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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 * make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
23 * make use of new loopback setup ioctl to setup loopback devices in one atomic
24 ioctl
25
26 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
27 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
28 container manager)
29
30 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
31 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
32
33 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
34
35 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
36 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
37 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
38
39 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
40 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
41 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
42
43 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
44 in and out of a disk image
45
46 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
47
48 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
49
50 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
51 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
52
53 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
54 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
55 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
56 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
57 anything like that.
58
59 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
60 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
61 user's journal stream down but not the others.
62
63 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
64 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
65 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
66
67 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
68 these days
69
70 * nspawn: support time namespaces
71
72 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
73 reading/writing files
74
75 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
76
77 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
78 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
79
80 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
81
82 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
83
84 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
85 when it exits
86
87 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
88 o turn into dlopen() deps:
89 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
90 firstboot
91 - elfutils (always)
92 - p11-kit-trust (always)
93 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
94 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
95 - similar: libblkid
96 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
97 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
98 since they are so basic and our defaults)
99 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
100 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
101
102 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
103 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
104 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
105
106 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
107 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
108 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
109
110 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
111 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
112
113 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
114 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
115 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
116
117 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
118 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
119 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
120 systemd-firstboot)
121
122 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
123
124 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
125 specific service
126
127 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
128
129 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
130 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
131 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
132 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
133 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
134 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
135 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
136 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
137
138 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
139 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
140
141 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
142 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
143
144 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
145 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
146 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
147
148 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
149 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
150 signature
151
152 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
153 and insert a local signature instead.
154
155 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
156 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
157 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
158 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
159 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
160
161 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
162
163 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
164 easily?
165
166 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
167 exists and responds.
168
169 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
170 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
171 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
172 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
173 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
174
175 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
176 also in plain cryptsetup)
177
178 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
179 creates
180
181 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
182 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
183 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
184 hence we can make them quicker to work.
185
186 * bootctl:
187 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
188 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
189 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
190
191 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
192 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
193 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
194
195 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
196 allow so that systemd survives
197
198 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
199 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
200
201 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
202 systemd-makefs.service instead.
203
204 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
205 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
206
207 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
208 confusion is gone)
209 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
210 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
211 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
212 - port importd over from libgcrypt
213 - when that's done: kill khash.c
214 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
215
216 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
217
218 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
219
220 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
221 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
222
223 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
224 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
225 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
226 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
227 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
228
229 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
230 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
231 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
232 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
233
234 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
235 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
236 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
237 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
238 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
239 automatically.
240
241 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
242 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
243
244 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
245 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
246
247 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
248
249 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
250 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
251 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
252 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
253 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
254 fails to apply use the latter.
255
256 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
257 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
258
259 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
260 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
261
262 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
263 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
264 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
265
266 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
267 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
268
269 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
270 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
271
272 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
273 realname substr searches in varlink API
274
275 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
276
277 * userdb: allow existence checks
278
279 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
280
281 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
282 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
283 initrd had set.
284
285 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
286 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
287 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
288 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
289 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
290 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
291
292 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
293 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
294 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
295
296 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
297 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
298 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
299 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
300 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
301 source.
302
303 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
304 with immutable /usr
305
306 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
307 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
308 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
309
310 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
311
312 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
313 the hibernation
314
315 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
316 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
317 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
318 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
319 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
320 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
321 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
322 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
323 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
324 hibernation mode. (see
325 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
326 section 10.2.2.8 and
327 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
328 at the end).
329
330 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
331 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
332 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
333 output for them.
334
335 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
336 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
337
338 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
339 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
340 constant vendor data.
341
342 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
343
344 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
345 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
346
347 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
348 fallback in "machinectl shell"
349
350 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
351 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
352 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
353
354 * homed:
355 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
356 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
357 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
358 - resize on login?
359 - shrink fs on logout?
360 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
361 - create on activate?
362 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
363 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
364 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
365 systemd --user is shut down.
366 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
367 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
368 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
369 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
370 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
371 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
372 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
373 - description field for groups
374 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
375 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
376 - query password from kernel keyring first
377 - update even if record is "absent"
378 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
379 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
380 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
381 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
382 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
383 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
384 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
385 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
386 either from UI when disk space gets low
387
388 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
389 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
390 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
391 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
392 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
393 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
394 exec().
395
396 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
397
398 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
399 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
400
401 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
402
403 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
404 gnome-bluetooth and friends
405
406 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
407 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
408 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
409 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
410 cgroup.
411
412 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
413 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
414 root.
415
416 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
417 is issued.
418
419 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
420
421 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
422
423 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
424 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
425 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
426
427 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
428 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
429 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
430
431 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
432 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
433 ConfigurationDirectory=.
434
435 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
436
437 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
438
439 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
440 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
441
442 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
443 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
444 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
445
446 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
447
448 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
449 patching around
450
451 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
452 log.c and sd-journal-send
453
454 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
455
456 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
457
458 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
459 can add in file system drivers and such
460
461 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
462 non-zero "tries done" count
463
464 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
465 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
466 it should skip the variant type string though.
467
468 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
469 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
470 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
471 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
472 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
473 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
474 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
475 CODE_FILE.
476
477 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
478 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
479 some explanatory text online.
480
481 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
482
483 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
484 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
485 the slices, and the units attached to them.
486
487 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
488 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
489 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
490 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
491 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
492 way)
493
494 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
495 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
496 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
497
498 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
499 original defaults before calling parse_config()
500
501 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
502
503 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
504 Specifically:
505
506 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
507 properly)
508 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
509 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
510
511 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
512 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
513
514 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
515 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
516 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
517 files and suchlike we operate on.
518
519 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
520
521 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
522
523 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
524 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
525
526 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
527 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
528 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
529 numbers.
530
531 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
532 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
533 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
534 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
535 unlinked from any dir.
536
537 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
538
539 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
540
541 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
542
543 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
544 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
545 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
546 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
547 should reflink the image file itself.
548
549 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
550 specific paths only like this.
551
552 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
553 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
554 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
555 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
556 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
557
558 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
559
560 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
561
562 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
563 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
564
565 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
566 project quota
567
568 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
569 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
570 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
571 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
572 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
573 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
574 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
575 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
576
577 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
578 for root, but only then.
579
580 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
581
582 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
583 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
584
585 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
586 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
587
588 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
589 host-side interface pointing to the container.
590
591 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
592 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
593 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
594 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
595 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
596
597 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
598
599 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
600
601 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
602 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
603 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
604
605 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
606
607 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
608 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
609
610 * blog about fd store and restartable services
611
612 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
613
614 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
615 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
616
617 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
618 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
619 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
620 ID is available.
621
622 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
623 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
624 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
625
626 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
627 parameters
628
629 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
630 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
631 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
632 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
633 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
634 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
635 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
636
637 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
638 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
639
640 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
641 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
642 wait to retrieve their exit data.
643
644 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
645 about it in the resource log message
646
647 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
648 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
649
650 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
651 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
652 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
653
654 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
655 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
656
657 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
658
659 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
660 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
661 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
662 logging.
663
664 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
665 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
666 "convertible" form factor
667
668 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
669 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
670 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
671 as MAINPID.
672
673 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
674 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
675 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
676
677 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
678 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
679
680 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
681 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
682 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
683 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
684 natural habitat.
685
686 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
687 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
688 /usr is mounted into.
689
690 * 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
691
692 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
693
694 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
695 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
696 relative to the configured default value.
697
698 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
699
700 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
701
702 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
703
704 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
705
706 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
707
708 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
709
710 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
711
712 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
713
714 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
715
716 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
717
718 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
719 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
720 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
721
722 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
723
724 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
725
726 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
727 partitions
728
729 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
730 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
731 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
732 mapping to work.
733
734 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
735
736 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
737
738 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
739
740 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
741 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
742
743 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
744 reload the unit file anyway
745
746 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
747 from the SIGBUS handler
748
749 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
750
751 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
752 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
753
754 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
755
756 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
757 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
758
759 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
760 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
761 specifications.
762
763 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
764
765 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
766
767 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
768
769 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
770 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
771 prefixed with /sys generally special.
772 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
773
774 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
775
776 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
777
778 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
779 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
780 state.
781 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
782
783 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
784 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
785 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
786 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
787 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
788
789 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
790 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
791
792 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
793
794 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
796
797 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
798 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
799 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
800 do, for example)
801
802 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
803 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
804
805 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
806 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
807
808 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
809
810 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
811 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
812 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
813 returning from the "systemctl stop".
814
815 * 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
816
817 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
818
819 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
820 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
821
822 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
823
824 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
825
826 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
827 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
828
829 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
830
831 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
832
833 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
834
835 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
836 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
837
838 * resolved:
839 - mDNS/DNS-SD
840 - service registration
841 - service/domain/types browsing
842 - avahi compat
843 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
844 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
845 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
846 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
847 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
848 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
849
850 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
851
852 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
853
854 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
855
856 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
857 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
858
859 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
860
861 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
862
863 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
864
865 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
866 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
867
868 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
869
870 * gpt-auto-generator:
871 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
872 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
873
874 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
875 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
876 when it is otherwise off
877
878 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
879
880 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
881 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
882 for ReusePort=
883
884 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
885 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
886 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
887 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
888 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
889 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
890
891 * cgroups:
892 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
893 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
894 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
895 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
896 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
897 the hierarchies of child processes
898
899 * transient units:
900 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
901
902 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
903
904 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
905
906 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
907
908 * 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
909
910 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
911
912 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
913 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
914 path anyway.
915
916 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
917
918 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
919
920 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
921
922 * sd-bus:
923 - EBADSLT handling
924 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
925 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
926 - 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
927 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
928 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
929 - longer term: priority inheritance
930 - dbus spec updates:
931 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
932 - GVariant
933 - path escaping
934 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
935
936 * sd-event
937 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
938 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
939 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
940 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
941 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
942 here:
943 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
944
945 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
946
947 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
948 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
949
950 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
951
952 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
953
954 * test/:
955 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
956
957 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
958 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
959 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
960 destination.
961
962 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
963 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
964
965 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
966
967 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
968 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
969 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
970
971 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
972 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
973 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
974 is installed.
975
976 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
977 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
978 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
979 that automatically.
980
981 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
982
983 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
984
985 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
986
987 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
988
989 * EFI:
990 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
991 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
992 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
993 * bootctl
994 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
995
996 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
997
998 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
999
1000 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1001
1002 * logind:
1003 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1004 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1005 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1006 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1007 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1008 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1009 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1010 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1011 needs setuid().
1012 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1013 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1014 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1015 complete.
1016 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1017 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1018 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1019 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1020 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1021 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1022 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1023 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1024 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1025 relogins
1026 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1027
1028 * journal:
1029 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1030 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1031 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1032 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1033 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1034 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1035 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1036 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1037 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1038 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1039 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1040 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1041 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1042 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1043 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1044 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1045 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1046 - 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.
1047 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1048 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1049 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1050 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1051 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1052 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1053 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1054 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1055 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1056 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1057 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1058 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1059 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1060 to syslog when it works again.
1061 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1062 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1063 journals in.
1064 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1065 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1066 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1067 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1068 the most common operations.
1069 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1070 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1071 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1072 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1073 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1074 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1075 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1076 operation.
1077 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1078 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1079 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1080 binary logs data
1081 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1082 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1083 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1084 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1085 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1086 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1087
1088 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1089 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1090 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1091 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1092
1093 * document:
1094 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1095 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1096 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1097 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1098 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1099 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1100 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1101 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1102 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1103 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1104 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1105 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1106
1107 * systemctl:
1108 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1109 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1110 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1111 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1112 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1113 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1114 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1115 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1116 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1117 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1118
1119 * unit install:
1120 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1121 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1122
1123 * timer units:
1124 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1125 o DST changes
1126 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1127
1128 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1129
1130 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1131
1132 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1133
1134 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1135
1136 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1137
1138 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1139
1140 * nspawn:
1141 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1142 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1143 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1144 from the kernel's logs.
1145 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1146 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1147 interface be missing
1148 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1149 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1150 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1151 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1152 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1153 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1154 PID 1...
1155 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1156 running, remove them when shut down.
1157
1158 * dissect
1159 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1160 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1161
1162 * machined:
1163 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1164 removed or added to an existing machine
1165 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1166 difference host, via ssh
1167 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1168 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1169 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1170 question
1171 - "machinectl history"
1172 - "machinectl diff"
1173 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1174 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1175
1176 * cryptsetup:
1177 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1178 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1179
1180 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1181 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1182
1183 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1184
1185 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1186
1187 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1188
1189 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1190
1191 * udev:
1192 - move to LGPL
1193 - kill scsi_id
1194 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1195 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1196
1197 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1198
1199 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1200
1201 * coredump:
1202 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1203 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1204
1205 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1206
1207 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1208 needs to be auto-respawned?
1209
1210 * tmpfiles:
1211 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1212 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1213 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1214 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1215 calls follow symlinks.
1216
1217 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1218
1219 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1220 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1221 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1222
1223 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1224 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1225
1226 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1227
1228 * write blog stories about:
1229 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1230 - enabling dbus services
1231 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1232 - remote access
1233 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1234 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1235 - auto-restart
1236 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1237 - the journal HTTP iface
1238 - non-cgroup resource management
1239 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1240 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1241 - calendar time events
1242 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1243 - how to create your own target
1244 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1245 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1246
1247 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1248
1249 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1250
1251 * pid1:
1252 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1253 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1254 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1255 that are not supported...
1256 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1257 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1258 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1259 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1260 - move PAM code into its own binary
1261 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1262 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1263 - Support --test based on current system state
1264 - 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().
1265 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1266 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1267 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1268 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1269 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1270 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1271 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1272 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1273 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1274
1275 * unit files:
1276 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1277 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1278 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1279 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1280 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1281 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1282 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1283 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1284 - introduce Type=pid-file
1285 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1286 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1287 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1288 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1289
1290 * udev-link-config:
1291 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1292 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1293 on Path= matching
1294
1295 * sd-rtnl:
1296 - add support for more attribute types
1297 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1298
1299 * networkd:
1300 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1301 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1302 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1303 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1304 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1305 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1306 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1307 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1308 - expose in the API the following bits:
1309 - option 15, domain name
1310 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1311 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1312 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1313 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1314 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1315 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1316 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1317 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1318 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1319
1320 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1321
1322 * dhcp:
1323 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1324
1325 * dhcp6:
1326 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1327 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1328 - write more test cases
1329 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1330 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1331 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1332 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1333 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1334 or interface down
1335 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1336 this behavior
1337 - RouteTable= ?
1338
1339 External:
1340
1341 * dbus:
1342 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1343 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1344
1345 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1346
1347 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1348
1349 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1350
1351 * 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=
1352
1353 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1354
1355 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1356
1357 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1358
1359 * zsh shell completion:
1360 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1361 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1362
1363 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1364 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1365 after being started.
1366
1367 Regularly:
1368
1369 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1370
1371 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1372
1373 * pahole
1374
1375 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1376
1377 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1378
1379 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1380 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment