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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
13 Janitorial Clean-ups:
14
15 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
17 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
19
20 Features:
21
22 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
23 in and out of a disk image
24
25 * add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
26 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
27 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
28 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
29 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
30
31 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
32
33 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
34
35 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
36 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
37
38 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
39 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
40 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
41 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
42 anything like that.
43
44 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
45 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
46 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
47
48 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
49 these days
50
51 * nspawn: support time namespaces
52
53 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
54
55 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
56 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
57
58 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
59
60 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
61
62 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
63 when it exits
64
65 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
66 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
67 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
68
69 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
70 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
71 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
72
73 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
74 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
75
76 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
77 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
78 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
79
80 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
81 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
82 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
83
84 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
85
86 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
87 specific service
88
89 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
90
91 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
92 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
93 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
94 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
95 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
96 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
97 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
98 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
99
100 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
101 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
102
103 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
104 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
105
106 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
107 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
108 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
109
110 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
111 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
112 signature
113
114 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
115 and insert a local signature instead.
116
117 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
118 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
119 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
120 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
121 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
122
123 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
124
125 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
126 exists and responds.
127
128 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
129 easily?
130
131 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
132 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
133 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
134 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
135 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
136
137 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
138 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
139
140 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
141 creates
142
143 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
144 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
145 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
146 hence we can make them quicker to work.
147
148 * bootctl:
149 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
150 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
151 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
152
153 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
154 allow so that systemd survives
155
156 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
157 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
158
159 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
160 systemd-makefs.service instead.
161
162 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
163 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
164
165 * unify on openssl:
166 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
167 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
168 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
169 - port importd over from libgcrypt
170 - when that's done: kill khash.c
171 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
172
173 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
174
175 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
176
177 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
178 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
179
180 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
181 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
182 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
183 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
184 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
185
186 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
187 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
188 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
189 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
190
191 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
192 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
193 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
194 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
195 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
196 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
197
198 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
199 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
200 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
201 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
202 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
203 automatically.
204
205 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
206 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
207
208 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
209 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
210
211 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
212
213 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
214 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
215
216 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
217 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
218 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
219
220 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
221 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
222
223 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
224
225 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
226 realname substr searches in varlink API
227
228 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
229
230 * userdb: allow existence checks
231
232 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
233
234 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
235 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
236 initrd had set.
237
238 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
239 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
240 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
241 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
242 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
243 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
244
245 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
246 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
247 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
248
249 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
250 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
251 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
252 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
253 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
254 source.
255
256 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
257 with immutable /usr
258
259 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
260 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
261 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
262
263 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
264
265 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
266 the hibernation
267
268 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
269 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
270 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
271 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
272 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
273 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
274 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
275 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
276 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
277 hibernation mode. (see
278 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
279 section 10.2.2.8 and
280 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
281 at the end).
282
283 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
284 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
285 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
286 output for them.
287
288 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
289 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
290
291 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
292 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
293 constant vendor data.
294
295 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
296
297 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
298 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
299
300 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
301 fallback in "machinectl shell"
302
303 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
304 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
305 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
306
307 * homed:
308 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
309 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
310 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
311 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
312 - resize on login?
313 - shrink fs on logout?
314 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
315 - create on activate?
316 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
317 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
318 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
319 systemd --user is shut down.
320 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
321 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
322 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
323 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
324 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
325 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
326 - description field for groups
327 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
328 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
329 - query password from kernel keyring first
330 - update even if record is "absent"
331 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
332 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
333 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
334 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
335 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
336 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
337
338 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
339 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
340 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
341 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
342 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
343 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
344 exec().
345
346 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
347
348 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
349 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
350
351 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
352
353 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
354 gnome-bluetooth and friends
355
356 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
357 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
358 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
359 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
360 cgroup.
361
362 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
363 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
364 root.
365
366 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
367 is issued.
368
369 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
370
371 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
372
373 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
374 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
375 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
376
377 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
378 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
379 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
380
381 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
382 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
383 ConfigurationDirectory=.
384
385 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
386
387 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
388
389 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
390 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
391
392 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
393 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
394 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
395
396 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
397
398 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
399 patching around
400
401 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
402 log.c and sd-journal-send
403
404 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
405
406 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
407
408 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
409 can add in file system drivers and such
410
411 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
412 non-zero "tries done" count
413
414 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
415 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
416 it should skip the variant type string though.
417
418 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
419 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
420 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
421 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
422 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
423 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
424 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
425 CODE_FILE.
426
427 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
428 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
429 some explanatory text online.
430
431 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
432
433 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
434 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
435 the slices, and the units attached to them.
436
437 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
438 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
439 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
440 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
441 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
442 way)
443
444 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
445 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
446 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
447
448 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
449 original defaults before calling parse_config()
450
451 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
452
453 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
454 Specifically:
455
456 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
457 properly)
458 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
459 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
460
461 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
462 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
463
464 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
465 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
466 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
467 files and suchlike we operate on.
468
469 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
470
471 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
472
473 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
474 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
475
476 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
477 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
478 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
479 numbers.
480
481 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
482 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
483 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
484 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
485 unlinked from any dir.
486
487 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
488
489 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
490
491 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
492
493 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
494 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
495 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
496 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
497 should reflink the image file itself.
498
499 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
500 specific paths only like this.
501
502 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
503 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
504 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
505 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
506 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
507
508 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
509
510 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
511
512 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
513 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
514
515 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
516 project quota
517
518 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
519 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
520 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
521 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
522 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
523 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
524 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
525 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
526
527 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
528 for root, but only then.
529
530 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
531
532 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
533 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
534
535 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
536 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
537
538 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
539 host-side interface pointing to the container.
540
541 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
542 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
543 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
544 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
545 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
546
547 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
548
549 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
550
551 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
552 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
553 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
554
555 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
556
557 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
558 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
559
560 * blog about fd store and restartable services
561
562 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
563
564 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
565 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
566
567 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
568 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
569 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
570 ID is available.
571
572 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
573 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
574 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
575
576 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
577 parameters
578
579 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
580 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
581 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
582 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
583 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
584 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
585 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
586
587 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
588 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
589
590 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
591 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
592 wait to retrieve their exit data.
593
594 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
595 about it in the resource log message
596
597 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
598 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
599
600 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
601 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
602 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
603
604 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
605 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
606
607 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
608
609 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
610 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
611 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
612 logging.
613
614 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
615 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
616 "convertible" form factor
617
618 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
619 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
620 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
621 as MAINPID.
622
623 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
624 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
625 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
626
627 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
628 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
629
630 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
631 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
632 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
633 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
634 natural habitat.
635
636 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
637 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
638 /usr is mounted into.
639
640 * 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
641
642 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
643
644 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
645 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
646 relative to the configured default value.
647
648 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
649
650 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
651
652 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
653
654 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
655
656 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
657
658 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
659
660 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
661
662 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
663
664 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
665
666 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
667
668 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
669 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
670 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
671
672 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
673
674 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
675
676 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
677 partitions
678
679 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
680 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
681 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
682 mapping to work.
683
684 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
685
686 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
687
688 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
689
690 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
691 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
692
693 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
694 reload the unit file anyway
695
696 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
697 from the SIGBUS handler
698
699 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
700
701 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
702 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
703
704 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
705
706 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
707 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
708
709 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
710 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
711 specifications.
712
713 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
714
715 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
716
717 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
718
719 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
720 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
721 prefixed with /sys generally special.
722 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
723
724 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
725
726 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
727
728 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
729 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
730 state.
731 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
732
733 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
734 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
735 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
736 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
737 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
738
739 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
740 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
741
742 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
743
744 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
745 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
746
747 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
748 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
749 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
750 do, for example)
751
752 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
753 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
754
755 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
756 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
757
758 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
759
760 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
761 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
762 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
763 returning from the "systemctl stop".
764
765 * 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
766
767 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
768
769 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
770 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
771
772 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
773
774 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
775
776 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
777 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
778
779 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
780
781 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
782
783 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
784
785 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
786 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
787
788 * resolved:
789 - mDNS/DNS-SD
790 - service registration
791 - service/domain/types browsing
792 - avahi compat
793 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
794 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
795 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
796 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
797 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
798 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
799
800 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
801
802 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
803
804 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
805
806 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
807 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
808
809 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
810
811 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
812
813 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
814
815 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
816 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
817
818 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
819
820 * gpt-auto-generator:
821 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
822 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
823
824 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
825 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
826 when it is otherwise off
827
828 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
829
830 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
831 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
832 for ReusePort=
833
834 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
835 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
836 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
837 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
838 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
839 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
840
841 * cgroups:
842 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
843 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
844 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
845 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
846 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
847 the hierarchies of child processes
848
849 * transient units:
850 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
851
852 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
853
854 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
855
856 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
857
858 * 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
859
860 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
861
862 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
863 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
864 path anyway.
865
866 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
867
868 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
869
870 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
871
872 * sd-bus:
873 - EBADSLT handling
874 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
875 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
876 - 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
877 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
878 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
879 - longer term: priority inheritance
880 - dbus spec updates:
881 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
882 - GVariant
883 - path escaping
884 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
885
886 * sd-event
887 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
888 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
889 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
890
891 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
892
893 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
894 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
895
896 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
897
898 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
899
900 * test/:
901 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
902
903 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
904 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
905 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
906 destination.
907
908 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
909 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
910
911 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
912
913 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
914 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
915 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
916
917 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
918 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
919 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
920 is installed.
921
922 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
923 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
924 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
925 that automatically.
926
927 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
928
929 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
930
931 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
932
933 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
934
935 * EFI:
936 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
937 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
938 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
939 * bootctl
940 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
941
942 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
943
944 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
945
946 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
947
948 * logind:
949 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
950 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
951 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
952 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
953 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
954 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
955 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
956 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
957 needs setuid().
958 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
959 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
960 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
961 complete.
962 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
963 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
964 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
965 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
966 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
967 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
968 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
969 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
970 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
971 relogins
972 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
973
974 * journal:
975 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
976 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
977 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
978 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
979 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
980 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
981 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
982 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
983 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
984 message that works, but already after a short timeout
985 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
986 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
987 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
988 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
989 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
990 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
991 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
992 - 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.
993 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
994 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
995 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
996 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
997 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
998 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
999 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1000 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1001 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1002 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1003 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1004 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1005 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1006 to syslog when it works again.
1007 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1008 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1009 journals in.
1010 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1011 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1012 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1013 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1014 the most common operations.
1015 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1016 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1017 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1018 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1019 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1020 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1021 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1022 operation.
1023 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1024 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1025 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1026 binary logs data
1027 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1028 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1029 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1030 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1031 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1032
1033 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1034 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1035 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1036 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1037
1038 * document:
1039 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1040 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1041 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1042 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1043 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1044 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1045 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1046 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1047 - man: add more examples to man pages
1048 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1049 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1050
1051 * systemctl:
1052 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1053 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1054 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1055 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1056 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1057 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1058 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1059 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1060 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1061 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1062
1063 * unit install:
1064 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1065 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1066
1067 * timer units:
1068 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1069 o DST changes
1070 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1071
1072 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1073
1074 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1075
1076 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1077
1078 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1079
1080 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1081
1082 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1083
1084 * nspawn:
1085 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1086 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1087 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1088 from the kernel's logs.
1089 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1090 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1091 interface be missing
1092 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1093 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1094 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1095 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1096 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1097 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1098 PID 1...
1099 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1100 running, remove them when shut down.
1101
1102 * dissect
1103 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1104 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1105
1106 * machined:
1107 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1108 removed or added to an existing machine
1109 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1110 difference host, via ssh
1111 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1112 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1113 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1114 question
1115 - "machinectl history"
1116 - "machinectl diff"
1117 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1118 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1119
1120 * cryptsetup:
1121 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1122 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1123
1124 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1125 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1126
1127 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1128
1129 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1130
1131 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1132
1133 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1134
1135 * udev:
1136 - move to LGPL
1137 - kill scsi_id
1138 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1139 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1140
1141 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1142
1143 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1144
1145 * coredump:
1146 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1147 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1148
1149 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1150
1151 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1152 needs to be auto-respawned?
1153
1154 * tmpfiles:
1155 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1156 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1157 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1158 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1159 calls follow symlinks.
1160
1161 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1162
1163 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1164 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1165 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1166
1167 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1168 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1169
1170 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1171
1172 * write blog stories about:
1173 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1174 - enabling dbus services
1175 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1176 - remote access
1177 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1178 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1179 - auto-restart
1180 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1181 - the journal HTTP iface
1182 - non-cgroup resource management
1183 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1184 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1185 - calendar time events
1186 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1187 - how to create your own target
1188 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1189 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1190
1191 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1192
1193 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1194
1195 * pid1:
1196 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1197 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1198 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1199 that are not supported...
1200 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1201 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1202 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1203 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1204 - move PAM code into its own binary
1205 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1206 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1207 - Support --test based on current system state
1208 - 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().
1209 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1210 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1211 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1212 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1213 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1214 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1215 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1216 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1217 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1218
1219 * unit files:
1220 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1221 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1222 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1223 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1224 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1225 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1226 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1227 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1228 - introduce Type=pid-file
1229 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1230 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1231 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1232 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1233
1234 * udev-link-config:
1235 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1236 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1237 on Path= matching
1238
1239 * sd-rtnl:
1240 - add support for more attribute types
1241 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1242
1243 * networkd:
1244 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1245 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1246 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1247 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1248 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1249 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1250 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1251 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1252 - expose in the API the following bits:
1253 - option 15, domain name
1254 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1255 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1256 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1257 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1258 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1259 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1260 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1261 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1262 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1263
1264 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1265
1266 * dhcp:
1267 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1268
1269 * dhcp6:
1270 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1271 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1272 - write more test cases
1273 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1274 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1275 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1276 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1277 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1278 or interface down
1279 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1280 this behavior
1281 - RouteTable= ?
1282
1283 External:
1284
1285 * dbus:
1286 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1287 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1288
1289 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1290
1291 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1292
1293 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1294
1295 * 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=
1296
1297 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1298
1299 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1300
1301 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1302
1303 * zsh shell completion:
1304 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1305 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1306
1307 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1308 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1309 after being started.
1310
1311 Regularly:
1312
1313 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1314
1315 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1316
1317 * pahole
1318
1319 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1320
1321 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1322
1323 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1324 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment