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           documentation. With this release the code is adjusted to match the
           documentation.
 
+        * systemd-tmpfiles will now print a notice whenever it encounters
+          tmpfiles.d/ lines referencing the /var/run/ directory. It will
+          recommend reworking them to use the /run/ directory instead (for
+          which /var/run/ is simply a symlinked compatibility alias). This is
+          recommended, so that systemd-tmpfiles can properly detect line
+          conflicts and merge lines referencing the same files by both paths,
+          without having to access them.
+
         * systemctl disable/unmask/preset/preset-all cannot be used with
           --runtime. Previously this was allowed, but resulted in unintuitive
           behaviour that wasn't useful.
 
+        * sd-boot acquire new loader configuration settings for optionally
+          turning off Windows and MacOS boot partition discovery as well as
+          reboot-into-firmware menu items. It also should be able to pick a
+          better screen resolution for HiDPI systems, and now provides loader
+          configuration settings to change the resolution explicitly.
+
+        * The systemd-resolve tool has been renamed to resolvectl (it also
+          remains available under the old name, for compatibility), and its
+          interface is now verb-based, similar in style to the other <xyz>ctl
+          tools, such as systemctl or loginctl. Also, the tool may now be
+          linked to the "resolveconf" name, in which case it will take
+          arguments and input compatible with the Debian and FreeBSD resolvconf
+          tool.
+
+        * Support for suspend-then-hibernate has been added, i.e. a sleep mode
+          where the system initially suspends, and after a time-out resumes and
+          hibernates again.
+
+        * networkd's ClientIdentifier= now accepts a new option "duid-only". If
+          set the client will only send a DUID as client identifier.
+
+        * The nss-systemd glibc NSS module will now enumerate dynamic users and
+          groups in effect. Previously, it could resolve UIDs/GIDs to user
+          names/groups and vice versa, but did not support enumeration.
+
+        * journald's Compress= configuration setting now optionally accepts a
+          byte threshold value. All journal objects larger than this threshold
+          will be compressed, smaller ones will not. Previously this threshold
+          was not configurable and set to 512.
+
+        * A new system.conf NoNewPrivileges= is now available which may be used
+          to turn off acquiring of new privileges system-wide (i.e. set Linux'
+          PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS for PID 1 itself, and thus also all its
+          children). Note that turning this option on means setuid binaries and
+          file system capabilities lose their special powers. While turning on
+          this option is a big step towards a more secure system, doing so is
+          likely to break numerous pre-existing UNIX tools, in particular su
+          and sudo.
+
+        * A new service systemd-time-sync-wait.service has been added. If
+          enabled it will delay the time-sync.target unit at boot until time
+          synchronization has been recieved from the network. This
+          functionality is useful on systems lacking a local RTC or where it is
+          acceptable that the boot process shall be delayed by external network
+          services.
+
+        * When hibernating, systemd will now inform the kernel of the image
+          write offset, on kernels new enough to support this. This means swap
+          files should work for hibernation now.
+
+        * When loading unit files, systemd will now look for drop-in unit file
+          extension at additional places. Previously, for a unit file name
+          "foo-bar-baz.service" it would look for dropin files in
+          "foo-bar-baz.service.d/*.conf". Now, it will also look in
+          "foo-bar-.service.d/*.conf" and "foo-.service.d/", i.e. at the
+          service name truncated after all inner dashes. This scheme allows
+          writing drop-ins easily that apply to a whole set of unit files at
+          once. It's particularly useful for mount and slice units (as their
+          naming is prefix based anyway), but is also useful for service and
+          other units, for packages that install multiple unit files at once,
+          following a strict naming regime of beginning the unit file name with
+          the package's name. Two new specifiers are now supported while
+          parsing unit files, to match this: %j and %J are replaced by the part
+          of the unit name following the last dash.
+
+        * The ExecStart= lines of unit files are no longer required to
+          reference absolute paths. If non-absolute paths are specified the
+          specified binary name is searched within the service manager's
+          built-in $PATH. It's generally recommended to continue to use
+          absolute paths for all binaries specified in unit files.
+
+        * coredumpctl's "gdb" verb has been renamed to "debug", in order to
+          support alternative debuggers, for example lldb. The old name
+          continues to be available however, for compatibility reasons. Use the
+          new --debugger= switch and $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER environment variable to
+          pick an alternative debugger instead of the default of gdb.
+
+        * systemctl and the other tools will now output escape sequences that
+          generate proper clickable hyperlinks in various terminal emulators
+          where useful (for example, in the "systemctl status" output you can
+          now click on the unit file name to quickly open it in the
+          editor/viewer of your choice). Note that not all terminal emulators
+          support this functionality yet, but many do. Unfortunately, the
+          "less" pager doesn't support this yet, hence this functionality is
+          currently automatically turned off when a pager is started (which
+          happens quite often due to auto-paging). We hope to remove this
+          limitation as soon as "less" learns these escape sequences too. This
+          new behaviour may also be turned off explicitly with the
+          $SYSTEMD_URLIFY environment variable. For details on these escape
+          sequences see:
+          https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
+
+        * networkd's .network files now support a new IPv6MTUBytes= option for
+          setting the MTU used by IPv6 explicitly as well as a new MTUBytes=
+          option in the [Route] section to configure the MTU to use for
+          specific routes. It also gained support for configuration of the DHCP
+          "UserClass" option through the new UserClass= setting. It gained
+          three new options in the new [CAN] section for configuring CAN
+          networks. The MULTICAST and ALLMULTI interface flags may now be
+          controlled explicitly with the new Multicast= and AllMulticast=
+          settings.
+
+        * networkd will now automatically make use of the kernel's route
+          expiration feature, if it is available.
+
+        * udevd's .link files now support setting the number of Rx/Tx channels,
+          using the RxChannels=, TxChannels=, OtherChannels=,
+          CombinedChannels=. Support for UDPSegmentationOffload= has been
+          removed, given its limited support in hardware, and waning software
+          support.
+
+        * networkd's .netdev files now support creating "netdevsim" interfaces.
+
+        * PID 1 learnt a new bus call GetUnitByControlGroup() which may be used
+          to query the unit belonging to a specific kernel control group.
+
+        * systemd-analyze learnt a new verb "cat-config", which may be used to
+          dump the contents of any configuration file, with all its matching
+          drop-in files added in, and honouring the usual search and masking
+          logic applied to systemd configuration files. For example use
+          "systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system.conf" to get the complete
+          system configuration file of systemd how it would be loaded by PID 1
+          itself. Similar to this various tools, such as systemd-tmpfiles or
+          systemd-sysusers learnt new option "--cat-config", which do
+          corresponding operation for their own configuration settings. For
+          example, "systemd-tmpfiles --cat-config" will now output the full
+          list of tmpfiles.d/ lines in place.
+
+        * timedatectl gained two new verbs "timesync-status" (to show the
+          current NTP synchronization state of systemd-timesyncd) and
+          "show-timesync" (to show bus properties of systemd-timesyncd).
+
+        * systemd-timesyncd gained a bus interface on which it exposes details
+          about its state.
+
+        * systemd-nspawn gained a new --rlimit= switch for setting initial
+          resource limits for the container payload. There's a new switch
+          --hostname= for explicitly overriding the container's hostname. A new
+          --no-new-privileges= switch may be used to control the
+          PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag for the container payload. A new
+          --oom-score-adjust= switch controls the OOM scoring adjustment value
+          for the payload. The new --cpu-affinity= switch controls the CPU
+          affinity of the container payload. The new --resolv-conf= switch
+          allows more detailed control of /etc/resolv.conf handling of the
+          container.  Similar, the new --timezone= switch allows more detailed
+          control of /etc/localtime handling of the container.
+
+        * systemd-detect-virt learnt a new --list switch, which will print a
+          list of all currently known VM and container environments.
+
+        * Support for the new "Portable Services" concept has been added, see
+          doc/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md for details. Currently, the support is still
+          experimental, but this is expected to change soon. Reflecting the
+          experimental state the "portablectl" binary is not installed into
+          /usr/bin yet. The binary has to be called with the full path
+          /usr/lib/systemd/portablectl instead.
+
+        * journalctl's and systemctl's -o switch now knows a new log output
+          mode "with-unit". The output it generates is very similar to the
+          regular "short" mode, but displays the unit name instead of the
+          syslog tag for each log line. Also, the date is shown with timezone
+          information. This mode is probably more useful than the classic
+          "short" output mode for most purposes, except where pixel-perfect
+          compatibility with classic /var/log/messages formatting is required.
+
+        * A new --dump-bus-properties switch has been added to the systemd
+          binary, which may be used to dump all supported D-Bus properties.
+
+        * Unit files and other configuration files that support specifier
+          expansion now understand two new specifiers: %T and %V will resolve
+          to /tmp and /var/tmp respectively, or whatever temporary directory
+          has been set for the calling user.
+
+        * sd-bus gained a set of new calls:
+          sd_bus_slot_set_floating()/sd_bus_slot_get_floating() may be used to
+          enable/disable the "floating" state of a bus slot object,
+          i.e. whether the slot object pins the bus it is allocated for into
+          memory or if the bus slot object gets disconnected when the bus goes
+          away. sd_bus_open_with_description(),
+          sd_bus_open_user_with_description(),
+          sd_bus_open_system_with_description() may be used to allocate bus
+          objects and set their description string already during allocation.
+
+        * sd-event gained support for watching inotify events from the event
+          loop, in an efficient way, sharing inotify handles between multiple
+          users. For this a new function sd_event_add_inotify() has been added.
+
+        * sd-event and sd-bus gained support for calling special user-supplied
+          destructor functions for userdata pointers associated with
+          sd_event_source, sd_bus_slot and sd_bus_track objects.
+
+        * The "net.ipv4.tcp_ecn" sysctl will now be turned on by default.
+
+        * PID 1 will now automatically reschedule .timer units whenever the
+          local timezone changes. (They previously got rescheduled already
+          automatically when the system clock changed.)
+
+        * New documentation has been added to document cgroups delegation,
+          portable services and the various code quality tools we have set up:
+
+          https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/doc/CGROUP_DELEGATION.md
+          https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/doc/PORTABLE_SERVICES.md
+          https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/doc/CODE_QUALITY.md
+
+        * pam_systemd will now look for PAM userdata fields systemd.memory_max,
+          systemd.tasks_max, systemd.cpu_weight, systemd.io_weight set by
+          earlier PAM modules. The data in these fields is used to initialize
+          the session scope's resource properties. Thus external PAM modules
+          may now configure per-session limits, for example sourced from
+          external user databases.
+
+        * socket units with Accept=yes will now maintain a "refused" counter in
+          addition to the existing "accepted" counter, counting connections
+          refused due to the enforced limits.
+
+        * The "systemd-path search-binaries-default" command may now be use to
+          query the default, built-in $PATH PID 1 will pass to the services it
+          manages.
+
+        Contributions from: Adam Duskett, Alan Jenkins, Alessandro Casale,
+        Alexander Kurtz, Alex Gartrell, Anssi Hannula, Antique, Arnaud
+        Rebillout, Brian J. Murrell, Bruno Vernay, Chris Lesiak, Christian
+        Brauner, Christian Hesse, Daniel Dao, Daniel Lin, Danylo Korostil,
+        Davide Cavalca, David Tardon, Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitriy Geels,
+        Douglas Christman, Elia Geretto, emelenas, Evegeny Vereshchagin, Evgeny
+        Vereshchagin, Felipe Sateler, Feng Sun, Filipe Brandenburger, Franck
+        Bui, futpib, Giuseppe Scrivano, Guillem Jover, guixxx, Hans de Goede,
+        Henrique Dante de Almeida, Hiram van Paassen, Ian Miell, Igor Gnatenko,
+        Ivan Shapovalov, James Cowgill, Jan Janssen, Jan Synacek, Jared
+        Kazimir, João Paulo Rechi Vita, Joost Heitbrink, juergbi, Jui-Chi Ricky
+        Liang, Kai-Heng Feng, Karol Augustin, Krzysztof Nowicki, Lauri
+        Tirkkonen, Lennart Poettering, Leonard, Long Li, Luca Boccassi, Lucas
+        Werkmeister, Marcel Hoppe, Marc Kleine-Budde, Mario Limonciello, Martin
+        Jansa, Martin Wilck, Mathieu Malaterre, Matteo F. Vescovi, Michael
+        Biebl, Michael Olbrich, Michael Prokop, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletar,
+        Mike Gilbert, Mikhail Kasimov, Milan, Milan Broz, mourikwa, Muhammet
+        Kara, Nicolas Boichat, Omer Katz, Paride Legovini, Paul Menzel, Paul
+        Milliken, Peter A. Bigot, Peter Hutterer, Peter Jones, Philip Sequeira,
+        Philip Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Radostin Stoyanov, Ricardo Salveti de
+        Araujo, Rosen Penev, rubensa, Ryan Gonzalez, Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli,
+        Sebastian Reichel, Sergio Lindo Mansilla, Stefan Schweter, Stephen
+        Hemminger, Stuart Hayes, Susant Sahani, Sylvain Plantefève, Thomas
+        H. P. Andersen, Tobias Jungel, Tomasz Torcz, Vito Caputo, Will Dietz,
+        Will Thompson, xginn8, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+        — Berlin, 2018-06-XX
+
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         * The MemoryAccounting= unit property now defaults to on. After