From 82c8e3e6503a40684cf265842bb1c26a8f7681b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:36:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: let's get this thing done --- NEWS | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3cbc01e222..895ab0d612 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ systemd System and Service Manager -CHANGES WITH 237 in spe: +CHANGES WITH 237: * Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 237 in spe: don't exist yet, and only then the argument string is written to the file. + * FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY: In systemd v238 we intend to slightly change + systemd-tmpfiles behaviour: previously, read-only files owned by root + were always excluded from the file "aging" algorithm (i.e. the + automatic clean-up of directories like /tmp based on + atime/mtime/ctime). We intend to drop this restriction, and age files + by default even when owned by root and read-only. This behaviour was + inherited from older tools, but there have been requests to remove + it, and it's not obvious why this restriction was made in the first + place. Please speak up now, if you are aware of software that reqires + this behaviour, otherwise we'll remove the restriction in v238. + * A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_OFFLINE is now understood by systemctl. It takes a boolean argument. If on, systemctl assumes it operates on an "offline" OS tree, and will not attempt to talk to the