NEWS: menton future removal of SysV support and requirement bump

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Yu Watanabe
2025-11-18 02:40:22 +09:00
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Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes:
* Support for System V service scripts is deprecated and will be
removed in v260. Please make sure to update your software *now* to
include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System V
script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
Following components will be removed:
* systemd-rc-local-generator,
* systemd-sysv-generator,
* systemd-sysv-install (hook for systemctl enable/disable/is-enabled).
* Required minimum versions of following components are planned to be
raised in v260:
* Linux kernel >= 5.10 (recommended >= 5.14),
* glibc >= 2.34,
* libxcrypt >= 4.4.0 (libcrypt in glibc will be no longer supported),
* util-linux >= 2.37,
* elfutils >= 0.177,
* openssl >= 3.0.0,
* cryptsetup >= 2.4.0,
* libseccomp >= 2.4.0,
* python >= 3.9.0.
Please provide feedback on systemd-devel if this would cause problems.
* The cgroup2 file system is now mounted with the
"memory_hugetlb_accounting" mount option, supported since kernel 6.6.
This means that HugeTLB memory usage is now counted towards the
@@ -709,10 +734,10 @@ CHANGES WITH 258:
Announcements of Future Feature Removals:
* Support for System V service scripts is deprecated and will be
removed in v259. Please make sure to update your software *now* to
include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System V
script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
* (postponed to v260) Support for System V service scripts is deprecated
and will be removed in v259. Please make sure to update your software
*now* to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System
V script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
* Support for the legacy /run/lock/ directory is deprecated and will be
removed in v259. Any software that still needs access to this legacy
@@ -736,8 +761,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 258:
Only nftables backend will be supported by systemd-networkd and
systemd-nspawn since v259.
* Required minimum versions of following components are planned to be
raised in the next release:
* (postponed to v260) Required minimum versions of following components
are planned to be raised in the next release:
* Linux kernel >= 5.10 (recommended >= 5.14),
* glibc >= 2.34,