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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 28 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: * 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 show the - internal state of daemons and closes a race condition - when the process is still running but has closed its - d-bus connection. + 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 + connection. * Services with Type=oneshot do not have to have any - ExecStart commands. + ExecStart commands anymore. * User units are now loaded also from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user/. This is similar to the @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: * Udev rules can now remove tags with TAG-="foobar". - * Readhead implementation has been removed. In many + * 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. @@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ CHANGES WITH 217: servers that do not do forwarding, "fq" may perform better. Systems without a good clocksource should use "pfifo_fast". + * If kdbus is enabled during build a new option BusPolicy= is + available for service units, that allows locking all service + processes into a stricter bus policy, in order to limit + access to various bus services, or even hide most of them + from the service's view entirely. + + * networkctl will now show the .network and .link file + networkd has applied to a specific interface. + + * sd-login gained a new API call sd_session_get_desktop() to + query which desktop environment has been selected for a + session. + + * UNIX utmp support is now compile-time optional to support + legacy-free systems. + CHANGES WITH 216: * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from |