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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 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
23 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
24
25 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
26
27 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
28 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
29
30 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
31 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
32 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
33 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
34 anything like that.
35
36 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
37 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
38 user's journal stream down but not the others.
39
40 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
41 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
42 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
43
44 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
45 these days
46
47 * nspawn: support time namespaces
48
49 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
50
51 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
52 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
53
54 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
55
56 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
57
58 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
59 when it exits
60
61 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
62 o turn into dlopen() deps:
63 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
64 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
65 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
66 firstboot
67 - elfutils (always)
68 - p11-kit-trust (always)
69 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
70 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
71 - similar: libblkid
72 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
73 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
74 since they are so basic and our defaults)
75 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
76 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
77
78 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
79 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
80 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
81
82 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
83 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
84 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
85
86 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
87 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
88
89 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
90 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
91 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
92
93 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
94 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
95 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
96
97 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
98
99 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
100 specific service
101
102 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
103
104 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
105 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
106 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
107 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
108 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
109 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
110 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
111 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
112
113 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
114 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
115
116 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
117 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
118
119 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
120 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
121 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
122
123 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
124 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
125 signature
126
127 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
128 and insert a local signature instead.
129
130 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
131 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
132 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
133 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
134 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
135
136 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
137
138 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
139 exists and responds.
140
141 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
142 easily?
143
144 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
145 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
146 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
147 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
148 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
149
150 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
151 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
152
153 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
154 creates
155
156 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
157 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
158 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
159 hence we can make them quicker to work.
160
161 * bootctl:
162 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
163 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
164 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
165
166 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
167 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
168 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
169
170 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
171 allow so that systemd survives
172
173 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
174 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
175
176 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
177 systemd-makefs.service instead.
178
179 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
180 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
181
182 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
183 confusion is gone)
184 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
185 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
186 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
187 - port importd over from libgcrypt
188 - when that's done: kill khash.c
189 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
190
191 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
192
193 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
194
195 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
196 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
197
198 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
199 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
200 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
201 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
202 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
203
204 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
205 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
206 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
207 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
208
209 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
210 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
211 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
212 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
213 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
214 automatically.
215
216 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
217 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
218
219 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
220 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
221
222 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
223
224 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
225 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
226 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
227 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
228 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
229 fails to apply use the latter.
230
231 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
232 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
233
234 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
235 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
236
237 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
238 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
239 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
240
241 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
242 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
243
244 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
245 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
246
247 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
248 realname substr searches in varlink API
249
250 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
251
252 * userdb: allow existence checks
253
254 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
255
256 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
257 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
258 initrd had set.
259
260 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
261 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
262 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
263 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
264 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
265 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
266
267 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
268 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
269 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
270
271 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
272 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
273 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
274 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
275 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
276 source.
277
278 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
279 with immutable /usr
280
281 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
282 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
283 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
284
285 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
286
287 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
288 the hibernation
289
290 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
291 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
292 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
293 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
294 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
295 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
296 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
297 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
298 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
299 hibernation mode. (see
300 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
301 section 10.2.2.8 and
302 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
303 at the end).
304
305 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
306 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
307 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
308 output for them.
309
310 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
311 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
312
313 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
314 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
315 constant vendor data.
316
317 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
318
319 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
320 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
321
322 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
323 fallback in "machinectl shell"
324
325 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
326 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
327 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
328
329 * homed:
330 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
331 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
332 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
333 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
334 - resize on login?
335 - shrink fs on logout?
336 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
337 - create on activate?
338 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
339 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
340 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
341 systemd --user is shut down.
342 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
343 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
344 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
345 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
346 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
347 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
348 - description field for groups
349 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
350 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
351 - query password from kernel keyring first
352 - update even if record is "absent"
353 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
354 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
355 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
356 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
357 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
358 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
359
360 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
361 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
362 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
363 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
364 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
365 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
366 exec().
367
368 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
369
370 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
371 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
372
373 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
374
375 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
376 gnome-bluetooth and friends
377
378 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
379 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
380 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
381 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
382 cgroup.
383
384 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
385 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
386 root.
387
388 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
389 is issued.
390
391 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
392
393 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
394
395 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
396 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
397 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
398
399 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
400 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
401 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
402
403 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
404 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
405 ConfigurationDirectory=.
406
407 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
408
409 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
410
411 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
412 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
413
414 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
415 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
416 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
417
418 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
419
420 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
421 patching around
422
423 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
424 log.c and sd-journal-send
425
426 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
427
428 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
429
430 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
431 can add in file system drivers and such
432
433 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
434 non-zero "tries done" count
435
436 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
437 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
438 it should skip the variant type string though.
439
440 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
441 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
442 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
443 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
444 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
445 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
446 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
447 CODE_FILE.
448
449 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
450 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
451 some explanatory text online.
452
453 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
454
455 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
456 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
457 the slices, and the units attached to them.
458
459 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
460 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
461 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
462 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
463 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
464 way)
465
466 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
467 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
468 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
469
470 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
471 original defaults before calling parse_config()
472
473 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
474
475 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
476 Specifically:
477
478 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
479 properly)
480 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
481 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
482
483 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
484 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
485
486 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
487 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
488 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
489 files and suchlike we operate on.
490
491 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
492
493 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
494
495 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
496 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
497
498 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
499 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
500 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
501 numbers.
502
503 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
504 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
505 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
506 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
507 unlinked from any dir.
508
509 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
510
511 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
512
513 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
514
515 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
516 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
517 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
518 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
519 should reflink the image file itself.
520
521 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
522 specific paths only like this.
523
524 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
525 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
526 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
527 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
528 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
529
530 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
531
532 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
533
534 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
535 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
536
537 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
538 project quota
539
540 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
541 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
542 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
543 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
544 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
545 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
546 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
547 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
548
549 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
550 for root, but only then.
551
552 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
553
554 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
555 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
556
557 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
558 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
559
560 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
561 host-side interface pointing to the container.
562
563 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
564 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
565 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
566 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
567 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
568
569 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
570
571 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
572
573 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
574 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
575 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
576
577 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
578
579 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
580 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
581
582 * blog about fd store and restartable services
583
584 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
585
586 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
587 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
588
589 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
590 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
591 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
592 ID is available.
593
594 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
595 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
596 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
597
598 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
599 parameters
600
601 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
602 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
603 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
604 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
605 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
606 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
607 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
608
609 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
610 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
611
612 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
613 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
614 wait to retrieve their exit data.
615
616 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
617 about it in the resource log message
618
619 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
620 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
621
622 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
623 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
624 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
625
626 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
627 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
628
629 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
630
631 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
632 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
633 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
634 logging.
635
636 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
637 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
638 "convertible" form factor
639
640 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
641 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
642 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
643 as MAINPID.
644
645 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
646 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
647 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
648
649 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
650 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
651
652 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
653 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
654 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
655 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
656 natural habitat.
657
658 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
659 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
660 /usr is mounted into.
661
662 * 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
663
664 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
665
666 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
667 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
668 relative to the configured default value.
669
670 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
671
672 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
673
674 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
675
676 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
677
678 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
679
680 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
681
682 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
683
684 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
685
686 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
687
688 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
689
690 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
691 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
692 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
693
694 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
695
696 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
697
698 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
699 partitions
700
701 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
702 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
703 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
704 mapping to work.
705
706 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
707
708 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
709
710 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
711
712 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
713 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
714
715 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
716 reload the unit file anyway
717
718 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
719 from the SIGBUS handler
720
721 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
722
723 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
724 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
725
726 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
727
728 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
729 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
730
731 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
732 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
733 specifications.
734
735 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
736
737 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
738
739 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
740
741 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
742 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
743 prefixed with /sys generally special.
744 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
745
746 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
747
748 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
749
750 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
751 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
752 state.
753 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
754
755 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
756 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
757 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
758 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
759 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
760
761 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
762 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
763
764 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
765
766 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
767 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
768
769 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
770 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
771 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
772 do, for example)
773
774 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
775 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
776
777 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
778 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
779
780 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
781
782 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
783 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
784 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
785 returning from the "systemctl stop".
786
787 * 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
788
789 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
790
791 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
792 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
793
794 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
795
796 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
797
798 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
799 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
800
801 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
802
803 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
804
805 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
806
807 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
808 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
809
810 * resolved:
811 - mDNS/DNS-SD
812 - service registration
813 - service/domain/types browsing
814 - avahi compat
815 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
816 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
817 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
818 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
819 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
820 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
821
822 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
823
824 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
825
826 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
827
828 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
829 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
830
831 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
832
833 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
834
835 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
836
837 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
838 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
839
840 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
841
842 * gpt-auto-generator:
843 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
844 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
845
846 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
847 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
848 when it is otherwise off
849
850 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
851
852 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
853 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
854 for ReusePort=
855
856 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
857 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
858 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
859 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
860 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
861 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
862
863 * cgroups:
864 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
865 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
866 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
867 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
868 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
869 the hierarchies of child processes
870
871 * transient units:
872 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
873
874 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
875
876 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
877
878 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
879
880 * 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
881
882 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
883
884 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
885 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
886 path anyway.
887
888 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
889
890 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
891
892 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
893
894 * sd-bus:
895 - EBADSLT handling
896 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
897 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
898 - 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
899 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
900 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
901 - longer term: priority inheritance
902 - dbus spec updates:
903 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
904 - GVariant
905 - path escaping
906 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
907
908 * sd-event
909 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
910 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
911 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
912
913 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
914
915 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
916 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
917
918 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
919
920 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
921
922 * test/:
923 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
924
925 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
926 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
927 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
928 destination.
929
930 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
931 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
932
933 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
934
935 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
936 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
937 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
938
939 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
940 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
941 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
942 is installed.
943
944 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
945 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
946 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
947 that automatically.
948
949 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
950
951 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
952
953 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
954
955 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
956
957 * EFI:
958 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
959 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
960 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
961 * bootctl
962 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
963
964 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
965
966 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
967
968 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
969
970 * logind:
971 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
972 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
973 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
974 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
975 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
976 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
977 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
978 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
979 needs setuid().
980 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
981 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
982 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
983 complete.
984 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
985 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
986 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
987 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
988 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
989 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
990 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
991 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
992 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
993 relogins
994 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
995
996 * journal:
997 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
998 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
999 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1000 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1001 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1002 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1003 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1004 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1005 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1006 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1007 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1008 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1009 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1010 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1011 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1012 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1013 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1014 - 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.
1015 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1016 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1017 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1018 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1019 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1020 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1021 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1022 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1023 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1024 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1025 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1026 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1027 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1028 to syslog when it works again.
1029 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1030 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1031 journals in.
1032 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1033 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1034 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1035 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1036 the most common operations.
1037 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1038 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1039 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1040 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1041 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1042 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1043 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1044 operation.
1045 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1046 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1047 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1048 binary logs data
1049 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1050 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1051 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1052 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1053 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1054
1055 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1056 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1057 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1058 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1059
1060 * document:
1061 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1062 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1063 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1064 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1065 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1066 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1067 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1068 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1069 - man: add more examples to man pages
1070 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1071 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1072
1073 * systemctl:
1074 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1075 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1076 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1077 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1078 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1079 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1080 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1081 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1082 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1083 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1084
1085 * unit install:
1086 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1087 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1088
1089 * timer units:
1090 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1091 o DST changes
1092 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1093
1094 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1095
1096 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1097
1098 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1099
1100 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1101
1102 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1103
1104 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1105
1106 * nspawn:
1107 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1108 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1109 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1110 from the kernel's logs.
1111 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1112 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1113 interface be missing
1114 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1115 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1116 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1117 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1118 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1119 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1120 PID 1...
1121 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1122 running, remove them when shut down.
1123
1124 * dissect
1125 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1126 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1127
1128 * machined:
1129 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1130 removed or added to an existing machine
1131 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1132 difference host, via ssh
1133 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1134 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1135 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1136 question
1137 - "machinectl history"
1138 - "machinectl diff"
1139 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1140 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1141
1142 * cryptsetup:
1143 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1144 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1145
1146 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1147 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1148
1149 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1150
1151 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1152
1153 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1154
1155 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1156
1157 * udev:
1158 - move to LGPL
1159 - kill scsi_id
1160 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1161 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1162
1163 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1164
1165 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1166
1167 * coredump:
1168 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1169 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1170
1171 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1172
1173 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1174 needs to be auto-respawned?
1175
1176 * tmpfiles:
1177 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1178 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1179 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1180 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1181 calls follow symlinks.
1182
1183 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1184
1185 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1186 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1187 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1188
1189 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1190 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1191
1192 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1193
1194 * write blog stories about:
1195 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1196 - enabling dbus services
1197 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1198 - remote access
1199 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1200 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1201 - auto-restart
1202 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1203 - the journal HTTP iface
1204 - non-cgroup resource management
1205 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1206 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1207 - calendar time events
1208 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1209 - how to create your own target
1210 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1211 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1212
1213 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1214
1215 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1216
1217 * pid1:
1218 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1219 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1220 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1221 that are not supported...
1222 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1223 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1224 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1225 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1226 - move PAM code into its own binary
1227 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1228 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1229 - Support --test based on current system state
1230 - 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().
1231 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1232 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1233 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1234 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1235 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1236 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1237 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1238 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1239 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1240
1241 * unit files:
1242 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1243 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1244 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1245 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1246 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1247 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1248 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1249 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1250 - introduce Type=pid-file
1251 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1252 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1253 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1254 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1255
1256 * udev-link-config:
1257 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1258 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1259 on Path= matching
1260
1261 * sd-rtnl:
1262 - add support for more attribute types
1263 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1264
1265 * networkd:
1266 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1267 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1268 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1269 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1270 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1271 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1272 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1273 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1274 - expose in the API the following bits:
1275 - option 15, domain name
1276 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1277 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1278 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1279 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1280 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1281 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1282 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1283 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1284 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1285
1286 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1287
1288 * dhcp:
1289 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1290
1291 * dhcp6:
1292 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1293 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1294 - write more test cases
1295 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1296 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1297 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1298 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1299 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1300 or interface down
1301 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1302 this behavior
1303 - RouteTable= ?
1304
1305 External:
1306
1307 * dbus:
1308 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1309 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1310
1311 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1312
1313 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1314
1315 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1316
1317 * 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=
1318
1319 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1320
1321 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1322
1323 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1324
1325 * zsh shell completion:
1326 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1327 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1328
1329 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1330 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1331 after being started.
1332
1333 Regularly:
1334
1335 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1336
1337 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1338
1339 * pahole
1340
1341 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1342
1343 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1344
1345 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1346 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment