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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
16 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
18 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
21 Features:
22
23 * add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
24 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
25 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
26 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
27 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
28 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
29 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
30 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
31
32 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
33 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
34 temporary dir.
35
36 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
37 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
38
39 * homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
40 (autofs and such) while user is loged in.
41
42 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
43
44 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
45
46 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
47 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
48
49 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
50 so, freeze the payload too.
51
52 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
53
54 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
55 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
56 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
57
58 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
59 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
60 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
61
62 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
63
64 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
65 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
66
67 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
68 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
69 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
70 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
71 anything like that.
72
73 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
74 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
75 user's journal stream down but not the others.
76
77 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
78 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
79 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
80
81 * nspawn: support time namespaces
82
83 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
84 reading/writing files
85
86 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
87
88 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
89 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
90
91 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
92
93 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
94
95 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
96 when it exits
97
98 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
99 o turn into dlopen() deps:
100 - libidn2 (always)
101 - elfutils (always)
102 - p11-kit-trust (always)
103 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
104 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
105 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
106 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
107 since they are so basic and our defaults)
108 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
109 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
110
111 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
112 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
113 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
114
115 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
116 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
117 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
118
119 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
120 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
121
122 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
123 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
124 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
125 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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 * credentials system:
135 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
136 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
137 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
138 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
139 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
140 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
141 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
142 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
143 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
144 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
145 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
146
147 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
148 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
149 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
150
151 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
152 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
153 signature
154
155 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
156 and insert a local signature instead.
157
158 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
159 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
160 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
161 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
162 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
163
164 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
165
166 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
167 easily?
168
169 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
170 exists and responds.
171
172 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
173 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
174 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
175 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
176 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
177
178 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
179 also in plain cryptsetup)
180
181 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
182 creates
183
184 * bootctl:
185 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
186 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
187 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
188
189 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
190 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
191 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
192
193 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
194 allow so that systemd survives
195
196 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
197 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
198
199 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
200 systemd-makefs.service instead.
201
202 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
203 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
204
205 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
206 confusion is gone)
207 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
208 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
209 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
210 - port importd over from libgcrypt
211 - when that's done: kill khash.c
212 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
213
214 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
215
216 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
217 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
218
219 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
220 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
221 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
222 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
223 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
224
225 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
226 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
227 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
228 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
229
230 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
231 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
232 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
233 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
234 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
235 automatically.
236
237 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
238 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
239
240 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
241
242 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
243 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
244 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
245 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
246 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
247 fails to apply use the latter.
248
249 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
250 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
251
252 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
253 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
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 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
325 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
326 constant vendor data.
327
328 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
329
330 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
331 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
332
333 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
334 fallback in "machinectl shell"
335
336 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
337 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
338 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
339
340 * homed:
341 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
342 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
343 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
344 - resize on login?
345 - shrink fs on logout?
346 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
347 - create on activate?
348 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
349 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
350 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
351 systemd --user is shut down.
352 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
353 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
354 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
355 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
356 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
357 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
358 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
359 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
360 - query password from kernel keyring first
361 - update even if record is "absent"
362 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
363 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
364 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
365 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
366 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
367 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
368 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
369 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
370 either from UI when disk space gets low
371
372 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
373 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
374 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
375 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
376 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
377 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
378 exec().
379
380 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
381
382 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
383 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
384
385 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
386
387 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
388 gnome-bluetooth and friends
389
390 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
391 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
392 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
393 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
394 cgroup.
395
396 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
397 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
398 root.
399
400 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
401 is issued.
402
403 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
404
405 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
406
407 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
408 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
409 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
410
411 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
412 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
413 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
414
415 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
416 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
417 ConfigurationDirectory=.
418
419 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
420
421 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
422
423 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
424 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
425
426 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
427 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
428 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
429
430 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
431
432 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
433 patching around
434
435 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
436 log.c and sd-journal-send
437
438 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
439
440 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
441
442 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
443 can add in file system drivers and such
444
445 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
446 non-zero "tries done" count
447
448 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
449 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
450 it should skip the variant type string though.
451
452 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
453 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
454 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
455 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
456 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
457 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
458 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
459 CODE_FILE.
460
461 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
462 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
463 some explanatory text online.
464
465 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
466
467 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
468 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
469 the slices, and the units attached to them.
470
471 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
472 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
473 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
474 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
475 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
476 way)
477
478 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
479 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
480 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
481
482 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
483 original defaults before calling parse_config()
484
485 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
486
487 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
488 Specifically:
489
490 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
491 properly)
492 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
493 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
494
495 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
496 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
497
498 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
499 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
500 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
501 files and suchlike we operate on.
502
503 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
504
505 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
506
507 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
508 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
509
510 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
511 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
512 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
513 numbers.
514
515 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
516 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
517 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
518 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
519 unlinked from any dir.
520
521 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
522
523 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
524
525 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
526
527 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
528 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
529 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
530 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
531 should reflink the image file itself.
532
533 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
534 specific paths only like this.
535
536 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
537 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
538 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
539 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
540 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
541
542 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
543
544 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
545
546 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
547 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
548
549 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
550 project quota
551
552 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
553 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
554 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
555 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
556 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
557 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
558 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
559 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
560
561 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
562 for root, but only then.
563
564 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
565
566 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
567 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
568
569 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
570 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
571
572 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
573 only when used. Add unit tests.
574
575 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
576 host-side interface pointing to the container.
577
578 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
579 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
580 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
581 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
582 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
583
584 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
585
586 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
587
588 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
589 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
590 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
591
592 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
593
594 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
595 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
596
597 * blog about fd store and restartable services
598
599 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
600
601 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
602 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
603
604 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
605 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
606 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
607 ID is available.
608
609 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
610 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
611 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
612
613 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
614 parameters
615
616 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
617 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
618 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
619 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
620 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
621 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
622 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
623
624 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
625 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
626
627 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
628 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
629 wait to retrieve their exit data.
630
631 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
632 about it in the resource log message
633
634 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
635 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
636
637 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
638 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
639 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
640
641 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
642 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
643
644 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
645
646 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
647 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
648 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
649 logging.
650
651 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
652 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
653 "convertible" form factor
654
655 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
656 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
657 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
658
659 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
660 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
661
662 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
663 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
664 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
665 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
666 natural habitat.
667
668 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
669 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
670 /usr is mounted into.
671
672 * 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
673
674 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
675
676 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
677 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
678 relative to the configured default value.
679
680 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
681
682 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
683
684 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
685
686 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
687
688 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
689
690 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
691
692 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
693
694 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
695
696 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
697
698 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
699
700 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
701 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
702 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
703
704 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
705
706 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
707
708 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
709 partitions
710
711 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
712 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
713 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
714 mapping to work.
715
716 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
717
718 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
719
720 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
721
722 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
723 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
724
725 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
726 reload the unit file anyway
727
728 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
729 from the SIGBUS handler
730
731 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
732
733 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
734 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
735
736 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
737
738 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
739 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
740
741 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
742 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
743 specifications.
744
745 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
746
747 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
748
749 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
750
751 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
752 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
753 prefixed with /sys generally special.
754 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
755
756 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
757
758 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
759
760 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
761 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
762 state.
763 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
764
765 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
766 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
767 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
768 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
769 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
770
771 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
772 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
773
774 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
775
776 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
778
779 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
780 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
781 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
782 do, for example)
783
784 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
785 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
786
787 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
788 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
789
790 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
791
792 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
793 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
794 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
795 returning from the "systemctl stop".
796
797 * 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
798
799 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
800
801 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
802 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
803
804 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
805
806 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
807
808 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
809 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
810
811 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
812
813 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
814
815 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
816
817 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
818 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
819
820 * resolved:
821 - mDNS/DNS-SD
822 - service registration
823 - service/domain/types browsing
824 - avahi compat
825 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
826 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
827 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
828 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
829 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
830 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
831
832 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
833
834 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
835
836 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
837
838 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
839
840 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
841
842 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
843
844 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
845 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
846
847 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
848
849 * gpt-auto-generator:
850 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
851 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
852
853 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
854 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
855 when it is otherwise off
856
857 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
858
859 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
860 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
861 for ReusePort=
862
863 * cgroups:
864 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
865 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
866 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
867 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
868 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
869 the hierarchies of child processes
870
871 * transient units:
872 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
873
874 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
875
876 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
877
878 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
879
880 * 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
881
882 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
883
884 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
885 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
886 path anyway.
887
888 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
889
890 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
891
892 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
893
894 * sd-bus:
895 - EBADSLT handling
896 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
897 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
898 - 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
899 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
900 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
901 - longer term: priority inheritance
902 - dbus spec updates:
903 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
904 - GVariant
905 - path escaping
906 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
907
908 * sd-event
909 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
910 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
911 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
912 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
913 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
914 here:
915 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
916
917 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
918
919 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
920 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
921
922 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
923
924 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
925
926 * test/:
927 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
928
929 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
930 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
931 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
932 destination.
933
934 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
935 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
936
937 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
938
939 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
940 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
941 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
942
943 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
944 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
945 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
946 is installed.
947
948 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
949 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
950 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
951 that automatically.
952
953 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
954
955 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
956
957 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
958
959 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
960
961 * EFI:
962 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
963 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
964 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
965 * bootctl
966 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
967
968 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
969
970 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
971
972 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
973
974 * logind:
975 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
976 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
977 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
978 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
979 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
980 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
981 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
982 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
983 needs setuid().
984 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
985 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
986 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
987 complete.
988 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
989 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
990 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
991 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
992 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
993 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
994 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
995 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
996 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
997 relogins
998 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
999
1000 * journal:
1001 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1002 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1003 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1004 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1005 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1006 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1007 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1008 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1009 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1010 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1011 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1012 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1013 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1014 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1015 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1016 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1017 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1018 - 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.
1019 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1020 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1021 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1022 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1023 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1024 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1025 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1026 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1027 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1028 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1029 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1030 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1031 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1032 to syslog when it works again.
1033 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1034 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1035 journals in.
1036 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1037 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1038 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1039 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1040 the most common operations.
1041 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1042 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1043 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1044 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1045 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1046 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1047 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1048 operation.
1049 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1050 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1051 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1052 binary logs data
1053 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1054 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1055 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1056 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1057 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1058 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1059
1060 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1061 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1062 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1063 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1064
1065 * document:
1066 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1067 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1068 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1069 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1070 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1071 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1072 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1073 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1074 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1075 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1076 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1077 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1078
1079 * systemctl:
1080 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1081 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1082 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1083 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1084 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1085 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1086 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1087 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1088 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1089 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1090
1091 * unit install:
1092 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1093 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1094
1095 * timer units:
1096 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1097 o DST changes
1098 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1099
1100 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1101
1102 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1103
1104 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1105
1106 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1107
1108 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1109
1110 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1111
1112 * nspawn:
1113 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1114 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1115 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1116 from the kernel's logs.
1117 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1118 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1119 interface be missing
1120 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1121 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1122 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1123 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1124 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1125 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1126 PID 1...
1127 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1128 running, remove them when shut down.
1129
1130 * machined:
1131 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1132 removed or added to an existing machine
1133 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1134 difference host, via ssh
1135 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1136 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1137 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1138 question
1139 - "machinectl history"
1140 - "machinectl diff"
1141 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1142 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1143
1144 * cryptsetup:
1145 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1146 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1147
1148 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1149 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1150
1151 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1152
1153 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1154
1155 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1156
1157 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1158
1159 * udev:
1160 - move to LGPL
1161 - kill scsi_id
1162 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1163 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1164
1165 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1166
1167 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1168
1169 * coredump:
1170 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1171 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1172
1173 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1174
1175 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1176 needs to be auto-respawned?
1177
1178 * tmpfiles:
1179 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1180 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1181 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1182 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1183 calls follow symlinks.
1184
1185 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1186
1187 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1188 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1189 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1190
1191 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1192 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1193
1194 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1195
1196 * write blog stories about:
1197 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1198 - enabling dbus services
1199 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1200 - remote access
1201 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1202 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1203 - auto-restart
1204 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1205 - the journal HTTP iface
1206 - non-cgroup resource management
1207 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1208 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1209 - calendar time events
1210 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1211 - how to create your own target
1212 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1213 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1214
1215 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1216
1217 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1218
1219 * pid1:
1220 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1221 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1222 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1223 that are not supported...
1224 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1225 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1226 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1227 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1228 - move PAM code into its own binary
1229 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1230 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1231 - Support --test based on current system state
1232 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1233 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1234 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1235 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1236 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1237 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1238 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1239 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1240 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1241 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1242
1243 * unit files:
1244 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1245 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1246 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1247 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1248 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1249 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1250 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1251 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1252 - introduce Type=pid-file
1253 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1254 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1255 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1256 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1257
1258 * udev-link-config:
1259 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1260 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1261 on Path= matching
1262
1263 * sd-rtnl:
1264 - add support for more attribute types
1265 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1266
1267 * networkd:
1268 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1269 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1270 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1271 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1272 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1273 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1274 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1275 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1276 - expose in the API the following bits:
1277 - option 15, domain name
1278 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1279 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1280 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1281 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1282 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1283 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1284 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1285 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1286 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1287
1288 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1289
1290 * dhcp:
1291 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1292
1293 * dhcp6:
1294 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1295 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1296 - write more test cases
1297 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1298 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1299 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1300 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1301 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1302 or interface down
1303 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1304 this behavior
1305 - RouteTable= ?
1306
1307 External:
1308
1309 * dbus:
1310 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1311 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1312
1313 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1314
1315 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1316
1317 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1318
1319 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
1320
1321 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1322
1323 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1324
1325 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1326
1327 * zsh shell completion:
1328 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1329 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1330
1331 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1332 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1333 after being started.
1334
1335 Regularly:
1336
1337 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1338
1339 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1340
1341 * pahole
1342
1343 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1344
1345 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1346
1347 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1348 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment