systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M.
It was a very interesting year for systemd with more features continuing to be added to this init system and service manager with growing collection of accompanying utilities. In 2023 systemd brought forth a Windows-inspired Blue Screen of Death (systemd-bsod) feature for better presenting crashes, experimental work on a "Storage Target Mode" feature inspired by Apple macOS, continued work around systemd-homed encryption, systemd-boot continuing to receive more interest from major Linux distribution vendors, and various new tools like ukify and other work on the Unified Kernel Image (UKI) initiative.
Here's a look back at the most popular systemd articles of 2023:
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems
Ahead of the holidays systemd 255 has debuted as stable and comes with systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" service capable of displaying full-screen error messages on Linux. There's also a new tool, systemd-vmspawn, that can be used for spawning virtual machines.
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs
Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it's packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features.
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens
After going through several release candidates the past few weeks, systemd 253 has officially shipped today as the newest version of this init system and service manager for Linux systems.
Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS
Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS "Target Disk Mode" feature.
Fedora 40 To Apply Systemd Security Hardening
Fedora 40 is planning to provide more hardened system security by leveraging some high level security features provided by systemd.
GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption
While the winter holidays are approaching so far it hasn't led to any reduced effort in the GNOME camp. In fact, fresh off the €1M in funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, there are several new exciting initiatives moving forward along with other ongoing enhancements driven by GNOME developers.
Fedora May Make It Easier To Switch To systemd-boot, Making A GRUB-Free System
A change proposal that hopes to take place for Fedora 39 would make it easier to have an optionally GRUB-free system by instead performing a clean install with systemd-boot for booting on EFI platforms.
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing
Systemd 253 is gearing up for release while out today is the third and possibly final release candidate.
openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption
OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd.
openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support
For those using the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution, there is now experimental support for booting it using systemd-boot.
systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check
Out today is the first release candidate of systemd 254. This systemd update is another big feature release with new settings, new components, and many additions to existing systemd components. Plus there is some deprecations and breakage ahead for future releases.
systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool
Systemd developers today released their first release candidate of the upcoming systemd 253 feature release, which introduces a new "ukify" tool and has many other changes for this dominant Linux init system.
Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd
Devuan is still alive and well for those wanting to run Debian GNU/Linux but without systemd. Devuan 5.0 is out today as the newest distro release that is now rebased atop Debian 12 Bookworm.
Linux 6.3 Adds Support For Tmpfs IDMAPPED Mounts - Benefits systemd, Kubernetes & More
Introduced to the mainline kernel two years ago with Linux 5.12 was the IDMAPPED mounts functionality that is useful from systemd-homed to containers and other use-cases. Since then more Linux file-systems and software has added support for IDMAPPED mounts and it's being furthered along now with Linux 6.3.
systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check
Systemd 254 is out today in time for appearing in the late-2023 Linux distribution releases.
systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager
Following last month's release of systemd 253-rc1 with many new features and changes in tow, out today is a second release candidate and is piling yet more features into this Linux system and service manager.
GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split
GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms.
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Adds More Desktop Code, Enables WireGuard & Boots systemd-oomd
Microsoft on Tuesday released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230208 as the latest version of their in-house public Linux distribution that serves a variety of purposes from the cloud down to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support For UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer
For those making use of the open-source, cross-platform ClamAV anti-virus/anti-malware software backed by Cisco, the first release candidate of ClamAV 1.2 is now available for testing.
systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes
Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes.
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