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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
16 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
18 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
21 Features:
22
23 * homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
24 tried because idle.
25
26 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
27 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
28 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
29 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
30 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
31
32 * teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
33 individual creds
34
35 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
36
37 * port selinux code from mallinfo() to mallinfo2() once added to glibc
38
39 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
40 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
41
42 * export action of device object on sd-device, so that monitor becomes useful
43
44 * add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
45 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
46 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
47 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
48 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
49 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
50 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
51 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
52
53 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
54 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
55 temporary dir.
56
57 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
58 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
59
60 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
61 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
62
63 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
64
65 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
66
67 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
68 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
69
70 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
71 so, freeze the payload too.
72
73 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
74
75 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
76 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
77 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
78
79 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
80 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
81 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
82
83 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
84
85 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
86 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
87
88 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
89 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
90 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
91 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
92 anything like that.
93
94 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
95 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
96 user's journal stream down but not the others.
97
98 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
99 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
100 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
101
102 * nspawn: support time namespaces
103
104 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
105 reading/writing files
106
107 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
108
109 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
110 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
111
112 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
113
114 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
115
116 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
117 when it exits
118
119 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
120 o turn into dlopen() deps:
121 - elfutils (always)
122 - p11-kit-trust (always)
123 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
124 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
125 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
126 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
127 since they are so basic and our defaults)
128 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
129 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
130
131 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
132 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
133 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
134
135 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
136 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
137 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
138
139 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
140 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
141
142 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
143 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
144 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
145 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
146
147 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
148
149 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
150 specific service
151
152 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
153
154 * credentials system:
155 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
156 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
157 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
158 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
159 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
160 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
161 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
162 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
163 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
164 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
165 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
166
167 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
168 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
169 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
170
171 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
172 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
173 signature
174
175 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
176 and insert a local signature instead.
177
178 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
179 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
180 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
181 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
182 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
183
184 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
185
186 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
187 easily?
188
189 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
190 exists and responds.
191
192 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
193 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
194 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
195 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
196 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
197
198 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
199 also in plain cryptsetup)
200
201 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
202 creates
203
204 * bootctl:
205 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
206 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
207 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
208
209 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
210 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
211 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
212
213 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
214 allow so that systemd survives
215
216 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
217 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
218
219 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
220 systemd-makefs.service instead.
221
222 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
223 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
224
225 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
226 confusion is gone)
227 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
228 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
229 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
230 - port importd over from libgcrypt
231 - when that's done: kill khash.c
232 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
233
234 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
235
236 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
237 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
238
239 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
240 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
241 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
242 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
243 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
244
245 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
246 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
247 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
248 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
249
250 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
251 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
252 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
253 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
254 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
255 automatically.
256
257 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
258 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
259
260 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
261
262 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
263 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
264 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
265 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
266 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
267 fails to apply use the latter.
268
269 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
270 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
271
272 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
273 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
274
275 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
276 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
277
278 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
279 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
280
281 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
282 realname substr searches in varlink API
283
284 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
285
286 * userdb: allow existence checks
287
288 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
289
290 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
291 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
292 initrd had set.
293
294 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
295 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
296 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
297 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
298 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
299 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
300
301 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
302 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
303 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
304
305 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
306 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
307 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
308 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
309 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
310 source.
311
312 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
313 with immutable /usr
314
315 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
316 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
317 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
318
319 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
320
321 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
322 the hibernation
323
324 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
325 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
326 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
327 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
328 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
329 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
330 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
331 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
332 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
333 hibernation mode. (see
334 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
335 section 10.2.2.8 and
336 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
337 at the end).
338
339 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
340 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
341 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
342 output for them.
343
344 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
345 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
346 constant vendor data.
347
348 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
349
350 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
351 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
352
353 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
354 fallback in "machinectl shell"
355
356 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
357 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
358 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
359
360 * homed:
361 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
362 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
363 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
364 - resize on login?
365 - shrink fs on logout?
366 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
367 - create on activate?
368 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
369 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
370 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
371 systemd --user is shut down.
372 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
373 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
374 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
375 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
376 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
377 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
378 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
379 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
380 - query password from kernel keyring first
381 - update even if record is "absent"
382 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
383 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
384 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
385 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
386 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
387 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
388 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
389 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
390 either from UI when disk space gets low
391
392 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
393 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
394 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
395 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
396 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
397 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
398 exec().
399
400 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
401
402 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
403 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
404
405 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
406
407 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
408 gnome-bluetooth and friends
409
410 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
411 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
412 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
413 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
414 cgroup.
415
416 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
417 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
418 root.
419
420 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
421 is issued.
422
423 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
424
425 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
426
427 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
428 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
429 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
430
431 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
432 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
433 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
434
435 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
436 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
437 ConfigurationDirectory=.
438
439 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
440
441 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
442
443 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
444 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
445
446 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
447 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
448 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
449
450 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
451
452 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
453 patching around
454
455 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
456 log.c and sd-journal-send
457
458 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
459
460 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
461
462 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
463 can add in file system drivers and such
464
465 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
466 non-zero "tries done" count
467
468 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
469 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
470 it should skip the variant type string though.
471
472 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
473 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
474 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
475 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
476 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
477 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
478 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
479 CODE_FILE.
480
481 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
482 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
483 some explanatory text online.
484
485 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
486
487 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
488 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
489 the slices, and the units attached to them.
490
491 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
492 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
493 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
494 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
495 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
496 way)
497
498 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
499 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
500 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
501
502 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
503 original defaults before calling parse_config()
504
505 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
506
507 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
508 Specifically:
509
510 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
511 properly)
512 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
513 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
514
515 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
516 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
517
518 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
519 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
520 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
521 files and suchlike we operate on.
522
523 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
524
525 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
526
527 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
528 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
529
530 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
531 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
532 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
533 numbers.
534
535 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
536 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
537 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
538 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
539 unlinked from any dir.
540
541 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
542
543 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
544
545 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
546
547 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
548 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
549 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
550 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
551 should reflink the image file itself.
552
553 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
554 specific paths only like this.
555
556 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
557 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
558 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
559 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
560 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
561
562 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
563
564 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
565
566 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
567 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
568
569 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
570 project quota
571
572 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
573 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
574 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
575 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
576 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
577 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
578 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
579 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
580
581 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
582 for root, but only then.
583
584 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
585
586 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
587 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
588
589 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
590 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
591
592 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
593 only when used. Add unit tests.
594
595 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
596 host-side interface pointing to the container.
597
598 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
599 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
600 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
601 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
602 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
603
604 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
605
606 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
607
608 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
609 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
610 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
611
612 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
613
614 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
615 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
616
617 * blog about fd store and restartable services
618
619 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
620
621 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
622 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
623
624 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
625 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
626 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
627 ID is available.
628
629 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
630 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
631 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
632
633 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
634 parameters
635
636 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
637 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
638 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
639 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
640 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
641 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
642 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
643
644 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
645 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
646
647 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
648 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
649 wait to retrieve their exit data.
650
651 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
652 about it in the resource log message
653
654 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
655 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
656
657 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
658 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
659 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
660
661 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
662 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
663
664 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
665
666 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
667 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
668 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
669 logging.
670
671 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
672 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
673 "convertible" form factor
674
675 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
676 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
677 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
678
679 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
680 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
681
682 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
683 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
684 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
685 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
686 natural habitat.
687
688 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
689 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
690 /usr is mounted into.
691
692 * 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
693
694 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
695
696 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
697 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
698 relative to the configured default value.
699
700 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
701
702 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
703
704 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
705
706 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
707
708 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
709
710 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
711
712 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
713
714 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
715
716 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
717
718 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
719
720 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
721 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
722 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
723
724 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
725
726 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
727
728 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
729 partitions
730
731 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
732 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
733 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
734 mapping to work.
735
736 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
737
738 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
739
740 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
741
742 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
743 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
744
745 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
746 reload the unit file anyway
747
748 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
749 from the SIGBUS handler
750
751 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
752
753 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
754 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
755
756 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
757
758 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
759 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
760
761 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
762 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
763 specifications.
764
765 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
766
767 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
768
769 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
770
771 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
772 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
773 prefixed with /sys generally special.
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
775
776 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
777
778 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
779
780 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
781 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
782 state.
783 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
784
785 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
786 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
787 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
788 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
789 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
790
791 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
792 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
793
794 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
795
796 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
797 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
798
799 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
800 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
801 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
802 do, for example)
803
804 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
805 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
806
807 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
808 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
809
810 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
811
812 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
813 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
814 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
815 returning from the "systemctl stop".
816
817 * 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
818
819 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
820
821 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
822 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
823
824 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
825
826 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
827
828 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
829
830 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
831
832 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
833
834 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
835 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
836
837 * resolved:
838 - mDNS/DNS-SD
839 - service registration
840 - service/domain/types browsing
841 - avahi compat
842 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
843 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
844 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
845 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
846 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
847 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
848
849 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
850
851 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
852
853 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
854
855 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
856
857 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
858
859 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
860
861 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
862 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
863
864 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
865
866 * gpt-auto-generator:
867 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
868 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
869
870 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
871 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
872 when it is otherwise off
873
874 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
875
876 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
877 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
878 for ReusePort=
879
880 * cgroups:
881 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
882 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
883 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
884 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
885 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
886 the hierarchies of child processes
887
888 * transient units:
889 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
890
891 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
892
893 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
894
895 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
896
897 * 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
898
899 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
900
901 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
902 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
903 path anyway.
904
905 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
906
907 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
908
909 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
910
911 * sd-bus:
912 - EBADSLT handling
913 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
914 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
915 - 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
916 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
917 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
918 - longer term: priority inheritance
919 - dbus spec updates:
920 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
921 - GVariant
922 - path escaping
923 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
924
925 * sd-event
926 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
927 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
928 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
929 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
930 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
931 here:
932 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
933
934 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
935
936 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
937 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
938
939 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
940
941 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
942
943 * test/:
944 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
945
946 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
947 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
948 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
949 destination.
950
951 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
952 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
953
954 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
955
956 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
957 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
958 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
959
960 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
961 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
962 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
963 is installed.
964
965 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
966 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
967 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
968 that automatically.
969
970 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
971
972 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
973
974 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
975
976 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
977
978 * EFI:
979 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
980 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
981 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
982 * bootctl
983 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
984
985 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
986
987 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
988
989 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
990
991 * logind:
992 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
993 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
994 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
995 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
996 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
997 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
998 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
999 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1000 needs setuid().
1001 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1002 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1003 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1004 complete.
1005 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1006 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1007 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1008 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1009 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1010 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1011 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1012 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1013 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1014 relogins
1015 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1016
1017 * journal:
1018 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1019 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1020 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1021 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1022 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1023 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1024 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1025 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1026 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1027 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1028 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1029 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1030 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1031 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1032 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1033 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1034 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1035 - 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.
1036 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1037 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1038 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1039 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1040 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1041 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1042 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1043 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1044 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1045 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1046 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1047 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1048 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1049 to syslog when it works again.
1050 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1051 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1052 journals in.
1053 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1054 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1055 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1056 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1057 the most common operations.
1058 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1059 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1060 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1061 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1062 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1063 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1064 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1065 operation.
1066 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1067 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1068 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1069 binary logs data
1070 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1071 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1072 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1073 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1074 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1075 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1076
1077 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1078 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1079 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1080 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1081
1082 * document:
1083 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1084 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1085 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1086 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1087 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1088 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1089 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1090 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1091 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1092 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1093 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1094 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1095
1096 * systemctl:
1097 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1098 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1099 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1100 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1101 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1102 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1103 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1104 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1105 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1106 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1107
1108 * unit install:
1109 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1110 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1111
1112 * timer units:
1113 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1114 o DST changes
1115 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1116
1117 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1118
1119 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1120
1121 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1122
1123 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1124
1125 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1126
1127 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1128
1129 * nspawn:
1130 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1131 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1132 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1133 from the kernel's logs.
1134 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1135 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1136 interface be missing
1137 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1138 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1139 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1140 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1141 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1142 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1143 PID 1...
1144 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1145 running, remove them when shut down.
1146
1147 * machined:
1148 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1149 removed or added to an existing machine
1150 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1151 difference host, via ssh
1152 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1153 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1154 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1155 question
1156 - "machinectl history"
1157 - "machinectl diff"
1158 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1159 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1160
1161 * cryptsetup:
1162 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1163 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1164
1165 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1166 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1167
1168 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1169
1170 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1171
1172 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1173
1174 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1175
1176 * udev:
1177 - move to LGPL
1178 - kill scsi_id
1179 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1180 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1181
1182 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1183
1184 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1185
1186 * coredump:
1187 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1188 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1189
1190 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1191
1192 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1193 needs to be auto-respawned?
1194
1195 * tmpfiles:
1196 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1197 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1198 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1199 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1200 calls follow symlinks.
1201
1202 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1203
1204 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1205 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1206 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1207
1208 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1209 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1210
1211 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1212
1213 * write blog stories about:
1214 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1215 - enabling dbus services
1216 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1217 - remote access
1218 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1219 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1220 - auto-restart
1221 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1222 - the journal HTTP iface
1223 - non-cgroup resource management
1224 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1225 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1226 - calendar time events
1227 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1228 - how to create your own target
1229 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1230 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1231
1232 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1233
1234 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1235
1236 * pid1:
1237 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1238 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1239 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1240 that are not supported...
1241 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1242 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1243 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1244 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1245 - move PAM code into its own binary
1246 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1247 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1248 - Support --test based on current system state
1249 - 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().
1250 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1251 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1252 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1253 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1254 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1255 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1256 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1257 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1258 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1259
1260 * unit files:
1261 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1262 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1263 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1264 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1265 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1266 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1267 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1268 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1269 - introduce Type=pid-file
1270 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1271 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1272 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1273 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1274
1275 * udev-link-config:
1276 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1277 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1278 on Path= matching
1279
1280 * sd-rtnl:
1281 - add support for more attribute types
1282 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1283
1284 * networkd:
1285 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1286 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1287 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1288 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1289 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1290 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1291 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1292 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1293 - expose in the API the following bits:
1294 - option 15, domain name
1295 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1296 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1297 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1298 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1299 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1300 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1301 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1302 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1303 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1304
1305 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1306
1307 * dhcp:
1308 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1309
1310 * dhcp6:
1311 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1312 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1313 - write more test cases
1314 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1315 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1316 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1317 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1318 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1319 or interface down
1320 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1321 this behavior
1322 - RouteTable= ?
1323
1324 External:
1325
1326 * dbus:
1327 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1328 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1329
1330 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1331
1332 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1333
1334 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1335
1336 * 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=
1337
1338 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1339
1340 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1341
1342 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1343
1344 * zsh shell completion:
1345 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1346 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1347
1348 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1349 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1350 after being started.
1351
1352 Regularly:
1353
1354 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1355
1356 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1357
1358 * pahole
1359
1360 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1361
1362 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1363
1364 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1365 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment