From e06fafb2d7e7155b1333ee59de5768c8ea0772e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 16:30:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: add comment about change sync/async behaviour for shutdown commands --- NEWS | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e639f4878f..8f43c59e72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -190,6 +190,20 @@ CHANGES WITH 235: used to control how the kernel keyring is set up for executed processes. + * "systemctl poweroff", "systemctl reboot", "systemctl halt", + "systemctl kexec" and "systemctl exit" are now always asynchronous in + behaviour (that is: these commands return immediately after the + operation was enqueued instead of waiting until the operation was + completed). Previously, "systemctl poweroff" and "systemctl reboot" + were asynchronous on systems using systemd-logind (i.e. almost + always, and like they were on sysvinit), and the other three commands + were unconditionally synchronous. With this release this is cleaned + up, and callers will see the same asynchronous behaviour on all + systems for all five operations. + + * systemd-logind gained new Halt() and CanHalt() bus calls for halting + the system. + * .timer units now accept calendar specifications in other timezones than UTC or the local timezone. @@ -213,7 +227,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 235: userwithuid, Vito Caputo, vliaskov, WaLyong Cho, William Douglas, Xiang Fan, Yu Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek - — Berlin, 2017-09-XX + — Berlin, 2017-10-XX CHANGES WITH 234: