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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 71 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 21 deletions
@@ -2,31 +2,31 @@ systemd System and Service Manager CHANGES WITH 217: - * journalctl gained option -t/--identifier to match on the - syslog identifier and --utc option to show timestamps in UTC - timezone. journalctl now also accepts -n/--lines=all to - disable line cap under a pager. + * journalctl gained the new options -t/--identifier= to match + on the syslog identifier (aka "tag"), as well as --utc to + show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also + accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager. * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the internal state of daemons and closes a race condition when - the process is still running but has closed its d-bus + the process is still running but has closed its D-Bus connection. - * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any - ExecStart commands anymore. + * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any ExecStart + commands anymore. * User units are now loaded also from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the /run/systemd/user directory that was already previously supported, but is under the control of the user. - * A timeout for the start of the system can be configured. The - system can be configured to reboot or poweroff if the basic - system default target is not reached before the timeout (new - StartTimeoutSec=, StartTimeoutAction=, - StartTimeoutRebootArgument= options). + * A timeout for the bootup of the whole system can now be + configured. The system can be configured to reboot or + poweroff if the basic system default target is not reached + before the timeout (new StartTimeoutSec=, + StartTimeoutAction=, StartTimeoutRebootArgument= options). * systemd-logind can be configured to also handle lid switch events even when the machine is docked or multiple displays @@ -37,15 +37,16 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: generator will parse the resume= option on the kernel command-line to trigger resume. - * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been added. It is - a preview, and will so far open a single terminal on each - session of the user marked as Desktop=SYSTEMD-CONSOLE. + * A user console daemon systemd-consoled has been + added. Currently, it is a preview, and will so far open a + single terminal on each session of the user marked as + Desktop=SYSTEMD-CONSOLE. * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by systemd-networkd. - * SELinux context of socket-actived services can be set from - the information provided by the remote peer + * The SELinux context of socket-actived services can be set + from the information provided by the networking stack (SELinuxContextFromNet= option). * Userspace firmware loading support has been removed and @@ -55,12 +56,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: minutes, but a warning will be printed after 1 minute to help diagnose kernel modules that take a long time to load. - * Udev rules can now remove tags with TAG-="foobar". + * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar". * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many circumstatances it didn't give expected benefits even for rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the - age of SSDs. + age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using + rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively + maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed. * Swap units can use Discard= to specify discard options. Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now @@ -71,8 +74,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where the user input is shown, useful e.g. for usernames. - systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn - that on. + systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that + on. * The default sysctl.d/ snippets will now set: @@ -102,6 +105,32 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support legacy-free systems. + * systemctl gained two new commands "add-wants" and + "add-requires" for pulling in units from specific targets + easily. + + * If the word "rescue" is specified on the kernel command line + the system will now boot into rescue mode (aka + rescue.target), which was previously available only by + specifying "1" or "systemd.unit=rescue.target" on the kernel + command line. This new kernel command line option nicely + mirrors the already existing "emergency" kernel command line + option. + + * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=, + usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=, + rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to + /usr. + + * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processesof + services, not only the main process. + + * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This + means at least version v2.25 of util-linux is required for + operation, otherwise dead-locks on device nodes may + occur. Again: you need to update util-linux to at least + v2.25 when updating systemd to v217. + CHANGES WITH 216: * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from |