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index 04552f5624a..0bb8e439b76 100644
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 systemd System and Service Manager
 
-CHANGES WITH 241 in spe:
+CHANGES WITH 241:
 
         * The default locale can now be configured at compile time. Otherwise,
           a suitable default will be selected automatically (one of C.UTF-8,
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 241 in spe:
           The "kernel" policy, which keeps kernel names declared to be
           "persistent", now works again as documented.
 
-        * kernel-install script now optionally takes a path to an initrd file,
-          and passes it to all plugins.
+        * kernel-install script now optionally takes the paths to one or more
+          initrd files, and passes them to all plugins.
 
         * The mincore() system call has been dropped from the @system-service
           system call filter group, as it is pretty exotic and may potentially
@@ -63,6 +63,49 @@ CHANGES WITH 241 in spe:
           Note that the similar hardlink and symlink protection has been
           enabled since v199, and may be disabled likewise.
 
+        * The files read from the EnvironmentFile= setting in unit files now
+          parse backslashes inside quotes literally, matching the behaviour of
+          POSIX shells.
+
+        * udevadm trigger, udevadm control, udevadm settle and udevadm monitor
+          now automatically become NOPs when run in a chroot() environment.
+
+        * The tmpfiles.d/ "C" line type will now copy directory trees not only
+          when the destination is so far missing, but also if it already exists
+          as a directory and is empty. This is useful to cater for systems
+          where directory trees are put together from multiple separate mount
+          points but otherwise empty.
+
+        * A new function sd_bus_close_unref() (and the associated
+          sd_bus_close_unrefp()) has been added to libsystemd, that combines
+          sd_bus_close() and sd_bus_unref() in one.
+
+        * udevadm control learnt a new option for --ping for testing whether a
+          systemd-udevd instance is running and reacting.
+
+        * udevadm trigger learnt a new option for --wait-daemon for waiting
+          systemd-udevd daemon to be initialized.
+
+        Contributions from: Aaron Plattner, Alberts Muktupāvels, Alex Mayer,
+        Ayman Bagabas, Beniamino Galvani, Burt P, Chris Down, Chris Lamb, Chris
+        Morin, Christian Hesse, Claudius Ellsel, dana, Daniel Axtens, Daniele
+        Medri, Dave Reisner, David Santamaría Rogado, Diego Canuhe, Dimitri
+        John Ledkov, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Fabrice Fontaine, Filipe
+        Brandenburger, Franck Bui, Frantisek Sumsal, govwin, Hans de Goede,
+        James Hilliard, Jan Engelhardt, Jani Uusitalo, Jan Janssen, Jan
+        Synacek, Jonathan McDowell, Jonathan Roemer, Jonathon Kowalski, Joost
+        Heitbrink, Jörg Thalheim, Lance, Lennart Poettering, Louis Taylor,
+        Lucas Werkmeister, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou,
+        marvelousblack, Michael Biebl, Michael Sloan, Michal Sekletar, Mike
+        Auty, Mike Gilbert, Mikhail Kasimov, Neil Brown, Niklas Hambüchen,
+        Patrick Williams, Paul Seyfert, Peter Hutterer, Philip Withnall, Roger
+        James, Ronnie P. Thomas, Ryan Gonzalez, Sam Morris, Stephan Edel,
+        Stephan Gerhold, Susant Sahani, Taro Yamada, Thomas Haller, Topi
+        Miettinen, YiFei Zhu, YmrDtnJu, YunQiang Su, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew
+        Jędrzejewski-Szmek, zsergeant77, Дамјан Георгиевски
+
+        — Berlin, 2019-02-14
+
 CHANGES WITH 240:
 
         * NoNewPrivileges=yes has been set for all long-running services
@@ -165,7 +208,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 240:
           file descriptors currently enforced (fs.file-max, fs.nr_open,
           RLIMIT_NOFILE hard, RLIMIT_NOFILE soft) we turn off the first two,
           and keep only the latter two. A set of build-time options
-          (-Dbump-proc-sys-fs-file-max=no and -Dbump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=no)
+          (-Dbump-proc-sys-fs-file-max=false and -Dbump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=false)
           has been added to revert this change in behaviour, which might be
           an option for systems that turn off memcg in the kernel.
 
@@ -1914,12 +1957,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 234:
           systemd-logind to be safe. See
           https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.)
 
-        * All kernel install plugins are called with the environment variable
+        * All kernel-install plugins are called with the environment variable
           KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by
-          /etc/machine-id. If the file is missing or empty, the variable is
-          empty and BOOT_DIR_ABS is the path of a temporary directory which is
-          removed after all the plugins exit. So, if KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID
-          is empty, all plugins should not put anything in BOOT_DIR_ABS.
+          /etc/machine-id. If the machine ID could not be determined,
+          $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID will be empty. Plugins should not put
+          anything in the entry directory (passed as the second argument) if
+          $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID is empty. For backwards compatiblity, a
+          temporary directory is passed as the entry directory and removed
+          after all the plugins exit.
 
         Contributions from: Adrian Heine né Lang, Aggelos Avgerinos, Alexander
         Kurtz, Alexandros Frantzis, Alexey Brodkin, Alex Lu, Amir Pakdel, Amir
@@ -5703,7 +5748,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 214:
         * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list
           of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs
           created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to
-          manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same life-cycle as
+          manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same lifecycle as
           the socket itself.
 
         * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to
@@ -6011,7 +6056,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 212:
           users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC
           resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message
           queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message
-          queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle
+          queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no lifecycle
           limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may
           be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf.
 
@@ -6161,7 +6206,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 211:
           systemd-networkd.
 
         * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for
-          tracking the life-cycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is
+          tracking the lifecycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is
           still not a public API though (unless you specify
           --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however
           voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee).