 of the system. It may be used to | |
4861 | determine resource usage and enforce resource limits on PID | |
4862 | 1 itself. PID 1 hence moved out of the root of the control | |
4863 | group tree. | |
4864 | ||
4865 | * The cgtop tool gained support for filtering out kernel | |
4866 | threads when counting tasks in a control group. Also, the | |
4867 | count of processes is now recursively summed up by | |
4868 | default. Two options -k and --recursive= have been added to | |
4869 | revert to old behaviour. The tool has also been updated to | |
4870 | work correctly in containers now. | |
4871 | ||
4872 | * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --bind-ro= options have been | |
4873 | extended to allow creation of non-recursive bind mounts. | |
4874 | ||
c626bf1d DM |
4875 | * libsystemd gained two new calls sd_pid_get_cgroup() and |
4876 | sd_peer_get_cgroup() which return the control group path of | |
5e8d4254 LP |
4877 | a process or peer of a connected AF_UNIX socket. This |
4878 | function call is particularly useful when implementing | |
4879 | delegated subtrees support in the control group hierarchy. | |
4880 | ||
4881 | * The "sd-event" event loop API of libsystemd now supports | |
4882 | correct dequeuing of real-time signals, without losing | |
4883 | signal events. | |
4884 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
4885 | * When systemd requests a polkit decision when managing units it |
4886 | will now add additional fields to the request, including unit | |
4887 | name and desired operation. This enables more powerful polkit | |
4888 | policies, that make decisions depending on these parameters. | |
c9912c5e | 4889 | |
47f5a38c LP |
4890 | * nspawn learnt support for .nspawn settings files, that may |
4891 | accompany the image files or directories of containers, and | |
4892 | may contain additional settings for the container. This is | |
4893 | an alternative to configuring container parameters via the | |
4894 | nspawn command line. | |
4895 | ||
2f77decc LP |
4896 | Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, David |
4897 | Herrmann, Eugene Yakubovich, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe | |
4898 | Brandenburger, Hans de Goede, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan | |
4899 | Synacek, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mangix, Marcel | |
4900 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michal | |
4901 | Sekletar, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, reverendhomer, Robin | |
4902 | Hack, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Pasche, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
23d08d1b | 4903 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø |
c9912c5e | 4904 | |
ccddd104 | 4905 | — Berlin, 2015-09-08 |
c9912c5e | 4906 | |
ec5249a2 DM |
4907 | CHANGES WITH 225: |
4908 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
4909 | * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh |
4910 | shell on the target container or the host. It is similar to | |
4911 | the existing 'login' command of machinectl, but spawns the | |
4912 | shell directly without prompting for username or | |
4913 | password. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local | |
4914 | host and is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can | |
4915 | be used as replacement for 'su -' which spawns a session as | |
4916 | a fresh systemd unit in a way that is fully isolated from | |
4917 | the originating session. | |
4918 | ||
4919 | * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP | |
4920 | options and allows other programs to query the values. | |
4921 | ||
4922 | * SELinux access control when enabling/disabling units is no | |
d35f51ea ZJS |
4923 | longer enforced with this release. The previous implementation |
4924 | was incorrect, and a new corrected implementation is not yet | |
4925 | available. As unit file operations are still protected via | |
4926 | polkit and D-Bus policy this is not a security problem. Yet, | |
4927 | distributions which care about optimal SELinux support should | |
4928 | probably not stabilize on this release. | |
5e8d4254 LP |
4929 | |
4930 | * sd-bus gained support for matches of type "arg0has=", that | |
4931 | test for membership of strings in string arrays sent in bus | |
4932 | messages. | |
4933 | ||
4934 | * systemd-resolved now dumps the contents of its DNS and LLMNR | |
4935 | caches to the logs on reception of the SIGUSR1 signal. This | |
4936 | is useful to debug DNS behaviour. | |
4937 | ||
4938 | * The coredumpctl tool gained a new --directory= option to | |
4939 | operate on journal files in a specific directory. | |
4940 | ||
4941 | * "systemctl reboot" and related commands gained a new | |
4942 | "--message=" option which may be used to set a free-text | |
4943 | wall message when shutting down or rebooting the | |
4944 | system. This message is also logged, which is useful for | |
4945 | figuring out the reason for a reboot or shutdown a | |
4946 | posteriori. | |
4947 | ||
4948 | * The "systemd-resolve-host" tool's -i switch now takes | |
4949 | network interface numbers as alternative to interface names. | |
4950 | ||
4951 | * A new unit file setting for services has been introduced: | |
4952 | UtmpMode= allows configuration of how precisely systemd | |
4953 | handles utmp and wtmp entries for the service if this is | |
4954 | enabled. This allows writing services that appear similar to | |
4955 | user sessions in the output of the "w", "who", "last" and | |
4956 | "lastlog" tools. | |
4957 | ||
4958 | * systemd-resolved will now locally synthesize DNS resource | |
4959 | records for the "localhost" and "gateway" domains as well as | |
4960 | the local hostname. This should ensure that clients querying | |
4961 | RRs via resolved will get similar results as those going via | |
4962 | NSS, if nss-myhostname is enabled. | |
4963 | ||
4964 | Contributions from: Alastair Hughes, Alex Crawford, Daniel | |
4965 | Mack, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Kostrowski, | |
4966 | Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, HATAYAMA Daisuke, Jan | |
4967 | Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Johnny Robeson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, | |
4968 | Kefeng Wang, Lennart Poettering, Major Hayden, Marcel | |
4969 | Holtmann, Markus Elfring, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Matt | |
4970 | Turner, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Namhyung Kim, | |
4971 | Nicolas Cornu, Owen W. Taylor, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, | |
4972 | reverendhomer, Richard Maw, Ronny Chevalier, Seth Jennings, | |
4973 | Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe | |
4974 | Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Meyer, Tom Gundersen, Vincent Batts, | |
4975 | WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
e1439a14 | 4976 | |
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ec5249a2 | 4978 | |
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4980 | ||
10fa421c DH |
4981 | * The systemd-efi-boot-generator functionality was merged into |
4982 | systemd-gpt-auto-generator. | |
4983 | ||
5e8d4254 LP |
4984 | * systemd-networkd now supports Group Policy for vxlan |
4985 | devices. It can be enabled via the new boolean configuration | |
4986 | option called 'GroupPolicyExtension='. | |
10fa421c | 4987 | |
11811e85 DH |
4988 | Contributions from: Andreas Kempf, Christian Hesse, Daniel Mack, David |
4989 | Herrmann, Herman Fries, Johannes Nixdorf, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
4990 | Poettering, Peter Hutterer, Susant Sahani, Tom Gundersen | |
4991 | ||
ccddd104 | 4992 | — Berlin, 2015-07-31 |
11811e85 | 4993 | |
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4995 | ||
4996 | * The python-systemd code has been removed from the systemd repository. | |
4997 | A new repository has been created which accommodates the code from | |
4998 | now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a separate package | |
4999 | for this: https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
5000 | ||
01608bc8 | 5001 | * The systemd daemon will now reload its main configuration |
e57eaef8 DH |
5002 | (/etc/systemd/system.conf) on daemon-reload. |
5003 | ||
5004 | * sd-dhcp now exposes vendor specific extensions via | |
5005 | sd_dhcp_lease_get_vendor_specific(). | |
5006 | ||
931618d0 DM |
5007 | * systemd-networkd gained a number of new configuration options. |
5008 | ||
5009 | - A new boolean configuration option for TAP devices called | |
37d54b93 | 5010 | 'VNetHeader='. If set, the IFF_VNET_HDR flag is set for the |
931618d0 DM |
5011 | device, thus allowing to send and receive GSO packets. |
5012 | ||
5013 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'CopyDSCP='. | |
5014 | If enabled, the DSCP field of ip6 tunnels is copied into the | |
5015 | decapsulated packet. | |
5016 | ||
5017 | - A set of boolean bridge configuration options were added. | |
5018 | 'UseBPDU=', 'HairPin=', 'FastLeave=', 'AllowPortToBeRoot=', | |
5019 | and 'UnicastFlood=' are now parsed by networkd and applied to the | |
5020 | respective bridge link device via the respective IFLA_BRPORT_* | |
5021 | netlink attribute. | |
5022 | ||
5023 | - A new string configuration option to override the hostname sent | |
5024 | to a DHCP server, called 'Hostname='. If set and 'SendHostname=' | |
5025 | is true, networkd will use the configured hostname instead of the | |
5026 | system hostname when sending DHCP requests. | |
5027 | ||
5028 | - A new tunnel configuration option called 'IPv6FlowLabel='. If set, | |
5029 | networkd will configure the IPv6 flow-label of the tunnel device | |
5030 | according to RFC2460. | |
e57eaef8 | 5031 | |
f5f113f6 DH |
5032 | - The 'macvtap' virtual network devices are now supported, similar to |
5033 | the already supported 'macvlan' devices. | |
5034 | ||
e57eaef8 | 5035 | * systemd-resolved now implements RFC5452 to improve resilience against |
01608bc8 | 5036 | cache poisoning. Additionally, source port randomization is enabled |
e57eaef8 DH |
5037 | by default to further protect against DNS spoofing attacks. |
5038 | ||
5039 | * nss-mymachines now supports translating UIDs and GIDs of running | |
5040 | containers with user-namespaces enabled. If a container 'foo' | |
5041 | translates a host uid 'UID' to the container uid 'TUID', then | |
5042 | nss-mymachines will also map uid 'UID' to/from username 'vu-foo-TUID' | |
5043 | (with 'foo' and 'TUID' replaced accordingly). Similarly, groups are | |
5044 | mapped as 'vg-foo-TGID'. | |
5045 | ||
5046 | Contributions from: Beniamino Galvani, cee1, Christian Hesse, Daniel | |
e4e66993 DH |
5047 | Buch, Daniel Mack, daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, |
5048 | HATAYAMA Daisuke, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), | |
5049 | Johan Ouwerkerk, Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, | |
5050 | Lennart Poettering, Lidong Zhong, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
5051 | Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Namhyung Kim, | |
5052 | Nick Owens, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, Steven Allen, Sungbae Yoo, | |
5053 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom | |
5054 | Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vito Caputo, | |
5055 | Vivenzio Pagliari, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
5056 | ||
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e57eaef8 | 5058 | |
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5541c889 | 5060 | |
861b02eb KS |
5061 | * udev does not longer support the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS= key in udev rules. |
5062 | There are no known issues with current sysfs, and udev does not need | |
5063 | or should be used to work around such bugs. | |
5064 | ||
5065 | * udev does no longer enable USB HID power management. Several reports | |
5066 | indicate, that some devices cannot handle that setting. | |
0db83ad7 DH |
5067 | |
5068 | * The udev accelerometer helper was removed. The functionality | |
5069 | is now fully included in iio-sensor-proxy. But this means, | |
5070 | older iio-sensor-proxy versions will no longer provide | |
5071 | accelerometer/orientation data with this systemd version. | |
5072 | Please upgrade iio-sensor-proxy to version 1.0. | |
5073 | ||
5541c889 DH |
5074 | * networkd gained a new configuration option IPv6PrivacyExtensions= |
5075 | which enables IPv6 privacy extensions (RFC 4941, "Privacy Extensions | |
5076 | for Stateless Address") on selected networks. | |
5077 | ||
9b361114 DM |
5078 | * For the sake of fewer build-time dependencies and less code in the |
5079 | main repository, the python bindings are about to be removed in the | |
5080 | next release. A new repository has been created which accommodates | |
5081 | the code from now on, and we kindly ask distributions to create a | |
5082 | separate package for this. The removal will take place in v223. | |
5083 | ||
5084 | https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd | |
5085 | ||
0db83ad7 DH |
5086 | Contributions from: Abdo Roig-Maranges, Andrew Eikum, Bastien Nocera, |
5087 | Cédric Delmas, Christian Hesse, Christos Trochalakis, Daniel Mack, | |
5088 | daurnimator, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Biggers, Eric | |
5089 | Cook, Felipe Sateler, Geert Jansen, Gerd Hoffmann, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
5541c889 DH |
5090 | Greg Kroah-Hartman, Iago López Galeiras, Jan Alexander Steffens |
5091 | (heftig), Jan Engelhardt, Jay Strict, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
0db83ad7 DH |
5092 | Markus Knetschke, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michal |
5093 | Sekletar, Miguel Bernal Marin, Peter Hutterer, Richard Maw, rinrinne, | |
2d1ca112 DH |
5094 | Susant Sahani, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein |
5095 | Husebø, Vedran Miletić, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
0db83ad7 | 5096 | |
ccddd104 | 5097 | — Berlin, 2015-07-07 |
0db83ad7 | 5098 | |
0f0467e6 MP |
5099 | CHANGES WITH 221: |
5100 | ||
470e72d4 | 5101 | * The sd-bus.h and sd-event.h APIs have now been declared |
5f92d24f | 5102 | stable and have been added to the official interface of |
470e72d4 LP |
5103 | libsystemd.so. sd-bus implements an alternative D-Bus client |
5104 | library, that is relatively easy to use, very efficient and | |
5105 | supports both classic D-Bus as well as kdbus as transport | |
5106 | backend. sd-event is a generic event loop abstraction that | |
5107 | is built around Linux epoll, but adds features such as event | |
0aee49d5 | 5108 | prioritization or efficient timer handling. Both APIs are good |
470e72d4 LP |
5109 | choices for C programs looking for a bus and/or event loop |
5110 | implementation that is minimal and does not have to be | |
5f92d24f | 5111 | portable to other kernels. |
0f0467e6 | 5112 | |
470e72d4 LP |
5113 | * kdbus support is no longer compile-time optional. It is now |
5114 | always built-in. However, it can still be disabled at | |
5115 | runtime using the kdbus=0 kernel command line setting, and | |
c6551464 | 5116 | that setting may be changed to default to off, by specifying |
470e72d4 LP |
5117 | --disable-kdbus at build-time. Note though that the kernel |
5118 | command line setting has no effect if the kdbus.ko kernel | |
5119 | module is not installed, in which case kdbus is (obviously) | |
5120 | also disabled. We encourage all downstream distributions to | |
0aee49d5 | 5121 | begin testing kdbus by adding it to the kernel images in the |
470e72d4 LP |
5122 | development distributions, and leaving kdbus support in |
5123 | systemd enabled. | |
0f0467e6 | 5124 | |
470e72d4 LP |
5125 | * The minimal required util-linux version has been bumped to |
5126 | 2.26. | |
5127 | ||
5128 | * Support for chkconfig (--enable-chkconfig) was removed in | |
0aee49d5 | 5129 | favor of calling an abstraction tool |
470e72d4 LP |
5130 | /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. This needs to be |
5131 | implemented for your distribution. See "SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS" | |
5132 | in README for details. | |
5133 | ||
5134 | * If there's a systemd unit and a SysV init script for the | |
5135 | same service name, and the user executes "systemctl enable" | |
5136 | for it (or a related call), then this will now enable both | |
5137 | (or execute the related operation on both), not just the | |
5138 | unit. | |
5139 | ||
5140 | * The libudev API documentation has been converted from gtkdoc | |
5141 | into man pages. | |
5142 | ||
5143 | * gudev has been removed from the systemd tree, it is now an | |
5144 | external project. | |
5145 | ||
5146 | * The systemd-cgtop tool learnt a new --raw switch to generate | |
0aee49d5 | 5147 | "raw" (machine parsable) output. |
470e72d4 LP |
5148 | |
5149 | * networkd's IPForwarding= .network file setting learnt the | |
5150 | new setting "kernel", which ensures that networkd does not | |
5151 | change the IP forwarding sysctl from the default kernel | |
5152 | state. | |
5153 | ||
5154 | * The systemd-logind bus API now exposes a new boolean | |
5155 | property "Docked" that reports whether logind considers the | |
5156 | system "docked", i.e. connected to a docking station or not. | |
5157 | ||
5158 | Contributions from: Alex Crawford, Andreas Pokorny, Andrei | |
5159 | Borzenkov, Charles Duffy, Colin Guthrie, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
5160 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Hahler, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, | |
5161 | David Mohr, Dimitri John Ledkov, Djalal Harouni, dslul, Ed | |
5162 | Swierk, Eric Cook, Filipe Brandenburger, Gianpaolo Macario, | |
5163 | Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Igor Vuk, Jan Synacek, | |
5164 | Jason Pleau, Jason S. McMullan, Jean Delvare, Jeff Huang, | |
5165 | Jonathan Boulle, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, kloun, Lennart | |
5166 | Poettering, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Mario | |
5167 | Limonciello, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, | |
5168 | Michal Schmidt, Mike Gilbert, Nick Owens, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes, | |
b912e251 LP |
5169 | Patrick Donnelly, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Philip |
5170 | Withnall, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Susant Sahani, | |
5171 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
5172 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Viktar Vauchkevich, Werner | |
5173 | Fink, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
470e72d4 | 5174 | |
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0f0467e6 | 5176 | |
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5177 | CHANGES WITH 220: |
5178 | ||
f7a73a25 DH |
5179 | * The gudev library has been extracted into a separate repository |
5180 | available at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgudev/ | |
5181 | It is now managed as part of the Gnome project. Distributions | |
5182 | are recommended to pass --disable-gudev to systemd and use | |
5183 | gudev from the Gnome project instead. gudev is still included | |
5184 | in systemd, for now. It will be removed soon, though. Please | |
5185 | also see the announcement-thread on systemd-devel: | |
56cadcb6 | 5186 | https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032070.html |
f7a73a25 | 5187 | |
481a0aa2 LP |
5188 | * systemd now exposes a CPUUsageNSec= property for each |
5189 | service unit on the bus, that contains the overall consumed | |
5190 | CPU time of a service (the sum of what each process of the | |
5191 | service consumed). This value is only available if | |
5192 | CPUAccounting= is turned on for a service, and is then shown | |
5193 | in the "systemctl status" output. | |
5194 | ||
5195 | * Support for configuring alternative mappings of the old SysV | |
5196 | runlevels to systemd targets has been removed. They are now | |
29d1fcb4 | 5197 | hardcoded in a way that runlevels 2, 3, 4 all map to |
481a0aa2 LP |
5198 | multi-user.target and 5 to graphical.target (which |
5199 | previously was already the default behaviour). | |
5200 | ||
5201 | * The auto-mounter logic gained support for mount point | |
5202 | expiry, using a new TimeoutIdleSec= setting in .automount | |
5203 | units. (Also available as x-systemd.idle-timeout= in /etc/fstab). | |
5204 | ||
5205 | * The EFI System Partition (ESP) as mounted to /boot by | |
5206 | systemd-efi-boot-generator will now be unmounted | |
29d1fcb4 | 5207 | automatically after 2 minutes of not being used. This should |
481a0aa2 LP |
5208 | minimize the risk of ESP corruptions. |
5209 | ||
5210 | * New /etc/fstab options x-systemd.requires= and | |
5211 | x-systemd.requires-mounts-for= are now supported to express | |
5212 | additional dependencies for mounts. This is useful for | |
5213 | journalling file systems that support external journal | |
5214 | devices or overlay file systems that require underlying file | |
5215 | systems to be mounted. | |
5216 | ||
5217 | * systemd does not support direct live-upgrades (via systemctl | |
5218 | daemon-reexec) from versions older than v44 anymore. As no | |
5219 | distribution we are aware of shipped such old versions in a | |
5220 | stable release this should not be problematic. | |
5221 | ||
5222 | * When systemd forks off a new per-connection service instance | |
5223 | it will now set the $REMOTE_ADDR environment variable to the | |
5224 | remote IP address, and $REMOTE_PORT environment variable to | |
5225 | the remote IP port. This behaviour is similar to the | |
5226 | corresponding environment variables defined by CGI. | |
5227 | ||
5228 | * systemd-networkd gained support for uplink failure | |
5229 | detection. The BindCarrier= option allows binding interface | |
5230 | configuration dynamically to the link sense of other | |
5231 | interfaces. This is useful to achieve behaviour like in | |
5232 | network switches. | |
5233 | ||
5234 | * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring the DHCP | |
5235 | client identifier to use when requesting leases. | |
5236 | ||
5237 | * systemd-networkd now has a per-network UseNTP= option to | |
5238 | configure whether NTP server information acquired via DHCP | |
5239 | is passed on to services like systemd-timesyncd. | |
5240 | ||
5241 | * systemd-networkd gained support for vti6 tunnels. | |
5242 | ||
1579dd2c LP |
5243 | * Note that systemd-networkd manages the sysctl variable |
5244 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/*/forwarding for each interface | |
5245 | it is configured for since v219. The variable controls IP | |
5246 | forwarding, and is a per-interface alternative to the global | |
5247 | /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/ip_forward. This setting is | |
5248 | configurable in the IPForward= option, which defaults to | |
5249 | "no". This means if networkd is used for an interface it is | |
5250 | no longer sufficient to set the global sysctl option to turn | |
5251 | on IP forwarding! Instead, the .network file option | |
5252 | IPForward= needs to be turned on! Note that the | |
5253 | implementation of this behaviour was broken in v219 and has | |
5254 | been fixed in v220. | |
5255 | ||
481a0aa2 LP |
5256 | * Many bonding and vxlan options are now configurable in |
5257 | systemd-networkd. | |
5258 | ||
5259 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --property= setting to set unit | |
5260 | properties for the container scope. This is useful for | |
ce830873 | 5261 | setting resource parameters (e.g. "CPUShares=500") on |
481a0aa2 LP |
5262 | containers started from the command line. |
5263 | ||
5264 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --private-users= switch to make | |
5265 | use of user namespacing available on recent Linux kernels. | |
5266 | ||
5267 | * systemd-nspawn may now be called as part of a shell pipeline | |
5268 | in which case the pipes used for stdin and stdout are passed | |
5269 | directly to the process invoked in the container, without | |
5270 | indirection via a pseudo tty. | |
5271 | ||
5272 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch to control the UNIX | |
5273 | signal to use when killing the init process of the container | |
5274 | when shutting down. | |
5275 | ||
5276 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --overlay= switch for mounting | |
5277 | overlay file systems into the container using the new kernel | |
5278 | overlayfs support. | |
5279 | ||
5280 | * When a container image is imported via systemd-importd and | |
5281 | the host file system is not btrfs, a loopback block device | |
5282 | file is created in /var/lib/machines.raw with a btrfs file | |
5283 | system inside. It is then mounted to /var/lib/machines to | |
5284 | enable btrfs features for container management. The loopback | |
5285 | file and btrfs file system is grown as needed when container | |
5286 | images are imported via systemd-importd. | |
5287 | ||
5288 | * systemd-machined/systemd-importd gained support for btrfs | |
5289 | quota, to enforce container disk space limits on disk. This | |
5290 | is exposed in "machinectl set-limit". | |
5291 | ||
5292 | * systemd-importd now can import containers from local .tar, | |
5293 | .raw and .qcow2 images, and export them to .tar and .raw. It | |
5294 | can also import dkr v2 images now from the network (on top | |
5295 | of v1 as before). | |
5296 | ||
5297 | * systemd-importd gained support for verifying downloaded | |
5298 | images with gpg2 (previously only gpg1 was supported). | |
5299 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
5300 | * systemd-machined, systemd-logind, systemd: most bus calls are |
5301 | now accessible to unprivileged processes via polkit. Also, | |
5302 | systemd-logind will now allow users to kill their own sessions | |
5303 | without further privileges or authorization. | |
481a0aa2 LP |
5304 | |
5305 | * systemd-shutdownd has been removed. This service was | |
5306 | previously responsible for implementing scheduled shutdowns | |
5307 | as exposed in /usr/bin/shutdown's time parameter. This | |
5308 | functionality has now been moved into systemd-logind and is | |
5309 | accessible via a bus interface. | |
5310 | ||
5311 | * "systemctl reboot" gained a new switch --firmware-setup that | |
5312 | can be used to reboot into the EFI firmware setup, if that | |
5313 | is available. systemd-logind now exposes an API on the bus | |
5314 | to trigger such reboots, in case graphical desktop UIs want | |
5315 | to cover this functionality. | |
5316 | ||
5317 | * "systemctl enable", "systemctl disable" and "systemctl mask" | |
1579dd2c | 5318 | now support a new "--now" switch. If specified the units |
481a0aa2 LP |
5319 | that are enabled will also be started, and the ones |
5320 | disabled/masked also stopped. | |
5321 | ||
5322 | * The Gummiboot EFI boot loader tool has been merged into | |
1a2d5fbe DH |
5323 | systemd, and renamed to "systemd-boot". The bootctl tool has been |
5324 | updated to support systemd-boot. | |
481a0aa2 LP |
5325 | |
5326 | * An EFI kernel stub has been added that may be used to create | |
5327 | kernel EFI binaries that contain not only the actual kernel, | |
5328 | but also an initrd, boot splash, command line and OS release | |
5329 | information. This combined binary can then be signed as a | |
5330 | single image, so that the firmware can verify it all in one | |
1a2d5fbe | 5331 | step. systemd-boot has special support for EFI binaries created |
481a0aa2 LP |
5332 | like this and can extract OS release information from them |
5333 | and show them in the boot menu. This functionality is useful | |
5334 | to implement cryptographically verified boot schemes. | |
5335 | ||
5336 | * Optional support has been added to systemd-fsck to pass | |
5337 | fsck's progress report to an AF_UNIX socket in the file | |
5338 | system. | |
5339 | ||
5340 | * udev will no longer create device symlinks for all block | |
5341 | devices by default. A blacklist for excluding special block | |
5342 | devices from this logic has been turned into a whitelist | |
5343 | that requires picking block devices explicitly that require | |
5344 | device symlinks. | |
5345 | ||
5346 | * A new (currently still internal) API sd-device.h has been | |
5347 | added to libsystemd. This modernized API is supposed to | |
5348 | replace libudev eventually. In fact, already much of libudev | |
5349 | is now just a wrapper around sd-device.h. | |
5350 | ||
5351 | * A new hwdb database for storing metadata about pointing | |
5352 | stick devices has been added. | |
5353 | ||
5354 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for setting file attributes | |
5355 | similar to the "chattr" tool with new 'h' and 'H' lines. | |
5356 | ||
5357 | * systemd-journald will no longer unconditionally set the | |
5358 | btrfs NOCOW flag on new journal files. This is instead done | |
5359 | with tmpfiles snippet using the new 'h' line type. This | |
5360 | allows easy disabling of this logic, by masking the | |
5361 | journal-nocow.conf tmpfiles file. | |
5362 | ||
5363 | * systemd-journald will now translate audit message types to | |
5364 | human readable identifiers when writing them to the | |
5365 | journal. This should improve readability of audit messages. | |
5366 | ||
5367 | * The LUKS logic gained support for the offset= and skip= | |
5368 | options in /etc/crypttab, as previously implemented by | |
5369 | Debian. | |
5370 | ||
5371 | * /usr/lib/os-release gained a new optional field VARIANT= for | |
5372 | distributions that support multiple variants (such as a | |
5373 | desktop edition, a server edition, ...) | |
5374 | ||
5375 | Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Adam Goode, Alban Crequy, | |
5376 | Alberto Fanjul Alonso, Alexander Sverdlin, Alex Puchades, Alin | |
5377 | Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrew Jones, Arend van Spriel, | |
5378 | Benedikt Morbach, Benjamin Franzke, Benjamin Tissoires, Blaž | |
5379 | Tomažič, Chris Morgan, Chris Morin, Colin Walters, Cristian | |
5380 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel | |
5381 | Mack, Daniel Mustieles, daurnimator, Davide Bettio, David | |
5382 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Didier Roche, Dimitri John Ledkov, | |
5383 | Eric Cook, Gavin Li, Goffredo Baroncelli, Hannes Reinecke, | |
5384 | Hans de Goede, Hans-Peter Deifel, Harald Hoyer, Iago López | |
5385 | Galeiras, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
5386 | Pazdziora, Jan Synacek, Jasper St. Pierre, Jay Faulkner, John | |
5387 | Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathon Gilbert, Karel Zak, Kay | |
5388 | Sievers, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas | |
5389 | De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Lukas Rusak, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz | |
5390 | Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel | |
5391 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Chevrier, Matthew Garrett, | |
5392 | Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
5393 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nir Soffer, Patrik | |
5394 | Flykt, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Peter Lemenkov, Peter | |
5395 | Waller, Piotr Drąg, Raul Gutierrez S, Richard Maw, Ronny | |
5396 | Chevalier, Ross Burton, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
5397 | Seth Jennings, Shawn Landden, Simon Farnsworth, Stefan Junker, | |
5398 | Stephen Gallagher, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas | |
5399 | Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tobias Hunger, Tom | |
5400 | Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Will | |
5401 | Woods, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
5402 | ||
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481a0aa2 | 5404 | |
615aaf41 LP |
5405 | CHANGES WITH 219: |
5406 | ||
615aaf41 LP |
5407 | * Introduce a new API "sd-hwdb.h" for querying the hardware |
5408 | metadata database. With this minimal interface one can query | |
5409 | and enumerate the udev hwdb, decoupled from the old libudev | |
5410 | library. libudev's interface for this is now only a wrapper | |
5411 | around sd-hwdb. A new tool systemd-hwdb has been added to | |
5412 | interface with and update the database. | |
5413 | ||
5414 | * When any of systemd's tools copies files (for example due to | |
5415 | tmpfiles' C lines) a btrfs reflink will attempted first, | |
5416 | before bytewise copying is done. | |
5417 | ||
5418 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --ephemeral switch. When | |
5419 | specified a btrfs snapshot is taken of the container's root | |
5420 | directory, and immediately removed when the container | |
5421 | terminates again. Thus, a container can be started whose | |
5422 | changes never alter the container's root directory, and are | |
5423 | lost on container termination. This switch can also be used | |
5424 | for starting a container off the root file system of the | |
5425 | host without affecting the host OS. This switch is only | |
5426 | available on btrfs file systems. | |
5427 | ||
5428 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --template= switch. It takes the | |
5429 | path to a container tree to use as template for the tree | |
7edecf21 | 5430 | specified via --directory=, should that directory be |
615aaf41 LP |
5431 | missing. This allows instantiating containers dynamically, |
5432 | on first run. This switch is only available on btrfs file | |
5433 | systems. | |
5434 | ||
5435 | * When a .mount unit refers to a mount point on which multiple | |
5436 | mounts are stacked, and the .mount unit is stopped all of | |
5437 | the stacked mount points will now be unmounted until no | |
5438 | mount point remains. | |
5439 | ||
5440 | * systemd now has an explicit notion of supported and | |
5441 | unsupported unit types. Jobs enqueued for unsupported unit | |
5442 | types will now fail with an "unsupported" error code. More | |
5443 | specifically .swap, .automount and .device units are not | |
5444 | supported in containers, .busname units are not supported on | |
5445 | non-kdbus systems. .swap and .automount are also not | |
5446 | supported if their respective kernel compile time options | |
5447 | are disabled. | |
5448 | ||
5449 | * machinectl gained support for two new "copy-from" and | |
5450 | "copy-to" commands for copying files from a running | |
5451 | container to the host or vice versa. | |
5452 | ||
5453 | * machinectl gained support for a new "bind" command to bind | |
5454 | mount host directories into local containers. This is | |
5455 | currently only supported for nspawn containers. | |
5456 | ||
5457 | * networkd gained support for configuring bridge forwarding | |
5458 | database entries (fdb) from .network files. | |
5459 | ||
5460 | * A new tiny daemon "systemd-importd" has been added that can | |
5461 | download container images in tar, raw, qcow2 or dkr formats, | |
5462 | and make them available locally in /var/lib/machines, so | |
5463 | that they can run as nspawn containers. The daemon can GPG | |
5464 | verify the downloads (not supported for dkr, since it has no | |
5465 | provisions for verifying downloads). It will transparently | |
5466 | decompress bz2, xz, gzip compressed downloads if necessary, | |
5467 | and restore sparse files on disk. The daemon uses privilege | |
5468 | separation to ensure the actual download logic runs with | |
94e5ba37 | 5469 | fewer privileges than the daemon itself. machinectl has |
615aaf41 LP |
5470 | gained new commands "pull-tar", "pull-raw" and "pull-dkr" to |
5471 | make the functionality of importd available to the | |
5472 | user. With this in place the Fedora and Ubuntu "Cloud" | |
5473 | images can be downloaded and booted as containers unmodified | |
5474 | (the Fedora images lack the appropriate GPG signature files | |
5475 | currently, so they cannot be verified, but this will change | |
5476 | soon, hopefully). Note that downloading images is currently | |
5477 | only fully supported on btrfs. | |
5478 | ||
5479 | * machinectl is now able to list container images found in | |
5480 | /var/lib/machines, along with some metadata about sizes of | |
5481 | disk and similar. If the directory is located on btrfs and | |
5482 | quota is enabled, this includes quota display. A new command | |
5483 | "image-status" has been added that shows additional | |
5484 | information about images. | |
5485 | ||
5486 | * machinectl is now able to clone container images | |
5487 | efficiently, if the underlying file system (btrfs) supports | |
f59dba26 | 5488 | it, with the new "machinectl clone" command. It also |
615aaf41 LP |
5489 | gained commands for renaming and removing images, as well as |
5490 | marking them read-only or read-write (supported also on | |
5491 | legacy file systems). | |
5492 | ||
5493 | * networkd gained support for collecting LLDP network | |
5494 | announcements, from hardware that supports this. This is | |
5495 | shown in networkctl output. | |
5496 | ||
5497 | * systemd-run gained support for a new -t (--pty) switch for | |
5498 | invoking a binary on a pty whose input and output is | |
5499 | connected to the invoking terminal. This allows executing | |
5500 | processes as system services while interactively | |
5501 | communicating with them via the terminal. Most interestingly | |
5502 | this is supported across container boundaries. Invoking | |
5503 | "systemd-run -t /bin/bash" is an alternative to running a | |
5504 | full login session, the difference being that the former | |
5505 | will not register a session, nor go through the PAM session | |
5506 | setup. | |
5507 | ||
5508 | * tmpfiles gained support for a new "v" line type for creating | |
5509 | btrfs subvolumes. If the underlying file system is a legacy | |
5510 | file system, this automatically degrades to creating a | |
5511 | normal directory. Among others /var/lib/machines is now | |
5512 | created like this at boot, should it be missing. | |
5513 | ||
5514 | * The directory /var/lib/containers/ has been deprecated and | |
5515 | been replaced by /var/lib/machines. The term "machines" has | |
5516 | been used in the systemd context as generic term for both | |
5517 | VMs and containers, and hence appears more appropriate for | |
5518 | this, as the directory can also contain raw images bootable | |
5519 | via qemu/kvm. | |
5520 | ||
5521 | * systemd-nspawn when invoked with -M but without --directory= | |
5522 | or --image= is now capable of searching for the container | |
5523 | root directory, subvolume or disk image automatically, in | |
5524 | /var/lib/machines. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated | |
5525 | to make use of this, thus allowing it to be used for raw | |
5526 | disk images, too. | |
5527 | ||
5528 | * A new machines.target unit has been introduced that is | |
5529 | supposed to group all containers/VMs invoked as services on | |
5530 | the system. systemd-nspawn@.service has been updated to | |
5531 | integrate with that. | |
5532 | ||
5533 | * machinectl gained a new "start" command, for invoking a | |
5534 | container as a service. "machinectl start foo" is mostly | |
5535 | equivalent to "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo.service", | |
5536 | but handles escaping in a nicer way. | |
5537 | ||
5538 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount most of the cgroupfs tree | |
5539 | read-only into each container, with the exception of the | |
5540 | container's own subtree in the name=systemd hierarchy. | |
5541 | ||
5542 | * journald now sets the special FS_NOCOW file flag for its | |
5543 | journal files. This should improve performance on btrfs, by | |
5544 | avoiding heavy fragmentation when journald's write-pattern | |
5545 | is used on COW file systems. It degrades btrfs' data | |
5546 | integrity guarantees for the files to the same levels as for | |
5547 | ext3/ext4 however. This should be OK though as journald does | |
5548 | its own data integrity checks and all its objects are | |
5549 | checksummed on disk. Also, journald should handle btrfs disk | |
5550 | full events a lot more gracefully now, by processing SIGBUS | |
5551 | errors, and not relying on fallocate() anymore. | |
5552 | ||
5553 | * When journald detects that journal files it is writing to | |
5554 | have been deleted it will immediately start new journal | |
5555 | files. | |
5556 | ||
5557 | * systemd now provides a way to store file descriptors | |
4c37970d | 5558 | per-service in PID 1. This is useful for daemons to ensure |
615aaf41 | 5559 | that fds they require are not lost during a daemon |
94e5ba37 | 5560 | restart. The fds are passed to the daemon on the next |
615aaf41 LP |
5561 | invocation in the same way socket activation fds are |
5562 | passed. This is now used by journald to ensure that the | |
5563 | various sockets connected to all the system's stdout/stderr | |
5564 | are not lost when journald is restarted. File descriptors | |
5565 | may be stored in PID 1 via the sd_pid_notify_with_fds() API, | |
5566 | an extension to sd_notify(). Note that a limit is enforced | |
5567 | on the number of fds a service can store in PID 1, and it | |
5568 | defaults to 0, so that no fds may be stored, unless this is | |
5569 | explicitly turned on. | |
5570 | ||
5571 | * The default TERM variable to use for units connected to a | |
5572 | terminal, when no other value is explicitly is set is now | |
5573 | vt220 rather than vt102. This should be fairly safe still, | |
5574 | but allows PgUp/PgDn work. | |
5575 | ||
5576 | * The /etc/crypttab option header= as known from Debian is now | |
5577 | supported. | |
5578 | ||
5579 | * "loginctl user-status" and "loginctl session-status" will | |
5580 | now show the last 10 lines of log messages of the | |
5581 | user/session following the status output. Similar, | |
5582 | "machinectl status" will show the last 10 log lines | |
5583 | associated with a virtual machine or container | |
5584 | service. (Note that this is usually not the log messages | |
5585 | done in the VM/container itself, but simply what the | |
5586 | container manager logs. For nspawn this includes all console | |
5587 | output however.) | |
5588 | ||
5589 | * "loginctl session-status" without further argument will now | |
5590 | show the status of the session of the caller. Similar, | |
5591 | "lock-session", "unlock-session", "activate", | |
5592 | "enable-linger", "disable-linger" may now be called without | |
5593 | session/user parameter in which case they apply to the | |
5594 | caller's session/user. | |
5595 | ||
5596 | * An X11 session scriptlet is now shipped that uploads | |
5597 | $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY into the environment of the systemd | |
5598 | --user daemon if a session begins. This should improve | |
5599 | compatibility with X11 enabled applications run as systemd | |
5600 | user services. | |
5601 | ||
5602 | * Generators are now subject to masking via /etc and /run, the | |
5603 | same way as unit files. | |
5604 | ||
5605 | * networkd .network files gained support for configuring | |
5606 | per-link IPv4/IPv6 packet forwarding as well as IPv4 | |
5607 | masquerading. This is by default turned on for veth links to | |
5608 | containers, as registered by systemd-nspawn. This means that | |
5609 | nspawn containers run with --network-veth will now get | |
5610 | automatic routed access to the host's networks without any | |
5611 | further configuration or setup, as long as networkd runs on | |
5612 | the host. | |
5613 | ||
5614 | * systemd-nspawn gained the --port= (-p) switch to expose TCP | |
5615 | or UDP posts of a container on the host. With this in place | |
5616 | it is possible to run containers with private veth links | |
5617 | (--network-veth), and have their functionality exposed on | |
5618 | the host as if their services were running directly on the | |
5619 | host. | |
5620 | ||
dd2fd155 | 5621 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth switch now gained a short |
615aaf41 LP |
5622 | version "-n", since with the changes above it is now truly |
5623 | useful out-of-the-box. The systemd-nspawn@.service has been | |
5624 | updated to make use of it too by default. | |
5625 | ||
5626 | * systemd-nspawn will now maintain a per-image R/W lock, to | |
5627 | ensure that the same image is not started more than once | |
5628 | writable. (It's OK to run an image multiple times | |
5629 | simultaneously in read-only mode.) | |
5630 | ||
5631 | * systemd-nspawn's --image= option is now capable of | |
5632 | dissecting and booting MBR and GPT disk images that contain | |
5633 | only a single active Linux partition. Previously it | |
5634 | supported only GPT disk images with proper GPT type | |
5635 | IDs. This allows running cloud images from major | |
5636 | distributions directly with systemd-nspawn, without | |
5637 | modification. | |
5638 | ||
5639 | * In addition to collecting mouse dpi data in the udev | |
5640 | hardware database, there's now support for collecting angle | |
5641 | information for mouse scroll wheels. The database is | |
7edecf21 | 5642 | supposed to guarantee similar scrolling behavior on mice |
615aaf41 LP |
5643 | that it knows about. There's also support for collecting |
5644 | information about Touchpad types. | |
5645 | ||
5646 | * udev's input_id built-in will now also collect touch screen | |
5647 | dimension data and attach it to probed devices. | |
5648 | ||
5649 | * /etc/os-release gained support for a Distribution Privacy | |
5650 | Policy link field. | |
5651 | ||
5652 | * networkd gained support for creating "ipvlan", "gretap", | |
5653 | "ip6gre", "ip6gretap" and "ip6tnl" network devices. | |
5654 | ||
5655 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for "a" lines for setting | |
5656 | ACLs on files. | |
5657 | ||
5658 | * systemd-nspawn will now mount /tmp in the container to | |
5659 | tmpfs, automatically. | |
5660 | ||
5661 | * systemd now exposes the memory.usage_in_bytes cgroup | |
5662 | attribute and shows it for each service in the "systemctl | |
5663 | status" output, if available. | |
5664 | ||
5665 | * When the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7x within 2s an | |
5666 | immediate reboot is triggered. This useful if shutdown is | |
5667 | hung and is unable to complete, to expedite the | |
5668 | operation. Note that this kind of reboot will still unmount | |
5669 | all file systems, and hence should not result in fsck being | |
5670 | run on next reboot. | |
5671 | ||
5672 | * A .device unit for an optical block device will now be | |
5673 | considered active only when a medium is in the drive. Also, | |
5674 | mount units are now bound to their backing devices thus | |
5675 | triggering automatic unmounting when devices become | |
5676 | unavailable. With this in place systemd will now | |
5677 | automatically unmount left-over mounts when a CD-ROM is | |
5678 | ejected or an USB stick is yanked from the system. | |
5679 | ||
5680 | * networkd-wait-online now has support for waiting for | |
5681 | specific interfaces only (with globbing), and for giving up | |
5682 | after a configurable timeout. | |
5683 | ||
5684 | * networkd now exits when idle. It will be automatically | |
5685 | restarted as soon as interfaces show up, are removed or | |
5686 | change state. networkd will stay around as long as there is | |
5687 | at least one DHCP state machine or similar around, that keep | |
5688 | it non-idle. | |
5689 | ||
5690 | * networkd may now configure IPv6 link-local addressing in | |
5691 | addition to IPv4 link-local addressing. | |
5692 | ||
5693 | * The IPv6 "token" for use in SLAAC may now be configured for | |
5694 | each .network interface in networkd. | |
5695 | ||
5696 | * Routes configured with networkd may now be assigned a scope | |
5697 | in .network files. | |
5698 | ||
5699 | * networkd's [Match] sections now support globbing and lists | |
5700 | of multiple space-separated matches per item. | |
5701 | ||
11ea2781 | 5702 | Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alin Rauta, Andrey Chaser, |
d2c643c6 LP |
5703 | Bastien Nocera, Bruno Bottazzini, Carlos Garnacho, Carlos |
5704 | Morata Castillo, Chris Atkinson, Chris J. Arges, Christian | |
5705 | Kirbach, Christian Seiler, Christoph Brill, Colin Guthrie, | |
5706 | Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, | |
5707 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, Erik Auerswald, | |
5708 | Filipe Brandenburger, Frank Theile, Gabor Kelemen, Gabriel de | |
5709 | Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Hui Wang, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan | |
5710 | Engelhardt, Jan Synacek, Jay Faulkner, Johannes Hölzl, Jonas | |
5711 | Ådahl, Jonathan Boulle, Josef Andersson, Kay Sievers, Ken | |
5712 | Werner, Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Märdian, | |
5713 | Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
5714 | Manuel Mendez, Marcel Holtmann, Marc Schmitzer, Marko | |
5715 | Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, | |
5716 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Mindaugas | |
11ea2781 LP |
5717 | Baranauskas, Moez Bouhlel, Naveen Kumar, Patrik Flykt, Paul |
5718 | Martin, Peter Hutterer, Peter Mattern, Philippe De Swert, | |
5719 | Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira, Rami Rosen, Robert Milasan, Ronny | |
5720 | Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Sebastien Bacher, Sergey Ptashnick, | |
5721 | Shawn Landden, Stéphane Graber, Susant Sahani, Sylvain | |
5722 | Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tim JP, Tom | |
5723 | Gundersen, Topi Miettinen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar | |
d2c643c6 LP |
5724 | Lindskog, Veres Lajos, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, Wieland |
5725 | Hoffmann, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
11ea2781 | 5726 | |
ccddd104 | 5727 | — Berlin, 2015-02-16 |
11ea2781 | 5728 | |
d4f5a1f4 DH |
5729 | CHANGES WITH 218: |
5730 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
5731 | * When querying unit file enablement status (for example via |
5732 | "systemctl is-enabled"), a new state "indirect" is now known | |
5733 | which indicates that a unit might not be enabled itself, but | |
c7683ffb | 5734 | another unit listed in its Also= setting might be. |
f9e00a9f LP |
5735 | |
5736 | * Similar to the various existing ConditionXYZ= settings for | |
b938cb90 | 5737 | units, there are now matching AssertXYZ= settings. While |
f9e00a9f LP |
5738 | failing conditions cause a unit to be skipped, but its job |
5739 | to succeed, failing assertions declared like this will cause | |
5740 | a unit start operation and its job to fail. | |
5741 | ||
5742 | * hostnamed now knows a new chassis type "embedded". | |
5743 | ||
5744 | * systemctl gained a new "edit" command. When used on a unit | |
b938cb90 | 5745 | file, this allows extending unit files with .d/ drop-in |
f9e00a9f LP |
5746 | configuration snippets or editing the full file (after |
5747 | copying it from /usr/lib to /etc). This will invoke the | |
5748 | user's editor (as configured with $EDITOR), and reload the | |
5749 | modified configuration after editing. | |
5750 | ||
5751 | * "systemctl status" now shows the suggested enablement state | |
5752 | for a unit, as declared in the (usually vendor-supplied) | |
5753 | system preset files. | |
5754 | ||
5755 | * nss-myhostname will now resolve the single-label host name | |
5756 | "gateway" to the locally configured default IP routing | |
5757 | gateways, ordered by their metrics. This assigns a stable | |
5758 | name to the used gateways, regardless which ones are | |
5759 | currently configured. Note that the name will only be | |
5760 | resolved after all other name sources (if nss-myhostname is | |
5761 | configured properly) and should hence not negatively impact | |
5762 | systems that use the single-label host name "gateway" in | |
5763 | other contexts. | |
5764 | ||
5765 | * systemd-inhibit now allows filtering by mode when listing | |
5766 | inhibitors. | |
5767 | ||
122676c9 | 5768 | * Scope and service units gained a new "Delegate" boolean |
b938cb90 | 5769 | property, which, when set, allows processes running inside the |
122676c9 LP |
5770 | unit to further partition resources. This is primarily |
5771 | useful for systemd user instances as well as container | |
5772 | managers. | |
f9e00a9f LP |
5773 | |
5774 | * journald will now pick up audit messages directly from | |
5775 | the kernel, and log them like any other log message. The | |
5776 | audit fields are split up and fully indexed. This means that | |
5777 | journalctl in many ways is now a (nicer!) alternative to | |
5778 | ausearch, the traditional audit client. Note that this | |
b938cb90 | 5779 | implements only a minimal audit client. If you want the |
f9e00a9f LP |
5780 | special audit modes like reboot-on-log-overflow, please use |
5781 | the traditional auditd instead, which can be used in | |
5782 | parallel to journald. | |
5783 | ||
5784 | * The ConditionSecurity= unit file option now understands the | |
5785 | special string "audit" to check whether auditing is | |
5786 | available. | |
5787 | ||
5788 | * journalctl gained two new commands --vacuum-size= and | |
5789 | --vacuum-time= to delete old journal files until the | |
a8eaaee7 | 5790 | remaining ones take up no more than the specified size on disk, |
f9e00a9f LP |
5791 | or are not older than the specified time. |
5792 | ||
5793 | * A new, native PPPoE library has been added to sd-network, | |
5794 | systemd's library of light-weight networking protocols. This | |
5795 | library will be used in a future version of networkd to | |
5796 | enable PPPoE communication without an external pppd daemon. | |
5797 | ||
5798 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "capture" verb that | |
5799 | works similar to "monitor", but writes a packet capture | |
5800 | trace to STDOUT that can be redirected to a file which is | |
5801 | compatible with libcap's capture file format. This can then | |
5802 | be loaded in Wireshark and similar tools to inspect bus | |
5803 | communication. | |
5804 | ||
5805 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "tree" verb that shows | |
5806 | the object trees of a specific service on the bus, or of all | |
5807 | services. | |
5808 | ||
5809 | * The busctl tool now understands a new "introspect" verb that | |
5810 | shows all interfaces and members of objects on the bus, | |
5811 | including their signature and values. This is particularly | |
5812 | useful to get more information about bus objects shown by | |
5813 | the new "busctl tree" command. | |
5814 | ||
5815 | * The busctl tool now understands new verbs "call", | |
5816 | "set-property" and "get-property" for invoking bus method | |
5817 | calls, setting and getting bus object properties in a | |
5818 | friendly way. | |
5819 | ||
5820 | * busctl gained a new --augment-creds= argument that controls | |
5821 | whether the tool shall augment credential information it | |
5822 | gets from the bus with data from /proc, in a possibly | |
5823 | race-ful way. | |
5824 | ||
5825 | * nspawn's --link-journal= switch gained two new values | |
5826 | "try-guest" and "try-host" that work like "guest" and | |
17c29493 | 5827 | "host", but do not fail if the host has no persistent |
f9e00a9f LP |
5828 | journalling enabled. -j is now equivalent to |
5829 | --link-journal=try-guest. | |
5830 | ||
5831 | * macvlan network devices created by nspawn will now have | |
5832 | stable MAC addresses. | |
5833 | ||
5834 | * A new SmackProcessLabel= unit setting has been added, which | |
5835 | controls the SMACK security label processes forked off by | |
5836 | the respective unit shall use. | |
5837 | ||
d4f5a1f4 DH |
5838 | * If compiled with --enable-xkbcommon, systemd-localed will |
5839 | verify x11 keymap settings by compiling the given keymap. It | |
5840 | will spew out warnings if the compilation fails. This | |
5841 | requires libxkbcommon to be installed. | |
5842 | ||
b938cb90 | 5843 | * When a coredump is collected, a larger number of metadata |
f9e00a9f | 5844 | fields is now collected and included in the journal records |
b938cb90 | 5845 | created for it. More specifically, control group membership, |
f9e00a9f LP |
5846 | environment variables, memory maps, working directory, |
5847 | chroot directory, /proc/$PID/status, and a list of open file | |
5848 | descriptors is now stored in the log entry. | |
5849 | ||
17c29493 | 5850 | * The udev hwdb now contains DPI information for mice. For |
f9e00a9f LP |
5851 | details see: |
5852 | ||
5853 | http://who-t.blogspot.de/2014/12/building-a-dpi-database-for-mice.html | |
5854 | ||
5855 | * All systemd programs that read standalone configuration | |
5856 | files in /etc now also support a corresponding series of | |
997b2b43 JT |
5857 | .conf.d configuration directories in /etc/, /run/, |
5858 | /usr/local/lib/, /usr/lib/, and (if configured with | |
5859 | --enable-split-usr) /lib/. In particular, the following | |
5860 | configuration files now have corresponding configuration | |
5861 | directories: system.conf user.conf, logind.conf, | |
5862 | journald.conf, sleep.conf, bootchart.conf, coredump.conf, | |
5863 | resolved.conf, timesyncd.conf, journal-remote.conf, and | |
5864 | journal-upload.conf. Note that distributions should use the | |
5865 | configuration directories in /usr/lib/; the directories in | |
5866 | /etc/ are reserved for the system administrator. | |
5867 | ||
f9e00a9f LP |
5868 | * systemd-rfkill will no longer take the rfkill device name |
5869 | into account when storing rfkill state on disk, as the name | |
5870 | might be dynamically assigned and not stable. Instead, the | |
5871 | ID_PATH udev variable combined with the rfkill type (wlan, | |
5872 | bluetooth, ...) is used. | |
5873 | ||
5874 | * A new service systemd-machine-id-commit.service has been | |
5875 | added. When used on systems where /etc is read-only during | |
5876 | boot, and /etc/machine-id is not initialized (but an empty | |
5877 | file), this service will copy the temporary machine ID | |
5878 | created as replacement into /etc after the system is fully | |
5879 | booted up. This is useful for systems that are freshly | |
5880 | installed with a non-initialized machine ID, but should get | |
5881 | a fixed machine ID for subsequent boots. | |
5882 | ||
5883 | * networkd's .netdev files now provide a large set of | |
a8eaaee7 | 5884 | configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similarly, the |
f9e00a9f LP |
5885 | bridge port cost parameter is now configurable in .network |
5886 | files. There's also new support for configuring IP source | |
5887 | routing. networkd .link files gained support for a new | |
5888 | OriginalName= match that is useful to match against the | |
5889 | original interface name the kernel assigned. .network files | |
5890 | may include MTU= and MACAddress= fields for altering the MTU | |
5891 | and MAC address while being connected to a specific network | |
5892 | interface. | |
5893 | ||
5894 | * The LUKS logic gained supported for configuring | |
5895 | UUID-specific key files. There's also new support for naming | |
5896 | LUKS device from the kernel command line, using the new | |
5897 | luks.name= argument. | |
5898 | ||
5899 | * Timer units may now be transiently created via the bus API | |
5900 | (this was previously already available for scope and service | |
5901 | units). In addition it is now possible to create multiple | |
5902 | transient units at the same time with a single bus call. The | |
5903 | "systemd-run" tool has been updated to make use of this for | |
5904 | running commands on a specified time, in at(1)-style. | |
5905 | ||
5906 | * tmpfiles gained support for "t" lines, for assigning | |
5907 | extended attributes to files. Among other uses this may be | |
5908 | used to assign SMACK labels to files. | |
5909 | ||
13e92f39 LP |
5910 | Contributions from: Alin Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrej |
5911 | Manduch, Bastien Nocera, Chris Atkinson, Chris Leech, Chris | |
5912 | Mayo, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Cristian Rodríguez, | |
5913 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dan Winship, Dave | |
5914 | Reisner, David Herrmann, Didier Roche, Felipe Sateler, Gavin | |
5915 | Li, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Iago López Galeiras, Ivan | |
5916 | Shapovalov, Jakub Filak, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Joe | |
5917 | Lawrence, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
5918 | Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, Mantas | |
5919 | Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Maurizio Lombardi, | |
5920 | Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michael Marineau, Michal | |
7da81d33 LP |
5921 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, Peter |
5922 | Hutterer, Przemyslaw Kedzierski, Rami Rosen, Ray Strode, | |
5923 | Richard Schütz, Richard W.M. Jones, Ronny Chevalier, Ross | |
5924 | Lagerwall, Sean Young, Stanisław Pitucha, Susant Sahani, | |
5925 | Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
5926 | Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Vicente Olivert | |
5927 | Riera, WaLyong Cho, Wesley Dawson, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
13e92f39 | 5928 | |
ccddd104 | 5929 | — Berlin, 2014-12-10 |
f9e00a9f | 5930 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
5931 | CHANGES WITH 217: |
5932 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
5933 | * journalctl gained the new options -t/--identifier= to match |
5934 | on the syslog identifier (aka "tag"), as well as --utc to | |
5935 | show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also | |
5936 | accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager. | |
b62a309a | 5937 | |
a65b8245 ZJS |
5938 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --flush, that synchronously |
5939 | flushes logs from /run/log/journal to /var/log/journal if | |
5940 | persistent storage is enabled. systemd-journal-flush.service | |
5941 | now waits until the operation is complete. | |
2a97b03b | 5942 | |
b62a309a ZJS |
5943 | * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload |
5944 | (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending | |
4bdc60cb LP |
5945 | STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the |
5946 | internal state of daemons and closes a race condition when | |
78b6b7ce | 5947 | the process is still running but has closed its D-Bus |
4bdc60cb | 5948 | connection. |
b62a309a | 5949 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
5950 | * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any ExecStart |
5951 | commands anymore. | |
b62a309a ZJS |
5952 | |
5953 | * User units are now loaded also from | |
5954 | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the | |
5955 | /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously | |
5956 | supported, but is under the control of the user. | |
5957 | ||
3f9a0a52 | 5958 | * Job timeouts (i.e. timeouts on the time a job that is |
4ffd29fd LP |
5959 | queued stays in the run queue) can now optionally result in |
5960 | immediate reboot or power-off actions (JobTimeoutAction= and | |
5961 | JobTimeoutRebootArgument=). This is useful on ".target" | |
5962 | units, to limit the maximum time a target remains | |
5963 | undispatched in the run queue, and to trigger an emergency | |
5964 | operation in such a case. This is now used by default to | |
5965 | turn off the system if boot-up (as defined by everything in | |
5966 | basic.target) hangs and does not complete for at least | |
5967 | 15min. Also, if power-off or reboot hang for at least 30min | |
5968 | an immediate power-off/reboot operation is triggered. This | |
5969 | functionality is particularly useful to increase reliability | |
5970 | on embedded devices, but also on laptops which might | |
5971 | accidentally get powered on when carried in a backpack and | |
5972 | whose boot stays stuck in a hard disk encryption passphrase | |
5973 | question. | |
5974 | ||
b62a309a ZJS |
5975 | * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch |
5976 | events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays | |
5977 | are attached (HandleLidSwitchDocked= option). | |
5978 | ||
5979 | * A helper binary and a service have been added which can be | |
5980 | used to resume from hibernation in the initramfs. A | |
5981 | generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel | |
81c7dd89 | 5982 | command line to trigger resume. |
b62a309a | 5983 | |
78b6b7ce LP |
5984 | * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been |
5985 | added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a | |
5986 | single terminal on each session of the user marked as | |
09077149 | 5987 | Desktop=systemd-console. |
b62a309a ZJS |
5988 | |
5989 | * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by | |
5990 | systemd-networkd. | |
5991 | ||
ba8df74b | 5992 | * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set |
78b6b7ce | 5993 | from the information provided by the networking stack |
b62a309a ZJS |
5994 | (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). |
5995 | ||
5996 | * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and | |
5997 | the minimum supported kernel version is thus bumped to 3.7. | |
5998 | ||
5999 | * Timeout for udev workers has been increased from 1 to 3 | |
6000 | minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to | |
6001 | help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load. | |
6002 | ||
78b6b7ce | 6003 | * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar". |
b62a309a | 6004 | |
4bdc60cb | 6005 | * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many |
f6d1de85 | 6006 | circumstances it didn't give expected benefits even for |
b62a309a | 6007 | rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the |
78b6b7ce LP |
6008 | age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using |
6009 | rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively | |
6010 | maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed. | |
b62a309a | 6011 | |
c4ac9900 | 6012 | * Swap units can use Options= to specify discard options. |
b62a309a ZJS |
6013 | Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now |
6014 | respected. | |
6015 | ||
6016 | * Docker containers are now detected as a separate type of | |
6017 | virtualization. | |
6018 | ||
6019 | * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where | |
ba8df74b | 6020 | the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names. |
78b6b7ce LP |
6021 | systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that |
6022 | on. | |
b62a309a | 6023 | |
e6c253e3 MS |
6024 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set: |
6025 | ||
6026 | net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel | |
6027 | ||
ba8df74b KS |
6028 | This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default |
6029 | queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps | |
e6c253e3 MS |
6030 | fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be |
6031 | a good default with no tuning required for most workloads. | |
6032 | Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit | |
6033 | servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better. | |
6034 | Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast". | |
6035 | ||
4bdc60cb LP |
6036 | * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is |
6037 | available for service units, that allows locking all service | |
6038 | processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit | |
6039 | access to various bus services, or even hide most of them | |
6040 | from the service's view entirely. | |
6041 | ||
6042 | * networkctl will now show the .network and .link file | |
6043 | networkd has applied to a specific interface. | |
6044 | ||
6045 | * sd-login gained a new API call sd_session_get_desktop() to | |
6046 | query which desktop environment has been selected for a | |
6047 | session. | |
6048 | ||
6049 | * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support | |
6050 | legacy-free systems. | |
6051 | ||
78b6b7ce LP |
6052 | * systemctl gained two new commands "add-wants" and |
6053 | "add-requires" for pulling in units from specific targets | |
6054 | easily. | |
6055 | ||
6056 | * If the word "rescue" is specified on the kernel command line | |
6057 | the system will now boot into rescue mode (aka | |
6058 | rescue.target), which was previously available only by | |
6059 | specifying "1" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target" on the kernel | |
6060 | command line. This new kernel command line option nicely | |
6061 | mirrors the already existing "emergency" kernel command line | |
6062 | option. | |
6063 | ||
6064 | * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, | |
d4474c41 | 6065 | mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, |
78b6b7ce LP |
6066 | rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to |
6067 | /usr. | |
6068 | ||
f6d1de85 | 6069 | * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processes of |
78b6b7ce LP |
6070 | services, not only the main process. |
6071 | ||
6072 | * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This | |
6073 | means at least version v2.25 of util-linux is required for | |
6074 | operation, otherwise dead-locks on device nodes may | |
6075 | occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least | |
6076 | v2.25 when updating systemd to v217. | |
6077 | ||
3769415e TT |
6078 | * The "multi-seat-x" tool has been removed from systemd, as |
6079 | its functionality has been integrated into X servers 1.16, | |
6080 | and the tool is hence redundant. It is recommended to update | |
6081 | display managers invoking this tool to simply invoke X | |
6082 | directly from now on, again. | |
6083 | ||
fae9332b | 6084 | * Support for the new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION D-Bus |
d35f51ea ZJS |
6085 | message flag has been added for all of systemd's polkit |
6086 | authenticated method calls has been added. In particular this | |
6087 | now allows optional interactive authorization via polkit for | |
6088 | many of PID1's privileged operations such as unit file | |
6089 | enabling and disabling. | |
fae9332b | 6090 | |
cfa1571b LP |
6091 | * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for |
6092 | placing the rebuilt hardware database in /usr instead of | |
6093 | /etc. When used only hardware database entries stored in | |
6094 | /usr will be used, and any user database entries in /etc are | |
6095 | ignored. This functionality is useful for vendors to ship a | |
6096 | pre-built database on systems where local configuration is | |
6097 | unnecessary or unlikely. | |
6098 | ||
7e63dd10 LP |
6099 | * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also |
6100 | understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and | |
ba8df74b | 6101 | "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting |
7e63dd10 LP |
6102 | "anually", "hourly", ...). |
6103 | ||
d4474c41 TG |
6104 | * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev |
6105 | at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is | |
6106 | recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!' | |
6107 | and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not | |
6108 | overwritten at runtime. | |
6109 | ||
3b187c5c LP |
6110 | * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=) |
6111 | and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be | |
6112 | terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order | |
6113 | to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is | |
6114 | generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in | |
6115 | similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a | |
6116 | segmentation fault. | |
6117 | ||
4b08dd87 LP |
6118 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov, |
6119 | Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L. | |
6120 | Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, | |
6121 | Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David | |
6122 | Herrmann, David Sommerseth, David Strauss, Emil Renner | |
6123 | Berthing, Eric Cook, Evangelos Foutras, Filipe Brandenburger, | |
6124 | Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Hans de Goede, Harald Hoyer, Hristo | |
6125 | Venev, Hugo Grostabussiat, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Janssen, Jan | |
6126 | Synacek, Jonathan Liu, Juho Son, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Klaus | |
6127 | Purer, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
6128 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
6129 | Marius Tessmann, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, | |
6130 | Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michael Scherer, Michal | |
6131 | Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miroslav Lichvar, Patrik Flykt, | |
6132 | Philippe De Swert, Piotr Drąg, Rahul Sundaram, Richard | |
6133 | Weinberger, Robert Milasan, Ronny Chevalier, Ruben Kerkhof, | |
6134 | Santiago Vila, Sergey Ptashnick, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd | |
6135 | Simons, Stefan Brüns, Steven Allen, Steven Noonan, Susant | |
6136 | Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
6137 | Timofey Titovets, Tobias Hunger, Tom Gundersen, Torstein | |
6138 | Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew | |
13e92f39 | 6139 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
4b08dd87 | 6140 | |
ccddd104 | 6141 | — Berlin, 2014-10-28 |
4b08dd87 | 6142 | |
b72ddf0f | 6143 | CHANGES WITH 216: |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6144 | |
6145 | * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from | |
b72ddf0f | 6146 | /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6147 | implementations should add a |
6148 | ||
b72ddf0f | 6149 | Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6150 | |
6151 | to their unit files to take over and replace systemd's NTP | |
6152 | default functionality. | |
6153 | ||
6154 | * systemd-sysusers gained a new line type "r" for configuring | |
6155 | which UID/GID ranges to allocate system users/groups | |
6156 | from. Lines of type "u" may now add an additional column | |
6157 | that specifies the home directory for the system user to be | |
6158 | created. Also, systemd-sysusers may now optionally read user | |
6159 | information from STDIN instead of a file. This is useful for | |
6160 | invoking it from RPM preinst scriptlets that need to create | |
6161 | users before the first RPM file is installed since these | |
6162 | files might need to be owned by them. A new | |
6163 | %sysusers_create_inline RPM macro has been introduced to do | |
6164 | just that. systemd-sysusers now updates the shadow files as | |
6165 | well as the user/group databases, which should enhance | |
6166 | compatibility with certain tools like grpck. | |
6167 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
6168 | * A number of bus APIs of PID 1 now optionally consult polkit to |
6169 | permit access for otherwise unprivileged clients under certain | |
6170 | conditions. Note that this currently doesn't support | |
6171 | interactive authentication yet, but this is expected to be | |
6172 | added eventually, too. | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6173 | |
6174 | * /etc/machine-info now has new fields for configuring the | |
6175 | deployment environment of the machine, as well as the | |
6176 | location of the machine. hostnamectl has been updated with | |
6177 | new command to update these fields. | |
6178 | ||
6179 | * systemd-timesyncd has been updated to automatically acquire | |
6180 | NTP server information from systemd-networkd, which might | |
6181 | have been discovered via DHCP. | |
6182 | ||
6183 | * systemd-resolved now includes a caching DNS stub resolver | |
6184 | and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation. A new | |
daa05349 AB |
6185 | NSS module "nss-resolve" has been added which can be used |
6186 | instead of glibc's own "nss-dns" to resolve hostnames via | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6187 | systemd-resolved. Hostnames, addresses and arbitrary RRs may |
6188 | be resolved via systemd-resolved D-Bus APIs. In contrast to | |
6189 | the glibc internal resolver systemd-resolved is aware of | |
6190 | multi-homed system, and keeps DNS server and caches separate | |
5f02e26c | 6191 | and per-interface. Queries are sent simultaneously on all |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6192 | interfaces that have DNS servers configured, in order to |
6193 | properly handle VPNs and local LANs which might resolve | |
6194 | separate sets of domain names. systemd-resolved may acquire | |
a1a4a25e | 6195 | DNS server information from systemd-networkd automatically, |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6196 | which in turn might have discovered them via DHCP. A tool |
6197 | "systemd-resolve-host" has been added that may be used to | |
6198 | query the DNS logic in resolved. systemd-resolved implements | |
6199 | IDNA and automatically uses IDNA or UTF-8 encoding depending | |
6200 | on whether classic DNS or LLMNR is used as transport. In the | |
6201 | next releases we intend to add a DNSSEC and mDNS/DNS-SD | |
6202 | implementation to systemd-resolved. | |
6203 | ||
6204 | * A new NSS module nss-mymachines has been added, that | |
6205 | automatically resolves the names of all local registered | |
6206 | containers to their respective IP addresses. | |
6207 | ||
6208 | * A new client tool "networkctl" for systemd-networkd has been | |
6209 | added. It currently is entirely passive and will query | |
6210 | networking configuration from udev, rtnetlink and networkd, | |
5f02e26c | 6211 | and present it to the user in a very friendly |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6212 | way. Eventually, we hope to extend it to become a full |
6213 | control utility for networkd. | |
6214 | ||
6215 | * .socket units gained a new DeferAcceptSec= setting that | |
6216 | controls the kernels' TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopt for | |
a8eaaee7 | 6217 | TCP. Similarly, support for controlling TCP keep-alive |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6218 | settings has been added (KeepAliveTimeSec=, |
6219 | KeepAliveIntervalSec=, KeepAliveProbes=). Also, support for | |
6220 | turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added | |
6221 | (NoDelay=). | |
6222 | ||
a1a4a25e | 6223 | * logind learned a new session type "web", for use in projects |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6224 | like Cockpit which register web clients as PAM sessions. |
6225 | ||
6226 | * timer units with at least one OnCalendar= setting will now | |
46ae28d8 | 6227 | be started only after time-sync.target has been |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6228 | reached. This way they will not elapse before the system |
6229 | clock has been corrected by a local NTP client or | |
6230 | similar. This is particular useful on RTC-less embedded | |
6231 | machines, that come up with an invalid system clock. | |
6232 | ||
6233 | * systemd-nspawn's --network-veth= switch should now result in | |
6234 | stable MAC addresses for both the outer and the inner side | |
6235 | of the link. | |
6236 | ||
6237 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --volatile= switch for running | |
6238 | container instances with /etc or /var unpopulated. | |
6239 | ||
6240 | * The kdbus client code has been updated to use the new Linux | |
6241 | 3.17 memfd subsystem instead of the old kdbus-specific one. | |
6242 | ||
6243 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client and server now support | |
01da80b1 LP |
6244 | FORCERENEW. There are also new configuration options to |
6245 | configure the vendor client identifier and broadcast mode | |
6246 | for DHCP. | |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6247 | |
6248 | * systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current | |
6249 | timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the | |
6250 | kernel has no understanding of DST and similar | |
6251 | concepts. This hence means FAT timestamps will be always | |
6252 | considered UTC, similar to what Android is already | |
6253 | doing. Also, when the RTC is configured to the local time | |
6254 | (rather than UTC) systemd will never synchronize back to it, | |
6255 | as this might confuse Windows at a later boot. | |
6256 | ||
6257 | * systemd-analyze gained a new command "verify" for offline | |
6258 | validation of unit files. | |
6259 | ||
6260 | * systemd-networkd gained support for a couple of additional | |
6261 | settings for bonding networking setups. Also, the metric for | |
6262 | statically configured routes may now be configured. For | |
6263 | network interfaces where this is appropriate the peer IP | |
6264 | address may now be configured. | |
6265 | ||
26568403 TG |
6266 | * systemd-networkd's DHCP client will no longer request |
6267 | broadcasting by default, as this tripped up some networks. | |
6268 | For hardware where broadcast is required the feature should | |
6269 | be switched back on using RequestBroadcast=yes. | |
6270 | ||
6271 | * systemd-networkd will now set up IPv4LL addresses (when | |
6272 | enabled) even if DHCP is configured successfully. | |
6273 | ||
6274 | * udev will now default to respect network device names given | |
6275 | by the kernel when the kernel indicates that these are | |
6276 | predictable. This behavior can be tweaked by changing | |
6277 | NamePolicy= in the relevant .link file. | |
6278 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
6279 | * A new library systemd-terminal has been added that |
6280 | implements full TTY stream parsing and rendering. This | |
6281 | library is supposed to be used later on for implementing a | |
6282 | full userspace VT subsystem, replacing the current kernel | |
6283 | implementation. | |
6284 | ||
6285 | * A new tool systemd-journal-upload has been added to push | |
6286 | journal data to a remote system running | |
6287 | systemd-journal-remote. | |
6288 | ||
6289 | * journald will no longer forward all local data to another | |
6290 | running syslog daemon. This change has been made because | |
6291 | rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog | |
6292 | implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and | |
6293 | instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since | |
5f02e26c | 6294 | forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6295 | more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this |
6296 | off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog | |
6297 | version, you have to turn this option on again | |
6298 | (ForwardToSyslog= in journald.conf). | |
6299 | ||
6300 | * journald now optionally supports the LZ4 compressor for | |
6301 | larger journal fields. This compressor should perform much | |
6302 | better than XZ which was the previous default. | |
6303 | ||
6304 | * machinectl now shows the IP addresses of local containers, | |
6305 | if it knows them, plus the interface name of the container. | |
6306 | ||
6307 | * A new tool "systemd-escape" has been added that makes it | |
6308 | easy to escape strings to build unit names and similar. | |
6309 | ||
6310 | * sd_notify() messages may now include a new ERRNO= field | |
6311 | which is parsed and collected by systemd and shown among the | |
6312 | "systemctl status" output for a service. | |
6313 | ||
6314 | * A new component "systemd-firstboot" has been added that | |
6315 | queries the most basic systemd information (timezone, | |
a1a4a25e | 6316 | hostname, root password) interactively on first |
b2ca0d63 LP |
6317 | boot. Alternatively it may also be used to provision these |
6318 | things offline on OS images installed into directories. | |
6319 | ||
01da80b1 LP |
6320 | * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set |
6321 | ||
6322 | net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries=1 | |
6323 | ||
6324 | This has the benefit of no flushing secondary IP addresses | |
6325 | when primary addresses are removed. | |
6326 | ||
b2ca0d63 LP |
6327 | Contributions from: Ansgar Burchardt, Bastien Nocera, Colin |
6328 | Walters, Dan Dedrick, Daniel Buch, Daniel Korostil, Daniel | |
6329 | Mack, Dan Williams, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Denis | |
6330 | Kenzior, Eelco Dolstra, Eric Cook, Hannes Reinecke, Harald | |
6331 | Hoyer, Hong Shick Pak, Hui Wang, Jean-André Santoni, Jóhann | |
6332 | B. Guðmundsson, Jon Severinsson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kevin | |
6333 | Wells, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
6334 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
6335 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, | |
6336 | Miguel Angel Ajo, Mike Gilbert, Olivier Brunel, Robert | |
6337 | Schiele, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, Sjoerd Simons, Stef | |
6338 | Walter, Steven Noonan, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas | |
6339 | Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Timofey Titovets, | |
6340 | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, Umut | |
6341 | Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6342 | ||
ccddd104 | 6343 | — Berlin, 2014-08-19 |
b72ddf0f | 6344 | |
3dff3e00 | 6345 | CHANGES WITH 215: |
24a2bf4c LP |
6346 | |
6347 | * A new tool systemd-sysusers has been added. This tool | |
6348 | creates system users and groups in /etc/passwd and | |
6349 | /etc/group, based on static declarative system user/group | |
6350 | definitions in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/. This is useful to | |
6351 | enable factory resets and volatile systems that boot up with | |
6352 | an empty /etc directory, and thus need system users and | |
6353 | groups created during early boot. systemd now also ships | |
6354 | with two default sysusers.d/ files for the most basic | |
6355 | users and groups systemd and the core operating system | |
6356 | require. | |
6357 | ||
6358 | * A new tmpfiles snippet has been added that rebuilds the | |
6359 | essential files in /etc on boot, should they be missing. | |
6360 | ||
6361 | * A directive for ensuring automatic clean-up of | |
6362 | /var/cache/man/ has been removed from the default | |
6363 | configuration. This line should now be shipped by the man | |
6364 | implementation. The necessary change has been made to the | |
6365 | man-db implementation. Note that you need to update your man | |
6366 | implementation to one that ships this line, otherwise no | |
6367 | automatic clean-up of /var/cache/man will take place. | |
6368 | ||
6369 | * A new condition ConditionNeedsUpdate= has been added that | |
6370 | may conditionalize services to only run when /etc or /var | |
6371 | are "older" than the vendor operating system resources in | |
6372 | /usr. This is useful for reconstructing or updating /etc | |
6373 | after an offline update of /usr or a factory reset, on the | |
6374 | next reboot. Services that want to run once after such an | |
6375 | update or reset should use this condition and order | |
6376 | themselves before the new systemd-update-done.service, which | |
6377 | will mark the two directories as fully updated. A number of | |
6378 | service files have been added making use of this, to rebuild | |
6379 | the udev hardware database, the journald message catalog and | |
6380 | dynamic loader cache (ldconfig). The systemd-sysusers tool | |
6381 | described above also makes use of this now. With this in | |
6382 | place it is now possible to start up a minimal operating | |
ce1dde29 | 6383 | system with /etc empty cleanly. For more information on the |
24a2bf4c LP |
6384 | concepts involved see this recent blog story: |
6385 | ||
6386 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html | |
6387 | ||
6388 | * A new system group "input" has been introduced, and all | |
6389 | input device nodes get this group assigned. This is useful | |
6390 | for system-level software to get access to input devices. It | |
3dff3e00 KS |
6391 | complements what is already done for "audio" and "video". |
6392 | ||
24a2bf4c LP |
6393 | * systemd-networkd learnt minimal DHCPv4 server support in |
6394 | addition to the existing DHCPv4 client support. It also | |
6395 | learnt DHCPv6 client and IPv6 Router Solicitation client | |
6396 | support. The DHCPv4 client gained support for static routes | |
6397 | passed in from the server. Note that the [DHCPv4] section | |
6398 | known in older systemd-networkd versions has been renamed to | |
6399 | [DHCP] and is now also used by the DHCPv6 client. Existing | |
c7435cc9 LP |
6400 | .network files using settings of this section should be |
6401 | updated, though compatibility is maintained. Optionally, the | |
6402 | client hostname may now be sent to the DHCP server. | |
24a2bf4c | 6403 | |
c7435cc9 LP |
6404 | * networkd gained support for vxlan virtual networks as well |
6405 | as tun/tap and dummy devices. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
6406 | |
6407 | * networkd gained support for automatic allocation of address | |
6408 | ranges for interfaces from a system-wide pool of | |
6409 | addresses. This is useful for dynamically managing a large | |
6410 | number of interfaces with a single network configuration | |
6411 | file. In particular this is useful to easily assign | |
6412 | appropriate IP addresses to the veth links of a large number | |
6413 | of nspawn instances. | |
6414 | ||
6415 | * RPM macros for processing sysusers, sysctl and binfmt | |
6416 | drop-in snippets at package installation time have been | |
6417 | added. | |
6418 | ||
6419 | * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in | |
6420 | /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically | |
6421 | created as symlink. /usr/lib is the more appropriate | |
6422 | location of this file, since it shall actually describe the | |
6423 | vendor operating system shipped in /usr, and not the | |
6424 | configuration stored in /etc. | |
6425 | ||
6426 | * .mount units gained a new boolean SloppyOptions= setting | |
6427 | that maps to mount(8)'s -s option which enables permissive | |
6428 | parsing of unknown mount options. | |
6429 | ||
6430 | * tmpfiles learnt a new "L+" directive which creates a symlink | |
6431 | but (unlike "L") deletes a pre-existing file first, should | |
6432 | it already exist and not already be the correct | |
a8eaaee7 | 6433 | symlink. Similarly, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been |
24a2bf4c LP |
6434 | added as well, which create block and character devices, as |
6435 | well as fifos in the filesystem, possibly removing any | |
6436 | pre-existing files of different types. | |
6437 | ||
6438 | * For tmpfiles' "L", "L+", "C" and "C+" directives the final | |
6439 | 'argument' field (which so far specified the source to | |
ce1dde29 | 6440 | symlink/copy the files from) is now optional. If omitted the |
24a2bf4c LP |
6441 | same file os copied from /usr/share/factory/ suffixed by the |
6442 | full destination path. This is useful for populating /etc | |
6443 | with essential files, by copying them from vendor defaults | |
6444 | shipped in /usr/share/factory/etc. | |
6445 | ||
6446 | * A new command "systemctl preset-all" has been added that | |
6447 | applies the service preset settings to all installed unit | |
6448 | files. A new switch --preset-mode= has been added that | |
6449 | controls whether only enable or only disable operations | |
6450 | shall be executed. | |
6451 | ||
6452 | * A new command "systemctl is-system-running" has been added | |
6453 | that allows checking the overall state of the system, for | |
ce1dde29 | 6454 | example whether it is fully up and running. |
24a2bf4c LP |
6455 | |
6456 | * When the system boots up with an empty /etc, the equivalent | |
6457 | to "systemctl preset-all" is executed during early boot, to | |
6458 | make sure all default services are enabled after a factory | |
6459 | reset. | |
6460 | ||
6461 | * systemd now contains a minimal preset file that enables the | |
6462 | most basic services systemd ships by default. | |
6463 | ||
6464 | * Unit files' [Install] section gained a new DefaultInstance= | |
6465 | field for defining the default instance to create if a | |
6466 | template unit is enabled with no instance specified. | |
6467 | ||
6468 | * A new passive target cryptsetup-pre.target has been added | |
6469 | that may be used by services that need to make they run and | |
6470 | finish before the first LUKS cryptographic device is set up. | |
6471 | ||
6472 | * The /dev/loop-control and /dev/btrfs-control device nodes | |
6473 | are now owned by the "disk" group by default, opening up | |
6474 | access to this group. | |
6475 | ||
6476 | * systemd-coredump will now automatically generate a | |
6477 | stack trace of all core dumps taking place on the system, | |
6478 | based on elfutils' libdw library. This stack trace is logged | |
6479 | to the journal. | |
6480 | ||
6481 | * systemd-coredump may now optionally store coredumps directly | |
6482 | on disk (in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, possibly compressed), | |
6483 | instead of storing them unconditionally in the journal. This | |
6484 | mode is the new default. A new configuration file | |
6485 | /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been added to configure this | |
6486 | and other parameters of systemd-coredump. | |
6487 | ||
6488 | * coredumpctl gained a new "info" verb to show details about a | |
6489 | specific coredump. A new switch "-1" has also been added | |
6490 | that makes sure to only show information about the most | |
6491 | recent entry instead of all entries. Also, as the tool is | |
6492 | generally useful now the "systemd-" prefix of the binary | |
6493 | name has been removed. Distributions that want to maintain | |
6494 | compatibility with the old name should add a symlink from | |
6495 | the old name to the new name. | |
6496 | ||
6497 | * journald's SplitMode= now defaults to "uid". This makes sure | |
ce1dde29 | 6498 | that unprivileged users can access their own coredumps with |
24a2bf4c LP |
6499 | coredumpctl without restrictions. |
6500 | ||
6501 | * New kernel command line options "systemd.wants=" (for | |
6502 | pulling an additional unit during boot), "systemd.mask=" | |
6503 | (for masking a specific unit for the boot), and | |
6504 | "systemd.debug-shell" (for enabling the debug shell on tty9) | |
6505 | have been added. This is implemented in the new generator | |
6506 | "systemd-debug-generator". | |
6507 | ||
6508 | * systemd-nspawn will now by default filter a couple of | |
6509 | syscalls for containers, among them those required for | |
6510 | kernel module loading, direct x86 IO port access, swap | |
6511 | management, and kexec. Most importantly though | |
6512 | open_by_handle_at() is now prohibited for containers, | |
6513 | closing a hole similar to a recently discussed vulnerability | |
6514 | in docker regarding access to files on file hierarchies the | |
b938cb90 JE |
6515 | container should normally not have access to. Note that, for |
6516 | nspawn, we generally make no security claims anyway (and | |
24a2bf4c LP |
6517 | this is explicitly documented in the man page), so this is |
6518 | just a fix for one of the most obvious problems. | |
6519 | ||
6520 | * A new man page file-hierarchy(7) has been added that | |
6521 | contains a minimized, modernized version of the file system | |
6522 | layout systemd expects, similar in style to the FHS | |
c7435cc9 LP |
6523 | specification or hier(5). A new tool systemd-path(1) has |
6524 | been added to query many of these paths for the local | |
6525 | machine and user. | |
24a2bf4c LP |
6526 | |
6527 | * Automatic time-based clean-up of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no | |
6528 | longer done. Since the directory now has a per-user size | |
6529 | limit, and is cleaned on logout this appears unnecessary, | |
6530 | in particular since this now brings the lifecycle of this | |
6531 | directory closer in line with how IPC objects are handled. | |
6532 | ||
6533 | * systemd.pc now exports a number of additional directories, | |
6534 | including $libdir (which is useful to identify the library | |
6535 | path for the primary architecture of the system), and a | |
6536 | couple of drop-in directories. | |
6537 | ||
3058e017 TLSC |
6538 | * udev's predictable network interface names now use the dev_port |
6539 | sysfs attribute, introduced in linux 3.15 instead of dev_id to | |
6540 | distinguish between ports of the same PCI function. dev_id should | |
6541 | only be used for ports using the same HW address, hence the need | |
6542 | for dev_port. | |
6543 | ||
c7435cc9 LP |
6544 | * machined has been updated to export the OS version of a |
6545 | container (read from /etc/os-release and | |
6546 | /usr/lib/os-release) on the bus. This is now shown in | |
6547 | "machinectl status" for a machine. | |
6548 | ||
6549 | * A new service setting RestartForceExitStatus= has been | |
6550 | added. If configured to a set of exit signals or process | |
6551 | return values, the service will be restarted when the main | |
6552 | daemon process exits with any of them, regardless of the | |
6553 | Restart= setting. | |
6554 | ||
6555 | * systemctl's -H switch for connecting to remote systemd | |
6556 | machines has been extended so that it may be used to | |
6557 | directly connect to a specific container on the | |
6558 | host. "systemctl -H root@foobar:waldi" will now connect as | |
6559 | user "root" to host "foobar", and then proceed directly to | |
6560 | the container named "waldi". Note that currently you have to | |
6561 | authenticate as user "root" for this to work, as entering | |
6562 | containers is a privileged operation. | |
6563 | ||
6564 | Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Benjamin Steinwender, | |
6565 | Carl Schaefer, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian King, Cristian | |
6566 | Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Eugene | |
6567 | Yakubovich, Filipe Brandenburger, Frederic Crozat, Hristo | |
6568 | Venev, Jan Engelhardt, Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
6569 | Poettering, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine | |
6570 | Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, | |
6571 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Sekletar, Patrik Flykt, Ronan Le | |
6572 | Martret, Ronny Chevalier, Ruediger Oertel, Steven Noonan, | |
6573 | Susant Sahani, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Hindoe | |
6574 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Hirst, Umut Tezduyar | |
6575 | Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6576 | ||
ccddd104 | 6577 | — Berlin, 2014-07-03 |
c7435cc9 | 6578 | |
4196a3ea KS |
6579 | CHANGES WITH 214: |
6580 | ||
6581 | * As an experimental feature, udev now tries to lock the | |
6582 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB)) while it | |
6583 | executes events for the disk or any of its partitions. | |
6584 | Applications like partitioning programs can lock the | |
6585 | disk device node (flock(LOCK_EX)) and claim temporary | |
6586 | device ownership that way; udev will entirely skip all event | |
6587 | handling for this disk and its partitions. If the disk | |
6588 | was opened for writing, the close will trigger a partition | |
6589 | table rescan in udev's "watch" facility, and if needed | |
71449caf | 6590 | synthesize "change" events for the disk and all its partitions. |
8d0e0ddd | 6591 | This is now unconditionally enabled, and if it turns out to |
4196a3ea | 6592 | cause major problems, we might turn it on only for specific |
45df8656 | 6593 | devices, or might need to disable it entirely. Device Mapper |
4196a3ea KS |
6594 | devices are excluded from this logic. |
6595 | ||
04e91da2 LP |
6596 | * We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations, |
6597 | since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux | |
6598 | upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, | |
5238e957 | 6599 | and we will re-add "-l" as soon as util-linux with this |
04e91da2 LP |
6600 | change has been released. |
6601 | ||
6602 | * The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long | |
8d0e0ddd | 6603 | time, the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and |
04e91da2 LP |
6604 | libattr is thus unnecessary. |
6605 | ||
ce830873 | 6606 | * Virtualization detection works without privileges now. This |
04e91da2 LP |
6607 | means the systemd-detect-virt binary no longer requires |
6608 | CAP_SYS_PTRACE file capabilities, and our daemons can run | |
71449caf | 6609 | with fewer privileges. |
04e91da2 LP |
6610 | |
6611 | * systemd-networkd now runs under its own "systemd-network" | |
6612 | user. It retains the CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, | |
6613 | CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but | |
6614 | loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way. | |
6615 | ||
a8eaaee7 | 6616 | * Similarly, systemd-resolved now runs under its own |
04e91da2 LP |
6617 | "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining. |
6618 | ||
a8eaaee7 | 6619 | * Similarly, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own |
04e91da2 LP |
6620 | "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining. |
6621 | ||
6622 | * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth" | |
a8eaaee7 | 6623 | virtual Ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well |
04e91da2 LP |
6624 | as GRE and VTI tunnels. |
6625 | ||
6626 | * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to | |
6627 | manually load kernel modules necessary for certain tunnel | |
8d0e0ddd | 6628 | transports. Instead, it is assumed the kernel loads them |
04e91da2 LP |
6629 | automatically when required. This only works correctly on |
6630 | very new kernels. On older kernels, please consider adding | |
c54bed5d | 6631 | the kernel modules to /etc/modules-load.d/ as a work-around. |
04e91da2 | 6632 | |
cd14eda3 | 6633 | * The resolv.conf file systemd-resolved generates has been |
8d0e0ddd JE |
6634 | moved to /run/systemd/resolve/. If you have a symlink from |
6635 | /etc/resolv.conf, it might be necessary to correct it. | |
cd14eda3 | 6636 | |
ef392da6 | 6637 | * Two new service settings, ProtectHome= and ProtectSystem=, |
8d0e0ddd | 6638 | have been added. When enabled, they will make the user data |
04e91da2 LP |
6639 | (such as /home) inaccessible or read-only and the system |
6640 | (such as /usr) read-only, for specific services. This allows | |
6641 | very light-weight per-service sandboxing to avoid | |
6642 | modifications of user data or system files from | |
6643 | services. These two new switches have been enabled for all | |
6644 | of systemd's long-running services, where appropriate. | |
6645 | ||
6646 | * Socket units gained new SocketUser= and SocketGroup= | |
6647 | settings to set the owner user and group of AF_UNIX sockets | |
6648 | and FIFOs in the file system. | |
6649 | ||
8d0e0ddd | 6650 | * Socket units gained a new RemoveOnStop= setting. If enabled, |
04e91da2 LP |
6651 | all FIFOS and sockets in the file system will be removed |
6652 | when the specific socket unit is stopped. | |
6653 | ||
6654 | * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list | |
6655 | of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs | |
45df8656 | 6656 | created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to |
de04bbdc | 6657 | manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same lifecycle as |
04e91da2 LP |
6658 | the socket itself. |
6659 | ||
6660 | * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to | |
6661 | /run, and have been replaced by symlinks. This allows | |
6662 | connecting to these facilities even if PrivateDevices=yes is | |
6663 | used for a service (which makes /dev/log itself unavailable, | |
6664 | but /run is left). This also has the benefit of ensuring | |
6665 | that /dev only contains device nodes, directories and | |
6666 | symlinks, and nothing else. | |
6667 | ||
6668 | * sd-daemon gained two new calls sd_pid_notify() and | |
6669 | sd_pid_notifyf(). They are similar to sd_notify() and | |
6670 | sd_notifyf(), but allow overriding of the source PID of | |
6671 | notification messages if permissions permit this. This is | |
6672 | useful to send notify messages on behalf of a different | |
6673 | process (for example, the parent process). The | |
6674 | systemd-notify tool has been updated to make use of this | |
6675 | when sending messages (so that notification messages now | |
6676 | originate from the shell script invoking systemd-notify and | |
6677 | not the systemd-notify process itself. This should minimize | |
6678 | a race where systemd fails to associate notification | |
6679 | messages to services when the originating process already | |
6680 | vanished. | |
6681 | ||
6682 | * A new "on-abnormal" setting for Restart= has been added. If | |
8d0e0ddd | 6683 | set, it will result in automatic restarts on all "abnormal" |
04e91da2 LP |
6684 | reasons for a process to exit, which includes unclean |
6685 | signals, core dumps, timeouts and watchdog timeouts, but | |
6686 | does not include clean and unclean exit codes or clean | |
6687 | signals. Restart=on-abnormal is an alternative for | |
6688 | Restart=on-failure for services that shall be able to | |
6689 | terminate and avoid restarts on certain errors, by | |
6690 | indicating so with an unclean exit code. Restart=on-failure | |
6691 | or Restart=on-abnormal is now the recommended setting for | |
6692 | all long-running services. | |
6693 | ||
6694 | * If the InaccessibleDirectories= service setting points to a | |
6695 | mount point (or if there are any submounts contained within | |
6696 | it), it is now attempted to completely unmount it, to make | |
6697 | the file systems truly unavailable for the respective | |
6698 | service. | |
6699 | ||
6700 | * The ReadOnlyDirectories= service setting and | |
6701 | systemd-nspawn's --read-only parameter are now recursively | |
6702 | applied to all submounts, too. | |
6703 | ||
6704 | * Mount units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs. | |
6705 | ||
6706 | * The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed | |
6707 | from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now | |
6708 | implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units | |
6709 | from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a | |
6710 | substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the | |
6711 | fact that many distributions only ship a very small number | |
6712 | of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays. | |
6713 | ||
cc98b302 | 6714 | * Privileged Xen (dom0) domains are not considered |
04e91da2 LP |
6715 | virtualization anymore by the virtualization detection |
6716 | logic. After all, they generally have unrestricted access to | |
71449caf | 6717 | the hardware and usually are used to manage the unprivileged |
04e91da2 LP |
6718 | (domU) domains. |
6719 | ||
6720 | * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new "C" line type, for copying | |
6721 | files or entire directories. | |
6722 | ||
6723 | * systemd-tmpfiles "m" lines are now fully equivalent to "z" | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
6724 | lines. So far, they have been non-globbing versions of the |
6725 | latter, and have thus been redundant. In future, it is | |
6726 | recommended to only use "z". "m" has hence been removed | |
04e91da2 LP |
6727 | from the documentation, even though it stays supported. |
6728 | ||
6729 | * A tmpfiles snippet to recreate the most basic structure in | |
6730 | /var has been added. This is enough to create the /var/run → | |
6731 | /run symlink and create a couple of structural | |
6732 | directories. This allows systems to boot up with an empty or | |
8d0e0ddd JE |
6733 | volatile /var. Of course, while with this change, the core OS |
6734 | now is capable with dealing with a volatile /var, not all | |
04e91da2 | 6735 | user services are ready for it. However, we hope that sooner |
8d0e0ddd | 6736 | or later, many service daemons will be changed upstream so |
04e91da2 LP |
6737 | that they are able to automatically create their necessary |
6738 | directories in /var at boot, should they be missing. This is | |
6739 | the first step to allow state-less systems that only require | |
6740 | the vendor image for /usr to boot. | |
6741 | ||
6742 | * systemd-nspawn has gained a new --tmpfs= switch to mount an | |
6743 | empty tmpfs instance to a specific directory. This is | |
6744 | particularly useful for making use of the automatic | |
6745 | reconstruction of /var (see above), by passing --tmpfs=/var. | |
6746 | ||
6747 | * Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be | |
6748 | prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked | |
daa05349 | 6749 | by whether the existing file or directory is currently |
8d0e0ddd | 6750 | writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified, |
04e91da2 LP |
6751 | the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all |
6752 | non-directories. | |
6753 | ||
6754 | * A new passive target unit "network-pre.target" has been | |
6755 | added which is useful for services that shall run before any | |
6756 | network is configured, for example firewall scripts. | |
6757 | ||
4c0d13bd LP |
6758 | * The "floppy" group that previously owned the /dev/fd* |
6759 | devices is no longer used. The "disk" group is now used | |
6760 | instead. Distributions should probably deprecate usage of | |
6761 | this group. | |
6762 | ||
dc1d6c02 LP |
6763 | Contributions from: Camilo Aguilar, Christian Hesse, Colin Ian |
6764 | King, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, David | |
6765 | Strauss, Denis Tikhomirov, John, Jonathan Liu, Kay Sievers, | |
6766 | Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mark Eichin, Ronny | |
6767 | Chevalier, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
6768 | Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Zbigniew | |
6769 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
6770 | ||
ccddd104 | 6771 | — Berlin, 2014-06-11 |
dc1d6c02 | 6772 | |
6936cd89 LP |
6773 | CHANGES WITH 213: |
6774 | ||
6775 | * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for | |
69beda1f | 6776 | synchronizing the system clock across the network. It |
6936cd89 | 6777 | implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP |
8d0e0ddd | 6778 | implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server, |
6936cd89 | 6779 | this only implements a client side, and does not bother with |
c9679c65 LP |
6780 | the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from |
6781 | one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to | |
6936cd89 | 6782 | it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or |
8d0e0ddd | 6783 | want to connect to local hardware clocks, this simple NTP |
6936cd89 LP |
6784 | client should be more than appropriate for most |
6785 | installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and | |
6786 | has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when | |
6787 | network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the | |
6788 | current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been | |
6789 | acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock | |
69beda1f | 6790 | early at bootup, in order to accommodate for systems that |
6936cd89 | 6791 | lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, |
8d0e0ddd | 6792 | and to make sure that time monotonically progresses on these |
c9679c65 | 6793 | systems, even if it is not always correct. To make use of |
8d0e0ddd | 6794 | this daemon, a new system user and group "systemd-timesync" |
c9679c65 | 6795 | needs to be created on installation of systemd. |
6936cd89 | 6796 | |
69beda1f KS |
6797 | * The queue "seqnum" interface of libudev has been disabled, as |
6798 | it was generally incompatible with device namespacing as | |
6936cd89 LP |
6799 | sequence numbers of devices go "missing" if the devices are |
6800 | part of a different namespace. | |
6801 | ||
6802 | * "systemctl list-timers" and "systemctl list-sockets" gained | |
6803 | a --recursive switch for showing units of these types also | |
499b604b ZJS |
6804 | for all local containers, similar in style to the already |
6805 | supported --recursive switch for "systemctl list-units". | |
6936cd89 LP |
6806 | |
6807 | * A new RebootArgument= setting has been added for service | |
6808 | units, which may be used to specify a kernel reboot argument | |
499b604b | 6809 | to use when triggering reboots with StartLimitAction=. |
6936cd89 LP |
6810 | |
6811 | * A new FailureAction= setting has been added for service | |
6812 | units which may be used to specify an operation to trigger | |
499b604b | 6813 | when a service fails. This works similarly to |
8d0e0ddd | 6814 | StartLimitAction=, but unlike it, controls what is done |
6936cd89 LP |
6815 | immediately rather than only after several attempts to |
6816 | restart the service in question. | |
6817 | ||
6818 | * hostnamed got updated to also expose the kernel name, | |
499b604b ZJS |
6819 | release, and version on the bus. This is useful for |
6820 | executing commands like hostnamectl with the -H switch. | |
6821 | systemd-analyze makes use of this to properly display | |
6822 | details when running non-locally. | |
6936cd89 LP |
6823 | |
6824 | * The bootchart tool can now show cgroup information in the | |
6825 | graphs it generates. | |
6826 | ||
6827 | * The CFS CPU quota cgroup attribute is now exposed for | |
6828 | services. The new CPUQuota= switch has been added for this | |
6829 | which takes a percentage value. Setting this will have the | |
6830 | result that a service may never get more CPU time than the | |
6831 | specified percentage, even if the machine is otherwise idle. | |
6832 | ||
6833 | * systemd-networkd learned IPIP and SIT tunnel support. | |
6834 | ||
6835 | * LSB init scripts exposing a dependency on $network will now | |
6836 | get a dependency on network-online.target rather than simply | |
6837 | network.target. This should bring LSB handling closer to | |
6838 | what it was on SysV systems. | |
6839 | ||
6840 | * A new fsck.repair= kernel option has been added to control | |
6841 | how fsck shall deal with unclean file systems at boot. | |
6842 | ||
6843 | * The (.ini) configuration file parser will now silently | |
6844 | ignore sections whose name begins with "X-". This may be | |
6845 | used to maintain application-specific extension sections in unit | |
6846 | files. | |
6847 | ||
6848 | * machined gained a new API to query the IP addresses of | |
6849 | registered containers. "machinectl status" has been updated | |
6850 | to show these addresses in its output. | |
6851 | ||
6852 | * A new call sd_uid_get_display() has been added to the | |
6853 | sd-login APIs for querying the "primary" session of a | |
6854 | user. The "primary" session of the user is elected from the | |
6855 | user's sessions and generally a graphical session is | |
6856 | preferred over a text one. | |
6857 | ||
6858 | * A minimal systemd-resolved daemon has been added. It | |
6859 | currently simply acts as a companion to systemd-networkd and | |
6860 | manages resolv.conf based on per-interface DNS | |
6861 | configuration, possibly supplied via DHCP. In the long run | |
6862 | we hope to extend this into a local DNSSEC enabled DNS and | |
6863 | mDNS cache. | |
6864 | ||
68dd0956 TG |
6865 | * The systemd-networkd-wait-online tool is now enabled by |
6866 | default. It will delay network-online.target until a network | |
6867 | connection has been configured. The tool primarily integrates | |
6868 | with networkd, but will also make a best effort to make sense | |
6869 | of network configuration performed in some other way. | |
6870 | ||
6936cd89 | 6871 | * Two new service options StartupCPUShares= and |
499b604b | 6872 | StartupBlockIOWeight= have been added that work similarly to |
6936cd89 | 6873 | CPUShares= and BlockIOWeight= however only apply during |
69beda1f | 6874 | system startup. This is useful to prioritize certain services |
6936cd89 LP |
6875 | differently during bootup than during normal runtime. |
6876 | ||
8e7acf67 LP |
6877 | * hostnamed has been changed to prefer the statically |
6878 | configured hostname in /etc/hostname (unless set to | |
6879 | 'localhost' or empty) over any dynamic one supplied by | |
8d0e0ddd | 6880 | dhcp. With this change, the rules for picking the hostname |
8e7acf67 LP |
6881 | match more closely the rules of other configuration settings |
6882 | where the local administrator's configuration in /etc always | |
6883 | overrides any other settings. | |
6884 | ||
5238e957 | 6885 | Contributions from: Ali H. Caliskan, Alison Chaiken, Bas van |
6936cd89 LP |
6886 | den Berg, Brandon Philips, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, |
6887 | Dan Kilman, Dave Reisner, David Härdeman, David Herrmann, | |
6888 | David Strauss, Dimitris Spingos, Djalal Harouni, Eelco | |
6889 | Dolstra, Evan Nemerson, Florian Albrechtskirchinger, Greg | |
6890 | Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan | |
6891 | Engelhardt, Jani Nikula, Jason St. John, Jeffrey Clark, | |
6892 | Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas | |
6893 | Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
8e7acf67 LP |
6894 | Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael |
6895 | Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Nis | |
6896 | Martensen, Patrik Flykt, Philip Lorenz, poma, Ray Strode, | |
6897 | Reyad Attiyat, Robert Milasan, Scott Thrasher, Stef Walter, | |
6898 | Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas Bächler, | |
6899 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar | |
6900 | Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Will Woods, Zbigniew | |
6936cd89 LP |
6901 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek |
6902 | ||
ccddd104 | 6903 | — Beijing, 2014-05-28 |
6936cd89 | 6904 | |
51c61cda LP |
6905 | CHANGES WITH 212: |
6906 | ||
6907 | * When restoring the screen brightness at boot, stay away from | |
6908 | the darkest setting or from the lowest 5% of the available | |
6909 | range, depending on which is the larger value of both. This | |
6910 | should effectively protect the user from rebooting into a | |
6911 | black screen, should the brightness have been set to minimum | |
6912 | by accident. | |
6913 | ||
6914 | * sd-login gained a new sd_machine_get_class() call to | |
6915 | determine the class ("vm" or "container") of a machine | |
6916 | registered with machined. | |
6917 | ||
6918 | * sd-login gained new calls | |
6919 | sd_peer_get_{session,owner_uid,unit,user_unit,slice,machine_name}(), | |
6920 | to query the identity of the peer of a local AF_UNIX | |
499b604b | 6921 | connection. They operate similarly to their sd_pid_get_xyz() |
51c61cda LP |
6922 | counterparts. |
6923 | ||
6924 | * PID 1 will now maintain a system-wide system state engine | |
6925 | with the states "starting", "running", "degraded", | |
6926 | "maintenance", "stopping". These states are bound to system | |
6927 | startup, normal runtime, runtime with at least one failed | |
6928 | service, rescue/emergency mode and system shutdown. This | |
6929 | state is shown in the "systemctl status" output when no unit | |
6930 | name is passed. It is useful to determine system state, in | |
6931 | particularly when doing so for many systems or containers at | |
6932 | once. | |
6933 | ||
6934 | * A new command "list-machines" has been added to "systemctl" | |
6935 | that lists all local OS containers and shows their system | |
6936 | state (see above), if systemd runs inside of them. | |
6937 | ||
6938 | * systemctl gained a new "-r" switch to recursively enumerate | |
6939 | units on all local containers, when used with the | |
6940 | "list-unit" command (which is the default one that is | |
6941 | executed when no parameters are specified). | |
6942 | ||
6943 | * The GPT automatic partition discovery logic will now honour | |
6944 | two GPT partition flags: one may be set on a partition to | |
6945 | cause it to be mounted read-only, and the other may be set | |
6946 | on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery. | |
6947 | ||
6948 | * Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root | |
70a44afe | 6949 | partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not |
51c61cda LP |
6950 | particularly useful for discovering the root directory on |
6951 | these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is | |
6952 | not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of | |
6953 | ARM disk images in nspawn with the -i option. | |
6954 | ||
6955 | * MAC addresses of interfaces created with nspawn's | |
6956 | --network-interface= switch will now be generated from the | |
6957 | machine name, and thus be stable between multiple invocations | |
6958 | of the container. | |
6959 | ||
6960 | * logind will now automatically remove all IPC objects owned | |
6961 | by a user if she or he fully logs out. This makes sure that | |
6962 | users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC | |
6963 | resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message | |
6964 | queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message | |
de04bbdc | 6965 | queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no lifecycle |
b8bde116 JE |
6966 | limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may |
6967 | be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. | |
51c61cda LP |
6968 | |
6969 | * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a | |
6970 | --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, | |
6971 | instead of /. | |
6972 | ||
6973 | * journald can now forward logged messages to the TTYs of all | |
6974 | logged in users ("wall"). This is the default for all | |
6975 | emergency messages now. | |
6976 | ||
6977 | * A new tool systemd-journal-remote has been added to stream | |
6978 | journal log messages across the network. | |
6979 | ||
6980 | * /sys/fs/cgroup/ is now mounted read-only after all cgroup | |
6981 | controller trees are mounted into it. Note that the | |
6982 | directories mounted beneath it are not read-only. This is a | |
6983 | security measure and is particularly useful because glibc | |
6984 | actually includes a search logic to pick any tmpfs it can | |
6985 | find to implement shm_open() if /dev/shm is not available | |
6986 | (which it might very well be in namespaced setups). | |
6987 | ||
6988 | * machinectl gained a new "poweroff" command to cleanly power | |
6989 | down a local OS container. | |
6990 | ||
6991 | * The PrivateDevices= unit file setting will now also drop the | |
6992 | CAP_MKNOD capability from the capability bound set, and | |
6993 | imply DevicePolicy=closed. | |
6994 | ||
6995 | * PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork= and PrivateTmp= is now used | |
6996 | comprehensively on all long-running systemd services where | |
6997 | this is appropriate. | |
6998 | ||
6999 | * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount | |
b8bde116 | 7000 | namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to |
51c61cda LP |
7001 | pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. |
7002 | ||
7003 | * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into | |
7004 | the kernel. sd-bus gained support for creating "monitoring" | |
7005 | connections that can eavesdrop into all bus communication | |
7006 | for debugging purposes. | |
7007 | ||
7008 | * Timestamps may now be specified in seconds since the UNIX | |
7009 | epoch Jan 1st, 1970 by specifying "@" followed by the value | |
7010 | in seconds. | |
7011 | ||
7012 | * Native tcpwrap support in systemd has been removed. tcpwrap | |
7013 | is old code, not really maintained anymore and has serious | |
7014 | shortcomings, and better options such as firewalls | |
7015 | exist. For setups that require tcpwrap usage, please | |
7016 | consider invoking your socket-activated service via tcpd, | |
7017 | like on traditional inetd. | |
7018 | ||
7019 | * A new system.conf configuration option | |
7020 | DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the | |
7021 | default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. | |
7022 | ||
b8bde116 | 7023 | * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
7024 | timers configured this way will cause the system to resume |
7025 | from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most | |
7026 | do these days). | |
7027 | ||
b8bde116 | 7028 | * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, |
51c61cda LP |
7029 | timers configured this way will save to disk when they have |
7030 | been last triggered. This information is then used on next | |
7031 | reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that | |
d28315e4 JE |
7032 | could not take place because the system was powered off. |
7033 | This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units. | |
51c61cda LP |
7034 | |
7035 | * systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a | |
7036 | timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time | |
7037 | it will be triggered. | |
7038 | ||
7039 | * systemd-networkd will now assign predictable IPv4LL | |
7040 | addresses to its local interfaces. | |
7041 | ||
7042 | Contributions from: Brandon Philips, Daniel Buch, Daniel Mack, | |
7043 | Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gerd Hoffmann, Greg | |
7044 | Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Jason St. John, Josh | |
7045 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marc-Antoine | |
7046 | Perennou, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Miklos Vajna, | |
7047 | Patrik Flykt, poma, Sebastian Thorarensen, Thomas Bächler, | |
7048 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom Gundersen, | |
7049 | Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Wieland Hoffmann, Zbigniew | |
7050 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7051 | ||
ccddd104 | 7052 | — Berlin, 2014-03-25 |
51c61cda | 7053 | |
699b6b34 LP |
7054 | CHANGES WITH 211: |
7055 | ||
7056 | * A new unit file setting RestrictAddressFamilies= has been | |
7057 | added to restrict which socket address families unit | |
7058 | processes gain access to. This takes address family names | |
7059 | like "AF_INET" or "AF_UNIX", and is useful to minimize the | |
7060 | attack surface of services via exotic protocol stacks. This | |
7061 | is built on seccomp system call filters. | |
7062 | ||
7063 | * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and | |
7064 | RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to | |
7065 | manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is | |
7066 | an alternative for setting up directory permissions with | |
7067 | tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime | |
7068 | directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that | |
7069 | the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This | |
7070 | is particularly useful when writing services that drop | |
f1721625 | 7071 | privileges using the User= or Group= setting. |
699b6b34 LP |
7072 | |
7073 | * The DeviceAllow= unit setting now supports globbing for | |
7074 | matching against device group names. | |
7075 | ||
7076 | * The systemd configuration file system.conf gained new | |
7077 | settings DefaultCPUAccounting=, DefaultBlockIOAccounting=, | |
7078 | DefaultMemoryAccounting= to globally turn on/off accounting | |
7079 | for specific resources (cgroups) for all units. These | |
22e7062d | 7080 | settings may still be overridden individually in each unit |
699b6b34 LP |
7081 | though. |
7082 | ||
7083 | * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and | |
7084 | root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It | |
7085 | also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in | |
b8bde116 | 7086 | place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following |
699b6b34 | 7087 | the Discoverable Partitions Specification |
56cadcb6 | 7088 | (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) |
699b6b34 LP |
7089 | is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without |
7090 | /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on | |
b8bde116 | 7091 | systems prepared appropriately. |
699b6b34 LP |
7092 | |
7093 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows | |
7094 | booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block | |
7095 | device that follow the Discoverable Partitions Specification | |
7096 | (see above). This means that installations made with | |
7097 | appropriately updated installers may now be started and | |
7098 | deployed using container managers, completely | |
7099 | unmodified. (We hope that libvirt-lxc will add support for | |
7100 | this feature soon, too.) | |
7101 | ||
7102 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-macvlan= setting to | |
7103 | set up a private macvlan interface for the | |
499b604b | 7104 | container. Similarly, systemd-networkd gained a new |
699b6b34 LP |
7105 | Kind=macvlan setting in .netdev files. |
7106 | ||
7107 | * systemd-networkd now supports configuring local addresses | |
7108 | using IPv4LL. | |
7109 | ||
7110 | * A new tool systemd-network-wait-online has been added to | |
7111 | synchronously wait for network connectivity using | |
7112 | systemd-networkd. | |
7113 | ||
7114 | * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for | |
de04bbdc | 7115 | tracking the lifecycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is |
699b6b34 LP |
7116 | still not a public API though (unless you specify |
7117 | --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however | |
7118 | voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee). | |
7119 | ||
7120 | * The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runtime directories for each user are | |
7121 | now individual tmpfs instances, which has the benefit of | |
7122 | introducing separate pools for each user, with individual | |
4ef6e535 | 7123 | size limits, and thus making sure that unprivileged clients |
699b6b34 LP |
7124 | can no longer negatively impact the system or other users by |
7125 | filling up their $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. A new logind.conf setting | |
7126 | RuntimeDirectorySize= has been introduced that allows | |
7127 | controlling the default size limit for all users. It | |
7128 | defaults to 10% of the available physical memory. This is no | |
7129 | replacement for quotas on tmpfs though (which the kernel | |
7130 | still does not support), as /dev/shm and /tmp are still | |
4ef6e535 | 7131 | shared resources used by both the system and unprivileged |
699b6b34 LP |
7132 | users. |
7133 | ||
7134 | * logind will now automatically turn off automatic suspending | |
7135 | on laptop lid close when more than one display is | |
7136 | connected. This was previously expected to be implemented | |
7137 | individually in desktop environments (such as GNOME), | |
7138 | however has been added to logind now, in order to fix a | |
7139 | boot-time race where a desktop environment might not have | |
7140 | been started yet and thus not been able to take an inhibitor | |
7141 | lock at the time where logind already suspends the system | |
7142 | due to a closed lid. | |
7143 | ||
7144 | * logind will now wait at least 30s after each system | |
7145 | suspend/resume cycle, and 3min after system boot before | |
7146 | suspending the system due to a closed laptop lid. This | |
7147 | should give USB docking stations and similar enough time to | |
4ef6e535 | 7148 | be probed and configured after system resume and boot in |
699b6b34 LP |
7149 | order to then act as suspend blocker. |
7150 | ||
7151 | * systemd-run gained a new --property= setting which allows | |
7152 | initialization of resource control properties (and others) | |
7153 | for the created scope or service unit. Example: "systemd-run | |
7154 | --property=BlockIOWeight=10 updatedb" may be used to run | |
7155 | updatedb at a low block IO scheduling weight. | |
7156 | ||
7157 | * systemd-run's --uid=, --gid=, --setenv=, --setenv= switches | |
7158 | now also work in --scope mode. | |
7159 | ||
7160 | * When systemd is compiled with kdbus support, basic support | |
7161 | for enforced policies is now in place. (Note that enabling | |
7162 | kdbus still voids your warranty and no API compatibility | |
7163 | promises are made.) | |
7164 | ||
7165 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Ansgar Burchardt, Armin | |
7166 | K., Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, | |
7167 | Harald Hoyer, Henrik Grindal Bakken, Jasper St. Pierre, Kay | |
7168 | Sievers, Kieran Clancy, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
7169 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Mark Oteiza, Martin Pitt, | |
7170 | Mike Gilbert, Peter Rajnoha, poma, Samuli Suominen, Stef | |
7171 | Walter, Susant Sahani, Tero Roponen, Thomas Andersen, Thomas | |
7172 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tomasz Torcz, Tom | |
7173 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Uoti Urpala, Zachary Cook, | |
7174 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7175 | ||
ccddd104 | 7176 | — Berlin, 2014-03-12 |
699b6b34 | 7177 | |
43c71255 LP |
7178 | CHANGES WITH 210: |
7179 | ||
7180 | * systemd will now relabel /dev after loading the SMACK policy | |
7181 | according to SMACK rules. | |
7182 | ||
67dd87c5 | 7183 | * A new unit file option AppArmorProfile= has been added to |
43c71255 LP |
7184 | set the AppArmor profile for the processes of a unit. |
7185 | ||
7186 | * A new condition check ConditionArchitecture= has been added | |
7187 | to conditionalize units based on the system architecture, as | |
7188 | reported by uname()'s "machine" field. | |
7189 | ||
7190 | * systemd-networkd now supports matching on the system | |
7191 | virtualization, architecture, kernel command line, host name | |
7192 | and machine ID. | |
7193 | ||
ed28905e | 7194 | * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the |
43c71255 | 7195 | machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only |
b8bde116 | 7196 | on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid |
43c71255 LP |
7197 | status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the |
7198 | power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can | |
ed28905e | 7199 | be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo |
b8bde116 | 7200 | Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately |
ed28905e | 7201 | re-suspend the machine if the power button has been |
43c71255 LP |
7202 | accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a |
7203 | backpack or similar. | |
7204 | ||
7205 | * logind will now watch SW_DOCK switches and inhibit reaction | |
7206 | to the lid switch if it is pressed. This means that logind | |
d27893ef | 7207 | will not suspend the machine anymore if the lid is closed |
949138cc | 7208 | and the system is docked, if the laptop supports SW_DOCK |
43c71255 LP |
7209 | notifications via the input layer. Note that ACPI docking |
7210 | stations do not generate this currently. Also note that this | |
7211 | logic is usually not fully sufficient and Desktop | |
7212 | Environments should take a lid switch inhibitor lock when an | |
7213 | external display is connected, as systemd will not watch | |
7214 | this on its own. | |
7215 | ||
7216 | * nspawn will now make use of the devices cgroup controller by | |
7217 | default, and only permit creation of and access to the usual | |
7218 | API device nodes like /dev/null or /dev/random, as well as | |
7219 | access to (but not creation of) the pty devices. | |
7220 | ||
7221 | * We will now ship a default .network file for | |
7222 | systemd-networkd that automatically configures DHCP for | |
7223 | network interfaces created by nspawn's --network-veth or | |
7224 | --network-bridge= switches. | |
7225 | ||
7226 | * systemd will now understand the usual M, K, G, T suffixes | |
7227 | according to SI conventions (i.e. to the base 1000) when | |
7228 | referring to throughput and hardware metrics. It will stay | |
7229 | with IEC conventions (i.e. to the base 1024) for software | |
7230 | metrics, according to what is customary according to | |
7231 | Wikipedia. We explicitly document which base applies for | |
7232 | each configuration option. | |
7233 | ||
7234 | * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax | |
ed28905e | 7235 | to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, |
43c71255 | 7236 | based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the |
b8bde116 | 7237 | string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all |
43c71255 LP |
7238 | current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. |
7239 | ||
7240 | * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of | |
7241 | this type are triggered by the dispatching of any event | |
7242 | source of a type that is not "post". This is useful for | |
7243 | implementing clean-up and check event sources that are | |
7244 | triggered by other work being done in the program. | |
7245 | ||
7246 | * systemd-networkd is no longer statically enabled, but uses | |
7247 | the usual [Install] sections so that it can be | |
7248 | enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by | |
7249 | default however. | |
7250 | ||
b8bde116 | 7251 | * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the |
43c71255 LP |
7252 | host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if |
7253 | --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth | |
b8bde116 | 7254 | is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on |
43c71255 LP |
7255 | the host, for example to apply different configuration to |
7256 | them with systemd-networkd. | |
7257 | ||
d27893ef LP |
7258 | * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, |
7259 | libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and | |
7260 | libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC | |
b8bde116 | 7261 | anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times |
d27893ef LP |
7262 | under these alternative names. This means that the footprint |
7263 | is drastically increased, but given that these are | |
b8bde116 | 7264 | transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter |
d27893ef LP |
7265 | much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM |
7266 | platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM | |
d28315e4 | 7267 | toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain |
ed28905e | 7268 | for other architectures like x86 and does not support |
d27893ef LP |
7269 | IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only |
7270 | during a transitional period! | |
7271 | ||
f26ad321 ZJS |
7272 | * The .include syntax has been deprecated and is not documented |
7273 | anymore. Drop-in files in .d directories should be used instead. | |
7274 | ||
13b28d82 | 7275 | Contributions from: Andreas Fuchs, Armin K., Colin Walters, |
43c71255 LP |
7276 | Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Djalal Harouni, |
7277 | Holger Schurig, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason St. John, Jasper | |
7278 | St. Pierre, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Łukasz Stelmach, | |
7279 | Marcel Holtmann, Michael Scherer, Michal Sekletar, Mike | |
7280 | Gilbert, Samuli Suominen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
7281 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, | |
7282 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7283 | ||
ccddd104 | 7284 | — Berlin, 2014-02-24 |
43c71255 | 7285 | |
e49b5aad LP |
7286 | CHANGES WITH 209: |
7287 | ||
7288 | * A new component "systemd-networkd" has been added that can | |
7289 | be used to configure local network interfaces statically or | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7290 | via DHCP. It is capable of bringing up bridges, VLANs, and |
7291 | bonding. Currently, no hook-ups for interactive network | |
4670e9d5 | 7292 | configuration are provided. Use this for your initrd, |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7293 | container, embedded, or server setup if you need a simple, |
7294 | yet powerful, network configuration solution. This | |
4670e9d5 | 7295 | configuration subsystem is quite nifty, as it allows wildcard |
1e190502 | 7296 | hotplug matching in interfaces. For example, with a single |
4670e9d5 | 7297 | configuration snippet, you can configure that all Ethernet |
1e190502 ZJS |
7298 | interfaces showing up are automatically added to a bridge, |
7299 | or similar. It supports link-sensing and more. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7300 | |
7301 | * A new tool "systemd-socket-proxyd" has been added which can | |
4c2413bf | 7302 | act as a bidirectional proxy for TCP sockets. This is |
e49b5aad LP |
7303 | useful for adding socket activation support to services that |
7304 | do not actually support socket activation, including virtual | |
4c2413bf | 7305 | machines and the like. |
e49b5aad LP |
7306 | |
7307 | * Add a new tool to save/restore rfkill state on | |
7308 | shutdown/boot. | |
7309 | ||
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7310 | * Save/restore state of keyboard backlights in addition to |
7311 | display backlights on shutdown/boot. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7312 | |
7313 | * udev learned a new SECLABEL{} construct to label device | |
7314 | nodes with a specific security label when they appear. For | |
4c2413bf | 7315 | now, only SECLABEL{selinux} is supported, but the syntax is |
e49b5aad LP |
7316 | prepared for additional security frameworks. |
7317 | ||
7318 | * udev gained a new scheme to configure link-level attributes | |
7319 | from files in /etc/systemd/network/*.link. These files can | |
8b7d0494 | 7320 | match against MAC address, device path, driver name and type, |
4c2413bf | 7321 | and will apply attributes like the naming policy, link speed, |
8b7d0494 | 7322 | MTU, duplex settings, Wake-on-LAN settings, MAC address, MAC |
e49b5aad LP |
7323 | address assignment policy (randomized, ...). |
7324 | ||
dfb08b05 ZJS |
7325 | * The configuration of network interface naming rules for |
7326 | "permanent interface names" has changed: a new NamePolicy= | |
7327 | setting in the [Link] section of .link files determines the | |
a8eaaee7 | 7328 | priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, MAC, |
dfb08b05 ZJS |
7329 | path). The default value of this setting is determined by |
7330 | /usr/lib/net/links/99-default.link. Old | |
7331 | 80-net-name-slot.rules udev configuration file has been | |
7332 | removed, so local configuration overriding this file should | |
ce830873 | 7333 | be adapted to override 99-default.link instead. |
dfb08b05 | 7334 | |
e49b5aad | 7335 | * When the User= switch is used in a unit file, also |
4c2413bf | 7336 | initialize $SHELL= based on the user database entry. |
e49b5aad LP |
7337 | |
7338 | * systemd no longer depends on libdbus. All communication is | |
7339 | now done with sd-bus, systemd's low-level bus library | |
7340 | implementation. | |
7341 | ||
7342 | * kdbus support has been added to PID 1 itself. When kdbus is | |
4c2413bf | 7343 | enabled, this causes PID 1 to set up the system bus and |
e49b5aad LP |
7344 | enable support for a new ".busname" unit type that |
7345 | encapsulates bus name activation on kdbus. It works a little | |
7346 | bit like ".socket" units, except for bus names. A new | |
7347 | generator has been added that converts classic dbus1 service | |
7348 | activation files automatically into native systemd .busname | |
7349 | and .service units. | |
7350 | ||
7351 | * sd-bus: add a light-weight vtable implementation that allows | |
7352 | defining objects on the bus with a simple static const | |
7353 | vtable array of its methods, signals and properties. | |
7354 | ||
8b7d0494 | 7355 | * systemd will not generate or install static dbus |
e49b5aad | 7356 | introspection data anymore to /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces, |
1e190502 | 7357 | as the precise format of these files is unclear, and |
e49b5aad LP |
7358 | nothing makes use of it. |
7359 | ||
7360 | * A proxy daemon is now provided to proxy clients connecting | |
7361 | via classic D-Bus AF_UNIX sockets to kdbus, to provide full | |
7362 | compatibility with classic D-Bus. | |
7363 | ||
7364 | * A bus driver implementation has been added that supports the | |
7365 | classic D-Bus bus driver calls on kdbus, also for | |
7366 | compatibility purposes. | |
7367 | ||
7368 | * A new API "sd-event.h" has been added that implements a | |
7369 | minimal event loop API built around epoll. It provides a | |
7370 | couple of features that direct epoll usage is lacking: | |
b9761003 | 7371 | prioritization of events, scales to large numbers of timer |
e49b5aad LP |
7372 | events, per-event timer slack (accuracy), system-wide |
7373 | coalescing of timer events, exit handlers, watchdog | |
7374 | supervision support using systemd's sd_notify() API, child | |
7375 | process handling. | |
7376 | ||
7377 | * A new API "sd-rntl.h" has been added that provides an API | |
7378 | around the route netlink interface of the kernel, similar in | |
7379 | style to "sd-bus.h". | |
7380 | ||
7e95eda5 PF |
7381 | * A new API "sd-dhcp-client.h" has been added that provides a |
7382 | small DHCPv4 client-side implementation. This is used by | |
e49b5aad LP |
7383 | "systemd-networkd". |
7384 | ||
4c2413bf | 7385 | * There is a new kernel command line option |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7386 | "systemd.restore_state=0|1". When set to "0", none of the |
7387 | systemd tools will restore saved runtime state to hardware | |
7388 | devices. More specifically, the rfkill and backlight states | |
7389 | are not restored. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7390 | |
7391 | * The FsckPassNo= compatibility option in mount/service units | |
7392 | has been removed. The fstab generator will now add the | |
7393 | necessary dependencies automatically, and does not require | |
7394 | PID1's support for that anymore. | |
7395 | ||
8b7d0494 | 7396 | * journalctl gained a new switch, --list-boots, that lists |
e49b5aad LP |
7397 | recent boots with their times and boot IDs. |
7398 | ||
7399 | * The various tools like systemctl, loginctl, timedatectl, | |
7400 | busctl, systemd-run, ... have gained a new switch "-M" to | |
7401 | connect to a specific, local OS container (as direct | |
7402 | connection, without requiring SSH). This works on any | |
7403 | container that is registered with machined, such as those | |
7404 | created by libvirt-lxc or nspawn. | |
7405 | ||
7406 | * systemd-run and systemd-analyze also gained support for "-H" | |
4c2413bf | 7407 | to connect to remote hosts via SSH. This is particularly |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7408 | useful for systemd-run because it enables queuing of jobs |
7409 | onto remote systems. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7410 | |
7411 | * machinectl gained a new command "login" to open a getty | |
7412 | login in any local container. This works with any container | |
7413 | that is registered with machined (such as those created by | |
8e420494 | 7414 | libvirt-lxc or nspawn), and which runs systemd inside. |
e49b5aad LP |
7415 | |
7416 | * machinectl gained a new "reboot" command that may be used to | |
7417 | trigger a reboot on a specific container that is registered | |
7418 | with machined. This works on any container that runs an init | |
7419 | system of some kind. | |
7420 | ||
7421 | * systemctl gained a new "list-timers" command to print a nice | |
7422 | listing of installed timer units with the times they elapse | |
7423 | next. | |
7424 | ||
7425 | * Alternative reboot() parameters may now be specified on the | |
7426 | "systemctl reboot" command line and are passed to the | |
7427 | reboot() system call. | |
7428 | ||
7429 | * systemctl gained a new --job-mode= switch to configure the | |
7430 | mode to queue a job with. This is a more generic version of | |
8b7d0494 | 7431 | --fail, --irreversible, and --ignore-dependencies, which are |
e49b5aad LP |
7432 | still available but not advertised anymore. |
7433 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
7434 | * /etc/systemd/system.conf gained new settings to configure |
7435 | various default timeouts of units, as well as the default | |
b9761003 | 7436 | start limit interval and burst. These may still be overridden |
e49b5aad LP |
7437 | within each Unit. |
7438 | ||
270f1624 LP |
7439 | * PID1 will now export on the bus profile data of the security |
7440 | policy upload process (such as the SELinux policy upload to | |
8e420494 | 7441 | the kernel). |
e49b5aad | 7442 | |
4670e9d5 | 7443 | * journald: when forwarding logs to the console, include |
1e190502 ZJS |
7444 | timestamps (following the setting in |
7445 | /sys/module/printk/parameters/time). | |
e49b5aad LP |
7446 | |
7447 | * OnCalendar= in timer units now understands the special | |
7448 | strings "yearly" and "annually". (Both are equivalent) | |
7449 | ||
7450 | * The accuracy of timer units is now configurable with the new | |
7451 | AccuracySec= setting. It defaults to 1min. | |
7452 | ||
7453 | * A new dependency type JoinsNamespaceOf= has been added that | |
7454 | allows running two services within the same /tmp and network | |
7455 | namespace, if PrivateNetwork= or PrivateTmp= are used. | |
7456 | ||
7457 | * A new command "cat" has been added to systemctl. It outputs | |
7458 | the original unit file of a unit, and concatenates the | |
1e190502 ZJS |
7459 | contents of additional "drop-in" unit file snippets, so that |
7460 | the full configuration is shown. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7461 | |
7462 | * systemctl now supports globbing on the various "list-xyz" | |
7463 | commands, like "list-units" or "list-sockets", as well as on | |
1e190502 ZJS |
7464 | those commands which take multiple unit names. |
7465 | ||
7466 | * journalctl's --unit= switch gained support for globbing. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7467 | |
7468 | * All systemd daemons now make use of the watchdog logic so | |
7469 | that systemd automatically notices when they hang. | |
7470 | ||
4c2413bf | 7471 | * If the $container_ttys environment variable is set, |
e49b5aad LP |
7472 | getty-generator will automatically spawn a getty for each |
7473 | listed tty. This is useful for container managers to request | |
7474 | login gettys to be spawned on as many ttys as needed. | |
7475 | ||
7476 | * %h, %s, %U specifier support is not available anymore when | |
7477 | used in unit files for PID 1. This is because NSS calls are | |
7478 | not safe from PID 1. They stay available for --user | |
7479 | instances of systemd, and as special case for the root user. | |
7480 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
7481 | * loginctl gained a new "--no-legend" switch to turn off output |
7482 | of the legend text. | |
7483 | ||
7484 | * The "sd-login.h" API gained three new calls: | |
7485 | sd_session_is_remote(), sd_session_get_remote_user(), | |
7486 | sd_session_get_remote_host() to query information about | |
7487 | remote sessions. | |
7488 | ||
8e420494 LP |
7489 | * The udev hardware database now also carries vendor/product |
7490 | information of SDIO devices. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7491 | |
7492 | * The "sd-daemon.h" API gained a new sd_watchdog_enabled() to | |
7493 | determine whether watchdog notifications are requested by | |
7494 | the system manager. | |
7495 | ||
1e190502 | 7496 | * Socket-activated per-connection services now include a |
e49b5aad LP |
7497 | short description of the connection parameters in the |
7498 | description. | |
7499 | ||
4c2413bf | 7500 | * tmpfiles gained a new "--boot" option. When this is not used, |
e49b5aad | 7501 | only lines where the command character is not suffixed with |
4670e9d5 | 7502 | "!" are executed. When this option is specified, those |
1e190502 ZJS |
7503 | options are executed too. This partitions tmpfiles |
7504 | directives into those that can be safely executed at any | |
7505 | time, and those which should be run only at boot (for | |
7506 | example, a line that creates /run/nologin). | |
e49b5aad | 7507 | |
c0c5af00 | 7508 | * A new API "sd-resolve.h" has been added which provides a simple |
4c2413bf | 7509 | asynchronous wrapper around glibc NSS host name resolution |
e49b5aad | 7510 | calls, such as getaddrinfo(). In contrast to glibc's |
4c2413bf JE |
7511 | getaddrinfo_a(), it does not use signals. In contrast to most |
7512 | other asynchronous name resolution libraries, this one does | |
7513 | not reimplement DNS, but reuses NSS, so that alternate | |
e49b5aad | 7514 | host name resolution systems continue to work, such as mDNS, |
8b7d0494 | 7515 | LDAP, etc. This API is based on libasyncns, but it has been |
e49b5aad LP |
7516 | cleaned up for inclusion in systemd. |
7517 | ||
6300b3ec LP |
7518 | * The APIs "sd-journal.h", "sd-login.h", "sd-id128.h", |
7519 | "sd-daemon.h" are no longer found in individual libraries | |
7520 | libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-login.so, | |
7521 | libsystemd-id128.so, libsystemd-daemon.so. Instead, we have | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7522 | merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which |
7523 | provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic | |
e49b5aad | 7524 | dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's |
d28315e4 | 7525 | symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking |
6300b3ec LP |
7526 | a copy of a good part of our code into each of these |
7527 | libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain | |
7528 | things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it | |
7529 | substantially increases footprint. With this change, there | |
7530 | is only one library for the basic APIs systemd | |
7531 | provides. Also, "sd-bus.h", "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", | |
7532 | "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", "sd-utf8.h" are found in this | |
7533 | library as well, however are subject to the --enable-kdbus | |
7534 | switch (see below). Note that "sd-dhcp-client.h" is not part | |
7535 | of this library (this is because it only consumes, never | |
7536 | provides, services of/to other APIs). To make the transition | |
8b7d0494 | 7537 | easy from the separate libraries to the unified one, we |
4c2413bf | 7538 | provide the --enable-compat-libs compile-time switch which |
e49b5aad LP |
7539 | will generate stub libraries that are compatible with the |
7540 | old ones but redirect all calls to the new one. | |
7541 | ||
8b7d0494 | 7542 | * All of the kdbus logic and the new APIs "sd-bus.h", |
e49b5aad | 7543 | "sd-memfd.h", "sd-event.h", "sd-rtnl.h", "sd-resolve.h", |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7544 | and "sd-utf8.h" are compile-time optional via the |
7545 | "--enable-kdbus" switch, and they are not compiled in by | |
7546 | default. To make use of kdbus, you have to explicitly enable | |
4c2413bf | 7547 | the switch. Note however, that neither the kernel nor the |
e49b5aad LP |
7548 | userspace API for all of this is considered stable yet. We |
7549 | want to maintain the freedom to still change the APIs for | |
4c2413bf | 7550 | now. By specifying this build-time switch, you acknowledge |
e49b5aad | 7551 | that you are aware of the instability of the current |
ad42cf73 KS |
7552 | APIs. |
7553 | ||
7554 | * Also, note that while kdbus is pretty much complete, | |
e49b5aad | 7555 | it lacks one thing: proper policy support. This means you |
8b7d0494 | 7556 | can build a fully working system with all features; however, |
4c2413bf JE |
7557 | it will be highly insecure. Policy support will be added in |
7558 | one of the next releases, at the same time that we will | |
7559 | declare the APIs stable. | |
e49b5aad | 7560 | |
81c7dd89 | 7561 | * When the kernel command line argument "kdbus" is specified, |
ad42cf73 | 7562 | systemd will automatically load the kdbus.ko kernel module. At |
8b7d0494 | 7563 | this stage of development, it is only useful for testing kdbus |
ad42cf73 | 7564 | and should not be used in production. Note: if "--enable-kdbus" |
8b7d0494 | 7565 | is specified, and the kdbus.ko kernel module is available, and |
ad42cf73 KS |
7566 | "kdbus" is added to the kernel command line, the entire system |
7567 | runs with kdbus instead of dbus-daemon, with the above mentioned | |
7568 | problem of missing the system policy enforcement. Also a future | |
7569 | version of kdbus.ko or a newer systemd will not be compatible with | |
7570 | each other, and will unlikely be able to boot the machine if only | |
7571 | one of them is updated. | |
7572 | ||
e49b5aad | 7573 | * systemctl gained a new "import-environment" command which |
4c2413bf | 7574 | uploads the caller's environment (or parts thereof) into the |
e49b5aad LP |
7575 | service manager so that it is inherited by services started |
7576 | by the manager. This is useful to upload variables like | |
7577 | $DISPLAY into the user service manager. | |
7578 | ||
7579 | * A new PrivateDevices= switch has been added to service units | |
7580 | which allows running a service with a namespaced /dev | |
7581 | directory that does not contain any device nodes for | |
4c2413bf | 7582 | physical devices. More specifically, it only includes devices |
8b7d0494 | 7583 | such as /dev/null, /dev/urandom, and /dev/zero which are API |
e49b5aad LP |
7584 | entry points. |
7585 | ||
7586 | * logind has been extended to support behaviour like VT | |
7587 | switching on seats that do not support a VT. This makes | |
7588 | multi-session available on seats that are not the first seat | |
7589 | (seat0), and on systems where kernel support for VTs has | |
8b7d0494 | 7590 | been disabled at compile-time. |
e49b5aad LP |
7591 | |
7592 | * If a process holds a delay lock for system sleep or shutdown | |
1e190502 | 7593 | and fails to release it in time, we will now log its |
e49b5aad LP |
7594 | identity. This makes it easier to identify processes that |
7595 | cause slow suspends or power-offs. | |
7596 | ||
1e190502 ZJS |
7597 | * When parsing /etc/crypttab, support for a new key-slot= |
7598 | option as supported by Debian is added. It allows indicating | |
7599 | which LUKS slot to use on disk, speeding up key loading. | |
e49b5aad | 7600 | |
000b1ba5 | 7601 | * The sd_journal_sendv() API call has been checked and |
1e190502 ZJS |
7602 | officially declared to be async-signal-safe so that it may |
7603 | be invoked from signal handlers for logging purposes. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7604 | |
7605 | * Boot-time status output is now enabled automatically after a | |
7606 | short timeout if boot does not progress, in order to give | |
8e420494 | 7607 | the user an indication what she or he is waiting for. |
1e190502 ZJS |
7608 | |
7609 | * The boot-time output has been improved to show how much time | |
7610 | remains until jobs expire. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7611 | |
7612 | * The KillMode= switch in service units gained a new possible | |
8b7d0494 | 7613 | value "mixed". If set, and the unit is shut down, then the |
e49b5aad | 7614 | initial SIGTERM signal is sent only to the main daemon |
8e420494 | 7615 | process, while the following SIGKILL signal is sent to |
e49b5aad LP |
7616 | all remaining processes of the service. |
7617 | ||
4c2413bf JE |
7618 | * When a scope unit is registered, a new property "Controller" |
7619 | may be set. If set to a valid bus name, systemd will send a | |
e49b5aad LP |
7620 | RequestStop() signal to this name when it would like to shut |
7621 | down the scope. This may be used to hook manager logic into | |
7622 | the shutdown logic of scope units. Also, scope units may now | |
8b7d0494 | 7623 | be put in a special "abandoned" state, in which case the |
e49b5aad LP |
7624 | manager process which created them takes no further |
7625 | responsibilities for it. | |
7626 | ||
1e190502 | 7627 | * When reading unit files, systemd will now verify |
e49b5aad LP |
7628 | the access mode of these files, and warn about certain |
7629 | suspicious combinations. This has been added to make it | |
7630 | easier to track down packaging bugs where unit files are | |
7631 | marked executable or world-writable. | |
7632 | ||
7633 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new "--setenv=" switch to set | |
8b7d0494 | 7634 | container-wide environment variables. The similar option in |
1e190502 ZJS |
7635 | systemd-activate was renamed from "--environment=" to |
7636 | "--setenv=" for consistency. | |
e49b5aad LP |
7637 | |
7638 | * systemd-nspawn has been updated to create a new kdbus domain | |
7639 | for each container that is invoked, thus allowing each | |
b9761003 | 7640 | container to have its own set of system and user buses, |
8b7d0494 | 7641 | independent of the host. |
e49b5aad LP |
7642 | |
7643 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --drop-capability= switch to run | |
7644 | the container with less capabilities than the default. Both | |
b9761003 | 7645 | --drop-capability= and --capability= now take the special |
e49b5aad LP |
7646 | string "all" for dropping or keeping all capabilities. |
7647 | ||
7648 | * systemd-nspawn gained new switches for executing containers | |
7649 | with specific SELinux labels set. | |
7650 | ||
7651 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --quiet switch to not generate | |
7652 | any additional output but the container's own console | |
7653 | output. | |
7654 | ||
7655 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --share-system switch to run a | |
7656 | container without PID namespacing enabled. | |
7657 | ||
7658 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --register= switch to control | |
1e190502 | 7659 | whether the container is registered with systemd-machined or |
8e420494 | 7660 | not. This is useful for containers that do not run full |
e49b5aad LP |
7661 | OS images, but only specific apps. |
7662 | ||
7663 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --keep-unit which may be used | |
8b7d0494 | 7664 | when invoked as the only program from a service unit, and |
e49b5aad | 7665 | results in registration of the unit service itself in |
1e190502 | 7666 | systemd-machined, instead of a newly opened scope unit. |
e49b5aad LP |
7667 | |
7668 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-interface= switch for | |
7669 | moving arbitrary interfaces to the container. The new | |
4c2413bf | 7670 | --network-veth switch creates a virtual Ethernet connection |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7671 | between host and container. The new --network-bridge= |
7672 | switch then allows assigning the host side of this virtual | |
7673 | Ethernet connection to a bridge device. | |
e49b5aad | 7674 | |
6afc95b7 LP |
7675 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for |
7676 | setting the kernel personality for the container. This is | |
70a44afe | 7677 | useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A |
b8bde116 JE |
7678 | similar option Personality= is now also available for service |
7679 | units to use. | |
6afc95b7 | 7680 | |
e49b5aad LP |
7681 | * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each |
7682 | session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is | |
7683 | useful for desktop environments that want to identify | |
7684 | multiple running sessions of itself easily. | |
7685 | ||
7686 | * A new SELinuxContext= setting for service units has been | |
7687 | added that allows setting a specific SELinux execution | |
7688 | context for a service. | |
7689 | ||
7690 | * Most systemd client tools will now honour $SYSTEMD_LESS for | |
7691 | settings of the "less" pager. By default, these tools will | |
8b7d0494 JSJ |
7692 | override $LESS to allow certain operations to work, such as |
7693 | jump-to-the-end. With $SYSTEMD_LESS, it is possible to | |
e49b5aad LP |
7694 | influence this logic. |
7695 | ||
7696 | * systemd's "seccomp" hook-up has been changed to make use of | |
7697 | the libseccomp library instead of using its own | |
7698 | implementation. This has benefits for portability among | |
7699 | other things. | |
7700 | ||
4c2413bf | 7701 | * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new |
8b7d0494 | 7702 | SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that |
b8bde116 JE |
7703 | allows configuration of a system error number to be returned |
7704 | on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the | |
e49b5aad LP |
7705 | process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to |
7706 | limit access to system calls of a particular architecture | |
7707 | (in order to turn off support for unused secondary | |
4c2413bf | 7708 | architectures). There is also a global |
8b7d0494 | 7709 | SystemCallArchitectures= setting in system.conf now to turn |
e49b5aad LP |
7710 | off support for non-native system calls system-wide. |
7711 | ||
210054d7 KS |
7712 | * systemd requires a kernel with a working name_to_handle_at(), |
7713 | please see the kernel config requirements in the README file. | |
7714 | ||
e49b5aad LP |
7715 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alex Jia, Anatol Pomozov, |
7716 | Ansgar Burchardt, AppleBloom, Auke Kok, Bastien Nocera, | |
7717 | Chengwei Yang, Christian Seiler, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
7718 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniele Medri, Daniel J | |
7719 | Walsh, Daniel Mack, Dan McGee, Dave Reisner, David Coppa, | |
7720 | David Herrmann, David Strauss, Djalal Harouni, Dmitry Pisklov, | |
7721 | Elia Pinto, Florian Weimer, George McCollister, Goffredo | |
7722 | Baroncelli, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hendrik Brueckner, Igor | |
7723 | Zhbanov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason A. Donenfeld, | |
7724 | Jason St. John, Jasper St. Pierre, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson, Jose | |
7725 | Ignacio Naranjo, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kristian Høgsberg, | |
7726 | Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Nykryn, Lukasz | |
7727 | Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Luke Shumaker, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
7728 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel Holtmann, Marcos Felipe Rasia de | |
7729 | Mello, Marko Myllynen, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael | |
7730 | Marineau, Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Michal Sekletar, | |
7731 | Michele Curti, Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Patrik Flykt, | |
7732 | Pavel Holica, Raudi, Richard Marko, Ronny Chevalier, Sébastien | |
7733 | Luttringer, Sergey Ptashnick, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, | |
7734 | Stefan Beller, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefeve, Sylvia Else, | |
7735 | Tero Roponen, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, | |
7736 | Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Unai Uribarri, Václav | |
7737 | Pavlín, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, William Giokas, Yang | |
7738 | Zhiyong, Yin Kangkai, Yuxuan Shui, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7739 | ||
ccddd104 | 7740 | — Berlin, 2014-02-20 |
e49b5aad | 7741 | |
cd4010b3 LP |
7742 | CHANGES WITH 208: |
7743 | ||
7744 | * logind has gained support for facilitating privileged input | |
7745 | and drm device access for unprivileged clients. This work is | |
7746 | useful to allow Wayland display servers (and similar | |
7747 | programs, such as kmscon) to run under the user's ID and | |
7748 | access input and drm devices which are normally | |
7749 | protected. When this is used (and the kernel is new enough) | |
7750 | logind will "mute" IO on the file descriptors passed to | |
7751 | Wayland as long as it is in the background and "unmute" it | |
7752 | if it returns into the foreground. This allows secure | |
7753 | session switching without allowing background sessions to | |
7754 | eavesdrop on input and display data. This also introduces | |
7755 | session switching support if VT support is turned off in the | |
7756 | kernel, and on seats that are not seat0. | |
7757 | ||
7758 | * A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood | |
06b643e7 | 7759 | now which allows specifying LUKS options for usage for LUKS |
cd4010b3 LP |
7760 | encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=. |
7761 | ||
7762 | * tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in | |
7763 | path names. More specifically %m, %b, %H, %v, are now | |
7764 | replaced by the local machine id, boot id, hostname, and | |
7765 | kernel version number. | |
7766 | ||
7767 | * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which | |
7768 | may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file | |
d28315e4 | 7769 | or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not. |
cd4010b3 LP |
7770 | |
7771 | * This release removes high-level support for the | |
7772 | MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel | |
7773 | cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly | |
7774 | designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its | |
d28315e4 | 7775 | current form, hence we should not expose it for now. |
cd4010b3 LP |
7776 | |
7777 | * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for | |
7778 | all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup | |
7779 | hierarchy. This option is likely to be come the built-in | |
cc98b302 TH |
7780 | default in the kernel anyway, and the non-hierarchical mode |
7781 | never made much sense in the intrinsically hierarchical | |
cd4010b3 LP |
7782 | cgroup system. |
7783 | ||
7784 | * A new field _SYSTEMD_SLICE= is logged along with all journal | |
7785 | messages containing the slice a message was generated | |
7786 | from. This is useful to allow easy per-customer filtering of | |
7787 | logs among other things. | |
7788 | ||
7789 | * systemd-journald will no longer adjust the group of journal | |
7790 | files it creates to the "systemd-journal" group. Instead we | |
7791 | rely on the journal directory to be owned by the | |
7792 | "systemd-journal" group, and its setgid bit set, so that the | |
7793 | kernel file system layer will automatically enforce that | |
7794 | journal files inherit this group assignment. The reason for | |
7795 | this change is that we cannot allow NSS look-ups from | |
7796 | journald which would be necessary to resolve | |
7797 | "systemd-journal" to a numeric GID, because this might | |
7798 | create deadlocks if NSS involves synchronous queries to | |
7799 | other daemons (such as nscd, or sssd) which in turn are | |
7800 | logging clients of journald and might block on it, which | |
7801 | would then dead lock. A tmpfiles.d(5) snippet included in | |
7802 | systemd will make sure the setgid bit and group are | |
7803 | properly set on the journal directory if it exists on every | |
7804 | boot. However, we recommend adjusting it manually after | |
7805 | upgrades too (or from RPM scriptlets), so that the change is | |
7806 | not delayed until next reboot. | |
7807 | ||
7808 | * Backlight and random seed files in /var/lib/ have moved into | |
7809 | the /var/lib/systemd/ directory, in order to centralize all | |
7810 | systemd generated files in one directory. | |
7811 | ||
7812 | * Boot time performance measurements (as displayed by | |
7813 | "systemd-analyze" for example) will now read ACPI 5.0 FPDT | |
7814 | performance information if that's available to determine how | |
7815 | much time BIOS and boot loader initialization required. With | |
7816 | a sufficiently new BIOS you hence no longer need to boot | |
7817 | with Gummiboot to get access to such information. | |
7818 | ||
7819 | Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Chen Jie, Colin Walters, | |
7820 | Cristian Rodríguez, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David | |
7821 | Mackey, David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Evan Callicoat, Gao | |
7822 | feng, Harald Hoyer, Jimmie Tauriainen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
7823 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, | |
7824 | Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Mike Gilbert, Patrick McCarty, | |
7825 | Sebastian Ott, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7826 | ||
ccddd104 | 7827 | — Berlin, 2013-10-02 |
cd4010b3 | 7828 | |
4f0be680 LP |
7829 | CHANGES WITH 207: |
7830 | ||
7831 | * The Restart= option for services now understands a new | |
f3a165b0 | 7832 | on-watchdog setting, which will restart the service |
4f0be680 LP |
7833 | automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep |
7834 | alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=). | |
7835 | ||
7836 | * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a | |
7837 | getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only | |
7838 | start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all | |
7839 | others, too. This makes the order in which console= is | |
7840 | specified on the kernel command line less important. | |
7841 | ||
7842 | * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to | |
7843 | retrieve the VT number of a session. | |
7844 | ||
7845 | * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab | |
7846 | its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any | |
7847 | maximum number of tries. | |
7848 | ||
7849 | * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID | |
7850 | file will now be removed automatically if it still exists | |
7851 | afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files. | |
7852 | ||
7853 | * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names | |
7854 | for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths. | |
7855 | ||
7856 | * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take | |
7857 | paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that | |
d28315e4 | 7858 | it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist. |
4f0be680 | 7859 | |
f3a165b0 KS |
7860 | * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new |
7861 | output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but | |
4f0be680 LP |
7862 | shows timestamps with usec accuracy. |
7863 | ||
7864 | * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now | |
7865 | synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact, | |
387abf80 | 7866 | "discard" is preferred now (since it is easier to remember |
4f0be680 LP |
7867 | and type). |
7868 | ||
f3a165b0 | 7869 | * Some licensing clean-ups were made, so that more code is now |
4f0be680 LP |
7870 | LGPL-2.1 licensed than before. |
7871 | ||
7872 | * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight | |
7873 | brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the | |
f3a165b0 | 7874 | backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown, and |
4f0be680 LP |
7875 | restore it as early as possible during reboot. |
7876 | ||
7877 | * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap | |
7878 | partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place | |
7879 | /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can | |
7880 | discover certain partitions located on the root disk | |
7881 | automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their | |
7882 | GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap | |
7883 | partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID | |
7884 | 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f. | |
7885 | ||
7886 | * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel | |
7887 | or initrd to system services. If you want to set an | |
7888 | environment for all services, do so via the kernel command | |
7889 | line systemd.setenv= assignment. | |
7890 | ||
387abf80 LP |
7891 | * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file |
7892 | /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked | |
7893 | from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing | |
7894 | legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it | |
7895 | also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the | |
7896 | different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a | |
7897 | pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!) | |
04bf3c1a | 7898 | |
4f0be680 LP |
7899 | * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands |
7900 | have been moved to systemd-analyze. | |
7901 | ||
7902 | * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch, | |
7903 | which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up | |
7904 | automatically after the process terminated. | |
7905 | ||
7906 | * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude | |
7907 | certain paths from operation. | |
7908 | ||
7909 | * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk | |
f47ad593 ZJS |
7910 | as soon as a message at the log level CRIT, ALERT or EMERG |
7911 | is received. | |
4f0be680 LP |
7912 | |
7913 | Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian | |
7914 | Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal, | |
7915 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George | |
7916 | McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, | |
7917 | Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, | |
7918 | Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering, | |
7919 | Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel | |
7920 | Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, | |
7921 | Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał | |
7922 | Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn | |
7923 | Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe | |
7924 | Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao, | |
7925 | William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
7926 | ||
ccddd104 | 7927 | — Berlin, 2013-09-13 |
4f0be680 | 7928 | |
408f281b LP |
7929 | CHANGES WITH 206: |
7930 | ||
7931 | * The documentation has been updated to cover the various new | |
7932 | concepts introduced with 205. | |
7933 | ||
7934 | * Unit files now understand the new %v specifier which | |
7935 | resolves to the kernel version string as returned by "uname | |
7936 | -r". | |
7937 | ||
7938 | * systemctl now supports filtering the unit list output by | |
7939 | load state, active state and sub state, using the new | |
33b521be | 7940 | --state= parameter. |
408f281b LP |
7941 | |
7942 | * "systemctl status" will now show the results of the | |
7943 | condition checks (like ConditionPathExists= and similar) of | |
7944 | the last start attempts of the unit. They are also logged to | |
7945 | the journal. | |
7946 | ||
7947 | * "journalctl -b" may now be used to look for boot output of a | |
7948 | specific boot. Try "journalctl -b -1" for the previous boot, | |
7949 | but the syntax is substantially more powerful. | |
7950 | ||
7951 | * "journalctl --show-cursor" has been added which prints the | |
7952 | cursor string the last shown log line. This may then be used | |
7953 | with the new "journalctl --after-cursor=" switch to continue | |
7954 | browsing logs from that point on. | |
7955 | ||
7956 | * "journalctl --force" may now be used to force regeneration | |
7957 | of an FSS key. | |
7958 | ||
251cc819 LP |
7959 | * Creation of "dead" device nodes has been moved from udev |
7960 | into kmod and tmpfiles. Previously, udev would read the kmod | |
7961 | databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta | |
7962 | information contained in kernel modules, so that these would | |
7963 | be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this | |
d28315e4 | 7964 | does not really have much to do with the exposing actual |
251cc819 LP |
7965 | kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly |
7966 | alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod | |
7967 | will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the | |
7968 | module meta information and it now is tmpfiles' job to the | |
7969 | create the nodes. This also allows overriding access and | |
7970 | other parameters for the nodes using the usual tmpfiles | |
7971 | facilities. As side effect this allows us to remove the | |
7972 | CAP_SYS_MKNOD capability bit from udevd entirely. | |
7973 | ||
7974 | * logind's device ACLs may now be applied to these "dead" | |
7975 | devices nodes too, thus finally allowing managed access to | |
ce830873 | 7976 | devices such as /dev/snd/sequencer without loading the |
251cc819 | 7977 | backing module right-away. |
408f281b LP |
7978 | |
7979 | * A new RPM macro has been added that may be used to apply | |
7980 | tmpfiles configuration during package installation. | |
7981 | ||
7982 | * systemd-detect-virt and ConditionVirtualization= now can | |
7983 | detect User-Mode-Linux machines (UML). | |
7984 | ||
251cc819 LP |
7985 | * journald will now implicitly log the effective capabilities |
7986 | set of processes in the message metadata. | |
408f281b LP |
7987 | |
7988 | * systemd-cryptsetup has gained support for TrueCrypt volumes. | |
7989 | ||
7990 | * The initrd interface has been simplified (more specifically, | |
7991 | support for passing performance data via environment | |
7992 | variables and fsck results via files in /run has been | |
7993 | removed). These features were non-essential, and are | |
7994 | nowadays available in a much nicer way by having systemd in | |
7995 | the initrd serialize its state and have the hosts systemd | |
7996 | deserialize it again. | |
7997 | ||
28f5c779 KS |
7998 | * The udev "keymap" data files and tools to apply keyboard |
7999 | specific mappings of scan to key codes, and force-release | |
8000 | scan code lists have been entirely replaced by a udev | |
8001 | "keyboard" builtin and a hwdb data file. | |
408f281b | 8002 | |
251cc819 LP |
8003 | * systemd will now honour the kernel's "quiet" command line |
8004 | argument also during late shutdown, resulting in a | |
8005 | completely silent shutdown when used. | |
8006 | ||
8007 | * There's now an option to control the SO_REUSEPORT socket | |
8008 | option in .socket units. | |
8009 | ||
8010 | * Instance units will now automatically get a per-template | |
8011 | subslice of system.slice unless something else is explicitly | |
8012 | configured. For example, instances of sshd@.service will now | |
8013 | implicitly be placed in system-sshd.slice rather than | |
8014 | system.slice as before. | |
8015 | ||
8016 | * Test coverage support may now be enabled at build time. | |
8017 | ||
8018 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Harald | |
8019 | Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt, Jan | |
8020 | Janssen, Jason St. John, Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
8021 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Martin Pitt, Michael | |
8022 | Olbrich, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Ross Lagerwall, Shawn Landden, | |
8023 | Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William | |
8024 | Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8025 | ||
ccddd104 | 8026 | — Berlin, 2013-07-23 |
4f0be680 | 8027 | |
00aa832b LP |
8028 | CHANGES WITH 205: |
8029 | ||
8030 | * Two new unit types have been introduced: | |
8031 | ||
8032 | Scope units are very similar to service units, however, are | |
ccddd104 | 8033 | created out of pre-existing processes — instead of PID 1 |
00aa832b LP |
8034 | forking off the processes. By using scope units it is |
8035 | possible for system services and applications to group their | |
8036 | own child processes (worker processes) in a powerful way | |
8037 | which then maybe used to organize them, or kill them | |
8038 | together, or apply resource limits on them. | |
8039 | ||
8040 | Slice units may be used to partition system resources in an | |
cc98b302 | 8041 | hierarchical fashion and then assign other units to them. By |
00aa832b LP |
8042 | default there are now three slices: system.slice (for all |
8043 | system services), user.slice (for all user sessions), | |
8044 | machine.slice (for VMs and containers). | |
8045 | ||
8046 | Slices and scopes have been introduced primarily in | |
8047 | context of the work to move cgroup handling to a | |
8048 | single-writer scheme, where only PID 1 | |
8049 | creates/removes/manages cgroups. | |
8050 | ||
8051 | * There's a new concept of "transient" units. In contrast to | |
8052 | normal units these units are created via an API at runtime, | |
8053 | not from configuration from disk. More specifically this | |
8054 | means it is now possible to run arbitrary programs as | |
8055 | independent services, with all execution parameters passed | |
8056 | in via bus APIs rather than read from disk. Transient units | |
8057 | make systemd substantially more dynamic then it ever was, | |
8058 | and useful as a general batch manager. | |
8059 | ||
8060 | * logind has been updated to make use of scope and slice units | |
8061 | for managing user sessions. As a user logs in he will get | |
8062 | his own private slice unit, to which all sessions are added | |
8063 | as scope units. We also added support for automatically | |
8064 | adding an instance of user@.service for the user into the | |
8065 | slice. Effectively logind will no longer create cgroup | |
8066 | hierarchies on its own now, it will defer entirely to PID 1 | |
8067 | for this by means of scope, service and slice units. Since | |
8068 | user sessions this way become entities managed by PID 1 | |
8069 | the output of "systemctl" is now a lot more comprehensive. | |
8070 | ||
8071 | * A new mini-daemon "systemd-machined" has been added which | |
8072 | may be used by virtualization managers to register local | |
8073 | VMs/containers. nspawn has been updated accordingly, and | |
8074 | libvirt will be updated shortly. machined will collect a bit | |
8075 | of meta information about the VMs/containers, and assign | |
8076 | them their own scope unit (see above). The collected | |
8077 | meta-data is then made available via the "machinectl" tool, | |
8078 | and exposed in "ps" and similar tools. machined/machinectl | |
8079 | is compile-time optional. | |
8080 | ||
8081 | * As discussed earlier, the low-level cgroup configuration | |
8082 | options ControlGroup=, ControlGroupModify=, | |
8083 | ControlGroupPersistent=, ControlGroupAttribute= have been | |
8084 | removed. Please use high-level attribute settings instead as | |
8085 | well as slice units. | |
8086 | ||
8087 | * A new bus call SetUnitProperties() has been added to alter | |
8088 | various runtime parameters of a unit. This is primarily | |
8089 | useful to alter cgroup parameters dynamically in a nice way, | |
8090 | but will be extended later on to make more properties | |
8091 | modifiable at runtime. systemctl gained a new set-properties | |
8092 | command that wraps this call. | |
8093 | ||
8094 | * A new tool "systemd-run" has been added which can be used to | |
8095 | run arbitrary command lines as transient services or scopes, | |
8096 | while configuring a number of settings via the command | |
8097 | line. This tool is currently very basic, however already | |
8098 | very useful. We plan to extend this tool to even allow | |
8099 | queuing of execution jobs with time triggers from the | |
8100 | command line, similar in fashion to "at". | |
8101 | ||
8102 | * nspawn will now inform the user explicitly that kernels with | |
8103 | audit enabled break containers, and suggest the user to turn | |
8104 | off audit. | |
8105 | ||
8106 | * Support for detecting the IMA and AppArmor security | |
8107 | frameworks with ConditionSecurity= has been added. | |
8108 | ||
8109 | * journalctl gained a new "-k" switch for showing only kernel | |
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
8110 | messages, mimicking dmesg output; in addition to "--user" |
8111 | and "--system" switches for showing only user's own logs | |
8112 | and system logs. | |
00aa832b LP |
8113 | |
8114 | * systemd-delta can now show information about drop-in | |
8115 | snippets extending unit files. | |
8116 | ||
8117 | * libsystemd-bus has been substantially updated but is still | |
8118 | not available as public API. | |
8119 | ||
8120 | * systemd will now look for the "debug" argument on the kernel | |
499b604b | 8121 | command line and enable debug logging, similar to what |
00aa832b LP |
8122 | "systemd.log_level=debug" already did before. |
8123 | ||
8124 | * "systemctl set-default", "systemctl get-default" has been | |
8125 | added to configure the default.target symlink, which | |
8126 | controls what to boot into by default. | |
8127 | ||
1fda0ab5 ZJS |
8128 | * "systemctl set-log-level" has been added as a convenient |
8129 | way to raise and lower systemd logging threshold. | |
8130 | ||
00aa832b LP |
8131 | * "systemd-analyze plot" will now show the time the various |
8132 | generators needed for execution, as well as information | |
8133 | about the unit file loading. | |
8134 | ||
00aa832b LP |
8135 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new sd_journal_open_files() call |
8136 | for opening specific journal files. journactl also gained a | |
8137 | new switch to expose this new functionality. Previously we | |
8138 | only supported opening all files from a directory, or all | |
8139 | files from the system, as opening individual files only is | |
8140 | racy due to journal file rotation. | |
8141 | ||
8142 | * systemd gained the new DefaultEnvironment= setting in | |
8143 | /etc/systemd/system.conf to set environment variables for | |
8144 | all services. | |
8145 | ||
8146 | * If a privileged process logs a journal message with the | |
8147 | OBJECT_PID= field set, then journald will automatically | |
8148 | augment this with additional OBJECT_UID=, OBJECT_GID=, | |
8149 | OBJECT_COMM=, OBJECT_EXE=, ... fields. This is useful if | |
8150 | system services want to log events about specific client | |
8151 | processes. journactl/systemctl has been updated to make use | |
8152 | of this information if all log messages regarding a specific | |
8153 | unit is requested. | |
8154 | ||
8155 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Chengwei Yang, Colin Walters, | |
8156 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Albers, Daniel Wallace, Dave | |
8157 | Reisner, David Coppa, David King, David Strauss, Eelco | |
8158 | Dolstra, Gabriel de Perthuis, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander | |
8159 | Steffens, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jason St. John, Johan | |
8160 | Heikkilä, Karel Zak, Karol Lewandowski, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
8161 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marius Vollmer, | |
8162 | Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Tremer, | |
8163 | Michal Schmidt, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Nirbheek Chauhan, | |
8164 | Pierre Neidhardt, Ross Burton, Ross Lagerwall, Sean McGovern, | |
8165 | Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
8166 | Václav Pavlín, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, | |
8167 | Łukasz Stelmach, 장동준 | |
8168 | ||
606c24e3 LP |
8169 | CHANGES WITH 204: |
8170 | ||
8171 | * The Python bindings gained some minimal support for the APIs | |
8172 | exposed by libsystemd-logind. | |
8173 | ||
8174 | * ConditionSecurity= gained support for detecting SMACK. Since | |
8175 | this condition already supports SELinux and AppArmor we only | |
8176 | miss IMA for this. Patches welcome! | |
8177 | ||
8178 | Contributions from: Karol Lewandowski, Lennart Poettering, | |
8179 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8180 | ||
2f3fcf85 LP |
8181 | CHANGES WITH 203: |
8182 | ||
8183 | * systemd-nspawn will now create /etc/resolv.conf if | |
8184 | necessary, before bind-mounting the host's file onto it. | |
8185 | ||
8186 | * systemd-nspawn will now store meta information about a | |
8187 | container on the container's cgroup as extended attribute | |
8188 | fields, including the root directory. | |
8189 | ||
8190 | * The cgroup hierarchy has been reworked in many ways. All | |
8191 | objects any of the components systemd creates in the cgroup | |
b82eed9a | 8192 | tree are now suffixed. More specifically, user sessions are |
2f3fcf85 LP |
8193 | now placed in cgroups suffixed with ".session", users in |
8194 | cgroups suffixed with ".user", and nspawn containers in | |
8195 | cgroups suffixed with ".nspawn". Furthermore, all cgroup | |
8196 | names are now escaped in a simple scheme to avoid collision | |
8197 | of userspace object names with kernel filenames. This work | |
8198 | is preparation for making these objects relocatable in the | |
8199 | cgroup tree, in order to allow easy resource partitioning of | |
8200 | these objects without causing naming conflicts. | |
8201 | ||
8202 | * systemctl list-dependencies gained the new switches | |
8203 | --plain, --reverse, --after and --before. | |
8204 | ||
8205 | * systemd-inhibit now shows the process name of processes that | |
8206 | have taken an inhibitor lock. | |
8207 | ||
8208 | * nss-myhostname will now also resolve "localhost" | |
8209 | implicitly. This makes /etc/hosts an optional file and | |
8210 | nicely handles that on IPv6 ::1 maps to both "localhost" and | |
8211 | the local hostname. | |
8212 | ||
8213 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call | |
8214 | sd_get_machine_names() to enumerate running containers and | |
8215 | VMs (currently only supported by very new libvirt and | |
8216 | nspawn). sd_login_monitor can now be used to watch | |
8217 | VMs/containers coming and going. | |
8218 | ||
8219 | * .include is not allowed recursively anymore, and only in | |
8220 | unit files. Usually it is better to use drop-in snippets in | |
8221 | .d/*.conf anyway, as introduced with systemd 198. | |
8222 | ||
8223 | * systemd-analyze gained a new "critical-chain" command that | |
8224 | determines the slowest chain of units run during system | |
8225 | boot-up. It is very useful for tracking down where | |
8226 | optimizing boot time is the most beneficial. | |
8227 | ||
8228 | * systemd will no longer allow manipulating service paths in | |
8229 | the name=systemd:/system cgroup tree using ControlGroup= in | |
8230 | units. (But is still fine with it in all other dirs.) | |
8231 | ||
8232 | * There's a new systemd-nspawn@.service service file that may | |
8233 | be used to easily run nspawn containers as system | |
8234 | services. With the container's root directory in | |
8235 | /var/lib/container/foobar it is now sufficient to run | |
8236 | "systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foobar.service" to boot it. | |
8237 | ||
8238 | * systemd-cgls gained a new parameter "--machine" to list only | |
8239 | the processes within a certain container. | |
8240 | ||
8241 | * ConditionSecurity= now can check for "apparmor". We still | |
8242 | are lacking checks for SMACK and IMA for this condition | |
8243 | check though. Patches welcome! | |
8244 | ||
8245 | * A new configuration file /etc/systemd/sleep.conf has been | |
8246 | added that may be used to configure which kernel operation | |
8247 | systemd is supposed to execute when "suspend", "hibernate" | |
8248 | or "hybrid-sleep" is requested. This makes the new kernel | |
8249 | "freeze" state accessible to the user. | |
8250 | ||
8251 | * ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules will now implicitly escape | |
8252 | the passed argument if applicable. | |
8253 | ||
8254 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, | |
8255 | Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
8256 | Evangelos Foutras, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Josh | |
8257 | Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, | |
8258 | MUNEDA Takahiro, Mantas Mikulėnas, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel | |
8259 | Chen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ronny Chevalier, Ross Lagerwall, Tom | |
8260 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
8261 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8262 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
8263 | CHANGES WITH 202: |
8264 | ||
8265 | * The output of 'systemctl list-jobs' got some polishing. The | |
8266 | '--type=' argument may now be passed more than once. A new | |
8267 | command 'systemctl list-sockets' has been added which shows | |
8268 | a list of kernel sockets systemd is listening on with the | |
8269 | socket units they belong to, plus the units these socket | |
8270 | units activate. | |
8271 | ||
8272 | * The experimental libsystemd-bus library got substantial | |
8273 | updates to work in conjunction with the (also experimental) | |
8274 | kdbus kernel project. It works well enough to exchange | |
8275 | messages with some sophistication. Note that kdbus is not | |
8276 | ready yet, and the library is mostly an elaborate test case | |
8277 | for now, and not installable. | |
8278 | ||
8279 | * systemd gained a new unit 'systemd-static-nodes.service' | |
8280 | that generates static device nodes earlier during boot, and | |
8281 | can run in conjunction with udev. | |
8282 | ||
8283 | * libsystemd-login gained a new call sd_pid_get_user_unit() | |
8284 | to retrieve the user systemd unit a process is running | |
8285 | in. This is useful for systems where systemd is used as | |
8286 | session manager. | |
8287 | ||
8288 | * systemd-nspawn now places all containers in the new /machine | |
8289 | top-level cgroup directory in the name=systemd | |
8290 | hierarchy. libvirt will soon do the same, so that we get a | |
8291 | uniform separation of /system, /user and /machine for system | |
8292 | services, user processes and containers/virtual | |
8293 | machines. This new cgroup hierarchy is also useful to stick | |
8294 | stable names to specific container instances, which can be | |
7c04ad2d | 8295 | recognized later this way (this name may be controlled |
ef3b5246 LP |
8296 | via systemd-nspawn's new -M switch). libsystemd-login also |
8297 | gained a new call sd_pid_get_machine_name() to retrieve the | |
8298 | name of the container/VM a specific process belongs to. | |
8299 | ||
8300 | * bootchart can now store its data in the journal. | |
8301 | ||
8302 | * libsystemd-journal gained a new call | |
8303 | sd_journal_add_conjunction() for AND expressions to the | |
8304 | matching logic. This can be used to express more complex | |
8305 | logical expressions. | |
8306 | ||
8307 | * journactl can now take multiple --unit= and --user-unit= | |
8308 | switches. | |
8309 | ||
8310 | * The cryptsetup logic now understands the "luks.key=" kernel | |
8311 | command line switch for specifying a file to read the | |
7c04ad2d | 8312 | decryption key from. Also, if a configured key file is not |
ef3b5246 LP |
8313 | found the tool will now automatically fall back to prompting |
8314 | the user. | |
8315 | ||
cbeabcfb ZJS |
8316 | * Python systemd.journal module was updated to wrap recently |
8317 | added functions from libsystemd-journal. The interface was | |
8318 | changed to bring the low level interface in s.j._Reader | |
8319 | closer to the C API, and the high level interface in | |
8320 | s.j.Reader was updated to wrap and convert all data about | |
8321 | an entry. | |
8322 | ||
ef3b5246 LP |
8323 | Contributions from: Anatol Pomozov, Auke Kok, Harald Hoyer, |
8324 | Henrik Grindal Bakken, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
8325 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas Marius Vollmer, | |
8326 | Martin Jansa, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
8327 | Mirco Tischler, Pali Rohar, Simon Peeters, Steven Hiscocks, | |
8328 | Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8329 | ||
d3a86981 LP |
8330 | CHANGES WITH 201: |
8331 | ||
8332 | * journalctl --update-catalog now understands a new --root= | |
8333 | option to operate on catalogs found in a different root | |
8334 | directory. | |
8335 | ||
8336 | * During shutdown after systemd has terminated all running | |
8337 | services a final killing loop kills all remaining left-over | |
8338 | processes. We will now print the name of these processes | |
8339 | when we send SIGKILL to them, since this usually indicates a | |
8340 | problem. | |
8341 | ||
8342 | * If /etc/crypttab refers to password files stored on | |
8343 | configured mount points automatic dependencies will now be | |
8344 | generated to ensure the specific mount is established first | |
8345 | before the key file is attempted to be read. | |
8346 | ||
8347 | * 'systemctl status' will now show information about the | |
8348 | network sockets a socket unit is listening on. | |
8349 | ||
8350 | * 'systemctl status' will also shown information about any | |
8351 | drop-in configuration file for units. (Drop-In configuration | |
8352 | files in this context are files such as | |
8353 | /etc/systemd/systemd/foobar.service.d/*.conf) | |
8354 | ||
8355 | * systemd-cgtop now optionally shows summed up CPU times of | |
8356 | cgroups. Press '%' while running cgtop to switch between | |
8357 | percentage and absolute mode. This is useful to determine | |
8358 | which cgroups use up the most CPU time over the entire | |
8359 | runtime of the system. systemd-cgtop has also been updated | |
8360 | to be 'pipeable' for processing with further shell tools. | |
8361 | ||
8362 | * 'hostnamectl set-hostname' will now allow setting of FQDN | |
8363 | hostnames. | |
8364 | ||
8365 | * The formatting and parsing of time span values has been | |
8366 | changed. The parser now understands fractional expressions | |
8367 | such as "5.5h". The formatter will now output fractional | |
8368 | expressions for all time spans under 1min, i.e. "5.123456s" | |
8369 | rather than "5s 123ms 456us". For time spans under 1s | |
8370 | millisecond values are shown, for those under 1ms | |
8371 | microsecond values are shown. This should greatly improve | |
8372 | all time-related output of systemd. | |
8373 | ||
8374 | * libsystemd-login and libsystemd-journal gained new | |
8375 | functions for querying the poll() events mask and poll() | |
8376 | timeout value for integration into arbitrary event | |
8377 | loops. | |
8378 | ||
8379 | * localectl gained the ability to list available X11 keymaps | |
8380 | (models, layouts, variants, options). | |
8381 | ||
8382 | * 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for | |
8383 | specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller, | |
d28315e4 | 8384 | more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple |
d3a86981 LP |
8385 | graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or |
8386 | of all units that Avahi has dependencies with. | |
8387 | ||
8388 | Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck, | |
8389 | Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, Kelly | |
8390 | Anderson, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Maksim Melnikau, | |
8391 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marius Vollmer, Martin Pitt, Michal | |
8392 | Schmidt, Oleksii Shevchuk, Ronny Chevalier, Simon McVittie, | |
8393 | Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Weißschuh, Umut Tezduyar, Václav | |
8394 | Pavlín, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Łukasz Stelmach | |
8395 | ||
9ca3c17f LP |
8396 | CHANGES WITH 200: |
8397 | ||
8398 | * The boot-time readahead implementation for rotating media | |
8399 | will now read the read-ahead data in multiple passes which | |
8400 | consist of all read requests made in equidistant time | |
8401 | intervals. This means instead of strictly reading read-ahead | |
8402 | data in its physical order on disk we now try to find a | |
8403 | middle ground between physical and access time order. | |
8404 | ||
8405 | * /etc/os-release files gained a new BUILD_ID= field for usage | |
8406 | on operating systems that provide continuous builds of OS | |
8407 | images. | |
8408 | ||
8409 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, | |
8410 | Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin Pitt, Václav Pavlín | |
8411 | William Douglas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8412 | ||
35911459 LP |
8413 | CHANGES WITH 199: |
8414 | ||
8415 | * systemd-python gained an API exposing libsystemd-daemon. | |
8416 | ||
8417 | * The SMACK setup logic gained support for uploading CIPSO | |
8418 | security policy. | |
8419 | ||
8420 | * Behaviour of PrivateTmp=, ReadWriteDirectories=, | |
8421 | ReadOnlyDirectories= and InaccessibleDirectories= has | |
8422 | changed. The private /tmp and /var/tmp directories are now | |
8423 | shared by all processes of a service (which means | |
8424 | ExecStartPre= may now leave data in /tmp that ExecStart= of | |
8425 | the same service can still access). When a service is | |
8426 | stopped its temporary directories are immediately deleted | |
a87197f5 | 8427 | (normal clean-up with tmpfiles is still done in addition to |
35911459 LP |
8428 | this though). |
8429 | ||
8430 | * By default, systemd will now set a couple of sysctl | |
8431 | variables in the kernel: the safe sysrq options are turned | |
8432 | on, IP route verification is turned on, and source routing | |
8433 | disabled. The recently added hardlink and softlink | |
8434 | protection of the kernel is turned on. These settings should | |
8435 | be reasonably safe, and good defaults for all new systems. | |
8436 | ||
8437 | * The predictable network naming logic may now be turned off | |
a87197f5 | 8438 | with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0. |
35911459 LP |
8439 | |
8440 | * A new libsystemd-bus module has been added that implements a | |
8441 | pretty complete D-Bus client library. For details see: | |
8442 | ||
56cadcb6 | 8443 | https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html |
35911459 | 8444 | |
c20d8298 | 8445 | * journald will now explicitly flush the journal files to disk |
a87197f5 ZJS |
8446 | at the latest 5min after each write. The file will then also |
8447 | be marked offline until the next write. This should increase | |
8448 | reliability in case of a crash. The synchronization delay | |
8449 | can be configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf. | |
35911459 LP |
8450 | |
8451 | * There's a new remote-fs-setup.target unit that can be used | |
8452 | to pull in specific services when at least one remote file | |
8453 | system is to be mounted. | |
8454 | ||
8455 | * There are new targets timers.target and paths.target as | |
8456 | canonical targets to pull user timer and path units in | |
8457 | from. This complements sockets.target with a similar | |
8458 | purpose for socket units. | |
8459 | ||
6a7d3d68 LP |
8460 | * libudev gained a new call udev_device_set_attribute_value() |
8461 | to set sysfs attributes of a device. | |
8462 | ||
a87197f5 ZJS |
8463 | * The udev daemon now sets the default number of worker |
8464 | processes executed in parallel based on the number of available | |
c20d8298 | 8465 | CPUs instead of the amount of available RAM. This is supposed |
ab06eef8 | 8466 | to provide a more reliable default and limit a too aggressive |
ce830873 | 8467 | parallelism for setups with 1000s of devices connected. |
c20d8298 | 8468 | |
35911459 LP |
8469 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Walters, Cristian |
8470 | Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Hannes | |
8471 | Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan | |
8472 | Engelhardt, Josh Triplett, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
8473 | Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Bridon, Michael Biebl, | |
8474 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nathaniel Chen, | |
8475 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Ozan Çağlayan, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel | |
8476 | Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, | |
8477 | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8478 | ||
85d68397 LP |
8479 | CHANGES WITH 198: |
8480 | ||
8481 | * Configuration of unit files may now be extended via drop-in | |
8482 | files without having to edit/override the unit files | |
8483 | themselves. More specifically, if the administrator wants to | |
8484 | change one value for a service file foobar.service he can | |
8485 | now do so by dropping in a configuration snippet into | |
ad88e758 | 8486 | /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/*.conf. The unit logic |
85d68397 LP |
8487 | will load all these snippets and apply them on top of the |
8488 | main unit configuration file, possibly extending or | |
8489 | overriding its settings. Using these drop-in snippets is | |
40e21da8 KS |
8490 | generally nicer than the two earlier options for changing |
8491 | unit files locally: copying the files from | |
85d68397 LP |
8492 | /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to /etc/systemd/system/ and editing |
8493 | them there; or creating a new file in /etc/systemd/system/ | |
8494 | that incorporates the original one via ".include". Drop-in | |
8495 | snippets into these .d/ directories can be placed in any | |
fd868975 | 8496 | directory systemd looks for units in, and the usual |
85d68397 LP |
8497 | overriding semantics between /usr/lib, /etc and /run apply |
8498 | for them too. | |
8499 | ||
8500 | * Most unit file settings which take lists of items can now be | |
6aa8d43a | 8501 | reset by assigning the empty string to them. For example, |
85d68397 LP |
8502 | normally, settings such as Environment=FOO=BAR append a new |
8503 | environment variable assignment to the environment block, | |
8504 | each time they are used. By assigning Environment= the empty | |
8505 | string the environment block can be reset to empty. This is | |
8506 | particularly useful with the .d/*.conf drop-in snippets | |
156f7d09 KS |
8507 | mentioned above, since this adds the ability to reset list |
8508 | settings from vendor unit files via these drop-ins. | |
85d68397 LP |
8509 | |
8510 | * systemctl gained a new "list-dependencies" command for | |
8511 | listing the dependencies of a unit recursively. | |
8512 | ||
40e21da8 | 8513 | * Inhibitors are now honored and listed by "systemctl |
85d68397 LP |
8514 | suspend", "systemctl poweroff" (and similar) too, not only |
8515 | GNOME. These commands will also list active sessions by | |
8516 | other users. | |
8517 | ||
8518 | * Resource limits (as exposed by the various control group | |
8519 | controllers) can now be controlled dynamically at runtime | |
8520 | for all units. More specifically, you can now use a command | |
8521 | like "systemctl set-cgroup-attr foobar.service cpu.shares | |
8522 | 2000" to alter the CPU shares a specific service gets. These | |
6aa8d43a | 8523 | settings are stored persistently on disk, and thus allow the |
85d68397 LP |
8524 | administrator to easily adjust the resource usage of |
8525 | services with a few simple commands. This dynamic resource | |
6aa8d43a | 8526 | management logic is also available to other programs via the |
85d68397 LP |
8527 | bus. Almost any kernel cgroup attribute and controller is |
8528 | supported. | |
8529 | ||
8530 | * systemd-vconsole-setup will now copy all font settings to | |
6aa8d43a LP |
8531 | all allocated VTs, where it previously applied them only to |
8532 | the foreground VT. | |
85d68397 LP |
8533 | |
8534 | * libsystemd-login gained the new sd_session_get_tty() API | |
8535 | call. | |
8536 | ||
6aa8d43a LP |
8537 | * This release drops support for a few legacy or |
8538 | distribution-specific LSB facility names when parsing init | |
8539 | scripts: $x-display-manager, $mail-transfer-agent, | |
85d68397 LP |
8540 | $mail-transport-agent, $mail-transfer-agent, $smtp, |
8541 | $null. Also, the mail-transfer-agent.target unit backing | |
8542 | this has been removed. Distributions which want to retain | |
6aa8d43a LP |
8543 | compatibility with this should carry the burden for |
8544 | supporting this themselves and patch support for these back | |
8545 | in, if they really need to. Also, the facilities $syslog and | |
8546 | $local_fs are now ignored, since systemd does not support | |
8547 | early-boot LSB init scripts anymore, and these facilities | |
8548 | are implied anyway for normal services. syslog.target has | |
8549 | also been removed. | |
85d68397 | 8550 | |
40e21da8 | 8551 | * There are new bus calls on PID1's Manager object for |
6aa8d43a | 8552 | cancelling jobs, and removing snapshot units. Previously, |
85d68397 LP |
8553 | both calls were only available on the Job and Snapshot |
8554 | objects themselves. | |
8555 | ||
8556 | * systemd-journal-gatewayd gained SSL support. | |
8557 | ||
8558 | * The various "environment" files, such as /etc/locale.conf | |
8559 | now support continuation lines with a backslash ("\") as | |
499b604b | 8560 | last character in the line, similarly in style (but different) |
85d68397 LP |
8561 | to how this is supported in shells. |
8562 | ||
8563 | * For normal user processes the _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field is | |
8564 | now implicitly appended to every log entry logged. systemctl | |
8565 | has been updated to filter by this field when operating on a | |
8566 | user systemd instance. | |
8567 | ||
8568 | * nspawn will now implicitly add the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and | |
8569 | CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities to the capabilities set for | |
8570 | the container. This makes it easier to boot unmodified | |
8571 | Fedora systems in a container, which however still requires | |
8572 | audit=0 to be passed on the kernel command line. Auditing in | |
8573 | kernel and userspace is unfortunately still too broken in | |
8574 | context of containers, hence we recommend compiling it out | |
8575 | of the kernel or using audit=0. Hopefully this will be fixed | |
8576 | one day for good in the kernel. | |
8577 | ||
8578 | * nspawn gained the new --bind= and --bind-ro= parameters to | |
8579 | bind mount specific directories from the host into the | |
8580 | container. | |
8581 | ||
40e21da8 | 8582 | * nspawn will now mount its own devpts file system instance |
6aa8d43a | 8583 | into the container, in order not to leak pty devices from |
85d68397 LP |
8584 | the host into the container. |
8585 | ||
8586 | * systemd will now read the firmware boot time performance | |
6aa8d43a LP |
8587 | information from the EFI variables, if the used boot loader |
8588 | supports this, and takes it into account for boot performance | |
8589 | analysis via "systemd-analyze". This is currently supported | |
8590 | only in conjunction with Gummiboot, but could be supported | |
8591 | by other boot loaders too. For details see: | |
85d68397 | 8592 | |
56cadcb6 | 8593 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface |
85d68397 LP |
8594 | |
8595 | * A new generator has been added that automatically mounts the | |
8596 | EFI System Partition (ESP) to /boot, if that directory | |
6aa8d43a LP |
8597 | exists, is empty, and no other file system has been |
8598 | configured to be mounted there. | |
85d68397 LP |
8599 | |
8600 | * logind will now send out PrepareForSleep(false) out | |
8601 | unconditionally, after coming back from suspend. This may be | |
8602 | used by applications as asynchronous notification for | |
8603 | system resume events. | |
8604 | ||
8605 | * "systemctl unlock-sessions" has been added, that allows | |
8606 | unlocking the screens of all user sessions at once, similar | |
499b604b | 8607 | to how "systemctl lock-sessions" already locked all users |
40e21da8 | 8608 | sessions. This is backed by a new D-Bus call UnlockSessions(). |
85d68397 LP |
8609 | |
8610 | * "loginctl seat-status" will now show the master device of a | |
8611 | seat. (i.e. the device of a seat that needs to be around for | |
8612 | the seat to be considered available, usually the graphics | |
8613 | card). | |
8614 | ||
8615 | * tmpfiles gained a new "X" line type, that allows | |
8616 | configuration of files and directories (with wildcards) that | |
8617 | shall be excluded from automatic cleanup ("aging"). | |
8618 | ||
bf933560 KS |
8619 | * udev default rules set the device node permissions now only |
8620 | at "add" events, and do not change them any longer with a | |
8621 | later "change" event. | |
85d68397 LP |
8622 | |
8623 | * The log messages for lid events and power/sleep keypresses | |
8624 | now carry a message ID. | |
8625 | ||
8626 | * We now have a substantially larger unit test suite, but this | |
8627 | continues to be work in progress. | |
8628 | ||
8629 | * udevadm hwdb gained a new --root= parameter to change the | |
8630 | root directory to operate relative to. | |
8631 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
8632 | * logind will now issue a background sync() request to the kernel |
8633 | early at shutdown, so that dirty buffers are flushed to disk early | |
85d68397 LP |
8634 | instead of at the last moment, in order to optimize shutdown |
8635 | times a little. | |
8636 | ||
8637 | * A new bootctl tool has been added that is an interface for | |
8638 | certain boot loader operations. This is currently a preview | |
8639 | and is likely to be extended into a small mechanism daemon | |
8640 | like timedated, localed, hostnamed, and can be used by | |
8641 | graphical UIs to enumerate available boot options, and | |
8642 | request boot into firmware operations. | |
8643 | ||
8644 | * systemd-bootchart has been relicensed to LGPLv2.1+ to match | |
8645 | the rest of the package. It also has been updated to work | |
8646 | correctly in initrds. | |
8647 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
8648 | * polkit previously has been runtime optional, and is now also |
8649 | compile time optional via a configure switch. | |
85d68397 LP |
8650 | |
8651 | * systemd-analyze has been reimplemented in C. Also "systemctl | |
8652 | dot" has moved into systemd-analyze. | |
8653 | ||
8654 | * "systemctl status" with no further parameters will now print | |
8655 | the status of all active or failed units. | |
8656 | ||
8657 | * Operations such as "systemctl start" can now be executed | |
8658 | with a new mode "--irreversible" which may be used to queue | |
8659 | operations that cannot accidentally be reversed by a later | |
6aa8d43a | 8660 | job queuing. This is by default used to make shutdown |
85d68397 LP |
8661 | requests more robust. |
8662 | ||
8663 | * The Python API of systemd now gained a new module for | |
8664 | reading journal files. | |
8665 | ||
8666 | * A new tool kernel-install has been added that can install | |
8667 | kernel images according to the Boot Loader Specification: | |
8668 | ||
56cadcb6 | 8669 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec |
85d68397 LP |
8670 | |
8671 | * Boot time console output has been improved to provide | |
6aa8d43a | 8672 | animated boot time output for hanging jobs. |
85d68397 LP |
8673 | |
8674 | * A new tool systemd-activate has been added which can be used | |
8675 | to test socket activation with, directly from the command | |
8676 | line. This should make it much easier to test and debug | |
8677 | socket activation in daemons. | |
8678 | ||
8679 | * journalctl gained a new "--reverse" (or -r) option to show | |
8680 | journal output in reverse order (i.e. newest line first). | |
8681 | ||
43447fb7 LP |
8682 | * journalctl gained a new "--pager-end" (or -e) option to jump |
8683 | to immediately jump to the end of the journal in the | |
8684 | pager. This is only supported in conjunction with "less". | |
8685 | ||
85d68397 | 8686 | * journalctl gained a new "--user-unit=" option, that works |
499b604b | 8687 | similarly to "--unit=" but filters for user units rather than |
85d68397 LP |
8688 | system units. |
8689 | ||
8690 | * A number of unit files to ease adoption of systemd in | |
8691 | initrds has been added. This moves some minimal logic from | |
8692 | the various initrd implementations into systemd proper. | |
8693 | ||
8694 | * The journal files are now owned by a new group | |
8695 | "systemd-journal", which exists specifically to allow access | |
8696 | to the journal, and nothing else. Previously, we used the | |
6aa8d43a | 8697 | "adm" group for that, which however possibly covers more |
85d68397 LP |
8698 | than just journal/log file access. This new group is now |
8699 | already used by systemd-journal-gatewayd to ensure this | |
8700 | daemon gets access to the journal files and as little else | |
8701 | as possible. Note that "make install" will also set FS ACLs | |
8702 | up for /var/log/journal to give "adm" and "wheel" read | |
8703 | access to it, in addition to "systemd-journal" which owns | |
8704 | the journal files. We recommend that packaging scripts also | |
6aa8d43a | 8705 | add read access to "adm" + "wheel" to /var/log/journal, and |
85d68397 LP |
8706 | all existing/future journal files. To normal users and |
8707 | administrators little changes, however packagers need to | |
8708 | ensure to create the "systemd-journal" system group at | |
8709 | package installation time. | |
8710 | ||
8711 | * The systemd-journal-gatewayd now runs as unprivileged user | |
8712 | systemd-journal-gateway:systemd-journal-gateway. Packaging | |
8713 | scripts need to create these system user/group at | |
8714 | installation time. | |
8715 | ||
8716 | * timedated now exposes a new boolean property CanNTP that | |
8717 | indicates whether a local NTP service is available or not. | |
8718 | ||
8719 | * systemd-detect-virt will now also detect xen PVs | |
8720 | ||
40e21da8 KS |
8721 | * The pstore file system is now mounted by default, if it is |
8722 | available. | |
85d68397 | 8723 | |
1aed4590 LP |
8724 | * In addition to the SELinux and IMA policies we will now also |
8725 | load SMACK policies at early boot. | |
8726 | ||
85d68397 LP |
8727 | Contributions from: Adel Gadllah, Aleksander Morgado, Auke |
8728 | Kok, Ayan George, Bastien Nocera, Colin Walters, Daniel Buch, | |
8729 | Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David Strauss, | |
8730 | Eelco Dolstra, Enrico Scholz, Frederic Crozat, Harald Hoyer, | |
8731 | Jan Janssen, Jonathan Callen, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
8732 | Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin | |
8733 | Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Max F. Albrecht, Michael Biebl, Michael | |
8734 | Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michal Vyskocil, | |
8735 | Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Mirco Tischler, Nathaniel Chen, Nestor | |
8736 | Ovroy, Oleksii Shevchuk, Paul W. Frields, Piotr Drąg, Rob | |
8737 | Clark, Ryan Lortie, Simon McVittie, Simon Peeters, Steven | |
8738 | Hiscocks, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
8739 | Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, William Giokas, Zbigniew | |
8740 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) | |
8741 | ||
8ad26859 LP |
8742 | CHANGES WITH 197: |
8743 | ||
8744 | * Timer units now support calendar time events in addition to | |
8745 | monotonic time events. That means you can now trigger a unit | |
8746 | based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri | |
8747 | 2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first | |
8748 | or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is | |
8749 | a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support | |
8750 | considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on | |
8751 | the supported calendar time specification language see | |
8752 | systemd.time(7). | |
8753 | ||
8754 | * udev now supports a number of different naming policies for | |
8755 | network interfaces for predictable names, and a combination | |
8756 | of these policies is now the default. Please see this wiki | |
8757 | document for details: | |
8758 | ||
56cadcb6 | 8759 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames |
8ad26859 LP |
8760 | |
8761 | * Auke Kok's bootchart implementation has been added to the | |
d28315e4 JE |
8762 | systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the |
8763 | boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart | |
8ad26859 LP |
8764 | implementations around and minimal in its code and |
8765 | dependencies. | |
8766 | ||
8767 | * nss-myhostname has been integrated into the systemd source | |
8768 | tree. nss-myhostname guarantees that the local hostname | |
8769 | always stays resolvable via NSS. It has been a weak | |
8770 | requirement of systemd-hostnamed since a long time, and | |
8771 | since its code is actually trivial we decided to just | |
8772 | include it in systemd's source tree. It can be turned off | |
8773 | with a configure switch. | |
8774 | ||
8775 | * The read-ahead logic is now capable of properly detecting | |
8776 | whether a btrfs file system is on SSD or rotating media, in | |
8777 | order to optimize the read-ahead scheme. Previously, it was | |
8778 | only capable of detecting this on traditional file systems | |
8779 | such as ext4. | |
8780 | ||
8781 | * In udev, additional device properties are now read from the | |
8782 | IAB in addition to the OUI database. Also, Bluetooth company | |
8783 | identities are attached to the devices as well. | |
8784 | ||
8785 | * In service files %U may be used as specifier that is | |
8786 | replaced by the configured user name of the service. | |
8787 | ||
8788 | * nspawn may now be invoked without a controlling TTY. This | |
8789 | makes it suitable for invocation as its own service. This | |
8790 | may be used to set up a simple containerized server system | |
8791 | using only core OS tools. | |
8792 | ||
8793 | * systemd and nspawn can now accept socket file descriptors | |
8794 | when they are started for socket activation. This enables | |
8795 | implementation of socket activated nspawn | |
8796 | containers. i.e. think about autospawning an entire OS image | |
8797 | when the first SSH or HTTP connection is received. We expect | |
8798 | that similar functionality will also be added to libvirt-lxc | |
8799 | eventually. | |
8800 | ||
8801 | * journalctl will now suppress ANSI color codes when | |
8802 | presenting log data. | |
8803 | ||
8804 | * systemctl will no longer show control group information for | |
ce830873 | 8805 | a unit if the control group is empty anyway. |
8ad26859 LP |
8806 | |
8807 | * logind can now automatically suspend/hibernate/shutdown the | |
8808 | system on idle. | |
8809 | ||
8810 | * /etc/machine-info and hostnamed now also expose the chassis | |
8811 | type of the system. This can be used to determine whether | |
8812 | the local system is a laptop, desktop, handset or | |
8813 | tablet. This information may either be configured by the | |
8814 | user/vendor or is automatically determined from ACPI and DMI | |
8815 | information if possible. | |
8816 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
8817 | * A number of polkit actions are now bound together with "imply" |
8818 | rules. This should simplify creating UIs because many actions | |
8819 | will now authenticate similar ones as well. | |
8ad26859 LP |
8820 | |
8821 | * Unit files learnt a new condition ConditionACPower= which | |
8822 | may be used to conditionalize a unit depending on whether an | |
8823 | AC power source is connected or not, of whether the system | |
8824 | is running on battery power. | |
8825 | ||
8826 | * systemctl gained a new "is-failed" verb that may be used in | |
8827 | shell scripts and suchlike to check whether a specific unit | |
8828 | is in the "failed" state. | |
8829 | ||
8830 | * The EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now supports file | |
8831 | globbing, and can hence be used to easily read a number of | |
8832 | environment files at once. | |
8833 | ||
8834 | * systemd will no longer detect and recognize specific | |
8835 | distributions. All distribution-specific #ifdeffery has been | |
8836 | removed, systemd is now fully generic and | |
8837 | distribution-agnostic. Effectively, not too much is lost as | |
8838 | a lot of the code is still accessible via explicit configure | |
8839 | switches. However, support for some distribution specific | |
8840 | legacy configuration file formats has been dropped. We | |
8841 | recommend distributions to simply adopt the configuration | |
8842 | files everybody else uses now and convert the old | |
8843 | configuration from packaging scripts. Most distributions | |
8844 | already did that. If that's not possible or desirable, | |
8845 | distributions are welcome to forward port the specific | |
8846 | pieces of code locally from the git history. | |
8847 | ||
8848 | * When logging a message about a unit systemd will now always | |
8849 | log the unit name in the message meta data. | |
8850 | ||
8851 | * localectl will now also discover system locale data that is | |
8852 | not stored in locale archives, but directly unpacked. | |
8853 | ||
8854 | * logind will no longer unconditionally use framebuffer | |
8855 | devices as seat masters, i.e. as devices that are required | |
8856 | to be existing before a seat is considered preset. Instead, | |
8857 | it will now look for all devices that are tagged as | |
b938cb90 JE |
8858 | "seat-master" in udev. By default, framebuffer devices will |
8859 | be marked as such, but depending on local systems, other | |
8ad26859 LP |
8860 | devices might be marked as well. This may be used to |
8861 | integrate graphics cards using closed source drivers (such | |
8862 | as NVidia ones) more nicely into logind. Note however, that | |
8863 | we recommend using the open source NVidia drivers instead, | |
8864 | and no udev rules for the closed-source drivers will be | |
8865 | shipped from us upstream. | |
8866 | ||
8867 | Contributions from: Adam Williamson, Alessandro Crismani, Auke | |
8868 | Kok, Colin Walters, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David | |
8869 | Herrmann, David Strauss, Dimitrios Apostolou, Eelco Dolstra, | |
8870 | Eric Benoit, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Henrik | |
8871 | Grindal Bakken, Hermann Gausterer, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
8872 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, | |
8873 | Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Michael Biebl, Michael Terry, | |
8874 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Oleg | |
8875 | Samarin, Pekka Lundstrom, Philip Nilsson, Ramkumar | |
8876 | Ramachandra, Richard Yao, Robert Millan, Sami Kerola, Shawn | |
8877 | Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Jarosch, | |
8878 | Tollef Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew | |
8879 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8880 | ||
0428ddb7 LP |
8881 | CHANGES WITH 196: |
8882 | ||
8883 | * udev gained support for loading additional device properties | |
8884 | from an indexed database that is keyed by vendor/product IDs | |
8885 | and similar device identifiers. For the beginning this | |
8886 | "hwdb" is populated with data from the well-known PCI and | |
8887 | USB database, but also includes PNP, ACPI and OID data. In | |
8888 | the longer run this indexed database shall grow into | |
8889 | becoming the one central database for non-essential | |
8890 | userspace device metadata. Previously, data from the PCI/USB | |
96ec33c0 | 8891 | database was only attached to select devices, since the |
0428ddb7 | 8892 | lookup was a relatively expensive operation due to O(n) time |
96ec33c0 LP |
8893 | complexity (with n being the number of entries in the |
8894 | database). Since this is now O(1), we decided to add in this | |
8895 | data for all devices where this is available, by | |
0428ddb7 LP |
8896 | default. Note that the indexed database needs to be rebuilt |
8897 | when new data files are installed. To achieve this you need | |
8898 | to update your packaging scripts to invoke "udevadm hwdb | |
8899 | --update" after installation of hwdb data files. For | |
8900 | RPM-based distributions we introduced the new | |
8901 | %udev_hwdb_update macro for this purpose. | |
8902 | ||
8903 | * The Journal gained support for the "Message Catalog", an | |
8904 | indexed database to link up additional information with | |
8905 | journal entries. For further details please check: | |
8906 | ||
56cadcb6 | 8907 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog |
0428ddb7 LP |
8908 | |
8909 | The indexed message catalog database also needs to be | |
8910 | rebuilt after installation of message catalog files. Use | |
8911 | "journalctl --update-catalog" for this. For RPM-based | |
8912 | distributions we introduced the %journal_catalog_update | |
8913 | macro for this purpose. | |
8914 | ||
8915 | * The Python Journal bindings gained support for the standard | |
8916 | Python logging framework. | |
8917 | ||
8918 | * The Journal API gained new functions for checking whether | |
8919 | the underlying file system of a journal file is capable of | |
8920 | properly reporting file change notifications, or whether | |
8921 | applications that want to reflect journal changes "live" | |
ab06eef8 | 8922 | need to recheck journal files continuously in appropriate |
0428ddb7 LP |
8923 | time intervals. |
8924 | ||
8925 | * It is now possible to set the "age" field for tmpfiles | |
8926 | entries to 0, indicating that files matching this entry | |
8927 | shall always be removed when the directories are cleaned up. | |
8928 | ||
8929 | * coredumpctl gained a new "gdb" verb which invokes gdb | |
8930 | right-away on the selected coredump. | |
8931 | ||
8932 | * There's now support for "hybrid sleep" on kernels that | |
8933 | support this, in addition to "suspend" and "hibernate". Use | |
8934 | "systemctl hybrid-sleep" to make use of this. | |
8935 | ||
8936 | * logind's HandleSuspendKey= setting (and related settings) | |
8937 | now gained support for a new "lock" setting to simply | |
8938 | request the screen lock on all local sessions, instead of | |
8939 | actually executing a suspend or hibernation. | |
8940 | ||
8941 | * systemd will now mount the EFI variables file system by | |
8942 | default. | |
8943 | ||
8944 | * Socket units now gained support for configuration of the | |
8945 | SMACK security label. | |
8946 | ||
8947 | * timedatectl will now output the time of the last and next | |
8948 | daylight saving change. | |
8949 | ||
8950 | * We dropped support for various legacy and distro-specific | |
8951 | concepts, such as insserv, early-boot SysV services | |
8952 | (i.e. those for non-standard runlevels such as 'b' or 'S') | |
8953 | or ArchLinux /etc/rc.conf support. We recommend the | |
8954 | distributions who still need support this to either continue | |
8955 | to maintain the necessary patches downstream, or find a | |
8956 | different solution. (Talk to us if you have questions!) | |
8957 | ||
d35f51ea ZJS |
8958 | * Various systemd components will now bypass polkit checks for |
8959 | root and otherwise handle properly if polkit is not found to | |
8960 | be around. This should fix most issues for polkit-less | |
8961 | systems. Quite frankly this should have been this way since | |
8962 | day one. It is absolutely our intention to make systemd work | |
8963 | fine on polkit-less systems, and we consider it a bug if | |
8964 | something does not work as it should if polkit is not around. | |
0428ddb7 LP |
8965 | |
8966 | * For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and | |
8967 | systemd without blkid and/or kmod support. | |
8968 | ||
8969 | * "systemctl switch-root" is now capable of switching root | |
8970 | more than once. I.e. in addition to transitions from the | |
8971 | initrd to the host OS it is now possible to transition to | |
8972 | further OS images from the host. This is useful to implement | |
8973 | offline updating tools. | |
8974 | ||
8975 | * Various other additions have been made to the RPM macros | |
8976 | shipped with systemd. Use %udev_rules_update() after | |
8977 | installing new udev rules files. %_udevhwdbdir, | |
8978 | %_udevrulesdir, %_journalcatalogdir, %_tmpfilesdir, | |
8979 | %_sysctldir are now available which resolve to the right | |
8980 | directories for packages to place various data files in. | |
8981 | ||
8982 | * journalctl gained the new --full switch (in addition to | |
8983 | --all, to disable ellipsation for long messages. | |
8984 | ||
8985 | Contributions from: Anders Olofsson, Auke Kok, Ben Boeckel, | |
8986 | Colin Walters, Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, | |
8987 | Eelco Dolstra, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Kay Sievers, | |
8988 | Chun-Yi Lee, Lekensteyn, Lennart Poettering, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
8989 | Marti Raudsepp, Martin Pitt, Mauro Dreissig, Michael Biebl, | |
8990 | Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Miklos Vajna, Nis Martensen, | |
8991 | Oleksii Shevchuk, Olivier Brunel, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Thomas | |
8992 | Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tony | |
8993 | Camuso, Umut Tezduyar, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
8994 | ||
139ee8cc LP |
8995 | CHANGES WITH 195: |
8996 | ||
6827101a | 8997 | * journalctl gained new --since= and --until= switches to |
139ee8cc LP |
8998 | filter by time. It also now supports nice filtering for |
8999 | units via --unit=/-u. | |
9000 | ||
6827101a | 9001 | * Type=oneshot services may use ExecReload= and do the |
139ee8cc LP |
9002 | right thing. |
9003 | ||
9004 | * The journal daemon now supports time-based rotation and | |
9005 | vacuuming, in addition to the usual disk-space based | |
9006 | rotation. | |
9007 | ||
9008 | * The journal will now index the available field values for | |
9009 | each field name. This enables clients to show pretty drop | |
9010 | downs of available match values when filtering. The bash | |
9011 | completion of journalctl has been updated | |
9012 | accordingly. journalctl gained a new switch -F to list all | |
9013 | values a certain field takes in the journal database. | |
9014 | ||
9015 | * More service events are now written as structured messages | |
9016 | to the journal, and made recognizable via message IDs. | |
9017 | ||
9018 | * The timedated, localed and hostnamed mini-services which | |
9019 | previously only provided support for changing time, locale | |
9020 | and hostname settings from graphical DEs such as GNOME now | |
9021 | also have a minimal (but very useful) text-based client | |
9022 | utility each. This is probably the nicest way to changing | |
9023 | these settings from the command line now, especially since | |
9024 | it lists available options and is fully integrated with bash | |
9025 | completion. | |
9026 | ||
9027 | * There's now a new tool "systemd-coredumpctl" to list and | |
9028 | extract coredumps from the journal. | |
9029 | ||
9030 | * We now install a README each in /var/log/ and | |
9031 | /etc/rc.d/init.d explaining where the system logs and init | |
9032 | scripts went. This hopefully should help folks who go to | |
9033 | that dirs and look into the otherwise now empty void and | |
9034 | scratch their heads. | |
9035 | ||
9036 | * When user-services are invoked (by systemd --user) the | |
9037 | $MANAGERPID env var is set to the PID of systemd. | |
9038 | ||
9039 | * SIGRTMIN+24 when sent to a --user instance will now result | |
9040 | in immediate termination of systemd. | |
9041 | ||
9042 | * gatewayd received numerous feature additions such as a | |
9043 | "follow" mode, for live syncing and filtering. | |
9044 | ||
9045 | * browse.html now allows filtering and showing detailed | |
9046 | information on specific entries. Keyboard navigation and | |
9047 | mouse screen support has been added. | |
9048 | ||
9049 | * gatewayd/journalctl now supports HTML5/JSON | |
9050 | Server-Sent-Events as output. | |
9051 | ||
1cb88f2c | 9052 | * The SysV init script compatibility logic will now |
139ee8cc LP |
9053 | heuristically determine whether a script supports the |
9054 | "reload" verb, and only then make this available as | |
9055 | "systemctl reload". | |
9056 | ||
15f47220 | 9057 | * "systemctl status --follow" has been removed, use "journalctl |
139ee8cc LP |
9058 | -u" instead. |
9059 | ||
9060 | * journald.conf's RuntimeMinSize=, PersistentMinSize= settings | |
9061 | have been removed since they are hardly useful to be | |
9062 | configured. | |
9063 | ||
9064 | * And I'd like to take the opportunity to specifically mention | |
9065 | Zbigniew for his great contributions. Zbigniew, you rock! | |
9066 | ||
9067 | Contributions from: Andrew Eikum, Christian Hesse, Colin | |
9068 | Guthrie, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, Eelco Dolstra, Ferenc | |
4d92e078 LP |
9069 | Wágner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas |
9070 | Mikulėnas, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Michael Olbrich, | |
9071 | Michael Stapelberg, Michal Schmidt, Sebastian Ott, Thomas | |
9072 | Bächler, Umut Tezduyar, Will Woods, Wulf C. Krueger, Zbigniew | |
9073 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Сковорода Никита Андреевич | |
139ee8cc | 9074 | |
f9b55720 LP |
9075 | CHANGES WITH 194: |
9076 | ||
9077 | * If /etc/vconsole.conf is non-existent or empty we will no | |
9078 | longer load any console font or key map at boot by | |
9079 | default. Instead the kernel defaults will be left | |
9080 | intact. This is definitely the right thing to do, as no | |
9081 | configuration should mean no configuration, and hard-coding | |
9082 | font names that are different on all archs is probably a bad | |
9083 | idea. Also, the kernel default key map and font should be | |
9084 | good enough for most cases anyway, and mostly identical to | |
9085 | the userspace fonts/key maps we previously overloaded them | |
9086 | with. If distributions want to continue to default to a | |
9087 | non-kernel font or key map they should ship a default | |
9088 | /etc/vconsole.conf with the appropriate contents. | |
9089 | ||
9090 | Contributions from: Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave | |
9091 | Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Tollef | |
9092 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
9093 | ||
597c52cf LP |
9094 | CHANGES WITH 193: |
9095 | ||
9096 | * journalctl gained a new --cursor= switch to show entries | |
9097 | starting from the specified location in the journal. | |
9098 | ||
9099 | * We now enforce a size limit on journal entry fields exported | |
9100 | with "-o json" in journalctl. Fields larger than 4K will be | |
9101 | assigned null. This can be turned off with --all. | |
9102 | ||
9103 | * An (optional) journal gateway daemon is now available as | |
9104 | "systemd-journal-gatewayd.service". This service provides | |
9105 | access to the journal via HTTP and JSON. This functionality | |
9106 | will be used to implement live log synchronization in both | |
9107 | pull and push modes, but has various other users too, such | |
9108 | as easy log access for debugging of embedded devices. Right | |
9109 | now it is already useful to retrieve the journal via HTTP: | |
9110 | ||
9111 | # systemctl start systemd-journal-gatewayd.service | |
9112 | # wget http://localhost:19531/entries | |
9113 | ||
9114 | This will download the journal contents in a | |
9115 | /var/log/messages compatible format. The same as JSON: | |
9116 | ||
9117 | # curl -H"Accept: application/json" http://localhost:19531/entries | |
9118 | ||
9119 | This service is also accessible via a web browser where a | |
9120 | single static HTML5 app is served that uses the JSON logic | |
9121 | to enable the user to do some basic browsing of the | |
9122 | journal. This will be extended later on. Here's an example | |
9123 | screenshot of this app in its current state: | |
9124 | ||
9125 | http://0pointer.de/public/journal-gatewayd | |
9126 | ||
9127 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Robert | |
9128 | Milasan, Tom Gundersen | |
9129 | ||
075d4ecb LP |
9130 | CHANGES WITH 192: |
9131 | ||
9132 | * The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl | |
9133 | too. | |
9134 | ||
d28315e4 | 9135 | * We do not mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with |
075d4ecb LP |
9136 | "cpu" and "cpuacct", as "cpuset" groups generally cannot be |
9137 | started if no parameters are assigned to it. "cpuset" hence | |
61233823 | 9138 | broke code that assumed it could create "cpu" groups and |
075d4ecb LP |
9139 | just start them. |
9140 | ||
9141 | * journalctl -f will now subscribe to terminal size changes, | |
9142 | and line break accordingly. | |
9143 | ||
597c52cf LP |
9144 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
9145 | Poettering, Lukas Nykrynm, Mirco Tischler, Václav Pavlín | |
075d4ecb | 9146 | |
b6a86739 LP |
9147 | CHANGES WITH 191: |
9148 | ||
9149 | * nspawn will now create a symlink /etc/localtime in the | |
9150 | container environment, copying the host's timezone | |
9151 | setting. Previously this has been done via a bind mount, but | |
9152 | since symlinks cannot be bind mounted this has now been | |
9153 | changed to create/update the appropriate symlink. | |
9154 | ||
9155 | * journalctl -n's line number argument is now optional, and | |
9156 | will default to 10 if omitted. | |
9157 | ||
9158 | * journald will now log the maximum size the journal files may | |
9159 | take up on disk. This is particularly useful if the default | |
9160 | built-in logic of determining this parameter from the file | |
9161 | system size is used. Use "systemctl status | |
6563b535 | 9162 | systemd-journald.service" to see this information. |
b6a86739 LP |
9163 | |
9164 | * The multi-seat X wrapper tool has been stripped down. As X | |
9165 | is now capable of enumerating graphics devices via udev in a | |
9166 | seat-aware way the wrapper is not strictly necessary | |
9167 | anymore. A stripped down temporary stop-gap is still shipped | |
9168 | until the upstream display managers have been updated to | |
9169 | fully support the new X logic. Expect this wrapper to be | |
6563b535 | 9170 | removed entirely in one of the next releases. |
b6a86739 LP |
9171 | |
9172 | * HandleSleepKey= in logind.conf has been split up into | |
9173 | HandleSuspendKey= and HandleHibernateKey=. The old setting | |
6563b535 | 9174 | is not available anymore. X11 and the kernel are |
45afd519 | 9175 | distinguishing between these keys and we should too. This |
b6a86739 LP |
9176 | also means the inhibition lock for these keys has been split |
9177 | into two. | |
9178 | ||
597c52cf LP |
9179 | Contributions from: Dave Airlie, Eelco Dolstra, Lennart |
9180 | Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Václav Pavlín | |
b6a86739 | 9181 | |
0c11f949 LP |
9182 | CHANGES WITH 190: |
9183 | ||
d28315e4 | 9184 | * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the |
0c11f949 LP |
9185 | journal and show along the unit's own log output in |
9186 | "systemctl status". | |
9187 | ||
9188 | * ConditionPathIsMountPoint= can now properly detect bind | |
9189 | mount points too. (Previously, a bind mount of one file | |
8d0256b7 | 9190 | system to another place in the same file system could not be |
0c11f949 LP |
9191 | detected as mount, since they shared struct stat's st_dev |
9192 | field.) | |
9193 | ||
9194 | * We will now mount the cgroup controllers cpu, cpuacct, | |
9195 | cpuset and the controllers net_cls, net_prio together by | |
9196 | default. | |
9197 | ||
9198 | * nspawn containers will now have a virtualized boot | |
9199 | ID. (i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id is now mounted | |
9200 | over with a randomized ID at container initialization). This | |
9201 | has the effect of making "journalctl -b" do the right thing | |
9202 | in a container. | |
9203 | ||
9204 | * The JSON output journal serialization has been updated not | |
9205 | to generate "endless" list objects anymore, but rather one | |
9206 | JSON object per line. This is more in line how most JSON | |
9207 | parsers expect JSON objects. The new output mode | |
9208 | "json-pretty" has been added to provide similar output, but | |
9209 | neatly aligned for readability by humans. | |
9210 | ||
9211 | * We dropped all explicit sync() invocations in the shutdown | |
9212 | code. The kernel does this implicitly anyway in the kernel | |
9213 | reboot() syscall. halt(8)'s -n option is now a compatibility | |
9214 | no-op. | |
9215 | ||
9216 | * We now support virtualized reboot() in containers, as | |
9217 | supported by newer kernels. We will fall back to exit() if | |
9218 | CAP_SYS_REBOOT is not available to the container. Also, | |
9219 | nspawn makes use of this now and will actually reboot the | |
9220 | container if the containerized OS asks for that. | |
9221 | ||
9222 | * journalctl will only show local log output by default | |
9223 | now. Use --merge (-m) to show remote log output, too. | |
9224 | ||
9225 | * libsystemd-journal gained the new sd_journal_get_usage() | |
9226 | call to determine the current disk usage of all journal | |
9227 | files. This is exposed in the new "journalctl --disk-usage" | |
9228 | command. | |
9229 | ||
9230 | * journald gained a new configuration setting SplitMode= in | |
9231 | journald.conf which may be used to control how user journals | |
9232 | are split off. See journald.conf(5) for details. | |
9233 | ||
9234 | * A new condition type ConditionFileNotEmpty= has been added. | |
9235 | ||
9236 | * tmpfiles' "w" lines now support file globbing, to write | |
9237 | multiple files at once. | |
9238 | ||
9239 | * We added Python bindings for the journal submission | |
9240 | APIs. More Python APIs for a number of selected APIs will | |
9241 | likely follow. Note that we intend to add native bindings | |
9242 | only for the Python language, as we consider it common | |
9243 | enough to deserve bindings shipped within systemd. There are | |
9244 | various projects outside of systemd that provide bindings | |
9245 | for languages such as PHP or Lua. | |
9246 | ||
a98d5d64 LP |
9247 | * Many conditions will now resolve specifiers such as %i. In |
9248 | addition, PathChanged= and related directives of .path units | |
9249 | now support specifiers as well. | |
0c11f949 LP |
9250 | |
9251 | * There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset | |
9252 | dir: %_presetdir. | |
9253 | ||
d28315e4 | 9254 | * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the |
dca348bc | 9255 | syslog daemon because its socket is full. |
0c11f949 LP |
9256 | |
9257 | * timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone, | |
9258 | except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr | |
9259 | anymore /etc/localtime always being a symlink is now safe, | |
9260 | and hence the information in /etc/timezone is not necessary | |
9261 | anymore. | |
9262 | ||
aaccc32c | 9263 | * logind will now always reserve one VT for a text getty (VT6 |
0c11f949 LP |
9264 | by default). Previously if more than 6 X sessions where |
9265 | started they took up all the VTs with auto-spawned gettys, | |
9266 | so that no text gettys were available anymore. | |
9267 | ||
9268 | * udev will now automatically inform the btrfs kernel logic | |
9269 | about btrfs RAID components showing up. This should make | |
9270 | simple hotplug based btrfs RAID assembly work. | |
9271 | ||
9272 | * PID 1 will now increase its RLIMIT_NOFILE to 64K by default | |
9273 | (but not for its children which will stay at the kernel | |
9274 | default). This should allow setups with a lot more listening | |
9275 | sockets. | |
9276 | ||
9277 | * systemd will now always pass the configured timezone to the | |
9278 | kernel at boot. timedated will do the same when the timezone | |
9279 | is changed. | |
9280 | ||
9281 | * logind's inhibition logic has been updated. By default, | |
9282 | logind will now handle the lid switch, the power and sleep | |
9283 | keys all the time, even in graphical sessions. If DEs want | |
9284 | to handle these events on their own they should take the new | |
9285 | handle-power-key, handle-sleep-key and handle-lid-switch | |
f131770b | 9286 | inhibitors during their runtime. A simple way to achieve |
0c11f949 LP |
9287 | that is to invoke the DE wrapped in an invocation of: |
9288 | ||
9289 | systemd-inhibit --what=handle-power-key:handle-sleep-key:handle-lid-switch ... | |
9290 | ||
9291 | * Access to unit operations is now checked via SELinux taking | |
9292 | the unit file label and client process label into account. | |
9293 | ||
aad803af LP |
9294 | * systemd will now notify the administrator in the journal |
9295 | when he over-mounts a non-empty directory. | |
9296 | ||
9297 | * There are new specifiers that are resolved in unit files, | |
9298 | for the host name (%H), the machine ID (%m) and the boot ID | |
9299 | (%b). | |
9300 | ||
b6a86739 | 9301 | Contributions from: Allin Cottrell, Auke Kok, Brandon Philips, |
0c11f949 LP |
9302 | Colin Guthrie, Colin Walters, Daniel J Walsh, Dave Reisner, |
9303 | Eelco Dolstra, Jan Engelhardt, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
9304 | Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, | |
9305 | Martin Pitt, Matthias Clasen, Michael Olbrich, Pierre Schmitz, | |
9306 | Shawn Landden, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, | |
9307 | Václav Pavlín, Yin Kangkai, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
9308 | ||
38a60d71 LP |
9309 | CHANGES WITH 189: |
9310 | ||
9311 | * Support for reading structured kernel messages from | |
9312 | /dev/kmsg has now been added and is enabled by default. | |
9313 | ||
9314 | * Support for reading kernel messages from /proc/kmsg has now | |
9315 | been removed. If you want kernel messages in the journal | |
9316 | make sure to run a recent kernel (>= 3.5) that supports | |
9317 | reading structured messages from /dev/kmsg (see | |
9318 | above). /proc/kmsg is now exclusive property of classic | |
9319 | syslog daemons again. | |
9320 | ||
9321 | * The libudev API gained the new | |
9322 | udev_device_new_from_device_id() call. | |
9323 | ||
9324 | * The logic for file system namespace (ReadOnlyDirectory=, | |
9325 | ReadWriteDirectoy=, PrivateTmp=) has been reworked not to | |
9326 | require pivot_root() anymore. This means fewer temporary | |
9327 | directories are created below /tmp for this feature. | |
9328 | ||
9329 | * nspawn containers will now see and receive all submounts | |
9330 | made on the host OS below the root file system of the | |
9331 | container. | |
9332 | ||
9333 | * Forward Secure Sealing is now supported for Journal files, | |
9334 | which provide cryptographical sealing of journal files so | |
9335 | that attackers cannot alter log history anymore without this | |
9336 | being detectable. Lennart will soon post a blog story about | |
9337 | this explaining it in more detail. | |
9338 | ||
9339 | * There are two new service settings RestartPreventExitStatus= | |
9340 | and SuccessExitStatus= which allow configuration of exit | |
9341 | status (exit code or signal) which will be excepted from the | |
9342 | restart logic, resp. consider successful. | |
9343 | ||
9344 | * journalctl gained the new --verify switch that can be used | |
9345 | to check the integrity of the structure of journal files and | |
9346 | (if Forward Secure Sealing is enabled) the contents of | |
9347 | journal files. | |
9348 | ||
9349 | * nspawn containers will now be run with /dev/stdin, /dev/fd/ | |
9350 | and similar symlinks pre-created. This makes running shells | |
9351 | as container init process a lot more fun. | |
9352 | ||
9353 | * The fstab support can now handle PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= | |
9354 | entries. | |
9355 | ||
9356 | * A new ConditionHost= condition has been added to match | |
9357 | against the hostname (with globs) and machine ID. This is | |
9358 | useful for clusters where a single OS image is used to | |
9359 | provision a large number of hosts which shall run slightly | |
9360 | different sets of services. | |
9361 | ||
9362 | * Services which hit the restart limit will now be placed in a | |
9363 | failure state. | |
9364 | ||
b6a86739 | 9365 | Contributions from: Bertram Poettering, Dave Reisner, Huang |
38a60d71 LP |
9366 | Hang, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Martin |
9367 | Pitt, Simon Peeters, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
9368 | ||
c269cec3 LP |
9369 | CHANGES WITH 188: |
9370 | ||
9371 | * When running in --user mode systemd will now become a | |
9372 | subreaper (PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER). This should make the ps | |
9373 | tree a lot more organized. | |
9374 | ||
9375 | * A new PartOf= unit dependency type has been introduced that | |
9376 | may be used to group services in a natural way. | |
9377 | ||
9378 | * "systemctl enable" may now be used to enable instances of | |
9379 | services. | |
9380 | ||
9381 | * journalctl now prints error log levels in red, and | |
9382 | warning/notice log levels in bright white. It also supports | |
9383 | filtering by log level now. | |
9384 | ||
9385 | * cgtop gained a new -n switch (similar to top), to configure | |
9386 | the maximum number of iterations to run for. It also gained | |
9387 | -b, to run in batch mode (accepting no input). | |
9388 | ||
ab06eef8 | 9389 | * The suffix ".service" may now be omitted on most systemctl |
c269cec3 LP |
9390 | command lines involving service unit names. |
9391 | ||
9392 | * There's a new bus call in logind to lock all sessions, as | |
9393 | well as a loginctl verb for it "lock-sessions". | |
9394 | ||
9395 | * libsystemd-logind.so gained a new call sd_journal_perror() | |
9396 | that works similar to libc perror() but logs to the journal | |
9397 | and encodes structured information about the error number. | |
9398 | ||
9399 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-size= | |
9400 | option. | |
9401 | ||
9402 | * shutdown(8) now can send a (configurable) wall message when | |
9403 | a shutdown is cancelled. | |
9404 | ||
9405 | * The mount propagation mode for the root file system will now | |
9406 | default to "shared", which is useful to make containers work | |
9407 | nicely out-of-the-box so that they receive new mounts from | |
9408 | the host. This can be undone locally by running "mount | |
9409 | --make-rprivate /" if needed. | |
9410 | ||
9411 | * The prefdm.service file has been removed. Distributions | |
9412 | should maintain this unit downstream if they intend to keep | |
9413 | it around. However, we recommend writing normal unit files | |
9414 | for display managers instead. | |
9415 | ||
9416 | * Since systemd is a crucial part of the OS we will now | |
9417 | default to a number of compiler switches that improve | |
9418 | security (hardening) such as read-only relocations, stack | |
9419 | protection, and suchlike. | |
9420 | ||
9421 | * The TimeoutSec= setting for services is now split into | |
9422 | TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec= to allow configuration | |
9423 | of individual time outs for the start and the stop phase of | |
9424 | the service. | |
9425 | ||
9426 | Contributions from: Artur Zaprzala, Arvydas Sidorenko, Auke | |
9427 | Kok, Bryan Kadzban, Dave Reisner, David Strauss, Harald Hoyer, | |
9428 | Jim Meyering, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mantas | |
9429 | Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Peter | |
9430 | Alfredsen, Shawn Landden, Simon Peeters, Terence Honles, Tom | |
9431 | Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
9432 | ||
c4f1b862 LP |
9433 | CHANGES WITH 187: |
9434 | ||
9435 | * The journal and id128 C APIs are now fully documented as man | |
9436 | pages. | |
9437 | ||
9438 | * Extra safety checks have been added when transitioning from | |
9439 | the initial RAM disk to the main system to avoid accidental | |
9440 | data loss. | |
9441 | ||
c269cec3 | 9442 | * /etc/crypttab entries now understand the new keyfile-offset= |
c4f1b862 LP |
9443 | option. |
9444 | ||
9445 | * systemctl -t can now be used to filter by unit load state. | |
9446 | ||
9447 | * The journal C API gained the new sd_journal_wait() call to | |
9448 | make writing synchronous journal clients easier. | |
9449 | ||
9450 | * journalctl gained the new -D switch to show journals from a | |
9451 | specific directory. | |
9452 | ||
9453 | * journalctl now displays a special marker between log | |
9454 | messages of two different boots. | |
9455 | ||
9456 | * The journal is now explicitly flushed to /var via a service | |
9457 | systemd-journal-flush.service, rather than implicitly simply | |
9458 | by seeing /var/log/journal to be writable. | |
9459 | ||
9460 | * journalctl (and the journal C APIs) can now match for much | |
9461 | more complex expressions, with alternatives and | |
9462 | disjunctions. | |
9463 | ||
9464 | * When transitioning from the initial RAM disk to the main | |
9465 | system we will now kill all processes in a killing spree to | |
9466 | ensure no processes stay around by accident. | |
9467 | ||
9468 | * Three new specifiers may be used in unit files: %u, %h, %s | |
9469 | resolve to the user name, user home directory resp. user | |
9470 | shell. This is useful for running systemd user instances. | |
9471 | ||
9472 | * We now automatically rotate journal files if their data | |
9473 | object hash table gets a fill level > 75%. We also size the | |
9474 | hash table based on the configured maximum file size. This | |
9475 | together should lower hash collisions drastically and thus | |
9476 | speed things up a bit. | |
9477 | ||
9478 | * journalctl gained the new "--header" switch to introspect | |
9479 | header data of journal files. | |
9480 | ||
9481 | * A new setting SystemCallFilters= has been added to services | |
9482 | which may be used to apply blacklists or whitelists to | |
9483 | system calls. This is based on SECCOMP Mode 2 of Linux 3.5. | |
9484 | ||
9485 | * nspawn gained a new --link-journal= switch (and quicker: -j) | |
9486 | to link the container journal with the host. This makes it | |
9487 | very easy to centralize log viewing on the host for all | |
9488 | guests while still keeping the journal files separated. | |
9489 | ||
9490 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations | |
9491 | ||
9492 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Eelco Dolstra, Harald Hoyer, Kay | |
9493 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Paul Menzel, Rex | |
9494 | Tsai, Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen, Ville Skyttä, Zbigniew | |
9495 | Jędrzejewski-Szmek | |
9496 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
9497 | CHANGES WITH 186: |
9498 | ||
9499 | * Several tools now understand kernel command line arguments, | |
9500 | which are only read when run in an initial RAM disk. They | |
9501 | usually follow closely their normal counterparts, but are | |
9502 | prefixed with rd. | |
9503 | ||
9504 | * There's a new tool to analyze the readahead files that are | |
9505 | automatically generated at boot. Use: | |
9506 | ||
9507 | /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead analyze /.readahead | |
9508 | ||
9509 | * We now provide an early debug shell on tty9 if this enabled. Use: | |
9510 | ||
d1f9edaf | 9511 | systemctl enable debug-shell.service |
b5b4c94a LP |
9512 | |
9513 | * All plymouth related units have been moved into the Plymouth | |
9514 | package. Please make sure to upgrade your Plymouth version | |
9515 | as well. | |
9516 | ||
9517 | * systemd-tmpfiles now supports getting passed the basename of | |
9518 | a configuration file only, in which case it will look for it | |
9519 | in all appropriate directories automatically. | |
9520 | ||
9521 | * udevadm info now takes a /dev or /sys path as argument, and | |
9522 | does the right thing. Example: | |
9523 | ||
9524 | udevadm info /dev/sda | |
9525 | udevadm info /sys/class/block/sda | |
9526 | ||
9527 | * systemctl now prints a warning if a unit is stopped but a | |
9528 | unit that might trigger it continues to run. Example: a | |
9529 | service is stopped but the socket that activates it is left | |
9530 | running. | |
9531 | ||
9532 | * "systemctl status" will now mention if the log output was | |
9533 | shortened due to rotation since a service has been started. | |
9534 | ||
9535 | * The journal API now exposes functions to determine the | |
9536 | "cutoff" times due to rotation. | |
9537 | ||
9538 | * journald now understands SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for triggering | |
9539 | immediately flushing of runtime logs to /var if possible, | |
9540 | resp. for triggering immediate rotation of the journal | |
9541 | files. | |
9542 | ||
9543 | * It is now considered an error if a service is attempted to | |
9544 | be stopped that is not loaded. | |
9545 | ||
9546 | * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR now uses numeric UIDs instead of usernames. | |
9547 | ||
9548 | * systemd-analyze now supports Python 3 | |
9549 | ||
9550 | * tmpfiles now supports cleaning up directories via aging | |
9551 | where the first level dirs are always kept around but | |
9552 | directories beneath it automatically aged. This is enabled | |
9553 | by prefixing the age field with '~'. | |
9554 | ||
9555 | * Seat objects now expose CanGraphical, CanTTY properties | |
9556 | which is required to deal with very fast bootups where the | |
9557 | display manager might be running before the graphics drivers | |
9558 | completed initialization. | |
9559 | ||
9560 | * Seat objects now expose a State property. | |
9561 | ||
9562 | * We now include RPM macros for service enabling/disabling | |
9563 | based on the preset logic. We recommend RPM based | |
9564 | distributions to make use of these macros if possible. This | |
9565 | makes it simpler to reuse RPM spec files across | |
9566 | distributions. | |
9567 | ||
9568 | * We now make sure that the collected systemd unit name is | |
9569 | always valid when services log to the journal via | |
9570 | STDOUT/STDERR. | |
9571 | ||
9572 | * There's a new man page kernel-command-line(7) detailing all | |
9573 | command line options we understand. | |
9574 | ||
9575 | * The fstab generator may now be disabled at boot by passing | |
9576 | fstab=0 on the kernel command line. | |
9577 | ||
91ac7425 | 9578 | * A new kernel command line option modules-load= is now understood |
b5b4c94a LP |
9579 | to load a specific kernel module statically, early at boot. |
9580 | ||
9581 | * Unit names specified on the systemctl command line are now | |
9582 | automatically escaped as needed. Also, if file system or | |
9583 | device paths are specified they are automatically turned | |
9584 | into the appropriate mount or device unit names. Example: | |
9585 | ||
9586 | systemctl status /home | |
9587 | systemctl status /dev/sda | |
9588 | ||
9589 | * The SysVConsole= configuration option has been removed from | |
9590 | system.conf parsing. | |
9591 | ||
9592 | * The SysV search path is no longer exported on the D-Bus | |
9593 | Manager object. | |
9594 | ||
ce830873 | 9595 | * The Names= option has been removed from unit file parsing. |
b5b4c94a LP |
9596 | |
9597 | * There's a new man page bootup(7) detailing the boot process. | |
9598 | ||
9599 | * Every unit and every generator we ship with systemd now | |
9600 | comes with full documentation. The self-explanatory boot is | |
9601 | complete. | |
9602 | ||
9603 | * A couple of services gained "systemd-" prefixes in their | |
9604 | name if they wrap systemd code, rather than only external | |
9605 | code. Among them fsck@.service which is now | |
9606 | systemd-fsck@.service. | |
9607 | ||
9608 | * The HaveWatchdog property has been removed from the D-Bus | |
9609 | Manager object. | |
9610 | ||
9611 | * systemd.confirm_spawn= on the kernel command line should now | |
9612 | work sensibly. | |
9613 | ||
9614 | * There's a new man page crypttab(5) which details all options | |
9615 | we actually understand. | |
9616 | ||
9617 | * systemd-nspawn gained a new --capability= switch to pass | |
9618 | additional capabilities to the container. | |
9619 | ||
9620 | * timedated will now read known NTP implementation unit names | |
5b00c016 | 9621 | from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list, |
b5b4c94a LP |
9622 | systemd-timedated-ntp.target has been removed. |
9623 | ||
9624 | * journalctl gained a new switch "-b" that lists log data of | |
9625 | the current boot only. | |
9626 | ||
9627 | * The notify socket is in the abstract namespace again, in | |
9628 | order to support daemons which chroot() at start-up. | |
9629 | ||
9630 | * There is a new Storage= configuration option for journald | |
9631 | which allows configuration of where log data should go. This | |
9632 | also provides a way to disable journal logging entirely, so | |
9633 | that data collected is only forwarded to the console, the | |
9634 | kernel log buffer or another syslog implementation. | |
9635 | ||
c4f1b862 | 9636 | * Many bugfixes and optimizations |
b5b4c94a | 9637 | |
2d938ac7 LP |
9638 | Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Guthrie, Dave Reisner, |
9639 | David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, | |
9640 | Lukas Nykryn, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Paul Menzel, | |
9641 | Shawn Landden, Tom Gundersen | |
b5b4c94a | 9642 | |
2d197285 | 9643 | CHANGES WITH 185: |
b6a86739 | 9644 | |
2d197285 KS |
9645 | * "systemctl help <unit>" now shows the man page if one is |
9646 | available. | |
9647 | ||
9648 | * Several new man pages have been added. | |
9649 | ||
b5b4c94a LP |
9650 | * MaxLevelStore=, MaxLevelSyslog=, MaxLevelKMsg=, |
9651 | MaxLevelConsole= can now be specified in | |
9652 | journald.conf. These options allow reducing the amount of | |
9653 | data stored on disk or forwarded by the log level. | |
2d197285 | 9654 | |
b5b4c94a LP |
9655 | * TimerSlackNSec= can now be specified in system.conf for |
9656 | PID1. This allows system-wide power savings. | |
2d197285 KS |
9657 | |
9658 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Kay Sievers, Lauri Kasanen, | |
9659 | Lennart Poettering, Malte Starostik, Marc-Antoine Perennou, | |
9660 | Matthias Clasen | |
9661 | ||
4c8cd173 | 9662 | CHANGES WITH 184: |
b6a86739 | 9663 | |
4c8cd173 LP |
9664 | * logind is now capable of (optionally) handling power and |
9665 | sleep keys as well as the lid switch. | |
9666 | ||
9667 | * journalctl now understands the syntax "journalctl | |
9668 | /usr/bin/avahi-daemon" to get all log output of a specific | |
9669 | daemon. | |
9670 | ||
9671 | * CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf now also influences | |
9672 | the capability bound set of usermode helpers of the kernel. | |
9673 | ||
9674 | Contributions from: Daniel Drake, Daniel J. Walsh, Gert | |
9675 | Michael Kulyk, Harald Hoyer, Jean Delvare, Kay Sievers, | |
9676 | Lennart Poettering, Matthew Garrett, Matthias Clasen, Paul | |
9677 | Menzel, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Tom Gundersen | |
9678 | ||
ea5943d3 | 9679 | CHANGES WITH 183: |
b6a86739 | 9680 | |
187076d4 LP |
9681 | * Note that we skipped 139 releases here in order to set the |
9682 | new version to something that is greater than both udev's | |
9683 | and systemd's most recent version number. | |
9684 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
9685 | * udev: all udev sources are merged into the systemd source tree now. |
9686 | All future udev development will happen in the systemd tree. It | |
9687 | is still fully supported to use the udev daemon and tools without | |
9688 | systemd running, like in initramfs or other init systems. Building | |
9689 | udev though, will require the *build* of the systemd tree, but | |
ea5943d3 | 9690 | udev can be properly *run* without systemd. |
07cd4fc1 | 9691 | |
91cf7e5c | 9692 | * udev: /lib/udev/devices/ are not read anymore; systemd-tmpfiles |
f13b388f KS |
9693 | should be used to create dead device nodes as workarounds for broken |
9694 | subsystems. | |
64661ee7 | 9695 | |
2d13da88 KS |
9696 | * udev: RUN+="socket:..." and udev_monitor_new_from_socket() is |
9697 | no longer supported. udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() needs to be | |
9698 | used to subscribe to events. | |
9699 | ||
194bbe33 KS |
9700 | * udev: when udevd is started by systemd, processes which are left |
9701 | behind by forking them off of udev rules, are unconditionally cleaned | |
9702 | up and killed now after the event handling has finished. Services or | |
9703 | daemons must be started as systemd services. Services can be | |
ea5943d3 | 9704 | pulled-in by udev to get started, but they can no longer be directly |
194bbe33 KS |
9705 | forked by udev rules. |
9706 | ||
f13b388f KS |
9707 | * udev: the daemon binary is called systemd-udevd now and installed |
9708 | in /usr/lib/systemd/. Standalone builds or non-systemd systems need | |
9709 | to adapt to that, create symlink, or rename the binary after building | |
9710 | it. | |
9711 | ||
ea5943d3 | 9712 | * libudev no longer provides these symbols: |
c1959569 KS |
9713 | udev_monitor_from_socket() |
9714 | udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry() | |
9715 | udev_get_{dev,sys,run}_path() | |
ea5943d3 | 9716 | The versions number was bumped and symbol versioning introduced. |
c1959569 | 9717 | |
ea5943d3 | 9718 | * systemd-loginctl and systemd-journalctl have been renamed |
9ae9afce | 9719 | to loginctl and journalctl to match systemctl. |
18b754d3 KS |
9720 | |
9721 | * The config files: /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf and | |
9722 | /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf have been renamed to | |
9723 | logind.conf and journald.conf. Package updates should rename | |
9724 | the files to the new names on upgrade. | |
9725 | ||
ea5943d3 LP |
9726 | * For almost all files the license is now LGPL2.1+, changed |
9727 | from the previous GPL2.0+. Exceptions are some minor stuff | |
9728 | of udev (which will be changed to LGPL2.1 eventually, too), | |
9729 | and the MIT licensed sd-daemon.[ch] library that is suitable | |
9730 | to be used as drop-in files. | |
9731 | ||
9732 | * systemd and logind now handle system sleep states, in | |
49f43d5f | 9733 | particular suspending and hibernating. |
ea5943d3 LP |
9734 | |
9735 | * logind now implements a sleep/shutdown/idle inhibiting logic | |
9736 | suitable for a variety of uses. Soonishly Lennart will blog | |
9737 | about this in more detail. | |
9738 | ||
9739 | * var-run.mount and var-lock.mount are no longer provided | |
ce830873 | 9740 | (which previously bind mounted these directories to their new |
ea5943d3 LP |
9741 | places). Distributions which have not converted these |
9742 | directories to symlinks should consider stealing these files | |
9743 | from git history and add them downstream. | |
9744 | ||
9745 | * We introduced the Documentation= field for units and added | |
9746 | this to all our shipped units. This is useful to make it | |
3943231c | 9747 | easier to explore the boot and the purpose of the various |
ea5943d3 LP |
9748 | units. |
9749 | ||
9750 | * All smaller setup units (such as | |
9751 | systemd-vconsole-setup.service) now detect properly if they | |
9752 | are run in a container and are skipped when | |
9753 | appropriate. This guarantees an entirely noise-free boot in | |
9754 | Linux container environments such as systemd-nspawn. | |
9755 | ||
9756 | * A framework for implementing offline system updates is now | |
9757 | integrated, for details see: | |
c6749ba5 | 9758 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates |
ea5943d3 LP |
9759 | |
9760 | * A new service type Type=idle is available now which helps us | |
9761 | avoiding ugly interleaving of getty output and boot status | |
9762 | messages. | |
9763 | ||
439d6dfd LP |
9764 | * There's now a system-wide CapabilityBoundingSet= option to |
9765 | globally reduce the set of capabilities for the | |
ea5943d3 LP |
9766 | system. This is useful to drop CAP_SYS_MKNOD, CAP_SYS_RAWIO, |
9767 | CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_SYS_MODULE, CAP_SYS_TIME, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or | |
9768 | even CAP_NET_ADMIN system-wide for secure systems. | |
9769 | ||
9770 | * There are now system-wide DefaultLimitXXX= options to | |
9771 | globally change the defaults of the various resource limits | |
9772 | for all units started by PID 1. | |
9773 | ||
9774 | * Harald Hoyer's systemd test suite has been integrated into | |
9775 | systemd which allows easy testing of systemd builds in qemu | |
9776 | and nspawn. (This is really awesome! Ask us for details!) | |
9777 | ||
3943231c LP |
9778 | * The fstab parser is now implemented as generator, not inside |
9779 | of PID 1 anymore. | |
ea5943d3 LP |
9780 | |
9781 | * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from | |
9782 | /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that | |
d28315e4 | 9783 | have not been read by systemd yet. |
ea5943d3 LP |
9784 | |
9785 | * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has | |
9786 | already been updated to make use of this. With this in place | |
9787 | initrds get a slight bit faster but primarily are much | |
9788 | easier to introspect and debug since "systemctl status" in | |
9789 | the host system can be used to introspect initrd services, | |
9790 | and the journal from the initrd is kept around too. | |
9791 | ||
9792 | * systemd-delta has been added, a tool to explore differences | |
9793 | between user/admin configuration and vendor defaults. | |
9794 | ||
9795 | * PrivateTmp= now affects both /tmp and /var/tmp. | |
9796 | ||
9797 | * Boot time status messages are now much prettier and feature | |
9798 | proper english language. Booting up systemd has never been | |
9799 | so sexy. | |
9800 | ||
9801 | * Read-ahead pack files now include the inode number of all | |
9802 | files to pre-cache. When the inode changes the pre-caching | |
9803 | is not attempted. This should be nicer to deal with updated | |
9804 | packages which might result in changes of read-ahead | |
9805 | patterns. | |
9806 | ||
9807 | * We now temporaritly lower the kernel's read_ahead_kb variable | |
9808 | when collecting read-ahead data to ensure the kernel's | |
9809 | built-in read-ahead does not add noise to our measurements | |
9810 | of necessary blocks to pre-cache. | |
9811 | ||
9812 | * There's now RequiresMountsFor= to add automatic dependencies | |
9813 | for all mounts necessary for a specific file system path. | |
9814 | ||
9815 | * MountAuto= and SwapAuto= have been removed from | |
9816 | system.conf. Mounting file systems at boot has to take place | |
9817 | in systemd now. | |
9818 | ||
9819 | * nspawn now learned a new switch --uuid= to set the machine | |
9820 | ID on the command line. | |
9821 | ||
f8c0a2cb | 9822 | * nspawn now learned the -b switch to automatically search |
ea5943d3 LP |
9823 | for an init system. |
9824 | ||
9825 | * vt102 is now the default TERM for serial TTYs, upgraded from | |
9826 | vt100. | |
9827 | ||
9828 | * systemd-logind now works on VT-less systems. | |
9829 | ||
9830 | * The build tree has been reorganized. The individual | |
3943231c | 9831 | components now have directories of their own. |
ea5943d3 LP |
9832 | |
9833 | * A new condition type ConditionPathIsReadWrite= is now available. | |
9834 | ||
9835 | * nspawn learned the new -C switch to create cgroups for the | |
9836 | container in other hierarchies. | |
9837 | ||
9838 | * We now have support for hardware watchdogs, configurable in | |
9839 | system.conf. | |
9840 | ||
9841 | * The scheduled shutdown logic now has a public API. | |
9842 | ||
9843 | * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be | |
9844 | masked and /etc/fstab can override it. | |
9845 | ||
d28315e4 | 9846 | * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not |
ea5943d3 LP |
9847 | mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. |
9848 | ||
9849 | * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave | |
9850 | locally generated journal files. | |
9851 | ||
9852 | * We can now load the IMA policy at boot automatically. | |
9853 | ||
9854 | * The GTK tools have been split off into a systemd-ui. | |
9855 | ||
79849bf9 LP |
9856 | Contributions from: Andreas Schwab, Auke Kok, Ayan George, |
9857 | Colin Guthrie, Daniel Mack, Dave Reisner, David Ward, Elan | |
9858 | Ruusamäe, Frederic Crozat, Gergely Nagy, Guillermo Vidal, | |
9859 | Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Javier Jardón, Kay Sievers, | |
9860 | Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Léo Gillot-Lamure, | |
9861 | Marc-Antoine Perennou, Martin Pitt, Matthew Monaco, Maxim | |
9862 | A. Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
9863 | Schmidt, Nis Martensen, Patrick McCarty, Roberto Sassu, Shawn | |
9864 | Landden, Sjoerd Simons, Sven Anders, Tollef Fog Heen, Tom | |
9865 | Gundersen | |
9866 | ||
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b6a86739 | 9868 | |
16f1239e LP |
9869 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
9870 | ||
9871 | * Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the | |
9872 | KVM or container configured UUID. | |
9873 | ||
9874 | * Support immediate reboots with "systemctl reboot -ff" | |
9875 | ||
9876 | * Show /etc/os-release data in systemd-analyze output | |
9877 | ||
ab06eef8 | 9878 | * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianness fixes and |
16f1239e LP |
9879 | ensuring that disk space enforcement works |
9880 | ||
ce830873 | 9881 | * sd-login.h is C++ compatible again |
16f1239e LP |
9882 | |
9883 | * Extend the /etc/os-release format on request of the Debian | |
9884 | folks | |
9885 | ||
9886 | * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration | |
d28315e4 | 9887 | and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid |
16f1239e LP |
9888 | data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. |
9889 | ||
9890 | * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat | |
9891 | configuration | |
9892 | ||
9893 | * Read SELinux client context from journal clients in a race | |
9894 | free fashion | |
9895 | ||
9896 | * Reorder configuration file lookup order. /etc now always | |
9897 | overrides /run in order to allow the administrator to always | |
b938cb90 | 9898 | and unconditionally override vendor-supplied or |
16f1239e LP |
9899 | automatically generated data. |
9900 | ||
9901 | * The various user visible bits of the journal now have man | |
9902 | pages. We still lack man pages for the journal API calls | |
9903 | however. | |
9904 | ||
9905 | * We now ship all man pages in HTML format again in the | |
9906 | tarball. | |
9907 | ||
9908 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Dirk Eibach, Frederic | |
9909 | Crozat, Harald Hoyer, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marti | |
9910 | Raudsepp, Michal Schmidt, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Thierry | |
9911 | Reding | |
9912 | ||
437b7dee | 9913 | CHANGES WITH 43: |
b6a86739 | 9914 | |
437b7dee LP |
9915 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
9916 | ||
9917 | * systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported. | |
9918 | ||
9919 | * Various functionality updates to libsystemd-login.so | |
9920 | ||
45afd519 | 9921 | * Track class of PAM logins to distinguish greeters from |
437b7dee LP |
9922 | normal user logins. |
9923 | ||
9924 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael | |
9925 | Biebl | |
9926 | ||
204fa33c | 9927 | CHANGES WITH 42: |
b6a86739 | 9928 | |
204fa33c LP |
9929 | * This is an important bugfix release for v41. |
9930 | ||
9931 | * Building man pages is now optional which should be useful | |
9932 | for those building systemd from git but unwilling to install | |
9933 | xsltproc. | |
9934 | ||
9935 | * Watchdog support for supervising services is now usable. In | |
9936 | a future release support for hardware watchdogs | |
9937 | (i.e. /dev/watchdog) will be added building on this. | |
9938 | ||
9939 | * Service start rate limiting is now configurable and can be | |
9940 | turned off per service. When a start rate limit is hit a | |
9941 | reboot can automatically be triggered. | |
9942 | ||
9943 | * New CanReboot(), CanPowerOff() bus calls in systemd-logind. | |
9944 | ||
9945 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Bill Nottingham, | |
9946 | Frederic Crozat, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
9947 | Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg | |
9948 | ||
e0d25329 | 9949 | CHANGES WITH 41: |
b6a86739 | 9950 | |
e0d25329 KS |
9951 | * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now; |
9952 | An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the | |
9953 | package update. | |
9954 | ||
b13df964 LP |
9955 | * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke |
9956 | libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not | |
9957 | support systems with module-init-tools anymore. | |
9958 | ||
9959 | * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not | |
9960 | complete. | |
9961 | ||
9962 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is | |
9963 | understood to set system wide environment variables | |
9964 | dynamically at boot. | |
9965 | ||
e9c1ea9d | 9966 | * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. |
ccd07a08 | 9967 | |
353e12c2 LP |
9968 | * We now set SIGPIPE to ignore by default, since it only is |
9969 | useful in shell pipelines, and has little use in general | |
9970 | code. This can be disabled with IgnoreSIPIPE=no in unit | |
9971 | files. | |
9972 | ||
b13df964 LP |
9973 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
9974 | Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen, | |
9975 | William Douglas | |
9976 | ||
d26e4270 | 9977 | CHANGES WITH 40: |
b6a86739 | 9978 | |
d26e4270 LP |
9979 | * This is mostly a bugfix release |
9980 | ||
9981 | * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the | |
9982 | "Result" D-Bus property. | |
9983 | ||
9984 | * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over | |
9985 | the next few releases.) | |
9986 | ||
9987 | * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will | |
9988 | now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process | |
9989 | it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window | |
9990 | with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful | |
9991 | ||
b13df964 LP |
9992 | Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay |
9993 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, | |
9994 | Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode | |
9995 | ||
220a21d3 | 9996 | CHANGES WITH 39: |
b6a86739 | 9997 | |
220a21d3 LP |
9998 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
9999 | bugfixes. | |
10000 | ||
10001 | * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their | |
10002 | resource usage. | |
10003 | ||
10004 | * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If | |
10005 | disabled, support tracking device access for active logins | |
10006 | goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user | |
10007 | journals by the respective users. | |
10008 | ||
10009 | * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically | |
10010 | owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access | |
10011 | to the system journal as well as all user journals. | |
10012 | ||
10013 | * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging | |
10014 | client for all entries. | |
10015 | ||
10016 | * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers | |
10017 | ||
10018 | * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text | |
10019 | messages, without any meta data like date or time. | |
10020 | ||
10021 | * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to | |
10022 | teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display | |
10023 | managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg | |
10024 | learned native udev hotplugging for display devices. | |
10025 | ||
10026 | * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs | |
10027 | with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as | |
10028 | BSD logger replacement, and does so by default. | |
10029 | ||
10030 | * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the | |
10031 | journal along with meta data. | |
10032 | ||
10033 | * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for | |
10034 | writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for | |
10035 | creating symlinks, character and block device nodes. | |
10036 | ||
10037 | * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups | |
10038 | persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in | |
56cadcb6 | 10039 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups |
220a21d3 LP |
10040 | |
10041 | * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way | |
10042 | ||
10043 | * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on | |
10044 | rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to | |
10045 | death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, | |
10046 | or fsck. | |
10047 | ||
d28315e4 | 10048 | * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless |
220a21d3 LP |
10049 | requested with new -k switch. |
10050 | ||
10051 | Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
10052 | Poettering, Michal Schmidt | |
10053 | ||
10054 | CHANGES WITH 38: | |
b6a86739 | 10055 | |
220a21d3 LP |
10056 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many |
10057 | bugfixes. | |
10058 | ||
10059 | * The git repository moved to: | |
10060 | git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd | |
10061 | ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd | |
10062 | ||
10063 | * First release with the journal | |
10064 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html | |
10065 | ||
10066 | * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and | |
10067 | systemd-stdout-bridge. | |
10068 | ||
10069 | * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind | |
10070 | ||
10071 | * Many systemadm clean-ups | |
10072 | ||
10073 | * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all | |
10074 | remote mounts and may be used to start services before all | |
10075 | remote mounts. | |
10076 | ||
10077 | * Added Mageia support | |
10078 | ||
10079 | * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl | |
10080 | ||
10081 | * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in | |
10082 | the parent process before having finished writing the PID | |
10083 | file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be | |
10084 | fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the | |
10085 | parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them. | |
10086 | ||
10087 | * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output | |
10088 | of existing distributions. | |
10089 | ||
10090 | * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for | |
10091 | compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage. | |
10092 | ||
10093 | * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and | |
10094 | thus will no longer act as synchronization point during | |
10095 | boot. | |
10096 | ||
10097 | * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=. | |
10098 | ||
10099 | * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for | |
10100 | relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is | |
10101 | useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys, | |
10102 | among other things. | |
10103 | ||
10104 | * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console | |
10105 | and the journal by default, not only just the console. | |
10106 | ||
10107 | * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login. | |
10108 | ||
ce830873 | 10109 | * The build tree got reorganized and the build system is a |
220a21d3 LP |
10110 | lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically |
10111 | select the components of systemd they are interested in. | |
10112 | ||
10113 | * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is | |
10114 | restored. | |
10115 | ||
10116 | * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to | |
10117 | --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and | |
10118 | kmod | |
10119 | ||
d28315e4 | 10120 | * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead |
220a21d3 LP |
10121 | of /usr/local by default. |
10122 | ||
10123 | * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the | |
10124 | final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained | |
10125 | in: | |
56cadcb6 | 10126 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons |
220a21d3 LP |
10127 | |
10128 | * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter | |
10129 | the START or START_PRE states are now killed with | |
10130 | SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn | |
10131 | background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never | |
10132 | supported anyway, and bad style). | |
10133 | ||
10134 | * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind | |
10135 | reloading of units together. | |
10136 | ||
4c8cd173 | 10137 | Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel J. Walsh, Dave |
220a21d3 LP |
10138 | Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay |
10139 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
10140 | Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef | |
10141 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |