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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 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
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 Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
16 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
18 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
21 Features:
22
23 * port selinux code from mallinfo() to mallinfo2() once added to glibc
24
25 * in fd_get_path() if we see (deleted) then do stat and check for st_nlink
26
27 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
28 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
29
30 * export action of device object on sd-device, so that monitor becomes useful
31
32 * add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
33 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
34 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
35 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
36 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
37 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
38 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
39 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
40
41 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
42 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
43 temporary dir.
44
45 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
46 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
47
48 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
49 (autofs and such) while user is loged in.
50
51 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
52
53 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
54
55 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
56 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
57
58 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
59 so, freeze the payload too.
60
61 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
62
63 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
64 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
65 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
66
67 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
68 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
69 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
70
71 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
72
73 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
74 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
75
76 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
77 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
78 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
79 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
80 anything like that.
81
82 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
83 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
84 user's journal stream down but not the others.
85
86 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
87 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
88 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
89
90 * nspawn: support time namespaces
91
92 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
93 reading/writing files
94
95 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
101
102 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
103
104 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
105 when it exits
106
107 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
108 o turn into dlopen() deps:
109 - elfutils (always)
110 - p11-kit-trust (always)
111 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
112 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
113 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
114 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
115 since they are so basic and our defaults)
116 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
117 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
118
119 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
120 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
121 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
122
123 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
124 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
125 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
126
127 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
128 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
129
130 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
131 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
132 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
133 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
134
135 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
136
137 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
138 specific service
139
140 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
141
142 * credentials system:
143 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
144 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
145 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
146 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
147 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
148 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
149 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
150 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
151 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
152 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
153 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
154
155 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
156 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
157 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
158
159 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
160 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
161 signature
162
163 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
164 and insert a local signature instead.
165
166 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
167 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
168 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
169 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
170 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
171
172 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
173
174 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
175 easily?
176
177 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
178 exists and responds.
179
180 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
181 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
182 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
183 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
184 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
185
186 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
187 also in plain cryptsetup)
188
189 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
190 creates
191
192 * bootctl:
193 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
194 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
195 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
196
197 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
198 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
199 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
200
201 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
202 allow so that systemd survives
203
204 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
205 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
206
207 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
208 systemd-makefs.service instead.
209
210 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
211 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
212
213 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
214 confusion is gone)
215 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
216 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
217 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
218 - port importd over from libgcrypt
219 - when that's done: kill khash.c
220 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
221
222 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
223
224 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
225 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
226
227 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
228 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
229 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
230 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
231 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
232
233 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
234 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
235 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
236 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
237
238 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
239 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
240 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
241 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
242 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
243 automatically.
244
245 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
246 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
247
248 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
249
250 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
251 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
252 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
253 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
254 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
255 fails to apply use the latter.
256
257 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
258 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
259
260 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
261 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
262
263 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
264 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
265
266 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
267 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
268
269 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
270 realname substr searches in varlink API
271
272 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
273
274 * userdb: allow existence checks
275
276 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
277
278 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
279 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
280 initrd had set.
281
282 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
283 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
284 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
285 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
286 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
287 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
288
289 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
290 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
291 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
292
293 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
294 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
295 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
296 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
297 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
298 source.
299
300 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
301 with immutable /usr
302
303 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
304 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
305 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
306
307 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
308
309 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
310 the hibernation
311
312 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
313 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
314 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
315 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
316 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
317 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
318 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
319 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
320 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
321 hibernation mode. (see
322 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
323 section 10.2.2.8 and
324 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
325 at the end).
326
327 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
328 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
329 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
330 output for them.
331
332 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
333 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
334 constant vendor data.
335
336 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
337
338 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
339 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
340
341 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
342 fallback in "machinectl shell"
343
344 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
345 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
346 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
347
348 * homed:
349 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
350 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
351 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
352 - resize on login?
353 - shrink fs on logout?
354 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
355 - create on activate?
356 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
357 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
358 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
359 systemd --user is shut down.
360 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
361 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
362 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
363 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
364 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
365 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
366 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
367 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
368 - query password from kernel keyring first
369 - update even if record is "absent"
370 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
371 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
372 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
373 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
374 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
375 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
376 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
377 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
378 either from UI when disk space gets low
379
380 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
381 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
382 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
383 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
384 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
385 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
386 exec().
387
388 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
389
390 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
391 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
392
393 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
394
395 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
396 gnome-bluetooth and friends
397
398 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
399 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
400 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
401 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
402 cgroup.
403
404 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
405 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
406 root.
407
408 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
409 is issued.
410
411 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
412
413 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
414
415 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
416 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
417 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
418
419 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
420 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
421 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
422
423 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
424 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
425 ConfigurationDirectory=.
426
427 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
428
429 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
430
431 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
432 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
433
434 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
435 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
436 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
437
438 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
439
440 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
441 patching around
442
443 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
444 log.c and sd-journal-send
445
446 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
447
448 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
449
450 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
451 can add in file system drivers and such
452
453 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
454 non-zero "tries done" count
455
456 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
457 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
458 it should skip the variant type string though.
459
460 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
461 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
462 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
463 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
464 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
465 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
466 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
467 CODE_FILE.
468
469 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
470 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
471 some explanatory text online.
472
473 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
474
475 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
476 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
477 the slices, and the units attached to them.
478
479 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
480 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
481 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
482 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
483 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
484 way)
485
486 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
487 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
488 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
489
490 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
491 original defaults before calling parse_config()
492
493 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
494
495 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
496 Specifically:
497
498 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
499 properly)
500 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
501 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
502
503 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
504 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
505
506 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
507 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
508 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
509 files and suchlike we operate on.
510
511 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
512
513 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
514
515 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
516 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
517
518 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
519 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
520 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
521 numbers.
522
523 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
524 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
525 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
526 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
527 unlinked from any dir.
528
529 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
530
531 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
532
533 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
534
535 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
536 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
537 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
538 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
539 should reflink the image file itself.
540
541 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
542 specific paths only like this.
543
544 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
545 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
546 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
547 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
548 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
549
550 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
551
552 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
553
554 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
555 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
556
557 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
558 project quota
559
560 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
561 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
562 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
563 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
564 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
565 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
566 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
567 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
568
569 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
570 for root, but only then.
571
572 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
573
574 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
575 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
576
577 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
578 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
579
580 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
581 only when used. Add unit tests.
582
583 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
584 host-side interface pointing to the container.
585
586 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
587 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
588 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
589 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
590 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
591
592 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
593
594 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
595
596 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
597 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
598 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
599
600 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
601
602 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
603 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
604
605 * blog about fd store and restartable services
606
607 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
608
609 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
610 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
611
612 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
613 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
614 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
615 ID is available.
616
617 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
618 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
619 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
620
621 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
622 parameters
623
624 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
625 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
626 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
627 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
628 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
629 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
630 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
631
632 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
633 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
634
635 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
636 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
637 wait to retrieve their exit data.
638
639 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
640 about it in the resource log message
641
642 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
643 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
644
645 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
646 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
647 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
648
649 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
650 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
651
652 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
653
654 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
655 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
656 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
657 logging.
658
659 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
660 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
661 "convertible" form factor
662
663 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
664 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
665 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
666
667 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
668 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
669
670 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
671 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
672 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
673 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
674 natural habitat.
675
676 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
677 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
678 /usr is mounted into.
679
680 * 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
681
682 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
683
684 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
685 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
686 relative to the configured default value.
687
688 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
689
690 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
691
692 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
693
694 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
695
696 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
697
698 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
699
700 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
701
702 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
703
704 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
705
706 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
707
708 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
709 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
710 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
711
712 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
713
714 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
715
716 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
717 partitions
718
719 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
720 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
721 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
722 mapping to work.
723
724 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
725
726 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
727
728 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
729
730 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
731 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
732
733 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
734 reload the unit file anyway
735
736 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
737 from the SIGBUS handler
738
739 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
740
741 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
742 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
743
744 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
745
746 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
747 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
748
749 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
750 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
751 specifications.
752
753 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
754
755 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
756
757 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
758
759 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
760 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
761 prefixed with /sys generally special.
762 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
763
764 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
765
766 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
767
768 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
769 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
770 state.
771 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
772
773 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
774 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
775 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
776 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
777 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
778
779 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
781
782 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
783
784 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
785 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
786
787 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
788 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
789 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
790 do, for example)
791
792 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
793 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
794
795 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
796 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
797
798 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
799
800 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
801 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
802 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
803 returning from the "systemctl stop".
804
805 * 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
806
807 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
808
809 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
810 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
811
812 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
813
814 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
815
816 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
817 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
818
819 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
820
821 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
822
823 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
824
825 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
826 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
827
828 * resolved:
829 - mDNS/DNS-SD
830 - service registration
831 - service/domain/types browsing
832 - avahi compat
833 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
834 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
835 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
836 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
837 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
838 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
839
840 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
841
842 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
843
844 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
845
846 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
847
848 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
849
850 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
851
852 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
853 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
854
855 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
856
857 * gpt-auto-generator:
858 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
859 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
860
861 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
862 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
863 when it is otherwise off
864
865 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
866
867 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
868 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
869 for ReusePort=
870
871 * cgroups:
872 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
873 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
874 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
875 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
876 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
877 the hierarchies of child processes
878
879 * transient units:
880 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
881
882 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
883
884 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
885
886 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
887
888 * 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
889
890 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
891
892 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
893 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
894 path anyway.
895
896 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
897
898 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
899
900 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
901
902 * sd-bus:
903 - EBADSLT handling
904 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
905 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
906 - 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
907 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
908 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
909 - longer term: priority inheritance
910 - dbus spec updates:
911 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
912 - GVariant
913 - path escaping
914 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
915
916 * sd-event
917 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
918 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
919 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
920 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
921 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
922 here:
923 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
924
925 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
926
927 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
928 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
929
930 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
931
932 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
933
934 * test/:
935 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
936
937 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
938 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
939 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
940 destination.
941
942 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
943 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
944
945 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
946
947 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
948 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
949 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
950
951 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
952 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
953 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
954 is installed.
955
956 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
957 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
958 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
959 that automatically.
960
961 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
962
963 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
964
965 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
966
967 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
968
969 * EFI:
970 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
971 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
972 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
973 * bootctl
974 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
975
976 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
977
978 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
979
980 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
981
982 * logind:
983 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
984 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
985 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
986 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
987 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
988 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
989 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
990 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
991 needs setuid().
992 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
993 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
994 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
995 complete.
996 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
997 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
998 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
999 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1000 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1001 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1002 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1003 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1004 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1005 relogins
1006 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1007
1008 * journal:
1009 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1010 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1011 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1012 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1013 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1014 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1015 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1016 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1017 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1018 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1019 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1020 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1021 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1022 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1023 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1024 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1025 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1026 - 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.
1027 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1028 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1029 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1030 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1031 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1032 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1033 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1034 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1035 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1036 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1037 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1038 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1039 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1040 to syslog when it works again.
1041 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1042 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1043 journals in.
1044 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1045 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1046 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1047 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1048 the most common operations.
1049 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1050 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1051 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1052 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1053 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1054 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1055 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1056 operation.
1057 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1058 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1059 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1060 binary logs data
1061 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1062 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1063 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1064 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1065 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1066 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1067
1068 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1069 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1070 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1071 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1072
1073 * document:
1074 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1075 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1076 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1077 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1078 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1079 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1080 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1081 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1082 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1083 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1084 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1085 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1086
1087 * systemctl:
1088 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1089 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1090 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1091 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1092 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1093 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1094 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1095 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1096 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1097 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1098
1099 * unit install:
1100 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1101 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1102
1103 * timer units:
1104 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1105 o DST changes
1106 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1107
1108 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1109
1110 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1111
1112 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1113
1114 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1115
1116 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1117
1118 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1119
1120 * nspawn:
1121 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1122 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1123 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1124 from the kernel's logs.
1125 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1126 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1127 interface be missing
1128 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1129 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1130 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1131 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1132 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1133 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1134 PID 1...
1135 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1136 running, remove them when shut down.
1137
1138 * machined:
1139 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1140 removed or added to an existing machine
1141 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1142 difference host, via ssh
1143 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1144 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1145 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1146 question
1147 - "machinectl history"
1148 - "machinectl diff"
1149 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1150 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1151
1152 * cryptsetup:
1153 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1154 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1155
1156 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1157 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1158
1159 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1160
1161 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1162
1163 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1164
1165 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1166
1167 * udev:
1168 - move to LGPL
1169 - kill scsi_id
1170 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1171 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1172
1173 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1174
1175 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1176
1177 * coredump:
1178 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1179 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1180
1181 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1182
1183 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1184 needs to be auto-respawned?
1185
1186 * tmpfiles:
1187 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1188 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1189 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1190 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1191 calls follow symlinks.
1192
1193 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1194
1195 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1196 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1197 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1198
1199 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1200 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1201
1202 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1203
1204 * write blog stories about:
1205 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1206 - enabling dbus services
1207 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1208 - remote access
1209 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1210 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1211 - auto-restart
1212 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1213 - the journal HTTP iface
1214 - non-cgroup resource management
1215 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1216 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1217 - calendar time events
1218 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1219 - how to create your own target
1220 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1221 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1222
1223 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1224
1225 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1226
1227 * pid1:
1228 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1229 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1230 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1231 that are not supported...
1232 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1233 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1234 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1235 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1236 - move PAM code into its own binary
1237 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1238 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1239 - Support --test based on current system state
1240 - 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().
1241 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1242 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1243 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1244 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1245 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1246 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1247 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1248 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1249 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1250
1251 * unit files:
1252 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1253 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1254 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1255 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1256 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1257 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1258 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1259 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1260 - introduce Type=pid-file
1261 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1262 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1263 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1264 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1265
1266 * udev-link-config:
1267 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1268 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1269 on Path= matching
1270
1271 * sd-rtnl:
1272 - add support for more attribute types
1273 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1274
1275 * networkd:
1276 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1277 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1278 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1279 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1280 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1281 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1282 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1283 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1284 - expose in the API the following bits:
1285 - option 15, domain name
1286 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1287 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1288 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1289 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1290 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1291 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1292 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1293 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1294 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1295
1296 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1297
1298 * dhcp:
1299 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1300
1301 * dhcp6:
1302 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1303 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1304 - write more test cases
1305 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1306 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1307 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1308 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1309 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1310 or interface down
1311 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1312 this behavior
1313 - RouteTable= ?
1314
1315 External:
1316
1317 * dbus:
1318 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1319 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1320
1321 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1322
1323 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1324
1325 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1326
1327 * 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=
1328
1329 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1330
1331 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1332
1333 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1334
1335 * zsh shell completion:
1336 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1337 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1338
1339 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1340 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1341 after being started.
1342
1343 Regularly:
1344
1345 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1346
1347 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1348
1349 * pahole
1350
1351 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1352
1353 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1354
1355 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1356 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment