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might be systems we do not cover yet. Hence: please help us testing
the DNSSEC code, leave this on where you can, report back, but then
again don't consider turning this on in your stable, LTS or
- production release just yet.
+ production release just yet. (Note that you have to enable
+ nss-resolve in /etc/nsswitch.conf, to actually use systemd-resolved
+ and its DNSSEC mode for host name resolution from local
+ applications.)
* systemd-resolve conveniently resolves DANE records with the --tlsa
- option and OPENPGPKEY records with the --openpgp option.
+ option and OPENPGPKEY records with the --openpgp option. It also
+ supports dumping raw DNS record data via the new --raw= switch now.
* systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes that are
part of the user session scope unit (session-XX.scope) when the user
- logs out. This behaviour is controlled by the
- KillUserProcesses=yes|no setting in logind.conf, and previous default
- of "no" is now changed to "yes". This means that user sessions will
- be properly cleaned up after, but additional steps are necessary to
- allow intentionally long-running processes to survive logout.
+ logs out. This behavior is controlled by the KillUserProcesses=
+ setting in logind.conf, and the previous default of "no" is now
+ changed to "yes". This means that user sessions will be properly
+ cleaned up after, but additional steps are necessary to allow
+ intentionally long-running processes to survive logout.
While the user is logged in at least once, user@.service is running,
and any service that should survive the end of any individual login
session can be started at a user service or scope using systemd-run.
- systemd-run(1) man page has been extended with an example which
- shows how to run screen in a scope unit underneath user@.service.
- The same command works for tmux.
+ systemd-run(1) man page has been extended with an example which shows
+ how to run screen in a scope unit underneath user@.service. The same
+ command works for tmux.
After the user logs out of all sessions, user@.service will be
terminated too, by default, unless the user has "lingering" enabled.
@@ -45,36 +49,38 @@ CHANGES WITH 230 in spe:
set lingering for themselves without authentication.
Previous defaults can be restored at compile time by the
- --without-kill-user-processes option.
+ --without-kill-user-processes option to "configure".
* The unified cgroup hierarchy added in Linux 4.5 is now supported.
- Use systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 on the kernel command line
- to enable.
+ Use systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 on the kernel command line to
+ enable.
+
WARNING: it is not possible to use previous systemd versions with
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 and the new kernel. Therefore it
is necessary to also update systemd in the initramfs if using the
- unified hierarchy. Updated selinux policy is also required.
-
- * LLDP support has been extended, and both passive (receive-only)
- and active (sender) modes are supported. Passive mode
- ("routers-only") is enabled by default in systemd-networkd.
- Active LLDP mode is enabled by default for containers on the
- internal network.
- "networkctl lldp" can be used to list information gathered.
+ unified hierarchy. An updated SELinux policy is also required.
- * Headers for LLDP support (sd-lldp.h) are now public.
+ * LLDP support has been extended, and both passive (receive-only) and
+ active (sender) modes are supported. Passive mode ("routers-only") is
+ enabled by default in systemd-networkd. Active LLDP mode is enabled
+ by default for containers on the internal network. The "networkctl
+ lldp" command may be used to list information gathered. "networkctl
+ status" will also show basic LLDP information on connected peers now.
- * The Unique Identifier sent in DHCP requests can be configured.
+ * The IAID and DUID unique identifier sent in DHCP requests may now be
+ configured for the system and each .network file managed by
+ systemd-networkd.
- * Testing tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-activate is renamed to
+ * The testing tool /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-activate is renamed to
systemd-socket-activate and installed into /usr/bin. It is now fully
supported.
- * systemd-journald now uses separate threads to flush changes to
- disk when closing journal files.
+ * systemd-journald now uses separate threads to flush changes to disk
+ when closing journal files, thus reducing impact of slow disk I/O on
+ logging performance.
- * systemd-ask-password skips printing of the password to stdout
- with --no-output which can be useful in scripts.
+ * systemd-ask-password now optionally skips printing of the password to
+ stdout with --no-output which can be useful in scripts.
* Framebuffer devices (/dev/fb*) and 3D printers and scanners
(devices tagged with ID_MAKER_TOOL) are now tagged with
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* systemd-bootchart has been split out to a separate repository:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart
- * Compatibility libraries libsystemd-daemon.so, libsystemd-journal.so,
- libsystemd-id128.so, and libsystemd-login.so which have been
- deprecated since systemd-209 have been removed along along with the
- corresponding pkg-config files. All symbols provided by the those
- libraries are provided by libsystemd.so.
-
- * Capabilities= setting has been removed (it is ignored for backwards
- compatibility). AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet=
- should be used instead.
+ * The compatibility libraries libsystemd-daemon.so,
+ libsystemd-journal.so, libsystemd-id128.so, and libsystemd-login.so
+ which have been deprecated since systemd-209 have been removed along
+ with the corresponding pkg-config files. All symbols provided by
+ those libraries are provided by libsystemd.so.
+
+ * The Capabilities= unit file setting has been removed (it is ignored
+ for backwards compatibility). AmbientCapabilities= and
+ CapabilityBoundingSet= should be used instead.
+
+ * "systemctl show" gained a new --value switch, which allows print a
+ only the contents of a specific unit property, without also printing
+ the property's name. Similar support was added to "show*" verbs
+ of loginctl and machinectl that output "key=value" lists.
+
+ * A new command "systemctl revert" has been added that may be used to
+ revert to the vendor version of a unit file, in case local changes
+ have been made by adding drop-ins or overriding the unit file.
+
+ * "machinectl clean" gained a new verb to automatically remove all or
+ just hidden container images.
+
+ * systemd-bus-proxyd has been removed, as kdbus is unlikely to still be
+ merged into the kernel in its current form.
+
+ * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring proxy ARP support for
+ each interface, via the ProxyArp= setting in .network files. It also
+ gained support for configuring the multicast querier feature of
+ bridge devices, via the new MulticastQuerier= setting in .netdev
+ files. A new setting PreferredLifetime= has been added for addresses
+ configured in .network file to configure the lifetime intended for an
+ address.
+
+ * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for a new line type "e" for emptying
+ directories, if they exist, without creating them if they don't.
+
+ * journalctl learned a new output mode "-o short-unix" that outputs log
+ lines prefixed by their UNIX time (i.e. seconds since Jan 1st, 1970
+ UTC). It also gained support for a new --no-hostname setting to
+ suppress the hostname column in the family of "short" output modes.
+
+ * systemd-nspawn gained support for automatically patching the UID/GIDs
+ of the owners and the ACLs of all files and directories in a
+ container tree to match the UID/GID user namespacing range selected
+ for the container invocation. This mode is enabled via the new
+ --private-user-chown switch. It also gained support for automatically
+ choosing a free, previously unused UID/GID range when starting a
+ container, via the new --private-users=pick setting (which implies
+ --private-user-chown). Together, these options for the first time
+ make user namespacing for nspawn containers fully automatic and thus
+ deployable. The systemd-nspaw@.service template unit file has been
+ changed to use this functionality by default.
+
+ * The default start timeout may now be configured on the kernel command
+ line via systemd.default_timeout_start_sec=. It was already
+ configurable via the DefaultTimeoutStartSec= option in
+ /etc/systemd/system.conf.
+
+ * Socket units gained a new TriggerLimitIntervalSec= and
+ TriggerLimitBurst= setting to configure a limit on the activation
+ rate of the socket unit.
+
+ * The LimitNICE= setting now optionally takes normal UNIX nice values
+ in addition to the raw integer limit value. If the specified
+ parameter is prefixed with "+" or "-" and is in the range -20..19 the
+ value is understood as UNIX nice value. If not prefixed like this it
+ is understood as raw RLIMIT_NICE limit.
+
+ Contributions from: Alban Crequy, Alexander Kuleshov, Alex Crawford,
+ Andrew Eikum, Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Benjamin ROBIN, Biao
+ Lu, Bjørnar Ness, Calvin Owens, Christian Hesse, Colin Guthrie, Daniel
+ J Walsh, Daniel Mack, Dan Nicholson, daurnimator, David Herrmann, David
+ R. Hedges, Elias Probst, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot, EMOziko, Evgeny
+ Vereshchagin, Federico, Felipe Sateler, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck
+ Bui, frankheckenbach, Georgia Brikis, Harald Hoyer, Hendrik Brueckner,
+ Hristo Venev, Iago López Galeiras, Ian Kelling, Ismo Puustinen, Jakub
+ Wilk, Jaroslav Škarvada, Jeff Huang, Joel Holdsworth, kayrus, Klearchos
+ Chaloulos, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Nykryn, Lukáš
+ Nykrýn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marcel Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl,
+ michaelolbrich, Michał Bartoszkiewicz, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar,
+ Mike Frysinger, Mike Gilbert, Mingcong Bai, Ming Lin, mulkieran,
+ muzena, Nalin Dahyabhai, Naohiro Aota, Nathan McSween, Nicolas
+ Braud-Santoni, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, Petr Lautrbach, Petros
+ Angelatos, Piotr Drąg, Rabin Vincent, Robert Węcławski, Ronny
+ Chevalier, Samuel Tardieu, Stefan Schallenberg, Steven Siloti, Susant
+ Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Taylor Smock, tblume, Tejun Heo, Thomas
+ Blume, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas
+ H. P. Andersen, Tobias Klauser, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut
+ Tezduyar Lindskog, Vinay Kulkarni, Vito Caputo, Vittorio G (VittGam),
+ Vladimir Panteleev, Wieland Hoffmann, Wouter Verhelst, Yu Watanabe,
+ Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
- * systemd-bus-proxyd has been removed, as kdbus will not be merged
- in current form.
+ — Berlin, 2016-05-XX
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