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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 60 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 30 deletions
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: * "machinectl shell" will now open the shell in the home directory of the selected user by default. - * 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 CrashChVT= configuration file setting is renamed to CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still @@ -107,13 +103,24 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: 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. - * The RuntimeDirectory= setting now understands unit - specifiers like %i or %f. + * 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: @@ -126,8 +133,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in .network files. - * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices - on kernels where that is supported. + * 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" @@ -146,13 +166,6 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. - * 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(). - * 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 @@ -165,21 +178,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified number of files in place. - * 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 - his 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. + * 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. |