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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
23 * add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
24 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
25 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
26 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
27 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
28
29 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
30
31 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
32
33 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
34 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
35
36 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
37 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
38 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
39 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
40 anything like that.
41
42 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
43 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
44 user's journal stream down but not the others.
45
46 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
47 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
48 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
49
50 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
51 these days
52
53 * nspawn: support time namespaces
54
55 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
56
57 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
58 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
59
60 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
61
62 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
63
64 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
65 when it exits
66
67 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
68 o turn into dlopen() deps:
69 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
70 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
71 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
72 firstboot
73 - elfutils (always)
74 - p11-kit-trust (always)
75 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
76 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
77 - similar: libblkid
78 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
79 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
80 since they are so basic and our defaults)
81 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
82 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
83
84 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
85 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
86 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
87
88 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
89 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
90 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
91
92 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
93 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
94
95 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
96 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
97 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
98
99 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
100 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
101 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
102
103 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
104
105 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
106 specific service
107
108 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
109
110 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
111 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
112 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
113 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
114 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
115 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
116 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
117 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
118
119 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
120 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
121
122 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
123 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
124
125 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
126 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
127 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
128
129 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
130 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
131 signature
132
133 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
134 and insert a local signature instead.
135
136 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
137 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
138 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
139 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
140 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
141
142 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
143
144 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
145 exists and responds.
146
147 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
148 easily?
149
150 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
151 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
152 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
153 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
154 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
155
156 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
157 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
158
159 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
160 creates
161
162 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
163 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
164 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
165 hence we can make them quicker to work.
166
167 * bootctl:
168 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
169 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
170 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
171
172 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
173 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
174 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
175
176 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
177 allow so that systemd survives
178
179 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
180 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
181
182 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
183 systemd-makefs.service instead.
184
185 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
186 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
187
188 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
189 confusion is gone)
190 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
191 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
192 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
193 - port importd over from libgcrypt
194 - when that's done: kill khash.c
195 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
196
197 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
198
199 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
200
201 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
202 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
203
204 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
205 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
206 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
207 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
208 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
209
210 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
211 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
212 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
213 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
214
215 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
216 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
217 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
218 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
219 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
220 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
221
222 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
223 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
224 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
225 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
226 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
227 automatically.
228
229 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
230 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
231
232 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
233 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
234
235 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
236
237 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
238 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
239 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
240 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
241 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
242 fails to apply use the latter.
243
244 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
245 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
246
247 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
248 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
249
250 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
251 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
252 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
253
254 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
255 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
256
257 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
258 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
259 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
260
261 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
262 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
263
264 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
265
266 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
267 realname substr searches in varlink API
268
269 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
270
271 * userdb: allow existence checks
272
273 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
274
275 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
276 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
277 initrd had set.
278
279 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
280 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
281 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
282 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
283 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
284 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
285
286 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
287 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
288 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
289
290 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
291 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
292 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
293 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
294 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
295 source.
296
297 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
298 with immutable /usr
299
300 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
301 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
302 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
303
304 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
305
306 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
307 the hibernation
308
309 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
310 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
311 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
312 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
313 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
314 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
315 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
316 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
317 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
318 hibernation mode. (see
319 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
320 section 10.2.2.8 and
321 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
322 at the end).
323
324 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
325 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
326 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
327 output for them.
328
329 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
330 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
331
332 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
333 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
334 constant vendor data.
335
336 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
337
338 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
339 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
340
341 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
342 fallback in "machinectl shell"
343
344 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
345 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
346 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
347
348 * homed:
349 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
350 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
351 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
352 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
353 - resize on login?
354 - shrink fs on logout?
355 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
356 - create on activate?
357 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
358 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
359 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
360 systemd --user is shut down.
361 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
362 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
363 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
364 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
365 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
366 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
367 - description field for groups
368 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
369 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
370 - query password from kernel keyring first
371 - update even if record is "absent"
372 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
373 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
374 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
375 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
376 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
377 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
378
379 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
380 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
381 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
382 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
383 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
384 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
385 exec().
386
387 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
388
389 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
390 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
391
392 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
393
394 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
395 gnome-bluetooth and friends
396
397 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
398 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
399 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
400 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
401 cgroup.
402
403 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
404 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
405 root.
406
407 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
408 is issued.
409
410 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
411
412 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
413
414 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
415 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
416 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
417
418 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
419 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
420 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
421
422 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
423 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
424 ConfigurationDirectory=.
425
426 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
427
428 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
429
430 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
431 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
432
433 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
434 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
435 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
436
437 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
438
439 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
440 patching around
441
442 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
443 log.c and sd-journal-send
444
445 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
446
447 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
448
449 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
450 can add in file system drivers and such
451
452 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
453 non-zero "tries done" count
454
455 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
456 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
457 it should skip the variant type string though.
458
459 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
460 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
461 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
462 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
463 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
464 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
465 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
466 CODE_FILE.
467
468 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
469 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
470 some explanatory text online.
471
472 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
473
474 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
475 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
476 the slices, and the units attached to them.
477
478 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
479 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
480 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
481 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
482 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
483 way)
484
485 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
486 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
487 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
488
489 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
490 original defaults before calling parse_config()
491
492 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
493
494 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
495 Specifically:
496
497 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
498 properly)
499 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
500 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
501
502 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
503 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
504
505 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
506 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
507 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
508 files and suchlike we operate on.
509
510 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
511
512 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
513
514 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
515 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
516
517 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
518 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
519 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
520 numbers.
521
522 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
523 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
524 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
525 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
526 unlinked from any dir.
527
528 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
529
530 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
531
532 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
533
534 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
535 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
536 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
537 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
538 should reflink the image file itself.
539
540 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
541 specific paths only like this.
542
543 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
544 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
545 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
546 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
547 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
548
549 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
550
551 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
552
553 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
554 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
555
556 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
557 project quota
558
559 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
560 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
561 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
562 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
563 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
564 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
565 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
566 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
567
568 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
569 for root, but only then.
570
571 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
572
573 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
574 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
575
576 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
577 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
578
579 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
580 host-side interface pointing to the container.
581
582 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
583 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
584 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
585 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
586 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
587
588 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
589
590 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
591
592 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
593 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
594 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
595
596 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
597
598 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
599 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
600
601 * blog about fd store and restartable services
602
603 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
604
605 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
606 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
607
608 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
609 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
610 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
611 ID is available.
612
613 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
614 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
615 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
616
617 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
618 parameters
619
620 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
621 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
622 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
623 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
624 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
625 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
626 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
627
628 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
629 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
630
631 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
632 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
633 wait to retrieve their exit data.
634
635 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
636 about it in the resource log message
637
638 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
639 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
640
641 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
642 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
643 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
644
645 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
646 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
647
648 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
649
650 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
651 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
652 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
653 logging.
654
655 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
656 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
657 "convertible" form factor
658
659 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
660 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
661 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
662 as MAINPID.
663
664 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
665 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
666 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
667
668 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
669 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
670
671 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
672 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
673 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
674 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
675 natural habitat.
676
677 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
678 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
679 /usr is mounted into.
680
681 * 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
682
683 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
684
685 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
686 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
687 relative to the configured default value.
688
689 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
690
691 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
692
693 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
694
695 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
696
697 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
698
699 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
700
701 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
702
703 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
704
705 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
706
707 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
708
709 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
710 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
711 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
712
713 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
714
715 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
716
717 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
718 partitions
719
720 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
721 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
722 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
723 mapping to work.
724
725 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
726
727 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
728
729 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
730
731 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
732 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
733
734 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
735 reload the unit file anyway
736
737 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
738 from the SIGBUS handler
739
740 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
741
742 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
743 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
744
745 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
746
747 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
748 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
749
750 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
751 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
752 specifications.
753
754 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
755
756 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
757
758 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
759
760 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
761 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
762 prefixed with /sys generally special.
763 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
764
765 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
766
767 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
768
769 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
770 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
771 state.
772 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
773
774 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
775 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
776 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
777 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
778 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
779
780 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
781 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
782
783 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
784
785 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
787
788 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
789 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
790 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
791 do, for example)
792
793 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
794 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
795
796 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
797 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
798
799 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
800
801 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
802 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
803 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
804 returning from the "systemctl stop".
805
806 * 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
807
808 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
809
810 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
811 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
812
813 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
814
815 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
816
817 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
818 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
819
820 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
821
822 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
823
824 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
825
826 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
827 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
828
829 * resolved:
830 - mDNS/DNS-SD
831 - service registration
832 - service/domain/types browsing
833 - avahi compat
834 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
835 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
836 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
837 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
838 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
839 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
840
841 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
842
843 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
844
845 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
846
847 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
848 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
849
850 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
851
852 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
853
854 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
855
856 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
857 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
858
859 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
860
861 * gpt-auto-generator:
862 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
863 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
864
865 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
866 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
867 when it is otherwise off
868
869 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
870
871 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
872 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
873 for ReusePort=
874
875 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
876 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
877 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
878 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
879 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
880 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
881
882 * cgroups:
883 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
884 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
885 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
886 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
887 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
888 the hierarchies of child processes
889
890 * transient units:
891 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
892
893 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
894
895 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
896
897 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
898
899 * 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
900
901 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
902
903 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
904 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
905 path anyway.
906
907 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
908
909 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
910
911 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
912
913 * sd-bus:
914 - EBADSLT handling
915 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
916 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
917 - 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
918 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
919 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
920 - longer term: priority inheritance
921 - dbus spec updates:
922 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
923 - GVariant
924 - path escaping
925 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
926
927 * sd-event
928 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
929 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
930 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
931
932 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
933
934 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
935 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
936
937 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
938
939 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
940
941 * test/:
942 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
943
944 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
945 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
946 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
947 destination.
948
949 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
950 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
951
952 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
953
954 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
955 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
956 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
957
958 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
959 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
960 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
961 is installed.
962
963 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
964 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
965 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
966 that automatically.
967
968 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
969
970 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
971
972 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
973
974 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
975
976 * EFI:
977 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
978 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
979 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
980 * bootctl
981 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
982
983 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
984
985 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
986
987 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
988
989 * logind:
990 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
991 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
992 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
993 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
994 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
995 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
996 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
997 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
998 needs setuid().
999 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1000 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1001 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1002 complete.
1003 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1004 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1005 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1006 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1007 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1008 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1009 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1010 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1011 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1012 relogins
1013 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1014
1015 * journal:
1016 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1017 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1018 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1019 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1020 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1021 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1022 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1023 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1024 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1025 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1026 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1027 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1028 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1029 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1030 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1031 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1032 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1033 - 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.
1034 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1035 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1036 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1037 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1038 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1039 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1040 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1041 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1042 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1043 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1044 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1045 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1046 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1047 to syslog when it works again.
1048 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1049 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1050 journals in.
1051 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1052 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1053 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1054 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1055 the most common operations.
1056 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1057 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1058 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1059 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1060 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1061 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1062 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1063 operation.
1064 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1065 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1066 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1067 binary logs data
1068 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1069 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1070 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1071 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1072 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1073
1074 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1075 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1076 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1077 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1078
1079 * document:
1080 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1081 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1082 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1083 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1084 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1085 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1086 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1087 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1088 - man: add more examples to man pages
1089 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1090 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1091
1092 * systemctl:
1093 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1094 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1095 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1096 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1097 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1098 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1099 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1100 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1101 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1102 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1103
1104 * unit install:
1105 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1106 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1107
1108 * timer units:
1109 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1110 o DST changes
1111 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1112
1113 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1114
1115 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1116
1117 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1118
1119 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1120
1121 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1122
1123 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1124
1125 * nspawn:
1126 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1127 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1128 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1129 from the kernel's logs.
1130 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1131 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1132 interface be missing
1133 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1134 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1135 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1136 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1137 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1138 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1139 PID 1...
1140 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1141 running, remove them when shut down.
1142
1143 * dissect
1144 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1145 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1146
1147 * machined:
1148 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1149 removed or added to an existing machine
1150 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1151 difference host, via ssh
1152 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1153 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1154 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1155 question
1156 - "machinectl history"
1157 - "machinectl diff"
1158 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1159 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1160
1161 * cryptsetup:
1162 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1163 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1164
1165 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1166 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1167
1168 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1169
1170 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1171
1172 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1173
1174 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1175
1176 * udev:
1177 - move to LGPL
1178 - kill scsi_id
1179 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1180 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1181
1182 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1183
1184 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1185
1186 * coredump:
1187 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1188 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1189
1190 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1191
1192 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1193 needs to be auto-respawned?
1194
1195 * tmpfiles:
1196 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1197 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1198 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1199 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1200 calls follow symlinks.
1201
1202 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1203
1204 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1205 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1206 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1207
1208 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1209 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1210
1211 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1212
1213 * write blog stories about:
1214 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1215 - enabling dbus services
1216 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1217 - remote access
1218 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1219 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1220 - auto-restart
1221 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1222 - the journal HTTP iface
1223 - non-cgroup resource management
1224 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1225 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1226 - calendar time events
1227 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1228 - how to create your own target
1229 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1230 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1231
1232 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1233
1234 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1235
1236 * pid1:
1237 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1238 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1239 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1240 that are not supported...
1241 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1242 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1243 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1244 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1245 - move PAM code into its own binary
1246 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1247 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1248 - Support --test based on current system state
1249 - 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().
1250 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1251 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1252 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1253 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1254 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1255 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1256 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1257 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1258 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1259
1260 * unit files:
1261 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1262 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1263 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1264 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1265 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1266 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1267 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1268 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1269 - introduce Type=pid-file
1270 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1271 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1272 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1273 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1274
1275 * udev-link-config:
1276 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1277 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1278 on Path= matching
1279
1280 * sd-rtnl:
1281 - add support for more attribute types
1282 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1283
1284 * networkd:
1285 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1286 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1287 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1288 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1289 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1290 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1291 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1292 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1293 - expose in the API the following bits:
1294 - option 15, domain name
1295 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1296 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1297 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1298 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1299 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1300 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1301 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1302 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1303 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1304
1305 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1306
1307 * dhcp:
1308 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1309
1310 * dhcp6:
1311 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1312 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1313 - write more test cases
1314 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1315 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1316 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1317 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1318 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1319 or interface down
1320 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1321 this behavior
1322 - RouteTable= ?
1323
1324 External:
1325
1326 * dbus:
1327 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1328 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1329
1330 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1331
1332 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1333
1334 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1335
1336 * 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=
1337
1338 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1339
1340 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1341
1342 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1343
1344 * zsh shell completion:
1345 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1346 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1347
1348 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1349 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1350 after being started.
1351
1352 Regularly:
1353
1354 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1355
1356 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1357
1358 * pahole
1359
1360 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1361
1362 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1363
1364 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1365 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment