From d343a044a26d6ca4771187a8ad1bd7059c82531b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:11:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: mention the LUKS superblock default labelling change. This is a (weak) compat break, hence document it in NEWS. --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b0cc3618b2..db6645e5ca 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ CHANGES WITH 259 in spe: image. Hence, effectively they have been read-only anyway already, this change makes this official. + * The LUKS volume label string set by systemd-repart no longer defaults + to the literal same as the partition and file system label, but is + prefixed with "luks-". This is done so that on LUKS enabled images a + conflict between /dev/disk/by-label/ symlinks is removed, as this + symlink is generated both for file system and LUKS superblock + labels. There's a new VolumeLabel= setting for partitions that can be + used to expicitly choose a LUKS superblock label, which can be used + to explicitly revert to the old naming, if required. + Service manager/PID1: * The service manager will now show the wallclock time a service ran