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