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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 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
21
22 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
23 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
24 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
25
26 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
27 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
28 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
29
30 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
31 in and out of a disk image
32
33 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
34
35 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
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 that 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 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
60 reading/writing files
61
62 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
63
64 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
65 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
66
67 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
68
69 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
70
71 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
72 when it exits
73
74 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
75 o turn into dlopen() deps:
76 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
77 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
78 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
79 firstboot
80 - elfutils (always)
81 - p11-kit-trust (always)
82 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
83 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
84 - similar: libblkid
85 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
86 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
87 since they are so basic and our defaults)
88 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
89 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
90
91 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
92 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
93 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
94
95 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
96 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
97 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
98
99 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
100 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
101
102 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
103 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
104 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
105
106 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
107 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
108 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
109 systemd-firstboot)
110
111 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
112
113 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
114 specific service
115
116 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
117
118 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
119 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
120 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
121 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
122 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
123 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
124 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
125 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
126
127 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
128 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
129
130 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
131 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
132
133 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
134 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
135 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
136
137 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
138 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
139 signature
140
141 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
142 and insert a local signature instead.
143
144 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
145 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
146 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
147 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
148 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
149
150 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
151
152 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
153 easily?
154
155 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
156 exists and responds.
157
158 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
159 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
160 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
161 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
162 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
163
164 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
165 also in plain cryptsetup)
166
167 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
168 creates
169
170 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
171 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
172 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
173 hence we can make them quicker to work.
174
175 * bootctl:
176 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
177 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
178 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
179
180 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
181 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
182 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
183
184 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
185 allow so that systemd survives
186
187 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
188 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
189
190 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
191 systemd-makefs.service instead.
192
193 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
194 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
195
196 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
197 confusion is gone)
198 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
199 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
200 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
201 - port importd over from libgcrypt
202 - when that's done: kill khash.c
203 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
204
205 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
206
207 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
208
209 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
210 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
211
212 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
213 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
214 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
215 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
216 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
217
218 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
219 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
220 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
221 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
222
223 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
224 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
225 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
226 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
227 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
228 automatically.
229
230 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
231 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
232
233 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
234 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
235
236 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
237
238 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
239 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
240 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
241 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
242 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
243 fails to apply use the latter.
244
245 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
246 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
247
248 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
249 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
250
251 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
252 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
253 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
254
255 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
256 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
257
258 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
259 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
260
261 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
262 realname substr searches in varlink API
263
264 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
265
266 * userdb: allow existence checks
267
268 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
269
270 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
271 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
272 initrd had set.
273
274 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
275 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
276 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
277 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
278 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
279 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
280
281 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
282 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
283 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
284
285 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
286 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
287 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
288 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
289 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
290 source.
291
292 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
293 with immutable /usr
294
295 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
296 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
297 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
298
299 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
300
301 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
302 the hibernation
303
304 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
305 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
306 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
307 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
308 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
309 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
310 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
311 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
312 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
313 hibernation mode. (see
314 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
315 section 10.2.2.8 and
316 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
317 at the end).
318
319 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
320 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
321 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
322 output for them.
323
324 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
325 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
326
327 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
328 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
329 constant vendor data.
330
331 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
332
333 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
334 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
335
336 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
337 fallback in "machinectl shell"
338
339 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
340 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
341 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
342
343 * homed:
344 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
345 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
346 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
347 - resize on login?
348 - shrink fs on logout?
349 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
350 - create on activate?
351 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
352 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
353 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
354 systemd --user is shut down.
355 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
356 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
357 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
358 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
359 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
360 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
361 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
362 - description field for groups
363 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
364 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
365 - query password from kernel keyring first
366 - update even if record is "absent"
367 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
368 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
369 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
370 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
371 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
372 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
373 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
374 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
375 either from UI when disk space gets low
376
377 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
378 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
379 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
380 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
381 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
382 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
383 exec().
384
385 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
386
387 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
388 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
389
390 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
391
392 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
393 gnome-bluetooth and friends
394
395 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
396 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
397 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
398 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
399 cgroup.
400
401 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
402 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
403 root.
404
405 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
406 is issued.
407
408 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
409
410 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
411
412 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
413 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
414 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
415
416 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
417 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
418 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
419
420 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
421 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
422 ConfigurationDirectory=.
423
424 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
425
426 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
427
428 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
429 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
430
431 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
432 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
433 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
434
435 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
436
437 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
438 patching around
439
440 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
441 log.c and sd-journal-send
442
443 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
444
445 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
446
447 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
448 can add in file system drivers and such
449
450 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
451 non-zero "tries done" count
452
453 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
454 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
455 it should skip the variant type string though.
456
457 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
458 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
459 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
460 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
461 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
462 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
463 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
464 CODE_FILE.
465
466 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
467 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
468 some explanatory text online.
469
470 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
471
472 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
473 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
474 the slices, and the units attached to them.
475
476 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
477 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
478 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
479 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
480 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
481 way)
482
483 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
484 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
485 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
486
487 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
488 original defaults before calling parse_config()
489
490 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
491
492 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
493 Specifically:
494
495 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
496 properly)
497 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
498 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
499
500 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
501 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
502
503 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
504 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
505 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
506 files and suchlike we operate on.
507
508 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
509
510 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
511
512 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
513 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
514
515 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
516 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
517 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
518 numbers.
519
520 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
521 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
522 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
523 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
524 unlinked from any dir.
525
526 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
527
528 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
529
530 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
531
532 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
533 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
534 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
535 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
536 should reflink the image file itself.
537
538 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
539 specific paths only like this.
540
541 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
542 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
543 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
544 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
545 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
546
547 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
548
549 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
550
551 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
552 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
553
554 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
555 project quota
556
557 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
558 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
559 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
560 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
561 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
562 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
563 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
564 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
565
566 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
567 for root, but only then.
568
569 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
570
571 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
572 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
573
574 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
575 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
576
577 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
578 host-side interface pointing to the container.
579
580 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
581 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
582 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
583 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
584 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
585
586 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
587
588 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
589
590 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
591 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
592 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
593
594 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
595
596 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
597 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
598
599 * blog about fd store and restartable services
600
601 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
602
603 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
604 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
605
606 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
607 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
608 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
609 ID is available.
610
611 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
612 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
613 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
614
615 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
616 parameters
617
618 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
619 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
620 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
621 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
622 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
623 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
624 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
625
626 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
627 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
628
629 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
630 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
631 wait to retrieve their exit data.
632
633 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
634 about it in the resource log message
635
636 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
637 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
638
639 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
640 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
641 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
642
643 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
644 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
645
646 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
647
648 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
649 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
650 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
651 logging.
652
653 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
654 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
655 "convertible" form factor
656
657 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
658 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
659 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
660 as MAINPID.
661
662 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
663 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
664 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
665
666 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
667 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
668
669 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
670 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
671 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
672 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
673 natural habitat.
674
675 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
676 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
677 /usr is mounted into.
678
679 * 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
680
681 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
682
683 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
684 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
685 relative to the configured default value.
686
687 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
688
689 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
690
691 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
692
693 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
694
695 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
696
697 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
698
699 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
700
701 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
702
703 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
704
705 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
706
707 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
708 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
709 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
710
711 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
712
713 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
714
715 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
716 partitions
717
718 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
719 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
720 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
721 mapping to work.
722
723 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
724
725 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
726
727 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
728
729 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
730 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
731
732 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
733 reload the unit file anyway
734
735 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
736 from the SIGBUS handler
737
738 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
739
740 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
741 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
742
743 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
744
745 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
746 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
747
748 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
749 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
750 specifications.
751
752 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
753
754 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
755
756 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
757
758 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
759 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
760 prefixed with /sys generally special.
761 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
762
763 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
764
765 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
766
767 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
768 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
769 state.
770 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
771
772 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
773 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
774 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
775 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
776 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
777
778 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
779 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
780
781 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
782
783 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
784 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
785
786 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
787 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
788 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
789 do, for example)
790
791 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
792 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
793
794 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
796
797 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
798
799 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
800 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
801 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
802 returning from the "systemctl stop".
803
804 * 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
805
806 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
807
808 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
809 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
810
811 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
812
813 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
814
815 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
816 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
817
818 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
819
820 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
821
822 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
823
824 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
825 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
826
827 * resolved:
828 - mDNS/DNS-SD
829 - service registration
830 - service/domain/types browsing
831 - avahi compat
832 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
833 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
834 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
835 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
836 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
837 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
838
839 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
840
841 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
842
843 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
844
845 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
846 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
847
848 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
849
850 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
851
852 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
853
854 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
855 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
856
857 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
858
859 * gpt-auto-generator:
860 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
861 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
862
863 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
864 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
865 when it is otherwise off
866
867 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
868
869 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
870 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
871 for ReusePort=
872
873 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
874 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
875 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
876 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
877 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
878 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
879
880 * cgroups:
881 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
882 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
883 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
884 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
885 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
886 the hierarchies of child processes
887
888 * transient units:
889 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
890
891 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
892
893 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
894
895 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
896
897 * 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
898
899 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
900
901 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
902 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
903 path anyway.
904
905 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
906
907 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
908
909 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
910
911 * sd-bus:
912 - EBADSLT handling
913 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
914 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
915 - 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
916 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
917 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
918 - longer term: priority inheritance
919 - dbus spec updates:
920 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
921 - GVariant
922 - path escaping
923 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
924
925 * sd-event
926 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
927 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
928 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
929
930 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
931
932 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
933 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
934
935 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
936
937 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
938
939 * test/:
940 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
941
942 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
943 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
944 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
945 destination.
946
947 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
948 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
949
950 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
951
952 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
953 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
954 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
955
956 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
957 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
958 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
959 is installed.
960
961 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
962 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
963 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
964 that automatically.
965
966 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
967
968 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
969
970 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
971
972 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
973
974 * EFI:
975 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
976 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
977 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
978 * bootctl
979 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
980
981 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
982
983 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
984
985 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
986
987 * logind:
988 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
989 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
990 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
991 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
992 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
993 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
994 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
995 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
996 needs setuid().
997 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
998 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
999 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1000 complete.
1001 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1002 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1003 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1004 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1005 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1006 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1007 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1008 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1009 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1010 relogins
1011 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1012
1013 * journal:
1014 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1015 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1016 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1017 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1018 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1019 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1020 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1021 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1022 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1023 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1024 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1025 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1026 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1027 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1028 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1029 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1030 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1031 - 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.
1032 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1033 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1034 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1035 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1036 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1037 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1038 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1039 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1040 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1041 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1042 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1043 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1044 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1045 to syslog when it works again.
1046 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1047 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1048 journals in.
1049 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1050 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1051 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1052 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1053 the most common operations.
1054 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1055 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1056 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1057 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1058 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1059 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1060 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1061 operation.
1062 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1063 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1064 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1065 binary logs data
1066 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1067 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1068 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1069 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1070 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1071
1072 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1073 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1074 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1075 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1076
1077 * document:
1078 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1079 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1080 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1081 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1082 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1083 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1084 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1085 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1086 - man: add more examples to man pages
1087 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1088 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1089
1090 * systemctl:
1091 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1092 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1093 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1094 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1095 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1096 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1097 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1098 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1099 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1100 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1101
1102 * unit install:
1103 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1104 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1105
1106 * timer units:
1107 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1108 o DST changes
1109 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1110
1111 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1112
1113 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1114
1115 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1116
1117 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1118
1119 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1120
1121 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1122
1123 * nspawn:
1124 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1125 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1126 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1127 from the kernel's logs.
1128 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1129 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1130 interface be missing
1131 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1132 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1133 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1134 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1135 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1136 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1137 PID 1...
1138 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1139 running, remove them when shut down.
1140
1141 * dissect
1142 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1143 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1144
1145 * machined:
1146 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1147 removed or added to an existing machine
1148 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1149 difference host, via ssh
1150 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1151 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1152 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1153 question
1154 - "machinectl history"
1155 - "machinectl diff"
1156 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1157 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1158
1159 * cryptsetup:
1160 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1161 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1162
1163 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1164 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1165
1166 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1167
1168 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1169
1170 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1171
1172 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1173
1174 * udev:
1175 - move to LGPL
1176 - kill scsi_id
1177 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1178 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1179
1180 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1181
1182 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1183
1184 * coredump:
1185 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1186 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1187
1188 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1189
1190 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1191 needs to be auto-respawned?
1192
1193 * tmpfiles:
1194 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1195 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1196 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1197 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1198 calls follow symlinks.
1199
1200 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1201
1202 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1203 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1204 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1205
1206 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1207 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1208
1209 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1210
1211 * write blog stories about:
1212 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1213 - enabling dbus services
1214 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1215 - remote access
1216 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1217 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1218 - auto-restart
1219 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1220 - the journal HTTP iface
1221 - non-cgroup resource management
1222 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1223 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1224 - calendar time events
1225 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1226 - how to create your own target
1227 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1228 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1229
1230 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1231
1232 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1233
1234 * pid1:
1235 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1236 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1237 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1238 that are not supported...
1239 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1240 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1241 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1242 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1243 - move PAM code into its own binary
1244 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1245 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1246 - Support --test based on current system state
1247 - 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().
1248 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1249 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1250 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1251 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1252 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1253 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1254 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1255 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1256 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1257
1258 * unit files:
1259 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1260 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1261 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1262 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1263 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1264 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1265 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1266 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1267 - introduce Type=pid-file
1268 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1269 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1270 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1271 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1272
1273 * udev-link-config:
1274 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1275 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1276 on Path= matching
1277
1278 * sd-rtnl:
1279 - add support for more attribute types
1280 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1281
1282 * networkd:
1283 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1284 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1285 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1286 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1287 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1288 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1289 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1290 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1291 - expose in the API the following bits:
1292 - option 15, domain name
1293 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1294 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1295 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1296 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1297 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1298 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1299 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1300 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1301 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1302
1303 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1304
1305 * dhcp:
1306 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1307
1308 * dhcp6:
1309 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1310 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1311 - write more test cases
1312 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1313 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1314 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1315 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1316 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1317 or interface down
1318 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1319 this behavior
1320 - RouteTable= ?
1321
1322 External:
1323
1324 * dbus:
1325 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1326 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1327
1328 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1329
1330 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1331
1332 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1333
1334 * 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=
1335
1336 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1337
1338 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1339
1340 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1341
1342 * zsh shell completion:
1343 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1344 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1345
1346 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1347 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1348 after being started.
1349
1350 Regularly:
1351
1352 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1353
1354 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1355
1356 * pahole
1357
1358 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1359
1360 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1361
1362 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1363 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment