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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 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
23 * make use of new loopback setup ioctl to setup loopback devices in one atomic
24 ioctl
25
26 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
27 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
28 container manager)
29
30 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
31
32 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
33 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
34
35 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
36 so, freeze the payload too.
37
38 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
39
40 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
41 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
42 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
43
44 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
45 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
46 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
47
48 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
49 in and out of a disk image
50
51 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
52
53 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
54
55 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
56 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
57
58 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
59 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
60 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
61 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
62 anything like that.
63
64 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
65 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
66 user's journal stream down but not the others.
67
68 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
69 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
70 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
71
72 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
73 these days
74
75 * nspawn: support time namespaces
76
77 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
78 reading/writing files
79
80 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
81
82 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
83 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
84
85 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
86
87 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
88
89 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
90 when it exits
91
92 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
93 o turn into dlopen() deps:
94 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
95 firstboot
96 - elfutils (always)
97 - p11-kit-trust (always)
98 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
99 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
100 - similar: libblkid
101 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
102 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
103 since they are so basic and our defaults)
104 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
105 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
106
107 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
108 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
109 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
110
111 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
112 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
113 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
114
115 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
116 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
117
118 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
119 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
120 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
121
122 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
123 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
124 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
125 systemd-firstboot)
126
127 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
128
129 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
130 specific service
131
132 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
133
134 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
135 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
136 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
137 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
138 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
139 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
140 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
141 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
142
143 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
144 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
145
146 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
147 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
148
149 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
150 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
151 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
152
153 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
154 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
155 signature
156
157 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
158 and insert a local signature instead.
159
160 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
161 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
162 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
163 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
164 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
165
166 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
167
168 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
169 easily?
170
171 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
172 exists and responds.
173
174 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
175 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
176 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
177 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
178 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
179
180 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
181 also in plain cryptsetup)
182
183 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
184 creates
185
186 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
187 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
188 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
189 hence we can make them quicker to work.
190
191 * bootctl:
192 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
193 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
194 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
195
196 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
197 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
198 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
199
200 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
201 allow so that systemd survives
202
203 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
204 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
205
206 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
207 systemd-makefs.service instead.
208
209 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
210 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
211
212 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
213 confusion is gone)
214 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
215 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
216 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
217 - port importd over from libgcrypt
218 - when that's done: kill khash.c
219 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
220
221 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
222
223 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
224
225 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
226 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
227
228 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
229 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
230 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
231 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
232 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
233
234 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
235 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
236 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
237 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
238
239 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
240 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
241 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
242 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
243 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
244 automatically.
245
246 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
247 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
248
249 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
250 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
251
252 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
253
254 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
255 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
256 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
257 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
258 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
259 fails to apply use the latter.
260
261 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
262 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
263
264 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
265 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
266
267 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
268 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
269 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
270
271 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
272 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
273
274 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
275 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
276
277 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
278 realname substr searches in varlink API
279
280 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
281
282 * userdb: allow existence checks
283
284 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
285
286 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
287 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
288 initrd had set.
289
290 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
291 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
292 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
293 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
294 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
295 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
296
297 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
298 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
299 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
300
301 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
302 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
303 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
304 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
305 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
306 source.
307
308 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
309 with immutable /usr
310
311 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
312 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
313 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
314
315 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
316
317 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
318 the hibernation
319
320 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
321 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
322 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
323 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
324 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
325 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
326 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
327 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
328 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
329 hibernation mode. (see
330 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
331 section 10.2.2.8 and
332 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
333 at the end).
334
335 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
336 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
337 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
338 output for them.
339
340 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
341 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
342
343 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
344 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
345 constant vendor data.
346
347 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
348
349 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
350 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
351
352 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
353 fallback in "machinectl shell"
354
355 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
356 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
357 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
358
359 * homed:
360 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
361 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
362 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
363 - resize on login?
364 - shrink fs on logout?
365 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
366 - create on activate?
367 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
368 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
369 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
370 systemd --user is shut down.
371 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
372 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
373 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
374 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
375 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
376 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
377 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
378 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
379 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
380 - query password from kernel keyring first
381 - update even if record is "absent"
382 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
383 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
384 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
385 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
386 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
387 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
388 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
389 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
390 either from UI when disk space gets low
391
392 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
393 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
394 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
395 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
396 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
397 from /proc/$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 fallback 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 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
593 host-side interface pointing to the container.
594
595 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
596 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
597 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
598 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
599 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
600
601 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
602
603 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
604
605 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
606 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
607 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
608
609 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
610
611 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
612 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
613
614 * blog about fd store and restartable services
615
616 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
617
618 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
619 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
620
621 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
622 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
623 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
624 ID is available.
625
626 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
627 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
628 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
629
630 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
631 parameters
632
633 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
634 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
635 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
636 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
637 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
638 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
639 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
640
641 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
642 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
643
644 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
645 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
646 wait to retrieve their exit data.
647
648 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
649 about it in the resource log message
650
651 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
652 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
653
654 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
655 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
656 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
657
658 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
659 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
660
661 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
662
663 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
664 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
665 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
666 logging.
667
668 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
669 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
670 "convertible" form factor
671
672 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
673 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
674 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
675 as MAINPID.
676
677 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
678 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
679 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
680
681 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
682 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
683
684 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
685 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
686 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
687 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
688 natural habitat.
689
690 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
691 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
692 /usr is mounted into.
693
694 * 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
695
696 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
697
698 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
699 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
700 relative to the configured default value.
701
702 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
703
704 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
705
706 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
707
708 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
709
710 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
711
712 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
713
714 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
715
716 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
717
718 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
719
720 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
721
722 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
723 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
724 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
725
726 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
727
728 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
729
730 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
731 partitions
732
733 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
734 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
735 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
736 mapping to work.
737
738 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
739
740 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
741
742 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
743
744 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
745 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
746
747 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
748 reload the unit file anyway
749
750 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
751 from the SIGBUS handler
752
753 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
754
755 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
756 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
757
758 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
759
760 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
761 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
762
763 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
764 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
765 specifications.
766
767 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
768
769 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
770
771 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
772
773 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
774 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
775 prefixed with /sys generally special.
776 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
777
778 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
779
780 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
781
782 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
783 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
784 state.
785 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
786
787 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
788 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
789 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
790 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
791 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
792
793 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
794 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
795
796 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
797
798 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
799 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
800
801 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
802 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
803 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
804 do, for example)
805
806 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
807 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
808
809 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
810 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
811
812 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
813
814 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
815 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
816 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
817 returning from the "systemctl stop".
818
819 * 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
820
821 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
822
823 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
824 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
825
826 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
827
828 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
829
830 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
831 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
832
833 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
834
835 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
836
837 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
838
839 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
840 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
841
842 * resolved:
843 - mDNS/DNS-SD
844 - service registration
845 - service/domain/types browsing
846 - avahi compat
847 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
848 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
849 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
850 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
851 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
852 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
853
854 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
855
856 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
857
858 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
859
860 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
861 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
862
863 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
864
865 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
866
867 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
868
869 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
870 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
871
872 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
873
874 * gpt-auto-generator:
875 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
876 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
877
878 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
879 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
880 when it is otherwise off
881
882 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
883
884 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
885 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
886 for ReusePort=
887
888 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
889 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
890 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
891 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
892 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
893 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
894
895 * cgroups:
896 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
897 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
898 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
899 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
900 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
901 the hierarchies of child processes
902
903 * transient units:
904 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
905
906 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
907
908 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
909
910 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
911
912 * 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
913
914 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
915
916 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
917 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
918 path anyway.
919
920 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
921
922 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
923
924 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
925
926 * sd-bus:
927 - EBADSLT handling
928 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
929 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
930 - 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
931 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
932 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
933 - longer term: priority inheritance
934 - dbus spec updates:
935 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
936 - GVariant
937 - path escaping
938 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
939
940 * sd-event
941 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
942 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
943 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
944 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
945 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
946 here:
947 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
948
949 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
950
951 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
952 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
953
954 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
955
956 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
957
958 * test/:
959 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
960
961 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
962 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
963 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
964 destination.
965
966 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
967 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
968
969 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
970
971 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
972 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
973 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
974
975 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
976 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
977 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
978 is installed.
979
980 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
981 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
982 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
983 that automatically.
984
985 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
986
987 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
988
989 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
990
991 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
992
993 * EFI:
994 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
995 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
996 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
997 * bootctl
998 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
999
1000 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1001
1002 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1003
1004 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1005
1006 * logind:
1007 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1008 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1009 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1010 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1011 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1012 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1013 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1014 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1015 needs setuid().
1016 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1017 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1018 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1019 complete.
1020 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1021 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1022 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1023 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1024 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1025 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1026 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1027 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1028 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1029 relogins
1030 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1031
1032 * journal:
1033 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1034 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1035 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1036 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1037 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1038 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1039 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1040 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1041 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1042 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1043 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1044 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1045 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1046 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1047 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1048 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1049 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1050 - 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.
1051 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1052 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1053 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1054 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1055 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1056 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1057 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1058 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1059 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1060 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1061 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1062 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1063 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1064 to syslog when it works again.
1065 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1066 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1067 journals in.
1068 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1069 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1070 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1071 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1072 the most common operations.
1073 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1074 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1075 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1076 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1077 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1078 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1079 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1080 operation.
1081 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1082 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1083 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1084 binary logs data
1085 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1086 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1087 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1088 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1089 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1090 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1091
1092 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1093 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1094 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1095 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1096
1097 * document:
1098 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1099 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1100 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1101 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1102 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1103 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1104 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1105 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1106 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1107 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1108 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1109 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1110
1111 * systemctl:
1112 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1113 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1114 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1115 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1116 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1117 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1118 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1119 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1120 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1121 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1122
1123 * unit install:
1124 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1125 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1126
1127 * timer units:
1128 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1129 o DST changes
1130 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1131
1132 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1133
1134 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1135
1136 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1137
1138 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1139
1140 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1141
1142 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1143
1144 * nspawn:
1145 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1146 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1147 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1148 from the kernel's logs.
1149 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1150 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1151 interface be missing
1152 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1153 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1154 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1155 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1156 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1157 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1158 PID 1...
1159 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1160 running, remove them when shut down.
1161
1162 * dissect
1163 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1164 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1165
1166 * machined:
1167 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1168 removed or added to an existing machine
1169 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1170 difference host, via ssh
1171 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1172 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1173 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1174 question
1175 - "machinectl history"
1176 - "machinectl diff"
1177 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1178 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1179
1180 * cryptsetup:
1181 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1182 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1183
1184 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1185 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1186
1187 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1188
1189 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1190
1191 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1192
1193 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1194
1195 * udev:
1196 - move to LGPL
1197 - kill scsi_id
1198 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1199 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1200
1201 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1202
1203 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1204
1205 * coredump:
1206 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1207 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1208
1209 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1210
1211 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1212 needs to be auto-respawned?
1213
1214 * tmpfiles:
1215 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1216 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1217 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1218 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1219 calls follow symlinks.
1220
1221 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1222
1223 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1224 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1225 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1226
1227 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1228 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1229
1230 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1231
1232 * write blog stories about:
1233 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1234 - enabling dbus services
1235 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1236 - remote access
1237 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1238 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1239 - auto-restart
1240 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1241 - the journal HTTP iface
1242 - non-cgroup resource management
1243 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1244 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1245 - calendar time events
1246 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1247 - how to create your own target
1248 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1249 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1250
1251 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1252
1253 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1254
1255 * pid1:
1256 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1257 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1258 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1259 that are not supported...
1260 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1261 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1262 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1263 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1264 - move PAM code into its own binary
1265 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1266 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1267 - Support --test based on current system state
1268 - 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().
1269 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1270 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1271 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1272 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1273 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1274 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1275 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1276 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1277 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1278
1279 * unit files:
1280 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1281 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1282 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1283 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1284 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1285 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1286 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1287 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1288 - introduce Type=pid-file
1289 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1290 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1291 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1292 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1293
1294 * udev-link-config:
1295 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1296 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1297 on Path= matching
1298
1299 * sd-rtnl:
1300 - add support for more attribute types
1301 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1302
1303 * networkd:
1304 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1305 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1306 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1307 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1308 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1309 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1310 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1311 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1312 - expose in the API the following bits:
1313 - option 15, domain name
1314 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1315 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1316 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1317 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1318 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1319 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1320 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1321 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1322 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1323
1324 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1325
1326 * dhcp:
1327 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1328
1329 * dhcp6:
1330 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1331 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1332 - write more test cases
1333 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1334 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1335 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1336 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1337 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1338 or interface down
1339 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1340 this behavior
1341 - RouteTable= ?
1342
1343 External:
1344
1345 * dbus:
1346 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1347 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1348
1349 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1350
1351 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1352
1353 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1354
1355 * 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=
1356
1357 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1358
1359 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1360
1361 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1362
1363 * zsh shell completion:
1364 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1365 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1366
1367 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1368 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1369 after being started.
1370
1371 Regularly:
1372
1373 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1374
1375 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1376
1377 * pahole
1378
1379 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1380
1381 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1382
1383 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1384 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment