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systemd System and Service Manager
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+ * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for
+ snchronizing the system clock across the network. It
+ implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP
+ implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server
+ this only implements a client side, and does not bother with
+ the full NTP complexity, focussing only on querying time
+ from one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to
+ it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or
+ want to connect to local hardware clocks this simple NTP
+ client should be more than appropriate for most
+ installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and
+ has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when
+ network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the
+ current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been
+ acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock
+ early at bootup, in order to accomodate for systems that
+ lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices,
+ and make sure that time monotonically progresses on these
+ systems, even if it is not always correct.
+
+ * The "seqnum" interface of libudev has been disabled, as it
+ was generally incompatible with device namspacing as
+ sequence numbers of devices go "missing" if the devices are
+ part of a different namespace.
+
+ * "systemctl list-timers" and "systemctl list-sockets" gained
+ a --recursive switch for showing units of these types also
+ for all local containers, similar in style to the
+ --recursive switch "systemctl list-units" already supports.
+
+ * A new RebootArgument= setting has been added for service
+ units, which may be used to specify a kernel reboot argument
+ for usage when triggering reboots with StartLimitAction=.
+
+ * A new FailureAction= setting has been added for service
+ units which may be used to specify an operation to trigger
+ when a service fails. This works similar to
+ StartLimitAction=, but unlike it controls what is done
+ immediately rather than only after several attempts to
+ restart the service in question.
+
+ * hostnamed got updated to also expose the kernel name,
+ release and version on the bus. This is useful for executing
+ commands like hostnamectl with the -H switch.
+
+ * The bootchart tool can now show cgroup information in the
+ graphs it generates.
+
+ * The CFS CPU quota cgroup attribute is now exposed for
+ services. The new CPUQuota= switch has been added for this
+ which takes a percentage value. Setting this will have the
+ result that a service may never get more CPU time than the
+ specified percentage, even if the machine is otherwise idle.
+
+ * systemd-networkd learned IPIP and SIT tunnel support.
+
+ * LSB init scripts exposing a dependency on $network will now
+ get a dependency on network-online.target rather than simply
+ network.target. This should bring LSB handling closer to
+ what it was on SysV systems.
+
+ * A new fsck.repair= kernel option has been added to control
+ how fsck shall deal with unclean file systems at boot.
+
+ * The (.ini) configuration file parser will now silently
+ ignore sections whose name begins with "X-". This may be
+ used to maintain application-specific extension sections in unit
+ files.
+
+ * machined gained a new API to query the IP addresses of
+ registered containers. "machinectl status" has been updated
+ to show these addresses in its output.
+
+ * A new call sd_uid_get_display() has been added to the
+ sd-login APIs for querying the "primary" session of a
+ user. The "primary" session of the user is elected from the
+ user's sessions and generally a graphical session is
+ preferred over a text one.
+
+ * A minimal systemd-resolved daemon has been added. It
+ currently simply acts as a companion to systemd-networkd and
+ manages resolv.conf based on per-interface DNS
+ configuration, possibly supplied via DHCP. In the long run
+ we hope to extend this into a local DNSSEC enabled DNS and
+ mDNS cache.
+
+ * Two new service options StartupCPUShares= and
+ StartupBlockIOWeight= have been added that work similar to
+ CPUShares= and BlockIOWeight= however only apply during
+ system startup. This is useful to priorize certain services
+ differently during bootup than during normal runtime.
+
+ Contributions from: Ali H. Caliskan, Alison Chaiken, Bas van
+ den Berg, Brandon Philips, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch,
+ Dan Kilman, Dave Reisner, David Härdeman, David Herrmann,
+ David Strauss, Dimitris Spingos, Djalal Harouni, Eelco
+ Dolstra, Evan Nemerson, Florian Albrechtskirchinger, Greg
+ Kroah-Hartman, Harald Hoyer, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Jan
+ Engelhardt, Jani Nikula, Jason St. John, Jeffrey Clark,
+ Jonathan Boulle, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Lukas
+ Nykryn, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas,
+ Marcel Holtmann, Matthew Monaco, Michael Marineau, Michael
+ Olbrich, Michal Sekletar, Mike Gilbert, Nis Martensen, Patrik
+ Flykt, Philip Lorenz, poma, Ray Strode, Robert Milasan, Scott
+ Thrasher, Steven Siloti, Susant Sahani, Tanu Kaskinen, Thomas
+ Bächler, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Umut
+ Tezduyar Lindskog, WaLyong Cho, Will Woods, Zbigniew
+ Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+ -- Beijing, 2014-05-24
+
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