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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 87 insertions, 27 deletions
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: stopped having this file around as anything else than a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. - * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. - It allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and + * Support for the "pids" cgroup controller has been added. It + allows accounting the number of tasks in a cgroup and enforcing limits on it. This adds two new setting TasksAccounting= and TasksMax= to each unit, as well as a global option DefaultTasksAccounting=. @@ -44,24 +44,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: 'machine-id-setup --commit'. The separate binary has been removed. - * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be - set to the special value '~'. In this case, the working - directory is set to the home directory of the user configured - in User=. + * The WorkingDirectory= directive in unit files may now be set + to the special value '~'. In this case, the working + directory is set to the home directory of the user + configured in User=. * "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 supported for compat - reasons. Also, this directive now takes an integer value - between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The formerly supported - '-1' value for disabling stays around for compat reasons. + CrashChangeVT=, following our usual logic of not + abbreviating unnecessarily. The old directive is still + supported for compat reasons. Also, this directive now takes + an integer value between 1 and 63, or a boolean value. The + formerly supported '-1' value for disabling stays around for + compat reasons. * The PrivateTmp=, PrivateDevices=, PrivateNetwork=, NoNewPrivileges=, TTYPath=, WorkingDirectory= and @@ -106,20 +103,51 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: processes have been killed, because the unit had no processes attached, or similar. - * 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. + * 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. - * networkd gained support for setting the IPv6 Router - Advertisment settings via IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in - .network files. + * 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. - * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices - on kernels where that is supported. + * 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: + + - Setting the IPv6 Router Advertisment settings via + IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements= in .network files. + + - Configuring the HelloTimeSec=, MaxAgeSec= and + ForwardDelaySec= bridge parameters in .netdev files. + + - Configuring PreferredSource= for static routes in + .network files. + + * 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" @@ -138,11 +166,43 @@ CHANGES WITH 227: only intermittendly, and even restores state if the previous system shutdown was abrupt rather than clean. - * Galician, Turkish and Korean translations were added. + * 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 + date. This is useful as journal interleaving performance + degrades with too many seperate journal files, and allows + putting an effective limit on them. The new setting defaults + to 100, but this may be changed by setting SystemMaxFiles= + and RuntimeMaxFiles= in journald.conf. Also, the + "journalctl" tool gained the new --vacuum-files= switch to + manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified + number of files in place. - Contributions from: + * udev will now create /dev/disk/by-path links for ATA devices + on kernels where that is supported. - -- Berlin, 2015-09-xx + * Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added. + + Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Alban Crequy, Beniamino + Galvani, Benjamin Robin, Branislav Blaskovic, Chen-Han Hsiao + (Stanley), Daniel Buch, Daniel Machon, Daniel Mack, David + Herrmann, David Milburn, doubleodoug, Evgeny Vereshchagin, + Felipe Franciosi, Filipe Brandenburger, Fran Dieguez, Gabriel + de Perthuis, Georg Müller, Hans de Goede, Hendrik Brueckner, + Ivan Shapovalov, Jacob Keller, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, + Jan Synacek, Jens Kuske, Karel Zak, Kay Sievers, Krzesimir + Nowak, Krzysztof Kotlenga, Lars Uebernickel, Lennart + Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Łukasz Stelmach, Maciej Wereski, + Marcel Holtmann, Marius Thesing, Martin Pitt, Michael Biebl, + Michael Gebetsroither, Michal Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mike + Gilbert, Muhammet Kara, nazgul77, Nicolas Cornu, NoXPhasma, + Olof Johansson, Patrik Flykt, Pawel Szewczyk, reverendhomer, + Ronny Chevalier, Sangjung Woo, Seong-ho Cho, Susant Sahani, + Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel + Andersen, Tom Gundersen, Tom Lyon, Viktar Vauchkevich, + Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Марко М. Костић + + -- Berlin, 2015-10-07 CHANGES WITH 226: |