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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 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
13 Janitorial Clean-ups:
14
15 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
17 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
19
20 Features:
21
22 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
23 in and out of a disk image
24
25 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
26
27 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
28
29 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
30 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
31
32 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
33 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
34 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
35 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
36 anything like that.
37
38 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
39 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
40 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
41
42 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
43 these days
44
45 * nspawn: support time namespaces
46
47 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
48
49 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
50 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
51
52 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
53
54 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
55
56 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
57 when it exits
58
59 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
60 o turn into dlopen() deps:
61 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
62 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
63 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
64 firstboot
65 - elfutils (always)
66 - p11-kit-trust (always)
67 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
68 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
69 - similar: libblkid
70 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
71 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
72 since they are so basic and our defaults)
73 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
74 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
75
76 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
77 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
78 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
79
80 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
81 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
82 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
83
84 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
85 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
86
87 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
88 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
89 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
90
91 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
92 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
93 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
94
95 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
96
97 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
98 specific service
99
100 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
101
102 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
103 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
104 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
105 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
106 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
107 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
108 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
109 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
110
111 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
112 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
113
114 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
115 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
116
117 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
118 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
119 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
120
121 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
122 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
123 signature
124
125 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
126 and insert a local signature instead.
127
128 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
129 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
130 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
131 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
132 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
133
134 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
135
136 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
137 exists and responds.
138
139 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
140 easily?
141
142 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
143 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
144 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
145 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
146 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
147
148 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
149 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
150
151 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
152 creates
153
154 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
155 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
156 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
157 hence we can make them quicker to work.
158
159 * bootctl:
160 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
161 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
162 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
163
164 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
165 allow so that systemd survives
166
167 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
168 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
169
170 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
171 systemd-makefs.service instead.
172
173 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
174 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
175
176 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
177 confusion is gone)
178 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
179 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
180 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
181 - port importd over from libgcrypt
182 - when that's done: kill khash.c
183 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
184
185 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
186
187 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
188
189 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
190 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
191
192 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
193 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
194 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
195 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
196 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
197
198 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
199 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
200 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
201 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
202
203 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
204 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
205 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
206 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
207 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
208 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
209
210 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
211 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
212 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
213 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
214 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
215 automatically.
216
217 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
218 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
219
220 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
221 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
222
223 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
224
225 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
226 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
227
228 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
229 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
230 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
231
232 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
233 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
234
235 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
236
237 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
238 realname substr searches in varlink API
239
240 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
241
242 * userdb: allow existence checks
243
244 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
245
246 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
247 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
248 initrd had set.
249
250 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
251 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
252 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
253 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
254 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
255 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
256
257 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
258 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
259 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
260
261 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
262 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
263 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
264 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
265 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
266 source.
267
268 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
269 with immutable /usr
270
271 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
272 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
273 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
274
275 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
276
277 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
278 the hibernation
279
280 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
281 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
282 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
283 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
284 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
285 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
286 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
287 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
288 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
289 hibernation mode. (see
290 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
291 section 10.2.2.8 and
292 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
293 at the end).
294
295 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
296 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
297 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
298 output for them.
299
300 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
301 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
302
303 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
304 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
305 constant vendor data.
306
307 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
308
309 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
310 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
311
312 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
313 fallback in "machinectl shell"
314
315 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
316 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
317 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
318
319 * homed:
320 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
321 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
322 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
323 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
324 - resize on login?
325 - shrink fs on logout?
326 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
327 - create on activate?
328 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
329 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
330 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
331 systemd --user is shut down.
332 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
333 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
334 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
335 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
336 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
337 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
338 - description field for groups
339 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
340 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
341 - query password from kernel keyring first
342 - update even if record is "absent"
343 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
344 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
345 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
346 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
347 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
348 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
349
350 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
351 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
352 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
353 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
354 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
355 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
356 exec().
357
358 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
359
360 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
361 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
362
363 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
364
365 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
366 gnome-bluetooth and friends
367
368 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
369 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
370 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
371 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
372 cgroup.
373
374 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
375 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
376 root.
377
378 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
379 is issued.
380
381 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
382
383 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
384
385 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
386 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
387 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
388
389 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
390 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
391 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
392
393 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
394 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
395 ConfigurationDirectory=.
396
397 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
398
399 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
400
401 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
402 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
403
404 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
405 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
406 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
407
408 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
409
410 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
411 patching around
412
413 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
414 log.c and sd-journal-send
415
416 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
417
418 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
419
420 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
421 can add in file system drivers and such
422
423 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
424 non-zero "tries done" count
425
426 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
427 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
428 it should skip the variant type string though.
429
430 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
431 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
432 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
433 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
434 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
435 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
436 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
437 CODE_FILE.
438
439 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
440 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
441 some explanatory text online.
442
443 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
444
445 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
446 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
447 the slices, and the units attached to them.
448
449 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
450 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
451 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
452 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
453 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
454 way)
455
456 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
457 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
458 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
459
460 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
461 original defaults before calling parse_config()
462
463 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
464
465 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
466 Specifically:
467
468 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
469 properly)
470 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
471 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
472
473 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
474 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
475
476 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
477 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
478 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
479 files and suchlike we operate on.
480
481 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
482
483 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
484
485 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
486 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
487
488 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
489 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
490 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
491 numbers.
492
493 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
494 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
495 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
496 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
497 unlinked from any dir.
498
499 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
500
501 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
502
503 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
504
505 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
506 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
507 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
508 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
509 should reflink the image file itself.
510
511 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
512 specific paths only like this.
513
514 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
515 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
516 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
517 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
518 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
519
520 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
521
522 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
523
524 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
525 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
526
527 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
528 project quota
529
530 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
531 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
532 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
533 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
534 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
535 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
536 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
537 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
538
539 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
540 for root, but only then.
541
542 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
543
544 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
545 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
546
547 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
548 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
549
550 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
551 host-side interface pointing to the container.
552
553 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
554 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
555 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
556 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
557 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
558
559 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
560
561 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
562
563 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
564 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
565 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
566
567 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
568
569 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
570 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
571
572 * blog about fd store and restartable services
573
574 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
575
576 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
577 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
578
579 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
580 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
581 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
582 ID is available.
583
584 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
585 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
586 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
587
588 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
589 parameters
590
591 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
592 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
593 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
594 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
595 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
596 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
597 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
598
599 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
600 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
601
602 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
603 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
604 wait to retrieve their exit data.
605
606 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
607 about it in the resource log message
608
609 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
610 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
611
612 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
613 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
614 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
615
616 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
617 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
618
619 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
620
621 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
622 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
623 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
624 logging.
625
626 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
627 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
628 "convertible" form factor
629
630 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
631 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
632 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
633 as MAINPID.
634
635 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
636 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
637 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
638
639 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
640 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
641
642 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
643 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
644 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
645 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
646 natural habitat.
647
648 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
649 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
650 /usr is mounted into.
651
652 * 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
653
654 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
655
656 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
657 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
658 relative to the configured default value.
659
660 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
661
662 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
663
664 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
665
666 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
667
668 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
669
670 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
671
672 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
673
674 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
675
676 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
677
678 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
679
680 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
681 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
682 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
683
684 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
685
686 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
687
688 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
689 partitions
690
691 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
692 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
693 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
694 mapping to work.
695
696 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
697
698 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
699
700 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
701
702 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
703 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
704
705 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
706 reload the unit file anyway
707
708 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
709 from the SIGBUS handler
710
711 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
712
713 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
714 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
715
716 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
717
718 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
719 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
720
721 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
722 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
723 specifications.
724
725 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
726
727 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
728
729 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
730
731 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
732 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
733 prefixed with /sys generally special.
734 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
735
736 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
737
738 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
739
740 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
741 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
742 state.
743 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
744
745 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
746 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
747 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
748 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
749 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
750
751 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
752 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
753
754 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
755
756 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
757 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
758
759 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
760 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
761 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
762 do, for example)
763
764 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
765 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
766
767 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
768 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
769
770 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
771
772 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
773 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
774 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
775 returning from the "systemctl stop".
776
777 * 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
778
779 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
780
781 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
782 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
783
784 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
785
786 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
787
788 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
789 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
790
791 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
792
793 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
794
795 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
796
797 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
798 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
799
800 * resolved:
801 - mDNS/DNS-SD
802 - service registration
803 - service/domain/types browsing
804 - avahi compat
805 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
806 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
807 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
808 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
809 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
810 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
811
812 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
813
814 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
815
816 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
817
818 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
819 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
820
821 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
822
823 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
824
825 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
826
827 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
828 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
829
830 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
831
832 * gpt-auto-generator:
833 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
834 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
835
836 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
837 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
838 when it is otherwise off
839
840 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
841
842 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
843 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
844 for ReusePort=
845
846 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
847 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
848 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
849 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
850 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
851 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
852
853 * cgroups:
854 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
855 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
856 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
857 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
858 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
859 the hierarchies of child processes
860
861 * transient units:
862 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
863
864 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
865
866 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
867
868 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
869
870 * 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
871
872 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
873
874 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
875 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
876 path anyway.
877
878 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
879
880 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
881
882 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
883
884 * sd-bus:
885 - EBADSLT handling
886 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
887 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
888 - 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
889 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
890 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
891 - longer term: priority inheritance
892 - dbus spec updates:
893 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
894 - GVariant
895 - path escaping
896 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
897
898 * sd-event
899 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
900 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
901 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
902
903 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
904
905 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
906 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
907
908 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
909
910 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
911
912 * test/:
913 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
914
915 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
916 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
917 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
918 destination.
919
920 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
921 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
922
923 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
924
925 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
926 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
927 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
928
929 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
930 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
931 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
932 is installed.
933
934 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
935 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
936 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
937 that automatically.
938
939 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
940
941 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
942
943 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
944
945 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
946
947 * EFI:
948 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
949 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
950 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
951 * bootctl
952 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
953
954 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
955
956 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
957
958 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
959
960 * logind:
961 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
962 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
963 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
964 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
965 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
966 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
967 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
968 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
969 needs setuid().
970 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
971 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
972 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
973 complete.
974 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
975 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
976 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
977 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
978 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
979 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
980 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
981 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
982 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
983 relogins
984 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
985
986 * journal:
987 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
988 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
989 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
990 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
991 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
992 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
993 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
994 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
995 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
996 message that works, but already after a short timeout
997 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
998 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
999 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1000 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1001 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1002 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1003 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1004 - 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.
1005 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1006 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1007 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1008 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1009 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1010 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1011 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1012 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1013 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1014 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1015 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1016 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1017 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1018 to syslog when it works again.
1019 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1020 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1021 journals in.
1022 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1023 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1024 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1025 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1026 the most common operations.
1027 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1028 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1029 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1030 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1031 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1032 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1033 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1034 operation.
1035 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1036 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1037 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1038 binary logs data
1039 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1040 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1041 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1042 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1043 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1044
1045 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1046 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1047 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1048 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1049
1050 * document:
1051 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1052 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1053 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1054 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1055 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1056 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1057 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1058 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1059 - man: add more examples to man pages
1060 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1061 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1062
1063 * systemctl:
1064 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1065 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1066 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1067 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1068 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1069 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1070 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1071 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1072 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1073 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1074
1075 * unit install:
1076 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1077 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1078
1079 * timer units:
1080 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1081 o DST changes
1082 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1083
1084 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1085
1086 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1087
1088 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1089
1090 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1091
1092 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1093
1094 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1095
1096 * nspawn:
1097 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1098 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1099 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1100 from the kernel's logs.
1101 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1102 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1103 interface be missing
1104 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1105 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1106 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1107 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1109 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1110 PID 1...
1111 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1112 running, remove them when shut down.
1113
1114 * dissect
1115 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1116 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1117
1118 * machined:
1119 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1120 removed or added to an existing machine
1121 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1122 difference host, via ssh
1123 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1124 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1125 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1126 question
1127 - "machinectl history"
1128 - "machinectl diff"
1129 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1130 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1131
1132 * cryptsetup:
1133 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1134 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1135
1136 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1137 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1138
1139 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1140
1141 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1142
1143 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1144
1145 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1146
1147 * udev:
1148 - move to LGPL
1149 - kill scsi_id
1150 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1151 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1152
1153 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1154
1155 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1156
1157 * coredump:
1158 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1159 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1160
1161 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1162
1163 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1164 needs to be auto-respawned?
1165
1166 * tmpfiles:
1167 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1168 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1169 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1170 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1171 calls follow symlinks.
1172
1173 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1174
1175 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1176 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1177 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1178
1179 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1180 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1181
1182 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1183
1184 * write blog stories about:
1185 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1186 - enabling dbus services
1187 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1188 - remote access
1189 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1190 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1191 - auto-restart
1192 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1193 - the journal HTTP iface
1194 - non-cgroup resource management
1195 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1196 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1197 - calendar time events
1198 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1199 - how to create your own target
1200 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1201 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1202
1203 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1204
1205 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1206
1207 * pid1:
1208 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1209 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1210 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1211 that are not supported...
1212 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1213 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1214 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1215 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1216 - move PAM code into its own binary
1217 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1218 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1219 - Support --test based on current system state
1220 - 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().
1221 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1222 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1223 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1224 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1225 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1226 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1227 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1228 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1229 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1230
1231 * unit files:
1232 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1233 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1234 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1235 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1236 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1237 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1238 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1239 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1240 - introduce Type=pid-file
1241 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1242 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1243 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1244 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1245
1246 * udev-link-config:
1247 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1248 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1249 on Path= matching
1250
1251 * sd-rtnl:
1252 - add support for more attribute types
1253 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1254
1255 * networkd:
1256 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1257 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1258 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1259 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1260 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1261 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1262 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1263 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1264 - expose in the API the following bits:
1265 - option 15, domain name
1266 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1267 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1268 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1269 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1270 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1271 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1272 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1273 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1274 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1275
1276 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1277
1278 * dhcp:
1279 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1280
1281 * dhcp6:
1282 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1283 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1284 - write more test cases
1285 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1286 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1287 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1288 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1289 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1290 or interface down
1291 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1292 this behavior
1293 - RouteTable= ?
1294
1295 External:
1296
1297 * dbus:
1298 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1299 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1300
1301 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1302
1303 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1304
1305 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1306
1307 * 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=
1308
1309 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1310
1311 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1312
1313 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1314
1315 * zsh shell completion:
1316 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1317 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1318
1319 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1320 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1321 after being started.
1322
1323 Regularly:
1324
1325 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1326
1327 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1328
1329 * pahole
1330
1331 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1332
1333 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1334
1335 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1336 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment