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@@ -17,6 +17,164 @@ CHANGES WITH 214: devices, or might need to disable it entirely. Device-mapper devices are excluded from this logic. + * We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations, + since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux + upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, + and we will readd "-l" as soon as util-linux with this + change has been released. + + * The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long + time the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and + libattr is thus unnecessary. + + * Virtualization detection works without priviliges now. This + means the systemd-detect-virt binary no longer requires + CAP_SYS_PTRACE file capabilities, and our daemons can run + with less priviliges. + + * systemd-networkd now runs under its own "systemd-network" + user. It retains the CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, + CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but + loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way. + + * Similar, systemd-resolved now runs under its own + "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining. + + * Similar, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own + "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth" + virtual ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well + as GRE and VTI tunnels. + + * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to + manually load kernel modules necessary for certain tunnel + transports. Instead it is assumed the kernel loads them + automatically when required. This only works correctly on + very new kernels. On older kernels, please consider adding + the kernel modules to /etc/load-modules.d/ as a work-around. + + * Two new service settings ProtectedHome= and ProtectedSystem= + have been added. When enabled they will make the user data + (such as /home) inaccessible or read-only and the system + (such as /usr) read-only, for specific services. This allows + very light-weight per-service sandboxing to avoid + modifications of user data or system files from + services. These two new switches have been enabled for all + of systemd's long-running services, where appropriate. + + * Socket units gained new SocketUser= and SocketGroup= + settings to set the owner user and group of AF_UNIX sockets + and FIFOs in the file system. + + * Socket units gained a new RemoveOnStop= setting. If enabled + all FIFOS and sockets in the file system will be removed + when the specific socket unit is stopped. + + * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list + of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs + created by the specific unix sockets. This is useful to + manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same lifecycle as + the socket itself. + + * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to + /run, and have been replaced by symlinks. This allows + connecting to these facilities even if PrivateDevices=yes is + used for a service (which makes /dev/log itself unavailable, + but /run is left). This also has the benefit of ensuring + that /dev only contains device nodes, directories and + symlinks, and nothing else. + + * sd-daemon gained two new calls sd_pid_notify() and + sd_pid_notifyf(). They are similar to sd_notify() and + sd_notifyf(), but allow overriding of the source PID of + notification messages if permissions permit this. This is + useful to send notify messages on behalf of a different + process (for example, the parent process). The + systemd-notify tool has been updated to make use of this + when sending messages (so that notification messages now + originate from the shell script invoking systemd-notify and + not the systemd-notify process itself. This should minimize + a race where systemd fails to associate notification + messages to services when the originating process already + vanished. + + * A new "on-abnormal" setting for Restart= has been added. If + set it will result in automatic restarts on all "abnormal" + reasons for a process to exit, which includes unclean + signals, core dumps, timeouts and watchdog timeouts, but + does not include clean and unclean exit codes or clean + signals. Restart=on-abnormal is an alternative for + Restart=on-failure for services that shall be able to + terminate and avoid restarts on certain errors, by + indicating so with an unclean exit code. Restart=on-failure + or Restart=on-abnormal is now the recommended setting for + all long-running services. + + * If the InaccessibleDirectories= service setting points to a + mount point (or if there are any submounts contained within + it), it is now attempted to completely unmount it, to make + the file systems truly unavailable for the respective + service. + + * The ReadOnlyDirectories= service setting and + systemd-nspawn's --read-only parameter are now recursively + applied to all submounts, too. + + * Mount units may now be created transiently via the bus APIs. + + * The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed + from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now + implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units + from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a + substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the + fact that many distributions only ship a very small number + of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays. + + * Priviliged Xen (dom0) domains are not considered + virtualization anymore by the virtualization detection + logic. After all, they generally have unrestricted access to + the hardware and usually are used to manage the unpriviliged + (domU) domains. + + * systemd-tmpfiles gained a new "C" line type, for copying + files or entire directories. + + * systemd-tmpfiles "m" lines are now fully equivalent to "z" + lines. So far they have been non-globbing versions of the + latter, and have thus been redundant. In future it is + recommended to only use "z"; and "m" has hence been removed + from the documentation, even though it stays supported. + + * A tmpfiles snippet to recreate the most basic structure in + /var has been added. This is enough to create the /var/run → + /run symlink and create a couple of structural + directories. This allows systems to boot up with an empty or + volatile /var. Of course, while with this change the core OS + now is capable with dealing with a volatile /var not all + user services are ready for it. However, we hope that sooner + or later many service daemons will be changed upstream so + that they are able to automatically create their necessary + directories in /var at boot, should they be missing. This is + the first step to allow state-less systems that only require + the vendor image for /usr to boot. + + * systemd-nspawn has gained a new --tmpfs= switch to mount an + empty tmpfs instance to a specific directory. This is + particularly useful for making use of the automatic + reconstruction of /var (see above), by passing --tmpfs=/var. + + * Access modes specified in tmpfiles snippets may now be + prefixed with "~", which indicates that they shall be masked + by whether the existing file or directly is currently + writable, readable or executable at all. Also, if specified + the sgid/suid/sticky bits will be masked for all + non-directories. + + * A new passive target unit "network-pre.target" has been + added which is useful for services that shall run before any + network is configured, for example firewall scripts. + CHANGES WITH 213: * A new "systemd-timesyncd" daemon has been added for |