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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 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * 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=
20
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27 * zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
31
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36 * write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
54
55 Regularly:
56
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61 * pahole
62
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
69 Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
75 calls instead.
76
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
79 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
83 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
87 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
92 * xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
95 Deprecations and removals:
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
105 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
107 is only supported for such old kernels.
108
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
112 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
120
121 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
124 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
128 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
131 Features:
132
133 * Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
134 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
135
136 * userdb: add concept for user "aliases", to cover for cases where you can log
137 in under the name lennart@somenetworkfsserver, and it would automatically
138 generate a local user, and from the one both names can be used to allow
139 logins into the same account.
140
141 * systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
142 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
143
144 * systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
145 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
146 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
147
148 * systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
149
150 * insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
151 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
152
153 * systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
154
155 * move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
156 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
157 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
158 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
159
160 * vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
161 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
162 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
163 which uses 32bit words).
164
165 * In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
166 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
167 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
168 that). Report as property for the machine.
169
170 * teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
171 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
172 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
173 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
174 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
175 as primary way into the container.
176
177 * make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
178 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
179 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
180 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
181 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
182 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
183 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
184 it for the invoking user.
185
186 * make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
187 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
188 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
189 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
190 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
191
192 * machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
193 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
194 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
195 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
196 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
197 foobar.<username> or so.).
198
199 * importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
200
201 * add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
202 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
203
204 * importd/importctl
205 - import generator
206 - port tar handling to libarchive
207 - add varlink interface
208 - download images into .v/ dirs
209
210 * in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
211 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
212 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
213
214 * nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
215 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
216 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
217 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
218 exit code propagation
219
220 * new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
221 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
222 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
223 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
224 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
225
226 * varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
227
228 * Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
229 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
230 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
231 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
232
233 * Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
234 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
235 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
236 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
237
238 * rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
239 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
240
241 * ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
242
243 * credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
244 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
245 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
246 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
247 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
248 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
249
250 * credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
251 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
252 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
253
254 * credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
255 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
256
257 * teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
258 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
259 actually works too when run with user privs.
260
261 * extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
262 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
263 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
264 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
265
266 * machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
267 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
268
269 * ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
270 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
271 and unix-export dir of containers.
272
273 * add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
274 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
275 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
276
277 * varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
278 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
279 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
280 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
281
282 * introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
283 64bit mount ids
284
285 * use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
286 interfaces nspawn creates
287
288 * mountfsd/nsresourced
289 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
290 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
291 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
292 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
293 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
294 via varlink).
295 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
296 - port: portabled
297 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
298 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
299
300 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
301 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
302 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
303 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
304
305 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
306 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
307 volume key.
308
309 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
310 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
311 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
312 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
313 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
314 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
315 specified images.
316
317 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
318 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
319 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
320
321 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
322 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
323 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
324
325 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
326 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
327 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
328
329 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
330 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
331
332 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
333 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
334
335 * systemd-pcrextend:
336 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
337 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
338 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
339 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
340 PCRs.
341
342 * vmspawn:
343 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
344 - sd_notify support
345 - --ephemeral support
346 - --read-only support
347 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
348 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
349 suspend key presses.
350 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
351 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
352
353 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
354
355 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
356
357 * storagetm:
358 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
359 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
360 operate in device mode
361 - add NVMe authentication
362
363 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
364 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
365 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
366 nvme-oF
367
368 * pcrlock:
369 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
370 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
371 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
372 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
373 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
374 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
375 pass it via initrd to OS
376 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
377 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
378 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
379 /run?
380 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
381 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
382 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
383 for pre-built images
384
385 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
386 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
387 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
388 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
389 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
390
391 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
392 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
393 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
394 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
395
396 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
397 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
398 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
399
400 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
401 systems.
402
403 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
404 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
405 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
406 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
407 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
408 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
409 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
410 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
411 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
412 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
413 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
414 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
415
416 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
417 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
418 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
419 sysext
420
421 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
422 other programs via IPC:
423 - bootctl
424 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
425 - coredumpcl
426 - systemd-bless-boot
427 - systemd-measure
428 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
429 - systemd-dissect
430 - systemd-sysupdate
431 - systemd-analyze
432 - kernel-install
433 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
434
435 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
436 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
437 via "systemctl status".
438
439 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
440 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
441 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
442
443 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
444 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
445
446 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
447 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
448
449 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
450 menu.
451
452 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
453 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
454 sockets.
455
456 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
457 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
458 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
459
460 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
461 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
462 migratable between PCs)
463
464 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
465 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
466 snapshot logic
467
468 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
469 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
470 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
471 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
472 a local key to it.
473
474 * PidRef conversion work:
475 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
476 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
477 - get_ctty_devnr()
478 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
479 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
480 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
481 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
482 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
483 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
484
485 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
486
487 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
488 mode.
489
490 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
491 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
492 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
493 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
494 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
495 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
496 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
497
498 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
499 too much
500
501 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
502 to systemd-dissect
503
504 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
505 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
506 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
507 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
508 control of the attacker.
509
510 * also include packaging metadata (á la
511 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
512 same JSON format.
513
514 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
515 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
516 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
517 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
518 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
519 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
520 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
521 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
522 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
523 newer.
524
525 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
526 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
527 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
528 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
529 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
530 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
531 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
532 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
533
534 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
535 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
536 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
537
538 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
539 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
540 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
541 requested during switch root.
542
543 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
544
545 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
546 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
547 matched against OS.
548
549 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
550 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
551 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
552
553 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
554 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
555 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
556 namespaces)
557
558 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
559 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
560
561 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
562 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
563 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
564
565 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
566 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
567 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
568 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
569 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
570 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
571
572 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
573 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
574 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
575 used transiently, never persistently.
576
577 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
578 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
579 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
580 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
581 based on lo_file_name.
582
583 * teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
584 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
585 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
586 fail to boot.
587
588 * implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
589 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
590 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
591 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
592 creating versions like these automatically).
593
594 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
595
596 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
597 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
598 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
599 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
600 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
601 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
602 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
603 activation-by-message id and similar.
604
605 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
606
607 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
608 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
609 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
610 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
611
612 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
613 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
614 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
615 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
616 similar behaviour for system services, too.
617
618 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
619 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
620 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
621
622 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
623
624 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
625 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
626 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
627
628 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
629 localed, oomd, timedated.
630
631 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
632 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
633 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
634 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
635 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
636 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
637 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
638 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
639 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
640 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
641 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
642 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
643 access.
644
645 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
646 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
647 through nspawn.
648
649 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
650 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
651
652 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
653 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
654 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
655 for all umh processes.
656
657 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
658 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
659
660 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
661 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
662 resize.
663
664 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
665 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
666
667 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
668 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
669 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
670 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
671 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
672 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
673 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
674 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
675 system actually reset.
676
677 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
678 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
679 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
680
681 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
682 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
683 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
684 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
685
686 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
687 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
688 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
689 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
690
691 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
692 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
693 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
694 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
695 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
696
697 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
698 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
699 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
700 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
701 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
702
703 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
704
705 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
706 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
707 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
708 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
709
710 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
711 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
712
713 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
714 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
715 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
716
717 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
718 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
719
720 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
721 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
722 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
723 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
724 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
725 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
726 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
727 usual.
728
729 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
730
731 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
732
733 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
734
735 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
736 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
737 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
738 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
739 sockaddr.
740
741 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
742 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
743 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
744 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
745 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
746 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
747 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
748 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
749 try to use inode from there.
750
751 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
752 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
753
754 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
755 extensions
756
757 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
758 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
759 for the root fs or /usr/.
760
761 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
762 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
763 combination thereof.
764
765 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
766 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
767 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
768 ahead of time.
769
770 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
771 aforementioned purpose.
772
773 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
774 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
775
776 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
777 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
778 to figure out:
779 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
780 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
781 subsequent boots?
782
783 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
784 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
785 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
786 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
787 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
788 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
789 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
790 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
791 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
792 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
793
794 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
795 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
796 used)
797
798 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
799 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
800 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
801 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
802 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
803
804 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
805 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
806 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
807 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
808 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
809 should win over vendor defaults.
810
811 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
812 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
813 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
814
815 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
816 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
817
818 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
819
820 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
821 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
822 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
823 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
824
825 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
826 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
827 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
828 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
829 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
830 only one for each OS.
831
832 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
833 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
834 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
835 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
836 boot, for the next.
837
838 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
839 similar behind it, instead of http.
840
841 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
842 boot, or on first boot.
843
844 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
845 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
846
847 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
848 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
849 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
850 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
851 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
852 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
853 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
854 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
855 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
856 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
857 until users are allowed to log in).
858
859 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
860 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
861
862 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
863 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
864 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
865 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
866 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
867 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
868 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
869 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
870 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
871 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
872 automatically invalidated outside of it.
873
874 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
875 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
876 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
877 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
878 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
879 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
880 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
881 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
882 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
883 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
884 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
885 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
886 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
887 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
888 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
889 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
890 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
891 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
892 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
893 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
894 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
895
896 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
897 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
898
899 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
900 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
901
902 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
903 instead of manual blocking.
904
905 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
906 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
907
908 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
909 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
910 supplied password.
911
912 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
913 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
914 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
915 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
916
917 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
918 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
919 automatically derived from --private-key=).
920
921 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
922 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
923 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
924 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
925 partition with a portable service partition in one.
926
927 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
928 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
929 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
930 modules
931
932 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
933 maybe on kernel command line:
934 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
935 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
936
937 * Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
938
939 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
940 hash type, etc)
941
942 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
943 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
944
945 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
946 but final node is not a directory
947
948 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
949 non-VFAT fs is used.
950
951 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
952
953 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
954 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
955
956 * pick up creds from EFI vars
957
958 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
959
960 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
961 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
962 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
963 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
964 affect PCR values.
965
966 * systemd-measure tool:
967 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
968
969 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
970 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
971
972 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
973 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
974
975 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
976 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
977
978 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
979 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
980
981 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
982 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
983 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
984 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
985 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
986 use it.
987
988 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
989 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
990
991 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
992 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
993 what it was signed.
994
995 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
996 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
997 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
998 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
999 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1000 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1001 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1002 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1003 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1004 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1005 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1006 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
1007
1008 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
1009 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1010
1011 * Process credentials in:
1012 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1013 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1014 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
1015 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
1016 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1017 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1018 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
1019 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
1020 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1021 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1022 file system paths to enable on start.
1023 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1024 usr=
1025 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
1026 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1027 pre-built kernels.
1028
1029 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
1030 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1031
1032 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1033 about the unit.
1034 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1035 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1036 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1037 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1038 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1039 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
1040
1041 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
1042 what to do if support ended
1043
1044 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
1045 login time, à la motd
1046
1047 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
1048 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
1049 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
1050 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
1051 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
1052
1053 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
1054 initrd transition. Specifically:
1055 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1056 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1057 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1058
1059 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
1060 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
1061 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
1062 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1063 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1064 depending on desired level of persistency.
1065
1066 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1067 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1068 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
1069 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1070 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1071 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1072 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1073 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1074
1075 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1076 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1077 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1078 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1079
1080 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
1081
1082 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1083
1084 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1085 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1086 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
1087 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
1088 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1089 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1090 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1091 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1092 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1093 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1094 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1095 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1096 not unprivileged code.
1097
1098 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1099 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1100 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1101 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1102
1103 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1104 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1105 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1106 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1107 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1108 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1109 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1110 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1111 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1112
1113 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1114 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1115 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1116 order.
1117
1118 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1119 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1120 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1121
1122 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1123 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1124 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1125 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1126 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1127 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1128 IN_IGNORED again)
1129
1130 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1131 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1132 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1133 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1134 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1135 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1136 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1137 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1138 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1139 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1140 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1141 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1142
1143 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1144 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1145 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1146
1147 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1148 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1149 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1150 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1151 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1152 directly to host service manager.
1153
1154 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1155 no api to query the device id
1156
1157 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1158 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1159 also be queried.
1160
1161 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1162 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1163 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1164 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1165
1166 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1167 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1168 latter).
1169
1170 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1171
1172 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1173
1174 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1175 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1176 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1177 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1178
1179 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1180 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1181 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1182 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1183 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1184 UEFI HTTP boot.
1185
1186 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1187 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1188 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1189 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1190 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1191 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1192 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1193 hence cheap for enumeration.
1194
1195 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1196
1197 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1198 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1199 words: show partition labels).
1200
1201 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1202 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1203 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1204 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1205 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1206 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1207 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1208
1209 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1210
1211 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1212 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1213 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1214 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1215 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1216 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1217 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1218 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1219 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1220 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1221
1222 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1223 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1224
1225 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1226 jobs, units
1227
1228 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1229 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1230 userspace)
1231
1232 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1233
1234 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1235 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1236
1237 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1238 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1239
1240 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1241 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1242
1243 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1244 internal clock.
1245
1246 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1247 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1248
1249 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1250 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1251 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1252 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1253
1254 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1255 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1256 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1257
1258 * homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1259 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
1260 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1261 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1262 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1263 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1264 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1265
1266 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1267 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1268 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1269 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1270 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1271 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1272
1273 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1274 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1275 dep in the base OS image)
1276
1277 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1278 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1279 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1280 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1281 on-disk storage.
1282
1283 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1284 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1285 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1286 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1287 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1288
1289 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1290 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1291 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1292
1293 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1294 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1295 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1296 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1297
1298 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1299 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1300 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1301 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1302 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1303 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1304 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1305 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1306 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1307 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1308 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1309
1310 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1311 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1312 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1313
1314 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1315
1316 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1317
1318 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1319 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1320 that images cannot be misused.
1321
1322 * New udev block device symlink names:
1323 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1324 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1325 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1326 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1327
1328 * sysupdate:
1329 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1330 - support casync as download mechanism
1331 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1332 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1333 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1334 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1335 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1336 host's update files.)
1337 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1338 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1339 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1340 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1341
1342 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1343
1344 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1345 make dirs appear under right UID.
1346
1347 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1348 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1349
1350 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1351 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1352 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1353 already have it.
1354
1355 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1356 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1357
1358 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1359
1360 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1361 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1362 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1363 /proc/self/fd/3
1364
1365 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1366 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1367 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1368
1369 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1370 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1371
1372 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1373 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1374
1375 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1376 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1377 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1378 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1379 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1380
1381 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1382
1383 * credentials system:
1384 - acquire from EFI variable?
1385 - acquire via ask-password?
1386 - acquire creds via keyring?
1387 - pass creds via keyring?
1388 - pass creds via memfd?
1389 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1390 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1391 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1392 wireguard)
1393 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
1394 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1395
1396 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1397 and such
1398
1399 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1400
1401 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1402
1403 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1404 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1405
1406 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1407 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1408
1409 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1410
1411 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1412 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1413
1414 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1415 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1416
1417 * cryptsetup:
1418 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1419 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1420
1421 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1422
1423 * Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1424 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1425
1426 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1427 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1428
1429 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1430 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1431
1432 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1433 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1434
1435 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1436
1437 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1438
1439 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1440 when it exits
1441
1442 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1443 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1444 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1445 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1446
1447 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1448 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1449 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1450
1451 * systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1452 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1453
1454 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1455
1456 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1457 specific service
1458
1459 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1460 exists and responds.
1461
1462 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1463 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1464
1465 * unify on openssl:
1466 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1467 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1468 gnutls
1469 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1470
1471 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1472 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1473
1474 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1475 realname substr searches in varlink API
1476
1477 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1478
1479 * userdb: allow existence checks
1480
1481 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1482
1483 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1484 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1485 initrd had set.
1486
1487 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1488 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1489 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1490 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1491 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1492 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1493
1494 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1495 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1496 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1497
1498 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1499 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1500 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1501 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1502 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1503 source.
1504
1505 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1506 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1507 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1508
1509 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1510
1511 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1512 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1513
1514 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1515
1516 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1517 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1518 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1519 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1520 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1521 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1522 exec().
1523
1524 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1525
1526 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1527 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1528
1529 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1530 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1531
1532 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1533 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1534 root.
1535
1536 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1537 is issued.
1538
1539 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1540
1541 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1542
1543 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1544 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1545 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1546
1547 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1548 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1549 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1550
1551 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1552
1553 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1554 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1555
1556 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1557 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1558 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1559 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1560
1561 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1562
1563 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1564
1565 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1566 non-zero "tries done" count
1567
1568 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1569 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1570 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1571 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1572 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1573 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1574 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1575 CODE_FILE.
1576
1577 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1578 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1579 some explanatory text online.
1580
1581 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1582
1583 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1584
1585 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1586 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1587
1588 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1589 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1590 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1591 files and suchlike we operate on.
1592
1593 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1594
1595 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1596 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1597
1598 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1599 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1600
1601 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1602 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1603 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1604 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1605 unlinked from any dir.
1606
1607 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1608
1609 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1610
1611 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1612
1613 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1614 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1615 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1616 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1617 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1618
1619 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1620
1621 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1622 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1623
1624 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1625 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1626 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1627 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1628 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1629 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1630 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1631 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1632
1633 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1634 for root, but only then.
1635
1636 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1637 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1638
1639 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1640 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1641
1642 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1643 only when used. Add unit tests.
1644
1645 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1646 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1647
1648 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1649 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1650 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1651 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1652 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1653
1654 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1655
1656 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1657
1658 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1659 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1660
1661 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1662
1663 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1664
1665 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1666 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1667
1668 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1669 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1670 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1671 ID is available.
1672
1673 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1674 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1675 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1676
1677 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1678 parameters
1679
1680 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1681 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1682 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1683 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1684 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1685 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1686 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1687
1688 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1689 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1690
1691 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1692 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1693 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1694
1695 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1696 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1697
1698 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1699
1700 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1701 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1702 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1703
1704 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1705 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1706
1707 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1708 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1709 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1710 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1711 natural habitat.
1712
1713 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1714 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1715
1716 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1717 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1718 relative to the configured default value.
1719
1720 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1721
1722 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1723
1724 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1725
1726 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1727
1728 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1729
1730 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1731
1732 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1733
1734 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1735
1736 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1737 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1738 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1739
1740 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1741 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1742
1743 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1744
1745 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1746 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1747 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1748 mapping to work.
1749
1750 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1751
1752 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1753
1754 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1755
1756 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1757 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1758
1759 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1760 reload the unit file anyway
1761
1762 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1763
1764 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1765
1766 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1767 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1768
1769 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1770 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1771 specifications.
1772
1773 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1774
1775 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1776
1777 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1778 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1779 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1780 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1781
1782 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1783
1784 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1785
1786 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1787 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1788 state.
1789 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1790
1791 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1792 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1793 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1794 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1795 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1796
1797 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1798
1799 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1800 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1801
1802 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1803 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1804
1805 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1806 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1807
1808 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1809
1810 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1811 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1812
1813 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1814
1815 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1816
1817 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1818
1819 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1820 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1821
1822 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1823
1824 * resolved:
1825 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1826 - service registration
1827 - service/domain/types browsing
1828 - avahi compat
1829 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1830 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1831 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1832 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1833 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1834 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1835
1836 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1837
1838 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1839
1840 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1841
1842 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1843
1844 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1845
1846 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1847 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1848
1849 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1850
1851 * gpt-auto-generator:
1852 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1853 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1854
1855 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1856 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1857 when it is otherwise off
1858
1859 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1860
1861 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1862 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1863 for ReusePort=
1864
1865 * cgroups:
1866 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1867 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1868 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1869 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1870 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1871 the hierarchies of child processes
1872 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1873 maybe use them for user@.service
1874
1875 * transient units:
1876 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1877
1878 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1879
1880 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1881
1882 * 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
1883
1884 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1885 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1886 path anyway.
1887
1888 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1889
1890 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1891
1892 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1893
1894 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1895
1896 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1897
1898 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1899 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1900 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1901
1902 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1903 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1904
1905 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1906
1907 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1908
1909 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1910
1911 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1912 needs to be auto-respawned?
1913
1914 * pid1:
1915 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1916 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1917 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1918 that are not supported...
1919 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1920 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1921 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1922 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1923 - Support --test based on current system state
1924 - 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().
1925 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1926 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1927 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1928 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1929 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1930 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1931 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1932 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1933 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1934 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1935 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1936 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1937
1938 * unit files:
1939 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1940 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1941 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1942 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1943 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1944 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1945 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1946 - introduce Type=pid-file
1947 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1948 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1949 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1950
1951 * timer units:
1952 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1953 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1954
1955 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1956
1957 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1958
1959 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1960
1961 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1962
1963 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1964
1965 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1966
1967 * test/:
1968 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1969
1970 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1971 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1972 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1973 destination.
1974
1975 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1976 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1977
1978 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1979
1980 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1981 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1982 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1983
1984 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1985 compliant boot loader is installed.
1986
1987 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1988 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1989 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1990 that automatically.
1991
1992 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1993
1994 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1995
1996 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1997
1998 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1999
2000 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2001
2002 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2003
2004 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2005
2006 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2007
2008 * sd-bus:
2009 - EBADSLT handling
2010 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2011 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2012 - 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
2013 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2014 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2015 - longer term: priority inheritance
2016 - dbus spec updates:
2017 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
2018 - path escaping
2019 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2020
2021 * sd-event
2022 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2023 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2024 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2025 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2026 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2027 here:
2028 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2029
2030 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2031 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2032
2033 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2034
2035 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2036
2037 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2038
2039 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2040
2041 * EFI:
2042 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2043 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2044 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2045 * bootctl
2046 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2047
2048 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2049
2050 * bootctl:
2051 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2052 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2053 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2054
2055 * logind:
2056 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2057 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2058 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2059 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2060 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2061 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2062 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2063 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2064 needs setuid().
2065 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2066 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2067 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2068 complete.
2069 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2070 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2071 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2072 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2073 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2074 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2075 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2076 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2077 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2078 relogins
2079 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2080 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2081 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2082 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2083
2084 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2085
2086 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2087 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2088 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2089
2090 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2091 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2092
2093 * journal:
2094 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2095 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2096 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2097 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2098 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2099 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2100 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2101 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2102 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2103 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2104 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2105 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2106 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2107 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2108 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2109 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2110 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2111 - 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.
2112 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2113 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2114 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2115 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2116 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2117 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2118 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2119 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2120 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2121 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2122 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2123 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2124 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2125 to syslog when it works again.
2126 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2127 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2128 journals in.
2129 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2130 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2131 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2132 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2133 the most common operations.
2134 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2135 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2136 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2137 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2138 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2139 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2140 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2141 operation.
2142 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2143 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2144 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2145 binary logs data
2146 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2147 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2148 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2149 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2150 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2151 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2152
2153 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2154 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2155
2156 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2157 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2158 validated via TPM.
2159
2160 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2161 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2162 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2163
2164 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2165 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2166 cursors as they happen.
2167
2168 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2169 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2170 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2171 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2172 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2173 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2174 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2175 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2176 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2177
2178 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2179 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2180 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2181 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2182 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2183 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2184
2185 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2186 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2187 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2188 records, to be able to order them.
2189
2190 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2191 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2192 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2193 be safely written to disk, then.
2194
2195 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2196 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2197 inspiration from IMA log)
2198
2199 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2200 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2201 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2202
2203 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2204 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2205 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2206 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2207 for doing that.
2208
2209 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2210 log.c and sd-journal-send
2211
2212 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2213 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2214 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2215 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2216 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2217 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2218 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2219 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2220 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2221 an NTP sync is acquired.
2222
2223 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2224
2225 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2226 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2227 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2228
2229 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2230 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2231 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2232 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2233 cgroup.
2234
2235 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2236 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2237 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2238 logging.
2239
2240 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2241
2242 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2243 from the SIGBUS handler
2244
2245 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2246 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2247 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2248 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2249
2250 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2251 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2252
2253 * homed:
2254 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2255 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2256 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2257 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2258 - create on activate?
2259 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2260 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2261 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2262 systemd --user is shut down.
2263 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2264 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2265 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2266 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2267 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2268 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2269 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2270 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2271 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2272 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2273 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2274 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2275 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2276 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2277 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2278 doesn't mean user B sees it
2279 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2280 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2281 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2282 signature
2283 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2284 and insert a local signature instead.
2285 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2286 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2287 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2288 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2289 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2290 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2291 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2292 easily?
2293 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2294 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2295 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2296 can easily set overall quota for all users
2297 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2298 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2299 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2300 home dir
2301
2302 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2303 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2304 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2305
2306 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2307
2308 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2309 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2310 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2311 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2312
2313 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2314
2315 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2316 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2317 something goes wrong on the way.
2318
2319 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2320 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2321 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2322 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2323
2324 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2325 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2326 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2327 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2328 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2329 automatically.
2330
2331 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2332 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2333
2334 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2335 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2336 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2337 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2338 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2339 fails to apply use the latter.
2340
2341 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2342 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2343
2344 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2345 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2346
2347 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2348 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2349 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2350
2351 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2352 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2353
2354 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2355 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2356 during boot.
2357
2358 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2359
2360 * document:
2361 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2362 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2363 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2364 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2365 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2366 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2367 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2368 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2369 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2370 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2371 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2372 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2373
2374 * systemctl:
2375 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2376 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2377 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2378 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2379 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2380 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2381
2382 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2383 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2384 it should skip the variant type string though.
2385
2386 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2387 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2388 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2389
2390 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2391 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2392 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2393
2394 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2395 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2396
2397 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2398 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2399 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2400 do, for example)
2401
2402 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2403 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2404 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2405 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2406
2407 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2408
2409 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2410
2411 * unit install:
2412 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2413 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2414
2415 * nspawn:
2416 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2417 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2418 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2419 from the kernel's logs.
2420 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2421 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2422 interface be missing
2423 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2424 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2425 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2426 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2427 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2428 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2429 PID 1...
2430 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2431 running, remove them when shut down.
2432 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2433 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2434 startup.
2435 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2436 or so, freeze the payload too.
2437 - support time namespaces
2438 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2439 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2440 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2441 "machinectl shell"
2442 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2443 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2444 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2445 - greater control over selinux label?
2446 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2447 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2448 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2449 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2450 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2451 host TPM.
2452 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2453 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2454 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2455 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2456 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2457 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2458 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2459 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2460 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2461 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2462 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2463 or two sockets.
2464 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2465
2466 * machined:
2467 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2468 removed or added to an existing machine
2469 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2470 difference host, via ssh
2471 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2472 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2473 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2474 question
2475 - "machinectl history"
2476 - "machinectl diff"
2477 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2478 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2479
2480 * udev:
2481 - move to LGPL
2482 - kill scsi_id
2483 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2484 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2485 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2486 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2487
2488 * coredump:
2489 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2490 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2491 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2492
2493 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2494
2495 * tmpfiles:
2496 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2497 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2498 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2499 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2500 calls follow symlinks.
2501 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2502 project quota
2503 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2504 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2505 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2506 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
2507
2508 * udev-link-config:
2509 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2510 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2511 on Path= matching
2512
2513 * sd-rtnl:
2514 - add support for more attribute types
2515 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2516
2517 * networkd:
2518 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2519 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2520 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2521 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2522 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2523 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2524 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2525 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2526 - expose in the API the following bits:
2527 - option 15, domain name
2528 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2529 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2530 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2531 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2532 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2533 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2534 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2535 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2536
2537 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2538
2539 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2540
2541 * dhcp:
2542 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2543
2544 * dhcp6:
2545 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2546 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2547 - write more test cases
2548 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2549 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2550 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2551 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2552 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2553 or interface down
2554 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2555 this behavior
2556 - RouteTable= ?
2557
2558 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2559 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2560 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)