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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-09-13 02:11:19 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-09-13 02:12:16 +0200
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systemd System and Service Manager
-CHANGES WITH 206:
-
- * The systemd-sysctl tool does no longer natively read the
+CHANGES WITH 207:
+
+ * The Restart= option for services now understands a new
+ on-watchdog setting which will restart the service
+ automatically if the service stops sending out watchdog keep
+ alive messages (as configured with WatchdogSec=).
+
+ * The getty generator (which is responsible for bringing up a
+ getty on configured serial consoles) will no longer only
+ start a getty on the primary kernel console but on all
+ others, too. This makes the order in which console= is
+ specified on the kernel command line less important.
+
+ * libsystemd-logind gained a new sd_session_get_vt() call to
+ retrieve the VT number of a session.
+
+ * If the option "tries=0" is set for an entry of /etc/crypttab
+ its passphrase is queried indefinitely instead of any
+ maximum number of tries.
+
+ * If a service with a configure PID file terminates its PID
+ file will now be removed automatically if it still exists
+ afterwards. This should put an end to stale PID files.
+
+ * systemd-run will now also take relative binary path names
+ for execution and no longer insists on absolute paths.
+
+ * InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take
+ paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that
+ it should not be considered a failure if they don't exist.
+
+ * journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understand a new
+ output mode "short-precise" that is similar to "short" but
+ shows timestamps with usec accuracy.
+
+ * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now
+ synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact,
+ the latter is preferred now (since it is easier to remember
+ and type).
+
+ * Some licensing clean-ups were made so that more code is now
+ LGPL-2.1 licensed than before.
+
+ * A minimal tool to save/restore the display backlight
+ brightness across reboots has been added. It will store the
+ backlight setting as late as possible at shutdown and
+ restore it as early as possible during reboot.
+
+ * A logic to automatically discover and enable home and swap
+ partitions on GPT disks has been added. With this in place
+ /etc/fstab becomes optional for many setups as systemd can
+ discover certain partitions located on the root disk
+ automatically. Home partitions are recognized under their
+ GPT type ID 933ac7e12eb44f13b8440e14e2aef915. Swap
+ partitions are recognized under their GPT type ID
+ 0657fd6da4ab43c484e50933c84b4f4f.
+
+ * systemd will no longer pass any environment from the kernel
+ or initrd to system services. If you want to set an
+ environment for all services, do so via the kernel command
+ line systemd.setenv= assignment.
+
+ * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the
file /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be
symlinked from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from
providing legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in
code, it also makes the otherwise hidden order of application
of the different files visible.
+ * The "systemctl set-log-level" and "systemctl dump" commands
+ have been moved to systemd-analyze.
+
+ * systemd-run learned the new --remain-after-exit switch,
+ which causes the scope unit not to be cleaned up
+ automatically after the process terminated.
+
+ * tmpfiles learned a new --exclude-prefix= switch to exclude
+ certain paths from operation.
+
+ * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk
+ as soon as a message of the log priorities CRIT, ALERT or
+ EMERG is received.
+
+ Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian
+ Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal,
+ Daniel Wallace, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, Gao feng, George
+ McCollister, Giovanni Campagna, Hannes Reinecke, Harald Hoyer,
+ Herczeg Zsolt, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan Engelhardt,
+ Jesper Larsen, Kay Sievers, Khem Raj, Lennart Poettering,
+ Lukas Nykryn, Maciej Wereski, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel
+ Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau,
+ Michael Scherer, Michael Stapelberg, Michal Sekletar, Michał
+ Górny, Olivier Brunel, Ondrej Balaz, Ronny Chevalier, Shawn
+ Landden, Steven Hiscocks, Thomas Bächler, Thomas Hindoe
+ Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut Tezduyar, WANG Chao,
+ William Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Berlin, 2013-09-13
+
CHANGES WITH 206:
* The documentation has been updated to cover the various new
@@ -106,6 +196,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 206:
Thomas H.P. Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tomasz Torcz, William
Giokas, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+ -- Berlin, 2013-07-23
+
CHANGES WITH 205:
* Two new unit types have been introduced: