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1Bugfixes:
2
3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
8
9* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18External:
19
20* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
21
22* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
23
24Janitorial Clean-ups:
25
26* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
27
28* replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
29
30* Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
31
32* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
33
34Features:
35
36* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
37
38* remove Capabilities=, after all AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet= should be enough.
39
40* support for the new copy_file_range() syscall
41
42* add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
43
44* Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
45
46* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
47 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
48
49* add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
50 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
51 specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
52 as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
53 are otherwise shifted by 20.
54
55* do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
56
57* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
58
59* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
60
61* add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
62 snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
63 /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
64 edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
65 all units.
66
67* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
68
69* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
70
71* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
72 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
73 prefixed with /sys generally special.
74 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
75
76* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
77
78* install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
79
80* rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
81 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
82
83* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
84
85* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
86
87* mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
88 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
89 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
90
91* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
92 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
93 state.
94 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
95
96* Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
97 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
98
99* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
100 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
101 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
102 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
103 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
104
105* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
106 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
107
108* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
109
110* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
111
112* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
113
114* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
115
116* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
117
118* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
119 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
120
121* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
122 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
123 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
124 do, for example)
125
126* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
127 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
128
129* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
130 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
131
132* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
133
134* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
135
136* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
137
138* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
139 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
140 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
141 returning from the "systemctl stop".
142
143* 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
144
145* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
146
147* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
148
149* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
150
151* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
152
153* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
154
155* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
156 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
157
158* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
159
160* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
161
162* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
163
164* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
165
166* systemctl edit:
167- allow creation of units from scratch
168- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
169 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
170
171* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
172
173* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
174
175* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
176 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
177 parsing callbacks should use it.
178
179* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
180
181* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
182 units are shown.
183
184* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
185 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
186
187* resolved:
188 - mDNS/DNS-SD
189 - service registration
190 - service/domain/types browsing
191 - avahi compat
192 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
193 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
194 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
195 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
196 - enable DNSSEC by default
197 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
198
199* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
200
201* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
202
203* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
204
205* support empty /etc boots nicely:
206 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
207 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
208
209* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
210
211* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
212
213* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
214
215* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
216
217* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
218 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
219
220* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
221
222* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
223
224* gpt-auto-generator:
225 - Support LUKS for root devices
226 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
227 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
228
229* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
230 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
231 when it is otherwise off
232
233* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
234
235* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
236 /proc/$PID/exe
237
238* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
239 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
240 for ReusePort=
241
242* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
243 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
244 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
245 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
246 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
247
248* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
249
250* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
251 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
252 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
253 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
254 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
255 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
256
257* cgroups:
258 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
259 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
260 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
261 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
262 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
263 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
264 the hierarchies of child processes
265
266* transient units:
267 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
268 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
269
270* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
271
272* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
273
274* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
275
276* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
277
278* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
279
280* 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
281
282* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
283
284* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
285 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
286 path anyway.
287
288* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
289
290* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
291
292* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
293
294* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
295
296* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
297
298* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
299 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
300
301* sd-bus:
302 - EBADSLT handling
303 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
304 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
305 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
306 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
307 - 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
308 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
309 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
310 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
311 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
312 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
313 - longer term: priority inheritance
314 - dbus spec updates:
315 - kdbus mapping
316 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
317 - GVariant
318 - path escaping
319 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
320 - test bloom filter generation indexes
321 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
322 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
323 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
324 253 messages)
325 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
326 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
327
328* sd-event
329 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
330 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
331 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
332 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
333 - maybe add support for inotify events
334
335* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
336
337* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
338 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
339
340* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
341
342* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
343
344* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
345
346* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
347
348* test/:
349 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
350 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
351
352* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
353 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
354 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
355 destination.
356
357* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
358 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
359
360* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
361
362* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
363 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
364 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
365 is installed.
366
367* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
368 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
369 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
370 that automatically.
371
372* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
373
374* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
375
376* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
377
378* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
379
380* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
381
382* introduce ExecCondition= in services
383
384* EFI:
385 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
386 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
387 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
388
389* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
390
391* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
392
393* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
394
395* logind:
396 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
397 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
398 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
399 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
400 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
401 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
402 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
403 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
404 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
405 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
406 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
407 needs setuid().
408 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
409 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
410 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
411 complete.
412 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
413 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
414 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
415 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
416 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
417 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
418 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
419 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
420 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
421 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
422 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
423 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
424 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
425 relogins
426
427* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
428
429* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
430
431* journal:
432 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
433 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
434 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
435 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
436 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
437 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
438 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
439 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
440 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
441 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
442 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
443 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
444 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
445 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
446 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
447 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
448 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
449 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
450 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
451 - 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.
452 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
453 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
454 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
455 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
456 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
457 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
458 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
459 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
460 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
461 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
462 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
463 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
464 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
465 to syslog when it works again.
466 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
467 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
468 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
469 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
470 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
471 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
472 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
473 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
474 journals in.
475 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
476 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
477 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
478 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
479 the most common operations.
480 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
481 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
482 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
483 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
484 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
485 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
486 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
487 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
488 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
489 operation.
490 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
491 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
492 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
493 binary logs data
494 - change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and
495 then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
496 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
497 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
498 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
499 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
500 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
501 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
502
503* document:
504 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
505 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
506 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
507 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
508 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
509 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
510 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
511 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
512 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
513 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
514 - man: add more examples to man pages
515 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
516
517* systemctl:
518 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
519 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
520 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
521 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
522 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
523 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
524 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
525 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
526 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
527 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
528 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
529 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
530
531* unit install:
532 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
533 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
534 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
535
536* timer units:
537 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
538 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
539 o DST changes
540 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
541 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
542 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
543
544* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
545
546* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
547
548* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
549
550* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
551 waiting for the timeout
552
553* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
554
555* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
556
557* nspawn:
558 - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
559 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
560 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
561 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty
562 /etc/machine-id (not OK).
563 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
564 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
565 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
566 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
567 from the kernel's logs.
568 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
569 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
570 interface be missing
571 - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
572 shared-network mode
573 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
574 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
575 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
576 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
577 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
578 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
579 PID 1...
580 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
581 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
582 running, remove them when shut down.
583 - add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in
584 /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
585 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
586 directory
587 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
588 is used
589
590* machined:
591 - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
592 addresses
593 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
594 removed or added to an existing machine
595 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
596 difference host, via ssh
597 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
598 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
599 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
600 question
601 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
602 machine-info data (including deployment level)
603 - "machinectl history"
604 - "machinectl diff"
605 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
606 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
607
608* importd:
609 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
610
611* cryptsetup:
612 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
613 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
614 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
615 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
616
617* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
618 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
619
620* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
621
622* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
623
624* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
625
626* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
627
628* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
629
630* udev:
631 - move to LGPL
632 - kill scsi_id
633 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
634 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
635
636* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
637
638* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
639
640* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
641
642* coredump:
643 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
644 - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
645
646* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
647
648* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
649
650* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
651 needs to be auto-respawned?
652
653* tmpfiles:
654 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
655 - replace F with f+.
656 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
657 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
658 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
659 calls follow symlinks.
660
661* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
662
663* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
664 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
665 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
666
667* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
668 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
669
670* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
671
672* write blog stories about:
673 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
674 - enabling dbus services
675 - status update
676 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
677 - remote access
678 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
679 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
680 - auto-restart
681 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
682 - the journal HTTP iface
683 - non-cgroup resource management
684 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
685 - refreshed, longer missions statement
686 - calendar time events
687 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
688 - how to create your own target
689 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
690 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
691
692* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
693
694* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
695
696* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
697
698* pid1:
699 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
700 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
701 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
702 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
703 that are not supported...
704 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
705 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
706 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
707 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
708 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
709 - move PAM code into its own binary
710 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
711 - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
712 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
713 - Support --test based on current system state
714 - 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().
715 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
716 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
717 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
718 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
719 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
720 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
721 but much rather a disconnect on success.
722 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
723 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
724
725* unit files:
726 - allow port=0 in .socket units
727 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
728 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
729 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
730 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
731 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
732 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
733 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
734 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
735 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
736 - introduce Type=pid-file
737 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
738 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
739 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
740 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
741 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
742 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
743
744* systemd-python:
745 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
746 works with ^C
747 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
748
749* bootchart:
750 - plot per-process IO utilization
751 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
752 - document initcall_debug
753 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
754
755* udev-link-config:
756 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
757 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
758 on Path= matching
759 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
760
761* sd-rtnl:
762 - add support for more attribute types
763 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
764
765* networkd:
766 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
767 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
768 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
769 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
770 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
771 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
772 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
773 - work with non-Ethernet devices
774 - add support for more bond options
775 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
776 - add LLDP client side support
777 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
778 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
779 - expose in the API the following bits:
780 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
781 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
782 - option 123, 144, geolocation
783 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
784 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
785 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
786 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
787 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
788 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
789 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
790 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
791 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
792
793* networkd-wait-online:
794 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
795
796* dhcp:
797 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
798 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
799
800* dhcp6:
801 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
802 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
803 - write more test cases
804 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
805 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
806 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
807 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
808 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
809 or interface down
810 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
811 this behavior
812
813External:
814
815* dbus:
816 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
817 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
818
819* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
820
821* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
822
823* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
824
825* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
826
827* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
828
829* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
830
831* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
832
833* 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=
834
835* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
836
837* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
838
839* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
840
841* register catalog database signature as file magic
842
843* zsh shell completion:
844 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
845 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
846
847
848Regularly:
849
850* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
851
852* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
853
854* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
855
856* pahole
857
858* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
859
860* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
861
862* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields