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@@ -0,0 +1,609 @@ +Bugfixes: +* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar + +* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken + +* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices + +* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up + automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist + anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around. + +* make polkit checks async + +* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. + +F18: + +* Retest multi-seat + +* add rpm macros for %rulesdir, %hwdbdir, update rules/hwdb call + +Features: + +* add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal. + +* maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send + +* fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively? + +* declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart + +* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various + NTP implementations + +* sd-journal: don't return fields > a threshold by default +* journal: reuse XZ context +* sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg + +* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations + +* timer units should get the ability to trigger when: + - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET) + - DST changes + +* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes + +* sync down the system time to the RTC when: + - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set) + - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp) + This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime + mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the + user did not request anything like it. + +* When we begin with system shutdown all kind of suspend/hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot + +* When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot + +* hwdb: + - implement conditional properties (dmi matches) + - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_* + - find out what to do for blockdevs and skipping scsi modaliases + - move writing code to src/libudev/libudev-hwdb-private.c + +* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally surprising + +* localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst + +* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in + the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to + unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that + we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in logs-show.c. + +* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools + +* journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards + +* introduce new "journal" group in place of adm? introduce groups for the various mini daemons? + +* journal: add a setgid "adm" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access + +* link up selected blog stories from man pages? + +* journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo", + and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR. + +* print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service + +* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic + +* journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode + +* journal: document why we do not give ownership to journal files to the user that created them but use FS ACLs for that + +* journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs. + +* journal: when we haven't written anything in a while, sync to disk and mark file as offline, in order to be more often than not in a clean state + +* journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again. + +* If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle(). + +* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow +* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root +* fedup: generator + +* journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules + +* journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes + +* journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify + +* document that people can use file system ACLs to manage access to journal files, with example + +* don't show cgroup in "systemctl status" if empty/non-existent, especially for foreign .mount units + +* timedated: export boolean that clarifies whether NTP is even available + +* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on + +* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed + +* document unit_name_mangle() + +* add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible + +* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields + +* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity + +* systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like) + +* systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards? + +* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 itself, get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel + +* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var + - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr + - superset of tmpfiles model + - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/ + - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files + - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership + +* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without + waiting for the timeout + +* high level net_prio setting in execution context + +* Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot + +* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ... + +* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't + +* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME + +* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful + +* nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly + +* nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8) + +* nspawn: reset all aux groups + +* cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable + +* cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices + +* cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself + +* document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in + [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled + +* need to update LGPL2.1 text to newest version (with updated FSF address) + +* systemctl: when powering down/suspending check for inhibitors, and warn. + +* instantiated [Install] for target units + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54377 + +* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6 + +* move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl? + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982 + +* make nspawn work without terminal + +* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712 + +* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things + +* make timer units go away after they elapsed + +* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html + +* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead + +* journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes + +* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump? + +* Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends + +* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system + +* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open + +* move keymaps to /usr/lib/... rather than /usr/lib/udev/... + +* journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries + +* journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd + +* system-wide seccomp filter + +* ability to pass fds into systemd + +* system.conf should have controls for cgroups + +* bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn + +* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line + +* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea + +* testing tool for socket activation: some binary that listens on a socket and passes it on using the usual socket activation protocol to some server. + +* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container + +* nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts + +* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. + +* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts + +* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload() + currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we + can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of + being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it + when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply, + but much rather a disconnect on success. + +* document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec + +* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed + +* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools + +* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno + +* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop= + +* add proper journal support to "systemctl --user status ..." + +* add _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field to journal entries + +* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot + +* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist? + +* rename "userspace" to "core-os" + +* systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading + +* syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls + +* syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs? + +* syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS? + +* syscall filter: port to libseccomp + +* logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support + +* systemd-analyze post-boot is broken for initrd + +* man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets + +* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably. + +* refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends. + +* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks + verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed. + +* journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached. + +* Document: + - PID 1 D-Bus API + +* introduce Type=pid-file + +* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=? + +* efi: implement /forcefsck as uefi variables thus not requiring file system altering to trigger a file system check + +* efi: honor language efi variables for default language selection + +* efi: honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection + +* efi: automatically mount EFI partition to /boot if no such entry exists in /etc/fstab and /boot is empty + gummiboot exports the EFI system partion (ESP) device: + /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderDeviceIdentifier-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data + Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F|2)/?/HD(Part1,Sig1FCBC57F-4BFC-4C2B-91A3-9C84FBCD9AF1) + '/' is the separator for the device path list + HD(Part1,Sig1FCBC57F-4BFC-4C2B-91A3-9C84FBCD9AF1) contains the GPT UUID of the ESP + +* read the bootloader performance data (raw TSC) in systemd-analyze + /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksExec-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data + 19066159288 + /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksInit-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data + 17442940316 + /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksStartMenu-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data + (only set if the menu was active) + +* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target + +* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator + +* nspawn: make use of device cgroup contrller by default + +* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields + +* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr + +* readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes + +* (attempt to) make Debianites happy: + - implement .d/ auto includes for unit files + - add syntax to reset ExecStart= lists (and similar) + +* move passno parsing to fstab generator + +* improve !/proc/*/loginuid situation: make /proc/*/loginuid less dependent on CONFIG_AUDIT, + or use the users cgroup information when /proc/*/loginuid is not available. + +* pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined + +* pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree + +* maybe introduce ~/.config/locale.conf and apply it within PAM + +* readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/ + +* automount: implement expire + +* logind: auto-suspend, auto-shutdown: + IdleAction=(none|suspend|opportunistic|hibernate|poweroff) + IdleActionDelay=... + SessionIdleMode=(explicit|ignore|login) + ForceShutdown=(yes|no) + +* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel) + +* don't delete /tmp/systemd-namespace-* before a process is gone down + +* vconsole: implement setterm -store -foreground xxx --background zzz + +* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo + +* fedora: make sshd and pam_loginuid work in nspawn containers + +* fix utmp for console logins in containers + +* Add pretty name for seats in logind + +* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA + +* Auke: merge Auke's bootchart + +* udev: move to LGPL + +* udev systemd unify: + - strpcpy(), strpcpyl(), strscpy(), strscpyl() + - utf8 validator code + +* udev: scsi_id -> sg3_utils -> kill scsi_id + +* udev: add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device + +* allow configuration of console width/height in vconsole.conf + +* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording + +* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't + +* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting + +* support container_ttys= + +* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite + +* journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages + +* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units + +* journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid + +* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console) + +* journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit + +* add command to systemctl to plot dependency graph as tree (see rhbz 795365) + +* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/ + +* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt? + +* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown + +* dbus: in fedora, make the machine a symlink to /etc/machine-id + +* dbus: move dbus to early boot + +* logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API + +* journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header + +* journal: local deserializer of export mode, http server + +* journal: message catalog + +* document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed + +* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format + +* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting) + +* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty + +* support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template + +* logind: allow showing logout dialog from system + +* document that %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended + +* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible. + +* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max + +* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B + needs to be auto-respawned? + +* Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files" + +* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests + +* something like ConditionExec= or ExecStartPre= without failure state + +* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) + +* don't set $HOME in services unless requested + +* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled + +* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too. + +* allow Type=simple with PIDFile= + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942 + +* move PAM code into its own binary + +* logind: spawn user@..service on login + +* logind: non-local X11 server handling + +* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration + in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services. + +* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early + +* readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO + +* readahead: check whether a btrfs volume includes ssd by checking mount flag "ssd" + +* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination + +* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1) + +* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist + when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user + assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible + +* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on + the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. + +* move nss-myhostname into systemd + +* and a dbus call to generate target from current state + +* drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum + +* add support for /bin/mount -s + +* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) + +* write blog stories about: + - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb + - enabling dbus services + - status update + - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes + - remote access + - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units + - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd + - testing with Harald's awesome test kit + - auto-restart + - how to develop against journal browsing APIs + - the journal HTTP iface + - non-cgroup resource management + +* allow port=0 in .socket units + +* move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?) + +* teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service + +* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. + +* when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup + +* reuse mkdtemp namespace dirs in /tmp? + +* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2 + +* Support --test based on current system state + +* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support. + +* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre= + +* configurable jitter for timer events + +* timer events with system resume + +* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' + +* calendar time support in timer: + https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1bAMyFAjWLpzR3GTDYdgj5FWRMxoZiWw5zmUHEtvdHKA + +* writable cgroups dbus properties for live changes + +* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID: + - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH + - cups HAVEPATCH + - postfix, saslauthd + - apache/samba + - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro) + - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!) + - distccd + +* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target + +* io priority during initialization + +* systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies + +* add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it + +* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services + +External: + +* dbus: + - dbus --user + - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING) + - allow specification of socket mode/umask when allocating DBusServer + - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection + - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL + - always pass cred data along each message + +* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored + +* gnome-shell python script/glxinfo/is-accelerated must die + +* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time + +* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys and /sys/fs/cgroup? + +* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only + in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way + to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and + we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want + the RTC to sync up. + +* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics" + +Regularly: + +* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail() + +* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r) + +* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel + +* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno); + +* pahole + +* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()! + +* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate + +Scheduled for removal or fixing: + +* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix) + +* support for early-boot SysV services (definitely: remove) + +* insserv support (definitely: remove) |