NEWS: announce plan to drop support for nscd

This is in preparation for https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30360 to be
merged in a future release. As described there:

  nscd is known to be racy [1] and it was already deprecated and later dropped
  in Fedora a while back [1,2]. We don't need to support obsolete stuff in
  systemd, and the cache in systemd-resolved provides a better solution anyway.

  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateNSCD
  [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD

Note that our "support" is only the signal to flush the cache that we send at
various points. Nscd itself may still exist, dropping it is a decision to be
made in glibc.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e9783cb1f89b88d1cddf8a9843cf85d34fc933ce..2ba7e7dca6796c95f2c7aa7ee89c142ff80d7c42 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
 
         Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes:
 
+        * Support for flushing of the nscd user/group database caches will be
+          dropped in a future release.
+
         * Previously, systemd-networkd did not explicitly remove any bridge VLAN
           IDs assigned on bridge master and ports. Since v256, if a .network
           file for an interface has at least one valid settings in [BridgeVLAN]