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+systemd System and Session Manager
+
+CHANGES WITH 39:
+ * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
+ bugfixes.
+
+ * New systemd-cgtop tool to show control groups by their
+ resource usage.
+
+ * Linking against libacl for ACLs is optional again. If
+ disabled, support tracking device access for active logins
+ goes becomes unavailable, and so does access to the user
+ journals by the respective users.
+
+ * If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
+ owned by them, thus allow members of this group full access
+ to the system journal as well as all user journals.
+
+ * The journal now stores the SELinux context of the logging
+ client for all entries.
+
+ * Add C++ inclusion guards to all public headers
+
+ * New output mode "cat" in the journal to print only text
+ messages, without any meta data like date or time.
+
+ * Include tiny X server wrapper as a temporary stop-gap to
+ teach XOrg udev display enumeration. This is used by display
+ managers such as gdm, and will go away as soon as XOrg
+ learned native udev hotplugging for display devices.
+
+ * Add new systemd-cat tool for executing arbitrary programs
+ with STDERR/STDOUT connected to the journal. Can also act as
+ BSD logger replacement, and does so by default.
+
+ * Optionally store all locally generated coredumps in the
+ journal along with meta data.
+
+ * systemd-tmpfiles learnt four new commands: n, L, c, b, for
+ writing short strings to files (for usage for /sys), and for
+ creating symlinks, character and block device nodes.
+
+ * New unit file option ControlGroupPersistent= to make cgroups
+ persistent, following the mechanisms outlined in
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups
+
+ * Support multiple local RTCs in a sane way
+
+ * No longer monopolize IO when replaying readahead data on
+ rotating disks, since we might starve non-file-system IO to
+ death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
+ or fsck.
+
+ * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
+ requested with new -k switch.
+
+ Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
+ Poettering, Michal Schmidt
+
+CHANGES WITH 38:
+ * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
+ bugfixes.
+
+ * The git repository moved to:
+ git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
+ ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
+
+ * First release with the journal
+ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html
+
+ * The journal replaces both systemd-kmsg-syslogd and
+ systemd-stdout-bridge.
+
+ * New sd_pid_get_unit() API call in libsystemd-logind
+
+ * Many systemadm clean-ups
+
+ * Introduce remote-fs-pre.target which is ordered before all
+ remote mounts and may be used to start services before all
+ remote mounts.
+
+ * Added Mageia support
+
+ * Add bash completion for systemd-loginctl
+
+ * Actively monitor PID file creation for daemons which exit in
+ the parent process before having finished writing the PID
+ file in the daemon process. Daemons which do this need to be
+ fixed (i.e. PID file creation must have finished before the
+ parent exits), but we now react a bit more gracefully to them.
+
+ * Add colourful boot output, mimicking the well-known output
+ of existing distributions.
+
+ * New option PassCredentials= for socket units, for
+ compatibility with a recent kernel ABI breakage.
+
+ * /etc/rc.local is now hooked in via a generator binary, and
+ thus will no longer act as synchronization point during
+ boot.
+
+ * systemctl list-unit-files now supports --root=.
+
+ * systemd-tmpfiles now understands two new commands: z, Z for
+ relabelling files according to the SELinux database. This is
+ useful to apply SELinux labels to specific files in /sys,
+ among other things.
+
+ * Output of SysV services is now forwarded to both the console
+ and the journal by default, not only just the console.
+
+ * New man pages for all APIs from libsystemd-login.
+
+ * The build tree got reorganized and a the build system is a
+ lot more modular allowing embedded setups to specifically
+ select the components of systemd they are interested in.
+
+ * Support for Linux systems lacking the kernel VT subsystem is
+ restored.
+
+ * configure's --with-rootdir= got renamed to
+ --with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
+ kmod
+
+ * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
+ of /usr/local by default.
+
+ * Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
+ final shut-down killing spree, following the logic explained
+ in:
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons
+
+ * All processes remaining in a service cgroup when we enter
+ the START or START_PRE states are now killed with
+ SIGKILL. That means it is no longer possible to spawn
+ background processes from ExecStart= lines (which was never
+ supported anyway, and bad style).
+
+ * New PropagateReloadTo=/PropagateReloadFrom= options to bind
+ reloading of units together.
+
+ Contributions from: Bill Nottingham, Daniel Walsh, Dave
+ Reisner, Dexter Morgan, Gregs Gregs, Jonathan Nieder, Kay
+ Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Biebl, Michal Schmidt,
+ Michał Górny, Ran Benita, Thomas Jarosch, Tim Waugh, Tollef
+ Fog Heen, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek