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NEWS: initial list of changes for v260

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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libidn2. The corresponding meson option '-Dlibidn=' is deprecated
too and will be dropped in a future release.
* Required versions of various dependencies have been raised:
cryptsetup 2.0.1/2.3.0 → 2.4.0,
elfutils 158 → 177,
libblkid 2.24 → 2.37,
libseccomp 2.3.1 → 2.4.0,
glibc 2.31 → 2.34,
libxcrypt or libcrypt from glibc → libxcrypt 4.4.0 only,
OpenSSL 1.1.0 → 3.0.0.
The Linux kernel version requirements have been updated too:
baseline 5.4 → 5.10, recommended baseline 5.7 → 5.14, 6.6 for full
functionality. Code for compatibility with versions older than the
baseline has been removed.
* The parsing of RootImageOptions= and the mount image parameters of
ExtensionImages= and MountImages= has been changed so that the last
definition for a given partition wins and is applied, rather than the
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warnings when non-system accounts are used. This support will be
removed in a future release.
Changes in other components:
New system interfaces and components:
* New options SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16, SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-256, and
SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-24bit have been added. They are like
SYSTEMD_COLORS=16, SYSTEMD_COLORS=256, and SYSTEMD_COLORS=24bit
respectively when output is to a non-dumb TTY, and degrade to
SYSTEMD_COLORS=no otherwise.
* The os-release(3) gained a new field FANCY_NAME= that is similar
to PRETTY_NAME= but may contain ANSI sequences such as Unicode
emojis. The new field is also defined to NOT contain any version
specification, providing better separation between the OS name
and version.
The systemd manager, systemd-hostnamed, and hostnamectl will now
show FANCY_NAME= in preference to PRETTY_NAME=.
* The "Portability and Stability" policy has been simplified and
updated to strengthen the promises of avoiding user-visible
regressions in public interfaces. See
https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/ for details.
* Services providing a public Varlink interface can be symlinked under
/run/varlink/registry/, allowing services to be enumerated.
'varlinkctl list-registry' can be used to list running services.
* A new "metrics" or "report" framework has been defined. Any component
can hook into the reporting framework by providing a varlink endpoint
under /run/systemd/report. Such hookup has been added to the manager.
systemd-report is a new command line tool which collects the reports
from all endpoints and prints them in JSON format.
Changes in the system and user managers:
* Systemd now uses ANSI CSI 18 sequence to query terminal size. This
allows the query to be made without changing the position of the
cursor. Terminal emulators which do not yet support the sequence are
encouraged to do so.
* Service units gained a RefreshOnReload= setting that configures
whether extensions and credentials are to be refreshed when the unit
is reloaded.
Changes in udev:
* Persistent network interface naming has bee extended to MCTP devices
with the "mc" prefix.
* The minimum backlight brightness value used when restoring backlight
levels at boot has been lowered from 5% to 1%. This lower value
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low brightness values at runtime independently of the systemd clamp
which only applies during boot.
Changes in systemd-networkd:
* MultiPathRoute= option now supports interface-bound ECMP routes.
* systemd-networkd gained integration with ModemManager via the "simple
connect" protocol. A new [ModemManager] section has been added with
SimpleConnectProprties= (currently apn=, allowed-auth=, user=,
password=, ip-type=, allow-roaming=, pin=, and operator-id=),
RouteMetric=, and UseGateway= settings. This allows systemd-networkd
to establish a cellular modem connection to a broadband network.
* systemd-networkd now provides a varlink interface and varlinkctl
now uses varlink to connect to the daemon.
Changes in systemd-boot and the stub:
* The timeout in the boot menu can be configured with the
io.systmed.boot.timeout= SMBIOS type 11 string.
Changes in libsystemd:
* The varlink implementation now supports SD_VARLINK_ANY as a wildcard
type. This is useful to declare generic interfaces which need to
support multiple types.
Changes in systemd-resolved:
* Queries done through nss-resolve can be limited to a specific
interface with the $SYSTEMD_NSS_RESOLVE_INTERFACE environment
variable.
* systemd-resolved now supports marking of packets used for DNS
requests with a firewall mark.
* resolvectl now uses varlink to connect to systemd-resolved.
Changes in other components:
* systemd-repart gained basic support for integrity checks of encrypted
volumes. Two new options Integrity= and IntegrityAlgorithm= can be
used to configure integrity checks for LUKS volumes.
* Image dissection policies have been extended to allow restricting
file system types and requiring integrity checks for encrypted volumes
with a new 'encryptedwithinegrity' policy.
* systemd-dissect gained a --copy-ownership= switch to configure
ownership of copied files.
* systemd-portabled now runs also as a user service. Unprivileged users
can run portable services (on sufficiently fresh kernels).
* systemd-portabled will now generate a policy and pin the image for a
portable service, so that the image cannot be changed later without a
reattach.
* systemd-keytil gained an 'extract-certicate' verb to print the X.509
certificate.
* bootctl is now also available as service over varlink. The new
systemd-bootctl.socket unit spawns systemd-bootctl@.service instances
to handle individual connections.
* systemd-sysupdate gained a new 'acquire' verb, allowing the download
and installation or update steps to be done separately.
* Support for polkit authorization has been added to systemd-sysext and
varlinkctl.
* A polkit policy was added for systemd-ask-password, allowing it to be
used by unprivileged callers.
* systemd-inhibit --list option gained support for JSON output
and filtering with --what= , --who=, --why=, and --mode=.
* systemd-vmspawn gained support for registring with systemd-machined
in the user session. New options --user/--system control which
instance is used.
* systemd-vmspawn gained support for ephemeral machines via a new
--ephemeral option. This is similar to the functionality provided via
the same switch in systemd-nspawn.
* New options SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16, SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-256, and
SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-24bit have been added. They are like
SYSTEMD_COLORS=16, SYSTEMD_COLORS=256, and SYSTEMD_COLORS=24bit
respectively when output is to a non-dumb TTY, and degrade to
SYSTEMD_COLORS=no otherwise.
* Standalone versions of the systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles
binaries now support full functionality. (Previously, those tools
were compiled without features which would require libmount and pull
in a lot of dependencies. After the conversion to dlopen the option
whether to support features requiring libmount is made by providing
libmount or not, at install time.)
* Internal code dealing with processes has been updated to use pidfds
in many places.
Changes in units:
* systemd-portabled now runs also in the user session in the new
systemd-portabled.service unit.
* New system units sysystemd-bootctl.socket, systemd-bootctl@.service
have been added.
* getty@.service gained an [Install] and must now be explicitly enabled
to be active.
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Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes: