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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 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
21 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
22 container manager)
23
24 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
25 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
26
27 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
28
29 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
30 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
31 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
32
33 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
34 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
35 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
36
37 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
38 in and out of a disk image
39
40 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
41
42 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
43
44 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
45 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
46
47 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
48 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
49 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
50 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
51 anything like that.
52
53 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
54 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
55 user's journal stream down but not the others.
56
57 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
58 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
59 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
60
61 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
62 these days
63
64 * nspawn: support time namespaces
65
66 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
67 reading/writing files
68
69 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
70
71 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
72 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
73
74 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
75
76 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
77
78 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
79 when it exits
80
81 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
82 o turn into dlopen() deps:
83 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
84 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
85 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
86 firstboot
87 - elfutils (always)
88 - p11-kit-trust (always)
89 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
90 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
91 - similar: libblkid
92 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
93 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
94 since they are so basic and our defaults)
95 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
96 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
97
98 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
99 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
100 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
101
102 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
103 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
104 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
105
106 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
107 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
108
109 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
110 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
111 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
112
113 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
114 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
115 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
116 systemd-firstboot)
117
118 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
119
120 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
121 specific service
122
123 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
124
125 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
126 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
127 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
128 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
129 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
130 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
131 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
132 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
133
134 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
135 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
136
137 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
138 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
139
140 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
141 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
142 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
143
144 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
145 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
146 signature
147
148 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
149 and insert a local signature instead.
150
151 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
152 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
153 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
154 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
155 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
156
157 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
158
159 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
160 easily?
161
162 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
163 exists and responds.
164
165 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
166 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
167 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
168 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
169 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
170
171 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
172 also in plain cryptsetup)
173
174 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
175 creates
176
177 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
178 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
179 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
180 hence we can make them quicker to work.
181
182 * bootctl:
183 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
184 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
185 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
186
187 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
188 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
189 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
190
191 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
192 allow so that systemd survives
193
194 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
195 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
196
197 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
198 systemd-makefs.service instead.
199
200 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
201 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
202
203 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
204 confusion is gone)
205 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
206 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
207 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
208 - port importd over from libgcrypt
209 - when that's done: kill khash.c
210 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
211
212 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
213
214 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
215
216 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
217 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
218
219 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
220 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
221 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
222 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
223 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
224
225 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
226 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
227 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
228 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
229
230 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
231 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
232 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
233 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
234 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
235 automatically.
236
237 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
238 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
239
240 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
241 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
242
243 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
244
245 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
246 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
247 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
248 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
249 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
250 fails to apply use the latter.
251
252 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
253 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
254
255 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
256 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
257
258 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
259 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
260 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
261
262 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
263 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
264
265 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
266 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
267
268 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
269 realname substr searches in varlink API
270
271 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
272
273 * userdb: allow existence checks
274
275 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
276
277 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
278 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
279 initrd had set.
280
281 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
282 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
283 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
284 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
285 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
286 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
287
288 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
289 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
290 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
291
292 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
293 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
294 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
295 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
296 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
297 source.
298
299 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
300 with immutable /usr
301
302 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
303 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
304 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
305
306 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
307
308 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
309 the hibernation
310
311 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
312 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
313 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
314 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
315 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
316 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
317 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
318 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
319 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
320 hibernation mode. (see
321 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
322 section 10.2.2.8 and
323 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
324 at the end).
325
326 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
327 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
328 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
329 output for them.
330
331 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
332 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
333
334 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
335 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
336 constant vendor data.
337
338 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
339
340 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
341 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
342
343 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
344 fallback in "machinectl shell"
345
346 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
347 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
348 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
349
350 * homed:
351 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
352 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
353 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
354 - resize on login?
355 - shrink fs on logout?
356 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
357 - create on activate?
358 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
359 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
360 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
361 systemd --user is shut down.
362 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
363 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
364 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
365 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
366 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
367 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
368 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
369 - description field for groups
370 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
371 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
372 - query password from kernel keyring first
373 - update even if record is "absent"
374 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
375 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
376 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
377 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
378 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
379 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
380 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
381 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
382 either from UI when disk space gets low
383
384 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
385 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
386 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
387 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
388 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
389 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
390 exec().
391
392 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
393
394 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
395 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
396
397 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
398
399 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
400 gnome-bluetooth and friends
401
402 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
403 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
404 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
405 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
406 cgroup.
407
408 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
409 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
410 root.
411
412 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
413 is issued.
414
415 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
416
417 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
418
419 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
420 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
421 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
422
423 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
424 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
425 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
426
427 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
428 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
429 ConfigurationDirectory=.
430
431 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
432
433 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
434
435 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
436 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
437
438 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
439 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
440 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
441
442 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
443
444 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
445 patching around
446
447 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
448 log.c and sd-journal-send
449
450 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
451
452 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
453
454 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
455 can add in file system drivers and such
456
457 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
458 non-zero "tries done" count
459
460 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
461 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
462 it should skip the variant type string though.
463
464 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
465 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
466 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
467 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
468 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
469 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
470 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
471 CODE_FILE.
472
473 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
474 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
475 some explanatory text online.
476
477 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
478
479 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
480 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
481 the slices, and the units attached to them.
482
483 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
484 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
485 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
486 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
487 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
488 way)
489
490 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
491 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
492 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
493
494 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
495 original defaults before calling parse_config()
496
497 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
498
499 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
500 Specifically:
501
502 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
503 properly)
504 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
505 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
506
507 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
508 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
509
510 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
511 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
512 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
513 files and suchlike we operate on.
514
515 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
516
517 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
518
519 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
520 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
521
522 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
523 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
524 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
525 numbers.
526
527 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
528 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
529 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
530 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
531 unlinked from any dir.
532
533 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
534
535 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
536
537 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
538
539 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
540 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
541 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
542 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
543 should reflink the image file itself.
544
545 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
546 specific paths only like this.
547
548 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
549 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
550 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
551 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
552 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
553
554 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
555
556 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
557
558 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
559 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
560
561 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
562 project quota
563
564 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
565 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
566 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
567 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
568 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
569 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
570 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
571 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
572
573 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
574 for root, but only then.
575
576 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
577
578 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
579 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
580
581 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
582 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
583
584 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
585 host-side interface pointing to the container.
586
587 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
588 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
589 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
590 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
591 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
592
593 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
594
595 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
596
597 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
598 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
599 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
600
601 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
602
603 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
604 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
605
606 * blog about fd store and restartable services
607
608 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
609
610 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
611 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
612
613 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
614 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
615 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
616 ID is available.
617
618 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
619 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
620 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
621
622 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
623 parameters
624
625 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
626 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
627 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
628 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
629 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
630 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
631 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
632
633 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
634 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
635
636 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
637 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
638 wait to retrieve their exit data.
639
640 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
641 about it in the resource log message
642
643 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
644 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
645
646 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
647 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
648 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
649
650 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
651 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
652
653 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
654
655 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
656 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
657 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
658 logging.
659
660 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
661 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
662 "convertible" form factor
663
664 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
665 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
666 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
667 as MAINPID.
668
669 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
670 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
671 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
672
673 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
674 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
675
676 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
677 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
678 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
679 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
680 natural habitat.
681
682 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
683 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
684 /usr is mounted into.
685
686 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
687
688 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
689
690 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
691 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
692 relative to the configured default value.
693
694 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
695
696 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
697
698 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
699
700 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
701
702 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
703
704 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
705
706 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
707
708 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
709
710 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
711
712 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
713
714 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
715 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
716 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
717
718 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
719
720 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
721
722 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
723 partitions
724
725 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
726 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
727 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
728 mapping to work.
729
730 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
731
732 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
733
734 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
735
736 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
737 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
738
739 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
740 reload the unit file anyway
741
742 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
743 from the SIGBUS handler
744
745 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
746
747 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
748 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
749
750 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
751
752 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
753 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
754
755 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
756 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
757 specifications.
758
759 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
760
761 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
762
763 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
764
765 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
766 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
767 prefixed with /sys generally special.
768 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
769
770 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
771
772 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
773
774 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
775 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
776 state.
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
778
779 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
780 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
781 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
782 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
783 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
784
785 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
787
788 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
789
790 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
791 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
792
793 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
794 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
795 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
796 do, for example)
797
798 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
799 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
800
801 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
802 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
803
804 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
805
806 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
807 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
808 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
809 returning from the "systemctl stop".
810
811 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
812
813 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
814
815 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
816 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
817
818 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
819
820 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
821
822 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
823 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
824
825 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
826
827 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
828
829 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
830
831 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
832 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
833
834 * resolved:
835 - mDNS/DNS-SD
836 - service registration
837 - service/domain/types browsing
838 - avahi compat
839 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
840 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
841 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
842 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
843 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
844 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
845
846 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
847
848 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
849
850 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
851
852 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
853 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
854
855 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
856
857 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
858
859 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
860
861 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
862 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
863
864 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
865
866 * gpt-auto-generator:
867 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
868 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
869
870 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
871 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
872 when it is otherwise off
873
874 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
875
876 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
877 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
878 for ReusePort=
879
880 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
881 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
882 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
883 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
884 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
885 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
886
887 * cgroups:
888 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
889 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
890 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
891 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
892 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
893 the hierarchies of child processes
894
895 * transient units:
896 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
897
898 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
899
900 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
901
902 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
903
904 * 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
905
906 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
907
908 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
909 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
910 path anyway.
911
912 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
913
914 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
915
916 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
917
918 * sd-bus:
919 - EBADSLT handling
920 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
921 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
922 - 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
923 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
924 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
925 - longer term: priority inheritance
926 - dbus spec updates:
927 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
928 - GVariant
929 - path escaping
930 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
931
932 * sd-event
933 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
934 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
935 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
936
937 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
938
939 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
940 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
941
942 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
943
944 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
945
946 * test/:
947 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
948
949 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
950 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
951 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
952 destination.
953
954 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
955 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
956
957 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
958
959 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
960 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
961 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
962
963 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
964 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
965 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
966 is installed.
967
968 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
969 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
970 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
971 that automatically.
972
973 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
974
975 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
976
977 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
978
979 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
980
981 * EFI:
982 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
983 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
984 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
985 * bootctl
986 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
987
988 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
989
990 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
991
992 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
993
994 * logind:
995 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
996 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
997 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
998 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
999 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1000 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1001 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1002 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1003 needs setuid().
1004 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1005 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1006 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1007 complete.
1008 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1009 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1010 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1011 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1012 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1013 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1014 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1015 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1016 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1017 relogins
1018 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1019
1020 * journal:
1021 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1022 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1023 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1024 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1025 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1026 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1027 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1028 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1029 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1030 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1031 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1032 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1033 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1034 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1035 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1036 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1037 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1038 - 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.
1039 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1040 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1041 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1042 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1043 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1044 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1045 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1046 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1047 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1048 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1049 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1050 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1051 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1052 to syslog when it works again.
1053 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1054 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1055 journals in.
1056 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1057 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1058 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1059 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1060 the most common operations.
1061 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1062 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1063 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1064 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1065 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1066 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1067 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1068 operation.
1069 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1070 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1071 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1072 binary logs data
1073 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1074 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1075 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1076 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1077 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1078 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1079
1080 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1081 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1082 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1083 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1084
1085 * document:
1086 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1087 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1088 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1089 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1090 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1091 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1092 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1093 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1094 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1095 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1096 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1097 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1098
1099 * systemctl:
1100 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1101 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1102 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1103 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1104 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1105 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1106 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1107 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1108 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1109 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1110
1111 * unit install:
1112 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1113 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1114
1115 * timer units:
1116 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1117 o DST changes
1118 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1119
1120 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1121
1122 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1123
1124 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1125
1126 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1127
1128 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1129
1130 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1131
1132 * nspawn:
1133 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1134 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1135 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1136 from the kernel's logs.
1137 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1138 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1139 interface be missing
1140 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1141 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1142 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1143 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1144 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1145 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1146 PID 1...
1147 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1148 running, remove them when shut down.
1149
1150 * dissect
1151 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1152 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1153
1154 * machined:
1155 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1156 removed or added to an existing machine
1157 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1158 difference host, via ssh
1159 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1160 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1161 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1162 question
1163 - "machinectl history"
1164 - "machinectl diff"
1165 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1166 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1167
1168 * cryptsetup:
1169 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1170 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1171
1172 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1173 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1174
1175 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1176
1177 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1178
1179 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1180
1181 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1182
1183 * udev:
1184 - move to LGPL
1185 - kill scsi_id
1186 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1187 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1188
1189 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1190
1191 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1192
1193 * coredump:
1194 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1195 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1196
1197 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1198
1199 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1200 needs to be auto-respawned?
1201
1202 * tmpfiles:
1203 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1204 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1205 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1206 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1207 calls follow symlinks.
1208
1209 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1210
1211 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1212 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1213 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1214
1215 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1216 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1217
1218 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1219
1220 * write blog stories about:
1221 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1222 - enabling dbus services
1223 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1224 - remote access
1225 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1226 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1227 - auto-restart
1228 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1229 - the journal HTTP iface
1230 - non-cgroup resource management
1231 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1232 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1233 - calendar time events
1234 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1235 - how to create your own target
1236 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1237 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1238
1239 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1240
1241 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1242
1243 * pid1:
1244 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1245 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1246 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1247 that are not supported...
1248 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1249 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1250 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1251 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1252 - move PAM code into its own binary
1253 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1254 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1255 - Support --test based on current system state
1256 - 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().
1257 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1258 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1259 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1260 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1261 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1262 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1263 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1264 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1265 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1266
1267 * unit files:
1268 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1269 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1270 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1271 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1272 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1273 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1274 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1275 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1276 - introduce Type=pid-file
1277 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1278 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1279 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1280 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1281
1282 * udev-link-config:
1283 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1284 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1285 on Path= matching
1286
1287 * sd-rtnl:
1288 - add support for more attribute types
1289 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1290
1291 * networkd:
1292 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1293 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1294 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1295 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1296 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1297 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1298 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1299 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1300 - expose in the API the following bits:
1301 - option 15, domain name
1302 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1303 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1304 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1305 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1306 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1307 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1308 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1309 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1310 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1311
1312 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1313
1314 * dhcp:
1315 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1316
1317 * dhcp6:
1318 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1319 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1320 - write more test cases
1321 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1322 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1323 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1324 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1325 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1326 or interface down
1327 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1328 this behavior
1329 - RouteTable= ?
1330
1331 External:
1332
1333 * dbus:
1334 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1335 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1336
1337 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1338
1339 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1340
1341 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1342
1343 * 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=
1344
1345 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1346
1347 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1348
1349 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1350
1351 * zsh shell completion:
1352 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1353 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1354
1355 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1356 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1357 after being started.
1358
1359 Regularly:
1360
1361 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1362
1363 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1364
1365 * pahole
1366
1367 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1368
1369 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1370
1371 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1372 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment