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