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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
23 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
24 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
25 container manager)
26
27 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
28 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
29
30 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
31
32 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
33 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
34 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
35
36 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
37 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
38 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
39
40 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
41 in and out of a disk image
42
43 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
44
45 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
46
47 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
48 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
49
50 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
51 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
52 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
53 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
54 anything like that.
55
56 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
57 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
58 user's journal stream down but not the others.
59
60 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
61 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
62 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
63
64 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
65 these days
66
67 * nspawn: support time namespaces
68
69 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
70 reading/writing files
71
72 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
73
74 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
75 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
76
77 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
78
79 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
80
81 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
82 when it exits
83
84 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
85 o turn into dlopen() deps:
86 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
87 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
88 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
89 firstboot
90 - elfutils (always)
91 - p11-kit-trust (always)
92 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
93 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
94 - similar: libblkid
95 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
96 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
97 since they are so basic and our defaults)
98 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
99 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
100
101 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
102 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
103 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
104
105 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
106 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
107 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
108
109 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
110 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
111
112 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
113 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
114 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
115
116 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
117 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
118 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
119 systemd-firstboot)
120
121 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
122
123 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
124 specific service
125
126 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
127
128 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
129 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
130 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
131 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
132 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
133 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
134 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
135 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
136
137 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
138 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
139
140 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
141 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
142
143 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
144 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
145 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
146
147 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
148 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
149 signature
150
151 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
152 and insert a local signature instead.
153
154 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
155 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
156 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
157 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
158 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
159
160 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
161
162 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
163 easily?
164
165 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
166 exists and responds.
167
168 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
169 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
170 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
171 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
172 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
173
174 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
175 also in plain cryptsetup)
176
177 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
178 creates
179
180 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
181 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
182 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
183 hence we can make them quicker to work.
184
185 * bootctl:
186 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
187 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
188 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
189
190 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
191 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
192 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
193
194 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
195 allow so that systemd survives
196
197 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
198 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
199
200 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
201 systemd-makefs.service instead.
202
203 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
204 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
205
206 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
207 confusion is gone)
208 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
209 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
210 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
211 - port importd over from libgcrypt
212 - when that's done: kill khash.c
213 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
214
215 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
216
217 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
218
219 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
220 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
221
222 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
223 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
224 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
225 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
226 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
227
228 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
229 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
230 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
231 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
232
233 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
234 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
235 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
236 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
237 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
238 automatically.
239
240 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
241 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
242
243 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
244 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
245
246 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
247
248 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
249 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
250 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
251 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
252 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
253 fails to apply use the latter.
254
255 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
256 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
257
258 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
259 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
260
261 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
262 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
263 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
264
265 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
266 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
267
268 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
269 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
270
271 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
272 realname substr searches in varlink API
273
274 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
275
276 * userdb: allow existence checks
277
278 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
279
280 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
281 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
282 initrd had set.
283
284 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
285 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
286 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
287 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
288 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
289 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
290
291 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
292 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
293 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
294
295 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
296 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
297 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
298 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
299 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
300 source.
301
302 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
303 with immutable /usr
304
305 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
306 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
307 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
308
309 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
310
311 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
312 the hibernation
313
314 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
315 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
316 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
317 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
318 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
319 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
320 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
321 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
322 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
323 hibernation mode. (see
324 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
325 section 10.2.2.8 and
326 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
327 at the end).
328
329 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
330 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
331 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
332 output for them.
333
334 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
335 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
336
337 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
338 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
339 constant vendor data.
340
341 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
342
343 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
344 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
345
346 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
347 fallback in "machinectl shell"
348
349 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
350 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
351 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
352
353 * homed:
354 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
355 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
356 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
357 - resize on login?
358 - shrink fs on logout?
359 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
360 - create on activate?
361 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
362 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
363 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
364 systemd --user is shut down.
365 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
366 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
367 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
368 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
369 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
370 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
371 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
372 - description field for groups
373 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
374 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
375 - query password from kernel keyring first
376 - update even if record is "absent"
377 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
378 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
379 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
380 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
381 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
382 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
383 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
384 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
385 either from UI when disk space gets low
386
387 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
388 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
389 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
390 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
391 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
392 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
393 exec().
394
395 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
396
397 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
398 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
399
400 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
401
402 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
403 gnome-bluetooth and friends
404
405 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
406 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
407 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
408 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
409 cgroup.
410
411 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
412 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
413 root.
414
415 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
416 is issued.
417
418 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
419
420 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
421
422 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
423 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
424 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
425
426 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
427 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
428 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
429
430 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
431 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
432 ConfigurationDirectory=.
433
434 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
435
436 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
437
438 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
439 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
440
441 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
442 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
443 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
444
445 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
446
447 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
448 patching around
449
450 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
451 log.c and sd-journal-send
452
453 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
454
455 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
456
457 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
458 can add in file system drivers and such
459
460 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
461 non-zero "tries done" count
462
463 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
464 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
465 it should skip the variant type string though.
466
467 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
468 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
469 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
470 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
471 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
472 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
473 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
474 CODE_FILE.
475
476 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
477 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
478 some explanatory text online.
479
480 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
481
482 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
483 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
484 the slices, and the units attached to them.
485
486 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
487 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
488 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
489 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
490 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
491 way)
492
493 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
494 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
495 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
496
497 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
498 original defaults before calling parse_config()
499
500 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
501
502 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
503 Specifically:
504
505 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
506 properly)
507 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
508 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
509
510 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
511 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
512
513 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
514 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
515 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
516 files and suchlike we operate on.
517
518 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
519
520 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
521
522 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
523 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
524
525 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
526 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
527 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
528 numbers.
529
530 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
531 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
532 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
533 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
534 unlinked from any dir.
535
536 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
537
538 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
539
540 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
541
542 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
543 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
544 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
545 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
546 should reflink the image file itself.
547
548 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
549 specific paths only like this.
550
551 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
552 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
553 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
554 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
555 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
556
557 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
558
559 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
560
561 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
562 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
563
564 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
565 project quota
566
567 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
568 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
569 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
570 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
571 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
572 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
573 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
574 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
575
576 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
577 for root, but only then.
578
579 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
580
581 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
582 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
583
584 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
585 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
586
587 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
588 host-side interface pointing to the container.
589
590 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
591 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
592 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
593 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
594 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
595
596 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
597
598 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
599
600 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
601 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
602 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
603
604 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
605
606 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
607 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
608
609 * blog about fd store and restartable services
610
611 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
612
613 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
614 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
615
616 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
617 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
618 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
619 ID is available.
620
621 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
622 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
623 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
624
625 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
626 parameters
627
628 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
629 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
630 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
631 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
632 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
633 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
634 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
635
636 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
637 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
638
639 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
640 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
641 wait to retrieve their exit data.
642
643 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
644 about it in the resource log message
645
646 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
647 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
648
649 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
650 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
651 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
652
653 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
654 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
655
656 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
657
658 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
659 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
660 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
661 logging.
662
663 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
664 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
665 "convertible" form factor
666
667 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
668 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
669 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
670 as MAINPID.
671
672 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
673 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
674 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
675
676 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
677 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
678
679 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
680 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
681 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
682 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
683 natural habitat.
684
685 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
686 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
687 /usr is mounted into.
688
689 * 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
690
691 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
692
693 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
694 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
695 relative to the configured default value.
696
697 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
698
699 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
700
701 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
702
703 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
704
705 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
706
707 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
708
709 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
710
711 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
712
713 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
714
715 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
716
717 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
718 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
719 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
720
721 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
722
723 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
724
725 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
726 partitions
727
728 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
729 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
730 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
731 mapping to work.
732
733 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
734
735 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
736
737 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
738
739 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
740 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
741
742 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
743 reload the unit file anyway
744
745 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
746 from the SIGBUS handler
747
748 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
749
750 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
751 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
752
753 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
754
755 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
756 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
757
758 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
759 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
760 specifications.
761
762 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
763
764 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
765
766 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
767
768 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
769 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
770 prefixed with /sys generally special.
771 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
772
773 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
774
775 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
776
777 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
778 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
779 state.
780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
781
782 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
783 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
784 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
785 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
786 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
787
788 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
789 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
790
791 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
792
793 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
794 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
795
796 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
797 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
798 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
799 do, for example)
800
801 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
802 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
803
804 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
805 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
806
807 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
808
809 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
810 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
811 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
812 returning from the "systemctl stop".
813
814 * 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
815
816 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
817
818 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
819 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
820
821 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
822
823 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
824
825 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
826 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
827
828 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
829
830 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
831
832 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
833
834 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
835 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
836
837 * resolved:
838 - mDNS/DNS-SD
839 - service registration
840 - service/domain/types browsing
841 - avahi compat
842 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
843 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
844 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
845 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
846 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
847 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
848
849 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
850
851 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
852
853 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
854
855 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
856 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
857
858 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
859
860 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
861
862 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
863
864 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
865 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
866
867 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
868
869 * gpt-auto-generator:
870 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
871 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
872
873 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
874 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
875 when it is otherwise off
876
877 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
878
879 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
880 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
881 for ReusePort=
882
883 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
884 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
885 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
886 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
887 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
888 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
889
890 * cgroups:
891 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
892 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
893 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
894 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
895 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
896 the hierarchies of child processes
897
898 * transient units:
899 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
900
901 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
902
903 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
904
905 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
906
907 * 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
908
909 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
910
911 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
912 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
913 path anyway.
914
915 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
916
917 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
918
919 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
920
921 * sd-bus:
922 - EBADSLT handling
923 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
924 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
925 - 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
926 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
927 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
928 - longer term: priority inheritance
929 - dbus spec updates:
930 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
931 - GVariant
932 - path escaping
933 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
934
935 * sd-event
936 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
937 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
938 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
939
940 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
941
942 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
943 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
944
945 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
946
947 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
948
949 * test/:
950 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
951
952 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
953 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
954 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
955 destination.
956
957 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
958 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
959
960 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
961
962 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
963 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
964 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
965
966 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
967 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
968 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
969 is installed.
970
971 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
972 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
973 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
974 that automatically.
975
976 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
977
978 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
979
980 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
981
982 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
983
984 * EFI:
985 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
986 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
987 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
988 * bootctl
989 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
990
991 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
992
993 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
994
995 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
996
997 * logind:
998 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
999 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1000 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1001 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1002 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1003 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1004 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1005 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1006 needs setuid().
1007 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1008 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1009 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1010 complete.
1011 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1012 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1013 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1014 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1015 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1016 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1017 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1018 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1019 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1020 relogins
1021 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1022
1023 * journal:
1024 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1025 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1026 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1027 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1028 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1029 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1030 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1031 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1032 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1033 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1034 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1035 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1036 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1037 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1038 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1039 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1040 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1041 - 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.
1042 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1043 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1044 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1045 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1046 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1047 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1048 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1049 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1050 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1051 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1052 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1053 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1054 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1055 to syslog when it works again.
1056 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1057 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1058 journals in.
1059 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1060 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1061 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1062 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1063 the most common operations.
1064 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1065 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1066 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1067 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1068 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1069 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1070 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1071 operation.
1072 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1073 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1074 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1075 binary logs data
1076 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1077 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1078 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1079 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1080 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1081 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1082
1083 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1084 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1085 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1086 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1087
1088 * document:
1089 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1090 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1091 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1092 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1093 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1094 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1095 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1096 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1097 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1098 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1099 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1100 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1101
1102 * systemctl:
1103 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1104 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1105 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1106 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1107 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1108 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1109 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1110 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1111 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1112 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1113
1114 * unit install:
1115 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1116 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1117
1118 * timer units:
1119 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1120 o DST changes
1121 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1122
1123 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1124
1125 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1126
1127 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1128
1129 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1130
1131 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1132
1133 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1134
1135 * nspawn:
1136 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1137 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1138 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1139 from the kernel's logs.
1140 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1141 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1142 interface be missing
1143 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1144 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1145 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1146 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1147 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1148 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1149 PID 1...
1150 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1151 running, remove them when shut down.
1152
1153 * dissect
1154 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1155 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1156
1157 * machined:
1158 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1159 removed or added to an existing machine
1160 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1161 difference host, via ssh
1162 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1163 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1164 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1165 question
1166 - "machinectl history"
1167 - "machinectl diff"
1168 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1169 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1170
1171 * cryptsetup:
1172 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1173 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1174
1175 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1176 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1177
1178 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1179
1180 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1181
1182 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1183
1184 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1185
1186 * udev:
1187 - move to LGPL
1188 - kill scsi_id
1189 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1190 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1191
1192 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1193
1194 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1195
1196 * coredump:
1197 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1198 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1199
1200 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1201
1202 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1203 needs to be auto-respawned?
1204
1205 * tmpfiles:
1206 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1207 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1208 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1209 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1210 calls follow symlinks.
1211
1212 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1213
1214 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1215 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1216 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1217
1218 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1219 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1220
1221 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1222
1223 * write blog stories about:
1224 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1225 - enabling dbus services
1226 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1227 - remote access
1228 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1229 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1230 - auto-restart
1231 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1232 - the journal HTTP iface
1233 - non-cgroup resource management
1234 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1235 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1236 - calendar time events
1237 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1238 - how to create your own target
1239 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1240 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1241
1242 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1243
1244 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1245
1246 * pid1:
1247 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1248 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1249 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1250 that are not supported...
1251 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1252 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1253 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1254 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1255 - move PAM code into its own binary
1256 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1257 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1258 - Support --test based on current system state
1259 - 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().
1260 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1261 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1262 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1263 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1264 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1265 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1266 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1267 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1268 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1269
1270 * unit files:
1271 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1272 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1273 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1274 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1275 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1276 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1278 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1279 - introduce Type=pid-file
1280 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1281 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1282 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1283 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1284
1285 * udev-link-config:
1286 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1287 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1288 on Path= matching
1289
1290 * sd-rtnl:
1291 - add support for more attribute types
1292 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1293
1294 * networkd:
1295 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1296 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1297 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1298 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1299 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1300 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1301 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1302 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1303 - expose in the API the following bits:
1304 - option 15, domain name
1305 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1306 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1307 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1308 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1309 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1310 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1311 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1312 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1313 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1314
1315 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1316
1317 * dhcp:
1318 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1319
1320 * dhcp6:
1321 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1322 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1323 - write more test cases
1324 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1325 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1326 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1327 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1328 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1329 or interface down
1330 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1331 this behavior
1332 - RouteTable= ?
1333
1334 External:
1335
1336 * dbus:
1337 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1338 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1339
1340 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1341
1342 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1343
1344 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1345
1346 * 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=
1347
1348 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1349
1350 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1351
1352 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1353
1354 * zsh shell completion:
1355 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1356 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1357
1358 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1359 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1360 after being started.
1361
1362 Regularly:
1363
1364 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1365
1366 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1367
1368 * pahole
1369
1370 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1371
1372 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1373
1374 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1375 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment