From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:11:00 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: mention the LUKS superblock default labelling change.
X-Git-Tag: v259-rc1~6^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d343a044a26d6ca4771187a8ad1bd7059c82531b;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: mention the LUKS superblock default labelling change.

This is a (weak) compat break, hence document it in NEWS.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b0cc3618b28..db6645e5cae 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ CHANGES WITH 259 in spe:
           image. Hence, effectively they have been read-only anyway already,
           this change makes this official.
 
+        * The LUKS volume label string set by systemd-repart no longer defaults
+          to the literal same as the partition and file system label, but is
+          prefixed with "luks-". This is done so that on LUKS enabled images a
+          conflict between /dev/disk/by-label/ symlinks is removed, as this
+          symlink is generated both for file system and LUKS superblock
+          labels. There's a new VolumeLabel= setting for partitions that can be
+          used to expicitly choose a LUKS superblock label, which can be used
+          to explicitly revert to the old naming, if required.
+
         Service manager/PID1:
 
         * The service manager will now show the wallclock time a service ran