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configure: bump version number

System Internals / systemd - Lennart Poettering [poettering.net] - 11 February 2016 10:28 UTC

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CHANGES WITH 229:

- The systemd-resolved DNS resolver service has gained a substantial set of new features, most prominently it may now act as a DNSSEC
validating stub resolver. DNSSEC mode is currently turned off by default, but it is expected that this is turned on by default in one of the next releases. For now, we invite everybody to test the DNSSEC logic by setting DNSSEC=allow-downgrade in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. The service also gained a full set of D-Bus interfaces, including calls to configure DNS and DNSSEC settings per link (for consumption by external network management software). systemd-resolved (and systemd-networkd along with it) now know to distinguish between "search" and "routing" domains. The former are used to qualify single-label names, the latter are purely used for routing lookups within certain domains to specific links. resolved will now also synthesize RRs for all entries from /etc/hosts.

- The systemd-resolve tool (which is a client utility for systemd-resolved, and previously experimental) has been improved considerably and is now fully supported and documented. Hence it has moved from /usr/lib/systemd to /usr/bin.

- /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio devices.

- The coredump collection logic has been reworked: when a coredump is collected it is now written to disk, compressed and processed (including stacktrace extraction) from a new instantiated service systemd-coredump@.service, instead of directly from the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook we provide. This is beneficial as processing large coredumps can take up a substantial amount of resources and time, and this previously happened entirely outside of systemd's service supervision. With the new logic the core_pattern hook only does minimal metadata collection before passing off control to the new instantiated service, which is configured with a time limit, a nice level and other settings to minimize negative impact on the rest of the system. Also note that the new logic will honour the RLIMIT_CORE setting of the crashed process, which now allows users and processes to turn off coredumping for their processes by setting this limit.

- The RLIMIT_CORE resource limit now defaults to "unlimited" for PID 1 and all forked processes by default. Previously, PID 1 would leave the setting at "0" for all processes, as set by the kernel. Note that the resource limit traditionally has no effect on the generated coredumps on the system if the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook logic is used. Since the limit is now honoured (see above) its default has been changed so that the coredumping logic is enabled by default for all processes, while allowing specific opt-out.

- When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, this is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system user and group at package installation time.

- The systemd-activate socket activation testing tool gained support for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets using the new --datagram and --seqpacket switches. It also has been extended to support both new-style and inetd-style file descriptor passing. Use the new
--inetd switch to request inetd-style file descriptor passing.

- Most systemd tools now honor a new $SYSTEMD_COLORS environment
variable, which takes a boolean value. If set to false, ANSI color output is disabled in the tools even when run on a terminal that supports it.

- The VXLAN support in networkd now supports two new settings DestinationPort= and PortRange=.

- A new systemd.machine_id= kernel command line switch has been added, that may be used to set the machine ID in /etc/machine-id if it is not initialized yet. This command line option has no effect if the file is already initialized.

- systemd-nspawn gained a new --as-pid2 switch that invokes any specified command line as PID 2 rather than PID 1 in the container. In this mode PID 1 will be a minimal stub init process that implements the special POSIX and Linux semantics of PID 1 regarding signal and child process management. Note that this stub init process is implemented in nspawn itself and requires no support from the container image. This new logic is useful to support running arbitrary command lines in the container, as normal processes are generally not prepared to run as PID 1.

- systemd-nspawn gained a new --chdir= switch for setting the current working directory for the process started in the container.

- "journalctl /dev/sda" will now output all kernel log messages from the specified device, in addition to all devices that are parents of it. This should make log output about devices pretty useful, as long as kernel drivers attach enough metadata to the log messages. (The usual SATA drivers do.)

- The sd-journal API gained two new calls sd_journal_has_runtime_files() and sd_journal_has_persistent_files() that report whether log data from /run or /var has been found.

- journalctl gained a new switch "--fields" that prints all journal record field names currently in use in the journal. This is backed by two new sd-journal API calls sd_journal_enumerate_fields() and sd_journal_restart_fields().

- Most configurable timeouts in systemd now expect an argument of "infinity" to turn them off, instead of "0" as before. The semantics from now on is that a timeout of "0" means "now", and "infinity" means "never". To maintain backwards compatibility, "0" continues to turn off previously existing timeout settings.

- "systemctl reload-or-try-restart" has been renamed to "systemctl try-reload-or-restart" to clarify what it actually does: the "try" logic applies to both reloading and restarting, not just restarting. The old name continues to be accepted for compatibility.

- On boot-up, when PID 1 detects that the system clock is behind the release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now set to the latter. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order to avoid running with clocks set to the various clock epochs such as 1902, 1938 or 1970. With this change the logic is now done in PID 1 in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced before the first process is spawned by systemd. Note that the logic in timesyncd remains, as it is more comprehensive and ensures montonic clocks by maintaining a persistant timestamp file in /var. Since /var is generally not available in earliest boot or the initrd, this part of the logic remains in timesyncd, and is not done by PID 1.

- Support for tweaking details in net_cls.class_id through the NetClass= configuration directive has been removed, as the kernel people have decided to deprecate that controller in cgroup v2. Userspace tools such as nftables are moving over to setting rules that are specific to the full cgroup path of a task, which obsoletes these controllers anyway. The NetClass= directive is kept around for legacy compatibility reasons. For a more in-depth description of the kernel change, please refer to the respective upstream commit:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd1060a1d671

- A new service setting RuntimeMaxSec= has been added that may be used to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit, the service is terminated and put into a failure state.

- A new service setting AmbientCapabilities= has been added. It allows configuration of additional Linux process capabilities that are passed to the activated processes. This is only available on very recent kernels.

- The process resource limit settings in service units may now be used to configure hard and soft limits individually.

- The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publicly expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C extension. Specifically, for many object destructor functions alternative versions whose names are suffixed with "p" have been added, which take a pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy, instead of just a pointer to the object itself. This is useful because these destructor functions may be used directly as parameters to the cleanup construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of the GCC extension since a long time, and with this change similar support is now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note that by using this extension in your sources compatibility with old and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, any gcc or LLVM version of recent years have supported this extension.

- Timer units gained support for a new setting RandomizedDelaySec= that allows configuring some additional randomized delay to the configured time. This is useful to spread out timer events to avoid load peaks in clusters or larger setups.

- Calendar time specifications now support sub-second accuracy.

- Socket units now support listening on SCTP and UDP-lite protocol sockets.

- The sd-event API now comes with a full set of man pages.

- Older versions of systemd contained experimental support for compressing journal files and coredumps with the LZ4 compressor that was not compatible with the lz4 binary (due to API limitations of the lz4 library). This support has been removed; only support for files compatible with the lz4 binary remains. This LZ4 logic is now officially supported and no longer considered experimental.

- The dkr image import logic has been removed again from importd. dkr's micro-services focus doesn't fit into the machine image focus of importd, and quickly got out of date with the upstream dkr API.

- Creation of the /run/lock/lockdev/ directory was dropped from tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf. Better locking mechanisms like flock() have been available for many years. If you still need this, you need to create your own tmpfiles.d config file with:

d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock -

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Upstream: github.com