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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
5 * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
8
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18 External:
19
20 * "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file
21
22 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
23
24 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
25
26 * When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
27 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
28
29 Features:
30
31 * "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd
32
33 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
34
35 * networkd: add support for configuring ipv6 privacy extensions
36
37 * introduce an NSS module that uses machined info to give container UIDs pretty names when user namespacing is used.
38
39 * stop using off_t, it's a crazy type. Use uint64_t instead.
40
41 * logind: follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and relogins
42
43 * change to KillMode=mixed by default
44
45 * introduce argv0contains=
46
47 * invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting
48
49 * add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through binary logs data
50
51 * change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
52
53 * add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
54
55 * log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
56
57 * networkd: dhcp server: try to assign stable IP addresses based on client's MAC address
58
59 * nspawn: a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
60
61 * logind: rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
62 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
63 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
64
65 * journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going. Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
66
67 * nspawn: don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in shared-network mode
68
69 * nspawn: optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is running, remove them when shut down.
70
71 * importd: generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
72
73 * nspawn: add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
74
75 * nspawn: Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source directory
76
77 * nspawn: maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only is used
78
79 * man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl
80 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html
81
82 * nspawn: as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=, --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an interface be missing
83
84 * networkd: make DHCP server IP range configurable, including only with a single IP address
85
86 * rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
87 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
88
89 * "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
90 difference host, via ssh
91
92 * tmpfiles: creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
93 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
94 calls follow symlinks.
95
96 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
97
98 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
99
100 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
101 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
102 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
103
104 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
105 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
106 state.
107 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
108
109 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
110 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
111
112 * .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
113
114 * create a btrfs qgroup for /var/lib/machines, and add all container
115 subvolumes we create to it.
116
117 * When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
118 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
119
120 * to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
121 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
122 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
123
124 * journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
125 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written
126 to.
127
128 * assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
129
130 * coredump: make the handler check /proc/$PID/rlimits for RLIMIT_CORE,
131 and supress coredump if turned off. Then change RLIMIT_CORE to
132 infinity by default for all services. This then allows per-service
133 control of coredumping.
134
135 * generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
136 that are not supported...
137 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
138
139 * Introduce $LISTEN_NAMES to complement $LISTEN_FDS, containing a
140 colon separated list of identifiers for the fds passed.
141
142 * maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
143 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
144
145 * rework kexec logic to use new kexec_file_load() syscall, so that we
146 don't have to call kexec tool anymore.
147
148 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
149 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
150 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
151 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
152 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
153
154 * nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
155 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
156 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
157 from the kernel's logs.
158
159 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
160 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
161
162 * When RLIMIT_NPROC is set from a unit file it currently always is set
163 for root, not for the user set in User=, which makes it
164 useless. After fixing this, set RLIMIT_NPROC for
165 systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our services that run under
166 their own user ids, and use User= (but only in a world where userns
167 is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot invoke those daemons on the
168 host AND in a container anymore). Also, if LimitNPROC= is used
169 without User= we should warn and refuse operation.
170
171 * logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
172
173 * Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
174
175 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
176
177 * rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
178
179 * import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
180
181 * import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
182
183 * core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall
184
185 * introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
186
187 * "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
188
189 * "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
190
191 * nspawn: when start a container "foobar" look for its configuration in a file "foobar.nspawn" in /etc/systemd/nspawn/ as well as next to the actualy directory or image to boot
192
193 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
194
195 * "machinectl history"
196
197 * "machinectl diff"
198
199 * "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
200
201 * systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
202
203 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
204
205 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
206
207 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
208 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
209
210 * port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
211
212 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
213 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
214 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
215 do, for example)
216
217 * resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
218 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
219 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
220
221 * systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
222 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
223 continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
224 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
225
226 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
227 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
228
229 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
230 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
231
232 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
233
234 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
235
236 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
237
238 * sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
239
240 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
241 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
242 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
243 returning from the "systemctl stop".
244
245 * 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
246
247 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
248
249 * add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
250
251 * machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
252
253 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
254
255 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
256
257 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
258
259 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
260
261 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
262
263 * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
264
265 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
266 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
267
268 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
269
270 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
271
272 * maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
273
274 * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
275
276 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
277
278 * "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
279
280 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
281
282 * systemctl edit:
283 - allow creation of units from scratch
284 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
285 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
286
287 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
288
289 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
290
291 * unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
292 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
293 parsing callbacks should use it.
294
295 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
296
297 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
298 units are shown.
299
300 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
301 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
302
303 * networkd:
304 - add LLDP client side support
305 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
306 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
307 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
308 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
309 - expose in the API the following bits:
310 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
311 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
312 - option 100, 101, timezone
313 - option 123, 144, geolocation
314 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
315 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
316 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
317 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
318 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
319 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
320 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
321 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
322 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
323
324 * resolved:
325 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
326 we always process them before we process client requests
327 - DNSSEC
328 - use base64 for key presentation?
329 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
330 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
331 - DNS
332 - search paths
333 - mDNS/DNS-SD
334 - avahi compat
335 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
336 - edns0
337 - dname
338 - cname on PTR (?)
339 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
340 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
341
342 * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
343
344 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
345
346 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
347
348 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
349 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
350 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
351
352 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
353
354 * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
355
356 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
357
358 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
359
360 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
361
362 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
363 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
364
365 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
366
367 * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
368
369 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
370
371 * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
372
373 * sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
374
375 * gpt-auto-generator:
376 - Support LUKS for root devices
377 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
378 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
379
380 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
381 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
382 when it is otherwise off
383
384 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
385
386 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
387 /proc/$PID/exe
388
389 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
390 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
391 for ReusePort=
392
393 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
394 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
395 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
396 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
397 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
398
399 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
400
401 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
402 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
403 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
404 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
405 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
406 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
407
408 * cgroups:
409 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
410 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
411 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
412 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
413 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
414 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
415 the hierarchies of child processes
416
417 * transient units:
418 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
419 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
420
421 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
422
423 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
424
425 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
426
427 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
428
429 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
430
431 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
432
433 * 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
434
435 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
436
437 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
438 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
439 path anyway.
440
441 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
442
443 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
444
445 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
446
447 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
448
449 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
450
451 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
452 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
453
454 * sd-bus:
455 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
456 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
457 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
458 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
459 - 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
460 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
461 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
462 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
463 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
464 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
465 - longer term: priority inheritance
466 - dbus spec updates:
467 - kdbus mapping
468 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
469 - GVariant
470 - path escaping
471 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
472 - test bloom filter generation indexes
473 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
474 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
475 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
476 253 messages)
477 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
478 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
479
480 * sd-event
481 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
482 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
483
484 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
485 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
486 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
487
488 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
489
490 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
491 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
492
493 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
494
495 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
496
497 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
498
499 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
500
501 * test/:
502 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
503 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
504
505 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
506 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
507 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
508 destination.
509
510 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
511 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
512
513 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
514
515 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
516 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
517 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
518 is installed.
519
520 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
521 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
522 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
523 that automatically.
524
525 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
526
527 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
528
529 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
530
531 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
532
533 * write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
534
535 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
536
537 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
538
539 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
540
541 * EFI:
542 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
543 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
544 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
545
546 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
547
548 * fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
549 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
550
551 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
552
553 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
554
555 * logind:
556 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
557 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
558 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
559 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
560 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
561 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
562 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
563 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
564 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
565 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
566 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
567 needs setuid().
568 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
569 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
570 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
571 complete.
572 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
573 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
574 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
575 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
576 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
577 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
578 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
579 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
580
581 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
582
583 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
584
585 * journal:
586 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
587 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
588 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
589 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
590 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
591 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
592 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
593 - journal: reuse XZ context
594 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
595 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
596 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
597 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
598 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
599 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
600 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
601 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
602 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
603 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
604 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
605 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
606 - 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.
607 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
608 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
609 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
610 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
611 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
612 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
613 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
614 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
615 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
616 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
617 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
618 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
619 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
620 to syslog when it works again.
621 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
622 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
623 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
624 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
625 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
626 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
627 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
628 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
629 journals in.
630 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
631 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
632 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
633 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
634 the most common operations.
635
636 * document:
637 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
638 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
639 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
640 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
641 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
642 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
643 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
644 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
645 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
646 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
647 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
648 - man: add more examples to man pages
649 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
650
651 * systemctl:
652 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
653 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
654 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
655 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
656 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
657 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
658 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
659 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
660 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
661 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
662 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
663 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
664 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
665 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
666
667 * unit install:
668 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
669 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
670 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
671
672 * timer units:
673 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
674 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
675 o DST changes
676 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
677 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
678 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
679 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
680
681 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
682
683 * 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().
684
685 * fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
686 * fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
687 * fedup: generator
688
689 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
690
691 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
692
693 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
694 waiting for the timeout
695
696 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
697
698 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
699
700 * nspawn:
701 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
702
703 * cryptsetup:
704 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
705 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
706 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
707 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
708
709 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
710 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
711
712 * after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
713
714 * make timer units go away after they elapsed
715
716 * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
717
718 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
719
720 * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
721
722 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
723
724 * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
725 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
726 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
727 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
728 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
729 but much rather a disconnect on success.
730
731 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
732
733 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
734
735 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
736
737 * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
738 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
739
740 * introduce Type=pid-file
741
742 * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
743
744 * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
745
746 * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
747
748 * udev:
749 - move to LGPL
750 - kill scsi_id
751 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
752 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
753
754 * when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
755
756 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
757
758 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
759
760 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
761
762 * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
763
764 * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
765
766 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
767
768 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
769
770 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
771 needs to be auto-respawned?
772
773 * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
774
775 * tmpfiles:
776 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
777 - replace F with f+.
778 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
779
780 * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
781
782 * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
783
784 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
785
786 * allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
787 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
788
789 * move PAM code into its own binary
790
791 * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
792 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
793
794 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
795
796 * add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
797
798 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
799 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
800 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
801
802 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
803 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
804
805 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
806
807 * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
808
809 * write blog stories about:
810 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
811 - enabling dbus services
812 - status update
813 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
814 - remote access
815 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
816 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
817 - auto-restart
818 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
819 - the journal HTTP iface
820 - non-cgroup resource management
821 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
822 - refreshed, longer missions statement
823 - calendar time events
824 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
825 - how to create your own target
826 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
827 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
828
829 * allow port=0 in .socket units
830
831 * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
832
833 * Support --test based on current system state
834
835 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
836
837 * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
838
839 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
840
841 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
842
843 * systemd-python:
844 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
845 works with ^C
846 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
847
848 * bootchart:
849 - plot per-process IO utilization
850 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
851 - document initcall_debug
852 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
853
854 * udev-link-config:
855 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
856 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
857 on Path= matching
858 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
859
860 * sd-rtnl:
861 - add support for more attribute types
862 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
863
864 * networkd:
865 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
866 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
867 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
868 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
869 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
870 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
871 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
872 - work with non-ethernet devices
873 - add support for more bond options
874
875 * networkd-wait-online:
876 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
877
878 * dhcp:
879 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
880 - export timezone information
881 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
882
883 * dhcp6:
884 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
885 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
886 - write more test cases
887 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
888 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
889 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
890 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
891 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
892 or interface down
893 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
894 this behavior
895
896 External:
897
898 * dbus:
899 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
900 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
901
902 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
903
904 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
905
906 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
907
908 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
909
910 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
911
912 * dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
913
914 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
915
916 * add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
917
918 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
919
920 * 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=
921
922 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
923
924 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
925
926 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
927
928 * register catalog database signature as file magic
929
930 * zsh shell completion:
931 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
932 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
933
934
935 Regularly:
936
937 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
938
939 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
940
941 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
942
943 * pahole
944
945 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
946
947 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
948
949 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
950
951 Scheduled for removal or fixing:
952
953 * xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)