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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 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * 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=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
77 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
80 Deprecations and removals:
81
82 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
83 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
84
85 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
86
87 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
88 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
89 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
90 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
91
92 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
93 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
94 is only supported for such old kernels.
95
96 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
97 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
98 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
99 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
100 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
101
102 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
103 baseline is 5.8.
104
105 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
106 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
107
108 Features:
109
110 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
111 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
112
113 * sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
114
115 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
116 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
117
118 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
119 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
120
121 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
122 maybe some other stuff and boots it
123
124 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
125 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
126 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
127 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
128 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
129 use it.
130
131 * portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
132 file system paths to enable on start.
133
134 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
135 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
136
137 * PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
138 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
139 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
140
141 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
142 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
143 what it was signed.
144
145 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
146 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
147 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
148 be safely written to disk, then.
149
150 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
151 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
152 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
153 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
154 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
155 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
156 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
157 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
158 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
159 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
160 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
161 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
162
163 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
164 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
165
166 * bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
167 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
168 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
169 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
170 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
171
172 * networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
173 via the credentials logic.
174
175 * fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
176 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
177 integrity-generator)
178
179 * getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
180
181 * run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
182
183 * resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
184 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
185 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
186 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
187
188 * repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
189
190 * tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /etc/hosts, /etc/motd,
191 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
192
193 * timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
194
195 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
196 runtime state. Then, expose it:
197
198 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
199 about the unit.
200 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
201 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
202 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
203 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
204 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
205 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
206
207 * show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
208 for this on dbus)
209
210 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
211 what to do if support ended
212
213 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
214 login time, á la motd
215
216 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
217 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
218 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
219 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
220 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
221
222 * make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
223 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
224
225 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
226 initrd transition. Specifically:
227 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
228 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
229 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
230
231 * implement varlink introspection
232
233 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
234 chase_symlinks() instead
235
236 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
237 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
238 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
239 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
240 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
241 depending on desired level of persistency.
242
243 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
244 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
245 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
246 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
247 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
248 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
249 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
250 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
251
252 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
253 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
254 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
255 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
256
257 * make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
258 usr=
259
260 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
261
262 * ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
263 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
264
265 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
266
267 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
268 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
269 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
270 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
271 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
272 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
273 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
274 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
275 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
276 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
277 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
278 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
279 not unprivileged code.
280
281 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
282 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
283
284 * allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
285 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
286 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
287 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
288 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
289 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
290 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
291 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
292 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
293 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
294 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
295 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
296 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
297 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
298 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
299 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
300 kernel image.
301
302 * a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
303 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
304 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
305 hash values, i.e.
306 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
307 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
308 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
309 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
310 form into the form with explicit hash values.
311
312 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
313 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
314 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
315 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
316
317 * tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
318 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
319 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
320 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
321 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
322 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
323 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
324 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
325 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
326 access to an initrd.
327
328 * systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
329 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
330 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
331
332 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
333 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
334 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
335 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
336 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
337 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
338 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
339 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
340 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
341
342 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
343 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
344 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
345 order.
346
347 * TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
348 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
349 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
350 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
351 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
352 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
353 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
354 kernel+initrd.
355
356 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
357 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
358 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
359
360 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
361 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
362 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
363 acquire.
364
365 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
366 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
367 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
368 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
369 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
370 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
371 IN_IGNORED again)
372
373 * sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
374 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
375
376 * sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
377 into (even if we hardcode them)
378
379 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
380 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
381 virtio-fs.
382
383 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
384 - make sysext run in the initrd
385 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
386 on verification if in secureboot mode
387 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
388 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
389 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
390 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
391 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
392 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
393 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
394 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
395 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
396 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
397 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
398 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
399 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
400 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
401 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
402 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
403 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
404 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
405
406 * Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
407 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
408 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
409 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
410 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
411 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
412 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
413 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
414 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
415 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
416 service runtime logic quite substantially.
417
418 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
419 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
420 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
421
422 * beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
423 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
424 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
425 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
426 friends.)
427
428 * mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
429 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
430 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
431 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
432 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
433 directly to host service manager.
434
435 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
436 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
437 configure socket address.
438
439 * sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
440 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
441
442 * sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
443 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
444 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
445
446 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
447
448 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
449 no api to query the device id
450
451 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
452 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
453 also be queried.
454
455 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
456 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
457 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
458 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
459
460 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
461 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
462 latter).
463
464 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
465
466 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
467
468 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
469 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
470 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
471 generated by GNU sha256sums.
472
473 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
474 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
475 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
476 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
477 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
478 UEFI HTTP boot.
479
480 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
481 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
482 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
483 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
484 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
485 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
486 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
487 hence cheap for enumeration.
488
489 * initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
490 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
491 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
492
493 * in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
494 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
495 pre-built kernels.
496
497 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
498
499 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
500 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
501 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
502 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
503 comprehensively.
504
505 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
506 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
507 words: show partition labels).
508
509 * systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
510 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
511 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
512 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
513
514 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
515 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
516 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
517 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
518 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
519 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
520 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
521
522 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
523
524 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
525
526 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
527
528 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
529 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
530 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
531 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
532 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
533 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
534 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
535 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
536 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
537 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
538
539 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
540 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
541 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
542 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
543 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
544 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
545 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
546 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
547 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
548 an NTP sync is acquired.
549
550 * kernel-install:
551 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
552 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
553 call it at the end only
554
555 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
556 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
557
558 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
559 jobs, units
560
561 * bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
562
563 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
564 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
565
566 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
567
568 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
569 json package metadata, and use that when logging
570
571 * systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
572
573 * Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
574 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
575
576 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
577 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
578
579 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
580 internal clock.
581
582 * nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
583 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
584
585 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
586 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
587
588 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
589 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
590 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
591 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
592
593 * sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
594 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
595
596 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
597 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
598 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
599
600 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
601 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
602 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
603 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
604 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
605 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
606 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
607 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
608 thread:
609 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
610 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
611 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
612 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
613 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
614 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
615
616 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
617 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
618 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
619
620 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
621 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
622 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
623 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
624 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
625 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
626 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
627 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
628 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
629 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
630 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
631 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
632 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
633 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
634 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
635
636 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
637 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
638 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
639 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
640 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
641 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
642
643 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
644 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
645 dep in the base OS image)
646
647 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
648 sysext pickup logic.
649
650 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
651 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
652 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
653 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
654 on-disk storage.
655
656 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
657 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
658 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
659 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
660 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
661
662 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
663 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
664 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
665 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
666 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
667 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
668 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
669
670 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
671 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
672 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
673 externally and provide to us on demand only.
674
675 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
676 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
677 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
678 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
679 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
680 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
681 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
682 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
683
684 * nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
685 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
686 one.
687
688 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
689 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
690 into PCR 8)
691
692 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
693 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
694 authentication.
695
696 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
697 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
698 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
699
700 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
701
702 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
703
704 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
705 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
706 that images cannot be misused.
707
708 * New udev block device symlink names:
709 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
710 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
711 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
712 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
713
714 * sysupdate:
715 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
716 - support casync as download mechanism
717 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
718 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
719 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
720 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
721 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
722 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
723 override the host's update files.)
724 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
725 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
726 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
727 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
728
729 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
730
731 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
732 make dirs appear under right UID.
733
734 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
735 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
736
737 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
738 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
739 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
740 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
741 for doing that.
742
743 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
744 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
745 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
746 already have it.
747
748 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
749 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
750
751 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
752 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
753 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
754 socket: connect() to it.
755
756 * Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
757
758 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
759 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
760 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
761 /proc/self/fd/3
762
763 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
764 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
765 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
766
767 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
768 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
769
770 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
771 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
772
773 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
774 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
775 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
776 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
777 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
778
779 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
780
781 * credentials system:
782 - acquire from EFI variable?
783 - acquire via via ask-password?
784 - acquire creds via keyring?
785 - pass creds via keyring?
786 - pass creds via memfd?
787 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
788 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
789 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
790 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
791 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
792 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
793 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
794 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
795
796 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
797 firmware indicates there is one.
798
799 * Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
800 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
801 override its hash
802
803 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
804 and such
805
806 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
807
808 * cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
809 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
810
811 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
812
813 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
814 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
815
816 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
817 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
818
819 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
820
821 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
822 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
823
824 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
825 systemd-makefs.service instead.
826
827 * cryptsetup:
828 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
829 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
830
831 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
832 it happens to be set up alright already.
833
834 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
835
836 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
837 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
838 default.
839
840 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
841 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
842 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
843 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
844 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
845
846 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
847
848 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
849 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
850
851 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
852 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
853 temporary dir.
854
855 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
856 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
857
858 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
859 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
860
861 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
862
863 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
864
865 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
866
867 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
868
869 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
870 when it exits
871
872 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
873 o turn into dlopen() deps:
874 - p11-kit-trust (always)
875 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
876 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
877 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
878 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
879 since they are so basic and our defaults)
880 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
881 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
882
883 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
884 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
885 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
886
887 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
888 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
889
890 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
891 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
892 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
893 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
894
895 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
896
897 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
898 specific service
899
900 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
901 exists and responds.
902
903 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
904 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
905 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
906
907 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
908 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
909
910 * unify on openssl:
911 - kill gnutls support in resolved
912 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
913 gnutls
914 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
915
916 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
917 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
918
919 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
920 realname substr searches in varlink API
921
922 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
923
924 * userdb: allow existence checks
925
926 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
927
928 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
929 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
930 initrd had set.
931
932 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
933 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
934 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
935 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
936 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
937 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
938
939 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
940 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
941 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
942
943 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
944 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
945 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
946 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
947 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
948 source.
949
950 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
951 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
952 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
953
954 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
955
956 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
957 the hibernation
958
959 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
960 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
961 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
962 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
963 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
964 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
965 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
966 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
967 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
968 hibernation mode. (see
969 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
970 section 10.2.2.8 and
971 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
972 at the end).
973
974 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
975 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
976
977 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
978
979 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
980 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
981 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
982 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
983 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
984 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
985 exec().
986
987 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
988
989 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
990 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
991
992 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
993 gnome-bluetooth and friends
994
995 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
996 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
997 root.
998
999 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1000 is issued.
1001
1002 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1003
1004 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1005
1006 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1007 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1008 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1009
1010 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1011 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1012 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1013
1014 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1015
1016 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1017 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1018
1019 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1020 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1021 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1022 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1023
1024 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1025
1026 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1027 log.c and sd-journal-send
1028
1029 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1030
1031 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1032
1033 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1034 non-zero "tries done" count
1035
1036 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1037 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1038 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1039 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1040 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1041 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1042 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1043 CODE_FILE.
1044
1045 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1046 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1047 some explanatory text online.
1048
1049 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1050
1051 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1052 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1053
1054 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1055 Specifically:
1056
1057 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1058 properly)
1059 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1060 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1061
1062 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1063 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1064
1065 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1066 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1067 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1068 files and suchlike we operate on.
1069
1070 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1071
1072 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1073
1074 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1075 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1076
1077 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1078 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1079
1080 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1081 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1082 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1083 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1084 unlinked from any dir.
1085
1086 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1087
1088 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1089
1090 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1091
1092 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1093 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1094 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1095 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1096 should reflink the image file itself.
1097
1098 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1099 specific paths only like this.
1100
1101 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1102 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1103 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1104 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1105 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1106
1107 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1108
1109 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1110
1111 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1112 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1113
1114 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1115 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1116 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1117 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1118 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1119 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1120 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1121 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1122
1123 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1124 for root, but only then.
1125
1126 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1127
1128 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1129 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1130
1131 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1132 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1133
1134 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1135 only when used. Add unit tests.
1136
1137 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1138 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1139
1140 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1141 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1142 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1143 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1144 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1145
1146 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1147
1148 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1149 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1150 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1151
1152 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1153
1154 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1155 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1156
1157 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1158
1159 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1160
1161 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1162 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1163
1164 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1165 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1166 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1167 ID is available.
1168
1169 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1170 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1171 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1172
1173 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1174 parameters
1175
1176 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1177 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1178 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1179 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1180 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1181 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1182 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1183
1184 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1185 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1186
1187 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1188 about it in the resource log message
1189
1190 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1191 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1192 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1193
1194 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1195 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1196
1197 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1198
1199 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1200 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1201 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1202
1203 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1204 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1205
1206 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1207 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1208 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1209 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1210 natural habitat.
1211
1212 * 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
1213
1214 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1215 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1216 relative to the configured default value.
1217
1218 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1219
1220 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1221
1222 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1223
1224 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1225
1226 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1227
1228 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1229
1230 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1231
1232 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1233
1234 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1235 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1236 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1237
1238 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1239 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1240
1241 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1242
1243 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1244 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1245 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1246 mapping to work.
1247
1248 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1249
1250 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1251
1252 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1253
1254 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1255 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1256
1257 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1258 reload the unit file anyway
1259
1260 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1261
1262 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1263
1264 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1265 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1266
1267 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1268 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1269 specifications.
1270
1271 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1272
1273 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1274
1275 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1276 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1277 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1278 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1279
1280 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1281
1282 * initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1283 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1284 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1285
1286 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1287
1288 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1289 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1290 state.
1291 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1292
1293 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1294 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1295 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1296 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1297 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1298
1299 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1300
1301 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1302 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1303
1304 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1305 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1306
1307 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1308 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1309
1310 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1311
1312 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1313 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1314
1315 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1316
1317 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1318
1319 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1320
1321 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1322
1323 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1324 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1325
1326 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1327
1328 * resolved:
1329 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1330 - service registration
1331 - service/domain/types browsing
1332 - avahi compat
1333 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1334 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1335 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1336 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1337 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1338 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1339
1340 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1341
1342 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1343
1344 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1345
1346 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1347
1348 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1349
1350 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1351 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1352
1353 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1354
1355 * gpt-auto-generator:
1356 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1357 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1358
1359 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1360 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1361 when it is otherwise off
1362
1363 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1364
1365 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1366 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1367 for ReusePort=
1368
1369 * cgroups:
1370 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1371 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1372 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1373 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1374 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1375 the hierarchies of child processes
1376 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1377 maybe use them for user@.service
1378
1379 * transient units:
1380 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1381
1382 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1383
1384 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1385
1386 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1387
1388 * 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
1389
1390 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1391
1392 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1393 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1394 path anyway.
1395
1396 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1397
1398 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1399
1400 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1401
1402 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1403
1404 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1405
1406 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1407
1408 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1409 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1410 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1411
1412 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1413 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1414
1415 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1416
1417 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1418
1419 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1420
1421 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1422 needs to be auto-respawned?
1423
1424 * pid1:
1425 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1426 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1427 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1428 that are not supported...
1429 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1430 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1431 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1432 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1433 - move PAM code into its own binary
1434 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1435 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1436 - Support --test based on current system state
1437 - 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().
1438 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1439 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1440 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1441 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1442 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1443 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1444 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1445 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1446 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1447 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1448 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1449 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1450
1451 * unit files:
1452 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1453 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1454 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1455 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1456 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1457 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1458 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1459 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1460 - introduce Type=pid-file
1461 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1462 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1463 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1464
1465 * timer units:
1466 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1467 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1468
1469 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1470
1471 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1472
1473 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1474
1475 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1476
1477 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1478
1479 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1480
1481 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1482
1483 * test/:
1484 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1485
1486 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1487 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1488 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1489 destination.
1490
1491 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1492 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1493
1494 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1495
1496 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1497 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1498 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1499
1500 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1501 compliant boot loader is installed.
1502
1503 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1504 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1505 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1506 that automatically.
1507
1508 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1509
1510 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1511
1512 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1513
1514 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1515
1516 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1517
1518 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1519
1520 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1521
1522 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1523
1524 * sd-bus:
1525 - EBADSLT handling
1526 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1527 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1528 - 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
1529 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1530 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1531 - longer term: priority inheritance
1532 - dbus spec updates:
1533 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1534 - path escaping
1535 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1536
1537 * sd-event
1538 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1539 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1540 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1541 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1542 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1543 here:
1544 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1545
1546 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1547 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1548
1549 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1550
1551 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1552
1553 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1554
1555 * firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1556 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1557 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1558 the host on invocation
1559
1560 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1561 reading/writing files
1562
1563 * 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
1564
1565 * sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1566 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1567 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1568 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1569 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1570 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1571 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1572
1573 * efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1574 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1575 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1576 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1577 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1578 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1579 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1580
1581 * EFI:
1582 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1583 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1584 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1585 * bootctl
1586 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1587
1588 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1589
1590 * bootctl:
1591 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1592 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1593 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1594 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
1595 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1596
1597 * kernel-install:
1598 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1599
1600 * logind:
1601 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1602 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1603 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1604 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1605 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1606 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1607 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1608 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1609 needs setuid().
1610 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1611 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1612 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1613 complete.
1614 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1615 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1616 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1617 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1618 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1619 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1620 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1621 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1622 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1623 relogins
1624 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1625 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1626 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1627 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1628
1629 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1630
1631 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1632 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1633 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1634
1635 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1636 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1637
1638 * journal:
1639 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1640 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1641 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1642 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1643 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1644 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1645 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1646 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1647 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1648 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1649 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1650 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1651 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1652 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1653 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1654 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1655 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1656 - 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.
1657 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1658 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1659 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1660 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1661 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1662 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1663 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1664 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1665 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1666 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1667 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1668 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1669 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1670 to syslog when it works again.
1671 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1672 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1673 journals in.
1674 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1675 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1676 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1677 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1678 the most common operations.
1679 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1680 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1681 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1682 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1683 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1684 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1685 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1686 operation.
1687 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1688 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1689 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1690 binary logs data
1691 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1692 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1693 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1694 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1695 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1696 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1697
1698 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1699 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1700
1701 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1702 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1703 validated via TPM.
1704
1705 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1706 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1707
1708 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1709 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1710 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1711
1712 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1713 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1714 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1715 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1716 cgroup.
1717
1718 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1719 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1720 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1721 logging.
1722
1723 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1724
1725 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1726 from the SIGBUS handler
1727
1728 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1729 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1730 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1731 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1732
1733 * homed:
1734 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1735 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1736 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1737 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1738 - create on activate?
1739 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1740 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1741 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1742 systemd --user is shut down.
1743 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1744 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1745 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1746 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1747 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1748 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1749 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1750 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1751 - query password from kernel keyring first
1752 - update even if record is "absent"
1753 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1754 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1755 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1756 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1757 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1758 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1759 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1760 doesn't mean user B sees it
1761 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
1762 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1763 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1764 signature
1765 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1766 and insert a local signature instead.
1767 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1768 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1769 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1770 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1771 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1772 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1773 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1774 easily?
1775 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1776 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1777 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1778 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1779 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1780 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1781 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1782 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1783 can easily set overall quota for all users
1784 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1785 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
1786 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
1787 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
1788 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1789 large.
1790
1791 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1792 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1793 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1794
1795 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
1796
1797 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1798 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1799 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1800 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1801
1802 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1803
1804 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1805 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1806 something goes wrong on the way.
1807
1808 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1809
1810 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1811 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1812 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1813 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1814
1815 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1816 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1817 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1818 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1819 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1820 automatically.
1821
1822 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1823 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1824
1825 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1826 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1827 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1828 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1829 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1830 fails to apply use the latter.
1831
1832 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1833 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1834
1835 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1836 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1837
1838 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1839 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1840
1841 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1842 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1843
1844 * document:
1845 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1846 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1847 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1848 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1849 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1850 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1851 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1852 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1853 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1854 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1855 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1856 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1857
1858 * systemctl:
1859 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1860 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1861 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1862 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1863 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1864 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1865 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1866 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1867 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1868 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1869
1870 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1871 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1872 it should skip the variant type string though.
1873
1874 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1875 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1876 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1877 output for them.
1878
1879 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1880 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1881 the slices, and the units attached to them.
1882
1883 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1884 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1885 wait to retrieve their exit data.
1886
1887 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1888 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
1889
1890 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1891 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1892 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1893 do, for example)
1894
1895 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1896 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1897 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1898 returning from the "systemctl stop".
1899
1900 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1901
1902 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1903
1904 * unit install:
1905 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1906 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1907
1908 * nspawn:
1909 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1910 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1911 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1912 from the kernel's logs.
1913 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1914 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1915 interface be missing
1916 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1917 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1918 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1919 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1920 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1921 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1922 PID 1...
1923 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1924 running, remove them when shut down.
1925
1926 * nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1927 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1928 during startup.
1929
1930 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1931 so, freeze the payload too.
1932
1933 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1934 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1935 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1936 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1937 anything like that.
1938
1939 * nspawn: support time namespaces
1940
1941 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1942 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1943
1944 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1945 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1946
1947 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1948 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1949 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1950
1951 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1952
1953 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1954
1955 * machined:
1956 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1957 removed or added to an existing machine
1958 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1959 difference host, via ssh
1960 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1961 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1962 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1963 question
1964 - "machinectl history"
1965 - "machinectl diff"
1966 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1967 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1968
1969 * udev:
1970 - move to LGPL
1971 - kill scsi_id
1972 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1973 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1974
1975 * coredump:
1976 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1977 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1978
1979 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1980
1981 * tmpfiles:
1982 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1983 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1984 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1985 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1986 calls follow symlinks.
1987 - add --test mode
1988 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1989 project quota
1990
1991 * udev-link-config:
1992 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1993 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1994 on Path= matching
1995
1996 * sd-rtnl:
1997 - add support for more attribute types
1998 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1999
2000 * networkd:
2001 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2002 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2003 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2004 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2005 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2006 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2007 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2008 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2009 - expose in the API the following bits:
2010 - option 15, domain name
2011 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2012 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2013 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2014 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2015 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2016 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2017 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2018 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2019
2020 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2021
2022 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2023
2024 * dhcp:
2025 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2026
2027 * dhcp6:
2028 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2029 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2030 - write more test cases
2031 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2032 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2033 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2034 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2035 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2036 or interface down
2037 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2038 this behavior
2039 - RouteTable= ?