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105105 RestartMaxDelaySec= which allow exponentially-growing restart
106106 intervals for Restart=.
107107
108+ * The service activation logic gained a new setting RestartMode= which
109+ can be set to 'direct' to skip the inactive/failed states when
110+ restarting, so that dependent units are not notified until the service
111+ converges to a final (successful or failed) state. For example, this
112+ means that OnSuccess=/OnFailure= units will not be triggered until the
113+ service state has converged.
114+
108115 * PID 1 will now automatically load the virtio_console kernel module
109116 during early initialization if running in a suitable VM. This is done
110117 so that early-boot logging can be written to the console if available.
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221228 compromising on security, as the memory is never paged out either
222229 way.
223230
231+ * The service manager now can detect when it is running in a
232+ 'Confidential Virtual Machine', and a corresponding 'cvm' value is now
233+ accepted by ConditionSecurity= for units that want to conditionalize
234+ themselves on this. systemd-detect-virt gained new 'cvm' and
235+ '--list-cvm' switches to respectively perform the detection or list
236+ all known flavours of confidential VM, depending on the vendor. The
237+ manager will publish a 'ConfidentialVirtualization' D-Bus property,
238+ and will also set a SYSTEMD_CONFIDENTIAL_VIRTUALIZATION= environment
239+ variable for unit generators. Finally, udev rules can match on a new
240+ 'cvm' key that will be set when in a confidential VM.
241+
224242 Journal:
225243
226244 * The sd-journal API gained a new call sd_journal_get_seqnum() to
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440458 superficially validate DDI structure, and check whether a specific
441459 image policy allows the DDI.
442460
461+ * systemd-dissect gained support for a new --mtree-hash switch to
462+ optionally disable calculating mtree hashes, which can be slow on
463+ large images.
464+
465+ * systemd-dissect --copy-to, --copy-from, --list and --mtree switches
466+ are now able to operate on directories too, other than images.
467+
443468 Network Management:
444469
445470 * networkd's GENEVE support as gained a new .network option
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669694 as in text form on the console), and the system is turned off after a
670695 10s delay.
671696
697+ * The 'passwdqc' library is now supported as an alternative to the
698+ 'pwquality' library and it can be selected at build time.
699+
672700 Contributions from: 김인수, 07416, Addison Snelling, Adrian Vovk,
673701 Aidan Dang, Alexander Krabler, Alfred Klomp, Anatoli Babenia,
674702 Andrei Stepanov, Antonio Alvarez Feijoo, Arian van Putten, Arthur Shau,
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