PIDÂ 1 has successfully completed installation of its various UNIX
process signal handlers (i.e. the moment where SIGRTMIN+4 sent to
PIDÂ 1 will start to have the effect of shutting down the system
- cleanly).
+ cleanly). X_SYSTEMD_SHUTDOWN= is sent shortly before the system shuts
+ down, and carries a string identifying the type of shutdown,
+ i.e. "poweroff", "halt", "reboot". X_SYSTEMD_REBOOT_PARAMETER= is
+ sent at the same time and carries the string passed to "systemctl
+ --reboot-argument=" if there was one.
- * New D-Bus properties ExecMainHandoverTimestamp and
- ExecMainHandoverTimestampMonotonic are now published by services of
- type exec, dbus, notify, and notify-reload.
- This timestamp is taken as the very last operation before executing
- a service's binary, which allows users to accurately track when
- execution control of the process is handed over from systemd to the
- payload.
+ * New D-Bus properties ExecMainHandoffTimestamp and
+ ExecMainHandoffTimestampMonotonic are now published by services
+ units. This timestamp is taken as the very last operation before
+ handing off control to invoked binaries. This information is
+ available for other unit types that fork off processes (i.e. mount,
+ swap, socket units), but currently only via "systemd-analyze dump".
+ * An additional timestamp is now taken by the service manager when a
+ system shutdown operation is initiated. It can be queried via D-Bus
+ during the shutdown phase. It's passed to the following service
+ manager invocation on soft reboots, which will then use it to log the
+ overall "grey-out" time of the soft reboot operation, i.e. the time
+ when the shutdown began until the system is fully up again.
+
+ * "systemctl status" will now display the invocation ID in its usual
+ output, i.e. the 128bit ID uniquely assigned to the current runtime
+ cycle of the unit. The ID has been supported for a long time, but is
+ now more prominently displayed, as it is a very useful handle to a
+ specific invocation of a service.
+
+ * systemd now generates a new "taint" string "unmerged-bin" for systems
+ that have /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/ separate. It's generally
+ recommended to make the latter a symlink to the former these days.
+
Journal:
* systemd-journald can now forward journal entries to a socket