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@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: stopped having this file around as anything else than a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. - * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. - It allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and + * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. It + allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: 'machine-id-setup --commit'. The separate binary has been removed. - * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be - set to the special value '~'. In this case, the working - directory is set to the home directory of the user configured - in User=. + * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be set + to the special value '~'. In this case, the working + directory is set to the home directory of the user + configured in User=. * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home directory of the selected user by default. @@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: 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 supported for compat - reasons. Also, this directive now takes an integer value - between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The formerly supported - '-1' value for disabling stays around for compat reasons. + CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not + abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still + supported for compat reasons. Also, this directive now takes + an integer value between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The + formerly supported '-1' value for disabling stays around for + compat reasons. * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and @@ -114,12 +115,15 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit specifiers like %i or %f. - * networkd gained support for: - - setting the IPv6 Router Advertisment settings via + * systemd-networkd gained support for: + + - Setting the IPv6 Router Advertisment settings via IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in .network files. - - configuring the HelloTimeSec, MaxAgeSec and - ForwardDelaySec bridge parameters in .netdev files. - - configuring PreferredSource for static routes in + + - Configuring the HelloTimeSec=, MaxAgeSec= and + ForwardDelaySec= bridge parameters in .netdev files. + + - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in .network files. * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices @@ -142,11 +146,24 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. - * Sockets passed using socket activation are now named. A new - API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to access the names. - The default names can be overwritten either in the .socket - file using the FileDescriptorName= parameter, or by passing - FDNAME= when storing the filedescriptor using sd_notify(). + * 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 + date. This is useful as journal interleaving performance + degrades with too many seperate journal files, and allows + putting an effective limit on them. The new setting defaults + to 100, but this may be changed by setting SystemMaxFiles= + and RuntimeMaxFiles= in journald.conf. Also, the + "journalctl" tool gained the new --vacuum-files= switch to + manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified + number of files in place. * Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added. |