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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-01-28 16:36:03 +0100
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2018-05-30 07:50:23 +0200
commitc224076fc7f08b9a3253574d748eeacaa0301b38 (patch)
tree53014152c3ad3be313fdba72c510e182c764d0ec /NEWS
parenta325bc2ab708166c62ab2e1c80147abb7f70dfc9 (diff)
NEWS: let's get this thing done
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systemd System and Service Manager
-CHANGES WITH 237 in spe:
+CHANGES WITH 237:
* Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got
mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these
@@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 237 in spe:
don't exist yet, and only then the argument string is written to the
file.
+ * FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY: In elogind v238 we intend to slightly change
+ elogind-tmpfiles behaviour: previously, read-only files owned by root
+ were always excluded from the file "aging" algorithm (i.e. the
+ automatic clean-up of directories like /tmp based on
+ atime/mtime/ctime). We intend to drop this restriction, and age files
+ by default even when owned by root and read-only. This behaviour was
+ inherited from older tools, but there have been requests to remove
+ it, and it's not obvious why this restriction was made in the first
+ place. Please speak up now, if you are aware of software that reqires
+ this behaviour, otherwise we'll remove the restriction in v238.
+
* A new environment variable $SYSTEMD_OFFLINE is now understood by
systemctl. It takes a boolean argument. If on, systemctl assumes it
operates on an "offline" OS tree, and will not attempt to talk to the