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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
23 * add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
24 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
25 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
26 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
27 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
28
29 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
30
31 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
32
33 * warn if User=nobody is used in a unit file. It's the overflow UID after all,
34 and the service might thus get access to files it really should not get
35 access to on NFS and userns environments.
36
37 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
38 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
39
40 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
41 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
42 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
43 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
44 anything like that.
45
46 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
47 client UID, so tht synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
48 user's journal stream down but not the others.
49
50 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
51 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
52 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
53
54 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
55 these days
56
57 * nspawn: support time namespaces
58
59 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
60
61 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
62 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
63
64 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
65
66 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
67
68 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
69 when it exits
70
71 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
72 o turn into dlopen() deps:
73 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
74 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
75 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
76 firstboot
77 - elfutils (always)
78 - p11-kit-trust (always)
79 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
80 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
81 - similar: libblkid
82 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
83 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
84 since they are so basic and our defaults)
85 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
86 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
87
88 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
89 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
90 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
91
92 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
93 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
94 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
95
96 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
97 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
98
99 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
100 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
101 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
102
103 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
104 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
105 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
106
107 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
108
109 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
110 specific service
111
112 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
113
114 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
115 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
116 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
117 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
118 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
119 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
120 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
121 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
122
123 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
124 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
125
126 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
127 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
128
129 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
130 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
131 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
132
133 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
134 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
135 signature
136
137 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
138 and insert a local signature instead.
139
140 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
141 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
142 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
143 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
144 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
145
146 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
147
148 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
149 exists and responds.
150
151 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
152 easily?
153
154 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
155 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
156 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
157 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
158 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
159
160 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
161 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
162
163 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
164 creates
165
166 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
167 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
168 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
169 hence we can make them quicker to work.
170
171 * bootctl:
172 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
173 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
174 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
175
176 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
177 allow so that systemd survives
178
179 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
180 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
181
182 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
183 systemd-makefs.service instead.
184
185 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
186 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
187
188 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
189 confusion is gone)
190 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
191 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
192 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
193 - port importd over from libgcrypt
194 - when that's done: kill khash.c
195 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
196
197 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
198
199 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
200
201 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
202 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
203
204 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
205 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
206 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
207 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
208 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
209
210 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
211 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
212 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
213 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
214
215 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
216 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
217 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
218 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
219 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
220 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
221
222 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
223 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
224 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
225 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
226 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
227 automatically.
228
229 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
230 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
231
232 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
233 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
234
235 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
236
237 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
238 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
239
240 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
241 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
242 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
243
244 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
245 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
246
247 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
248
249 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
250 realname substr searches in varlink API
251
252 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
253
254 * userdb: allow existence checks
255
256 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
257
258 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
259 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
260 initrd had set.
261
262 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
263 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
264 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
265 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
266 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
267 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
268
269 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
270 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
271 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
272
273 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
274 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
275 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
276 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
277 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
278 source.
279
280 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
281 with immutable /usr
282
283 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
284 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
285 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
286
287 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
288
289 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
290 the hibernation
291
292 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
293 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
294 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
295 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
296 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
297 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
298 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
299 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
300 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
301 hibernation mode. (see
302 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
303 section 10.2.2.8 and
304 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
305 at the end).
306
307 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
308 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
309 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
310 output for them.
311
312 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
313 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
314
315 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
316 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
317 constant vendor data.
318
319 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
320
321 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
322 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
323
324 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
325 fallback in "machinectl shell"
326
327 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
328 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
329 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
330
331 * homed:
332 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
333 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
334 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
335 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
336 - resize on login?
337 - shrink fs on logout?
338 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
339 - create on activate?
340 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
341 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
342 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
343 systemd --user is shut down.
344 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
345 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
346 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
347 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
348 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
349 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
350 - description field for groups
351 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
352 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
353 - query password from kernel keyring first
354 - update even if record is "absent"
355 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
356 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
357 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
358 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
359 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
360 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
361
362 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
363 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
364 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
365 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
366 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
367 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
368 exec().
369
370 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
371
372 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
373 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
374
375 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
376
377 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
378 gnome-bluetooth and friends
379
380 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
381 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
382 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
383 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
384 cgroup.
385
386 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
387 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
388 root.
389
390 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
391 is issued.
392
393 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
394
395 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
396
397 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
398 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
399 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
400
401 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
402 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
403 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
404
405 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
406 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
407 ConfigurationDirectory=.
408
409 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
410
411 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
412
413 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
414 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
415
416 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
417 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
418 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
419
420 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
421
422 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
423 patching around
424
425 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
426 log.c and sd-journal-send
427
428 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
429
430 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
431
432 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
433 can add in file system drivers and such
434
435 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
436 non-zero "tries done" count
437
438 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
439 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
440 it should skip the variant type string though.
441
442 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
443 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
444 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
445 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
446 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
447 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
448 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
449 CODE_FILE.
450
451 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
452 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
453 some explanatory text online.
454
455 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
456
457 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
458 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
459 the slices, and the units attached to them.
460
461 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
462 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
463 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
464 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
465 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
466 way)
467
468 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
469 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
470 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
471
472 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
473 original defaults before calling parse_config()
474
475 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
476
477 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
478 Specifically:
479
480 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
481 properly)
482 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
483 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
484
485 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
486 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
487
488 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
489 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
490 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
491 files and suchlike we operate on.
492
493 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
494
495 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
496
497 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
498 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
499
500 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
501 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
502 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
503 numbers.
504
505 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
506 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
507 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
508 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
509 unlinked from any dir.
510
511 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
512
513 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
514
515 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
516
517 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
518 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
519 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
520 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
521 should reflink the image file itself.
522
523 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
524 specific paths only like this.
525
526 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
527 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
528 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
529 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
530 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
531
532 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
533
534 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
535
536 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
537 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
538
539 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
540 project quota
541
542 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
543 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
544 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
545 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
546 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
547 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
548 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
549 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
550
551 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
552 for root, but only then.
553
554 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
555
556 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
557 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
558
559 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
560 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
561
562 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
563 host-side interface pointing to the container.
564
565 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
566 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
567 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
568 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
569 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
570
571 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
572
573 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
574
575 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
576 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
577 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
578
579 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
580
581 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
582 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
583
584 * blog about fd store and restartable services
585
586 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
587
588 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
589 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
590
591 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
592 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
593 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
594 ID is available.
595
596 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
597 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
598 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
599
600 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
601 parameters
602
603 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
604 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
605 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
606 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
607 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
608 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
609 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
610
611 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
612 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
613
614 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
615 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
616 wait to retrieve their exit data.
617
618 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
619 about it in the resource log message
620
621 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
622 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
623
624 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
625 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
626 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
627
628 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
629 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
630
631 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
632
633 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
634 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
635 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
636 logging.
637
638 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
639 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
640 "convertible" form factor
641
642 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
643 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
644 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
645 as MAINPID.
646
647 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
648 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
649 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
650
651 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
652 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
653
654 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
655 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
656 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
657 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
658 natural habitat.
659
660 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
661 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
662 /usr is mounted into.
663
664 * 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
665
666 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
667
668 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
669 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
670 relative to the configured default value.
671
672 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
673
674 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
675
676 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
677
678 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
679
680 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
681
682 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
683
684 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
685
686 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
687
688 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
689
690 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
691
692 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
693 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
694 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
695
696 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
697
698 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
699
700 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
701 partitions
702
703 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
704 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
705 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
706 mapping to work.
707
708 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
709
710 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
711
712 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
713
714 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
715 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
716
717 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
718 reload the unit file anyway
719
720 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
721 from the SIGBUS handler
722
723 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
724
725 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
726 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
727
728 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
729
730 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
731 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
732
733 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
734 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
735 specifications.
736
737 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
738
739 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
740
741 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
742
743 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
744 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
745 prefixed with /sys generally special.
746 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
747
748 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
749
750 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
751
752 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
753 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
754 state.
755 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
756
757 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
758 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
759 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
760 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
761 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
762
763 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
764 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
765
766 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
767
768 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
769 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
770
771 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
772 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
773 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
774 do, for example)
775
776 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
778
779 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
781
782 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
783
784 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
785 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
786 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
787 returning from the "systemctl stop".
788
789 * 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
790
791 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
792
793 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
794 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
795
796 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
797
798 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
799
800 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
801 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
802
803 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
804
805 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
806
807 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
808
809 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
810 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
811
812 * resolved:
813 - mDNS/DNS-SD
814 - service registration
815 - service/domain/types browsing
816 - avahi compat
817 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
818 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
819 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
820 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
821 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
822 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
823
824 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
825
826 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
827
828 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
829
830 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
831 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
832
833 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
834
835 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
836
837 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
838
839 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
840 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
841
842 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
843
844 * gpt-auto-generator:
845 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
846 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
847
848 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
849 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
850 when it is otherwise off
851
852 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
853
854 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
855 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
856 for ReusePort=
857
858 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
859 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
860 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
861 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
862 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
863 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
864
865 * cgroups:
866 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
867 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
868 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
869 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
870 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
871 the hierarchies of child processes
872
873 * transient units:
874 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
875
876 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
877
878 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
879
880 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
881
882 * 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
883
884 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
885
886 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
887 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
888 path anyway.
889
890 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
891
892 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
893
894 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
895
896 * sd-bus:
897 - EBADSLT handling
898 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
899 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
900 - 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
901 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
902 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
903 - longer term: priority inheritance
904 - dbus spec updates:
905 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
906 - GVariant
907 - path escaping
908 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
909
910 * sd-event
911 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
912 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
913 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
914
915 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
916
917 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
918 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
919
920 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
921
922 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
923
924 * test/:
925 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
926
927 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
928 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
929 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
930 destination.
931
932 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
933 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
934
935 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
936
937 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
938 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
939 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
940
941 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
942 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
943 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
944 is installed.
945
946 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
947 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
948 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
949 that automatically.
950
951 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
952
953 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
954
955 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
956
957 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
958
959 * EFI:
960 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
961 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
962 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
963 * bootctl
964 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
965
966 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
967
968 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
969
970 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
971
972 * logind:
973 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
974 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
975 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
976 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
977 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
978 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
979 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
980 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
981 needs setuid().
982 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
983 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
984 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
985 complete.
986 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
987 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
988 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
989 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
990 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
991 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
992 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
993 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
994 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
995 relogins
996 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
997
998 * journal:
999 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1000 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1001 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1002 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1003 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1004 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1005 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1006 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1007 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1008 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1009 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1010 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1011 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1012 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1013 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1014 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1015 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1016 - 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.
1017 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1018 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1019 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1020 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1021 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1022 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1023 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1024 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1025 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1026 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1027 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1028 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1029 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1030 to syslog when it works again.
1031 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1032 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1033 journals in.
1034 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1035 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1036 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1037 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1038 the most common operations.
1039 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1040 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1041 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1042 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1043 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1044 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1045 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1046 operation.
1047 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1048 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1049 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1050 binary logs data
1051 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1052 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1053 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1054 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1055 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1056
1057 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1058 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1059 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1060 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1061
1062 * document:
1063 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1064 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1065 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1066 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1067 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1068 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1069 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1070 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1071 - man: add more examples to man pages
1072 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1073 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1074
1075 * systemctl:
1076 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1077 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1078 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1079 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1080 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1081 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1082 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1083 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1084 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1085 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1086
1087 * unit install:
1088 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1089 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1090
1091 * timer units:
1092 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1093 o DST changes
1094 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1095
1096 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1097
1098 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1099
1100 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1101
1102 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1103
1104 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1105
1106 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1107
1108 * nspawn:
1109 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1110 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1111 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1112 from the kernel's logs.
1113 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1114 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1115 interface be missing
1116 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1117 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1118 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1119 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1120 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1121 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1122 PID 1...
1123 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1124 running, remove them when shut down.
1125
1126 * dissect
1127 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1128 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1129
1130 * machined:
1131 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1132 removed or added to an existing machine
1133 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1134 difference host, via ssh
1135 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1136 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1137 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1138 question
1139 - "machinectl history"
1140 - "machinectl diff"
1141 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1142 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1143
1144 * cryptsetup:
1145 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1146 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1147
1148 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1149 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1150
1151 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1152
1153 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1154
1155 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1156
1157 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1158
1159 * udev:
1160 - move to LGPL
1161 - kill scsi_id
1162 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1163 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1164
1165 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1166
1167 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1168
1169 * coredump:
1170 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1171 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1172
1173 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1174
1175 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1176 needs to be auto-respawned?
1177
1178 * tmpfiles:
1179 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1180 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1181 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1182 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1183 calls follow symlinks.
1184
1185 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1186
1187 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1188 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1189 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1190
1191 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1192 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1193
1194 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1195
1196 * write blog stories about:
1197 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1198 - enabling dbus services
1199 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1200 - remote access
1201 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1202 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1203 - auto-restart
1204 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1205 - the journal HTTP iface
1206 - non-cgroup resource management
1207 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1208 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1209 - calendar time events
1210 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1211 - how to create your own target
1212 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1213 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1214
1215 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1216
1217 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1218
1219 * pid1:
1220 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1221 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1222 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1223 that are not supported...
1224 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1225 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1226 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1227 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1228 - move PAM code into its own binary
1229 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1230 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1231 - Support --test based on current system state
1232 - 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().
1233 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1234 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1235 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1236 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1237 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1238 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1239 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1240 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1241 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1242
1243 * unit files:
1244 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1245 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1246 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1247 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1248 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1249 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1250 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1251 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1252 - introduce Type=pid-file
1253 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1254 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1255 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1256 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1257
1258 * udev-link-config:
1259 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1260 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1261 on Path= matching
1262
1263 * sd-rtnl:
1264 - add support for more attribute types
1265 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1266
1267 * networkd:
1268 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1269 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1270 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1271 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1272 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1273 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1274 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1275 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1276 - expose in the API the following bits:
1277 - option 15, domain name
1278 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1279 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1280 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1281 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1282 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1283 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1284 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1285 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1286 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1287
1288 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1289
1290 * dhcp:
1291 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1292
1293 * dhcp6:
1294 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1295 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1296 - write more test cases
1297 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1298 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1299 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1300 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1301 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1302 or interface down
1303 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1304 this behavior
1305 - RouteTable= ?
1306
1307 External:
1308
1309 * dbus:
1310 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1311 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1312
1313 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1314
1315 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1316
1317 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1318
1319 * 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=
1320
1321 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1322
1323 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1324
1325 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1326
1327 * zsh shell completion:
1328 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1329 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1330
1331 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1332 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1333 after being started.
1334
1335 Regularly:
1336
1337 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1338
1339 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1340
1341 * pahole
1342
1343 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1344
1345 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1346
1347 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1348 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment