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+Bugfixes:
+
+* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
+
+* 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.
+
+* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
+
+ [Service]
+ Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
+ ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
+
+* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
+ bus_close does not kill children?
+
+External:
+
+* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
+
+* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
+
+Janitorial Clean-ups:
+
+* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
+
+* replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
+
+* Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
+
+* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
+
+Features:
+
+* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
+ in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
+
+* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
+
+* remove Capabilities=, after all AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet= should be enough.
+
+* support for the new copy_file_range() syscall
+
+* add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
+
+* Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
+
+* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
+ specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
+
+* add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
+ the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
+ specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
+ as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
+ are otherwise shifted by 20.
+
+* do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
+
+* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
+
+* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
+
+* add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
+ snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
+ /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
+ edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
+ all units.
+
+* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
+
+* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
+
+* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
+ as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
+ prefixed with /sys generally special.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
+
+* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
+
+* install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
+
+* rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
+ to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
+
+* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
+
+* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
+
+* mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
+ devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
+
+* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
+ running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
+ state.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
+
+* Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
+
+* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
+ whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
+ be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
+ picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
+ the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
+
+* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
+
+* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
+
+* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
+
+* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
+
+* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
+
+* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
+
+* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
+
+* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
+ operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
+ ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
+ do, for example)
+
+* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
+
+* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
+
+* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
+
+* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
+
+* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
+
+* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
+ while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
+ races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
+ returning from the "systemctl stop".
+
+* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
+
+* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
+
+* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
+
+* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
+
+* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
+
+* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
+
+* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
+ can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
+
+* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
+
+* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
+
+* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
+
+* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
+
+* systemctl edit:
+- allow creation of units from scratch
+- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
+ Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
+
+* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
+
+* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
+
+* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
+ currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
+ parsing callbacks should use it.
+
+* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
+
+* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
+ units are shown.
+
+* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
+ (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
+
+* resolved:
+ - mDNS/DNS-SD
+ - service registration
+ - service/domain/types browsing
+ - avahi compat
+ - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
+ - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
+ names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
+ (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
+ - enable DNSSEC by default
+ - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
+
+* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
+
+* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
+
+* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
+
+* support empty /etc boots nicely:
+ - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
+ - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
+
+* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
+
+* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
+
+* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
+
+* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
+
+* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
+ they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
+
+* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
+
+* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
+
+* gpt-auto-generator:
+ - Support LUKS for root devices
+ - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
+ - Make /home automount rather than mount?
+
+* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
+ CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
+ when it is otherwise off
+
+* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
+
+* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
+ /proc/$PID/exe
+
+* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
+ service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
+ for ReusePort=
+
+* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
+ opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
+ a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
+ and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
+ to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
+
+* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
+
+* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
+ $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
+ should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
+ it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
+ desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
+ on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
+
+* cgroups:
+ - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
+ - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
+ - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
+ - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
+ - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
+ - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
+ the hierarchies of child processes
+
+* transient units:
+ - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
+ - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
+
+* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
+
+* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
+
+* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
+
+* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
+
+* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
+
+* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
+
+* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
+
+* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
+ error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
+ path anyway.
+
+* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
+
+* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
+
+* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
+
+* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
+
+* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
+
+* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
+ ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
+
+* sd-bus:
+ - EBADSLT handling
+ - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
+ - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
+ - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
+ - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
+ - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
+ - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
+ - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
+ - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
+ - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
+ - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
+ - longer term: priority inheritance
+ - dbus spec updates:
+ - kdbus mapping
+ - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
+ - GVariant
+ - path escaping
+ - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
+ - test bloom filter generation indexes
+ - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
+ handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
+ cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
+ 253 messages)
+ - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
+ - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
+
+* sd-event
+ - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
+ - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
+ - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
+ - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
+ - maybe add support for inotify events
+
+* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
+
+* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
+ should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
+
+* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
+
+* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
+
+* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
+
+* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
+
+* test/:
+ - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
+ - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
+
+* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
+ destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
+ /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
+ destination.
+
+* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
+ all units we stop before the isolating unit...
+
+* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
+
+* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
+ that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
+ how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
+ is installed.
+
+* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
+ the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
+ and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
+ that automatically.
+
+* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
+
+* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
+
+* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
+
+* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
+
+* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
+
+* introduce ExecCondition= in services
+
+* EFI:
+ - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
+ - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
+ - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
+
+* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
+
+* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
+
+* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
+
+* logind:
+ - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
+ - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
+ - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
+ - Add pretty name for seats in logind
+ - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
+ - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
+ - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
+ - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
+ - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
+ any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
+ usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
+ needs setuid().
+ - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
+ the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
+ for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
+ complete.
+ - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
+ logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
+ shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
+ - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
+ - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
+ probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
+ (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
+ - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
+ - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
+ - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
+ the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
+ make assumptions about their slice anymore.
+ - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
+ relogins
+
+* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
+
+* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
+
+* journal:
+ - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
+ - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
+ - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
+ - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
+ - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
+ - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
+ - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
+ - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
+ - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
+ "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
+ message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
+ - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
+ - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
+ - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
+ - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
+ - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
+ and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
+ - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
+ so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
+ - 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.
+ - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
+ - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
+ - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
+ - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
+ - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
+ - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
+ - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
+ - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
+ - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
+ - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
+ - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
+ - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
+ full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
+ to syslog when it works again.
+ - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
+ - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
+ boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
+ so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
+ hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
+ - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
+ - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
+ - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
+ journals in.
+ - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
+ - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
+ lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
+ do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
+ the most common operations.
+ - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
+ commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
+ - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
+ - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
+ - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
+ services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
+ in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
+ invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
+ if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
+ operation.
+ - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
+ written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
+ - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
+ binary logs data
+ - change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and
+ then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
+ - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
+ - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
+ - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
+ them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
+ Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
+ - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
+
+* document:
+ - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
+ [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
+ - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
+ - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
+ - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
+ - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
+ - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
+ - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
+ - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
+ - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
+ - man: add more examples to man pages
+ - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
+
+* systemctl:
+ - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
+ - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
+ - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
+ - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
+ nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
+ about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
+ - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
+ - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
+ - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
+ - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
+ - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
+ - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
+
+* unit install:
+ - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
+ (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
+ - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
+
+* timer units:
+ - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
+ o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
+ o DST changes
+ - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
+ - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
+ - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
+
+* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
+
+* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
+
+* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
+
+* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
+ waiting for the timeout
+
+* 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 is not
+
+* nspawn:
+ - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
+ that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
+ by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
+ - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty
+ /etc/machine-id (not OK).
+ - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
+ - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
+ with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
+ systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
+ from the kernel's logs.
+ - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
+ --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
+ interface be missing
+ - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
+ shared-network mode
+ - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
+ automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
+ together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
+ - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
+ https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
+ - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
+ PID 1...
+ - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
+ - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
+ running, remove them when shut down.
+ - add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in
+ /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
+ - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
+ directory
+ - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
+ is used
+
+* machined:
+ - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
+ addresses
+ - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
+ removed or added to an existing machine
+ - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
+ difference host, via ssh
+ - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
+ "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
+ - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
+ question
+ - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
+ machine-info data (including deployment level)
+ - "machinectl history"
+ - "machinectl diff"
+ - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
+ shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
+
+* importd:
+ - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
+
+* cryptsetup:
+ - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
+ - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
+ - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
+
+* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
+
+* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
+
+* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
+
+* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
+
+* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
+
+* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
+
+* udev:
+ - move to LGPL
+ - kill scsi_id
+ - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
+ - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_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
+
+* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
+
+* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
+
+* coredump:
+ - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
+ - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
+
+* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
+
+* default to actual 32-bit 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?
+
+* tmpfiles:
+ - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
+ - replace F with f+.
+ - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
+ - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
+ should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
+ calls follow symlinks.
+
+* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
+
+* 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.
+
+* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
+
+* 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
+ - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
+ - auto-restart
+ - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
+ - the journal HTTP iface
+ - non-cgroup resource management
+ - dynamic resource management with cgroups
+ - refreshed, longer missions statement
+ - calendar time events
+ - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
+ - how to create your own target
+ - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
+ - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
+
+* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
+
+* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
+
+* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
+
+* pid1:
+ - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+ - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
+ log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
+ - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
+ that are not supported...
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
+ - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
+ - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
+ - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
+ - move PAM code into its own binary
+ - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
+ - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
+ - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
+ - Support --test based on current system state
+ - 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().
+ - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
+ - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
+ currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
+ cannot 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 do not get a successful method reply,
+ but much rather a disconnect on success.
+ - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
+ - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
+
+* unit files:
+ - allow port=0 in .socket units
+ - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
+ - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
+ - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
+ in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
+ - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
+ - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
+ - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
+ verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
+ - introduce Type=pid-file
+ - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
+ - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
+ - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
+ - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
+ - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
+ - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
+
+* systemd-python:
+ - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
+ works with ^C
+ - add documentation to systemd.daemon
+
+* bootchart:
+ - plot per-process IO utilization
+ - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
+ - document initcall_debug
+ - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
+
+* udev-link-config:
+ - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
+ network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
+ on Path= matching
+ - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
+
+* sd-rtnl:
+ - add support for more attribute types
+ - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
+
+* networkd:
+ - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
+ - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
+ - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
+ - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
+ - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
+ - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
+ - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
+ - work with non-Ethernet devices
+ - add support for more bond options
+ - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
+ - add LLDP client side support
+ - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
+ a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
+ - expose in the API the following bits:
+ - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
+ - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
+ - option 123, 144, geolocation
+ - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
+ - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
+ for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
+ - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
+ support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
+ - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
+ - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
+ - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
+ - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
+
+* networkd-wait-online:
+ - make operstates to wait for configurable?
+
+* dhcp:
+ - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
+ - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
+
+* dhcp6:
+ - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
+ them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
+ - write more test cases
+ - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
+ - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
+ - implement dhcpv6 authentication
+ - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
+ situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
+ or interface down
+ - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
+ this behavior
+
+External:
+
+* dbus:
+ - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
+ - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
+
+* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
+
+* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
+
+* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
+
+* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
+
+* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
+
+* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
+
+* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
+
+* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
+
+* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
+
+* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
+
+* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
+
+* register catalog database signature as file magic
+
+* zsh shell completion:
+ - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
+ - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
+
+
+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
+
+* pahole
+
+* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
+
+* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
+
+* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields