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d657c51f | 1 | systemd System and Service Manager |
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ea5943d3 | 3 | CHANGES WITH 183: |
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4 | * udev: all udev sources are merged into the systemd source tree now. |
5 | All future udev development will happen in the systemd tree. It | |
6 | is still fully supported to use the udev daemon and tools without | |
7 | systemd running, like in initramfs or other init systems. Building | |
8 | udev though, will require the *build* of the systemd tree, but | |
ea5943d3 | 9 | udev can be properly *run* without systemd. |
07cd4fc1 | 10 | |
91cf7e5c | 11 | * udev: /lib/udev/devices/ are not read anymore; systemd-tmpfiles |
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12 | should be used to create dead device nodes as workarounds for broken |
13 | subsystems. | |
64661ee7 | 14 | |
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15 | * udev: RUN+="socket:..." and udev_monitor_new_from_socket() is |
16 | no longer supported. udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() needs to be | |
17 | used to subscribe to events. | |
18 | ||
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19 | * udev: when udevd is started by systemd, processes which are left |
20 | behind by forking them off of udev rules, are unconditionally cleaned | |
21 | up and killed now after the event handling has finished. Services or | |
22 | daemons must be started as systemd services. Services can be | |
ea5943d3 | 23 | pulled-in by udev to get started, but they can no longer be directly |
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24 | forked by udev rules. |
25 | ||
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26 | * udev: the daemon binary is called systemd-udevd now and installed |
27 | in /usr/lib/systemd/. Standalone builds or non-systemd systems need | |
28 | to adapt to that, create symlink, or rename the binary after building | |
29 | it. | |
30 | ||
ea5943d3 | 31 | * libudev no longer provides these symbols: |
c1959569 KS |
32 | udev_monitor_from_socket() |
33 | udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry() | |
34 | udev_get_{dev,sys,run}_path() | |
ea5943d3 | 35 | The versions number was bumped and symbol versioning introduced. |
c1959569 | 36 | |
ea5943d3 | 37 | * systemd-loginctl and systemd-journalctl have been renamed |
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38 | to logingctl and journalctl to match systemctl. |
39 | ||
40 | * The config files: /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf and | |
41 | /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf have been renamed to | |
42 | logind.conf and journald.conf. Package updates should rename | |
43 | the files to the new names on upgrade. | |
44 | ||
ea5943d3 LP |
45 | * For almost all files the license is now LGPL2.1+, changed |
46 | from the previous GPL2.0+. Exceptions are some minor stuff | |
47 | of udev (which will be changed to LGPL2.1 eventually, too), | |
48 | and the MIT licensed sd-daemon.[ch] library that is suitable | |
49 | to be used as drop-in files. | |
50 | ||
51 | * systemd and logind now handle system sleep states, in | |
52 | particulary suspending and hibernating. | |
53 | ||
54 | * logind now implements a sleep/shutdown/idle inhibiting logic | |
55 | suitable for a variety of uses. Soonishly Lennart will blog | |
56 | about this in more detail. | |
57 | ||
58 | * var-run.mount and var-lock.mount are no longer provided | |
59 | (which prevously bind mounted these directories to their new | |
60 | places). Distributions which have not converted these | |
61 | directories to symlinks should consider stealing these files | |
62 | from git history and add them downstream. | |
63 | ||
64 | * We introduced the Documentation= field for units and added | |
65 | this to all our shipped units. This is useful to make it | |
66 | easier to explore that boot and the purpose of the various | |
67 | units. | |
68 | ||
69 | * All smaller setup units (such as | |
70 | systemd-vconsole-setup.service) now detect properly if they | |
71 | are run in a container and are skipped when | |
72 | appropriate. This guarantees an entirely noise-free boot in | |
73 | Linux container environments such as systemd-nspawn. | |
74 | ||
75 | * A framework for implementing offline system updates is now | |
76 | integrated, for details see: | |
77 | http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates | |
78 | ||
79 | * A new service type Type=idle is available now which helps us | |
80 | avoiding ugly interleaving of getty output and boot status | |
81 | messages. | |
82 | ||
83 | * There's now a system-wide CapabalityBoundingSet= option to | |
84 | globally reduce the set of capabailities for the | |
85 | system. This is useful to drop CAP_SYS_MKNOD, CAP_SYS_RAWIO, | |
86 | CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_SYS_MODULE, CAP_SYS_TIME, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or | |
87 | even CAP_NET_ADMIN system-wide for secure systems. | |
88 | ||
89 | * There are now system-wide DefaultLimitXXX= options to | |
90 | globally change the defaults of the various resource limits | |
91 | for all units started by PID 1. | |
92 | ||
93 | * Harald Hoyer's systemd test suite has been integrated into | |
94 | systemd which allows easy testing of systemd builds in qemu | |
95 | and nspawn. (This is really awesome! Ask us for details!) | |
96 | ||
97 | * The fstab parser is now implemented as generator not inside | |
98 | of PID 1. | |
99 | ||
100 | * systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from | |
101 | /etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that | |
102 | haven't been read by systemd yet. | |
103 | ||
104 | * systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has | |
105 | already been updated to make use of this. With this in place | |
106 | initrds get a slight bit faster but primarily are much | |
107 | easier to introspect and debug since "systemctl status" in | |
108 | the host system can be used to introspect initrd services, | |
109 | and the journal from the initrd is kept around too. | |
110 | ||
111 | * systemd-delta has been added, a tool to explore differences | |
112 | between user/admin configuration and vendor defaults. | |
113 | ||
114 | * PrivateTmp= now affects both /tmp and /var/tmp. | |
115 | ||
116 | * Boot time status messages are now much prettier and feature | |
117 | proper english language. Booting up systemd has never been | |
118 | so sexy. | |
119 | ||
120 | * Read-ahead pack files now include the inode number of all | |
121 | files to pre-cache. When the inode changes the pre-caching | |
122 | is not attempted. This should be nicer to deal with updated | |
123 | packages which might result in changes of read-ahead | |
124 | patterns. | |
125 | ||
126 | * We now temporaritly lower the kernel's read_ahead_kb variable | |
127 | when collecting read-ahead data to ensure the kernel's | |
128 | built-in read-ahead does not add noise to our measurements | |
129 | of necessary blocks to pre-cache. | |
130 | ||
131 | * There's now RequiresMountsFor= to add automatic dependencies | |
132 | for all mounts necessary for a specific file system path. | |
133 | ||
134 | * MountAuto= and SwapAuto= have been removed from | |
135 | system.conf. Mounting file systems at boot has to take place | |
136 | in systemd now. | |
137 | ||
138 | * nspawn now learned a new switch --uuid= to set the machine | |
139 | ID on the command line. | |
140 | ||
141 | * nspawn now loearned the -b switch to automatically search | |
142 | for an init system. | |
143 | ||
144 | * vt102 is now the default TERM for serial TTYs, upgraded from | |
145 | vt100. | |
146 | ||
147 | * systemd-logind now works on VT-less systems. | |
148 | ||
149 | * The build tree has been reorganized. The individual | |
150 | componets now have directories of their own. | |
151 | ||
152 | * A new condition type ConditionPathIsReadWrite= is now available. | |
153 | ||
154 | * nspawn learned the new -C switch to create cgroups for the | |
155 | container in other hierarchies. | |
156 | ||
157 | * We now have support for hardware watchdogs, configurable in | |
158 | system.conf. | |
159 | ||
160 | * The scheduled shutdown logic now has a public API. | |
161 | ||
162 | * We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be | |
163 | masked and /etc/fstab can override it. | |
164 | ||
165 | * Since udisks doesn't make use of /media anymore we are not | |
166 | mounting a tmpfs on it anymore. | |
167 | ||
168 | * journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave | |
169 | locally generated journal files. | |
170 | ||
171 | * We can now load the IMA policy at boot automatically. | |
172 | ||
173 | * The GTK tools have been split off into a systemd-ui. | |
174 | ||
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175 | CHANGES WITH 44: |
176 | * This is mostly a bugfix release | |
177 | ||
178 | * Support optional initialization of the machine ID from the | |
179 | KVM or container configured UUID. | |
180 | ||
181 | * Support immediate reboots with "systemctl reboot -ff" | |
182 | ||
183 | * Show /etc/os-release data in systemd-analyze output | |
184 | ||
185 | * Many bugfixes for the journal, including endianess fixes and | |
186 | ensuring that disk space enforcement works | |
187 | ||
188 | * sd-login.h is C++ comptaible again | |
189 | ||
190 | * Extend the /etc/os-release format on request of the Debian | |
191 | folks | |
192 | ||
193 | * We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration | |
194 | and unit files. This is done to ensure we don't pass invalid | |
195 | data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere. | |
196 | ||
197 | * Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat | |
198 | configuration | |
199 | ||
200 | * Read SELinux client context from journal clients in a race | |
201 | free fashion | |
202 | ||
203 | * Reorder configuration file lookup order. /etc now always | |
204 | overrides /run in order to allow the administrator to always | |
205 | and unconditionally override vendor supplied or | |
206 | automatically generated data. | |
207 | ||
208 | * The various user visible bits of the journal now have man | |
209 | pages. We still lack man pages for the journal API calls | |
210 | however. | |
211 | ||
212 | * We now ship all man pages in HTML format again in the | |
213 | tarball. | |
214 | ||
215 | Contributions from: Dave Reisner, Dirk Eibach, Frederic | |
216 | Crozat, Harald Hoyer, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Marti | |
217 | Raudsepp, Michal Schmidt, Shawn Landden, Tero Roponen, Thierry | |
218 | Reding | |
219 | ||
437b7dee LP |
220 | CHANGES WITH 43: |
221 | * This is mostly a bugfix release | |
222 | ||
223 | * systems lacking /etc/os-release are no longer supported. | |
224 | ||
225 | * Various functionality updates to libsystemd-login.so | |
226 | ||
227 | * Track class of PAM logins to distuingish greeters from | |
228 | normal user logins. | |
229 | ||
230 | Contributions from: Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael | |
231 | Biebl | |
232 | ||
204fa33c LP |
233 | CHANGES WITH 42: |
234 | * This is an important bugfix release for v41. | |
235 | ||
236 | * Building man pages is now optional which should be useful | |
237 | for those building systemd from git but unwilling to install | |
238 | xsltproc. | |
239 | ||
240 | * Watchdog support for supervising services is now usable. In | |
241 | a future release support for hardware watchdogs | |
242 | (i.e. /dev/watchdog) will be added building on this. | |
243 | ||
244 | * Service start rate limiting is now configurable and can be | |
245 | turned off per service. When a start rate limit is hit a | |
246 | reboot can automatically be triggered. | |
247 | ||
248 | * New CanReboot(), CanPowerOff() bus calls in systemd-logind. | |
249 | ||
250 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Bill Nottingham, | |
251 | Frederic Crozat, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal | |
252 | Schmidt, Michał Górny, Piotr Drąg | |
253 | ||
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254 | CHANGES WITH 41: |
255 | * The systemd binary is installed /usr/lib/systemd/systemd now; | |
256 | An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the | |
257 | package update. | |
258 | ||
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259 | * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke |
260 | libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not | |
261 | support systems with module-init-tools anymore. | |
262 | ||
263 | * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not | |
264 | complete. | |
265 | ||
266 | * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is | |
267 | understood to set system wide environment variables | |
268 | dynamically at boot. | |
269 | ||
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270 | * We now limit the set of capabilities of systemd-journald. |
271 | ||
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272 | * We now set SIGPIPE to ignore by default, since it only is |
273 | useful in shell pipelines, and has little use in general | |
274 | code. This can be disabled with IgnoreSIPIPE=no in unit | |
275 | files. | |
276 | ||
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277 | Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart |
278 | Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen, | |
279 | William Douglas | |
280 | ||
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281 | CHANGES WITH 40: |
282 | * This is mostly a bugfix release | |
283 | ||
284 | * We now expose the reason why a service failed in the | |
285 | "Result" D-Bus property. | |
286 | ||
287 | * Rudimentary service watchdog support (will be completed over | |
288 | the next few releases.) | |
289 | ||
290 | * When systemd forks off in order execute some service we will | |
291 | now immediately changes its argv[0] to reflect which process | |
292 | it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window | |
293 | with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful | |
294 | ||
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295 | Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay |
296 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, | |
297 | Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode | |
298 | ||
220a21d3 LP |
299 | CHANGES WITH 39: |
300 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many | |
301 | bugfixes. | |
302 | ||
303 | * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their | |
304 | resource usage. | |
305 | ||
306 | * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If | |
307 | disabled, support tracking device access for active logins | |
308 | goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user | |
309 | journals by the respective users. | |
310 | ||
311 | * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically | |
312 | owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access | |
313 | to the system journal as well as all user journals. | |
314 | ||
315 | * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging | |
316 | client for all entries. | |
317 | ||
318 | * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers | |
319 | ||
320 | * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text | |
321 | messages, without any meta data like date or time. | |
322 | ||
323 | * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to | |
324 | teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display | |
325 | managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg | |
326 | learned native udev hotplugging for display devices. | |
327 | ||
328 | * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs | |
329 | with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as | |
330 | BSD logger replacement, and does so by default. | |
331 | ||
332 | * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the | |
333 | journal along with meta data. | |
334 | ||
335 | * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for | |
336 | writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for | |
337 | creating symlinks, character and block device nodes. | |
338 | ||
339 | * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups | |
340 | persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in | |
341 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups | |
342 | ||
343 | * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way | |
344 | ||
345 | * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on | |
346 | rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to | |
347 | death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid, | |
348 | or fsck. | |
349 | ||
350 | * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless | |
351 | requested with new -k switch. | |
352 | ||
353 | Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart | |
354 | Poettering, Michal Schmidt | |
355 | ||
356 | CHANGES WITH 38: | |
357 | * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many | |
358 | bugfixes. | |
359 | ||
360 | * The git repository moved to: | |
361 | git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd | |
362 | ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd | |
363 | ||
364 | * First release with the journal | |
365 | http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html | |
366 | ||
367 | * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and | |
368 | systemd-stdout-bridge. | |
369 | ||
370 | * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind | |
371 | ||
372 | * Many systemadm clean-ups | |
373 | ||
374 | * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all | |
375 | remote mounts and may be used to start services before all | |
376 | remote mounts. | |
377 | ||
378 | * Added Mageia support | |
379 | ||
380 | * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl | |
381 | ||
382 | * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in | |
383 | the parent process before having finished writing the PID | |
384 | file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be | |
385 | fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the | |
386 | parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them. | |
387 | ||
388 | * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output | |
389 | of existing distributions. | |
390 | ||
391 | * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for | |
392 | compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage. | |
393 | ||
394 | * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and | |
395 | thus will no longer act as synchronization point during | |
396 | boot. | |
397 | ||
398 | * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=. | |
399 | ||
400 | * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for | |
401 | relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is | |
402 | useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys, | |
403 | among other things. | |
404 | ||
405 | * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console | |
406 | and the journal by default, not only just the console. | |
407 | ||
408 | * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login. | |
409 | ||
410 | * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a | |
411 | lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically | |
412 | select the components of systemd they are interested in. | |
413 | ||
414 | * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is | |
415 | restored. | |
416 | ||
417 | * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to | |
418 | --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and | |
419 | kmod | |
420 | ||
421 | * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead | |
422 | of /usr/local by default. | |
423 | ||
424 | * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the | |
425 | final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained | |
426 | in: | |
427 | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons | |
428 | ||
429 | * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter | |
430 | the START or START_PRE states are now killed with | |
431 | SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn | |
432 | background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never | |
433 | supported anyway, and bad style). | |
434 | ||
435 | * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind | |
436 | reloading of units together. | |
437 | ||
438 | Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave | |
439 | Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay | |
440 | Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt, | |
441 | Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef | |
442 | Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek |