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NEWS: mention that F20 and friends has been replaced with micmute and so on
Follow-up for systemd#34325.
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is therefore unused. Moreover, the exit of session leader process
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will immediately cause the session to be stopped.
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* To work around limitations of X11's keyboard handling systemd's
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keyboard mapping hardware database (hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb) so far
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mapped the microphone mute and touchpad on/off/toggle keys to the
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function keys F20, F21, F22, F23 instead of their correct key codes.
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This key code mangling has been removed.
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To maintain compatibility with X11 applications that rely on the old
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function key code mappings, this mangling has now been moved to the
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relevant X11 keyboard driver modules. In order to ensure these keys
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continue to work, update to xf86-input-evdev >= 2.11.0 and
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xf86-input-libinput >= 1.5.0 before updating to systemd >= 258.
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Announcements of Future Feature Removals:
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* The D-Bus method org.freedesktop.systemd1.StartAuxiliaryScope() is
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managed by "systemd-factory-reset request" and "systemd-factory-reset
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complete".
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* To work around limitations of X11's keyboard handling systemd's
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keyboard mapping hardware database (hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb) so far
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mapped the microphone mute and touchpad on/off/toggle keys to the
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function keys F20, F21, F22, F23 instead of their correct key codes.
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This key code mangling will be removed in the next systemd release.
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To maintain compatibility with X11 applications that rely on the old
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function key code mappings, this mangling has now been moved to the
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relevant X11 keyboard driver modules. In order to ensure these keys
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continue to work, update to xf86-input-evdev >= 2.11.0 and
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xf86-input-libinput >= 1.5.0 before updating to systemd >= 258.
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* The meson option 'integration-tests' has been deprecated, and will be
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removed in a future release.
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