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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
16 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
18 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
21 Features:
22
23 * port selinux code from mallinfo() to mallinfo2() once added to glibc
24
25 * in fd_get_path() if we see (deleted) then do stat and check for st_nlink
26
27 * add support for close_range() added in kernel 5.9
28
29 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
30 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
31
32 * export action of device object on sd-device, so that monitor becomes useful
33
34 * add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
35 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
36 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
37 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
38 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
39 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
40 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
41 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
42
43 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
44 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
45 temporary dir.
46
47 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
48 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
49
50 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
51 (autofs and such) while user is loged in.
52
53 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
54
55 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
56
57 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
58 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
59
60 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
61 so, freeze the payload too.
62
63 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
64
65 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
66 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
67 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
68
69 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
70 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
71 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
72
73 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
74
75 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
76 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
77
78 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
79 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
80 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
81 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
82 anything like that.
83
84 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
85 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
86 user's journal stream down but not the others.
87
88 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
89 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
90 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
91
92 * nspawn: support time namespaces
93
94 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
95 reading/writing files
96
97 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
98
99 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
100 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
101
102 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
103
104 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
105
106 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
107 when it exits
108
109 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
110 o turn into dlopen() deps:
111 - elfutils (always)
112 - p11-kit-trust (always)
113 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
114 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
115 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
116 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
117 since they are so basic and our defaults)
118 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
119 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
120
121 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
122 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
123 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
124
125 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
126 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
127 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
128
129 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
130 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
131
132 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
133 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
134 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
135 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
136
137 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
138
139 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
140 specific service
141
142 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
143
144 * credentials system:
145 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
146 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
147 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
148 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
149 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
150 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
151 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
152 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
153 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
154 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
155 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
156
157 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
158 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
159 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
160
161 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
162 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
163 signature
164
165 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
166 and insert a local signature instead.
167
168 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
169 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
170 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
171 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
172 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
173
174 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
175
176 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
177 easily?
178
179 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
180 exists and responds.
181
182 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
183 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
184 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
185 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
186 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
187
188 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
189 also in plain cryptsetup)
190
191 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
192 creates
193
194 * bootctl:
195 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
196 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
197 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
198
199 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
200 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
201 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
202
203 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
204 allow so that systemd survives
205
206 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
207 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
208
209 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
210 systemd-makefs.service instead.
211
212 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
213 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
214
215 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
216 confusion is gone)
217 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
218 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
219 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
220 - port importd over from libgcrypt
221 - when that's done: kill khash.c
222 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
223
224 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
225
226 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
227 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
228
229 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
230 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
231 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
232 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
233 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
234
235 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
236 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
237 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
238 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
239
240 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
241 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
242 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
243 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
244 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
245 automatically.
246
247 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
248 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
249
250 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
251
252 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
253 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
254 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
255 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
256 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
257 fails to apply use the latter.
258
259 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
260 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
261
262 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
263 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
264
265 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
266 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
267
268 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
269 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
270
271 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
272 realname substr searches in varlink API
273
274 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
275
276 * userdb: allow existence checks
277
278 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
279
280 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
281 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
282 initrd had set.
283
284 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
285 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
286 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
287 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
288 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
289 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
290
291 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
292 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
293 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
294
295 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
296 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
297 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
298 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
299 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
300 source.
301
302 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
303 with immutable /usr
304
305 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
306 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
307 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
308
309 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
310
311 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
312 the hibernation
313
314 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
315 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
316 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
317 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
318 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
319 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
320 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
321 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
322 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
323 hibernation mode. (see
324 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
325 section 10.2.2.8 and
326 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
327 at the end).
328
329 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
330 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
331 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
332 output for them.
333
334 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
335 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
336 constant vendor data.
337
338 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
339
340 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
341 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
342
343 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
344 fallback in "machinectl shell"
345
346 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
347 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
348 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
349
350 * homed:
351 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
352 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
353 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
354 - resize on login?
355 - shrink fs on logout?
356 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
357 - create on activate?
358 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
359 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
360 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
361 systemd --user is shut down.
362 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
363 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
364 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
365 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
366 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
367 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
368 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
369 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
370 - query password from kernel keyring first
371 - update even if record is "absent"
372 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
373 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
374 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
375 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
376 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
377 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
378 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
379 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
380 either from UI when disk space gets low
381
382 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
383 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
384 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
385 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
386 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
387 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
388 exec().
389
390 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
391
392 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
393 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
394
395 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
396
397 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
398 gnome-bluetooth and friends
399
400 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
401 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
402 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
403 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
404 cgroup.
405
406 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
407 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
408 root.
409
410 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
411 is issued.
412
413 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
414
415 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
416
417 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
418 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
419 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
420
421 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
422 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
423 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
424
425 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
426 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
427 ConfigurationDirectory=.
428
429 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
430
431 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
432
433 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
434 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
435
436 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
437 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
438 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
439
440 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
441
442 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
443 patching around
444
445 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
446 log.c and sd-journal-send
447
448 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
449
450 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
451
452 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
453 can add in file system drivers and such
454
455 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
456 non-zero "tries done" count
457
458 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
459 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
460 it should skip the variant type string though.
461
462 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
463 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
464 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
465 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
466 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
467 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
468 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
469 CODE_FILE.
470
471 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
472 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
473 some explanatory text online.
474
475 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
476
477 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
478 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
479 the slices, and the units attached to them.
480
481 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
482 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
483 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
484 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
485 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
486 way)
487
488 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
489 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
490 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
491
492 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
493 original defaults before calling parse_config()
494
495 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
496
497 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
498 Specifically:
499
500 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
501 properly)
502 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
503 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
504
505 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
506 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
507
508 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
509 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
510 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
511 files and suchlike we operate on.
512
513 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
514
515 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
516
517 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
518 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
519
520 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
521 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
522 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
523 numbers.
524
525 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
526 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
527 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
528 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
529 unlinked from any dir.
530
531 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
532
533 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
534
535 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
536
537 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
538 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
539 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
540 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
541 should reflink the image file itself.
542
543 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
544 specific paths only like this.
545
546 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
547 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
548 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
549 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
550 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
551
552 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
553
554 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
555
556 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
557 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
558
559 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
560 project quota
561
562 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
563 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
564 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
565 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
566 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
567 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
568 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
569 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
570
571 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
572 for root, but only then.
573
574 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
575
576 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
577 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
578
579 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
580 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
581
582 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
583 only when used. Add unit tests.
584
585 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
586 host-side interface pointing to the container.
587
588 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
589 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
590 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
591 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
592 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
593
594 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
595
596 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
597
598 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
599 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
600 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
601
602 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
603
604 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
605 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
606
607 * blog about fd store and restartable services
608
609 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
610
611 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
612 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
613
614 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
615 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
616 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
617 ID is available.
618
619 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
620 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
621 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
622
623 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
624 parameters
625
626 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
627 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
628 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
629 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
630 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
631 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
632 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
633
634 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
635 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
636
637 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
638 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
639 wait to retrieve their exit data.
640
641 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
642 about it in the resource log message
643
644 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
645 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
646
647 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
648 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
649 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
650
651 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
652 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
653
654 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
655
656 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
657 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
658 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
659 logging.
660
661 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
662 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
663 "convertible" form factor
664
665 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
666 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
667 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
668
669 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
670 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
671
672 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
673 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
674 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
675 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
676 natural habitat.
677
678 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
679 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
680 /usr is mounted into.
681
682 * 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
683
684 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
685
686 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
687 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
688 relative to the configured default value.
689
690 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
691
692 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
693
694 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
695
696 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
697
698 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
699
700 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
701
702 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
703
704 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
705
706 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
707
708 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
709
710 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
711 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
712 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
713
714 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
715
716 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
717
718 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
719 partitions
720
721 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
722 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
723 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
724 mapping to work.
725
726 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
727
728 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
729
730 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
731
732 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
733 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
734
735 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
736 reload the unit file anyway
737
738 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
739 from the SIGBUS handler
740
741 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
742
743 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
744 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
745
746 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
747
748 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
749 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
750
751 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
752 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
753 specifications.
754
755 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
756
757 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
758
759 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
760
761 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
762 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
763 prefixed with /sys generally special.
764 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
765
766 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
767
768 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
769
770 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
771 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
772 state.
773 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
774
775 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
776 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
777 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
778 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
779 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
780
781 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
782 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
783
784 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
785
786 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
787 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
788
789 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
790 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
791 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
792 do, for example)
793
794 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
796
797 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
798 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
799
800 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
801
802 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
803 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
804 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
805 returning from the "systemctl stop".
806
807 * 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
808
809 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
810
811 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
812 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
813
814 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
815
816 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
817
818 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
819 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
820
821 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
822
823 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
824
825 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
826
827 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
828 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
829
830 * resolved:
831 - mDNS/DNS-SD
832 - service registration
833 - service/domain/types browsing
834 - avahi compat
835 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
836 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
837 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
838 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
839 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
840 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
841
842 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
843
844 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
845
846 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
847
848 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
849
850 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
851
852 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
853
854 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
855 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
856
857 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
858
859 * gpt-auto-generator:
860 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
861 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
862
863 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
864 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
865 when it is otherwise off
866
867 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
868
869 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
870 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
871 for ReusePort=
872
873 * cgroups:
874 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
875 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
876 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
877 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
878 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
879 the hierarchies of child processes
880
881 * transient units:
882 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
883
884 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
885
886 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
887
888 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
889
890 * 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
891
892 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
893
894 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
895 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
896 path anyway.
897
898 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
899
900 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
901
902 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
903
904 * sd-bus:
905 - EBADSLT handling
906 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
907 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
908 - 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
909 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
910 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
911 - longer term: priority inheritance
912 - dbus spec updates:
913 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
914 - GVariant
915 - path escaping
916 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
917
918 * sd-event
919 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
920 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
921 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
922 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
923 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
924 here:
925 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
926
927 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
928
929 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
930 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
931
932 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
933
934 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
935
936 * test/:
937 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
938
939 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
940 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
941 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
942 destination.
943
944 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
945 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
946
947 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
948
949 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
950 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
951 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
952
953 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
954 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
955 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
956 is installed.
957
958 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
959 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
960 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
961 that automatically.
962
963 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
964
965 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
966
967 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
968
969 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
970
971 * EFI:
972 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
973 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
974 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
975 * bootctl
976 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
977
978 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
979
980 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
981
982 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
983
984 * logind:
985 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
986 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
987 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
988 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
989 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
990 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
991 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
992 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
993 needs setuid().
994 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
995 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
996 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
997 complete.
998 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
999 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1000 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1001 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1002 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1003 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1004 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1005 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1006 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1007 relogins
1008 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1009
1010 * journal:
1011 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1012 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1013 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1014 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1015 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1016 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1017 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1018 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1019 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1020 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1021 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1022 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1023 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1024 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1025 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1026 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1027 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1028 - 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.
1029 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1030 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1031 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1032 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1033 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1034 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1035 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1036 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1037 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1038 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1039 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1040 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1041 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1042 to syslog when it works again.
1043 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1044 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1045 journals in.
1046 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1047 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1048 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1049 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1050 the most common operations.
1051 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1052 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1053 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1054 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1055 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1056 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1057 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1058 operation.
1059 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1060 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1061 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1062 binary logs data
1063 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1064 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1065 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1066 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1067 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1068 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1069
1070 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1071 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1072 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1073 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1074
1075 * document:
1076 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1077 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1078 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1079 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1080 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1081 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1082 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1083 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1084 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1085 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1086 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1087 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1088
1089 * systemctl:
1090 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1091 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1092 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1093 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1094 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1095 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1096 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1097 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1098 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1099 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1100
1101 * unit install:
1102 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1103 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1104
1105 * timer units:
1106 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1107 o DST changes
1108 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1109
1110 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1111
1112 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1113
1114 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1115
1116 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1117
1118 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1119
1120 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1121
1122 * nspawn:
1123 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1124 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1125 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1126 from the kernel's logs.
1127 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1128 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1129 interface be missing
1130 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1131 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1132 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1133 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1134 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1135 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1136 PID 1...
1137 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1138 running, remove them when shut down.
1139
1140 * machined:
1141 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1142 removed or added to an existing machine
1143 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1144 difference host, via ssh
1145 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1146 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1147 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1148 question
1149 - "machinectl history"
1150 - "machinectl diff"
1151 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1152 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1153
1154 * cryptsetup:
1155 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1156 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1157
1158 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1159 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1160
1161 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1162
1163 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1164
1165 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1166
1167 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1168
1169 * udev:
1170 - move to LGPL
1171 - kill scsi_id
1172 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1173 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1174
1175 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1176
1177 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1178
1179 * coredump:
1180 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1181 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1182
1183 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1184
1185 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1186 needs to be auto-respawned?
1187
1188 * tmpfiles:
1189 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1190 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1191 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1192 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1193 calls follow symlinks.
1194
1195 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1196
1197 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1198 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1199 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1200
1201 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1202 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1203
1204 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1205
1206 * write blog stories about:
1207 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1208 - enabling dbus services
1209 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1210 - remote access
1211 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1212 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1213 - auto-restart
1214 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1215 - the journal HTTP iface
1216 - non-cgroup resource management
1217 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1218 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1219 - calendar time events
1220 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1221 - how to create your own target
1222 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1223 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1224
1225 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1226
1227 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1228
1229 * pid1:
1230 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1231 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1232 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1233 that are not supported...
1234 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1235 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1236 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1237 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1238 - move PAM code into its own binary
1239 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1240 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1241 - Support --test based on current system state
1242 - 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().
1243 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1244 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1245 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1246 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1247 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1248 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1249 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1250 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1251 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1252
1253 * unit files:
1254 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1255 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1256 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1257 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1258 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1259 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1260 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1261 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1262 - introduce Type=pid-file
1263 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1264 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1265 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1266 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1267
1268 * udev-link-config:
1269 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1270 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1271 on Path= matching
1272
1273 * sd-rtnl:
1274 - add support for more attribute types
1275 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1276
1277 * networkd:
1278 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1279 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1280 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1281 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1282 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1283 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1284 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1285 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1286 - expose in the API the following bits:
1287 - option 15, domain name
1288 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1289 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1290 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1291 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1292 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1293 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1294 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1295 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1296 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1297
1298 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1299
1300 * dhcp:
1301 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1302
1303 * dhcp6:
1304 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1305 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1306 - write more test cases
1307 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1308 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1309 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1310 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1311 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1312 or interface down
1313 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1314 this behavior
1315 - RouteTable= ?
1316
1317 External:
1318
1319 * dbus:
1320 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1321 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1322
1323 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1324
1325 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1326
1327 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1328
1329 * 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=
1330
1331 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1332
1333 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1334
1335 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1336
1337 * zsh shell completion:
1338 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1339 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1340
1341 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1342 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1343 after being started.
1344
1345 Regularly:
1346
1347 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1348
1349 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1350
1351 * pahole
1352
1353 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1354
1355 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1356
1357 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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