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authorLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>2022-10-04 20:12:50 +0200
committerLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>2022-10-04 20:12:50 +0200
commit46c41ade2012a617bff9b817f71bb077bab55ab0 (patch)
tree44db0407bd1b563bf117880f3287305a3f30ef6f /NEWS
parentedcb46fcd7b4c857f7642b2da8ffa9fc6f80a309 (diff)
downloadsystemd-46c41ade2012a617bff9b817f71bb077bab55ab0.tar.gz
NEWS: even more news
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@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
* libsystemd now exports sd_device_get_child_first/next as a high-level
interface for enumerating child devices.
+ * libsystemd now exports sd_device_monitor_set/get_description which
+ allow to set a custom description that will be used in log messages by
+ sd_device_monitor*.
+
* Private shared libraries (libsystemd-shared-nnn.so,
libsystemd-core-nnn.so) are now installed into arch-specific
directories to allow multi-arch installs.
@@ -263,6 +267,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
extension-release.NAME for correctness, in case it is passed a
symlink.
+ * systemd-portabled now uses PrivateTmp=yes in the 'trusted' profile
+ too.
+
* sysext's extension-release now support '_any' as a special value for
the ID= field, to allow distribution-independent extensions (e.g.:
fully statically compiled binaries, scripts).
@@ -297,6 +304,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
useful when we need to fill in the UUID later, such as when using
verity partitions.
+ * systemd-repart now supports drop-ins for its configuration files.
+
* Package metadata logged by systemd-coredump in the system journal are
now more compact.
@@ -304,11 +313,16 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
* systemd-oomd now automatically links against libatomic, if available.
+ * systemd-oomd now sends out a 'Killed' D-Bus signal when a cgroup is
+ killed.
+
+ * scope units now also provide oom-kill status.
+
* systemd-pstore will now try to load only the efi_pstore kernel module,
instead of all possible modules that it supports.
- * systemd-logind will now schedule the next idle check from 'now' if the
- atime timestamp cannot be found.
+ * systemd-logind gained a new StopIdleSessionSec= option to stop an idle
+ session after a preconfigure timeout.
* systemd-homed will now wait up to 30 seconds for workers to terminate,
rather than indefinitely.
@@ -320,6 +334,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
* udevadmn 'wait' will now listen to kernel uevents too when called with
'--initialized=no'.
+ * systemd-udevd will now assume the system is running on AC power if no
+ battery can be found.
+
* All features and tools using the TPM2 will now communicate with it
using a bind key. Beforehand, the tpm2 support used encrypted sessions
by creating a primary key that was used to encrypt traffic. This
@@ -333,6 +350,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe:
* systemd-growfs no longer requires udev to run.
+ * systemd-backlight now will better support systems with multiple
+ graphic cards.
+
+ * systemd-cryptsetup's keyfile-timeout= option now also works when a
+ device is used as a keyfile.
+
+ * systemd-cryptenroll gained a new '--unlock-key-file=' option to get
+ the key from a file instead of STDIN.
+
+ * systemd-dissect gained a new '--umount' option that will safely and
+ synchronously umount all partitions of a mounted image.
+
+ * When using gcrypt, all systemd tools and services will now configure
+ it to prefer the OS RNG if there is one.
+
Experimental features:
* BPF programs can now be compiled with bpf-gcc (requires libbpf >= 1.0