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authorDaniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>2015-10-07 15:55:10 +0200
committerDaniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>2015-10-07 15:57:04 +0200
commitbdba9227ec6462198b63af69098a003aa2292c0f (patch)
treef471687f1a1111ba56cbf9ecc04d83e31c71c0f8 /NEWS
parent61e6771c4ac5e8418a9537a0f3efa1e51c45e5b9 (diff)
NEWS: re-order entries slightly
Also, the release is actually done in Berlin ;)
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@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
* "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home
directory of the selected user by default.
- * A new systemd.crash_reboot=1 kernel command line option has
- been added that triggers a reboot after crashing. This can
- also be set through CrashReboot= in systemd.conf.
-
* The CrashChVT= configuration file setting is renamed to
CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not
abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still
@@ -107,13 +103,24 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
processes have been killed, because the unit had no
processes attached, or similar.
+ * A new systemd.crash_reboot=1 kernel command line option has
+ been added that triggers a reboot after crashing. This can
+ also be set through CrashReboot= in systemd.conf.
+
+ * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit
+ specifiers like %i or %f.
+
* A new (still internal) libary API sd-ipv4acd has been added,
that implements address conflict detection for IPv4. It's
based on code from sd-ipv4ll, and will be useful for
detecting DHCP address conflicts.
- * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit
- specifiers like %i or %f.
+ * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be
+ named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to
+ access the names. The default names may be overriden,
+ either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName=
+ parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file
+ descriptors using sd_notify().
* systemd-networkd gained support for:
@@ -126,8 +133,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
- Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in
.network files.
- * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices
- on kernels where that is supported.
+ * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk
+ passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for
+ caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is
+ available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in
+ a passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock
+ with the same one. Previously, such password caching was
+ available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the
+ caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The
+ "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname=
+ switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for
+ caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for
+ enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically
+ unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the
+ user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if
+ gdm-autologin is used.
* When downloading tar or raw images using "machinectl
pull-tar" or "machinectl pull-raw", a matching ".nspawn"
@@ -146,13 +166,6 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous
system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean.
- * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be
- named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to
- access the names. The default names may be overriden,
- either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName=
- parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file
- descriptors using sd_notify().
-
* The journal daemon gained support for vacuuming old journal
files controlled by the number of files that shall remain,
in addition to the already existing control by size and by
@@ -165,21 +178,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified
number of files in place.
- * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk
- passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for
- caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is
- available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in
- his passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock
- with the same one. Previously, such password caching was
- available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the
- caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The
- "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname=
- switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for
- caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for
- enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically
- unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the
- user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if
- gdm-autologin is used.
+ * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices
+ on kernels where that is supported.
* Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added.