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@@ -1,5 +1,212 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +CHANGES WITH 220: + + * systemd now exposes a CPUUsageNSec= property for each + service unit on the bus, that contains the overall consumed + CPU time of a service (the sum of what each process of the + service consumed). This value is only available if + CPUAccounting= is turned on for a service, and is then shown + in the "systemctl status" output. + + * Support for configuring alternative mappings of the old SysV + runlevels to systemd targets has been removed. They are now + harcoded in a way that runlevels 2, 3, 4 all map to + multi-user.target and 5 to graphical.target (which + previously was already the default behaviour). + + * The auto-mounter logic gained support for mount point + expiry, using a new TimeoutIdleSec= setting in .automount + units. (Also available as x-systemd.idle-timeout= in /etc/fstab). + + * The EFI System Partition (ESP) as mounted to /boot by + systemd-efi-boot-generator will now be unmounted + automatically after 2min of not being used. This should + minimize the risk of ESP corruptions. + + * New /etc/fstab options x-systemd.requires= and + x-systemd.requires-mounts-for= are now supported to express + additional dependencies for mounts. This is useful for + journalling file systems that support external journal + devices or overlay file systems that require underlying file + systems to be mounted. + + * systemd does not support direct live-upgrades (via systemctl + daemon-reexec) from versions older than v44 anymore. As no + distribution we are aware of shipped such old versions in a + stable release this should not be problematic. + + * When systemd forks off a new per-connection service instance + it will now set the $REMOTE_ADDR environment variable to the + remote IP address, and $REMOTE_PORT environment variable to + the remote IP port. This behaviour is similar to the + corresponding environment variables defined by CGI. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for uplink failure + detection. The BindCarrier= option allows binding interface + configuration dynamically to the link sense of other + interfaces. This is useful to achieve behaviour like in + network switches. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for configuring the DHCP + client identifier to use when requesting leases. + + * systemd-networkd now has a per-network UseNTP= option to + configure whether NTP server information acquired via DHCP + is passed on to services like systemd-timesyncd. + + * systemd-networkd gained support for vti6 tunnels. + + * Many bonding and vxlan options are now configurable in + systemd-networkd. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --property= setting to set unit + properties for the container scope. This is useful for + setting resource parameters (e.g "CPUShares=500") on + containers started from the command line. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --private-users= switch to make + use of user namespacing available on recent Linux kernels. + + * systemd-nspawn may now be called as part of a shell pipeline + in which case the pipes used for stdin and stdout are passed + directly to the process invoked in the container, without + indirection via a pseudo tty. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new switch to control the UNIX + signal to use when killing the init process of the container + when shutting down. + + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --overlay= switch for mounting + overlay file systems into the container using the new kernel + overlayfs support. + + * When a container image is imported via systemd-importd and + the host file system is not btrfs, a loopback block device + file is created in /var/lib/machines.raw with a btrfs file + system inside. It is then mounted to /var/lib/machines to + enable btrfs features for container management. The loopback + file and btrfs file system is grown as needed when container + images are imported via systemd-importd. + + * systemd-machined/systemd-importd gained support for btrfs + quota, to enforce container disk space limits on disk. This + is exposed in "machinectl set-limit". + + * systemd-importd now can import containers from local .tar, + .raw and .qcow2 images, and export them to .tar and .raw. It + can also import dkr v2 images now from the network (on top + of v1 as before). + + * systemd-importd gained support for verifying downloaded + images with gpg2 (previously only gpg1 was supported). + + * systemd-machined, systemd-logind, systemd: most bus calls + are now accessible to unprivileged processes via + PolicyKit. Also, systemd-logind will now allow users to kill + their own sessions without further privileges or + authorization. + + * systemd-shutdownd has been removed. This service was + previously responsible for implementing scheduled shutdowns + as exposed in /usr/bin/shutdown's time parameter. This + functionality has now been moved into systemd-logind and is + accessible via a bus interface. + + * "systemctl reboot" gained a new switch --firmware-setup that + can be used to reboot into the EFI firmware setup, if that + is available. systemd-logind now exposes an API on the bus + to trigger such reboots, in case graphical desktop UIs want + to cover this functionality. + + * "systemctl enable", "systemctl disable" and "systemctl mask" + now support a new "--now" switch. If specified the the units + that are enabled will also be started, and the ones + disabled/masked also stopped. + + * The Gummiboot EFI boot loader tool has been merged into + systemd, and renamed to "sd-boot". The bootctl tool has been + updated to support sd-boot. + + * An EFI kernel stub has been added that may be used to create + kernel EFI binaries that contain not only the actual kernel, + but also an initrd, boot splash, command line and OS release + information. This combined binary can then be signed as a + single image, so that the firmware can verify it all in one + step. sd-boot has special support for EFI binaries created + like this and can extract OS release information from them + and show them in the boot menu. This functionality is useful + to implement cryptographically verified boot schemes. + + * Optional support has been added to systemd-fsck to pass + fsck's progress report to an AF_UNIX socket in the file + system. + + * udev will no longer create device symlinks for all block + devices by default. A blacklist for excluding special block + devices from this logic has been turned into a whitelist + that requires picking block devices explicitly that require + device symlinks. + + * A new (currently still internal) API sd-device.h has been + added to libsystemd. This modernized API is supposed to + replace libudev eventually. In fact, already much of libudev + is now just a wrapper around sd-device.h. + + * A new hwdb database for storing metadata about pointing + stick devices has been added. + + * systemd-tmpfiles gained support for setting file attributes + similar to the "chattr" tool with new 'h' and 'H' lines. + + * systemd-journald will no longer unconditionally set the + btrfs NOCOW flag on new journal files. This is instead done + with tmpfiles snippet using the new 'h' line type. This + allows easy disabling of this logic, by masking the + journal-nocow.conf tmpfiles file. + + * systemd-journald will now translate audit message types to + human readable identifiers when writing them to the + journal. This should improve readability of audit messages. + + * The LUKS logic gained support for the offset= and skip= + options in /etc/crypttab, as previously implemented by + Debian. + + * /usr/lib/os-release gained a new optional field VARIANT= for + distributions that support multiple variants (such as a + desktop edition, a server edition, ...) + + Contributions from: Aaro Koskinen, Adam Goode, Alban Crequy, + Alberto Fanjul Alonso, Alexander Sverdlin, Alex Puchades, Alin + Rauta, Alison Chaiken, Andrew Jones, Arend van Spriel, + Benedikt Morbach, Benjamin Franzke, Benjamin Tissoires, Blaž + Tomažič, Chris Morgan, Chris Morin, Colin Walters, Cristian + Rodríguez, Daniel Buch, Daniel Drake, Daniele Medri, Daniel + Mack, Daniel Mustieles, daurnimator, Davide Bettio, David + Herrmann, David Strauss, Didier Roche, Dimitri John Ledkov, + Eric Cook, Gavin Li, Goffredo Baroncelli, Hannes Reinecke, + Hans de Goede, Hans-Peter Deifel, Harald Hoyer, Iago López + Galeiras, Ivan Shapovalov, Jan Engelhardt, Jan Janssen, Jan + Pazdziora, Jan Synacek, Jasper St. Pierre, Jay Faulkner, John + Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathon Gilbert, Karel Zak, Kay + Sievers, Koen Kooi, Lennart Poettering, Lubomir Rintel, Lucas + De Marchi, Lukas Nykryn, Lukas Rusak, Lukasz Skalski, Łukasz + Stelmach, Mantas Mikulėnas, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Marcel + Holtmann, Martin Pitt, Mathieu Chevrier, Matthew Garrett, + Michael Biebl, Michael Marineau, Michael Olbrich, Michal + Schmidt, Michal Sekletar, Mirco Tischler, Nir Soffer, Patrik + Flykt, Pavel Odvody, Peter Hutterer, Peter Lemenkov, Peter + Waller, Piotr Drąg, Raul Gutierrez S, Richard Maw, Ronny + Chevalier, Ross Burton, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sergey Ptashnick, + Seth Jennings, Shawn Landden, Simon Farnsworth, Stefan Junker, + Stephen Gallagher, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas + Haller, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen, Tobias Hunger, Tom + Gundersen, Torstein Husebø, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Will + Woods, Zachary Cook, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek + + -- Berlin, 2015-05-?? + CHANGES WITH 219: * Introduce a new API "sd-hwdb.h" for querying the hardware |