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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-11-04 12:42:40 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-11-04 12:42:40 +0100
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@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe:
respective directories as read-only, via a ':ro' flag that can be
appended to each setting.
+ * When DynamicUser= is combined with
+ StateDirectory=/RuntimeDirectory=/CacheDirectory=/LogsDirectory= and
+ ID mapped mounts are available on the referenced path, the data in
+ there is now preferably made available by establishing ID mapped from
+ the "nobody" user to the dynamic user, rather than via recursive
+ chown()ing.
+
systemd-udevd:
* udev rules now set 'uaccess' for /dev/udmabuf, giving locally
@@ -393,6 +400,18 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe:
of the random seed file in ESP. (This is useful when producing an
image that will be used multiple times.)
+ * bootctl now optionally supports installing UEFI Secure Boot databases
+ (ESLs) for systemd-boot to pick up and automatically enroll if the
+ system is booted in Setup Mode. This is controlled via bootctl's new
+ --secure-boot-auto-enroll=yes switch (and some auxiliary ones). A
+ certificate can be provided in DER format, and it is automatically
+ converted into an ESL, as needed.
+
+ * bootctl, systemd-measure, systemd-repart when referencing signing
+ keys on OpenSSL engines may now query for PINs and similar via
+ systemd's native systemd-ask-password logic (and take benefit of its
+ caching and UI).
+
The journal:
* journalctl can now list invocations of a unit with the
@@ -580,6 +599,24 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe:
* The individual import/export tools will now display a nice progress
bar when downloading files.
+ systemd-userdb & systemd-homed:
+
+ * userdbctl gained a pair of switches --uid-min= and --uid-max= to
+ filter the UID/GID range of the listed users or groups. It also
+ gained a new switch --disposition= to filter them by disposition
+ (i.e. show only system users or only regular users, and so on). It
+ also gained a new switch --fuzzy that permits a "fuzzy" search for a
+ user, i.e. doing a substring and string distance search, and looking
+ into the real name field of the user and other similar fields. It
+ gained a new switch --boundaries=no for disabling display of the
+ UID/GID range boundaries in its output.
+
+ * User records learnt a new set of fields that may list field names
+ that may be changed by the user themselves without requiring
+ administrator authentication. This new field is honoured by
+ systemd-homed to allow users to change selected properties of their
+ own user records.
+
Miscellaneous:
* systemctl now supports the --now option with the 'reenable' verb.
@@ -608,16 +645,6 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe:
concept, i.e. user programs may now ask for passwords via the same
mechanism and the previously system-wide only mechanism.
- * userdbctl gained a pair of switches --uid-min= and --uid-max= to
- filter the UID/GID range of the listed users or groups. It also
- gained a new switch --disposition= to filter them by disposition
- (i.e. show only system users or only regular users, and so on). It
- also gained a new switch --fuzzy that permits a "fuzzy" search for a
- user, i.e. doing a substring and string distance search, and looking
- into the real name field of the user and other similar fields. It
- gained a new switch --boundaries=no for disabling display of the
- UID/GID range boundaries in its output.
-
* A new set of system/service credentials are added:
shell.prompt.prefix, shell.prompt.suffix and shell.welcome. At login
time these are propagated into the $SHELL_PROMPT_PREFIX,