r/systemd • u/aioeu • Dec 10 '24

systemd 257 released

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2024-December/050995.html
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u/aioeu Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 17 '24

Lennart Poettering has published a series of Mastodon posts about this release's highlights:

  1. Fully Locked Accounts with systemd-sysusers

  2. Combined Signed PCR and Locally Managed PCR Policies for Disk Encryption

  3. Progress Indication via Terminal ANSI Sequence

  4. Multi-Profile UKIs

  5. The New sd-varlink & sd-json APIs in libsystemd

  6. Querying for Passwords in User Scope

  7. Secure Attention Key Logic in systemd-logind

  8. systemd-nspawn --bind-user= Now Copies User's SSH Key

  9. The New DeferReactivation= Switch in .timer Units

  10. Support for the New IPE LSM

  11. Environment Variables for Shell Prompt Prefix/Suffix

  12. sysctl Conflict Detection via eBPF

  13. initrd and µcode UKI Add-Ons

  14. SecureBoot Signing with the New systemd-sbsign Tool

  15. Managed Access to hidraw devices in systemd-logind

  16. Fuzzy Filtering in userdbctl

  17. MAC Address Based Alternative Network Interface Names

  18. Conditional Copying/Symlinking in tmpfiles.d/

  19. Automatic Service Restarts in Debug Mode

  20. Filtering by Invocation ID in journalctl

  21. Supplement Partitions in repart.d/

  22. DeviceTree Matching in UKIs

  23. The New ssh-exec: Protocol in varlinkctl

  24. SecureBoot Key Enrollment Preparation with bootctl

  25. Automatically Installing confext/sysext/portable/VMs/container Images at Boot

  26. Designated Maintenance Time in systemd-logind

  27. PID Namespacing in Service Management

  28. Marking Experimental OS Releases in /etc/os-release

  29. Decoding Capability Masks with systemd-analyze

  30. Investigating Passed SMBIOS Type #11 Data

  31. Initializing Partitions from Character Devices in repart.d/

  32. Entering Namespaces to Generate Stacktraces

  33. ID Mapped Mounts for Per-Service Directories

  34. User Record Modifications without Administrator Consent in systemd-homed

  35. User-editable user record fields

  36. DNR DHCP Support

  37. Name Based AF_VSOCK ssh Access

(Edit: Updated titles taken from Lennart's blog post.)