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@@ -17,13 +17,21 @@ Janitorial Clean-ups:
 
 Features:
 
+* make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
+  and fd_is_mount_point()
+
 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
   nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
   container manager)
 
+* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
+
 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
   and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
 
+* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
+  so, freeze the payload too.
+
 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
 
 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
@@ -80,8 +88,6 @@ Features:
 
 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
   o turn into dlopen() deps:
-    - pcre2 (always)               — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
-                                     libselinux, but should benefit Debian
     - libpwquality (always)        - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
                                      firstboot
     - elfutils (always)
@@ -111,9 +117,9 @@ Features:
   this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
 
 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
-  operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
-  systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
-  systemd-firstboot)
+  operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
+  coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
+  systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
 
 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
 
@@ -328,9 +334,6 @@ Features:
   right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
   output for them.
 
-* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
-  disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
-
 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
   that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
   constant vendor data.
@@ -366,7 +369,6 @@ Features:
   - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
   - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
   - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
-  - description field for groups
   - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
   - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
   - query password from kernel keyring first
@@ -933,6 +935,10 @@ Features:
   - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
   - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
   - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
+  - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
+    operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
+    here:
+    http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
 
 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID