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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
23 * make use of new loopback setup ioctl to setup loopback devices in one atomic
24 ioctl
25
26 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
27 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
28 container manager)
29
30 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
31
32 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
33 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
34
35 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
36 so, freeze the payload too.
37
38 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
39
40 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
41 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
42 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
43
44 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
45 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
46 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
47
48 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
49 in and out of a disk image
50
51 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
52
53 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
54
55 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
56 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
57
58 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
59 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
60 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
61 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
62 anything like that.
63
64 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
65 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
66 user's journal stream down but not the others.
67
68 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
69 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
70 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
71
72 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
73 these days
74
75 * nspawn: support time namespaces
76
77 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
78 reading/writing files
79
80 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
81
82 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
83 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
84
85 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
86
87 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
88
89 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
90 when it exits
91
92 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
93 o turn into dlopen() deps:
94 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
95 firstboot
96 - elfutils (always)
97 - p11-kit-trust (always)
98 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
99 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
100 - similar: libblkid
101 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
102 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
103 since they are so basic and our defaults)
104 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
105 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
106
107 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
108 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
109 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
110
111 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
112 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
113 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
114
115 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
116 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
117
118 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
119 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
120 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
121
122 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
123 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
124 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
125 systemd-firstboot)
126
127 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
128
129 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
130 specific service
131
132 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
133
134 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
135 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
136 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
137 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
138 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
139 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
140 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
141 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
142
143 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
144 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
145
146 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
147 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
148
149 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
150 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
151 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
152
153 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
154 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
155 signature
156
157 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
158 and insert a local signature instead.
159
160 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
161 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
162 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
163 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
164 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
165
166 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
167
168 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
169 easily?
170
171 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
172 exists and responds.
173
174 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
175 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
176 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
177 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
178 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
179
180 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
181 also in plain cryptsetup)
182
183 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
184 creates
185
186 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
187 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
188 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
189 hence we can make them quicker to work.
190
191 * bootctl:
192 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
193 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
194 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
195
196 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
197 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
198 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
199
200 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
201 allow so that systemd survives
202
203 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
204 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
205
206 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
207 systemd-makefs.service instead.
208
209 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
210 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
211
212 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
213 confusion is gone)
214 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
215 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
216 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
217 - port importd over from libgcrypt
218 - when that's done: kill khash.c
219 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
220
221 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
222
223 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
224
225 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
226 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
227
228 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
229 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
230 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
231 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
232 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
233
234 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
235 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
236 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
237 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
238
239 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
240 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
241 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
242 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
243 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
244 automatically.
245
246 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
247 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
248
249 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
250 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
251
252 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
253
254 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
255 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
256 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
257 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
258 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
259 fails to apply use the latter.
260
261 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
262 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
263
264 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
265 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
266
267 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
268 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
269 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
270
271 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
272 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
273
274 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
275 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
276
277 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
278 realname substr searches in varlink API
279
280 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
281
282 * userdb: allow existence checks
283
284 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
285
286 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
287 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
288 initrd had set.
289
290 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
291 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
292 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
293 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
294 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
295 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
296
297 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
298 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
299 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
300
301 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
302 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
303 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
304 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
305 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
306 source.
307
308 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
309 with immutable /usr
310
311 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
312 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
313 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
314
315 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
316
317 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
318 the hibernation
319
320 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
321 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
322 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
323 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
324 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
325 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
326 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
327 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
328 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
329 hibernation mode. (see
330 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
331 section 10.2.2.8 and
332 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
333 at the end).
334
335 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
336 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
337 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
338 output for them.
339
340 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
341 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
342
343 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
344 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
345 constant vendor data.
346
347 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
348
349 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
350 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
351
352 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
353 fallback in "machinectl shell"
354
355 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
356 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
357 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
358
359 * homed:
360 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
361 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
362 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
363 - resize on login?
364 - shrink fs on logout?
365 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
366 - create on activate?
367 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
368 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
369 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
370 systemd --user is shut down.
371 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
372 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
373 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
374 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
375 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
376 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
377 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
378 - description field for groups
379 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
380 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
381 - query password from kernel keyring first
382 - update even if record is "absent"
383 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
384 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
385 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
386 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
387 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
388 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
389 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
390 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
391 either from UI when disk space gets low
392
393 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
394 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
395 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
396 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
397 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
398 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
399 exec().
400
401 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
402
403 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
404 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
405
406 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
407
408 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
409 gnome-bluetooth and friends
410
411 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
412 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
413 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
414 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
415 cgroup.
416
417 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
418 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
419 root.
420
421 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
422 is issued.
423
424 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
425
426 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
427
428 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
429 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
430 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
431
432 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
433 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
434 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
435
436 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
437 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
438 ConfigurationDirectory=.
439
440 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
441
442 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
443
444 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
445 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
446
447 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
448 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
449 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
450
451 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
452
453 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
454 patching around
455
456 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
457 log.c and sd-journal-send
458
459 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
460
461 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
462
463 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
464 can add in file system drivers and such
465
466 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
467 non-zero "tries done" count
468
469 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
470 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
471 it should skip the variant type string though.
472
473 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
474 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
475 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
476 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
477 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
478 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
479 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
480 CODE_FILE.
481
482 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
483 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
484 some explanatory text online.
485
486 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
487
488 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
489 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
490 the slices, and the units attached to them.
491
492 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
493 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
494 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
495 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
496 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
497 way)
498
499 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
500 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
501 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
502
503 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
504 original defaults before calling parse_config()
505
506 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
507
508 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
509 Specifically:
510
511 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
512 properly)
513 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
514 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
515
516 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
517 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
518
519 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
520 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
521 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
522 files and suchlike we operate on.
523
524 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
525
526 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
527
528 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
529 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
530
531 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
532 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
533 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
534 numbers.
535
536 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
537 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
538 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
539 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
540 unlinked from any dir.
541
542 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
543
544 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
545
546 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
547
548 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
549 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
550 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
551 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
552 should reflink the image file itself.
553
554 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
555 specific paths only like this.
556
557 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
558 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
559 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
560 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
561 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
562
563 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
564
565 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
566
567 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
568 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
569
570 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
571 project quota
572
573 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
574 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
575 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
576 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
577 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
578 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
579 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
580 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
581
582 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
583 for root, but only then.
584
585 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
586
587 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
588 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
589
590 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
591 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
592
593 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
594 host-side interface pointing to the container.
595
596 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
597 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
598 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
599 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
600 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
601
602 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
603
604 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
605
606 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
607 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
608 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
609
610 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
611
612 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
613 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
614
615 * blog about fd store and restartable services
616
617 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
618
619 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
620 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
621
622 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
623 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
624 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
625 ID is available.
626
627 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
628 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
629 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
630
631 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
632 parameters
633
634 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
635 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
636 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
637 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
638 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
639 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
640 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
641
642 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
643 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
644
645 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
646 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
647 wait to retrieve their exit data.
648
649 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
650 about it in the resource log message
651
652 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
653 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
654
655 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
656 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
657 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
658
659 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
660 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
661
662 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
663
664 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
665 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
666 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
667 logging.
668
669 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
670 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
671 "convertible" form factor
672
673 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
674 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
675 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
676 as MAINPID.
677
678 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
679 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
680 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
681
682 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
683 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
684
685 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
686 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
687 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
688 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
689 natural habitat.
690
691 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
692 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
693 /usr is mounted into.
694
695 * 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
696
697 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
698
699 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
700 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
701 relative to the configured default value.
702
703 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
704
705 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
706
707 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
708
709 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
710
711 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
712
713 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
714
715 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
716
717 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
718
719 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
720
721 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
722
723 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
724 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
725 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
726
727 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
728
729 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
730
731 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
732 partitions
733
734 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
735 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
736 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
737 mapping to work.
738
739 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
740
741 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
742
743 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
744
745 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
746 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
747
748 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
749 reload the unit file anyway
750
751 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
752 from the SIGBUS handler
753
754 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
755
756 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
757 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
758
759 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
760
761 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
762 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
763
764 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
765 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
766 specifications.
767
768 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
769
770 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
771
772 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
773
774 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
775 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
776 prefixed with /sys generally special.
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
778
779 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
780
781 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
782
783 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
784 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
785 state.
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
787
788 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
789 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
790 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
791 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
792 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
793
794 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
796
797 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
798
799 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
800 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
801
802 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
803 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
804 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
805 do, for example)
806
807 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
808 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
809
810 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
811 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
812
813 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
814
815 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
816 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
817 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
818 returning from the "systemctl stop".
819
820 * 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
821
822 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
823
824 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
825 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
826
827 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
828
829 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
830
831 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
832 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
833
834 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
835
836 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
837
838 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
839
840 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
841 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
842
843 * resolved:
844 - mDNS/DNS-SD
845 - service registration
846 - service/domain/types browsing
847 - avahi compat
848 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
849 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
850 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
851 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
852 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
853 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
854
855 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
856
857 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
858
859 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
860
861 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
862 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
863
864 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
865
866 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
867
868 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
869
870 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
871 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
872
873 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
874
875 * gpt-auto-generator:
876 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
877 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
878
879 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
880 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
881 when it is otherwise off
882
883 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
884
885 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
886 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
887 for ReusePort=
888
889 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
890 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
891 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
892 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
893 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
894 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
895
896 * cgroups:
897 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
898 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
899 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
900 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
901 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
902 the hierarchies of child processes
903
904 * transient units:
905 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
906
907 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
908
909 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
910
911 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
912
913 * 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
914
915 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
916
917 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
918 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
919 path anyway.
920
921 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
922
923 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
924
925 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
926
927 * sd-bus:
928 - EBADSLT handling
929 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
930 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
931 - 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
932 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
933 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
934 - longer term: priority inheritance
935 - dbus spec updates:
936 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
937 - GVariant
938 - path escaping
939 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
940
941 * sd-event
942 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
943 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
944 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
945 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
946 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
947 here:
948 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
949
950 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
951
952 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
953 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
954
955 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
956
957 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
958
959 * test/:
960 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
961
962 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
963 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
964 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
965 destination.
966
967 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
968 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
969
970 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
971
972 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
973 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
974 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
975
976 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
977 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
978 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
979 is installed.
980
981 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
982 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
983 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
984 that automatically.
985
986 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
987
988 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
989
990 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
991
992 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
993
994 * EFI:
995 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
996 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
997 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
998 * bootctl
999 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1000
1001 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1002
1003 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1004
1005 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1006
1007 * logind:
1008 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1009 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1010 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1011 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1012 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1013 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1014 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1015 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1016 needs setuid().
1017 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1018 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1019 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1020 complete.
1021 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1022 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1023 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1024 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1025 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1026 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1027 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1028 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1029 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1030 relogins
1031 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1032
1033 * journal:
1034 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1035 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1036 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1037 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1038 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1039 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1040 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1041 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1042 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1043 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1044 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1045 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1046 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1047 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1048 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1049 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1050 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1051 - 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.
1052 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1053 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1054 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1055 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1056 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1057 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1058 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1059 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1060 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1061 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1062 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1063 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1064 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1065 to syslog when it works again.
1066 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1067 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1068 journals in.
1069 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1070 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1071 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1072 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1073 the most common operations.
1074 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1075 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1076 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1077 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1078 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1079 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1080 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1081 operation.
1082 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1083 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1084 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1085 binary logs data
1086 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1087 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1088 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1089 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1090 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1091 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1092
1093 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1094 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1095 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1096 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1097
1098 * document:
1099 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1100 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1101 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1102 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1103 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1104 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1105 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1106 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1107 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1108 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1109 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1110 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1111
1112 * systemctl:
1113 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1114 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1115 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1116 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1117 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1118 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1119 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1120 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1121 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1122 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1123
1124 * unit install:
1125 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1126 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1127
1128 * timer units:
1129 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1130 o DST changes
1131 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1132
1133 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1134
1135 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1136
1137 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1138
1139 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1140
1141 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1142
1143 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1144
1145 * nspawn:
1146 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1147 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1148 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1149 from the kernel's logs.
1150 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1151 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1152 interface be missing
1153 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1154 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1155 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1156 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1157 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1158 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1159 PID 1...
1160 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1161 running, remove them when shut down.
1162
1163 * dissect
1164 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1165 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1166
1167 * machined:
1168 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1169 removed or added to an existing machine
1170 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1171 difference host, via ssh
1172 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1173 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1174 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1175 question
1176 - "machinectl history"
1177 - "machinectl diff"
1178 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1179 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1180
1181 * cryptsetup:
1182 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1183 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1184
1185 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1186 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1187
1188 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1189
1190 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1191
1192 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1193
1194 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1195
1196 * udev:
1197 - move to LGPL
1198 - kill scsi_id
1199 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1200 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1201
1202 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1203
1204 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1205
1206 * coredump:
1207 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1208 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1209
1210 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1211
1212 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1213 needs to be auto-respawned?
1214
1215 * tmpfiles:
1216 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1217 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1218 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1219 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1220 calls follow symlinks.
1221
1222 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1223
1224 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1225 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1226 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1227
1228 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1229 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1230
1231 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1232
1233 * write blog stories about:
1234 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1235 - enabling dbus services
1236 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1237 - remote access
1238 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1239 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1240 - auto-restart
1241 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1242 - the journal HTTP iface
1243 - non-cgroup resource management
1244 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1245 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1246 - calendar time events
1247 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1248 - how to create your own target
1249 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1250 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1251
1252 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1253
1254 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1255
1256 * pid1:
1257 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1258 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1259 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1260 that are not supported...
1261 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1262 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1263 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1264 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1265 - move PAM code into its own binary
1266 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1267 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1268 - Support --test based on current system state
1269 - 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().
1270 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1271 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1272 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1273 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1274 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1275 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1276 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1277 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1278 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1279
1280 * unit files:
1281 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1282 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1283 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1284 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1285 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1286 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1287 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1288 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1289 - introduce Type=pid-file
1290 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1291 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1292 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1293 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1294
1295 * udev-link-config:
1296 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1297 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1298 on Path= matching
1299
1300 * sd-rtnl:
1301 - add support for more attribute types
1302 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1303
1304 * networkd:
1305 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1306 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1307 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1308 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1309 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1310 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1311 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1312 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1313 - expose in the API the following bits:
1314 - option 15, domain name
1315 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1316 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1317 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1318 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1319 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1320 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1321 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1322 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1323 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1324
1325 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1326
1327 * dhcp:
1328 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1329
1330 * dhcp6:
1331 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1332 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1333 - write more test cases
1334 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1335 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1336 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1337 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1338 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1339 or interface down
1340 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1341 this behavior
1342 - RouteTable= ?
1343
1344 External:
1345
1346 * dbus:
1347 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1348 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1349
1350 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1351
1352 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1353
1354 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1355
1356 * 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=
1357
1358 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1359
1360 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1361
1362 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1363
1364 * zsh shell completion:
1365 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1366 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1367
1368 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1369 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1370 after being started.
1371
1372 Regularly:
1373
1374 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1375
1376 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1377
1378 * pahole
1379
1380 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1381
1382 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1383
1384 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1385 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment