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@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +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 |