From e204346953d0d4980ee78c62ae34c1524a0c2323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 09:03:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: announce the F20/F21/F22/F23 key mangling removal scheduled for v258 As per: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/34325 And: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/34323 --- NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f368703c904..1d8b44183a8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe: Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes: + * To work around limitations of X11's keyboard handling systemd's + keyboard mapping hardware database (hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb) so far + mapped the microphone mute and touchpad on/off/toggle keys to the + function keys F20, F21, F22, F23 instead of their correct key + codes. This key code mangling will be removed in the next systemd + release v258. To maintain compatibility with X11 applications that + rely on the old function key code mappings, this mangling has now + been moved to the relevant X11 keyboard driver modules instead. Thus, + in order to ensure these keys continue to work as before make sure to + update the xf86-input-evdev and xf86-input-libinput packages to the + newest version before updating systemd to v258. + * Support for automatic flushing of the nscd user/group database caches has been dropped. -- 2.47.3