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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 38 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message - queues. Traditionally SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle - limits, with this functionality this is corrected. This may - be turned off using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. + queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle + limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may + be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf. * The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a --root= switch to operate on a specific root directory, @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: this is appropriate. * systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount - namespace. To mount directories from udev rules make sure to + namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties. * The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into @@ -118,12 +118,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 212: DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units. - * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled + * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled, timers configured this way will cause the system to resume from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most do these days). - * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled + * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled, timers configured this way will save to disk when they have been last triggered. This information is then used on next reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that @@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ CHANGES WITH 211: * systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in - place automatic discovery of partitions to mount following + place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following the Discoverable Partitions Specification (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec) is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without /etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on - appropriately prepared systems. + systems prepared appropriately. * systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block @@ -291,11 +291,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only - on the lid close action it will continuously watch the lid + on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo - Yoga). On those machines logind will now immediately + Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately re-suspend the machine if the power button has been accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a backpack or similar. @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: * The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once, based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the - string "char-pts" it is now possible to whitelist all + string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all current and future pseudo-TTYs at once. * sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of @@ -346,20 +346,20 @@ CHANGES WITH 210: enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by default however. - * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn the + * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if --network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth - is used. This way it is easy to distinguish these cases on + is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on the host, for example to apply different configuration to them with systemd-networkd. * The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so, libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC - anymore. Instead we now build libsystemd.so multiple times + anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times under these alternative names. This means that the footprint is drastically increased, but given that these are - transitional compatibility libraries this should not matter + transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain @@ -770,8 +770,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 209: * systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for setting the kernel personality for the container. This is useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A - similar option Personality= is now also available in service - units. + similar option Personality= is now also available for service + units to use. * logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is @@ -795,8 +795,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 209: * For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that - allows configuration of a system error number to return on - filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the + allows configuration of a system error number to be returned + on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to limit access to system calls of a particular architecture (in order to turn off support for unused secondary |