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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 * Get rid of nftw(). We should refuse to use such useless APIs on principle.
11
12 External:
13
14 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
15
16 Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
18 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
20 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
23 Features:
24
25 * ability to insert trusted configuration and secrets into the boot parameters
26 of a kernel booting in a VM or on baremetal some way, via TPM
27 protection. idea:
28 1. pass via /proc/bootconfig
29 2. for secrets: put secrets in node of /proc/bootconfig, decrypt them via
30 TPM early on in PID 1, put them in $CREDENTIAL_PATH logic
31 3. for config: put signed data in node /proc/booconfig, validate via TPM
32 early on in PID 1, put data into /run/bootconfig/ as individual files
33 4. boot loader/stub should pick these up automatically from the boot loader
34 file systems
35
36 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
37 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
38
39 * homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
40 chowns.
41
42 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
43 make dirs appear under right UID.
44
45 * nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
46 are used.
47
48 * cryptsetup: tweak tpm2-device=auto logic, abort quickly if firmware tells us
49 there isn't any TPM2 device anyway. that way, we'll wait for the TPM2 device
50 to show up only if registered in LUKS header + the firmware suggests there is
51 a device worth waiting for.
52
53 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
54 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
55
56 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
57 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
58 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
59
60 * add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
61 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
62 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
63 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
64 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
65
66 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
67 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
68 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
69 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
70 for doing that.
71
72 * pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
73 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
74 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
75 anyway, so it's basically free.
76
77 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
78
79 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
80 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
81 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
82 already have it.
83
84 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
85 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
86 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
87 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
88
89 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
90
91 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
92 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
93 something goes wrong on the way.
94
95 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
96
97 * move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
98
99 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
100
101 * nspawn: default to 1:1 userns
102
103 * Provide a reasonably bespoke solution for mounting host $HOME directories
104 into containers:
105 • add new option --mount-user=$USER for mounting $HOME of the user into the
106 container at the same place
107 • check /etc/passwd for UID or user name clashes. If UID clash pick a different
108 UID in container, and map via userns. If user name clash, refuse. If
109 matching user already exists use that.
110 • otherwise: write user record of specified user into /run/host/passwd or so
111 • in nss-systemd pick up user record from there and make available to system
112 With all that in place if nspawn host and container payload are up-to-date
113 enough we have a very simple way to make host users available in containers.
114
115 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
116 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
117
118 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
119 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
120 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
121 socket: connect() to it.
122
123 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
124 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
125 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
126
127 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
128 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
129
130 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
131 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
132 validated via TPM.
133
134 * sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
135 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
136 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
137 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
138 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
139 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
140 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
141
142 * efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
143 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
144 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
145 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
146 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
147 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
148 without booting the kernel + initrd.
149
150 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
151
152 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
153 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
154
155 * sd-boot: add service that automatically runs "bootctl update" on every boot,
156 in a graceful way, so that updated /usr trees automatically propagate into
157 updated boot loaders on reboot.
158
159 * sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
160 overlayfs
161
162 * nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
163 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
164 during startup.
165
166 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
167 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
168 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
169 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
170 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
171
172 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
173
174 * tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
175 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
176 cryptsetup and homed
177
178 * Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
179 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
180 override its hash
181
182 * homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
183 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
184
185 * cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
186 we cannot update identity info
187
188 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
189 and such
190
191 * cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
192 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
193
194 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
195
196 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
197 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
198
199 * cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
200 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
201
202 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
203 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
204
205 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
206 it happens to be set up alright already.
207
208 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
209
210 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
211 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
212 default.
213
214 * homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
215 tried because idle.
216
217 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
218 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
219 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
220 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
221 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
222
223 * teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
224 individual creds
225
226 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
227
228 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
229 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
230
231 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
232 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
233 temporary dir.
234
235 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
236 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
237
238 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
239 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
240
241 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
242
243 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
244
245 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
246 so, freeze the payload too.
247
248 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
249 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
250 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
251
252 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
253 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
254 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
255
256 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
257
258 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
259 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
260
261 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
262 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
263 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
264 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
265 anything like that.
266
267 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
268 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
269 user's journal stream down but not the others.
270
271 * nspawn: support time namespaces
272
273 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
274 reading/writing files
275
276 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
277 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
278
279 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
280
281 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
282
283 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
284 when it exits
285
286 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
287 o turn into dlopen() deps:
288 - elfutils (always)
289 - p11-kit-trust (always)
290 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
291 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
292 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
293 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
294 since they are so basic and our defaults)
295 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
296 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
297
298 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
299 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
300 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
301
302 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
303 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
304
305 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
306 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
307 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
308 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
309
310 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
311
312 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
313 specific service
314
315 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
316
317 * credentials system:
318 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
319 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
320 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
321 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
322 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
323 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
324 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
325 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
326 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
327 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
328 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
329
330 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
331 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
332 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
333
334 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
335 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
336 signature
337
338 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
339 and insert a local signature instead.
340
341 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
342 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
343 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
344 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
345 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
346
347 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
348
349 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
350 easily?
351
352 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
353 exists and responds.
354
355 * bootctl:
356 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
357 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
358 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
359
360 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
361 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
362 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
363
364 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
365 allow so that systemd survives
366
367 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
368 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
369
370 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
371 systemd-makefs.service instead.
372
373 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
374 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
375
376 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
377 confusion is gone)
378 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
379 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
380 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
381 - port importd over from libgcrypt
382 - when that's done: kill khash.c
383 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
384
385 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
386
387 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
388 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
389
390 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
391 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
392 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
393 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
394
395 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
396 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
397 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
398 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
399 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
400 automatically.
401
402 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
403 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
404
405 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
406 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
407 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
408 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
409 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
410 fails to apply use the latter.
411
412 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
413 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
414
415 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
416 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
417
418 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
419 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
420
421 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
422 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
423
424 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
425 realname substr searches in varlink API
426
427 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
428
429 * userdb: allow existence checks
430
431 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
432
433 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
434 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
435 initrd had set.
436
437 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
438 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
439 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
440 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
441 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
442 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
443
444 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
445 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
446 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
447
448 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
449 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
450 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
451 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
452 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
453 source.
454
455 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
456 with immutable /usr
457
458 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
459 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
460 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
461
462 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
463
464 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
465 the hibernation
466
467 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
468 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
469 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
470 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
471 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
472 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
473 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
474 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
475 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
476 hibernation mode. (see
477 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
478 section 10.2.2.8 and
479 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
480 at the end).
481
482 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
483 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
484 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
485 output for them.
486
487 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
488 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
489 constant vendor data.
490
491 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
492
493 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
494 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
495
496 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
497 fallback in "machinectl shell"
498
499 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
500 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
501 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
502
503 * homed:
504 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
505 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
506 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
507 - resize on login?
508 - shrink fs on logout?
509 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
510 - create on activate?
511 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
512 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
513 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
514 systemd --user is shut down.
515 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
516 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
517 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
518 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
519 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
520 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
521 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
522 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
523 - query password from kernel keyring first
524 - update even if record is "absent"
525 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
526 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
527 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
528 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
529 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
530 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
531 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
532 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
533 either from UI when disk space gets low
534
535 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
536 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
537 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
538 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
539 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
540 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
541 exec().
542
543 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
544
545 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
546 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
547
548 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
549
550 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
551 gnome-bluetooth and friends
552
553 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
554 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
555 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
556 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
557 cgroup.
558
559 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
560 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
561 root.
562
563 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
564 is issued.
565
566 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
567
568 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
569
570 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
571 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
572 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
573
574 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
575 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
576 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
577
578 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
579 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
580 ConfigurationDirectory=.
581
582 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
583
584 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
585
586 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
587 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
588
589 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
590 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
591 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
592
593 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
594
595 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
596 patching around
597
598 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
599 log.c and sd-journal-send
600
601 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
602
603 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
604
605 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
606 can add in file system drivers and such
607
608 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
609 non-zero "tries done" count
610
611 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
612 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
613 it should skip the variant type string though.
614
615 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
616 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
617 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
618 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
619 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
620 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
621 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
622 CODE_FILE.
623
624 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
625 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
626 some explanatory text online.
627
628 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
629
630 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
631 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
632 the slices, and the units attached to them.
633
634 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
635 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
636 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
637 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
638 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
639 way)
640
641 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
642 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
643 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
644
645 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
646 original defaults before calling parse_config()
647
648 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
649
650 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
651 Specifically:
652
653 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
654 properly)
655 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
656 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
657
658 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
659 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
660
661 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
662 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
663 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
664 files and suchlike we operate on.
665
666 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
667
668 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
669
670 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
671 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
672
673 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
674 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
675 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
676 numbers.
677
678 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
679 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
680 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
681 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
682 unlinked from any dir.
683
684 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
685
686 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
687
688 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
689
690 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
691 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
692 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
693 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
694 should reflink the image file itself.
695
696 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
697 specific paths only like this.
698
699 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
700 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
701 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
702 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
703 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
704
705 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
706
707 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
708
709 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
710 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
711
712 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
713 project quota
714
715 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
716 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
717 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
718 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
719 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
720 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
721 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
723
724 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
725 for root, but only then.
726
727 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
728
729 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
730 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
731
732 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
733 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
734
735 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
736 only when used. Add unit tests.
737
738 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
739 host-side interface pointing to the container.
740
741 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
742 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
743 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
744 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
745 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
746
747 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
748
749 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
750
751 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
752 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
753 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
754
755 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
756
757 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
758 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
759
760 * blog about fd store and restartable services
761
762 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
763
764 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
765 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
766
767 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
768 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
769 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
770 ID is available.
771
772 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
773 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
774 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
775
776 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
777 parameters
778
779 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
780 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
781 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
782 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
783 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
784 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
785 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
786
787 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
788 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
789
790 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
791 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
792 wait to retrieve their exit data.
793
794 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
795 about it in the resource log message
796
797 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
798 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
799
800 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
801 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
802 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
803
804 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
805 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
806
807 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
808
809 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
810 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
811 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
812 logging.
813
814 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
815 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
816 "convertible" form factor
817
818 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
819 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
820 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
821
822 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
823 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
824
825 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
826 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
827 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
828 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
829 natural habitat.
830
831 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
832
833 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
834
835 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
836 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
837 relative to the configured default value.
838
839 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
840
841 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
842
843 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
844
845 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
846
847 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
848
849 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
850
851 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
852
853 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
854
855 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
856
857 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
858
859 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
860 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
861 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
862
863 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
864
865 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
866
867 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
868 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
869 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
870 mapping to work.
871
872 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
873
874 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
875
876 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
877
878 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
879 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
880
881 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
882 reload the unit file anyway
883
884 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
885 from the SIGBUS handler
886
887 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
888
889 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
890 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
891
892 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
893
894 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
895 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
896
897 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
898 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
899 specifications.
900
901 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
902
903 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
904
905 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
906
907 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
908 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
909 prefixed with /sys generally special.
910 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
911
912 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
913
914 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
915
916 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
917 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
918 state.
919 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
920
921 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
922 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
923 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
924 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
925 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
926
927 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
928
929 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
930 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
931
932 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
933 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
934 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
935 do, for example)
936
937 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
938 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
939
940 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
941 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
942
943 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
944
945 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
946 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
947 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
948 returning from the "systemctl stop".
949
950 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
951
952 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
953
954 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
955 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
956
957 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
958
959 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
960
961 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
962
963 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
964
965 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
966
967 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
968 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
969
970 * resolved:
971 - mDNS/DNS-SD
972 - service registration
973 - service/domain/types browsing
974 - avahi compat
975 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
976 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
977 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
978 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
979 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
980 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
981
982 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
983
984 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
985
986 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
987
988 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
989
990 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
991
992 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
993
994 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
995 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
996
997 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
998
999 * gpt-auto-generator:
1000 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1001 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1002
1003 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1004 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1005 when it is otherwise off
1006
1007 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1008
1009 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1010 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1011 for ReusePort=
1012
1013 * cgroups:
1014 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1015 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1016 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1017 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1018 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1019 the hierarchies of child processes
1020
1021 * transient units:
1022 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1023
1024 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1025
1026 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1027
1028 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1029
1030 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
1031
1032 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1033
1034 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1035 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1036 path anyway.
1037
1038 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1039
1040 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1041
1042 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1043
1044 * sd-bus:
1045 - EBADSLT handling
1046 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1047 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1048 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
1049 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1050 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1051 - longer term: priority inheritance
1052 - dbus spec updates:
1053 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1054 - GVariant
1055 - path escaping
1056 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1057
1058 * sd-event
1059 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1060 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1061 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1062 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1063 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1064 here:
1065 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1066
1067 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
1068
1069 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1070 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1071
1072 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1073
1074 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1075
1076 * test/:
1077 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1078
1079 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1080 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1081 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1082 destination.
1083
1084 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1085 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1086
1087 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1088
1089 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1090 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1091 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1092
1093 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
1094 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
1095 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
1096 is installed.
1097
1098 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1099 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1100 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1101 that automatically.
1102
1103 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1104
1105 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1106
1107 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1108
1109 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1110
1111 * EFI:
1112 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1113 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1114 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1115 * bootctl
1116 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1117
1118 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1119
1120 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1121
1122 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1123
1124 * logind:
1125 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1126 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1127 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1128 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1129 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1130 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1131 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1132 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1133 needs setuid().
1134 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1135 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1136 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1137 complete.
1138 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1139 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1140 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1141 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1142 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1143 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1144 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1145 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1146 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1147 relogins
1148 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1149
1150 * journal:
1151 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1152 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1153 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1154 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1155 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1156 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1157 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1158 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1159 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1160 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1161 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1162 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1163 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1164 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1165 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1166 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1167 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1168 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
1169 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1170 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1171 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1172 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1173 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1174 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1175 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1176 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1177 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1178 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1179 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1180 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1181 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1182 to syslog when it works again.
1183 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1184 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1185 journals in.
1186 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1187 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1188 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1189 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1190 the most common operations.
1191 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1192 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1193 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1194 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1195 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1196 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1197 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1198 operation.
1199 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1200 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1201 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1202 binary logs data
1203 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1204 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1205 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1206 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1207 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1208 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1209
1210 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1211 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1212 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1213 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1214
1215 * document:
1216 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1217 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1218 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1219 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1220 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1221 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1222 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1223 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1224 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1225 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1226 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1227 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1228
1229 * systemctl:
1230 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1231 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1232 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1233 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1234 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1235 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1236 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1237 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1238 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1239 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1240
1241 * unit install:
1242 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1243 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1244
1245 * timer units:
1246 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1247 o DST changes
1248 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1249
1250 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1251
1252 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1253
1254 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1255
1256 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1257
1258 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1259
1260 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1261
1262 * nspawn:
1263 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1264 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1265 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1266 from the kernel's logs.
1267 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1268 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1269 interface be missing
1270 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1271 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1272 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1273 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1274 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1275 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1276 PID 1...
1277 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1278 running, remove them when shut down.
1279
1280 * machined:
1281 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1282 removed or added to an existing machine
1283 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1284 difference host, via ssh
1285 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1286 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1287 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1288 question
1289 - "machinectl history"
1290 - "machinectl diff"
1291 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1292 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1293
1294 * cryptsetup:
1295 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1296 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1297
1298 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1299 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1300
1301 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1302
1303 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1304
1305 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1306
1307 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1308
1309 * udev:
1310 - move to LGPL
1311 - kill scsi_id
1312 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1313 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1314
1315 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1316
1317 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1318
1319 * coredump:
1320 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1321 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1322
1323 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1324
1325 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1326 needs to be auto-respawned?
1327
1328 * tmpfiles:
1329 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1330 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1331 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1332 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1333 calls follow symlinks.
1334 - add --test mode
1335
1336 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1337
1338 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1339 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1340 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1341
1342 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1343 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1344
1345 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1346
1347 * write blog stories about:
1348 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1349 - enabling dbus services
1350 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1351 - remote access
1352 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1353 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1354 - auto-restart
1355 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1356 - the journal HTTP iface
1357 - non-cgroup resource management
1358 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1359 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1360 - calendar time events
1361 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1362 - how to create your own target
1363 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1364 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1365
1366 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1367
1368 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1369
1370 * pid1:
1371 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1372 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1373 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1374 that are not supported...
1375 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1376 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1377 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1378 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1379 - move PAM code into its own binary
1380 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1381 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1382 - Support --test based on current system state
1383 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1384 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1385 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1386 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1387 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1388 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1389 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1390 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1391 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1392 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1393
1394 * unit files:
1395 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1396 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1397 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1398 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1399 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1400 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1401 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1402 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1403 - introduce Type=pid-file
1404 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1405 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1406 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1407 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1408
1409 * udev-link-config:
1410 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1411 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1412 on Path= matching
1413
1414 * sd-rtnl:
1415 - add support for more attribute types
1416 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1417
1418 * networkd:
1419 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1420 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1421 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1422 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1423 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1424 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1425 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1426 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1427 - expose in the API the following bits:
1428 - option 15, domain name
1429 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1430 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1431 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1432 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1433 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1434 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1435 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1436 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1437
1438 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1439
1440 * dhcp:
1441 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1442
1443 * dhcp6:
1444 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1445 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1446 - write more test cases
1447 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1448 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1449 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1450 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1451 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1452 or interface down
1453 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1454 this behavior
1455 - RouteTable= ?
1456
1457 External:
1458
1459 * dbus:
1460 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1461 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1462
1463 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1464
1465 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1466
1467 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1468
1469 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
1470
1471 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1472
1473 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1474
1475 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1476
1477 * zsh shell completion:
1478 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1479 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1480
1481 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1482 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1483 after being started.
1484
1485 Regularly:
1486
1487 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1488
1489 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1490
1491 * pahole
1492
1493 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1494
1495 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1496
1497 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1498 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment