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NEWS: Various clarification and grammar fixes

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Martin Pitt 2016-02-10 13:51:10 +01:00
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/etc/hosts.
* The systemd-resolve tool (which is a client utility for
systemd-resolved, and previously experimental) has been beefed up
considerably and is now fully supported and documented. It has moved
from /usr/lib/systemd to /usr/bin because.
systemd-resolved, and previously experimental) has been improved
considerably and is now fully supported and documented. Hence it has
moved from /usr/lib/systemd to /usr/bin.
* /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio
devices.
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new-style and inetd-style file descriptor passing. Use the new
--inetd switch to request inetd-style file descriptor passing.
* Most systemd tools now honour a new $SYSTEMD_COLORS environment
variable, which takes a boolean value. If set to false ANSI color
* Most systemd tools now honor a new $SYSTEMD_COLORS environment
variable, which takes a boolean value. If set to false, ANSI color
output is disabled in the tools even when run on a terminal that
supports it.
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sd_journal_restart_fields().
* Most configurable timeouts in systemd now expect an argument of
"infinity" to turn them off, instead of "0" as before. This follows
of a logic where a timeout of "0" means "now", and one of "infinity"
means "never". For compatibility where this was supported before 0
continues to be accepted to turn off timeouts.
"infinity" to turn them off, instead of "0" as before. The semantics
from now on is that a timeout of "0" means "now", and "infinity"
means "never". To maintain backwards compatibility, "0" continues to
turn off previously existing timeout settings.
* "systemctl reload-or-try-restart" has been renamed to "systemctl
try-reload-or-restart" to make clearer what it actually does, and
indicate that the "try" logic applies to both reloading and
restarting and not just restarting. The old name continues to be
accepted for compatibility.
try-reload-or-restart" to clarify what it actually does: the "try"
logic applies to both reloading and restarting, not just restarting.
The old name continues to be accepted for compatibility.
* On boot-up when PID 1 detects that the system clock is before the
release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now bumped
ahead to it. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order
* On boot-up, when PID 1 detects that the system clock is behind the
release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now set
to the latter. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order
to avoid running with clocks set to the various clock epochs such as
1902, 1938 or 1970. With this change the logic is now done in PID 1
in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced
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by PID 1.
* A new service setting RuntimeMaxSec= has been added that may be used
to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit the
to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit, the
service is terminated and put into a failure state.
* A new service setting AmbientCapabilities= has been added, that
allows configuration of additional Linux process capabilities that
are passed to the activated processes. This is only available on very
* A new service setting AmbientCapabilities= has been added. It allows
configuration of additional Linux process capabilities that are
passed to the activated processes. This is only available on very
recent kernels.
* The process resource limit settings in service units may now be used
to configure hard and soft limits individually.
* The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publically
* The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publicly
expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C
extension. Specifically, for many object destructor functions
alternative versions whose names are suffixed with "p" and take a
pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy instead of just a
pointer to the object itself have been added. This is useful because
alternative versions whose names are suffixed with "p" have been
added, which take a pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy,
instead of just a pointer to the object itself. This is useful because
these destructor functions may be used directly as parameters to the
cleanup construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of the
GCC extension since a long time, and with this change similar support
is now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note
of course, that by using this extension in your sources compatibility
with old and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However,
any gcc or LLVM version of the last years has been supporting this
extension just fine.
that by using this extension in your sources compatibility with old
and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, any gcc or
LLVM version of recent years have supported this extension.
* Timer units gained support for a new setting RandomizedDelaySec= that
allows configuring an amount of additional randomized delay to add
to the time a timer elapses. This is useful to distribute timer
events over a time range to avoid load peaks in clusters or larger
setups.
allows configuring some additional randomized delay to the configured
time. This is useful to spread out timer events to avoid load peaks in
clusters or larger setups.
* Calendar time specifications now support sub-second accuracy.