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