NEWS: update for latest features

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Luca Boccassi 2023-11-14 20:11:01 +00:00
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machinectl bind and mount-image verbs will now cause the new mount to
replace the old mount (if any), instead of overmounting it.
* Units now have a MemoryPeak and MemorySwapPeak property, which
contain the value of cgroup v2's memory.peak and memory.swap.peak
property.
* Units now have MemoryPeak, MemorySwapPeak, MemorySwapCurrent and
MemoryZSwapCurrent properties, which respectively contain the values of
the cgroup v2's memory.peak, memory.swap.peak, memory.swap.current and
memory.zswap.current properties.
TPM2 Support + Disk Encryption & Authentication:
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* systemd-cryptenroll now allows specifying a TPM2 key handle to be used
instead of the default SRK via the new --tpm2-seal-key-handle= option.
* systemd-cryptenroll now allows enrolling using only a TPM2 public key,
without access to the TPM2 itself, which enables remote sealing.
* systemd-cryptsetup is now installed in /usr/bin/ and is no longer an
internal-only executable.
* The TPM2 Storage Root Key will now be set up, if not already present,
by a new systemd-tpm2-setup.service early boot service.
by a new systemd-tpm2-setup.service early boot service. The SRK will be
stored in PEM format and TPM2_PUBLIC format for easier access. A new
srk verb has been added to systemd-analyze to allow extracting it on
demand if it is already set up.
* The internal systemd-pcrphase executable has been renamed to
systemd-pcrextend.
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passed from systemd-boot when running inside Confidential VMs with UEFI
SecureBoot enabled.
* systemd-stub will now load a Devicetree blob even if the firmware did
not load any beforehand (e.g.: for ACPI systems).
* ukify is no longer considered experimental, and now ships in /usr/bin/.
* ukify gained a new verb inspect to describe the sections of a UKI and
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* The 90-loaderentry kernel-install hook now supports installing device
trees.
* kernel-install now supports --json, --root, --image and --image-policy
options for the inspect verb.
* kernel-install now supports new list and add-all verbs. The latter will
install all the kernels it can find to the ESP.
systemd-repart:
* A new option --copy-from= has been added that synthesizes partition
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files, to indicate which directories in the target partition should be
btrfs subvolumes.
* A new --tpm2-device-key= option can be used to encrypt a disk against
a remote TPM2 using its public key.
Journal:
* The journalctl --lines= parameter now accepts +N to show the oldest N
entries instead of the newest.
* journald now ensures that sealing happens once per epoch, and sets a
new compatibility flag to distinguish old journal files that were
created before this change, for backward compatibility.
Device Management:
* udev will now create symlinks to loopback block devices in the
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* seccomp now supports the LoongArch64 architecture.
* seccomp may now be enabled for services running as a non-root User=
without NoNewPrivileges=yes.
* systemd-id128 now supports a new -P option to show only values. The
combination of -P and --app options is also supported.
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and %systemd_user_postun_with_reload do a reload for system and user
units on upgrades.
* coredumpctl now propagates SIGTERM to the debugger process.
Contributions from: 김인수, Abderrahim Kitouni, Adam Williamson,
Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira, Alex Hudspith, Alvin Alvarado,
André Paiusco, Antonio Alvarez Feijoo, Anton Lundin,