[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 208

[Shawn Landden]

When will my utf8 ellipsize patches be reviewed?


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net>wrote:

> Heya,
>
> Mostly clean-ups and fixes, but with David's logind Wayland magic we
> actually have a major addition, too.
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/systemd-208.tar.xz
>
> CHANGES WITH 208:
>
>         * logind has gained support for facilitating privileged input
>           and drm device access for unprivileged clients. This work is
>           useful to allow Wayland display servers (and similar
>           programs, such as kmscon) to run under the user's ID and
>           access input and drm devices which are normally
>           protected. When this is used (and the kernel is new enough)
>           logind will "mute" IO on the file descriptors passed to
>           Wayland as long as it is in the background and "unmute" it
>           if it returns into the foreground. This allows secure
>           session switching without allowing background sessions to
>           eavesdrop on input and display data. This also introduces
>           session switching support if VT support is turned off in the
>           kernel, and on seats that are not seat0.
>
>         * A new kernel command line option luks.options= is understood
>           now which allows specifiying LUKS options for usage for LUKS
>           encrypted partitions specified with luks.uuid=.
>
>         * tmpfiles.d(5) snippets may now use specifier expansion in
>           path names. More specifically %m, %b, %H, %v, are now
>           replaced by the local machine id, boot id, hostname, and
>           kernel version number.
>
>         * A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which
>           may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file
>           or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it doesn't.
>
>         * This release removes high-level support for the
>           MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel
>           cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly
>           designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its
>           current form, hence we shouldn't expose it for now.
>
>         * The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for
>           all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup
>           hierarchy. This option is likely to be come the built-in
>           default in the kernel anyway, and the non-hierarchial mode
>           never made much sense in the intrinsically hierarchial
>           cgroup system.
>
>         * A new field _SYSTEMD_SLICE= is logged along with all journal
>           messages containing the slice a message was generated
>           from. This is useful to allow easy per-customer filtering of
>           logs among other things.
>
>         * systemd-journald will no longer adjust the group of journal
>           files it creates to the "systemd-journal" group. Instead we
>           rely on the journal directory to be owned by the
>           "systemd-journal" group, and its setgid bit set, so that the
>           kernel file system layer will automatically enforce that
>           journal files inherit this group assignment. The reason for
>           this change is that we cannot allow NSS look-ups from
>           journald which would be necessary to resolve
>           "systemd-journal" to a numeric GID, because this might
>           create deadlocks if NSS involves synchronous queries to
>           other daemons (such as nscd, or sssd) which in turn are
>           logging clients of journald and might block on it, which
>           would then dead lock. A tmpfiles.d(5) snippet included in
>           systemd will make sure the setgid bit and group are
>           properly set on the journal directory if it exists on every
>           boot. However, we recommend adjusting it manually after
>           upgrades too (or from RPM scriptlets), so that the change is
>           not delayed until next reboot.
>
>         * Backlight and random seed files in /var/lib/ have moved into
>           the /var/lib/systemd/ directory, in order to centralize all
>           systemd generated files in one directory.
>
>         * Boot time performance measurements (as displayed by
>           "systemd-analyze" for example) will now read ACPI 5.0 FPDT
>           performance information if that's available to determine how
>           much time BIOS and boot loader initialization required. With
>           a sufficiently new BIOS you hence no longer need to boot
>           with Gummiboot to get access to such information.
>
>         Contributions from: Andrey Borzenkov, Chen Jie, Colin Walters,
>         Cristian Rodríguez, Dave Reisner, David Herrmann, David
>         Mackey, David Strauss, Eelco Dolstra, Evan Callicoat, Gao
>         feng, Harald Hoyer, Jimmie Tauriainen, Kay Sievers, Lennart
>         Poettering, Lukas Nykryn, Mantas Mikulėnas, Martin Pitt,
>         Michael Scherer, Michał Górny, Mike Gilbert, Patrick McCarty,
>         Sebastian Ott, Tom Gundersen, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>
>         -- Berlin, 2013-10-02
>
> Lennart
>
> --
> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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