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