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@@ -1,27 +1,399 @@ systemd System and Service Manager -CHANGES WITH 225: +CHANGES WITH 227: + + * systemd now depends on util-linux v2.27. More specifically, + the newly added mount monitor feature in libmount now + replaces systemd's former own implementation. + + * libmount mandates /etc/mtab not to be regular file, and + systemd now enforces this condition at early boot. + /etc/mtab has been deprecated and warned about for a very + long time, so systems running systemd should already have + 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 + enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting + TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a + global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. + + * Support for the "net_cls" cgroup controller has been added. + It allows assigning a net class ID to each task in the + cgroup, which can then be used in firewall rules and traffic + shaping configurations. Note that the kernel netfilter net + class code does not currently work reliably for ingress + packets on unestablished sockets. + + This adds a new config directive called NetClass= to CGroup + enabled units. Allowed values are positive numbers for fixed + assignments and "auto" for picking a free value + automatically. + + * 'systemctl is-system-running' now returns 'offline' if the + system is not booted with systemd. This command can now be + used as a substitute for 'systemd-notify --booted'. + + * Watchdog timeouts have been increased to 3 minutes for all + in-tree service files. Apparently, disk IO issues are more + frequent than we hoped, and user reported >1 minute waiting + for disk IO. + + * 'machine-id-commit' functionality has been merged into + '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=. + + * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home + directory of the selected user by default. + + * 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. + + * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, + NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and + RootDirectory= properties can now be set for transient + units. - * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh shell on the - target machine. It is similar to 'login', but spawns the shell - directly. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local host and - is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can be used as - replacement for 'su' which spawns the session as a fresh systemd - unit. + * The systemd-analyze tool gained a new "set-log-target" verb + to change the logging target the system manager logs to + dynamically during runtime. This is similar to how + "systemd-analyze set-log-level" already changes the log + level. + + * In nspawn /sys is now mounted as tmpfs, with only a selected + set of subdirectories mounted in from the real sysfs. This + enhances security slightly, and is useful for ensuring user + namespaces work correctly. + + * Support for USB FunctionFS activation has been added. This + allows implementation of USB gadget services that are + activated as soon as they are requested, so that they don't + have to run continously, similar to classic socket + activation. + + * The "systemctl exit" command now optionally takes an + additional parameter that sets the exit code to return from + the systemd manager when exiting. This is only relevant when + running the systemd user instance, or when running the + system instance in a container. + + * sd-bus gained the new API calls sd_bus_path_encode_many() + and sd_bus_path_decode_many() that allow easy encoding and + decoding of multiple identifier strings inside a D-Bus + object path. Another new call sd_bus_default_flush_close() + has been added to flush and close per-thread default + connections. + + * systemd-cgtop gained support for a -M/--machine= switch to + show the control groups within a certain container only. + + * "systemctl kill" gained support for an optional --fail + switch. If specified the requested operation will fail of no + 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. + + * 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: + + - 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 + .network files. + + * 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" + file is now also downloaded, if it is available and stored + next to the image file. + + * Units of type ".socket" gained a new boolean setting + Writable= which is only useful in conjunction with + ListenSpecial=. If true, enables opening the specified + special file in O_RDWR mode rather than O_RDONLY mode. + + * systemd-rfkill has been reworked to become a singleton + service that is activated through /dev/rfkill on each rfkill + state change and saves the settings to disk. This way, + systemd-rfkill is now compatible with devices that exist + only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous + system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. + + * 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. + + * 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. + + Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Alban Crequy, Beniamino + Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Branislav Blaskovic, Chen-Han Hsiao + (Stanley), Daniel Buch, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David + Herrmann, David Milburn, doubleodoug, Evgeny Vereshchagin, + Felipe Franciosi, Filipe Brandenburger, Fran Dieguez, Gabriel + de Perthuis, Georg Müller, Hans de Goede, Hendrik Brueckner, + Ivan Shapovalov, Jacob Keller, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, + Jan Synacek, Jens Kuske, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Krzesimir + Nowak, Krzysztof Kotlenga, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, + Marcel Holtmann, Marius Thesing, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, + Michael Gebetsroither, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike + Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, nazgul77, Nicolas Cornu, NoXPhasma, + Olof Johansson, Patrik Flykt, Pawel Szewczyk, reverendhomer, + Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Susant Sahani, + Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Lyon, Viktar Vauchkevich, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић + + -- Berlin, 2015-10-07 + +CHANGES WITH 226: + + * The DHCP implementation of systemd-networkd gained a set of + new features: + + - The DHCP server now supports emitting DNS and NTP + information. It may be enabled and configured via + EmitDNS=, DNS=, EmitNTP=, and NTP=. If transmission of DNS + and NTP information is enabled, but no servers are + configured, the corresponding uplink information (if there + is any) is propagated. + + - Server and client now support transmission and reception + of timezone information. It can be configured via the + newly introduced network options UseTimezone=, + EmitTimezone=, and Timezone=. Transmission of timezone + information is enabled between host and containers by + default now: the container will change its local timezone + to what the host has set. + + - Lease timeouts can now be configured via + MaxLeaseTimeSec= and DefaultLeaseTimeSec=. + + - The DHCP server improved on the stability of + leases. Clients are more likely to get the same lease + information back, even if the server loses state. + + - The DHCP server supports two new configuration options to + control the lease address pool metrics, PoolOffset= and + PoolSize=. + + * The encapsulation limit of tunnels in systemd-networkd may + now be configured via 'EncapsulationLimit='. It allows + modifying the maximum additional levels of encapsulation + that are permitted to be prepended to a packet. + + * systemd now supports the concept of user buses replacing + session buses, if used with dbus-1.10 (and enabled via dbus + --enable-user-session). It previously only supported this on + kdbus-enabled systems, and this release expands this to + 'dbus-daemon' systems. + + * systemd-networkd now supports predictable interface names + for virtio devices. + + * systemd now optionally supports the new Linux kernel + "unified" control group hierarchy. If enabled via the kernel + command-line option 'systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1', + systemd will try to mount the unified cgroup hierarchy + directly on /sys/fs/cgroup. If not enabled, or not + available, systemd will fall back to the legacy cgroup + hierarchy setup, as before. Host system and containers can + mix and match legacy and unified hierarchies as they + wish. nspawn understands the $UNIFIED_CROUP_HIERARCHY + environment variable to individually select the hierarchy to + use for executed containers. By default, nspawn will use the + unified hierarchy for the containers if the host uses the + unified hierarchy, and the legacy hierarchy otherwise. + Please note that at this point the unified hierarchy is an + experimental kernel feature and is likely to change in one + of the next kernel releases. Therefore, it should not be + enabled by default in downstream distributions yet. The + minimum required kernel version for the unified hierarchy to + work is 4.2. Note that when the unified hierarchy is used + for the first time delegated access to controllers is + safe. Because of this systemd-nspawn containers will get + access to controllers now, as will systemd user + sessions. This means containers and user sessions may now + manage their own resources, partitioning up what the system + grants them. + + * A new special scope unit "init.scope" has been introduced + that encapsulates PID 1 of the system. It may be used to + determine resource usage and enforce resource limits on PID + 1 itself. PID 1 hence moved out of the root of the control + group tree. + + * The cgtop tool gained support for filtering out kernel + threads when counting tasks in a control group. Also, the + count of processes is now recursively summed up by + default. Two options -k and --recursive= have been added to + revert to old behaviour. The tool has also been updated to + work correctly in containers now. + + * systemd-nspawn's --bind= and --bind-ro= options have been + extended to allow creation of non-recursive bind mounts. + + * libsystemd gained two new calls sd_pid_get_cgroup() and + sd_peer_get_cgroup() which return the control group path of + a process or peer of a connected AF_UNIX socket. This + function call is particularly useful when implementing + delegated subtrees support in the control group hierarchy. + + * The "sd-event" event loop API of libsystemd now supports + correct dequeuing of real-time signals, without losing + signal events. + + * When systemd requests a PolicyKit decision when managing + units it will now add additional fields to the request, + including unit name and desired operation. This enables more + powerful PolicyKit policies, that make decisions depending + on these parameters. + + * nspawn learnt support for .nspawn settings files, that may + accompany the image files or directories of containers, and + may contain additional settings for the container. This is + an alternative to configuring container parameters via the + nspawn command line. + + Contributions from: Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Mack, David + Herrmann, Eugene Yakubovich, Evgeny Vereshchagin, Filipe + Brandenburger, Hans de Goede, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan + Synacek, Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Mangix, Marcel + Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, Michael Chapman, Michal + Sekletar, Peter Hutterer, Piotr Drąg, reverendhomer, Robin + Hack, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Pasche, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Torstein Husebø + + -- Berlin, 2015-09-08 - * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP options and - allows other programs to query the values. +CHANGES WITH 225: + + * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh + shell on the target container or the host. It is similar to + the existing 'login' command of machinectl, but spawns the + shell directly without prompting for username or + password. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local + host and is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can + be used as replacement for 'su -' which spawns a session as + a fresh systemd unit in a way that is fully isolated from + the originating session. + + * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP + options and allows other programs to query the values. + + * SELinux access control when enabling/disabling units is no + longer enforced with this release. The previous + implementation was incorrect, and a new corrected + implementation is not yet available. As unit file operations + are still protected via PolicyKit and D-Bus policy this is + not a security problem. Yet, distributions which care about + optimal SELinux support should probably not stabilize on + this release. + + * sd-bus gained support for matches of type "arg0has=", that + test for membership of strings in string arrays sent in bus + messages. - Contributions from: Alastair Hughes, Alex Crawford, Daniel Mack, David - Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Kostrowski, Evgeny Vereshchagin, - Felipe Sateler, HATAYAMA Daisuke, Jan Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Johnny - Robeson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Kefeng Wang, Lennart Poettering, Major - Hayden, Marcel Holtmann, Markus Elfring, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, - Matt Turner, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Namhyung Kim, Nicolas - Cornu, Owen W. Taylor, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, reverendhomer, - Richard Maw, Ronny Chevalier, Seth Jennings, Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, - Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Meyer, Tom - Gundersen, Vincent Batts, WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + * systemd-resolved now dumps the contents of its DNS and LLMNR + caches to the logs on reception of the SIGUSR1 signal. This + is useful to debug DNS behaviour. + + * The coredumpctl tool gained a new --directory= option to + operate on journal files in a specific directory. + + * "systemctl reboot" and related commands gained a new + "--message=" option which may be used to set a free-text + wall message when shutting down or rebooting the + system. This message is also logged, which is useful for + figuring out the reason for a reboot or shutdown a + posteriori. + + * The "systemd-resolve-host" tool's -i switch now takes + network interface numbers as alternative to interface names. + + * A new unit file setting for services has been introduced: + UtmpMode= allows configuration of how precisely systemd + handles utmp and wtmp entries for the service if this is + enabled. This allows writing services that appear similar to + user sessions in the output of the "w", "who", "last" and + "lastlog" tools. + + * systemd-resolved will now locally synthesize DNS resource + records for the "localhost" and "gateway" domains as well as + the local hostname. This should ensure that clients querying + RRs via resolved will get similar results as those going via + NSS, if nss-myhostname is enabled. + + Contributions from: Alastair Hughes, Alex Crawford, Daniel + Mack, David Herrmann, Dimitri John Ledkov, Eric Kostrowski, + Evgeny Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, HATAYAMA Daisuke, Jan + Pokorný, Jan Synacek, Johnny Robeson, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, + Kefeng Wang, Lennart Poettering, Major Hayden, Marcel + Holtmann, Markus Elfring, Martin Mikkelsen, Martin Pitt, Matt + Turner, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Michael Biebl, Namhyung Kim, + Nicolas Cornu, Owen W. Taylor, Patrik Flykt, Peter Hutterer, + reverendhomer, Richard Maw, Ronny Chevalier, Seth Jennings, + Stef Walter, Susant Sahani, Thomas Blume, Thomas Hindoe + Paaboel Andersen, Thomas Meyer, Tom Gundersen, Vincent Batts, + WaLyong Cho, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek -- Berlin, 2015-08-27 @@ -30,9 +402,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 224: * The systemd-efi-boot-generator functionality was merged into systemd-gpt-auto-generator. - * systemd-networkd now supports Group Policy for vxlan devices. It can - be enabled via the new boolean configuration option called - 'GroupPolicyExtension='. + * systemd-networkd now supports Group Policy for vxlan + devices. It can be enabled via the new boolean configuration + option called 'GroupPolicyExtension='. Contributions from: Andreas Kempf, Christian Hesse, Daniel Mack, David Herrmann, Herman Fries, Johannes Nixdorf, Kay Sievers, Lennart |