diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b3e51877c9..6469074549 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 230 in spe: * The unified cgroup hierarchy added in Linux 4.5 is now supported. Use systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 on the kernel command line to - enable. + enable. Also, support for the "io" cgroup controller in the unified + hierarchy has been added, so that the "memory", "pids" and "io" are + now the controllers that are supported on the unified hierarchy. WARNING: it is not possible to use previous systemd versions with systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 and the new kernel. Therefore it @@ -142,6 +144,19 @@ CHANGES WITH 230 in spe: deployable. The systemd-nspaw@.service template unit file has been changed to use this functionality by default. + * systemd-nspawn gained a new --network-zone= switch, that allows + creating ad-hoc virtual Ethernet links between multiple containers, + that only exist as long as at least one container referencing them is + running. This allows easy connecting of multiple containers with a + common link that implements an Ethernet broadcast domain. Each of + these network "zones" may be named relatively freely by the user, and + may be referenced by any number of containers, but each container may + only reference one of these "zones". On the lower level, this is + implemented by an automatically managed bridge network interface for + each zone, that is created when the first container referencing its + zone is created and removed when the last one referencing its zone + terminates. + * The default start timeout may now be configured on the kernel command line via systemd.default_timeout_start_sec=. It was already configurable via the DefaultTimeoutStartSec= option in