NEWS: a few more entries for v248-rc1

I left the stuff related to [NextHop] out. There are still
patches outstanding, and we can add a comprehensive entry once
things reached the final form.
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2021-02-23 00:39:08 +01:00
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i.e. whether the interface is always upped, always downed, or may be
upped/downed by the user using "ip dev".
* The default for the Broadcast= setting in .network files has slightly
changed: the broadcast address will not be configured for wireguard
devices.
* systemd.netdev files gained a [VLAN] Protocol=, IngressQOSMaps=,
EgressQOSMaps=, and [MACVLAN] BroadcastMulticastQueueLength=
configuration options for VLAN packet handling.
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* systemd-nspawn gained the ability to configure the firewall using the
nftables subsystem (in addition to the existing iptables
support). Similar, systemd-networkd's IPMasquerade= option now
support). Similarly, systemd-networkd's IPMasquerade= option now
supports nftables as back-end, too. In both cases NAT on IPv6 is now
supported too, in addition to IPv4 (the iptables back-end still is
IPv4-only).
"IPMasquerade=yes", which was the same as "IPMasquerade=ipv4" before,
retains its meaning, but has been deprecated. Please switch to either
"ivp4" or "both" (if covering IPv6 is desired).
* systemd-importd will now download .verity and .roothash.p7s files
along with the machine image (as exposed via machinectl pull-raw).
* systemd-oomd now gained a new DefaultMemoryPressureDurationSec=
setting to configure the time a unit's cgroup needs to exceed memory
pressure limits before action will be taken.
pressure limits before action will be taken, and a new
ManagedOOMPreference=none|avoid|omit setting to avoid killing certain
units.
systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported (the usual
backwards-compatiblity promises apply). Swap is not required for
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warning is emitted during build. Support is slated to be removed in
about a year (when the Debian Bookworm release development starts).
* Systems with the legacy cgroup v1 hierarchy are now marked as
"tainted", to make it clearer that using the legacy hierarchy is not
recommended.
* The main git development branch has been renamed to 'main'.
* mmcblk[0-9]boot[0-9] devices will no longer be probed automatically
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by programs for detecting whether they were forked off by the service
manager itself or are a process forked off further down the tree.
* The sd-device API gained three new calls sd_device_get_action() (for
determining the uevent add/remove/change/… action the device object
has been seen for), sd_device_get_seqno() (for determining the uevent
sequence number) and sd_device_new_from_stat_rdev() (for allocating a
new sd_device object from stat() data of a device node).
* The sd-device API gained four new calls: sd_device_get_action() to
determine the uevent add/remove/change/… action the device object has
been seen for, sd_device_get_seqno() to determine the uevent sequence
number, sd_device_new_from_stat_rdev() to allocate a new sd_device
object from stat(2) data of a device node, and sd_device_trigger() to
write to the 'uevent' attribute of a device.
* For most tools the --no-legend= switch has been replaced by
--legend=no and --legend=yes, to force whether tables are shown with