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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 * busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
16 Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
18 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
20 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
23 Features:
24
25 * random-util: make user of new GRND_INSECURE flag wherever possible
26
27 * nspawn: support time namespaces
28
29 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
30
31 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
32
33 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
34 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
35 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
36
37 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
38 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
39 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
40 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
41 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
42 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
43 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
44 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
45
46 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
47 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
48
49 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
50 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
51
52 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
53 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
54 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
55
56 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
57 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
58 signature
59
60 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
61 and insert a local signature instead.
62
63 * Maybe expose path_is_encrypted() as a new ConditionPathIsEncrypted=?
64
65 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
66 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
67 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
68 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
69 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
70
71 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
72
73 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
74 exists and responds.
75
76 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
77 easily?
78
79 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
80 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
81 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
82 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
83 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
84
85 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
86 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
87
88 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
89 creates
90
91 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
92 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
93 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
94 hence we can make them quicker to work.
95
96 * bootctl:
97 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
98 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
99 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
100
101 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
102 allow so that systemd survives
103
104 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
105 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
106
107 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
108 systemd-makefs.service instead.
109
110 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
111 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
112
113 * unify on openssl:
114 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
115 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
116 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
117 - port importd over from libgcrypt
118 - when that's done: kill khash.c
119 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
120
121 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
122
123 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
124
125 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
126 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
127
128 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
129 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
130 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
131 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
132 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
133
134 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
135 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
136 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
137 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
138
139 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
140 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
141 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
142 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
143 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
144 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
145
146 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
147 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
148 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
149 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
150 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
151 automatically.
152
153 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
154 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
155
156 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
157 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
158
159 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
160
161 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
162 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
163
164 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
165 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
166 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
167
168 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
169 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
170
171 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
172
173 * systemd-repart: add --make= switch for fallocating a new file of the
174 specified size first.
175
176 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
177 realname substr searches in varlink API
178
179 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
180
181 * userdb: allow existence checks
182
183 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
184
185 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
186 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
187 initrd had set.
188
189 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
190 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
191 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
192 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
193 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
194 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
195
196 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
197 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
198 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
199
200 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
201 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
202 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
203 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
204 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
205 source.
206
207 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
208 with immutable /usr
209
210 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
211 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
212 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
213
214 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
215
216 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
217 the hibernation
218
219 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
220 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
221 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
222 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
223 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
224 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
225 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
226 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
227 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
228 hibernation mode. (see
229 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
230 section 10.2.2.8 and
231 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
232 at the end).
233
234 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
235 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
236 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
237 output for them.
238
239 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
240 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
241
242 * systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
243
244 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
245 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
246 constant vendor data.
247
248 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
249 random seed crediting
250
251 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
252 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
253
254 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
255 fallback in "machinectl shell"
256
257 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
258 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
259 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
260
261 * homed:
262 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
263 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
264 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
265 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
266 - resize on login?
267 - shrink fs on logout?
268 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
269 - create on activate?
270 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
271 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
272 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
273 systemd --user is shut down.
274 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
275 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
276 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
277 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
278 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
279 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
280 - description field for groups
281 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
282 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
283 - query password from kernel keyring first
284 - update even if record is "absent"
285 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
286 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
287 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
288 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
289 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
290 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
291
292 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
293 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
294 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
295 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
296 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
297 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
298 exec().
299
300 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
301
302 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
303 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
304
305 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
306
307 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
308 gnome-bluetooth and friends
309
310 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
311 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
312 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
313 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
314 cgroup.
315
316 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
317 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
318 root.
319
320 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
321 is issued.
322
323 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
324
325 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
326
327 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
328 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
329 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
330
331 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
332 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
333 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
334
335 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
336 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
337 ConfigurationDirectory=.
338
339 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
340
341 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
342
343 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
344 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
345
346 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
347 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
348 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
349
350 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
351
352 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
353 patching around
354
355 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
356 log.c and sd-journal-send
357
358 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
359
360 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
361
362 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
363 can add in file system drivers and such
364
365 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
366 non-zero "tries done" count
367
368 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
369 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
370 it should skip the variant type string though.
371
372 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
373 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
374 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
375 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
376 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
377 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
378 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
379 CODE_FILE.
380
381 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
382 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
383 some explanatory text online.
384
385 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
386
387 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
388 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
389 the slices, and the units attached to them.
390
391 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
392 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
393 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
394 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
395 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
396 way)
397
398 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
399 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
400 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
401
402 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
403 original defaults before calling parse_config()
404
405 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
406
407 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
408 Specifically:
409
410 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
411 properly)
412 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
413 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
414
415 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
416 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
417
418 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
419 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
420 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
421 files and suchlike we operate on.
422
423 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
424
425 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
426
427 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
428 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
429
430 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
431 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
432 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
433 numbers.
434
435 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
436 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
437 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
438 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
439 unlinked from any dir.
440
441 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
442
443 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
444
445 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
446
447 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
448 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
449 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
450 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
451 should reflink the image file itself.
452
453 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
454 specific paths only like this.
455
456 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
457 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
458 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
459 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
460 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
461
462 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
463
464 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
465
466 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
467 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
468
469 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
470 project quota
471
472 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
473 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
474 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
475 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
476 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
477 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
478 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
479 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
480
481 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
482 for root, but only then.
483
484 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
485
486 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
487 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
488
489 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
490 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
491
492 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
493 host-side interface pointing to the container.
494
495 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
496 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
497 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
498 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
499 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
500
501 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
502
503 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
504
505 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
506 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
507 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
508
509 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
510
511 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
512 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
513
514 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
515 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
516
517 * blog about fd store and restartable services
518
519 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
520
521 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
522 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
523
524 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
525 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
526 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
527 ID is available.
528
529 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
530 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
531 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
532
533 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
534 parameters
535
536 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
537 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
538 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
539 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
540 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
541 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
542 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
543
544 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
545 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
546
547 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
548 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
549 wait to retrieve their exit data.
550
551 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
552 about it in the resource log message
553
554 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
555 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
556
557 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
558 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
559 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
560
561 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
562 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
563
564 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
565
566 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
567 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
568 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
569 logging.
570
571 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
572 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
573 "convertible" form factor
574
575 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
576 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
577 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
578 as MAINPID.
579
580 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
581 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
582 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
583
584 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
585 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
586
587 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
588 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
589 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
590 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
591 natural habitat.
592
593 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
594 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
595 /usr is mounted into.
596
597 * 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
598
599 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
600
601 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
602 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
603 relative to the configured default value.
604
605 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
606
607 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
608
609 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
610
611 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
612
613 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
614
615 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
616
617 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
618
619 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
620
621 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
622
623 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
624
625 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
626 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
627 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
628
629 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
630
631 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
632
633 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
634 partitions
635
636 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
637 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
638 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
639 mapping to work.
640
641 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
642
643 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
644
645 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
646
647 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
648 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
649
650 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
651 reload the unit file anyway
652
653 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
654 from the SIGBUS handler
655
656 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
657
658 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
659 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
660
661 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
662
663 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
664 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
665
666 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
667 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
668 specifications.
669
670 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
671
672 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
673
674 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
675
676 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
677 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
678 prefixed with /sys generally special.
679 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
680
681 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
682
683 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
684
685 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
686 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
687 state.
688 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
689
690 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
691 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
692 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
693 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
694 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
695
696 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
697 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
698
699 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
700
701 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
702 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
703
704 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
705 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
706 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
707 do, for example)
708
709 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
710 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
711
712 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
713 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
714
715 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
716
717 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
718 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
719 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
720 returning from the "systemctl stop".
721
722 * 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
723
724 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
725
726 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
727 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
728
729 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
730
731 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
732
733 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
734 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
735
736 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
737
738 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
739
740 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
741
742 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
743 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
744
745 * resolved:
746 - mDNS/DNS-SD
747 - service registration
748 - service/domain/types browsing
749 - avahi compat
750 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
751 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
752 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
753 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
754 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
755 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
756
757 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
758
759 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
760
761 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
762
763 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
764 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
765
766 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
767
768 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
769
770 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
771
772 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
773 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
774
775 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
776
777 * gpt-auto-generator:
778 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
779 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
780
781 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
782 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
783 when it is otherwise off
784
785 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
786
787 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
788 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
789 for ReusePort=
790
791 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
792 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
793 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
794 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
795 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
796 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
797
798 * cgroups:
799 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
800 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
801 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
802 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
803 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
804 the hierarchies of child processes
805
806 * transient units:
807 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
808
809 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
810
811 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
812
813 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
814
815 * 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
816
817 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
818
819 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
820 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
821 path anyway.
822
823 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
824
825 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
826
827 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
828
829 * sd-bus:
830 - EBADSLT handling
831 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
832 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
833 - 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
834 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
835 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
836 - longer term: priority inheritance
837 - dbus spec updates:
838 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
839 - GVariant
840 - path escaping
841 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
842
843 * sd-event
844 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
845 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
846 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
847
848 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
849
850 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
851 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
852
853 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
854
855 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
856
857 * test/:
858 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
859
860 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
861 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
862 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
863 destination.
864
865 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
866 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
867
868 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
869
870 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
871 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
872 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
873
874 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
875 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
876 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
877 is installed.
878
879 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
880 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
881 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
882 that automatically.
883
884 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
885
886 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
887
888 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
889
890 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
891
892 * EFI:
893 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
894 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
895 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
896 * bootctl
897 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
898
899 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
900
901 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
902
903 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
904
905 * logind:
906 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
907 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
908 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
909 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
910 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
911 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
912 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
913 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
914 needs setuid().
915 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
916 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
917 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
918 complete.
919 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
920 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
921 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
922 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
923 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
924 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
925 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
926 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
927 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
928 relogins
929 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
930
931 * journal:
932 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
933 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
934 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
935 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
936 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
937 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
938 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
939 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
940 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
941 message that works, but already after a short timeout
942 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
943 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
944 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
945 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
946 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
947 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
948 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
949 - 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.
950 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
951 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
952 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
953 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
954 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
955 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
956 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
957 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
958 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
959 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
960 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
961 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
962 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
963 to syslog when it works again.
964 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
965 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
966 journals in.
967 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
968 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
969 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
970 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
971 the most common operations.
972 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
973 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
974 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
975 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
976 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
977 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
978 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
979 operation.
980 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
981 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
982 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
983 binary logs data
984 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
985 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
986 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
987 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
988 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
989
990 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
991 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
992 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
993 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
994
995 * document:
996 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
997 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
998 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
999 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1000 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1001 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1002 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1003 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1004 - man: add more examples to man pages
1005 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1006 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1007
1008 * systemctl:
1009 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1010 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1011 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1012 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1013 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1014 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1015 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1016 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1017 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1018 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1019
1020 * unit install:
1021 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1022 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1023
1024 * timer units:
1025 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1026 o DST changes
1027 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1028
1029 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1030
1031 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1032
1033 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1034
1035 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1036
1037 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1038
1039 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1040
1041 * nspawn:
1042 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1043 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1044 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1045 from the kernel's logs.
1046 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1047 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1048 interface be missing
1049 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1050 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1051 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1052 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1053 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1054 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1055 PID 1...
1056 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1057 running, remove them when shut down.
1058
1059 * dissect
1060 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1061 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1062
1063 * machined:
1064 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1065 removed or added to an existing machine
1066 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1067 difference host, via ssh
1068 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1069 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1070 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1071 question
1072 - "machinectl history"
1073 - "machinectl diff"
1074 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1075 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1076
1077 * cryptsetup:
1078 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1079 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1080
1081 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1082 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1083
1084 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1085
1086 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1087
1088 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1089
1090 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1091
1092 * udev:
1093 - move to LGPL
1094 - kill scsi_id
1095 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1096 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1097
1098 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1099
1100 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1101
1102 * coredump:
1103 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1104 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1105
1106 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1107
1108 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1109 needs to be auto-respawned?
1110
1111 * tmpfiles:
1112 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1113 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1114 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1115 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1116 calls follow symlinks.
1117
1118 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1119
1120 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1121 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1122 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1123
1124 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1125 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1126
1127 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1128
1129 * write blog stories about:
1130 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1131 - enabling dbus services
1132 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1133 - remote access
1134 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1135 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1136 - auto-restart
1137 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1138 - the journal HTTP iface
1139 - non-cgroup resource management
1140 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1141 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1142 - calendar time events
1143 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1144 - how to create your own target
1145 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1146 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1147
1148 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1149
1150 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1151
1152 * pid1:
1153 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1154 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1155 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1156 that are not supported...
1157 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1158 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1159 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1160 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1161 - move PAM code into its own binary
1162 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1163 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1164 - Support --test based on current system state
1165 - 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().
1166 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1167 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1168 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1169 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1170 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1171 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1172 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1173 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1174 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1175
1176 * unit files:
1177 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1178 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1179 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1180 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1181 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1182 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1183 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1184 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1185 - introduce Type=pid-file
1186 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1187 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1188 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1189 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1190
1191 * udev-link-config:
1192 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1193 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1194 on Path= matching
1195
1196 * sd-rtnl:
1197 - add support for more attribute types
1198 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1199
1200 * networkd:
1201 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1202 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1203 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
1204 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1205 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
1206 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1207 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1208 - add support for more bond options
1209 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1210 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1211 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1212 - expose in the API the following bits:
1213 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1214 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1215 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1216 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1217 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1218 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1219 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1220 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1221 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1222 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
1223 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1224
1225 * networkd-wait-online:
1226 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1227
1228 * dhcp:
1229 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1230
1231 * dhcp6:
1232 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1233 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1234 - write more test cases
1235 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1236 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1237 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1238 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1239 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1240 or interface down
1241 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1242 this behavior
1243 - RouteTable= ?
1244
1245 External:
1246
1247 * dbus:
1248 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1249 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1250
1251 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1252
1253 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1254
1255 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1256
1257 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1258
1259 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1260
1261 * 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=
1262
1263 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1264
1265 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1266
1267 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1268
1269 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1270
1271 * zsh shell completion:
1272 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1273 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1274
1275 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1276 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1277 after being started.
1278
1279 Regularly:
1280
1281 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1282
1283 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1284
1285 * pahole
1286
1287 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1288
1289 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1290
1291 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1292 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment