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systemd System and Service Manager

CHANGES WITH 41:
        * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now;
          An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the
          package update.

CHANGES WITH 40:
        * This is mostly a bugfix release

        * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the
          "Result" D-Bus property.

        * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over
          the next few releases.)

        * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will
          now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process
          it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window
          with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful

CHANGES WITH 39:
        * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
          bugfixes.

        * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their
          resource usage.

        * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If
          disabled, support tracking device access for active logins
          goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user
          journals by the respective users.

        * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
          owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access
          to the system journal as well as all user journals.

        * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging
          client for all entries.

        * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers

        * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text
          messages, without any meta data like date or time.

        * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to
          teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display
          managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg
          learned native udev hotplugging for display devices.

        * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs
          with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as
          BSD logger replacement, and does so by default.

        * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the
          journal along with meta data.

        * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for
          writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for
          creating symlinks, character and block device nodes.

        * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups
          persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in
          http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups

        * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way

        * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on
          rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to
          death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
          or fsck.

        * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
          requested with new -k switch.

        Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
        Poettering, Michal Schmidt

CHANGES WITH 38:
        * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
          bugfixes.

        * The git repository moved to:
          git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
          ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd

        * First release with the journal
          http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html

        * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and
          systemd-stdout-bridge.

        * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind

        * Many systemadm clean-ups

        * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all
          remote mounts and may be used to start services before all
          remote mounts.

        * Added Mageia support

        * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl

        * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in
          the parent process before having finished writing the PID
          file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be
          fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the
          parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them.

        * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output
          of existing distributions.

        * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for
          compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage.

        * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and
          thus will no longer act as synchronization point during
          boot.

        * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=.

        * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for
          relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is
          useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys,
          among other things.

        * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console
          and the journal by default, not only just the console.

        * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login.

        * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a
          lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically
          select the components of systemd they are interested in.

        * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is
          restored.

        * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to
          --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
          kmod

        * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
          of /usr/local by default.

        * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
          final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained
          in:
          http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons

        * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter
          the START or START_PRE states are now killed with
          SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn
          background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never
          supported anyway, and bad style).

        * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind
          reloading of units together.

        Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave
        Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay
        Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt,
        Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef
        Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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d657c51f	1	systemd System and Service Manager
220a21d3	2
e0d25329 KS	3	CHANGES WITH 41:
	4	* The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now;
	5	An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the
	6	package update.
	7
d26e4270 LP	8	CHANGES WITH 40:
	9	* This is mostly a bugfix release
	10
	11	* We now expose the reason why a service failed in the
	12	"Result" D-Bus property.
	13
	14	* Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over
	15	the next few releases.)
	16
	17	* When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will
	18	now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process
	19	it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window
	20	with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful
	21
220a21d3 LP	22	CHANGES WITH 39:
	23	* This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
	24	bugfixes.
	25
	26	* New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their
	27	resource usage.
	28
	29	* Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If
	30	disabled, support tracking device access for active logins
	31	goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user
	32	journals by the respective users.
	33
	34	* If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
	35	owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access
	36	to the system journal as well as all user journals.
	37
	38	* The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging
	39	client for all entries.
	40
	41	* Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers
	42
	43	* New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text
	44	messages, without any meta data like date or time.
	45
	46	* Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to
	47	teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display
	48	managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg
	49	learned native udev hotplugging for display devices.
	50
	51	* Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs
	52	with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as
	53	BSD logger replacement, and does so by default.
	54
	55	* Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the
	56	journal along with meta data.
	57
	58	* systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for
	59	writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for
	60	creating symlinks, character and block device nodes.
	61
	62	* New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups
	63	persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in
	64	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups
	65
	66	* Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way
	67
	68	* No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on
	69	rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to
	70	death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
	71	or fsck.
	72
	73	* Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
	74	requested with new -k switch.
	75
	76	Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
	77	Poettering, Michal Schmidt
	78
	79	CHANGES WITH 38:
	80	* This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
	81	bugfixes.
	82
	83	* The git repository moved to:
	84	git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
	85	ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
86
87	* First release with the journal
88	http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html
89
90	* The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and
91	systemd-stdout-bridge.
92
93	* New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind
94
95	* Many systemadm clean-ups
96
97	* Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all
98	remote mounts and may be used to start services before all
99	remote mounts.
100
101	* Added Mageia support
102
103	* Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl
104
105	* Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in
106	the parent process before having finished writing the PID
107	file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be
108	fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the
109	parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them.
110
111	* Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output
112	of existing distributions.
113
114	* New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for
115	compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage.
116
117	* /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and
118	thus will no longer act as synchronization point during
119	boot.
120
121	* systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=.
122
123	* systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for
124	relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is
125	useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys,
126	among other things.
127
128	* Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console
129	and the journal by default, not only just the console.
130
131	* New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login.
132
133	* The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a
134	lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically
135	select the components of systemd they are interested in.
136
137	* Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is
138	restored.
139
140	* configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to
141	--with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
142	kmod
143
144	* Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
145	of /usr/local by default.
146
147	* Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
148	final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained
149	in:
150	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons
151
152	* All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter
153	the START or START_PRE states are now killed with
154	SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn
155	background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never
156	supported anyway, and bad style).
157
158	* New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind
159	reloading of units together.
160
161	Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave
162	Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay
163	Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt,
164	Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef
165	Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek