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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
23 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
24
25 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
26
27 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
28 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
29
30 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
31 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
32 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
33 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
34 anything like that.
35
36 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
37 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
38 user's journal stream down but not the others.
39
40 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
41 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
42 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
43
44 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
45 these days
46
47 * nspawn: support time namespaces
48
49 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
50 reading/writing files
51
52 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
53
54 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
55 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
56
57 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
58
59 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
60
61 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
62 when it exits
63
64 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
65 o turn into dlopen() deps:
66 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
67 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
68 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
69 firstboot
70 - elfutils (always)
71 - p11-kit-trust (always)
72 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
73 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
74 - similar: libblkid
75 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
76 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
77 since they are so basic and our defaults)
78 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
79 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
80
81 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
82 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
83 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
84
85 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
86 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
87 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
88
89 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
90 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
91
92 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
93 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
94 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
95
96 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
97 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
98 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
99 systemd-firstboot)
100
101 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
102
103 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
104 specific service
105
106 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
107
108 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
109 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
110 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
111 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
112 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
113 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
114 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
115 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
116
117 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
118 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
119
120 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
121 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
122
123 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
124 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
125 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
126
127 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
128 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
129 signature
130
131 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
132 and insert a local signature instead.
133
134 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
135 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
136 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
137 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
138 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
139
140 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
141
142 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
143 easily?
144
145 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
146 exists and responds.
147
148 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
149 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
150 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
151 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
152 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
153
154 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
155 also in plain cryptsetup)
156
157 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
158 creates
159
160 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
161 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
162 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
163 hence we can make them quicker to work.
164
165 * bootctl:
166 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
167 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
168 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
169
170 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
171 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
172 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
173
174 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
175 allow so that systemd survives
176
177 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
178 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
179
180 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
181 systemd-makefs.service instead.
182
183 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
184 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
185
186 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
187 confusion is gone)
188 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
189 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
190 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
191 - port importd over from libgcrypt
192 - when that's done: kill khash.c
193 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
194
195 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
196
197 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
198
199 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
200 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
201
202 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
203 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
204 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
205 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
206 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
207
208 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
209 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
210 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
211 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
212
213 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
214 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
215 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
216 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
217 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
218 automatically.
219
220 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
221 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
222
223 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
224 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
225
226 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
227
228 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
229 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
230 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
231 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
232 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
233 fails to apply use the latter.
234
235 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
236 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
237
238 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
239 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
240
241 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
242 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
243 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
244
245 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
246 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
247
248 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
249 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
250
251 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
252 realname substr searches in varlink API
253
254 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
255
256 * userdb: allow existence checks
257
258 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
259
260 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
261 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
262 initrd had set.
263
264 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
265 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
266 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
267 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
268 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
269 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
270
271 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
272 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
273 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
274
275 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
276 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
277 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
278 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
279 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
280 source.
281
282 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
283 with immutable /usr
284
285 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
286 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
287 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
288
289 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
290
291 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
292 the hibernation
293
294 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
295 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
296 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
297 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
298 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
299 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
300 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
301 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
302 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
303 hibernation mode. (see
304 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
305 section 10.2.2.8 and
306 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
307 at the end).
308
309 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
310 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
311 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
312 output for them.
313
314 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
315 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
316
317 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
318 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
319 constant vendor data.
320
321 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
322
323 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
324 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
325
326 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
327 fallback in "machinectl shell"
328
329 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
330 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
331 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
332
333 * homed:
334 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
335 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
336 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
337 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
338 - resize on login?
339 - shrink fs on logout?
340 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
341 - create on activate?
342 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
343 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
344 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
345 systemd --user is shut down.
346 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
347 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
348 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
349 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
350 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
351 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
352 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
353 - description field for groups
354 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
355 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
356 - query password from kernel keyring first
357 - update even if record is "absent"
358 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
359 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
360 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
361 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
362 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
363 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
364 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
365 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
366 either from UI when disk space gets low
367
368 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
369 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
370 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
371 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
372 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
373 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
374 exec().
375
376 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
377
378 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
379 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
380
381 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
382
383 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
384 gnome-bluetooth and friends
385
386 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
387 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
388 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
389 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
390 cgroup.
391
392 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
393 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
394 root.
395
396 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
397 is issued.
398
399 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
400
401 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
402
403 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
404 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
405 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
406
407 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
408 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
409 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
410
411 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
412 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
413 ConfigurationDirectory=.
414
415 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
416
417 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
418
419 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
420 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
421
422 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
423 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
424 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
425
426 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
427
428 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
429 patching around
430
431 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
432 log.c and sd-journal-send
433
434 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
435
436 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
437
438 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
439 can add in file system drivers and such
440
441 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
442 non-zero "tries done" count
443
444 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
445 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
446 it should skip the variant type string though.
447
448 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
449 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
450 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
451 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
452 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
453 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
454 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
455 CODE_FILE.
456
457 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
458 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
459 some explanatory text online.
460
461 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
462
463 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
464 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
465 the slices, and the units attached to them.
466
467 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
468 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
469 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
470 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
471 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
472 way)
473
474 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
475 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
476 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
477
478 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
479 original defaults before calling parse_config()
480
481 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
482
483 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
484 Specifically:
485
486 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
487 properly)
488 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
489 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
490
491 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
492 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
493
494 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
495 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
496 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
497 files and suchlike we operate on.
498
499 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
500
501 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
502
503 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
504 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
505
506 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
507 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
508 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
509 numbers.
510
511 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
512 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
513 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
514 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
515 unlinked from any dir.
516
517 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
518
519 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
520
521 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
522
523 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
524 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
525 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
526 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
527 should reflink the image file itself.
528
529 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
530 specific paths only like this.
531
532 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
533 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
534 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
535 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
536 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
537
538 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
539
540 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
541
542 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
543 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
544
545 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
546 project quota
547
548 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
549 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
550 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
551 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
552 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
553 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
554 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
555 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
556
557 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
558 for root, but only then.
559
560 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
561
562 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
563 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
564
565 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
566 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
567
568 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
569 host-side interface pointing to the container.
570
571 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
572 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
573 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
574 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
575 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
576
577 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
578
579 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
580
581 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
582 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
583 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
584
585 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
586
587 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
588 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
589
590 * blog about fd store and restartable services
591
592 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
593
594 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
595 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
596
597 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
598 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
599 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
600 ID is available.
601
602 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
603 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
604 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
605
606 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
607 parameters
608
609 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
610 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
611 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
612 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
613 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
614 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
615 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
616
617 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
618 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
619
620 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
621 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
622 wait to retrieve their exit data.
623
624 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
625 about it in the resource log message
626
627 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
628 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
629
630 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
631 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
632 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
633
634 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
635 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
636
637 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
638
639 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
640 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
641 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
642 logging.
643
644 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
645 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
646 "convertible" form factor
647
648 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
649 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
650 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
651 as MAINPID.
652
653 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
654 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
655 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
656
657 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
658 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
659
660 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
661 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
662 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
663 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
664 natural habitat.
665
666 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
667 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
668 /usr is mounted into.
669
670 * 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
671
672 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
673
674 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
675 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
676 relative to the configured default value.
677
678 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
679
680 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
681
682 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
683
684 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
685
686 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
687
688 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
689
690 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
691
692 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
693
694 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
695
696 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
697
698 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
699 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
700 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
701
702 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
703
704 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
705
706 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
707 partitions
708
709 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
710 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
711 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
712 mapping to work.
713
714 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
715
716 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
717
718 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
719
720 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
721 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
722
723 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
724 reload the unit file anyway
725
726 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
727 from the SIGBUS handler
728
729 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
730
731 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
732 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
733
734 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
735
736 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
737 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
738
739 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
740 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
741 specifications.
742
743 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
744
745 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
746
747 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
748
749 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
750 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
751 prefixed with /sys generally special.
752 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
753
754 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
755
756 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
757
758 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
759 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
760 state.
761 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
762
763 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
764 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
765 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
766 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
767 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
768
769 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
770 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
771
772 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
773
774 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
775 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
776
777 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
778 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
779 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
780 do, for example)
781
782 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
783 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
784
785 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
787
788 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
789
790 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
791 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
792 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
793 returning from the "systemctl stop".
794
795 * 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
796
797 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
798
799 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
800 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
801
802 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
803
804 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
805
806 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
807 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
808
809 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
810
811 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
812
813 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
814
815 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
816 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
817
818 * resolved:
819 - mDNS/DNS-SD
820 - service registration
821 - service/domain/types browsing
822 - avahi compat
823 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
824 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
825 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
826 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
827 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
828 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
829
830 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
831
832 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
833
834 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
835
836 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
837 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
838
839 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
840
841 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
842
843 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
844
845 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
846 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
847
848 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
849
850 * gpt-auto-generator:
851 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
852 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
853
854 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
855 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
856 when it is otherwise off
857
858 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
859
860 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
861 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
862 for ReusePort=
863
864 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
865 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
866 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
867 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
868 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
869 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
870
871 * cgroups:
872 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
873 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
874 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
875 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
876 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
877 the hierarchies of child processes
878
879 * transient units:
880 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
881
882 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
883
884 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
885
886 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
887
888 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
889
890 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
891
892 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
893 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
894 path anyway.
895
896 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
897
898 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
899
900 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
901
902 * sd-bus:
903 - EBADSLT handling
904 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
905 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
906 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
907 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
908 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
909 - longer term: priority inheritance
910 - dbus spec updates:
911 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
912 - GVariant
913 - path escaping
914 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
915
916 * sd-event
917 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
918 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
919 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
920
921 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
922
923 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
924 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
925
926 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
927
928 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
929
930 * test/:
931 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
932
933 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
934 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
935 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
936 destination.
937
938 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
939 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
940
941 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
942
943 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
944 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
945 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
946
947 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
948 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
949 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
950 is installed.
951
952 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
953 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
954 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
955 that automatically.
956
957 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
958
959 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
960
961 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
962
963 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
964
965 * EFI:
966 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
967 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
968 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
969 * bootctl
970 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
971
972 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
973
974 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
975
976 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
977
978 * logind:
979 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
980 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
981 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
982 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
983 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
984 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
985 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
986 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
987 needs setuid().
988 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
989 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
990 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
991 complete.
992 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
993 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
994 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
995 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
996 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
997 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
998 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
999 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1000 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1001 relogins
1002 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1003
1004 * journal:
1005 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1006 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1007 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1008 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1009 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1010 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1011 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1012 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1013 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1014 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1015 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1016 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1017 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1018 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1019 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1020 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1021 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1022 - 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.
1023 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1024 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1025 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1026 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1027 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1028 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1029 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1030 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1031 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1032 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1033 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1034 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1035 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1036 to syslog when it works again.
1037 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1038 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1039 journals in.
1040 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1041 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1042 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1043 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1044 the most common operations.
1045 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1046 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1047 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1048 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1049 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1050 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1051 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1052 operation.
1053 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1054 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1055 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1056 binary logs data
1057 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1058 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1059 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1060 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1061 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1062
1063 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1064 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1065 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1066 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1067
1068 * document:
1069 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1070 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1071 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1072 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1073 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1074 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1075 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1076 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1077 - man: add more examples to man pages
1078 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1079 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1080
1081 * systemctl:
1082 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1083 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1084 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1085 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1086 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1087 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1088 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1089 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1090 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1091 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1092
1093 * unit install:
1094 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1095 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1096
1097 * timer units:
1098 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1099 o DST changes
1100 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1101
1102 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1103
1104 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1105
1106 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1107
1108 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1109
1110 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1111
1112 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1113
1114 * nspawn:
1115 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1116 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1117 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1118 from the kernel's logs.
1119 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1120 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1121 interface be missing
1122 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1123 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1124 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1125 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1126 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1127 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1128 PID 1...
1129 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1130 running, remove them when shut down.
1131
1132 * dissect
1133 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1134 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1135
1136 * machined:
1137 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1138 removed or added to an existing machine
1139 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1140 difference host, via ssh
1141 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1142 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1143 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1144 question
1145 - "machinectl history"
1146 - "machinectl diff"
1147 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1148 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1149
1150 * cryptsetup:
1151 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1152 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1153
1154 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1155 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1156
1157 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1158
1159 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1160
1161 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1162
1163 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1164
1165 * udev:
1166 - move to LGPL
1167 - kill scsi_id
1168 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1169 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1170
1171 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1172
1173 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1174
1175 * coredump:
1176 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1177 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1178
1179 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1180
1181 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1182 needs to be auto-respawned?
1183
1184 * tmpfiles:
1185 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1186 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1187 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1188 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1189 calls follow symlinks.
1190
1191 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1192
1193 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1194 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1195 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1196
1197 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1198 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1199
1200 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1201
1202 * write blog stories about:
1203 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1204 - enabling dbus services
1205 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1206 - remote access
1207 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1208 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1209 - auto-restart
1210 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1211 - the journal HTTP iface
1212 - non-cgroup resource management
1213 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1214 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1215 - calendar time events
1216 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1217 - how to create your own target
1218 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1219 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1220
1221 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1222
1223 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1224
1225 * pid1:
1226 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1227 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1228 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1229 that are not supported...
1230 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1231 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1232 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1233 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1234 - move PAM code into its own binary
1235 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1236 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1237 - Support --test based on current system state
1238 - 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().
1239 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1240 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1241 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1242 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1243 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1244 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1245 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1246 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1247 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1248
1249 * unit files:
1250 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1251 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1252 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1253 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1254 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1255 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1256 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1257 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1258 - introduce Type=pid-file
1259 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1260 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1261 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1262 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1263
1264 * udev-link-config:
1265 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1266 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1267 on Path= matching
1268
1269 * sd-rtnl:
1270 - add support for more attribute types
1271 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1272
1273 * networkd:
1274 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1275 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1276 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1277 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1278 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1279 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1280 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1281 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1282 - expose in the API the following bits:
1283 - option 15, domain name
1284 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1285 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1286 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1287 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1288 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1289 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1290 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1291 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1292 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1293
1294 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1295
1296 * dhcp:
1297 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1298
1299 * dhcp6:
1300 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1301 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1302 - write more test cases
1303 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1304 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1305 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1306 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1307 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1308 or interface down
1309 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1310 this behavior
1311 - RouteTable= ?
1312
1313 External:
1314
1315 * dbus:
1316 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1317 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1318
1319 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1320
1321 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1322
1323 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1324
1325 * 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=
1326
1327 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1328
1329 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1330
1331 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1332
1333 * zsh shell completion:
1334 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1335 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1336
1337 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1338 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1339 after being started.
1340
1341 Regularly:
1342
1343 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1344
1345 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1346
1347 * pahole
1348
1349 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1350
1351 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1352
1353 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1354 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment